The Shattered Isles

The Shattered Isles, a collection of floating continents surrounded by smaller floating islands. Created from an ancient apocalyptic disaster, the islands that all now live on were created from what remained of the broken world. Suspended above a barrier of clouds that separate the new islands from the remnants of the old world, most do not remember the old world, and the well-aged have forgot or blocked out the memories of the Great Shatter and the old World. Beyond solely destroying the material plane, these isles have been disconnected from most of the Outer Planes, causing new divine and infernal entities to emerge from the echos and magic left behind by their old gods.   After centuries of conflict and war as the survivors of the Great Shatter struggle to rebuild and reestablish empires, creatures and races have adapted to the new environment or have gone extinct in the process. New races have emerged to fill the niches left empty at an astounding rate, with some new creatures adapting over only one or two generations to become completely different.   These Isles are a place of rapid adaptation and change, a world of infinite possibilities where the infinite skyline and the far flung islands offer adventure and danger to would-be adventurers. Life now revolves around the sky, with nomad groups forming that can spend their whole lives island hopping and flying through the clouds. Hunters take to the skies to gather meat, leather and alchemical ingredients from the new creatures that claim the skies. Miners and stone cutters harvest ore and rock from the floating islands around the continents. Even water now comes form the sky, delivered from the heavy rainfall and storms that are gathered in rain barrels and underground reservoirs to supply people and farmland with water.