Prehistoric World (culture)

A mega-culture describing to a scattered collection of isolated regions representing those parts of the world that pre-existed human culture. These areas are dominated by a wide variety of humanoids, occupying most of sub-Saharan Africa, Siberia, Australia and the Pacific Islands as well as most of the New World.

While highly disparate in form, these cultures possess a minimum of scholarly information, so it is possible for an individual to become an thorough expert regarding these cultures as a combined whole.

Oriental World (culture)

Includes the geographical lands of southern India (apart from the Moghul Empire), Southeast Asia, the East Indies, China and Japan, as well as various Oriental cultures of Siberia and the surrounding Ocean.

The principle religion of the region is highly varied: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism, Taoism and a range of other philosophical religions.  The principal races are largely human, with firenewts, orcs, haruchai and hobgoblins ranging across the sub-Arctic regions.

Islamic World (culture)

The Islamic mega-culture dominates a vast area that extends from Morocco, along the northern edge of the Sahara Desert, to the eastern frontiers of the Moghul Empire in India. Much of this land area is controlled by the Ottoman, Safavid and Moghul empires, which dominate lands of the Near and Middle East, Persia, Afghanistan and the south slopes of the Himalaya Mountains (including the Ganges and Indus river basins). This also includes those parts of the Balkan Peninsula and the Russian Steppes that are under the authority of the Ottomans.

The principle religion of the region is Islam.  The predominant race of inhabitants is almost universally human.

European World (culture)

Describes the culture of those parts of the world dominated by France, Spain, the British Isles, the Italian Peninsula, the Holy Roman Empire, Poland, Scandinavia (including Iceland) and Moscovy, along with adjoining regions extending east to the Siberian non-human frontiers, the Turkish Frontier and North Africa.

The predominant religion of this culture is Christianity, either Catholic or Protestant.  The predominant race is human, though there are numbers of elves, gnomes and halflings known in the area, along with half-orcs immediately to the east of the Dneiper River, west of the Don.