Vynari

Vynari is the focus world in a broad fantasy setting set in a later medieval state of development with various factions, races and magics influencing its growth and development.

The world is split into three major continents, Ethalion, a land of kingdoms and empires often at war with one another or playing its game of politics, with its more advanced magical empires to the north separated by a great mountain range from its more Medieval kingdoms to the south.

To the West of Ethalion lies Wildrath, an ancient land of great beasts and roaming tribes across its three continents, one of plains, one of jungle and another vile with mana corruption spewing from its heart. It is a land where many settlers fled from as through its rampaging beasts, tribal conflict and ancient magics it seems to resist all attempts at more advanced civilization.

West of Wildrath and to the east of Ethalion lies Ozzete, a great desert land once separated by a thick and verdant jungle, burned away by mana-flame, now a dry plains with cracks leading down into its surviving jungle, filled with dangerous creatures. Its southern desert is ruled by a collection of Sultans, trades guilds, rich with its slave trade and criminal organisations. The northern desert is ruled imperially by empires who heavily focus on religion and also dominate their industry with the use of slaves.

The northern and southern continents that surround the planets poles are far more barren in their resources, they house smaller factions oft of those less friendly to outside cultures. The southern being far more ravaged by Demons and mana corruption often a draw to warriors who seek to live out their final days in combat.

Vynari's oceans are rich with isles of unique untouched cultures and colonized lands isles sitting above entire cultures of underwater species who for the most part keep to their own with more physical forms of communication rather then verbal, with a few outlaying cultures opting to do trade with both the surface-dwellers and the under-dwellers such developing more verbal communication skills.

The deep-dwellers of Vynari are often comprised of small kingdoms spread between a collection of settlements deep underground which live close to both water and light-sources in a 'world' under the surface. This subterranean world is rich with fungal forests, twisting caverns, lakes, rivers and various other biomes. However the deeper down you go the less civilization can be found as the light-sources dwindle and more tribal and bestial life lays blindly waiting above a great chasm, which all paths eventually meet. There are only a few bridges into the great chasms abyss, and for the few that survive the trip to its other side report some of the worlds most dangerous mana-tainted beasts and crushed remnants of ancient civilisations.

The world itself is rich with a magical energy named Mana that comes in various forms, tainting and adding magical properties to the life and the materials of its world- though in excess it becomes corruptive and dangerous, however it has a counterpart in Aether which is a magic drawn from the energy present in souls. Both are able to cancel one another out and undo each others effects.