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Lore tidbits
-Octants: The Frontier has eight inhabited zones, known as octants, that correspond to the eight Shores of Awakening scattered across the land.
-Shores of Awakening: Shores of Awakening are places along the coast of the Frontier where humans appear after being granted access to the Concord. In the Better Times, winged boonkin created by the goddess would carry people safely to the shore. Now that demons have taken over the Frontier’s administration, new arrivals are allowed to drop straight into the ocean. A large percentage of them die from exposure, drowning, being dashed against cliffs or a rocky sea floor, or even impact with the water itself.
-Name: The world was technically given the name Faerlon by Era, but many would informally call it the Frontier instead. After the goddess’s death, someone began calling it the ‘Forlorn Frontier’ instead of the ‘Faerlon Frontier’, and the name stuck. These days, there are very few lifers who refer to the Frontier by its original name.
-Timeline: Humans have been sent to the Frontier for the last 50 years, with the first 25 years known as the Better Times, marked by peace and prosperity with angels guiding humanity on behalf of the goddess, providing them with the knowledge and guidance needed to flourish.
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In the 25th year, the goddess was murdered by a lifer named Crow, and the world was thrown into chaos. This event is referred to as the Deicide. The angels disappeared, and without the rigid structure of the divine powers, humanity collapsed in on itself in a mad scramble for power. What followed was a ten-year-long war known as the Strife, human factions fighting both each other and the surging monster populations. This resulted in countless deaths and a near-collapse of civilization before a shaky stalemate was reached.
In the fifteen years since, little progress has been made toward rebuilding what was lost. In fact, humanity is pushed back on almost every front by ever-increasing monster attacks. At least they are mostly too busy fighting the beasts to consider warring with each other.
-Monsters: The Frontier was once a safe and verdant place, and lifers roamed freely across its open lands. However, in the years after the goddess’s death, demons emerged to replace the angels that abandoned humanity, ingratiating themselves in everyday society by offering tempting contracts with mortals and getting them hooked on their various infernal services.
At the same time, a foul corruption began to spread out from the center of the continent, which became known as the Unmaking. Inside the Unmaking was a terrible, unfathomable being, the Devil Queen, who revealed herself in Era’s absence and began giving birth to monsters that spread out from her fortress, the Hellmouth, and blanketed the land. With an unquenchable hatred for all mankind, they drove the squabbling humans back to the coasts and threatened to wipe them out entirely.