World Lore

Year 1706

In the year 1706, the British Empire's fleet has discovered a strange phenomenon - an enormous portal to a strange new world opened in the ocean near the Americas. The British Empire diverted enormous resources to explore the newly discovered territories.

Soon new settlers poured through the portal. The portal disappeared five years later cutting the settlers off. It would never reappear again.

Many people commonly assume that the Age of Pirates ended as a result of the British Empire hunting down the pirates but it is more likely the real reason was that the pirates just escaped through the portal.

Year 1798 - now

Generations have passed since the portals closed down. New technological developments spurred by the easy access to magical artifacts and creatures resulted in an age of prosperity. Airships powered by both science and magic soar the skies, magically enchanted armor and weaponry are as common as conventional attire.

The prosperity did not cure the mankind of its sinful ways, however. Indigenous population of humans who likely travelled to the new world many thousands of years earlier, called “villagers”, are now commonly used for slave labor.

Cut off from the Earth, most settlers quickly lost their original allegiances. New factions formed.

Expansion 1 - resource worlds

Trying to find a way back to the Earth, the Settlers discovered that the new worlds had its own system of inter-dimensional portals leading to many other worlds and dimensions, each with their own rules and inhabitants. The portals were not stable, ever changing their destination. A traveller walking into a portal today could find themselves stranded in between the worlds. Information about pathways to specific worlds became incredibly valuable.

Expansion 2 - multiple servers

Unbeknownst to the British Empire at the time, similar portals appeared in many different locations around the Earth, each leading to its own dimension.