The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.
This has been so since antiquity.
The New World as it is called by the Outlanders has an older name. Everrealms. In the ancient times, this is the part of lands of the world where the boundaries between dimensions are the weakest.
There were great people wielding great power, manipulating the Laws of the world. There were Gods and Goddesses and they walk among the people, their feet touch the ground.
The stories of trickster gods and warrior gods are still told today in these lands. It is land with no Kings
Then the dusk of the Gods happens. The Abodes in the skies falls, Gods fights wars in dimensional planes, the world was torn apart and magic was stripped.
But not on these lands.
The Lands where Gods roams and old stories remembered.