The World of Artolan
Over tens of millenia, Humankind prospered on the vast continent of Pangaia, bordered to east and west by vast oceans. Kingdoms rose and fell, civilisations attained their apogee and then vanished. History was as the tide of the seas that surrounded Pangaia, ebbing and flowing under the pull of three bright moons. The only barrier to the insatiable curiousity and ambition of humankind, were those endless and inhospitable salt-water plains. Until one day, there came to be built a ship sturdy enough, and born an explorer hardy enough, to cross the sea to the East. He and his crew were lost from view for nine long years, until they came back to tell of new lands, a new continent, where lay unimaginable wealth and opportunities. The greatest kingdoms of Pangaia sent expeditions into the rising sun, and humankind soon realised it was not alone. The continent of Avalonia was itself home to inhabitants who collectively called themselves "Critters". The shock of the encounter wa