Post by The Oracle on Feb 13, 2015 22:22:43 GMT
The Kingdom of Brance is a magical Kingdom that practices traditional style Knighthood and Wizardry. They are currently in a state of shaky peace with the Dominion of Mallaston, a nation that relies upon machinery powered by magic and steam in order to make up for its low population. The two nations are constantly at odds over tradition (Brance) and innovation (Mallaston). Mallaston's discovery of immortality though the use of implanting their souls within mechanical bodies has the traditionalists of Brance in an uproar.
While Mallaston has machinery to take care of its population, Brance depends heavily upon its peasant population. Poor living wages and corrupt nobility have created dissidence in Brance. That is not to say Mallaston is a Utopia, despite not having a need for a population of workers the political elite maintain higher status and wealth than the average citizen of Mallaston.
In the Southern reaches of the world, Drow have been reported to be more active than usual. Drow have expressed an interest in moving into the Sandspire to excavate the ruins of their parent race in Xharlion. Meanwhile a cult known as the Tetragamma have been building in numbers and communing with demonic entities from the beyond.
In the far off lands of Rhaegora, monks report that pirate raids have gotten more and more frequent. Most fingers point to the Sandspire, known to sell stolen Rhaegoran silk on the black market for profit.