The Planet
The Forge of Kings is set on the planet of Doma. Doma is roughly twice the size of Earth and has two moons. One moon is a small and round, roughly a quarter the size of Doma itself. The other is almost a third the size of Doma and orbits further out so in the sky they appear approximately the same size. A day has 24 hours like Earth but a week is eight days long. A full year is 390 days divided into 13 months each with 30 days. It has a North and South pole, and although it is generally hotter than Earth it is also rainier and things generally even out.
50,000 years ago Doma was ruled almost entirely by the High Elves. Dwarves were confined to the hills and mountains and indeed they built fantastic and impregnable fortresses there. The orcs and other old races were scattered across the planet but mostly confined to a single continent, Gardanis. The elives secured their place with magic, the very life energies that powered the planet and everything on it. Their cities, their buildings, their weapons, their schools, all of it, every aspect of High Elf society had, at its core, magic. Humans were kept as slaves and laborers to the High Elves, doing whatever menial tasks the elves thought themselves too good for. However things would not stay this way forever.
As the millenia wore on the elves use of magic out paced the planet's ability to replace those energies. The first symptoms were difficulties in casting complicated spells and using artifacts. As time wore on these difficulties turned into impossibilities until even the most mundane magically powered item failed to work. The humans caught onto this fact quickly, and many managed to escape. The elves, though crippled by their failing magic, hunted them ruthlessly. Several hundred humans managed to make contact with the dwarves who took in the refugees, partly out of the Dwarven sense of justice, and partly to spite the elves. The elves, humans and their dwarf allies waged war. The elves were fighting a losing battle. The war was too much. Almost over night their magical abilities evaporated as they sapped the very last of the planet's energies.
The planet lashed out. A massive comet passing incredibly close to the planet, and was captured by Doma's gravity and fell into orbit as a second moon. The process wrecked havoc on the surface of the planet. The planet heaved and groaned. Continents split, mountains sank and cities were swallowed in sinkholes and washed away by tsunamis. The entire planet turned ninety degrees on it's axis. The Shift. It's snow and ice covered North and South Poles, over a period of days, were now sitting on the equator. The flooding washed almost all traces of the elves away. The war was over.
In the thousands of years since Humans emerged from the dwarven cities and other places that they had hidden during the war. Many died, but humanity, as it will, survived, and in just a handful of centuries they became the dominant race on the planet. One family stood out among the humans on the continent of Kildanis: The Redhearts. The Redheart family founded the first human Kingdom on the surface of the planet, Lete. Peace reigned for decades before war returned to the humans, and a great rivalry within the Redheart Clan turned into murder, and the Blackheart Clan was formed. They founded the Kingdom of Southern Lete (known derisively as Lower Lete to northerners). Magic returned to the world during this time. This time it was in the hands of the humans who had discovered dozens of High Elf ruins deep in the Thundering Mountains. These humans formed the Republic of the Magi, a magocracy dominated by the most powerful sorcerers and wizards in the world. In the northwest corner of the continent hearty men formed the Northern Kingdoms, a collective of warring city-states where life was hard and bitterly cold. In the far north a jagged strip of mountains went from the eastern border of the Northern Kingdoms all the way to the Jandalaman Isthmus. These mountains belonged to the dwarves, and no human went into them with hostile intentions. The Jandalaman Isthums was populated by a tribe of surviving elves, much fallen from their previous status. They now called themselves Wood Elves, and they were xenophobic in the extreme, allowing on a single road through their territory for trade. Even the slightest deviation from that road is certain death. Beyond that thin strip of land was another continent, Valdunis. Primarily desert and rocky hills Valdunis had been the floor of a great ocean before The Shift, now it was home to the Malar Empire though most of the land is unsettled and offers little in the way of resources.
This game will take place on the continent of Kildanis.
Important Links
Teknology
Races of Doma
Pantheon