The initial campaign region I'm working with is the City State of Throxia and its immediate environs. Throxia is the last remnant of an ancient metropolis beneath a colossal geodesic dome, a hemisphere nearly two miles in diameter and one mile at its apex. Despite the Dome's apparent invulnerability to any modern magical, technological, or physical attack, it has been shattered in many places, and most of the city's buildings lie in rubble or dust.
Throxian civilization occupies a small sector of the original city beneath an intact portion of the Dome. The center of this City State is the towering Citadel, the seat of power of the Immortal Omnithrox, an ancient, hermaphroditic being of formidable personal might. The Omnithrox is attended by a coterie of consorts and concubines. Its semi-human offspring comprise the highest tiers of the city's noble and military classes, overseeing a well-disciplined and superbly outfitted army.
Preserves within and below the City State are maintained for fungal agriculture and the husbandry of various food, draft, and riding animals, including Asteriads, Gargons, and Moas. Human labor is supplemented by the toil of the Phasmids, large semi-intelligent stick insects in the service of the Omnithrox. The Phasmids are, themselves, quite tasty.
A sprawl of ruined buildings, the Badlands, stretches out from the whorled spires, stepped ziggurats, and high terraces of the City State. This wasteland is contested and picked over by nomads, scavengers, cannibals, and a panoply of monstrosities and unclean things against which the Throxian contingent remains ever vigilant.
Beyond the City State and the Badlands lies trackless wilderness, and beneath lies the Underworld.
The predominant religion in the City State revolves around Lord Dunsany's Gods of Pegana, most of whom have temples or shrines in the city precincts. Common folk consider the Gods distant and inscrutable, and their priests strange and aloof. Innumerable other outland and alien Gods are worshipped to some extent. Prayers to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI are punishable by death.
