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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5086003" data-attributes="member: 87792">The Last War is over.  The Great Battle Between Good and Evil™ has been fought.  And the pretty people surprised no one by winning.  The land is now clean and patrolled by armoured knights.  The Summer Court has driven the Winter Court into exile.  The Dwarves now own the mountains, forcing the kobolds to scratch out a meagre existance, and exiling the Kobold's Warforged creations.  The humans won from the conflict, the Dark Queen abdicating with her daughter and heir becoming the consort of Prince Drakul and surrendering her lands to him and his father.  (Rumours that there was an agreement between Queen Morgause and King Wyreth to betroth their children and that whoever was on the losing side of the War Between Light and Dark would abdicate peacefully in favour of the offspring of the other are based on guesswork and the knowledge that most human vs human battles were very formalised).  This has allowed the humans to conquer most of the orc territories. But with all the Shining Spears of Light around, it's hard to be someone from one of the dark races.  Which is where the PCs come in.  Being a doppelganger is punishable by death (the changelings themselves regard this as a darwin award, with some of the younger ones courting lynch mobs against people they don't like.)  And the other dark races (and humans with no feudal lord) are being corralled into smaller and more tightly controlled enclaves or driven onto ever more marginal territory. Often both. Thoughts as a starting point?</blockquote>

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