The Wild Elves belong to the great forests that spread across the Known World. They make their towns and villages high among the greatest trees connected by wood and rope bridges. They are wardens of the forest and protectors of the wild creatures within those forests. They are a peaceful folk unless the tranquility of their forests are threatened with...
The Wyrmlings inhabit the swamps of the Known World in small numbers with perhaps only a sinlge tribe controlling a small swamp within a larger kingdom of another race. Only in the great southern forest on the banks of the Eleam River system do the Wyrmlings exist in great numbers. They control a vast empire along that great river and its surrounding...
Refugees flee across the land. Tales of woe and death follow. The residents of horseshoe valley fled for their lives in the middle of the night while being chased by the dead. Yes, the dead have come to life and they walk the land. The fleeing residents are exhausted from running for their lives day and night with very littel rest. Some sought sanctuary...
The Dead stalk across the land and the living flee from thier deadly embarce. The Free Cities have mustered thier militia and taken the war to the dead. The Blankenship Militia under general Wheeler fought a hard, running battle with the undead hordes that ended with them putting Ash Town to the torch and burning the entire rotten city to the ground....
The Deluge of Rot... The Dead flood through the mountains after defeating the valiant dwarves who gave their lives to try and stop the flood. Alas, the Sky Pass has fallen and the dead march towards Shipton, a port city on the banks of the Bay of Despair. The people of Shipton have been digging a huge fortified entrenchment for the last month in the hopes...
Mercenary armies are often cobbled together by experienced and money savvy soldiers who have a lot of friends in seedy places. These mercenary captains will recruit a dour and taciturn fellow soldier who can be trusted around gold and jewels. Together the Captain and Paymaaster will begin frequenting the brothels, taverns and dives recruiting sellswords...
Fusilier Regiments are built around a strong corps of massed musket fire. Each Company fires and fights as a solid cohesive body. They are drilled to fire by ranks in order to keep up a withering hail of gunfire into an advancing enemy or as a solid mass to break up an enemy charge. They are a lightly armoured army and rely on their ranged attacks to pin...
Armies of angels and mortals march across the lands of man and the rest of the known world to bring the light of Law and Order to the darkest and coldest areas. Bloody conflict lay it this armies wake. There is no reasoning with an angel who's orders come directly from their gods. Those who attempt to resist are deemed blashphemers and heretics an entire...
On the edge of the Leonid Empire, btween the Sand Kings and open savannah, lies the realm of the Dunelords. They are close cousins of the more civilized Leonid clans but prefer the open sky to cramped urban living. They do not build machines of steam and magic and instead work together with many natural species to form a more harmonious existance. They are...
The Empire of the Sun controls a large island chain far to the east, across the raging sea. They are led by an Emperor who the common folk believe is descended from a divine ancestory. The Emperor is reclusive and mysterious and most of the country is ruled by a warrior aristocracy called the Samurai, or those who serve. The senior and most powerful...
Carthage was founded by nobles from the Phoenician city of Tyre and from Cyprus. From the start it was a complete and independent city on a spot with favorable access to important resources such as clay and sea salt. Carthage in North Africa then became the cradle and center of the Punic state which spread across the Mediterranean. Carthage's military...
The Demon Queen sits upon her Throne of Bones and sends for legions of devils and deluded men to sow strife and violence in the world of ordinary men. She is an ancient creature born at the dawn of creation and constantly at war with the forces of Law and Order. The Abyss lives outside but alongside the world of mortals and occasionally passageways between...