Ancient Fantasy World

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The World is called "Eia", and on it, lies a Supercontinent is named "Ardal" (Ar-dall), it is 68 Million square kilometers (comparison; North and South Americas combined is 42.07 million square kilometers). It is a land of high kingdoms, petty cheifdoms, and a thousands of independent city-states, all similar yet different from one another.

Ardal can be divided into three landmasses:

"North Ardal": Large Flat grasslands and plains in it's center, Thick Forested Plains in it's East, with a vast mountain range stretching from north to south (connecting to the mountains of Central Ardal), covering the southern, eastern and central regions. As North Arendal can be split into two by it's giant saltwater river (80km wide at narrowest, 140km at widest), the smaller northern half and the larger southern half (twice the size of the northern half).

Rivers flow from the mountains to the sea, and especially in the Central Region, the largest connection of rivers in the world.

"Central Ardal": Large rugged Mountain ranges stretching from north to south (connecting from and to the mountains of North and South Arendal) in its interior, with volcanoes, coastal lowlands, rainforests. The East and Northeast are Arid Deserts and Rocky Plains.

Along with a large archipelago island chain in the West of Central Ardal between North and South Ardal.

"South Ardal": Filled with vast swamps and rainforests, being on the Equator, with the mountains ranges stretching across it's Eastern Region from north to south (connecting from the mountains of Central Ardal), separating it's tiny desert west from it's giant rainforest and swamps in the east.

The Western and Central Region contains the largest rainforests with the longest continuous rivers in the world. The Mountains line the Eastern Region stretching from North to South where the small desert and badlands lay.

There are many tribes, kingdoms, and city-states dotting across the land, ruled by petty cheifdoms, warlords, and kings. But most "kingdoms" are more like a Confederacy/Coalition, a collection of city-states bound together in alliance, tribal loyalty, and personal oaths, that bond together, break apart and form new alliances all over ago in an endless cycle of betrayal, alliances, defensive pacts, and brotherhood.

A never ending cycle of expansion, betrayal, alliances, coalitions, and friendship.

The most prominent players on the continent of Ardal are:
Empire of Arcadia (High Elves with a Confederacy of over 22 city-states, Coastal Plains of North Ardal)

Empire of Ikara (Dark Elves, 29 city-states, Rivers of the Central Plains of North Ardel)

Kingdom of Heinburg (Dwarves, 18 strongholds, West Mountains of the North Ardal)

Kingdom of Rhonia (Wood Elves, 31 tribes, East Forests of North Ardal)

Confederacy of Tokala (Beastkin, over 49 tribes of various beast-kin species, West and Central Rainforests and Swamps of South Ardal)

City-states of Espania (Humans, over 59 City-states, tribes, and more, scattered across North and Central Ardal and it's islands)

Highlands of Voskar (Gnomes and Fairies, over 30 Groups, Central Grasslands and Forests of North Ardal)

Mountain Clans of Vinici (Giants, 14 Family Clans, East Mountains of South Ardal)

Tribes of Uralic (Humans, 39 tribes, scattered across South Ardal)

Bronze is the main metal used by everyone, but stone and copper tools and weapons are still used as bronze is sometimes bend (the same with copper). Bronze is easy to melt, cast, and work with, and bronze is less corrosive compare to iron.

The People of this time work with simple machines: pulleys, levers, wedges, etc, along with magic.

The Weapons everyone used are spears, shields, bows, axes, swords, and crossbows. Along with Magic staffs (but skilled magisters can use their hand with need for a medium). Nomadic Horse Archers, Hoplite Style Warfare, Tribal Mob Tactics, etc.

Warfare is simple, as it is just either mobs of unorganized tribe peoples with whatever weapons they have and charging in for personal glory. Or rich citizen soldiers of city-states who serve for life and practiced, forming the tiny core army and are supplemented by poorer citizens as militias or skirmishers. As the equipment of a soldier is based on personal wealth.

