Earthdawn is FASA's game of high heroic fantasy, based in the region of Barsaive. The world recently went through a massive upheaval as the Scourge settled on the land. The Scourge was foretold by many wise men, and the wise prepared for it. The foolish suffered. As it approached, terrible creatures called Horrors began to manifest all acorss the land. It was these Horrors that were the first sign of the Scourge. Entire cities used magical and mundane means to protect themselves from the Scourge, but some of those protections failed, and of all the races that suffered, it was the Elves that suffered worst. Now, eight hundred years later, the Scourge is finally over, and the people of Barsaive open the great stone gates of their kears and awaken to a world that is quite different from the one their ancestors left behind. It is the dawn of a new world, a world filled with mystery and exploration and danger.

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