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Get ready for a butt-load of reading.

This is the first of many many many paintings and concept art for a home-made tabletop RPG I'm making.

The world I've created is our world about 180+++ years in the future. A post-post apocalyptic future. Where all the civilizations of world have fallen but have since been rebuilt in a new and unrecognizable Earth ravaged by spliced genetic mutants, technology run amok, magic and monsters.

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In the year 2050, decades before the game campaign starts our world was ravaged by war and terrorism. The world's governments had prepared for World War III. The riches countries pooled their resources to genetically alter the human race in fear that we fragile humans would not survive the predicted world war. In the end splicing people eventually resulted in our race splitting into three different 'post-human species': The original humans, adaptable and versatile, the Yaguaret spliced cat-men, unbelievably fast and inhumanly flexible built to thrive in the wild should civilization fall and the Khepri, strong, naturally armored insect-men built to crush their enemies. The splicing project was a success, if one species of post-human one died off, there would still be two more to carry on the human legacy.

However, World War III never came, instead something far worse happened.

A collision of worlds, ours: Earth, a world of tech and science and another earth from a parallel universe: Eldarath, a world of magic and mysticism. Enormous portals tearing through space and time opened up all though out our troubled world, spewing forth strange beasts, beings and 'Mana' a deadly, intangible fifth state of matter. Exposure to 'mana' can kill any non-magical creature in mere hours. Within months Mana had 'terraformed' pockets of our world, entire cities were left empty or lifeless and what cities left standing were fighting for territory and resources against the magical beings and against each other.

As resource began to thin out, the war for our world eventually turned two-fold when the three post human races turned on one another. And eventually factions were formed. Forged by fear or hate.

All races and factions are as follows:

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RACES-------------

Earth races -------
- Humans: Average, everyday man or woman. Diverse, intelligent (mostly), adaptable and quick witted, humans are the most dominant race in the world...for now.

- Khepri: They are humanoid insects created by a countless genetic experiments from the Chimera Project of the 2050s combining all kinds of insect DNA and a human genome and, distilled into a serum for infusion. The end result was a serum that could turn an ordinary human into an insect like post-human super soldier. unbelievably strong and can almost never grow ill or be poisoned.

- Yaguaret: Also a part of the Chimera Initiative, the Yaguaret are humanoid felines created by combining feline DNA strands into the human genome, distilled into a special serum. The process splices a subject into a feline post-human, equipped with dexterity, flexibility and senses far beyond human potential. The process is also capable of curing any illness no matter how deadly or incurable, however this is a one time affair.

- Fiends: Genetic freaks. Born from non magical beings receiving more than deadly doses of mana, fiends are born when a being of any of the earth races dies in a place saturated with mana. Their corpses, empowered by mana, are raised to life again, retaining their intelligence but none of their memories from before death, and turned into a misshapen form of their former selves. Shunned by most factions for their ugliness.

Eldarath Races ---
-Fay (elves): Human-like only in silhouette, the Elves have grooved golden, rocky skin as smooth as the finest polished marble, titanium blond hair and eyes that seems to glow in the dark alittle. They are the fairest and shapliest of all the races, elegance and grace, and a particular knack for amazing craftsmanship. Elves can easily change their form to walk amoung the other races unmolested.

Drakaaren: Bipedal dragons, who possess amazing intellect and magical ability. Being very tall and erogant, they dress as richly as possible at any given moment and they see themselves in a higher esteem to everyone around them and that they alone have the right by birth to take on (in their own eyes) the noblest of tasks.

Dryad: Beings seemingly made entirely of vines and branches, unlike all the other races Dryad are immortal, only sickness and fire can kill them, if they 'die' by a hail of bullets or by being sliced up to pieces, they simply sleep for a century or two and then they wake up again good as new. They are mostly reclusive and shy by nature, usually don't take sides.

FACTIONS---------

- UHDF (United Human Defense Front): A human only faction, totalitarian and elitist, they believe that Humans are the only ones worthy of being the dominant race on earth. And everyone else must die whether they are from Earth or Eldarath. They're the most technologically advanced of all the factions and thus the most dominant.