Dragons, Chimeras, Krakens, Gryphons (females have wings called "Griffin", while males are wingless called "Griffon"), Trolls, Ogres, Oliphaunts (20m tall elephants with four tusks) and many more mythological and magical creatures exist. And a few have managed to tame them and use them as war beasts, like the Oliphaunts having a War Howdah (a platform on the back of a large animal) on their backs. And the most prized

Types of Dragons:
"True Dragons": Four legs & two wings.

"Wyvern": Two wings (which also act as forelimbs) & two legs.

"Hydra": Four legs, with multiple heads from two to nine heads, wingless.

"Drake": Four legs, wingless.

"Kirin": Four legs, wingless, a mix of a deer and horse body covered in dragons scales with back curving anthers on the head.

"Wyrm": Sepertine body with no legs or wings.

"Sea Serpents": Aquatic Serpentine Dragons with no legs or wings.

"Lindwurm": Two legs with a serpentine body.

"Lung Dragon": Four legs with a serpentine body.

"Salamanders": Six to eight legs with serpentine body.

Some see it as a science, some see it as an art form. Despite all creatures being different, with different cultures and origins, all can agree, there is a powerful creator who created the world through magic and rules over it.

Magic is a naturally occurring energy that emanates from every living thing, originating from the brain and circulating throughout the body via the nerves and veins, the amount of energy is directly proportional to the intelligence of a living being. Practitioner of it are called "Magisters".

They use this natural energy to visualize an image of the outcome (such as fireball) in their mind, the image must be clear that it cause vivid hallucinations, hence needing an altered state. Then, send it down through their spine, nerves, & veins to an output location like the hands. Dangerous as the spell could misfire and cause injury to the user, and why staffs/tools are used as a medium.

There are five "elements" (what aspect in the world that the spell affects): Earth, Water, Fire, Air, & Nature.

Which also represent the five "senses" (how the caster is imagining/conjuring their spell): Touch, Taste, Sight, Hearing, & Smell.

And the five "schools" (how the caster is using the element): Manipulation, Creation, Destruction, Illusion, & Restoration.

All of the "elements", "sense", & "school" are all represented by a five pointed star, these are not rigid classifications are subclasses do exist, but in the most general and broad term, these five are the most prominent.

Pyromancy: The use of magic through fire, tied to the Sense of Sight & School of Destruction.

Hydromancy: The use of magic through water, tied to the Scene of Taste & School of Creation.

Aeromancy: The use of magic through air, tied to the Sense of Hearing, & School of Illusion.

Geomancy: The use of magic through the earth, tied to the Sense of Touch, & School of Manipulation.

Floramancy: the use of magic through plant life, tied to the Sense of Smell, & School of Restoration.

Religion play a massive role in everyone's lives, as everyone is superstitious, as prayers are said from battles and politics, to alcohol making and medicine. Food and Incense Offerings, Ritual Slaughter, Animal Sacrifice, and Item Offerings are made to show devotion to their gods.

The Elvish Religion is a Pantheon of 7 Gods. They worshipped the Sun God, "Solei", along with the God of Knowledge, "Lacedon" and Goddess of Agriculture, "Heria". Represented by a Seven Pointed Star.

Solei: King of Gods, Sun God
Lumia: Goddess of Darkness, Moon Goddess
Lacedon: God of Knowledge and Culture
Heria: Goddess of Agriculture
Hados: God of the Sea and Oceans
Jestia: Goddess of Weather, Sky and Thunder.
Juno: God of War (Forgettable God among the elves)

The Dwarves have 4 "Gods" in an almost monotheistic religion, represented by a Valknut (three interlocking triangles).

Dallr: Creator of the Universe and Everything
Gree: God of Spirits, Souls, and the Spiritual World
Mirr: God of Life, Intelligence, and the Physical World
Ani: Goddess of Emotions, Dreams, and the Astral World

The Beastkin have a Animistic Religion with the Goddess of Instincts and Creatures, "Ire", and the God of Intelligence and (Inanimated) Objects, "Gnosis". They believe that animals, plants, and natural objects possess divinity. Represented by a Triskelion Sigil.

