Enea

A dead world reborn in the powerful image of a goddess, Enea is a world of long history, powerful elemental forces, and deification conflict.   Centered on a continent long under the thumb of a tyrannical “Republic”, the world has seen many races rise and fall before that time. The ancient forest people and stone men rose and warred with the sentient embodiements of the elements. They were followed by the Elves, and then the Dwarves. The Elves grew slowly, and sought no power or dominance. The Dwarves built too quickly, and brought ruin to their people.   Then came the Gnomes, the Halflings, the Humans, and the many monstrous races. The Elves experienced a schism, a cleaving of their race. The halflings acted as facilitators and traders between the races. The Gnomes sought high places and built wonderful, though cloistered cities. The Humans ... well, the Humans just grew. They reproduced and expanded. They built kingdoms, kingdoms destroyed by other kingdoms, and so on, and so on. Then arose The Republic, and stability lasted for over 1,000 years, until The Republic broke apart. 300 years of decline and strife has led to the current period of relative stability.   Through everything there have been the demons and other dimensional interlopers coming through random-seeming portals. Predicting their appearance and standing ready to fight them, the Stygian Guard, an order of knights and paladins dedicated to this task, rove the continent, and even the world.