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-====== The Five Kingdoms ======
-Preliminary name and brief notes for a new fantasy setting for use with **YAGS**. The basic idea is a high fantasy genre similar to a typical **D&D** world. Magic is common, and there are a wide range of monsters and races.
-The world is based on an alternate Earth, with a very similar geography but quite different history.
-Cultures are very varied, to allow a wide range of setting types.
-===== Geography =====
-Centred on human kingdoms in 'Europe', northern 'Africa' and the 'Middle-East'. The names of these places will be different.
-There is an 'Atlantis' in the mid-Atlantic, and a central sea in mid-Asia just east of the Urals.
-There are human empires around Italy, France, Egypt and Baltic Sea. There is a dwarven kingdom based in the Alps. Italy has the largest cities (largest has a population of about quarter of a million).
-There are the remnants of an elven world tree in Iberia.
-There are dinosaurs in central Africa, as well as serpent folk.
-===== History =====
-  * Originally, the world was ruled by the serpent folk, who enslaved early humans.
-  * Then the Elves came, who overthrew the serpents, and enslaved humanity themselves.
-  * Humans used a powerful ritual to destroy the elven world trees and break their power, in the process summoning the Tarrasque that destroyed the elven cities.
-  * Humans gained their freedom, and built an empire to rival that of the elves and serpents.
-  * A thousand years after the fall of the elves, the Tarrasque arose again, and destroyed the human cities.
-  * Humans rebuild, and it is now the 8th century since the previous devastation. No-one is sure whether the Tarrasque will return.
-===== Races =====
-Humans are dominant.
-Dwarves are relatively common, and have their own kingdom. They live over two hundred years.
-Halflings are thought to have been bred from human stock by the elves.
-Gnomes are part-fey. They live about a hundred years.
-Half-elves are the descendants of humans and elves, and are more human than elf. They live about a hundred years.
-Elves are very rare, and generally disliked and mistrusted. They live about a thousand years.
-Catfolk come from Egypt, or maybe India.
-Trolls are found in Norway, and are intelligent in the cold north.