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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 1353539" data-attributes="member: 1308">RyethA continent near the southern regions of its world, its people are the first to feel the coming of an unnatural ice age. Winters grow more harsh, and summers far too short. If something is not done soon, the growing season will be too short to keep the people fed... which has lead to unrest among the various nations. The slave-holding gnolls make more frequent raids into the kingdom of the humans, while the insular grey elves tighten their borders and try to enslave their wild elf bretheren once again. The whole time, the dwarven theocracy maintains a tight grip on the richest supplies of metal on the continent, locked deep in their mountain fortresses. And among all the sounds of coming war, is a whisper... the rumors that cause even the most guarded hero to bar their doors at night: the dead are rising and demons once again walk the land. Something terrible has come to Ryeth, and even the gods who walk upon the land are not safe...Unnamed High MagicA hundred years ago, the world was destroyed.No one knows the details... suffice to say, a cult dedicated to an evil being performed a ritual which would have annihilated the world. Once the good wizards and clerics of the world learned of this, they began a counter-ritual to neutralize the evil magic. Unfortunately, both rituals succeeded, rather than cancelling each other out. The world was shattered, large chunks of land being hurled away from each other.... and then stopping.Now, huge islands of land float in midair. Rivers pour off the sides and down into the molten core, which illuminates the sky even at night. Some of the larger land masses still have ruined cities, which the survivors struggle to rebuild. Smaller chunks of earth occasionally collide with each other, or sail over the larger ones, as all of them orbit the center of the shattered world at various heights and speeds. Some industrious individuals created flying ships and teleportation circles to allow trade among the remaining pockets of people, giving them a chance to continue living. But there are rumors that both the good and evil wizards survived, and some adventurers seek out those hidden islands of power... either to restore the world, or destroy it fully.</blockquote>

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