Hycal World

"'The Divines passed over, life flourished underneath their watchful gaze. The gods bickered, and so the first tethers of discord ran rampant. The world screams in pain, and yet none hear it.'""Scythe of Prophecies, Scroll 12."Hycal is the planet that serves as the setting for the '''Hycal-Universe. '''According to the earliest mythology of the elves, dwarves and vashaari -- At the beginning of creation, millions of years ago. A conclave of beings referred as the Nine Divines possessing god-like powers, shaped the climate and geography of this world. The conclave were crafts and builders, stroking across the world adjusting it to a livable utopia.

The Nine Divines later paid for their carelessness, as they had unintentional drawn Hycal into a conflict that was far away yet drew many of them from the planet. The departure saw the time of gods ending and the rise of mortals (elves, dwarves, men) rising from Argos to Lunastra. It is predicted the gods would one day return to the world to lay judgement upon the souls of all creation.

Whatever the truth of its origins, the Hycal world is a temperate planet whos surface is covered by several great continents, each with their own distant civilizations and native creatures. The world is orbited by a single moon, referred by many names (Cyra, Shining Ball, so forth) by numerous civilizations. The world is ruled by no singular civilization, but a vast diverse roster of them co-exist across the continents. For the races of men, they divide themselves into petty kingdoms and states that have occasional united to form the Three Empires of Men across the ages. The Elves have long been divided in their own way, the Dwarves prefer to keep to themselves underneath the surface and the Vashaari are hard at work to re-summon their gods.

Argos
Argos is the center piece of Hycal' greatest civilizations and its wars for supremacy between the various races. It is homeland of Humans, whom flocked to its corners forming new countries and Empires as the Elves declined as a race. Dwarves inhabit the deepest mountains, wood elves patrol the forests, and exotic animals found across the land.

Argos is primarily inhabited by the races of men, forming countries such as Davengarde, Aldrasya, Tyrelia, or '''Ryendar. Occasionally, the races of men have united in times of discord into one of the Three Empires of Men '''(Ousilian, Oathian, Nobinis)