To the south-east, in the depths of Udrith swamp, lies ruin of an ancient temple dedicated to Udr, demon of Laziness. Legends tell that, true to the nature of his believers, temple never got finished in the first place. Furious demon then cursed the lands around it to slowly turn into dreadful all-eating swamp. Truly, vicious malice of Udr knew no end - generation after generation of people would see their beautiful desert turned into something absolutely disgusting...
Ages passed, hundreds of empires rised and crumbled to dust, but Udrith swamp is still just a few miles in diameter. And grows all the same.
It is known that all creatures, great and small posses a degree of sentience. For example the Munakan, renowned as the dumbest species in the world use a form of fractional banking which keeps them in perpetual debt and slavery.
Stories tell that on one of the tallest mountains in the far west there is a gong. No one knows what would happen if it were struck...
A race of human-like creatures with turtle shells and tails live in underwater cities made of coral and sand.
This coral is sentient, and has some degree of control over the turtle-men.
The world itself is shaped like an hourglass. The top circle is the ordinary overworld, called Lux, while the bottom is Acerbus. In Acerbus, everything runs parallel to Lux but in a different way.
Some can't travel between the 2 via great sandfall, but none have returned.
There is a species of Orks which are blue, which have an abnormally high affinity for WATER. They are much more intelligent than normal orks, and live close to bodies of water.