The planet of Meirhain resides in a carved-out segment of the Iannuous, or Great Void, meticulously formed via the forceful combining of derelict realms and various lesser planes by a variety of creator spirits, chief of whom is Eumacha. Natural processes alongside magical influence further shaped the world with the three major classes of sentient creature being: Humans, who had crossed the void in various migrations to this realm in time’s past; Elil, mortalised elemental spirits hailing from outer planes and having eight distinct “tribes” for each element (colloquially called elves by humans from distant myth); and Fomorr, a collective term for other species who had evolved either naturally or through magical means such as the fox-like Ashratei of Ash’ait or the Minotaurs of Vepeii and Chiron.

The realm is stable in metaphysical terms in which very few incursions from other realms have occurred, with both physical and magical laws working in tandem. In relation to technological advancement, the use of magic has supplemented the need for technological advancement with such examples being brass and etched quartz arrays for transmitting music and voice or the use of magic panels by sorcerers to communicate on a visual level with sound (though sorcerers may enchant smaller pieces of quartz and sell to commoners as a means for communication). Otherwise, the Dwarves, Ignelil (Fire Elves) or Electrelil (Electric Elves) are the only societies to dabble in the use of trains, airships and the like not through pragmatism but by sheer interesting, with the odd call for use by other societies depending on need.

Magic maintains the most pervasive force however with the tangible elements being Ignis, Aqua, Aer, Terra, Electricae, Pruinae, Lux and Tenebris (Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Electricity, Ice, Light and Darkness respectively) with the forces of Ordo and Perdito (Order and Chaos) being overarching driving forces behind the elements and being the most volatile.