The World of Sheol


Sheol was a grave planet. A home to mountains upon mountains of heaped dead; the continents carefully separated by quarantine level, or by level of importance. It was a global necropolis, home of skulls and rotting flesh alone.

Although the name remained, the purpose of Sheol changed at the whim of necessity. The Gods decreed that the land of Sheol be re-shaped, re-formed, and eventually populated. And for a time, the Gods lived side-by-side with the technologically infantile people of Sheol, each God aiding his or her own favoured peoples.

But then everything changed. For reasons none could at first comprehend, the Gods withdrew from Sheol, leaving the people to fend for themselves. They were abandoned in darkness, and soon the planet of Sheol was once more littered with the broken, diseased bodies of the dead.

But the Gods left the nine races with one gift - one beacon of light to fend off the impending darkness and ensure their survival. Magic.

And so the tales of Sheol begin. In a world plagued by war, corruption, hatred, fear and power hungry sorcerers. Where nothing is what it seems, where good and evil are merely points of view, the Tales of Sheol span many thousands of years of history, charting the progress of the nine distinct races and their struggle against one another, against the hordes of demonic monsters ... against even the corrupt Gods themselves.