Ashanor
The world of Ashanor has varied beautiful landscapes. Political intrigue is found throughout the land, which is largely ruled over by C.O.S.M. (The Circle of Sequestered Magics), a mages guild that sees magic as something to be used to help cities and towns.
Each town has political aspects which are primarily controlled by the local politicians, however, the Circle has final say on most decisions. This causes a lot of strife in each principality and political tensions are high.
Orcs abound in this land and are seen as a scourge that no one knows how to deal with due to the Great Orc War. Many served the great black dragon Glismoda in the Black Dragon Clan. Glismoda despises human kind as she remembers a time before humanoids walked the land and Dragons controlled all the resources. The rift changed all that and she set her aim on destroying everything. Most of the humanoids took to the sea until the orc wars were over. Once Glismoda was sealed politics once again became the focus of the world.