Statistically, it would be arrogant to assume that in the vastness of space, our culture on Earth was all there is.  In truth, who knows how many forms of life exist.

 

The year is 2013.  The populace of Kavudd is humanoid in every way.  Even the evolution of the race has been similar to our own. Similar...but not the same.

 

The Piersiens reigned through democratic rule and amassed great amounts of knowledge and art until they were driven out of their kingdom and scattered across the globe by the Gwiathans who changed the names of the gods and ruled through Emperors and might.  They were a race of conquerors, and tamed much of a land that had been wild – but they also contributed much to science, building, infrastructure, and the concept of the city state.  

 

Eventually, they were their own downfall and it seemed the downfall of civilization.  The whole of Kavudd fell into a dark period where knowledge was lost.  Ways of communication, literacy, civilization...these things disappeared for generations as war lords and feudal tyrants fought over the land and the people on it.  Then came one unlike the others.  A leader interested in conquest, but also knowledge and a care for the people carved a new kingdom out of the chaos.  Mercia.  Mercia led to change.  The birth of a renaissance and the creation of other kingdoms.  Order fell upon the planet. 

 

With order comes a price though.  Not all kingdoms are created equally and knowledge is something precious and given to a rare few.  Much of the old knowledge is thought to be lost, but the truth is that the Monastery holds it tight  They eschew the old gods for The Trinity, and thus much of the old knowledge is seen as heresy and unfit… unless they deem it otherwise or unless you have enough power to demand it of them.  Most are happy.  Be they Prince or peasant, they know their place.

 

Come... find yours.