Gaia is an ancient world, steeped in magic. However, in centuries past, an artificing experiment went greatly awry. Fantastical technology waged a war against the peoples of the world, and only through concerted, combined effort of all the people of the world, was that technology defeated.
The disease became known as the Metal Plague, and it left behind many scars on the world. Most have been subsumed by the world, the scars filled in or grown over. Every so often, there are small resurgences of the Plague, but it is quickly beaten down and excised.
For many years, people remained afraid of the leftover hulks of that ancient time. But as the terrors faded out of living memories, bolder heroes ventured into the ruins of that time. Tinkerers, artificers, engineers and magickers alike poured over the finds the heroes brought back.
Today's Gaia is filled with magic and life still, but is joined by the many wonders of technology. Where magic can fill a role, technology usually has a non-magical counterpart.
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The World Map
The world itself is very analogous to Earth. There is a single supercontinent that is an amalgamation of Europe, Russia/Siberia and Asia, two continents joined together by a narrow isthmus that are roughly similar to North and South America, and a fourth continent roughly similar to Australia. North and south poles are archipelagos covered by ice sheets.
I am terrible at drawing things, but at some point I will create a map.
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The world has become a technological one in leaps and bounds, but it has been done less through natural advancement and more through unlocking secrets from things recovered from ruins associated with the Metal Plague.
Society has faced several upheavals in the past two hundred years as it tries to keep pace with technological advances. Magic has almost always been limited, as perhaps less than five percent of the world's population is naturally able to manipulate mana, the power of magic, gods and natural forces granting magical powers to their followers notwithstanding. Technology has given the downtrodden and magicless people the ability to keep pace with magical advances.
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