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| - Rakiscen (or "Gate Place", sometimes referred to by the "Gate Races") is a large world of various climates, locations and races. Several continents are spread across the world, with hundreds of smaller islands dotting around the coast-lines and out at sea. There are many intelligent races that make up the world and more land is still being discovered as the years go by. The technology of the world is set roughly into the high-medieval phase, compared to modern-day Earth, with gunpowder common place but with iron and steel still a solid foundation of the various nations across the world. Magic and the relatively higher-level of steam-punk technology go hand-in-hand (usually) in most places of the world, creating a place rich in prosperity and insight (or poverty and ignorance). While the old continents of the world are inhabited by a great degree of races, forming a collective union of civilization, there are many places out in the world that have yet to be explored and provide adventures and general mayhem whenever the great unknown is investigated (especially when it comes to deciding who gets to colonize what land) Although the exact year of the start of civilization is relatively unknown, and every attempt to find out has resulted in inconsistencies with various events that have taken place at some time, the current year that has been decided on by various nations (though not all of them) marks the year as 433 Monolith Time.
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