Faerûn
Faerûn: home to millions of adventurers and at least as many stories. Countless reflections of this common home have existed in basements, living rooms, classrooms, chatrooms, church halls, libraries, and community centers around the world.
This world is one such reflection - though perhaps it would be closer to call it a snowflake on a grand peak. Though the snow is plenty, each flake is a unique delight of detail, as if the gods themselves painstakingly designed, carved, and polished it through divinely guided artistry. That this Faerûn is one among many takes nothing away from the cosmic craftsmanship of those that would call her home: her heroes, her adversaries, her powerful, and her meek. And though she shares the same history as her familiar echoes, the course of history lies ever delicate on the free will of her people.
Once upon a time, in this Faerûn, one of these acts of free will that might otherwise have been rote adventurers' business, would shake the firmament of this world. Adventurers whose legacy, at the time, would likely not outpace their lives went to a dead city caught in a similar fate. It was in Leilon that the plates of our snowflake would shift and take form, and a new destiny for this Faerûn would begin to crystallize...