Welcome, traveler, to Sayarii - an ancient world of inhospitable lands, where great seas lap at the edges of vast deserts, shaping everything about this world of extremes. Cultures survive along the fringes of these two seas where the sand meets the salt, where agriculture is possible and the climate is hospitable. The nomadic peoples of Sayarii wander the inhospitable places, gathering resources and trading across the sands and seas, enriching their lives and those of others.

Sayarii has survived two civilizations: the Ul'Eumr Il'Jadid, or New Age, now 654 Sayarii years on, and the Ul'Mas Il'Saaqit, the Fallen Civilization, a 3,000-year-old technomagical society of millions. Two ages separated by a cataclysm when the Old Gods ravaged the world's cities and towns with perpetual floods and sandstorms during a ten-year period called the Karithat ul'Qadima - The Great Fall. Cities were erased, Populations vanished, and entire races were wiped out.

The Gods condemned the nations of Sayarii for unknown reasons, the Karithat ul'Qadima was unannounced. As the Old Gods destroyed the creations and peoples of their world, they also took their natural magic, and then they abandoned Sayarii and those few left behind. The survivors found themselves thus condemned. Only those between were spared, it is said, as only those away from the cities and towns of their worlds were pardoned - those at sea, those traveling across the deserts or skies, and those in-between places.

Those that remained gathered in scattered, disconnected communities outside the perpetual storms that were ravaging their homes and started again, with just their hands and their minds.

Now, as new gods and cities rise together, things are different. Technology, though utilized, is suspect and often scorned. Magic, once the common realm of technomagicians, foundries, and sigilcraft scivners, 

is now in the hands of academics who have learned through thaumaturgy, the rigorous study of magic in nature, to distill the magic from the organs, skins, and remains of magical creatures. An art today taught at universities throughout the kingdoms and city-states of Sayarii.

Cities have returned, and culture has been reborn under new realities, new rules, lessons learned, and godlings born, from the relentless erosion of the Karithat ul'Qadima.

The world is in a rich age. While tensions between the Ul'Harbiya Il'Sultaniya Saahilian - The Eastern Empire and the Mchanga Hasira - The Twin Seas Coast are running high, actual conflict has been avoided for 50 years. Trade is good, arts and crafts are extraordinary, and the world has a large middle class. Wealth is not evenly divided, but it is better than at any time since the Great Fall.

The people of Sayarii are also the result of the Great Fall. Only two major humanoid races remained strong enough in numbers to survive the Karithat ul'Qadima: the Humans and the Elves. In the Bara Kusini the people are a mixed group, most humanoids are a mix of human and elf. An individual may exhibit more of one or the other, but very, very few can claim a pure heritage, and even fewer do.

In the Ul'Harbiya Il'Sultaniya Saahilian - The Eastern Empire the Elves of the Saahilian keep bloodlines pure, as do the northern wood elves, arborists, and master shipbuilders of the Bayt ul'Zaytun and Belanore Alari.

And new races inhabit the world, including the Djinn, the avian Fēixiān people, the rarely seen Nephilim, giants of the sea, and the insectoid races from the southern wastes about which so little is known... Sayarii is a world that offers limitless adventure to those brave enough to explore it.