World of Xymore

The Creation
The Creation comprises a single mass of land surrounded by endless seas. Out of its very center rises the highest mountain peaks in the world, known as The Reach. Below these soaring peaks one can find a ring of ancient and unspoiled forests cut through with rivers, a place sometimes call the Origin Woods. These rivers flow from rainfall and snowmelt in the central mountains, collecting in a ring-like lake known as Moat that empties into the river-crossed Deltan Plains to the south before flowing into the sea. The great northern forest of Pinelock borders to the north just below the frozen range of the White Spires. Above the spires the land turns to icy tundra of the Snow Sea. The temperate climates are where the largest cities can be found in the rolling prairie of Wheatlands and the pleasant woodlands of Ren. The southern mountains are a dry maze of canyons and needle-like towers of rock called the Stone Lands, a place deeply carved by wind and sand from the Fireshore -- a desert which stretches from the base of the canyons all the way to the sea. A volcano rising out of the canyons of stone lands flows with lava that expands the continent into the sea and tropical forests and islands dot countryside around the dangerous lava flows. This volatile place is called the Black Sand Keys by the locals who dare to live there.

The Reach
Legend has it that this these are the peaks atop which the historic meeting between the human leaders of the factions and the legendary dragons took place at the end of the Contestment. Today, this hallowed place is a proving grounds where the greatest warriors of the factions meet once a year to engage their dragon teams in epic battles--this ritual serves as both a reminder of the sacred oaths the factions made to abide the rules of fair contest, and as celebration of the partnership between dragon and human kind.

The World As It Stands
The wellsprings of the world are controlled by the three main Origins (also known as factions listed below) which correspond to the origin types of the dragons. Each origin type in turn has three dragon types associated with it, and each dragon type has many species within it. Dragons are usually found and befriended in areas near wellsprings.