Yrvendel

Yrvendel is a vast world just entering the Industrial stage, with some civilizations still relying on bows and arrows as their main weaponry and foraging as their main method of resource gathering. The most advanced civilizations are just learning about steam powered machines and developing firearms. however these are still very rare.   Calvoria is a continent/ city state that is very self reliant but very conquest driven. A growing portion of their populous is xenophobic to the other races that inhabit this world. Most of these predigests are brought on by a growing religion in the land based around purity and preparation for the cataclysm. This is the main settlement and largest safe haven for Humans.   The Elven kingdoms have been long divided and more than half of them have fallen from grace or been destroyed all together. The Wood elves currently hold dominion over the South forests of Zalithar. Though territorial of their woods, they tend to avoid conflict with nations if possible. The High elves capitol sits atop their once sacred mountain. Now adorned with floating fortresses, being the size of cities on their own. The mountain is massive and in the current time, is made mostly filled with gargantuan gears and pistons that rotate the cities around the central citadel. Hear the elves have taken it upon themselves to name it a world summit, for diplomacy research and cultural development. The Snow elves went extinct long ago, near four millennia, and the disaster as well as their culture has been lost to the ages. The Dark Elves once led by the mighty Tyrant Tyril, have fallen into sadistic pleasures and barbaric raiding. Their kingdom has been claimed by most kingdoms as pure evil and that only those who wish a mortal visit to hell should venture there. The once proud warrior race known As Blood elves wronged the gods long ago, in the time of the shattering of the elves. The Blood elves fell out of favor of their pantheon and began to grow more blood thirsty, their senses lost to them and their forms corrupting into monstrosities we know today as Orks. The Sea Elves were a mystery race at the beginning of time, and never cared for the "squabbles" of the land dwellers. Though their people have fallen into myth as all attempts by historians and adventures to visit their great city were met with a vast empty ocean.   The Dwaven kingdoms were separated into houses long before the Shattering of elves. Though spread out, they appreciated their brothers, be they from neighboring settlements or across mountains. And would always come to the aid of any Dwarven king who would ask. After separating their came different flavors of Dwarf from many realms of the world. The Bureaucratic Dwarves,always refining the most efficient and beneficial government and economy. Also known as the Gold Dwarves, they are very intelligent and are the most likely dwarf to get along with other races. Then are the under dwarves, or Grey Dwarves, who long ago dug farther into their mines than they could easily dig back out. they dug deeper and deeper until they were trapped for a time, bargaining with their gods they were offered salvation, but not in the form they had preferred over the generations they became more accustomed to the dark, and able to feel the stone. Their eyes aligning to thermal vision and their skin gaining the color and texture of stone. Then come the old Dwaves, Or known to most people as simply Dwarves. They are the ones who set up their kingdoms within the Kitnari mountains.