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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6576981" data-attributes="member: 58197">Sounds like "elvish overlords" is the theme of the day. Here's my contribution:For ten thousand years*, the world's human kingdoms paid heavy tribute to the high elves, who ruled a decadent empire of slaves and wizardry. Six hundred years ago, humans rebelled and threw off the elvish yoke. The elvish empire still exists, but it remains focused on its own internal power struggles; the humans, too, have fallen to fighting among themselves. Meanwhile, the dwarves are expanding their realm through the Underdark, and have begun to take an active hand in surface politics. The halflings have no nation of their own, but they have a powerful crime syndicate that spans kingdoms and races.To the extent there is a cosmic struggle going on in this setting, it's between order and chaos. Good and evil are personal choices, and there are no "gods" as such. Clerics worship powerful legendary beings, from extraplanar spirits to ancient dragons, mummy lords, and the tarrasque. (Three guesses what the tarrasque's clerical domain is, and the first two don't count.)[size=-2]*Because "thousands of years of technological stasis for no good reason" is a pet peeve of mine, I should expand a bit on this: The high elves rose to power during this world's Stone Age, and they were much more interested in arcane knowledge than mundane technology. Wizardry as it is known today comes from millennia of experiments by high elf wizards. Bronze-working began about halfway through the elves' reign. Steel was finally discovered eight hundred years before the Great Rebellions, and it played a major part in the humans' victory.[/size]</blockquote>

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