Lore & Setting
🌍 Notable Regions & Landmarks
🏚 Ashlight Hamlet (Starting Area)
A small village built from the remains of a collapsed tower. Locals whisper of its cursed foundation. It’s the first safe zone for players.
🌲 Elderpine Forest
Dark and dense. Rumors speak of moving trees, a hidden druid circle, and a buried relic that whispers to those who sleep nearby.
🦴 Withered Steppe
Once fertile grasslands, now cracked and cursed from an ancient war. Scattered bones and rusting siege weapons dot the landscape.
🧊 Highrock Peaks
Snow-covered mountain range with deadly cliffs. Home to smugglers, ice wraiths, and lost dwarven tunnels.
🐉 Wyrmbone Ridge
Named for the bleached bones of a colossal dragon. Bandits and rogue necromancers now call it home.
🧪 Shattered Spire
A magical explosion reduced this wizard tower to floating fragments. Gravity shifts and time bends inside.
⚰️ The Hollow Realms
Caverns beneath the surface. No light, no rules. Home to fungal beasts and a race of forgotten humanoids.
🧟 Ruins of Varn
The dead walk here. Once a thriving capital, it fell overnight. The gates are sealed by a still-glowing blood rune.
🌊 Tidelost Coast
Crashing waves, broken ships, and ghostly sailors. Sometimes, the tide pulls inland.
🏰 Factions & Powers
🔥 The Embercloaks
A radical fire-worshipping sect who believe burning the old world is the only way to usher in the new. Rumors suggest they know how to control wild magic.
⚖️ Order of the Quiet Bell
A wandering brotherhood of monks and spies. They collect secrets, enforce oaths, and settle feuds – silently. Their monastery has no doors.
🐾 Ashfang Tribe (Orcish Faction)
Nomadic, brutal, and deeply spiritual. Their chieftain wields a blade said to be forged from the bones of a god.
💀 The Pale Sovereign
A lich-king gathering the dead under one banner. Unseen but felt. His name is forbidden in most towns.
🌿 The Verdant Pact
Druids and forest spirits fiercely protecting the Elderpine Forest. Even speaking steel in their woods might provoke an attack.