The Giants have a Totemistic Religion, as each family clan carry a single totem (a natural object, animal, or plant) which serves as their emblem, protector, and symbolic ancestors, each nomadic family clan has an established identity around the totem and have strict rules.

Gnomes and Fairies don't have a religion, rather they worshipped a monotheistic religion of a single nameless creator.

Humans have a multitude of religions from Monotheistic, Polytheistic, Animism, Totemism, etc. But the most prominent is the "Aeternium Faith" where an angel came down with a fiery sword and purge the tainted, Represented by a Winged Sword symbol.

The Elves are aquatic creatures (taking inspiration from real life long live creatures), having vibrant skin colour from Calico Koi Palette to Ocean Blue. They can drink seawater and have distinct pointed ears (stiff and pointed backwards) and have the ability to breathe through water through their skin.

Cause of which, the Elves are only adapted to semi-aquatic life, living on slited houses and around bodies of waters, man-made or otherwise, and their expansion is limited to canals and other bodies of water and will regular wage campaigns of extermination to end local hostile threats to their waters.

Though they are considered to be a "tall" race, but compare to humans, they are short, as elves are considered the tallest race before humans came (Male Elves are 5'0"/152cm, while Female Elves are 5'5"/165cm). And live up to around 500-years maximum.

Their society is a matrilineal society, meaning inheritances, family descent, and kinship followed through the female line, not the male. Meaning authority and final decisions are made by women, but day-to-day tasks are handled by men.

Beauty essential for an elf, as the beauty standard is a feminine physique, a soft body, and supple skin. They are not ashamed of their body, wearing tight, transparent, and/or revealing clothings to celebrate their body as tradition demands it.

For women; they valued beauty: small breasts (B-C cup), slim figure, wide hips, and thick thighs. While for men; a toned body, a strong buttock, and a small limp penis (2-inches or less). The elves valued small penises as civilized, sophisticated, & nonthreatening to women, while big penises as barbaric & uncivilized. Cause of which, elvish men and women are indistinguishable, giving the race off as all female.

(The small penis thing is a real ancient Greece beauty standard)

The dwarves are the greatest smiths and craftsmen there is, being the first to create iron weapons, and later, steel weapons.

The dwarves are actually blind, being a subterranean people, having sensitive white hairs in multiple sets of whispers on the face. Cause of which, it gives the impression that all dwarves have beards, which is a myth. And due to their underground lifestyle, the few that live in the surface area always nocturnal, as their eyes are sensitive to light.

Due to their eyes being near useless, only able to see the faint outline of objects or persona up close (like mere inches away from the object or person), they always wear eye veils, face veil (covering the entire face), or "sunglasses" (using gemstones for glasses) as part of their fashion. As their eyes are sensitive to light.

Due to having a highly developed sense of touch, combined with their whispers acting like antennas, they are able to navigate their surroundings, and sense the impurities of metals, and became famous for ornate, complex, and intricate items, armor, weapons, and more, hence their unmatched craftsmanship status. Their society is a patriarchy.

The Dwarves have an earthy dark skin tone to a greyish metallic skin tone, and have thick earthy skin. and stand between 3'6"/107cm at shortest, or 4'6"/137cm at tallest. Due to their beauty standard is different from the elves. They live up to around 150-250 years maximum in lifespan, compare to the 500-years of the elves.

The Dwarvish beauty standard is medium to long hair (simple braided or tied), a masculine physique, a strong body, and muscly physique. Cause of which, the women are tomboys and can be mistaken for men.

For women; they valued small breasts (B-C cup), a pear figure, thick thighs, large buttocks, and wide hips. While for men, it's a strong body, a muscular physique, and stocky.

The Beast-kin are similar to humans in every way, and can be mistaken for humans, except there are key features among them that separated them from humans.

