Have vague idea for a setting

Have vague idea for a setting
Pls tell me if is shit tier cancer claptrap

>High fantasy setting, each sapient race created by own patron deity, general populace unaware of said deities, not even worshipped.
>Certain select cults and secret societies in each race aware of their existence, more concerned than reverent.
>Increasingly disinterested in mortal affairs, many of these patron gods beginning to support the idea of wiping the slate clean to make a more interesting "project"

>Through various means of divination and investigation said societies become aware of the disinterest of the Gods, and begin to understand that in order to avoid being wiped out a spectacle must be provided.

>Dwarves are the most powerful, unified and advanced race of the setting
>Prehistoric dwarves lived in grassland plains, where their stature allowed them to remain hidden from predators.
>Dwarf tribes (long ago) single handedly slew the vast majority of the setting's dragons, another sapient race, in order to secure their steadfast within the mountains.
>Monarchy is established among Dwarves based around the "Dracovorian Highlords", Dwarves able to devour the hearts of dragons in order to gain stupendous powers for a short time before dying.
>In times of war it was the duty of a Highlord to sire a son and perform Kerogh'Kal, a ritual in which he devours a preserved dragon heart and becomes an avatar, beings with reality warping magical powers who can single handedly turn the tides of wars.
>Dwarves use this newfound power to subjugate every other sapient race over the course of 100 years of bloody warfare.
>In recent times the vassalship or slavery of the other races has lead to a time of relative peace and prosperity, this is what the gods find tiresome.

>Enter the secret societies
>They seek to end the Dwarven empire and plunge the world in to a war to end all wars, in the hopes that the spectacle might appease the Gods in to not wiping the slate clean for a while longer.
Cont

>The societies conspire together under the overall leadership of the Dwarven society, which is led by a cousin of the Dwarven High King.
>After decades of plotting, the societies succeed in engineering a plot by which they manage to lure all of the Highlords, except for the High King himself, to a meeting, at which they are all assassinated.
>This means that the only true Dracovorian remaining is the High King himself, said to be the most powerful of them all, locked away in the deepest vaults of the Dwarven capitol, atop his throne carved from the skull of the once dragon king, in possession of the dragon king's heart.

>The other races are aware of this situation, the societies having sent their agents to spread the news of the assassinations throughout the lands

>Still none of them are yet willing to move openly against the High King, knowing that should he eat the heart, he would surely destroy them all in the year before his eventual death.

>Think of it as a sort of fantasy nuclear stand off mutually assured destruction situation

This would be the point at which the players in this world enter the story.

Do people think this sounds retarded?
Suggestions are welcome also, if people have any cool ideas of things they think might be good to add to the sort of framework of the setting?

Any advice would also be welcome, like if I'm leaning too heavily on bad tropes or anything like that, or if its too cookie cutter
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What do you have on other "races"?

What are the other races present in the setting? Humans, Orcs, Elves, and the like? Is there a caste system within the slaves, are the field slaves better than the house slaves, are there non-slaves of the other races living amongst the dwarves, is this American "Imma work you till you bleed to death" slavery or like Greek "you've got some rights and we can't murder you without justification" slavery? You said that they discovered the power to eat dragon hearts and then became ubermensch from it, then subsequently conquered everyone else, did they do this while conquering the dragons and securing a foothold in the mountains or afterwards? If during, this means that they should logically have only been in the mountain for about a century. (They live on plains, they want the mountain, they fight the dragons in the mountain, discover power from the dragons, kill of remaining dragons and conquer mountain, use mountain as base camp to conquer everyone else).

I'd tell you to cut the bit about dwarven evoluton, it's a bit corny and too mundane for a fantasy setting. It's better if you make an actual creation myth. You're also essentially making dwarves the steel donut master race, which I'm guessing was your intent but still comes off rather badly.

>Kerogh'Kal
It's generally a good idea to steer free from terms in artificial languages, it's off-putting unless you're fucking Tolkien

Also, if dragons are scarce, how did they get enough dragon hearts to literally enslave all other sapient races? Why did it take 100 years? For reference once nukes were used on two japanese cities WW2 was over in months.

I think it sounds fine, generally. My only concern is that it sounds like the players would have to enter at a high power level to have any effect in the immediate future. If they were to enter at the low end of things, it seems like they would be just doing whatever until one of the sides decides to do something, in which case they would have to have progressed to the point at which they could do something.

Unless, of course, you like the idea of them trying to scrape by in a world that is quickly becoming very chaotic. There's nothing wrong with that option, so long as it's done well.

Also, I suppose you could have them employed/manipulated by one of the sides to do their bidding, but that still is susceptible to the questions of power level.

Humans, are a vassal race of the dwarves, generally low ranking members of the military, favoured servants and sometimes minor lords and land owners.
This is due to them immediately bending the knee after seeing the ruin visited upon the Kasjhari, their neighbours, by the dwarves.

Kasjhari, essentially avian humanoids of various subspecies, probably the largest and most powerful race before the uprising of the Dwarven kingdoms, due to the obvious advantages presented by their natural ability to fly.

I'm still working on the niches of the other races, and trying to make some interesting nonhumanoid sapient ones to work with