# Background — World Lore

> Source: darkpawns.com/background.html  
> Author: R.E. Paret (Frontline)  
> Preserved from Wayback Machine capture

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The gods have always been, and always will be. And having free will, given to them by Chaos, they created their own and brought forth likenesses, who strive to become as gods, and join them in their omnipotence.

Like a great game of chess, the world has become a board filled with bishops and kings, stately queens, white knights and dark pawns striving to rise through the ranks into godhood.

Outside those thick walls that enable 'civilized' persons to sleep so well lies an untamed land, some partly still ruled by the power of fangs, claws, and magic.

Twisted and warped by forgotten times into a vision that would make any sane man's nightmare seem like a pleasant summer daydream.

Beware the unseen, adventurer. The power is there, cloaked in a forgotten tomb or a dragon's hoard, but it is there.

—The letter of Friar Drake to the cities of Kir Drax'in, Kir-oshi, and Alaozar, circa 185