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The premise is that the world ruled by the humans,orcs,dwarfs,gnomes ect are all but extinct and demi-humans have become the main races. The humans when they ruled over the lands each went to one of the handful of gods that had the most power and dominion over the lands at the current time(names not yet chosen for the gods).Each of the gods play a necessary role on the world because without one of these gods the would would be destroyed. The gods are as follows: god of nature, god of celestial beings, god of demons/devils (we know about the blood war we have a plan to explain it later on), a god for each of the four base elements air,fire,water,and earth, and a god of nature. When the humans went to one of these gods they each lived in a different area and were effected by the gods as well as the environment changing their appearance and race over thousands of years. The people who went to follow the god of nature or animal became one of three races a tengu(bird people) a oakling(tree people similar to a treant) or a Grippli(frog people). the people who wen to follow the four elemental gods became an Ifrit(fire people(followed fire elemental god)) Sylph(air people(followed the air elemental god)) Oread(stone people(followed the earth elemental god)) and Undine(water people(followed the water elemental god). The people who followed the demon/devil god were turned into Tiefling(demon/devil people depending on ancestry) and the people who followed the celestial god were turned into aasimar(angelic people).
there is a myriad of things running through our heads right now including cultural differences and allegiances, exports ect. were also thinking of uniting the great cities by a gladiatorial "Olympics".
the world is high magic, with eberron influences i.e. elementals being bound too trains and such. magic technology, but none of that warforged crap.
p.s. the fire ppl (ifrit) are going to be steampunkesk and that gets me (rob) all giddy inside.