Exillis

The world of Exillis is an alternative earth world. Set in the 1300s, where magic and the Fae have returned. Exillis (Graal) is the name given to the Fae continent that replaces South America in this world.   1309 across the rest of the world. ...a world completely different from the one we know, altered by the Flael, a strange fog that spread over the lands of Europe starting in 1246. Each passage of the fog has brought great upheaval: unexpected disappearances, monstrous metamorphoses and the arrival of creatures of legend. Former rulers and mythic heroes have blurred Europe’s borders, causing endless political strife inside the different kingdoms of Europe. Now, mythological beings share everyday life with ordinary people. It’s quite a common thing to see ogres travelling with pedlars, fairies fighting with pitiless outlaws for every inch of woods and angels charging alongside men-at-arms.   If commoners strive as best as they can to protect themselves from numerous gangs of brigands that regularly pillage remote villages, they receive little help from their lords, too occupied with their wars against each other for estates torn apart by all these battles. Opportunistic traders make a mint of money with wealthy nobles seeking glory and prestige in a world where everything can happen.   Meanwhile, peasants defend day after day their meagre harvests against marching armies and hungry creatures. Starvation slowly becomes the norm; fear chases travellers from roads and foreigners from cities. Many turn to the mercenary life or become outlaws, finding it easier to fall back on brigandage than to protect a family in this dangerous world.   Sometimes at a bend in the path or behind a closed door, a smile skims over the lips of a man returning home after war, seeing his wife waiting in front of their house; sometimes, laughter resonates around a fire after a victorious battle. But happiness is rare in these difficult times: everyday life is a landscape stained with blood, fire, tears and dread. The last pieces of faith that still cling to the hearts of brave men slowly wither.   Every being must constantly fight against its ever more numerous enemies. All must learn to kill to protect their own life. City streets are populated with orphans thrown into a cruel and violent world where their only chance to make it through another day depends on their will to survive.