The Old Gods Wikia

The year is 1453 and in our timeline, Christianity has spread through all of Europe, except in Greece/Anatolia where the last remnants of Rome, the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, fall to the Sunni Ottoman Turks, while the major nations of England, France, Spain and Portugal race to discover a new route to India, but end up colonizing the Americas. But this is not our world…

In this alternate Earth, magic co-exists alongside the mundane and religion is made even more powerful due to epic clashes between followers and the gods themselves. Rivalries run deep and great battles are fought to carve out empires with blood, magic and dogma. The old gods that used to rule the hearts and minds of man are very much real, and so religions that are extinct in our world, still thrive due to magic and celestial and abyssal interference. Races that would be considered fantastical to us such as elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes live throughout this world.

## The Old Gods Wikia

The year is 1453 and in our timeline Christianity has spread through all of Europe, wiping out or absorbing all other faiths in the process. Catholicism and Orthodoxy are the main branches of Christianity, having split a few hundred years prior due to political and theological differences. In Greece/Anatolia the last remnants of the Roman Empire, Orthodox Christians known as the Byzantine Empire, fall to the Sunni Ottoman Turks, while the major nations of England, France, Spain and Portugal race to discover a new route to India, but end up finding the Americas and their indigenous peoples. The Aztec and Inca built up great civilizations long before the Europeans arrived and brought their plagues. In our world, there exist ideas of heaven and hell and other worlds, yet no one has ever seen or can prove them. But this is not our world…

In this alternate Earth, magic co-exists alongside the mundane and religion is made even more powerful due to epic clashes between followers and the gods themselves. Rivalries run deep and great battles are fought to carve out empires with blood, magic and dogma. The old gods that used to rule the hearts and minds of man are very much real, and so religions that are extinct in our world, still thrive due to magic and celestial and abyssal interference. Races that would be considered fantastical to us such as elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes live throughout this world.

The Earth's structure itself is vastly different from our own, as below the mantle lies a whole different world, complete with continents and seas, wonder and death, dangerous civilizations and terrifying monsters. This Underdark has a physical effect on the Surface world, as great magical phenomena occur where concentrations of magical energy burst through the mantle from the planet core. Great creatures, such as Dragons, Leviathans and Chimera, inhabit the lands and seas of the Under and Surface worlds.

Even more astounding than the great wonders of the Earth, is that this Material plane of existence is just one of a series of planes, each contributing to the overall realms, and travel between them is made possible by the powerful energies and magics which course through the world and the rest of the realms.

## Contents

### Cartography

Continents

Countries

World Composition

### Anthropology

Races

Religions

Languages