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Automatons were created by elves before god genocided them all.

And the elves were created by other, more ancient automatons, who they revered as gods, and created the new ones as tribute. This is why the God of Man had to destroy them.

Also even the creaters of the elves hated the elves. Fuck the elves.

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The creators of the elves were the humans. The death of the god of time through the world out of balance and the timeline is no longer straight

Magic is out of reach of everyone, only existing in tiny pockets of witch covent or mage circles.

>the god of time was part of the killed pantheon, and the automatons were his weapons, he was planning to use to stop that god who killed every other god, because he was pissed that the time god' automatons created the elves.

One of these mage circles is dedicated to achieving god hood and overthrowing the current god in order to unite all nations

Another circle is working against them, because they think that it won't work and only make the the world worse.

attempting to alter the program in any way causes the smaller automatons to break apart, and the larger ones to self-destruct.

the tiny pockets spring up over magical wellsprings. Magical wellsprings also coincide with geological hot springs.

Magic takes the form of controlling and balancing two opposing elements. Water/Fire is the most common form of magic followed by Earth/Air and finally Light/Shadow as the most rare form of magic.

Everyone that tries to focus on one element only get their heads exploded from the inside, unless they are praying to the god. That lead to the creation of the chapter of paladin-mages.

few automatons, over countless lifetimes, gains sentience. They are wizened but gullible.

Undeads exist, but they're always formed in the swamps and bogs for some reason.

the water is clear

Your legs are fine.
You gain Brouzouf.

Every human has some unique mutation. Humans were nearly wiped out at one point and only survived due to much inbreeding. The mutations give bonuses at character creation. Extra long fingers increases dex. Tow webbing increases swim speed, etc. I'm imaging just a table of bonuses you can get and you decide what sort of physical manisfation your character would have that would grant that bonus.

God is dead.

Yeah, but Grimsby, eight legs

But the dwarf empire to the west doesn't know that.

And they -hate- the human/elven concept of god

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Hope they're undead dwarves because no other race lives except humans and automatons in this setting.

Dorfs are like Arabs, except when they're not. They live in the desert and drill for minerals and petroleum, which they can metabolize. The only animal they use is the camel. They drink copious amounts of petroleum beer every day. The genders are equal (beards).They are fanatical anti-monotheists. There are plenty of elven-automaton ruins in the desert, but dwarfs consider them the work of god worshiping pagans.

Dwarfs are a kind of human. Homo petroleophagis.

Ghostly kender "live" everywhere and steal everything. That's because the God of the Dead was so mad at them, he wiped them all out and tossed their souls back the world of living to wander it for all eternity, so they will not mess with his Underworld. And because he loved to watch the living rage at kender.

Some automatons are so strictly programmed that their actions can easily be predicted. Some are also enormously large.

Given the paths they have taken have been tread by enormous feet/hooves/tracks for centuries, they have formed deep canal like tracks.

Put all this together, and you have what is effectively a tram/railway system.

Oh well, carry on then.

Any Undead will fly into a mindless rage for a brief moment when Kenders are mentioned near them, and try to rip one apart when one is in the vicinity.
Of course, the Kenders being ghosts, most of these undeads' attacks just pass right through them, causing even greater rage.

The landscape is highly salty and acidic and carries the scars of a truly ancient cataclysmic conflict.

The act of balancing the elements is best done trought mediation with a pair of nature spirit.

These spirits are born as wins, and each represents an extremely specific area of that elements.

For example, a pair of Light/Shadow sprites may be composed by the Sprite of Reflexes on Water and the Sprite of Trees' Shadow

This has lead to flora adaptations, expecially in the taste of fruits. They're often dry and salty, some so much as to resemble jerky or salted meat.

Like how you read before you post
And you too

>born as wins
So humans represent fail then?

The world is a dyson sphere (built by the Elder Race) which has fallen into severe disrepair

The main city, or what's left of it, is basically ring shaped and built around a doorway in and out. Nobody is stupid enough to build on the door, quite apart from it being constantly icy cold to the touch and utterly indestructible to modern tools.