TOC and Introduction

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TOC and Introduction

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Introduction

Where magic is common and where humans are not the only intelligent creatures. It is a place where the people are at the constant mercy of the tyranny of the expansionist empires of the East and West, and where sorcerers struggle with their sanity whilst wielding their dark powers. It is a world of fantasy, where the barriers between the domains of spirits and corporeal beings are constantly strained. Evil rises constantly from fronts physical, spiritual and mental. It is a world of darkness, shadow and dust. A world where the monsters are not only the horned, tailed, winged devils, but also the most normal seeming of humans or táchari beset by greed or envy.

But against the darkness, there is always that last glimmer of light, there are always the heroes who react to the darkness. Whether those heroes are the warriors smiting evil with their blades, the mages smiting evil with lightning and fire, or the peacemakers who defeat evil without so much as striking a single blow, there is always someone who'll save the innocent from oppression and horror. Or at least they'll try.

The world itself is separate to our own, called many things by its inhabitants, but all translations come out to 'Earth' in much the same way that we ourselves call our planet what it is. However, to distinguish it for the moment, we'll simply call it Erda, after an early Anglo-Saxon term for Earth. It is similar to our world in matters of mass, gravity, rotation, solar distance, length of the years, the oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, and even the geographical distribution of land and ocean is similar, though not identical, but there are two moons orbiting it. Similarly, the world is inhabited by many other species than our own from the long-lived táchari to the powerful dragons to the mysterious daemons.

It is a world of magic, above all. Welcome to Essence & Descent.
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'For the moment, mortal, they find the thought of killing me more desirable than that of killing you.'
'And what are their chances?'
'The answer to that is evident in how long they've been hesitating, wouldn't you think, mortal?'

-Anomander Rake and Ganoes Paran in Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
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