Eryia Birthplace of Humankind
Magic has not been kind to humans. It's been two thousand years since wizards breached the earthen leylines and magic began leaching into the water and soil of Eryia and poisoning the human race. There is evidence that humans used to live as long as eighty years, but today purebred humans are lucky to make thirty. With life so short, everyone is out for himself - warlords and gangs roam the rotting cities in place of functioning governments. Violent battles are common as drug lords fight for control of territories to peddle their short term solutions for life's long term problems. Swarms of children, no better and less valued than sewer rats, scrounge in the muck and abandoned buildings for hidden stashes of clean food and water and any tool of the ancients that might be traded with the insulated upper crust for a better life. What little knowledge the ancients have left us on how to use the magitech they left behind slips away with the last heartbeat of a dying scribe.