Zholmyr Steady your Soul

Thousands of miles beneath the surface, the soul of the world sleeps and dreams and feels. Its visions are vivid and volatile, weaving between the real and the abstract. It sees of heavenly warriors taller than constellations, and darkness more inescapable than death. It senses the scape move and change. Mountains rise and fall and are washed away with the wind and the rain. Seas shrivel and swell, painting over the land.   And it feels millions of tiny mortal souls ripple across its surface like blades of grass in the breeze. Too many to count, too many to distinguish, no one lasting longer than an instant but each one feeding into the next like dancing sparks. From far beyond this phantasmal network, a bygone presence long lost and forgotten fixes its gaze upon Zholmyr. And it threatens to transform this living dreamscape into a nightmare.    

Welcome to Zholmyr

Zholmyr is a world overflowing with mana and energy. The material realm--the land, the seas, and the life that fill them--is interlinked with an invisible trellis of power centered in the world's core and woven into every atom and cell. This mysterious power is colloquially known by many names, but it is most commonly referred to as the "quintessence".   The quintessence imbues the natural world with a level of consciousness unseen in other parts of the multiverse. Throughout millenia of history, mortal races of Zholmyr have sought to survive amongst landscapes that seemed to have minds of their own. Some have thrived in the face of this challenge, and have learned to tame the raw power of the world to birth great cities, cultures, and empires. In the modern age, as frontiers dwindle and borders proliferate, Zholmyr has entered a new era of geopolitical maneuvering. Adventurers are in high demand from governments and factions to furhter their interests and hasten the taming of Zholmyr.   The largest landmass is the megacontinent of Dolmaya, which takes up most of the northern hemisphere. Two smaller continents--Teelver and Pokkiis--lie to the west and south respectively.