D&D 4th Edition: The Titans

With four sessions under our belts (and a couple of levels) it is probably time I enlighten my players as to a few more details of the game world as-is.

I will be providing a map of Roat when I get a chance.

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The World: As far as most people are concerned (certainly everyone you know), the World is a small place - A single 'Kingdom' known as Roat. There are no borders, as such, merely the Worldwall and nothing else. Many often speculate as to the presence of a wider world beyond the great wall, but most will usually agree that it is for the best that noone ever crosses the wall. Surely, they will say, the Gods built the wall to protect us from any that might do us harm. Here, we are safe.

Due to the nature of the game-world, all PCs will be native to Roat. Though there are a few who claim to have traversed the Worldwall, they are more often than not driven mad by their ordeal, or are simply condemned as liars and conmen. Noone has ever crossed the wall and returned.

Roat: Roat is a Kingdom, or, more accurately, it is the Kingdom. It is the World as people know it, a land between the heavens and the underworlds created at the beginning of time by the Gods, populated by their creations, and guarded by the Worldwall.

(More to follow on a map - But for now imagine Roat to be an area encompassing no more than two large cities and the surrounding countryside/towns/villages/farms etc. This area includes marshes, hills, plains, forests and even a cluster of small mountains.)

Religion: As per the PHB. The Pantheon of worshipped Gods is the same.

Magic: Relatively low, and the same with magic items of any great power. Generally any powerful items will be relics, heirlooms or ancient artifacts passed down through generations. These are items of such great worth that they are beyond the resources of normal men to buy.
Magic itself not tremendously common, especially when it comes to followers of the arcane arts. Religion plays a larger part in the everyday lives of most people, and as such it is more common to encounter a Cleric than a Wizard or Warlock. It has been many years since any Wizards of great power lived in Roat, and now their teachings and guilds are decrepit and diluted.

Fallcrest's own Nimozaran the Green is an ageing Wizard. Whilst he retains much of the power of his youth and is more potent than most in the Town, his body is frail and aged, and his more spectacular magics are now few and far between. He makes his home in the tower on the southern edge of Fallcrest, and has a single apprentice - Eltharyn of the Eladrin.

Due mostly to the lack of high-level magic, travel is limited to mundane means mostly. Nimozaran keeps an old circle of teleportation in his tower, but it is rarely used. Noone has ever tried to use it to traverse the world wall, or, at least if it has, they have never returned. Flight and teleportation are difficult powers to master, and as such most people have never tried to leave the confines of the Kingdom in search of a wider world. In the most part, people are happy that way.

The Worldwall: There is one place that everyone has heard of, and most people will travel to see at some point in their lives; The Worldwall. It is a vast, sky-scraping structure as tall as the mountains. From a distance it looks like the end of the world, or a long, unnaturally straight mountain range. The sheer size of the wall defies belief and baffles the senses to its true scale; more than a mile in height, and probably eight times that in depth. In reality, it is not straight at all, but rather slightly curved in such a way that it rings all of Roat with an impenetrable barrier.

At first, or at least from a distance, the golden wall is featureless. Up close it becomes more apparent that the wall is worked, built (at least at the lower levels) from enormous blocks of sandy-coloured stone, carved with clever niches and staircases that blend in from a distance. The wall itself is actually a mindbogglingly huge network of tunnels, walkways and chambers - some speculate them to be the passages used by the original servants to the Gods that built the wall when the world was young.

Noone has ever made it over the wall, or reached the other side and returned.