Inhabitants of a modern world depleted of resources discovered an alternative deep below the surface: a seemingly unlimited source of arcane power, which fueled the renaissance of the population. Hundreds of peaceful and prosperous years later, it was discovered that this energy was, in fact, the magical prison holding a great evil. With the walls weakened, this entity escaped, decimating almost all life on the planet, including the pantheon of gods who had imprisoned it eons ago. Somehow, however, the world did not end. The two halves of this broken planet remain together in an endless, cosmic dance, separated by what is known as the Chasm, the broken-open remains of the entity’s prison. Few have ventured down; none have returned. Only evil, twisted creatures emerge from the chasm. No one knows why the world still holds together, and, perhaps, no one ever will. Hundreds of years have passed, and the landscape has changed. Remnants of past technologically advanced civilizations remain. The few survivors, a mixture of humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings, have begun to rebuild where they can. It is a dark, godless existence in which no one truly knows why theywere spared from complete and utter destruction