Welcome to Gourm. This is a magic continent featuring all the major pathfinder classes and races. I've divided humanity into 3 major ethnic groups. Northern Humans are tall blonde and hairy like Norsemen. The middle ethnic group are also of a white complexion but feature more brown and black hair, also are noticeably shorter and thinner than their northern counterparts. Humans from the southeast minor continent have a light brown complexion and dark hair, (occasionally red in freak occurrences). Standard Dwarves hail from the the northeast mountains, and a new breed of dwarves is quickly emerging in the adjacent flatlands. These landdwarves have mutated a great deal after only 4 generations of living outside the deep. They are still short and burly, but have smooth white skin. Their hair is also softer, and in rare cases even thinner (but they still grow it out obsessively). The major barbarian civilizations are Ratmen, Orcs, and Goblins!! Ratmen are the most interesting and the least like their vanilla D&D counterparts. They strictly inhabit the southern tip of Gorum. Both Orcs and Goblins inhabit the wastelands. These are dust desserts where the sand has mixed with magic ash over the ages creating a sickly soil. Goblins have learned to grow strange weeds in this soil, while the Orc Shamans drink the Ashy Ocean's water directly to gain a poisonous hazy high, with spell-casting effects. Gnomes live beneath the incredibly steep, dense, and hostile mountain range separating north and middle Gorum. Gnomes, like normal Dwarves, keep considerable social and political chasms between themselves and "live-fast-and-die-young-humans". Elves hail from another major continent, Farum. Travel between the two is across the Majai ocean. Humans cannot live long enough to justify the trip. The winds of the Majai Ocean are sentient and cruel. The longer your intended journey, the stiller the winds and waters. Intentional trips between the continents takes over 15 years. Despite this Elves have always pilgrimaged to Gorum, in fact the oldest Gorum historians are the first Elves to arrive many thousands of years ago. However most elves also take the journey home after a few hundred years, as is their custom. The rare exceptions started small settlements on the massive island of Jubilee and the small but almost entirely Elven island of Lalec (The island northmost in the huge 'fjorde').