Impromptu Campaign Primer

I wrote this yesterday in response to a player wanting to learn more about our campaign setting. Up until now I have been drip-feeding little details about the goings-on of the world, but as we're nearing our 40th session I realized it was past time to make a piece of writing that ties them all together. For my sake, it was nice to finally get off my ass and consolidate the key setting points that until now existed mercurially in my mind or accumulated in overburdened docs. Normally I'd want to dress a campaign primer up with some artful prose. I imagine Nevelorn in shades teal and violet and midnight blue, populated with wispy brushstroke Amano people. The emotional register varies between the wryness of Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance and the melancholia of M. John Harrison. In my vision, the sky is always just after sunset, the fields always windswept, and the forests rendered in watercolor like those '70s Lord of the Rings illustrations of dark spaces surrounded by dense green…