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Magic, the Blood of the World, is a creative, entropic, transformative energy with limitless potential. It is a force older than time, which sentient beings may learn to wield, should their minds and bodies be worthy, and their spellcraft tried and true - but it must be drawn from the dangerous substance known as azurion, which runs in veins beneath the earth.

Primitive shamans have always mapped and utilized the mystical leylines of the world in order to cast their primordial spells, naturally concentrating their power in areas rich with azurion - but all that changed when the Ancients discovered how to mine and manipulate the substance directly - and, eventually, how to exploit it for all manner of wondrous use. This monumental discovery ushered in the mythical Age of Dreams...and ultimately led to the destruction of their shimmering empire, the corruption of the larger world, and the Long Dark that followed.

Now, at the dawn of new Age, Oru is a vast continent of many cultures and races, all of them vying for dominance, or mere survival...but the lost secrets of the Ancients - and their existential dangers - are slowly coming to light once more.

(A fantasy map I've been fiddling with for a setting I've done a lot of art for. Basically sword & sorcery genre, with a massive focus on Africa in terms of setting and visual design. Will be fixing a lot of the weird rivers in time, but for now this is basically it.)

Description
Magic, the Blood of the World, is a creative, entropic, transformative energy with limitless potential. It is a force older than time, which sentient beings may learn to wield, should their minds and bodies be worthy, and their spellcraft tried and true - but it must be drawn from the dangerous substance known as azurion, which runs in veins beneath the earth.

Primitive shamans have always mapped and utilized the mystical leylines of the world in order to cast their primordial spells, naturally concentrating their power in areas rich with azurion - but all that changed when the Ancients discovered how to mine and manipulate the substance directly - and, eventually, how to exploit it for all manner of wondrous use. This monumental discovery ushered in the mythical Age of Dreams...and ultimately led to the destruction of their shimmering empire, the corruption of the larger world, and the Long Dark that followed.

Now, at the dawn of new Age, Oru is a vast continent of many cultures and races, all of them vying for dominance, or mere survival...but the lost secrets of the Ancients - and their existential dangers - are slowly coming to light once more.

(A fantasy map I've been fiddling with for a setting I've done a lot of art for. Basically sword & sorcery genre, with a massive focus on Africa in terms of setting and visual design. Will be fixing a lot of the weird rivers in time, but for now this is basically it.)