Devilstorm

In the late 90's, with the advent of the original VR systems, a boom was created in the virtual reality industry. By 2025, VR gained a place throughout many sectors, from entertainment to manufacturing, even design, VR was being used.

The rise of Virtual Reality also caused a massive rise in the popularity of e-sports. Instead of sitting at consoles or computers playing the games, players were now able to actually be in the game, causing them to have to learn a whole new way of thinking and skillset.

By 2050, companies around the world started to sponsor their own groups that were designed to train the next generation of pro players, often times these companies brought on retired pro players as trainers, coaches, or managers for the teams.

Now a new game company, Shadow Lands Entertainment, has come out of nowhere with a new game, releasing the closed Beta to only the top 200,000 players in the world, making an average of the top 1,000 players from 200 countries of the world.

Shattered World: Shadows of Ilrathia

Ilrathia is a world split into multiple shards, or shadow worlds. This split happened during an ancient cataclysmic war between the gods of the world and an ancient entity that exists only to destroy and devour everything, returning it to the void. This war caused the world to become unstable, causing many gods to have to sacrifice themselves to save the world by way of splitting it into multiple parts.


After the splitting of the world, each part became its own shadow world. Known shadows that exist at the start of the game.


After the splitting of the world, the world that was left is nothing but a pale shadow of the beautiful jewel of a world that was originally created by the gods. Populated by many tribes and nations that have grown from the remaining peoples of the world. Five continents, each equal to double the size Eurasia, exist on the world with a myriad number of island chains and archipelagos. In the middle of the largest ocean exists a perpetual storm of energy, magic, and the elements known as the Maelstrom.


After the Cataclysm, when Goldarin was created, the surface of the world became unsafe, literally becoming a living hell. The surface became a place of eternally burning flames with demons, devils, and other creatures of fire roaming the land. Survivors of the Cataclysm moved underground, with some banding together to create liveable, sustainable cities for their homes. Dwarves, Elves, and other elemental masters banded together to create Elemental Colossi, one for each element, that stand guard protecting each city.


Once said to be the greatest empire in Ilrathia, when the cataclysm struck, Tuldafin took the greatest hit. Completely cut off from everything, the people who died became caught between life and death. Unlike undead, the bodies of these people required constant replacement of body parts to replace parts that are rotting away or falling off.


Islands floating in the sky of Ilrathia, the only known way to reach them is to enter the Maelstrom. Not much is known about the Aether Lands due to few either making it through or returning.


Lore: Ilrathia and it's Shadows