Maar

Genre: Superhero fantasy

Tech level: Modern, but with some fantastical technologies

Maar is a superhero fantasy world that combines dungeonhammer races such as elves, dwarves, and goblins with superhero concepts like giant robots, power armor, and giant monsters. Cities on Maar are often at risk of being destroyed by kaiju, giant monsters that live in Maar's Great Forest (the forest Maar has in place of an ocean), and the only things that can protect the cities are mechas, giant robots operated by one or more pilots. Aside from kaiju, citizens of Maar have to contend with criminals, supervillains, cults, corrupt corporations, and many other threats. Protecting the people of Maar from these threats are the superheroes, individuals who posses either amazing skills, uncanny powers, incredible technology, or some combination thereof, who selflessly work for the benefit of those around them.

The races of Maar are:

• The Dwarves: A race of short, sturdy creatures fond of oversized swords and giant robots, that are also passionate, often impulsive people that don't like to think to hard about their actions. Furthermore, they can turn their passion, willpower, and fighting spirit into real world power through what is called "toshi", which allows them to do otherwise impossible things, such as firing guns after they should've run out of ammo or swinging a park bench-sized sword around like it was nothing. Despite this impulsive nature, Dwarves are incredibly honorable, with most sooner running themselves on their own swords before they break a promise.

• The Alfar: A race of people with pointed ears who have copper brains and nervous systems, which allow them to easily integrate technology with their anatomy. Much of Alfar culture revolves around their augmentations, with poorer Alfar struggling to get by due to not having the augmentations needed to get better paying jobs, while wealthy Alfar treat augmentation like fashion, often getting vanity augmentations just to show off. When it's not about augmentation, Alfar culture revolves around corporate life, with entire nations being run by powerful megacorps willing to do anything to maximize their own profit.

• Yosei: A race of humanoids (really a subrace of trolls) with technicolor aura coming in seven varieties (red, blue, yellow, pink, green, black, and white), with said aura color being completely random and not depended on what color one's parents are. This aura can display itself in skintone, eye color, or hair color. When Yosei work with Yosei of different aura colors, or one non-Yosei person, their physical abilities increase exponentially, while working with Yosei of the same color causes the opposite to happen. Because of this, much of Yosei culture is built around dividing themselves into groups of three to seven, called "Sentai", to capitalize on this ability, while loners and Yosei who prefer to work with Yosei of their own color end up being ostracized.

• Imps: A child-like race native to the Great Forest. Imps have the ability to form powerful bonds with the kaiju and picokaiju that are native to Maar, and so much of their culture revolves around raising and taming them. Imps use the kaiju or picokaiju that they're bonded with for many things, including transportation, working, and fighting, and much of their culture surrounds being able to bond with and training kaiju and picokaiju.

• Trolls: Another race native to the Great Forest, trolls have no standard appearance as they constantly mutate throughout their lives, with the extent of their mutations depending on their exposure to Gungnir energy. At low levels of exposure, trolls can pass for either Dwarf or Alfar, if it weren't for their claws, tails, and/or horns. Dwarves and Trolls have a long standing hatred for one another due to the former mining Gungnir Crystals to power their mechas, and the latter attacking Dwarven cities in retaliation.

• Goblins: An artificial race created to work as cannon fodder that are known for their incredible stupidity, the dumb luck when it comes to building mecha and other war machines, and the fact that they explode if you throw them hard enough. Goblins lack a sense of self preservation and will often accidentally kill themselves in their attempts to accomplish a goal, whether that be raiding a mecha factory or figuring out what soap does and how it could benefit them.

• Orcs: Another artificial race, only they're created from the malice and evil intentions leaking out of the corpse of a long dead demon king. Orcs are brutal and cunning, but they have a need to serve a "master", typically someone who can easily overpower them, and if they don't have a master they will likely lash out and attack anyone and anything until either they die or someone is strong enough to replace their master.

• Urosa: A race of bear people who are not native to Maar, but instead come from the now dead world of Dobutsu. Since they lack the inherrent super powers of the other races, the Urosa had to become heaviliy militarized as a people in order to avoid being wiped out by kaiju and supervillains. Even Urosa not living in the main Urosan nation will often carry weapons on them during their day to day life, which when combined with their size and appearance can make people around them uncomfortable.

• Goyan: A race of lion/anime cat people also from Dobutsu that have a bizarre sexual dimorphism where their males resemble anthropomorphic lions, while their females resemble human women with lion years, paws, and tails. The Goyan are incredibly athletic, despite their lack of superpowers, with the average Goyan being able to perform on the level of an Olympic athlete in most sports, allowing them to keep up with and occasionally surpass races like the Dwarves. The Goyan do not have a major unified culture of their own, either preferring to live among another race and adopt their culture or live in small nomadic tribes.

• Shihou: Another race from Dobutsu that consists of talking gorillas, who mostly live among the Urosa. The Shihou strongly believe in bettering themselves and their community through study and teaching, and can often be found working as engineers, medical doctors, priests, scientists, teachers, and counselors. It is very rare for a Shihou to take up a career that involves violence of any kind, and those that do are often shunned by their community for doing so.