The Realm of Malteria

The fall of Nidal saw many changes to the world one such was the founding of the city Luthericburg, now the standing capital of Nidal and only non-hostile locale in the region. Many legends and heroes formed in Luthericburg, of which the only one still very real and dare say it, important to the city is the region famous self proclaimed "Heroes Guild" The Badger Lodge. Formed some fifty years after the retreat from the main walls area of Nidal the lodge is lead by a eccentric and eclectic entity, Bander the Hero of Green Valley. Bander is a awakened Badger from a far flung place not yet seen by outsider eyes, The Green Valley, none the less he was in fact a walking, talking Badger. And no stranger to fighting or leading either as it was in a time of strife he found his way to Luthericburg when the city was beset on all sides landward by demons. Bander formed and lead a small militia after much arguing with the council of The Order Arcanus to be allowed as an outsider to a...

Among the very first Gleshmerians that settled on Malteria was a young woman Junifir (Yun-Eh-Fur), her surname lost to time long before she ever arrived on Malterian soil. She was an herbalist, alchemist and hunter. One of many meant to help give the settlers a fighting chance by, hopefully, being able to asses, understand, and catalog the various flora and fauna of the new world. Though never given a official name the settlers came to know them as Hunters as much of what they did mirror what a hunter might do, as well the Hunters would also have to expand out and discover land first so as to be able to research samples of animal and plant alike to ensure it was safe for consumption or innately hostile etc. Junifir became the leader of sorts of the Hunters after a generation of being in the new world but decades of having to be overly cautious of the very land around her had left her eclectic, fearful and hording information in an almost esoteric way. So much so she began formulatin...

In some corners of the world there are places connected to nature in a way that not simple being a ranger or hunter can reach. Pine Haven is one such place the home of a Druid circle Known as the "Shifters of the Shadows" named such as the are the very circle lead by woman of mystery known as Otoa, Lady of the Abyss. The lady and her druids are a circle dedicated to understanding the Abyss and making full use of it, commonly in the preservation of nature. The Shifters are not what all druids are the power of the shadows is something only a select few druids are trained for. Were the average druid of the circle makes use of the Abyss as any other magic user of the kind might. A Shifter however, due in part to a special ritual preformed by Otoa, becomes one with the very Abyss and shape shifts into any bestial form they desire and it is these few druids alone that can truly change form. If a need to defend their home arises it is the Shifter that are sent out to defend it...