The story takes place in the Lands of Man, a few hundred years after the last of the Dragons have retreated to the deep caverns to sleep away the centuries. The Dragons ruled the world for millennia, and most of humanity is not at all sure why they left. In all of recorded history, no mere human ever slew a Dragon. Well, actually, I decided to write this one because it's a change of pace. Yes, it's another big fat fantasy, but it's not much like Touched By the Gods .
Life's generally pretty good.
Despite all the horrible things that happen in the course of the story, Touched By the Gods is pretty optimistic. Ethshar is a pretty cheerful place, too, and the stories set there are generally optimistic. Dragon Weather isn't cheerful, at least initially. The Lands of Man are not anywhere I'd care to live, or even visit for very long. Their gods are dead, sleeping, or sadistic, and their world full of mysteries.