The "Magical Realm" Of Ghaelam'Shkaar AKA The Spiral

In the place Outside of spacetime, a swarm of elder dragons enslaved seven pantheons, thousands upon thousands of gods, and forced the deities to build a paradise for their broods and spawn as well before building their own heavenly and hellish prisons from which the bound divinities might toil to maintain the dragon's perfect habitat for all eternity.

For a timeless age, the dragon's paradise was pure and good. The demi-mortal apex predators reveled in their dominance within their own domain. It was a place of wonders in which monsters, sage-beasts, and anthro tribes flourished.

Inevitably, contamination seeped in from Beyond. At first, it was goblins. Greenskins will always burrow up from their home dimension whenever magic exists in sufficient concentration, especially when the dragons have a habit of burrowing into The Great Green to gorge on its inhabitants. Where goblins raid and trade, orc colonizers and conquerors are soon to follow. Soon enough, Kaos and Deevil are spreading their corruptions across all of the lands, seas, and sky-ways of the dragons ideal ecosystem.

After waging an endless battles with the invaders for aeons without end, the dragons decide that they must resort to extreme measures. After those extreme measures did not work, the dragons decided to do what had been previously unthinkable, and introduce humans to their once perfect paradise.

The adjustment was rough. Many strains of humanity were acquired from countless worlds across the multiverse. Humans from worlds that had barely mastered flint and fire to humans from worlds where flying cars that run on fusion power were owned by everyone. Some had come from worlds where dragons roost and magic is commonplace, most were from worlds without sorcery or spell craft and had a harsh struggle in their mastery of mana.

What followed was an age of strife and cosmic warfare as the gods used the power of human souls as leverage in their struggle for freedom. After centuries of struggle, the destruction of a whole pantheon of gods, after the rise of the Dvaarfs, a coalition of synthetic lifeforms unified by common codes and protocols, and multiple environmental disasters which led to the extinction of countless species and civilizations, a truce between factions was reached and The Covenant between Man, Machine, Divinity, and Dragon sanctified into Natural Law.

The losers in all of this were the monsters. Mankind was given Dominion over Monkind. Powerful new cosmic axioms were encoded into the very Laws of Magic. Overnight countless billions of sentient beings became subject to The Slave Codes.

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The calendar of the Dvaarfs reckons the year 15991 of the twenty first Reformation of The Covenant. Humanity struggles against the eternal threat of the many corruptions of Kaos and Deevil, the capricious, eccentric, mayhem of dragon-kind, and the inevitable outbreaks of wild monsters wherever the demi-mortal apex predators "enchant the soil", the polite way farmers and foresters refer to dragon waste products' effects on the ecosystem.

Yet despite, or because of, these challenges, mankind flourishes across countless continents living in conditions of bountiful splendor provided by the power of mana and the toil of monsters.