World Summary

Once upon a time there was a big continent. Most of the fantasy races lived somewhere on the continent, but by and large they left each other alone and stayed amongst themselves.

But then one of the elven gods placed an avatar amongst his people. This demi-god rose to become a powerful war chief among his people. He led them against the neighboring races and eventually he conquered the continent and set up an elven empire.

Centuries later, the humans under this elven empire rose up in rebellion. While the elven cultures had congealed into one culture, the humans were all quite different, still following their ancient tribal ways. Each human province under the elven empire found a different path to power, and thus each found a way to have champions capable of fighting back against their elven overlords. They eventually won their freedom and liberated their lands.

The elves fell back to their ancient homelands and a stalemate of sorts now exists between the humans and elves. Both would like to obliterate the other, but they aren’t capable of amassing an army large enough to invade the other.

Meanwhile, the dwarves and trolls have problems of their own, primarily a lack of trusting the other dwarf and troll clans. The orcs, ogres and goblins are on another continent, but they have recently figured out how to sail to this one, and they have been both raiding and colonizing.