Zaldebrash

Zaldebrash is a modern high fantasy setting emerging from its dark past into a bright and hopeful future. Once a world ruled by various totalitarian governments that enforced racist practices with propaganda and unspeakable atrocities, all of these governments have since been toppled. The Nazi-like House of Purity fell in Aladar after the Zaldebrashian World War, and the former police state of Zaldebrash City was dethroned by a civil rights movement that established a democratic government in which everyone gets a say (at least in theory) in its wake. In the wake of these horrible governments has come an era in which those once deemed monsters can walk free and lead happy lives. No more do they have to cower in the sewers in fear of being burnt to death by a cop with a flamethrower. Nonetheless, trouble still brews in Zaldebrash. The blue greatwyrm Ilnafex perpetuates ruthless business strategies throughout the world at the expense of those he holds power over. The evil goddess of volcanoes known as Tiana demands sacrifices from the peoples of Tianadar daily, lest their homes be bathed in cataclysmic eruptions and dragonfire. The terrorist group known as the Insurgency leaves their mark on Zaldebrash City by illegally enforcing the doctrines of the old police state upon the city, performing horrible atrocities in the name of the old lie of "societal purity." But as always in Zaldebrash, there is hope. Many citizens of Zaldebrash City actively work against Ilnafex and his diabolical business of Thundercorp. The dark elves of Tianadar pray for the triumph of their selfless ancestral god--the Thrice-Martyred Saint--over Tiana. The reformed police of Zaldebrash City tirelessly work against the Insurgency, chasing down leads that will lead to the capture of the Insurgency's mysterious masqued leader, Jackal. Just as the old evils of Zaldebrash toppled, so too shall these new evils fall.