Lharna exists in our reality, somewhere across the emptiness of space, a single mote in an immense galaxy; that galaxy is so distant from Earth that our best scientists cannot spot that galaxy with our most powerful telescopes. Player characters must be human and all humans trace their ancestry back to a single horrific nexus point called the Androclysm.

The word Lharna is derived from the contraction Lh'arna, which is from the elfin phrase Lhuna-do-Arna. Lhuna-do-Arna literally means "moon rock" and the phrase refers to a place that is considered sacred by elves, dwarves and others. The Moonrock is a mesa-like mountain that juts up above the canopy of trees in Northern Elsylvania.

The adventures take place on Tolaria, a continent on the world of Lharna. Tolaria is similar in many respects to North America. Herein many humans are described as being a certain ethnic, but this is not entirely accurate. Humans have been on Lharna for 1300 years so there has been some "culture shift" and some cultural blending. For example, Saulernians are descended mainly from the French and share many cultural similarities (names, food, religion, etc.) but Saulernians are about 1000 years less French than the Qebecois. Typically, the uneducated common man has little if any knowledge of his Terran history. For example only well-educated Pergaelese would know that their culture is an amalgam of Persian and Gaelic heritage.

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