Encounter-a-Day

A tribe of barbaric elves inhabit the forest of Mosh’tardin. They worship a silver-pawed ape god named Magdar, but this worship is almost responsible for wiping them out. Mosh’tardin is inhabited by another tribe, you see, a group of humans who also worship Magdar. They believe Magdar to be a bear with an adamantine paw, [...]

Life in the frigid north of Svalbard is difficult, but the resilient Muscovite people have long-prospered there. Their diet consists largely of gebbak, a tuber as tough and resilient as the Muscovites themselves. Raw it resembles the root of a particularly ugly old tree; cooked, it is very much like a potato in flavor and [...]

By all accounts, humans are a young race. The eldest people of the land, the elves, are sure that humans did not exist as recently as three millenia prior. Yet curiously, no one knows where humanity came from. It’s as if the annals of history were scrubbed clean of any reference to them.
There are rumors [...]