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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grymar" data-source="post: 3498457" data-attributes="member: 41371">Elves are death-worshiping necromancers who are so stuck on matching their ancestor's achievements that they don't try anything new on their own.Gnomes are the masters of information and treachery.  In their home country of Zilargo, the triple or quadruple cross is common and respected.Halflings are nomads who ride the plains on dinosaurs.  The civilized halflings run the top organized crime gang in Sharn.Dwarves are former barbarians turned bankers.Goblinoids are the left-overs of the largest and greatest empire on the continent, which lasted over 10,000 years before being destroyed a few thousand years ago by a war against abberants.Orcs are the original druids and guardians of nature, especially against outsiders.Dragons are former slaves turned philosophers and oracles.  They quietly turn the events of the world from the shadows, working to fulfill the Draconic Prophecy.Giants are also left-overs from a vast high-magic empire on the continent of Xen'drik, but they were destroyed by the dragons when they dared to do something too dangerous.Into this mess, you add a few families who have developed Dragonmarks, essentially magical tattoos which are passed down genetically and give the bearer spell-like abilities.  These twelve families found ways to leverage their abilities into massive monopolies which  control the economy of the world. The humans founded an empire in the ruins of the old goblinoid empire.  This new empire lasted a thousand years before falling apart.  The ensuing Last War lasted 100 years and ended just two years ago.  While the war has ended, peace is fragile.  The main event which keeps nations in line is that just four years ago one of the nations, Cyre, was utterly shattered in an event called the Mourning.  The entire population was killed in an instant and the land turned into a mist-shrouded monster-haven called the Mournlands.The PCs in the world are tossed into this mess of multi-national corporations, ancient empires, terrible sleeping evils, forgotten tombs and scheming nations.I hope you enjoy it, as you can tell I do!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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