02. The World

[Storyteller Joy]

the world

A rough sketch of Harpeah.

Harpeah is a high fantasy world set on a mirror world to Earth. Harpeah runs concurrent with Earth, but like some other high fantasy worlds, it's time is spaced differently than Earth with roughly 1 year to every 10 of years on Earth. (Sometimes the travelling between worlds reverses this effect for some unknown reason - and even some "warps" have been known to occur." Those who stumble through "portals" or "rips" in the magic that keeps Harpeah separate from earth- often find that life has barely passed, or has extremely passed them by.

Harpeah has a long an extensive history, starting with its founding era and working forward some four thousand years. The current in game time is in the first 3,000 years as the clans prepare to shift power once again in their ruling Council. This is known as the Grand Council Era in previous versions of Harpeah. This era defines how the next 1,500 years will be and who's in power during that time. Players take on characters that have some importance in bringing around the Grand Council. The game is mostly social - political with some deviating dungeon crawls thrown in for flavor.

The world itself is like a pangaea- that is one giant landmass with only a few seperate places. While more detailed maps are forthcoming (I have to make them, or steal others to make them for me...) this will at least give you an idea of the new Harpeah.

the population

The population of Harpeah is less than 200,000. (Earth’s Middle ages population just in China was 123 million in 1200… and that’s just a small portion of the world.) This rough estimate is counting only those who are “playable” races. There is a significant number of “other” races and creatures in the world not counted- (we don’t count our cows, lions and bears in the population total either.)

This roughly means there are -

By element:

40,000 of each air, water, fire and earth

8,000 of tech and blood

8,200 of each sound and light

4,000 of shadow

3,500 of weather

100 time and world walking

By Species

14,000 Humans (14,000)
27,500 Salamanders, Undines, Pixies and Dwarves (110,000)
14,000 Unicorns, Winged-humans, Merfolk, Shapeshifters, Half-Human/Half-Beasts (70,000)
2,000 Dragons, Elves, Winged-beasts, Gargoyles and Selkies (10,000)
Again, those totals are ball park figures to give people a general idea of what is out there.

You can find more information (or should be able to find more information) on the Wiki- available off the forums portion of the website. The wiki contains the majority of information as others can add to it, not just the ST and thus people can update it when they figure stuff out or if they want to work on adding something to the game. (One would hope with some heads up to the ST so she doesn't’ stumble over it and make a mess. )