Your kingdoms are at war. 

It started with the Half-Orc insurgency of the Elm of Dorine tried to rebel against the rulers of the land, The Halfling run Principality of Formene, by assassinating Formene’s minister’s traveling through Dorine. This caused Formene to declare war on Dorine, and Formene called their allies, the Human Dominion of Nosirien to aide in finishing off the rebels. 

As Nosirien entered the war, in a bid to stop them from gaining too much power, the Gnome Megocracy of Ellolin declared war on Nosirien and travelled through the Empire of Olis, made up of tieflings, with its troops to attack Nosirien. Olis unable to stop them tried for peace by aiding Ellolin at first, but as the war lasted longer and longer, they called to the elven Kingdom of Dorwine to help Olis overthrow Ellolin. 

The gnome Theocracy of Karnost entered the war to try to pacify Ellolin and stop the war, but when negotiations were turned down, they aided Dorwine and Olis in an effort to push out Ellolin from Nosirien. Even the Dragonborn Dominion of Elevar pushed through the war ravaged Formene to Nosirien to drive out Ellolin troops. 

The kingdoms began moving their troops in a unified motion against Ellolin, to stop the war once and for all, but the troops that gathered at the fort of walls Ellolin had built around its ever growing kingdom, they found it nearly impenetrable. And those who broke through and went in were never heard from by the troops outside again. 

A darkness permeated from Ellolin and drove away the terrified troops, those who dared go forward into the darkness never came back. To stop the war, the locals got together, trying to build armies, units, to infiltrate Ellolin and figure out what was going on, and how to stop it.

Your story starts a stormy evening in a local bar in Muminee, a small village in Elevar. 

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