Elum

Elum is an old world, life has existed here for dozens of cycles. Exterminations, disasters, apocalypses, Elum has seen it all. During the last such cycle the Abyss and Mount Celestia came to overlap and war spilled out onto Elum’s terrain. The world was sent askew on its orbit, the far north exposed to the unrelenting sun whilst the far south experienced a forever night. As the Abyss and Celestia drifted apart once more peace returned to Elum, but Elum had forever been changed.   Many millenia has passed since the Angels and Demons reached their pact that grants them an uneasy peace. Their agents exist across Elum, bound by the pact, their influence upon the material plane is limited instead choosing to bind mortals to their master. It is not uncommon for cults and sects to form dedicated to one of the Arch-beings. For whilst the demons have always sought to sow chaos across Elum, the Angels seek such rigid forms of order and subservience that they are often only barely seen as the least worse of the two options. For without the demons to push against the mindset of these ancient beings, have begun to stagnate and wither, what was once seen as a noble species has quickly devolved into tyranny. The Angels have sought to create such strict order that it is almost impossible to live under their reign.   For the most part the races have been around for a very long time, Elves, Humans, Orcs and Dwarves amongst the first to appear on the face of Elum. And as Elum became enriched with mana the races began to change. Some Elves became Aaracora after moving to the frigid mountains, other Dwarves became Kenku in the lush forests, Orcs became Goliaths under the blistering sun of the desert.   It was not just the Elumites that were affected by the war. The war invested a great deal of magic into Elum, pulling the various planes closer to Elum. Normally the Weave would lay over the top of the material plane, binding the world together. On Elum the Weave pervades the entire planet, infused through the earth, air and water. As a result Magic is far easier to perform and the other planes lie beneath a thin facadé making travel across the many planes exceedingly easy compared to the other material planes. Thus a great number of world hoppers (those from other material planes) have taken residence on Elum.