Syrrenfel
The world is cruel and unforgiving. When one lives in Syrrenfel they find little time for remorse or sympathy. If you want to survive here, you have to be strong, you have to fight, and you have to give up part of your humanity. That is the way of this world.
In the highest rungs of society, the people who wield magic fight for dominance. Magic is discovered as an innate ability in certain people. Though it may seem a blessing, it hides a darker and more subtle curse. Those who wield magic are swept by the tides of fate, subject to either endless adorartion and respect or unrelenting fear and loathing depending on the time.
The current holders of power are the blood mages, wielders of powerful blood magic. The once proud and mighty pyromancers are nearly wiped out and those who live do so in constant fear and anger of the world that now hates them.
The world is cruel and everyone wants the power in it. Sooner or later, Syrrenfel corrupts everyone.