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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fletch137" data-source="post: 5198407" data-attributes="member: 19337">Funny, I did just that very thing as part of prep to run Curse of the Crimson Throne.  It's skewed towards that campaign, but here's my big picture list:Ten Things Everyone Knows About the World<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The world is called Golarion.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">10,000 years ago, the Starstone fell to Golarion, creating the Inner Sea, obliterating the human civilizations of Thassilon and Azlant, sending the elves packing to parts unknown, and kicking of 1,000 years of darkness from dust and ash in the atmosphere.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">During the darkness, dwarves and orcs migrated from the Darklands below to claim territories on the surface.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Inner Sea now separates the continents of Avistan to the north and Garund to the south.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Aroden, the Last Azlanti, used the Starstone to gain divinity and housed it in his own temple at the center of Absalom, the island city he brought into being in the heart of the Inner Sea.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">As the darkness lifted, human cultures began rebuilding along the edge of the Inner Sea.  On Avistan, the Taldor Empire sprang up under the watchful eye of Aroden, while on Garund, Osirion developed under the rule of the Four Pharaohs of Ascension.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Taldor expanded across Avistan under a number of Armies of Exploration, settling the lands to the west that would later become Cheliax and Andoran, and coming into conflict with Katapesh to the east and the returning elves seeking to reclaim their abandoned holdings to the north.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Growing decadence within Taldor lead to Cheliax seceding from the Empire and becoming the heart of Aroden worship, awaiting the First Man’s return to reclaim the crown of the empire.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">100 years ago, the day of Aroden’s prophesied return was instead met by the god’s death.  Storms raged across Golarion and prophecy itself became unreliable, ushering in the Age of Lost Omens.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">In the absence of its god, Cheliax fell to devil worship under the banner of Asmodeus.  In the chaos, Chelaxian territories, such as Andoren to the east and Varisia to the north, asserted their independence.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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