Name / Sex / Age
Fairly self-explanatory. If they're coming back from the dead, express age in both (Earth) years old at the time of their heroic exploits and a rough count of how long ago they died.

Appearance
A few sentences describing what your character looks like. It doesn't have to be a novel, as long as it gets the point across. You can add a (realistic) picture if you want, but you still need the written portion.

Personality
What makes your character act the way that they do? A couple of paragraphs describing their attitudes, beliefs, opinions, personal values, etc.

Background
The most important part. Describe, in at least a few paragraphs, any notable events of their lives. Outside of the general map and broad world-building strokes I've left things pretty vague, so you have creative freedom, but please run any particularly outlandish ideas by me first. Note: your character doesn't need to be one of the legendary heroes, but I encourage them to be. If you don't go for that route your character should at least be in a position of some amount of political or military power, so they have an excuse to take part in the RP.

Abilities
If you choose to play one of the heroes of the past, this is where you should describe what special things they can do. You should have one well-defined ability, and it shouldn't be overpowered. If I think yours goes too far or doesn't play well with the RP I'll deny it and suggest a fix.

Equipment / Other
If your character has any particularly special equipment, or you have anything else to add, put it here.

At the time that the RP is set, these are the major locations of the world. Far in the past, some were most likely different (aside from geographically, of course).

The Verdant Kingdoms
Perhaps the most 'civilized' realm on Terras, the Verdant Kingdoms are a loose alliance of feudal lords in control of the most populated and wealthy portion of the continent. The Verdant Kingdoms are full of rolling plains and flat farmlands, occasionally broken up by huge granaries or timber-and-stone keeps. Lately, the Kingdoms have been ravaged by pirates who dwell on islands off its coast, but this is hardly an existential threat.

The Free Castles
A region of rocky bluffs and high cliffs, the lands which currently make up the Free Castles are covered with centuries-old fortresses that would have been considered decrepit several sunsets ago. Many of these keeps are held tenuously by feuding barons and upstart mercenary bands, who feud amongst themselves (much to the chagrin of the area's commoners, who are often forced into one army or another). As the sun declined, a steady trickle of emigrants has flowed from the Free Castles to the Verdant Kingdoms.

The Ruins of Varras
Varras was, until the most recent nightfall, demonstrably one of the most expansive and powerful empires to stand proudly on the face of Terras. The high walls of their cities had weathered a good half-dozen nights without issue, and the continent's heroes had almost unanimously flocked to Varras upon discovering their abilities. It had seemed almost as if Varras would be the civilization to defy historical convention and stand as permanent as the mountains on its northern border . . . until the most recent nightfall, nearly a century ago. Varras was set upon by beasts of the dark more horrific than any before chronicled, and by the time that the sun rose once more it shone light on a ruined realm. The once-mighty cities of Varras are crumbled, home to vagrants and bandits, the realm's eastern border slowly absorbed by the Verdant Kingdoms and its southern vassal of Miremarch newly independent.

Miremarch
Miremarch, widely regarded as backwards culturally and technologically, is an independent realm situated in the southwestern marshes. In past days it was a loyal vassal of the Empire of Varras, but the doom that came for Varras left Miremarch largely unaffected, and so now the people of the March rule themselves. Though seen with disdain by the more 'advanced' Verdant Kingdoms and the proud Northerlands, the people of Miremarch are generally quite satisfied with their way of being (and the defensibility of their homelands).

The Iron Keep
The tituar Iron Keep and its small vassal realm is an oddity. Doubtlessly one of the most impressive feats of engineering on the continent, the Keep is (with the fall of Varras) the oldest-standing continuously-inhabited structure on the continent. Within its closely-guarded walls, it is said, are the histories of civilizations long eradicated from the world. Rumors claim that within the Keep foul rituals are practiced to bring terrible horrors upon the realm's enemies, but in truth the Iron Keep's scholarly ruling council maintain a polite (if isolationist) diplomatic rapport with the neighboring Verdant Kingdoms.

The Northerlands
Harsh and unforgiving, the Northerlands are (as one might guess by their name) are cold of climate and cold of disposition. The myriad jarls that rule its snow-covered cliffs and warmer forested valleys are in constant feud with one another, and the realm's greatest export is its famed mercenary bands (many of whom have settled in the Free Castles), followed closely by its meads. Though they have almost always entered into each night woefully underprepared, there always seems to be some remnant of their ways and their people to take up the northern mantle come daybreak.

The Far Swamps
Uninhabited but for foul bog-beasts and particularly foolish corsairs, the Far Swamps are a frigid marshy flatland that nobody would ever want to live in. While in the daylight the only things to emerge from the Swamps are foul skin-sloughing diseases and parasitic pests, the few lucky idiots to have ventured into the Swamps at night and returned to tell the tale speak of horrors beyond sane imagination.

The Viper Isles
The Viper Isles are full of wildife, but not particularly full of men. The only settlements on the Isles are pirate havens that prey on Miremarch and the few remaining towns on the coast of Varras. Few would want to live permanently on the Isles, in fact, as the salty and humid disposition of the islands is very non-conducive to the growing of any domestic food crops.

The Mountains
They're mountains. I'm sure you can picture what mountains look like.