Background With Map

The Wall

The world is surrounded by an impassible wall with a diameter of roughly 2000 leagues (6900 miles), the wall constructed of some sort of opaque energy. The history of the wall is nebulous at best, without exigent documentation of its creation.

According to tradition, the wall was constructed by the four primogens of the major supernatural types: Vampires, Werefolk, Fae, and Witches. The reason for the construction is as nebulous as the history, ranging from the displeasure of God to need for protection from a ruined world. The most common accepted history is:

The lesser children of Adam and Eve had found the hidden secrets of the world, divining them from the atom and the quark. In their search for the power to return the garden they were exiled from, they had ruined the world they were given, leaving their lands wasted and radioactive. In their mercy Caine, Lilith, Seth, and Titania made a wall around the last of the untouched lands. With the wall constructed the four primogens made their children lords and ladies over the mundane children of Adam.

While this history is not definitive in any sense, it's acceptance among the common folk has made it practically a universal fact.

The Lands

Once the wall was constructed, the four primogens split the land equally, making the city of Enoch the center of the four kingdoms. Enoch became the seat of powers for the kingdoms where the primogens ruled from their own cities in the multi-dimensionality of Enoch. In Enoch the powers ruled for two millennium, keeping the peace among their children and the children of Adam.

After the second millennium three of the four powers left the lands for the world beyond the wall, taking with them the majority of their children. Lilith, Caine, and Seth left the world largely bereft of their children, undermining the worldly power of those left behind.

The Broken Kingdoms

Without the support of the their primogens and their populations greatly diminished, their kingdoms crumbled into independent regions and then finally squabbling city states. In the breaking of their authority, the supernaturals lost their control over the mundane majority of the world. Without the support of their primogens and their numbers the supernaturals became hunted and shunned, no longer the lords of the lands.

The Place of Supernaturals

It has been two millennium since the disappearance of the three primogens, and the supernaturals have once again slunk back into the shadows to rule or be ruled by the children of Adam. While there are no set prohibitions about openly displaying one's supernatural abilities, many seek to hide them for the sake of safety. The children of Adam are weak, but their far superior numbers make them dangerous to the supernaturals of the world. There are still refuges in the world where supernaturals may openly walk among men, Enoch being one such place, but the majority of the settlements of man are dangerous for those who lack subtly.

The State of Science and Technology

The level of understanding of the mundane world reached its apex at the time just before the three primogens left. Magic had also been explored to a degree that even the mundane populations were capable of manipulating it in the most basic of ways. With the fracturing of the four kingdoms, the world was put into a new dark age. Many of the mundanes rose up to destroy the repositories of knowledge, burying the discoveries for centuries or forever. The current state of technology in the world is spotty at best with pockets of high technology and science, among a majority of settlements that have risen to a barely industrial level. So many of this world have made fortunes discovering lost science, magic, and technology and selling them to various rulers.

Ancient highways and broken rail lines still dot the land, reminders of past glories, now mere landmarks for travelers to navigate by. Havens of dead or sleeping supernaturals are still being discovered and plundered everyday by those brave enough to risk death.

Mysteries for Characters to Explore

• Oberron and Titania never left the world, so why has the power of the Unseelie Fae waned?
• There are so many legends as to why the three left the world, there is no evidence to support any of them.
• Caine took all the Elders of the age with him as well as the primogens of all the clans, during the exodus much of the history of the Kindred was lost or destroyed. Why?
• Seth forbade all of his children from venturing closer than one league to the wall. Why?
• Lilith took many of the great codices of magic with her when she left. Why?
• The three left a being known as Baphomet to protect/control the city of Enoch as well as to enure the balance of power within the city. Who/what is Baphomet?

Cities of the Supernaturals

Along with Enoch, each type of supernatural has a city they control openly.

Avalon – The City of the Lilim

Carthage – The City of the Kindred

Llys Helig – The City of the Werefolk

Magh Meal – The City of the Fae