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Shadowfire

Year 81 of the Tempus Accord

People

The History of Shadowfire so far

The previous empires who harnessed the divine magics in a relentless arms race of personality gods and collective hubris. The main area was the original border between two of the greatest ancient empires:
  • The nations of Eldarkin (Elves, humans, halflings) - great artists, masters of Blood magics and agriculturalists
  • The Deepkin - those Elderkin that never left the under-dark (Dark elves, Duergar)
  • The nations of the Stoneforged (Giants, dwarves, gnomes and their constructs) - engineers, technologists and masters of stone magics
Ruins lie beneath the sands, buried in mountains, and beneath the oceans.   Ruins also on the Moons - the ancient empires had built rockets and magic ways of travelling there.   Some ruins have been built upon, salvaged materials

Current Species & Cultures

The Destruction warped surviving eldarkin into:
  • The Teiflings and Fire-touched genasi of the deserts and plains
  • The Goblinoids and Orcs of the mountains and forests
  • Intelligent plants evolved and created their own nation called the Ferment.
  • The Deepkin emerged onto the surface world.
  • A united cabal of people from the empires created the Refuge, where they hid from the destruction, and returned later, relatively unchanged, but socially transformed into rigid cast and social strata.
  • A region where stoneforged have carved out their own nation
  • Nomadic tribes of giants and cold-attuned kin roam the sea of black ice
  • Kin who magically altered themselves to survive underwater.
  • Roaming outcasts and freedom lovers of all nations who founded the Circle of Malama far to the north.
  • The survivers of the Draconic Empire have built a democratic republic of reptiles, birds, dragons and the like on the far side of the world
  • The Efreet have established foothold on the fire ravaged Sunside
  • Demons and Devils roam the Desolation of Ghul Drazul and the Obsidian Plains of Mortugurra