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Welcome to my currently unnamed setting.  It’s currently a work in progress, so pardon the dust or any changes that may occur.  Here is a brief history to help understand some of the setting’s unique characteristics.

For ages, the world lived in uneasy truce as the races held themselves up in their own kingdoms, till about five hundred years ago.  Humans and elves started interbreeding, and the Half-Elf population arose, and multiplied.  The Human King started negotiations with the other races to bring peace between them, and offered his daughter to the Elven Prince to unite the races.

However, many of the children of the racial royalty, including the human King’s daughter, vanished and all indications were that they died.  The human King blamed the elves and began to wage war against the Elves.  The elves then turned up through investigation the plot of the human King to have his daughter assassinate her soon to be husband once the current Elven king abdicated, and seize power among the races.  Further more, the elves found evidence of human research into magics designed to slaughter the other races, the elves united the other known races against the Humans.

The Human king was not without his resources and he denounced all other races as inferior, and vowed to kill them all.  The war took its toll on every race, but the non-humans, lead by the Elves, were resilient.  The Elves convinced the Gnomes, Dwarves, Halflings, and Orcs that humans had to go, with only some arguments from the Gnomes, who were reluctant to enter the fray in the first place.  It was only in discovering the slave Katarans that the Gnomes joined in force, though reluctantly.

With Genocide being a distasteful, if necessary evil, many humans were disguised themselves and live as half-elves, with sympathetic onlookers turning a blind eye to their presence.  The combined might of the Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Halflings, and Gnomes were too much for the humans, and within 2 generations, humans were no more, and the half-elf population had grown mightily.

Almost five hundred years have passed since this great Racial War (Also referred to as the Great War).  Racial nations slowly became more integrated, and many splintered off into kingdoms.  There have been many minor wars, but only involving small nations, and none with the racial overtones of the Great War.  Now, while there are many kingdoms where one race is dominant, the only true racial kingdom remaining is the Orc Nation, which has kept to the seas, and to itself.  The Katarans search for a racial identity by borrowing from other races.  Elven leaders from all nations maintain vigilant watch for the next potential ‘humans’.  Dwarves simply focus on the immediate future, and have tried to leave the past behind.  Gnomes have embraced the Katarans and sought to heal the lands and the people from such an ordeal that has ripples of effects even so many years afterwards.  Halflings have returned to their families and are perhaps the least effected today by the events of the past.  Half-Elves are still caught in the middle of a war that ended ages ago, a constant reminder of what was and what some fear could be again.

Welcome to my world…

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I'm always looking for feedback, so I figure I'll open another thread here outside of the PbP thread.

Version .7 is up.

The pantheon and deity writeups are generaly complete.  There is the start of some world background, including creation mythos.  Many typos and spelling errors were fixed, and some formatting changes to reduce the page count.

I likely added 5-6 pages in the update, but the format changes droped it down to 2.

As always, comments are welcome.

Can we have more information on the city and surrounding area where the campaign will start?  Don't need too much details but some kind of hook or something would be appreciated.

Regarding material, feel free to lift and repost anything from LEW that I created.

v.9 is up.

Didn't add any information about Sylveran yet, it might go in 1.0, but 1.0 is mostly going to be feedback updates.

Version Histroy:
V.9
-Added Magic Section
-Added Several New Spells
-Added Several (at least 10) Feats
-Added notes on Action Points and Background Feats
-Added Deity quick reference chart.
-Added Shading to make tables easier to read.
-Rearanged the location of a few items
-Fixed minor typos and omitions
-Added Credits section

New Revision!

V.92
-Added Minor Races section
-Minor revision to Elves.
-Changed the Human Entry
-Added to Race section forward.
-Added Languages of the World section
-Minor notes added to the class section
-Made adjustments to Magum.
-Potential name for the setting (Terra Virvacus)
-Reformated all tables to look pretty
-Added the Archivist