Ink and watercolour panorama of a realm: a smithy town beside ancient ruins in the foreground, hills, a distant desert and forest, a twin-peaked mountain on the horizon and a thin tear of light in the sky.

Location

Meliora

The Realm of Meliora: a land of humans and elves, ancient ruins and Rifts through which raw magic flows in from strange dimensions.

  • Before the Invasion
  • The Goblin Invasion
  • Between the Ages
  • Dark Times

Description

Meliora is the realm into which the stranger crosses: a kingdom of humans and elves, scattered with the ruins of ancient sorcerers. What makes it special are the Rifts, openings into strange dimensions that let raw magic pour into the world.

Its lands range from the blacksmith town of Pinewood and the mountain mines of Healand to the Shrike Desert and the great forest of the Primeweald, overlooked by the elven seat of Twilight Peak.

Historical context

Meliora's history has been rewritten at least once. In one timeline orcs conquered it; Aurelius undid that conquest and created the realm as it stands, which then had to be defended against the goblin invasion. A generation later the war of the dead and the Gloaming brought Umbra into the world, a darkness that, Aurelius insisted, was never meant to be part of Meliora.