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The Isolated Land and the Abyss
Our story plays out on a continent called the "Isolated Land" where cultures and species have clashed "since time immemorial" over power and resources. Throughout the Isolated Land's history, "Holes" have spontaneously and unpredictably appeared as gateways to an unknown realm called "the Abyss". The Holes have been known to produce powerful objects and obscure technology, but they have also occasionally swallowed up individuals and even entire regions.
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Inhabitants of the Isolated Land: the Beastmen, Springans, and Dogmatika
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Scattered across the Isolated Land are three beastmen tribes of Beast, Beast-Warrior, and Winged Beast species, locked in a long cycle of fighting with one another over territory. Having each been banished from their respective tribes, Shuraig, Rugal, and Ferrijit (along with her younger sister, Kitt) band together and create a group of wandering exiles, which subsequently grows in strength and numbers.
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Traveling across the Great Golgonda Desert, the group happens upon the Land of Iron and Steel — a region controlled by the Argyro System, the artificial intelligence of a Therion spaceship. It is stated that upon its crash landing, the damaged ship siphoned power from nearby magma and developed a "fiery personality". Here the exiled beastmen befriend the Springans, a group of small soot sprites who inhabit brightly-colored humanoid machines and scour the desert for Holes in search of treasure. They are led by their captain, Sargas, who wears a peculiar necklace "to relieve shoulder tension" (per reference art).
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