Here is some more information to help as a small guide for players who might be interested.
Introduction
Imagine a world that once had everything. Humans, wizards, dragons, unicorns, griffins, minotaurs, manticores, centaurs, satyrs, ipotanes, fauns, echidnas, mermaids, elves, faeries, giants, dwarves, witches, werewolves, vampires, capricorns, werecats, wererats, sentient trees and animals, and all kinds of other species, excluding divine races like angels, demons or demigods. Human civilization was at its peak. They had robots and mecha, and high-tech engineering, excluding space travel. But there was a mega supervolcano the size of Alaska or India which erupted and plunged the entire planet back into the Dark Ages, and of the thousands of sentient races, languages and cultures that inhabited the planet, only 3 of them survived; halflings who are 1/2 human, triflings who are 1/3rd human, and purebloods who are fully 100% human.
All three are human to an extent and they are the only survivors left after the catastrophe. You hail from one of these races. The following century was extremely rough. Those who survived the initial eruption were then met with months of sunless darkness, global freezing, global warming, droughts, floods, famines, terrible earthquakes and storms, and changing plate tectonics creating new uncharted continents. Many tribes and names went extinct during the Dark Ages from starvation, exhaustion or minor clan wars. Your clan is one of the few that remains. Your quest involves exploring and exploiting the world and rebuilding civilization from the ground up, starting in the Late Stone Age.
The Land of Towerfjell
Welcome to the Land of Towerfjell, a flourishing kingdom belonging to the established Towerfjell royal family and their descendants. Towerfjell is the name of an elite wealthy bloodline of landowners, but it is also the name of a specific mountain within the Towerfjell Kingdom, which is where the family gets its name from. The ancient Towerfjell Citadel sits on this timeless mountain, the highest ground in all the land, overlooking the capital city at the center of the kingdom.
Towerfjell has hills, beaches, rivers, forests, swamps, highlands, lowlands, deserts, steppes and tundras. It has a very diverse landscape teeming with many different types of trees, plants and animals. Precious metals and stones, food resources, furs, lumber and other materials are abundant for tool making, trading goods and advancing forward. War and violence is not uncommon, nor the provocations that come with it. As such, the Land of Towerfjell is riddled with ancient ruins and deteriorating castles which have all but been completely destroyed over time.
Towerfjell itself is sometimes rumored to be named after one of these fallen structures, though it actually means Towering Mountain, in reference to either the mountain peak itself or to the mighty Towerfjell Citadel which sits on top of its inactive caldera. The royal Towerfjell family that built the citadel often traces their origins to this mountain, so it's more likely that the family didn't name the mountain, but were named after it.
The History of Dhegom
Towerfjell Kingdom is a large country-state the size of India or Alaska situated on its own little continent surrounded by oceans and other continents which have yet to be explored. The entire continent is actually a long dead supervolcano which formed into a single giant mountain that rose up from the ocean some ageless centuries ago. The last time one of the ocean's supervolcanos erupted, life was reset, and the whole entire planet Dhegom was plunged into the Dark Ages.
Humans and other animal species survived this last great mass extinction event, however, and began to repopulate the planet over the following centuries. But of the 23 sentient races, 11 thousand spoken languages and 13 billion humans who inhabited Dhegom, only a handful survived. Elves, dwarves, giants, orcs, dragons, unicorns, griffins, and many other legendary races and species went extinct. But halflings born 1/2 human, triflings born 1/3rd human, and the purebred 100% humans managed to escape the worst of it. The last of the purebreds were isolated on the Land of Towerfjell, where they rebuilt their civilization from the ground up before reaching the highest mountain.
There were wars, plagues and famines. Of those tribes and clans who didn't suffer the wrath of the initial volcanic eruption, but had managed to survive the following decades of global warming, global freezing, floods, storms and climate changes, many archaic families and bloodlines eventually went extinct anyway, disappearing from starvation or dying off in battle against other neighboring tribes within the very first century of their recovery. Five centuries later, humans are the last purebred sentient race on planet Dhegom, constituting roughly 70% of the world's total population. The rest are either halfblood humans or triflings of human descent. You are one of these 3 choices so choose carefully.
The History of Towerfjell will be provided later.
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