- The Crusaders: A faction started by but not limited to Humans. They practices racial tolerance, and maintain an ethical (please and thank you) way of life, recruiting the strong to defend the weak. Though The Crusaders don't much care for the magical races their code of racial tolerance forces them to not take action against the resource guzzling magical races since they're also just trying to survive in this post-post apocalyptic world.

- Cizin: A Yaguaret (spliced cat-people) only faction, its values are based around narcissism, blood magic and hatred for the other races. They believe themselves superior to EVERYONE who isn't feline on a genetic level. The people of Cizin live life like the ancient Romans did, enjoying blood sport, slavery and debauchery.

- Apparatus Maleficis: Meaning machine to magic in Latin. An earth race only faction, meaning Humans, Khepri and Yaguarets. They forsake technology entirely and devolt their entire lives to studying and understanding magic, how to live with mana and is home to some of the most powerful earth race wizards in the world selfishly keeping their findings for themselves.

- Ixchel: A faction made by but not limited to Yaguaret, and unlike their violent brethren in Cizin, these cat-folk are more peaceful and accepting, not forgetting how they came to be, that Humans, Yaguaret and Khepri were once one race, they aim to live peacefully among the other races, including the magic races.

- Arthropod: A Khepri only faction and the most neutral of all the factions, they want nothing to do with the bickering of other factions. Just let them do their own thing. The Khepri have such strong stomachs they can live their entire lives eating nothing but other people's garbage...so they do. They are probably the happiest people in the world since they're not involved in the faction war and require next to no resources to survive.

- Pot Prednikov: A Fey(Elves) and Dryad(Plant-people) faction of the magic peoples, they were thrusted out of their ancient ways as Eldarath and Earth merged together. Pot Prednikov means 'Path of the Ancients' they strive to keep the sacred culture of their ancestors alive in a strange new world where magic and technology exist side by side.

- Drakaraia: A Drakaaren only faction bent on the destruction of all things technology and every blasphemer who uses it. They believe that tech is a curse on all magic-kind and that they are the chosen ones to purify this world and make it 'whole' again.

Description
Get ready for a butt-load of reading.

This is the first of many many many paintings and concept art for a home-made tabletop RPG I'm making.

The world I've created is our world about 180+++ years in the future. A post-post apocalyptic future. Where all the civilizations of world have fallen but have since been rebuilt in a new and unrecognizable Earth ravaged by spliced genetic mutants, technology run amok, magic and monsters.

---------------------

In the year 2050, decades before the game campaign starts our world was ravaged by war and terrorism. The world's governments had prepared for World War III. The riches countries pooled their resources to genetically alter the human race in fear that we fragile humans would not survive the predicted world war. In the end splicing people eventually resulted in our race splitting into three different 'post-human species': The original humans, adaptable and versatile, the Yaguaret spliced cat-men, unbelievably fast and inhumanly flexible built to thrive in the wild should civilization fall and the Khepri, strong, naturally armored insect-men built to crush their enemies. The splicing project was a success, if one species of post-human one died off, there would still be two more to carry on the human legacy.

However, World War III never came, instead something far worse happened.

A collision of worlds, ours: Earth, a world of tech and science and another earth from a parallel universe: Eldarath, a world of magic and mysticism. Enormous portals tearing through space and time opened up all though out our troubled world, spewing forth strange beasts, beings and 'Mana' a deadly, intangible fifth state of matter. Exposure to 'mana' can kill any non-magical creature in mere hours. Within months Mana had 'terraformed' pockets of our world, entire cities were left empty or lifeless and what cities left standing were fighting for territory and resources against the magical beings and against each other.

As resource began to thin out, the war for our world eventually turned two-fold when the three post human races turned on one another. And eventually factions were formed. Forged by fear or hate.

All races and factions are as follows:

---------------------

RACES-------------

Earth races -------
- Humans: Average, everyday man or woman. Diverse, intelligent (mostly), adaptable and quick witted, humans are the most dominant race in the world...for now.

- Khepri: They are humanoid insects created by a countless genetic experiments from the Chimera Project of the 2050s combining all kinds of insect DNA and a human genome and, distilled into a serum for infusion. The end result was a serum that could turn an ordinary human into an insect like post-human super soldier. unbelievably strong and can almost never grow ill or be poisoned.

