Convergent Plains Lore Dump

The World of Albicollia:

Around 1300 years ago, 6 portals opened on a world where Humanity was just taking the first steps of advancement. This event would later be known as the Great Convergence. From those portals stepped new races. From one stepped the elves of Vilarias, finding a small civilisation living on the banks of a wide river. This village was called Broad Crossing on the Continent of Comrin. In the frozen wastes of the north, creatures of blood and moonlight passed through, the Lycanthrope Clans and the Vampire covens that fed from them, the clans of later formed the nation known as the Northern Skaalik Collective on the continent known as Todanis. In the southern mountain ranges of the continent of Todanis, 2 portals opened. From one stepped the Dwarves, from the other stepped the Draconic races of Dragon Shifters, Kobolds and Wyrmfolk. The Dwarves Dug deep into the mountains, forming the what would now be called The Dworgaron Collective, named after their homeworld. The Draconic races took to the mountains too, finding their homes in the volcanic peaks but soon ventured further south to a group of volcanic islands that would later be called The Smoke Isles. One portal opened in a small human village in the south of Comrin, from it poured the warlike Orcs, the name of this village and its inhabitants were lost to time and the blades of the Orc raiders fleeing their desolate homeworld. In the forested heart of Todanis, a portal opened and from it stepped a humanoid race, not too dissimilar to the humans of Albicollia, but with the ears and tails of their animal ancestors, life had taken a similar path for the Demi-Humans but all animals stood tall and made tools in this world, not just the apes.

But 3 months after these portals opened, after life had stepped through and set footholds in this new world, the portals closed. Never to open again. Trapping these other races in this world. Over time the groups of those brave enough to step through started meeting each other. Wars were fought, borders were drawn, alliances were formed and the world fell into a state where the scared and trapped races began to call this new world home.

But because this world was rich in magic, skirting the edges of the force where all magic comes from, the races who were able to tap from this boundless source flourished. With the sharing of innovations between races, advancements were quick. The Dwarves able to imbue their creations with greater power, the elves able to wield their magic in ways they would never have dreamed of and the Draconic races whose burning hearts fed from it found their strength much greater.

In the centuries that have passed more portals have opened, bringing more races to the world, but none to the scale of the Great Convergence, but not once has a portal opened to the same world twice.

This has led to the current era, the world of Albicollia finds itself in the Information Age, smartphones, internet and computers in the hands of almost everyone because of the advancements made. All drawing power from the magic that flows through the world.