In the tropical south-east, the wealthy city-states of Jaffa and Xetlani rule the archipelagos and tropical jungles, reaping the profit of the bountiful resources available.

Surrounded by dry, craggy mountain ranges and guarding the trade routes to the south-east, Syribia is wealthy beyond imagining, yet life around the desert is far from safe.

It's people have established a proud and powerful militaristic society and have spread their culture across the northern shores of the Bophisian Sea.Īcross the water, the Syribian Empire encompasses both fertile grasslands and parched deserts. The land of Julaenia is fertile and abundant, yet dangerous. The central landmass of Gaio is home to two competing empires, each one straining against the other to ensure their own dominance. Here, life is both a struggle and a victory for it's people. Green pastures, rolling hills, wind-swept moorlands, brooding and snow-capped mountains and vast, ancient forests. To the north sit the continents of Kordania and Drovedna. And at it's nadir, the chaos and pandemonium of the abyss presses in, it's evil denizens constantly seeking ways to claw their way into existence to wreak havoc on the cosmos. A realm of numerous afterlives, from blissful to torturous and ruled over by proud and ambitious gods of death. Beneath lies Ata, the Nether Realm, the realm of endings where the souls of all mortals pass when they die. Above it hangs Suma, the Heavenly Realm, where the gods and their domains drift in an endless sea of stars. Gaio is commonly depicted by scholars and priests as being the middle-realm in the cosmological structure. The mortal races have wandered and settled across every landmass, yet for all this the majority of the world is wild and unexplored.

The mortal world of Gaio is truly vast, ancient and beautiful.

Pastures on mortal empires map