They have animal ears on the top of their head and tail/s on their tailbone. They are between 7'9"/236cm to 4'4"/132cm, depending on what kind of Beastkin they are (such as Bear-kin being stocky at 7'0" or a Mice-/Rat-kin being 4'4").

Their sense are also very keen, such as dog-kin having strong sense of smell, cat-kin having night vision and good eyesight, eagle-kin having wings on their back, etc, etc. They are a warrior society, with each race of beast-kin separated among many tribes and cheifdoms such as the bear tribe, the wolf tribe, the lizard tribe, etc, etc.

The Gnomes are small at 3'6"/107cm to 4'4"/132cm. The Gnomes have long floppy ears and horizontal pupils. They live in the grasslands in settled or nomadic groups.

The most prominent features on the Gnomes are the floral esque growth on their skin, appearing as leaves, branches, or flowers, that allowed them to feed off of sunlight to a certain degree, though not entirely, as they still rely on food.

Which cause their fashion to be be revealing but not promiscuous. Though most flora features on a gnome is fake, this is not entirely true, as each gnome has symbiotic connection to a certain plant, unique to the individual. These plants are bonded to a gnome shortly after birth, with said plants either having a practical use, such as defensive or medicinal, while others are decorative status symbol as it seen with the aristocracy which are selectively bred to keep them away from the public in walled garden.

Most Gnomes have a dedicated walled garden or greenhouse with a large glass roof to allow indoor sunbathing (a favorite past time of the gnome is napping in the sun). Rural Gnomes have quiant cottages while Urban Gnomes have streets lined with vibrant flowers and ornate glass roof works.

Fairies are also of similar build and height to the Gnomes, but have translucent insect wings, due to which they have a high metabolism for the energy of flying, and need to eat 7 meals a day like the Gnomes. As despite their small size they are quite energetic. Gnomes and Fairies live up to 300 years together.

Perfume and Incense are a huge market products created and sold among the gnomes. With some partaking in the psychoactive variant of these product for arcane effects, though in most cases, these are just hallucinations. And are the reason why Gnomes and Fairies are seen as "silly" or "whimsical" but are just intoxicated by their concoctions and rumored to have covered poisoning among the ruling class.

Giants are nomadic/semi-nomadic people, standing at 15ft/457cm tall (mostly due to their trunk-like legs which are double their body, as the torso and head are similarly as tall as other races around 5ft/152cm together, with exceptions to their long arms reaching their thighs), they would mostly ignored other races if they pose no threat to them, giving off a "Gentle Giant" vibe to other races around them. They have a lifespan of 60-90 years.

They live in small family clans or isolated individuals to start their own families or travel in solitude, being religious. They rest on the peaks of hills and mountains where they played music, which has an effect on the local weather. As small mountain villages are formed.

They have a very rich oral tradition history, and craft ornate masks with bells, chimes, and horns, giving them a love for storytelling, and will often exchange the stories of their travel with the other residents of the places they stopped at or other giants.

The Women of the Giants do not cover their breasts as exposed breasts are a sign of motherhood and married status, as this is not sexual among the Giants, as it just makes it easier for women to feed their children.

Humans are a mundane species compare to other races. In fact, for every 1 human, there are 7 elves, dwarves, beastkin, gnomes, fairies, and giants.

But through sheer stubborn will, adaptiveness, and perhaps spite, humanity survive but thrive, as there are numerous human states dotted across Ardal, so many that it is normal that humans waged war, genocide, and extermination on eachother as much as the other races fought to push mankind out of their lands or expansion. And as there is much conflict among humans, there are also as many alliances, coalitions, oath pacts, and brotherhoods formed.

However, there are a special group of humans among them, called "High Humans", instead of the standard 60-100 years lifespan, High Humans have 120-200 years and are taller at around 6'0"/183cm to 7'0"/213cm while regular humans are around 5'0"/152cm to 6'0"/183cm. For every 1 High Human, there is 9 Normal Humans.