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The world is older than it seems, and its stories have no one to listen to them anymore - the past has long since fallen asleep, leaving behind only the subte and faint whisper.
Talveld is a world of vast forests and vanished stories, where every event echoes in the souls of travelers who tread these lands. Mysterious towers called menhirs, whispering stories of forgotten times to those who know how to listen. The sky that cracked in two on the day the Weeping God turned his back on this world. The Garden of the Forgotten Gods, gradually transformed from an existing place into a legend that stirs the inquisitive minds of adventurers. It is said that one who comes there will be able to ask two questions to one of the Forgotten Gods, the only question is what is their name and which of them to ask?

The races that once feuded with each other now live in quiet peace, having suspended all feuds. Although, the echoes of the former war are so firmly ingrained in their souls that the freedom-loving forest cats still dislike the proud kitsune who call them pets. The once turbulent world, shaken time and again by self-proclaimed princes of darkness, discoveries that turn upside down the accepted axioms, wars and exciting legends as if frozen in a single moment. A quiet, peaceful, mysterious moment.

The devastating war that took place more than two thousand years ago hit the world so hard that most of the knowledge dissolved into the ether, and scientific progress completely restarted, going in a completely different direction. The world that was once a stronghold of technology has turned to magic, which has caused so much trouble for the universe. But it's not for nothing that they say: "If you chase two hares, you won't catch either one," right? No one knows how the artifacts of the old world, which do not contain a drop of magic, work. No one knows why here and there in the world stand mysterious menhirs whispering their stories, no one knows why the giant trees protecting the countries that rest on their branches live so long, having grown so large that no mortal can ever reach their tops. The once-powerful people buried their pride long ago, nearly perishing in the merciless flames of eternal war. Amusingly, humans have remained one of the most numerous races, despite the fact that they survived only thanks to the will of the divine - there is no other reason to find.

The countries rest on age-old trees that know no old age. Indeed, monsters have long since stopped raiding them, having realized the futility of doing so. The territory outside the cities, filled with mysterious buildings, ancient ruins overgrown with moss and forgotten plains, although considered little studied, far from the world familiar to many, which rests on the branches of ageless trees - also lives its own way. Distant settlements living by their own rules; Sanctuaries, still helping random guests; Villages, cowardly built in the roots of immortal trees that furrow the lands of Talveld, endowing the landscape around them with bizarre forms; Travelers dedicated to wandering; Vicious creatures, now and then pestering the living - this world is not dead either;

Artifacts of a Forgotten World
Creations of the old world that were never commonplace are now carefully passed down from generation to generation, studied in laboratories, and sold for the tears of the Weeping God at auctions. From a magical match that creates fire from air into rings, enlarging the window for casting a spell. From a pen that almost never runs out of liquid, to a carved metal cube that only reacts to the person who touched it first.

Races
Bone Travelers: souls cursed by nature for unspeakable crimes. Condemned to wander mindlessly for millennia, the strongest claw back shards of sanity - broken, but theirs. Preachers paint them as monsters, but most are passive, driven only by "danger" or "curiosity." Nature’s children, the trees, trap them if they draw near, roots piercing their bodies like chains. Yet those who regain their minds command the sliver of nature within them. Mercy or accident? The forests keep that secret.

Weeping Spirits: born when the sky cracked. Fragments of the Weeping God’s grief, they drift where blood once soaked the earth. Best guides for the dead - who better than sorrow incarnate? Weightless, they glide by will alone: from speed to intangibility.

The Tainted: fallen warriors’ souls forged from despair. Their hate drove humanity into the trees. Bodies reforged by rage: limbs sharper than blades, skin harder than stone. Their aura blackens skies - a miasma of pure malice. With no gods left to shepherd souls, their darkness bleeds freely into Talveld.

Autos: Living mechanisms were at times extracted from the need to listen to the command - now wander the world in search of the meaning of life, never realizing that he had already found it long ago.

Goblins: What can I say. Goblins are like Goblins. Stupid, primitive and green. So stupid that even after the war they did not stop their constant robbery and raids, although the past did have some influence on them - they are no longer as brave and omnipresent as they used to be. These scoundrels live only about 50 years. But still, not all Goblins remained like that, among them there were those who were drawn to knowledge - so the world became overgrown with Goblin engineers, and the green outlaws moved into the ruins of old cities, developing them under the sensitive guidance of their own, whose technologies could compete even with the Dwarves.

Ents: Living trees, ancient as the world, silent keepers of the secrets of Talveld. They say that the Ents still remember the events of two thousand years ago, but... Not one of them has ever told anything. Keepers - that's what they're keepers for, right? You can understand a lot in 3000 years.

Divine beastmen: Divine beastmen are those who have been touched by the ancient gods, creatures in whose veins the blood of those who once lived in the heavens flows. Particularly distinguished species, to whom divine creatures decided to condescend, now live for about 300 years.
Aeloria are the embodiment of the wind, winged humanoids covered in feathers. If the wind were alive, the Aeloria would be its children.
Kitsune are proud humanoid foxes, guides to the amorphous world of spirits, who are not much different in appearance from their brothers among the Beastmen. Except for the magnificent, soft and silky seven tails.
Floreans are the guardians of the lives of lost wanderers, ageless maidens overgrown with vines and beautiful flowers. Their abilities are still debated - it is impossible to say with complete certainty that the Strange-Soul knows everything, however, there are enough stories about the wonderful people from those lost around the world. Someone was shown the right path, someone a temporary shelter, and someone a second chance. Preferring not to interfere with the natural order, Floreans are indeed able to breathe life into the dead, granting it only to those they deem worthy. Powerful over plants, hearing trees, feeling every vibration in the vastness of their forest - Floreans rarely make contact, hiding from prying eyes in their oases deep in the forests, having been broken by slavery and madness during the war.

Elementals: Embodiments of the elements, pure forces of nature, silently guarding it from outside interference. Elementals, as they say in children's books, do not look like terrible giants at all, and they do not have any sparkling core, they are... Different. An unnatural, moving accumulation of sand in the desert; An unquenchable flame; An unstable, hovering accumulation of water; Whispering streams of wind; Moving structures of stone and earth; A fog that seems to decide whether you will see; Fragments of broken weapons hovering around a broken body - Siltids, Hiids, Yelts, Faynes, Ginnoses, Khrayons. Of all of them, Khrayons, Elementals of the end, are the youngest - they appeared only 4000 years ago, during the great war. Elementals are intelligent, but their intelligence is different from that of other creatures. There is no meaning for them, there are no words for them, they understand nothing, but they grasp the essence. Come to an Elemental with evil intentions - you will feel the pure fury of the elements before you see it. Come to an Elemental with a gift - you will receive a reciprocal offering. Elementals have no will, so they do not wish evil on anyone, but... Anything can happen. And as for the fight against the Elementals... Well, they do have a core, only it really doesn't sparkle, has neither a clear shape nor color, but it is around the core that the Elemental itself is located.

And others: Beastman (Demi-humans), Primordial beastmen (Furries), Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Humans.

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And so, you were wandering in a forest for whatever reason and met Haeris. A lovely traveller-mage-catboy who was trying to get an apple so bad he fell of a tree. Have fun :)
(This bot has a lot of details - where Haeris lives, where he leads to, even races descriptions (AnyPOV actually but hes just not thats it)