- Yaguaret: Also a part of the Chimera Initiative, the Yaguaret are humanoid felines created by combining feline DNA strands into the human genome, distilled into a special serum. The process splices a subject into a feline post-human, equipped with dexterity, flexibility and senses far beyond human potential. The process is also capable of curing any illness no matter how deadly or incurable, however this is a one time affair.

- Fiends: Genetic freaks. Born from non magical beings receiving more than deadly doses of mana, fiends are born when a being of any of the earth races dies in a place saturated with mana. Their corpses, empowered by mana, are raised to life again, retaining their intelligence but none of their memories from before death, and turned into a misshapen form of their former selves. Shunned by most factions for their ugliness.

Eldarath Races ---
-Fay (elves): Human-like only in silhouette, the Elves have grooved golden, rocky skin as smooth as the finest polished marble, titanium blond hair and eyes that seems to glow in the dark alittle. They are the fairest and shapliest of all the races, elegance and grace, and a particular knack for amazing craftsmanship. Elves can easily change their form to walk amoung the other races unmolested.

Drakaaren: Bipedal dragons, who possess amazing intellect and magical ability. Being very tall and erogant, they dress as richly as possible at any given moment and they see themselves in a higher esteem to everyone around them and that they alone have the right by birth to take on (in their own eyes) the noblest of tasks.

Dryad: Beings seemingly made entirely of vines and branches, unlike all the other races Dryad are immortal, only sickness and fire can kill them, if they 'die' by a hail of bullets or by being sliced up to pieces, they simply sleep for a century or two and then they wake up again good as new. They are mostly reclusive and shy by nature, usually don't take sides.

FACTIONS---------

- UHDF (United Human Defense Front): A human only faction, totalitarian and elitist, they believe that Humans are the only ones worthy of being the dominant race on earth. And everyone else must die whether they are from Earth or Eldarath. They're the most technologically advanced of all the factions and thus the most dominant.

- The Crusaders: A faction started by but not limited to Humans. They practices racial tolerance, and maintain an ethical (please and thank you) way of life, recruiting the strong to defend the weak. Though The Crusaders don't much care for the magical races their code of racial tolerance forces them to not take action against the resource guzzling magical races since they're also just trying to survive in this post-post apocalyptic world.

- Cizin: A Yaguaret (spliced cat-people) only faction, its values are based around narcissism, blood magic and hatred for the other races. They believe themselves superior to EVERYONE who isn't feline on a genetic level. The people of Cizin live life like the ancient Romans did, enjoying blood sport, slavery and debauchery.

- Apparatus Maleficis: Meaning machine to magic in Latin. An earth race only faction, meaning Humans, Khepri and Yaguarets. They forsake technology entirely and devolt their entire lives to studying and understanding magic, how to live with mana and is home to some of the most powerful earth race wizards in the world selfishly keeping their findings for themselves.

- Ixchel: A faction made by but not limited to Yaguaret, and unlike their violent brethren in Cizin, these cat-folk are more peaceful and accepting, not forgetting how they came to be, that Humans, Yaguaret and Khepri were once one race, they aim to live peacefully among the other races, including the magic races.

- Arthropod: A Khepri only faction and the most neutral of all the factions, they want nothing to do with the bickering of other factions. Just let them do their own thing. The Khepri have such strong stomachs they can live their entire lives eating nothing but other people's garbage...so they do. They are probably the happiest people in the world since they're not involved in the faction war and require next to no resources to survive.

- Pot Prednikov: A Fey(Elves) and Dryad(Plant-people) faction of the magic peoples, they were thrusted out of their ancient ways as Eldarath and Earth merged together. Pot Prednikov means 'Path of the Ancients' they strive to keep the sacred culture of their ancestors alive in a strange new world where magic and technology exist side by side.

- Drakaraia: A Drakaaren only faction bent on the destruction of all things technology and every blasphemer who uses it. They believe that tech is a curse on all magic-kind and that they are the chosen ones to purify this world and make it 'whole' again.