Fruition Online- Backstory
The gods were having a party. That's usually what they do.
One of the gods of creation made a planet. That's Earth. A couple other gods saw what was going on, and thought they'd flavor the world with thier own powers and ideals. Earth became like biblical Eden.
One of the other gods that wasn't distracted with this new toy was doing something funny, and the gods stopped paying attention.
Time moves differently for gods and mortals, and it was only moments to them. But when they paid attention again, time had gone by. Instead of a perfect Utopian Eden, it was more like the worst parts of Blade Runner and similar dystopian concepts in action.
The gods were disgusted!
In their wrath, they smote Earth and everything on it. Instead, to make sure that incompatible ideologies could still all exist, but conflict wouldn't happen anymore.
The world was split, by means of a shining wall of light, into various Zones. Within each sectioned-off Zone (see Culture Zones), the peoples were totally different. Plants, animals, and other living things that had died, or still lived in the Apocalyptic age were separated. Life, death, and species no longer mattered. They were all one, as they were separated only by ideology.
Those who respected strength and violence among all else were placed in one Zone, and the land that they inhabited grew and changed to encourage descendant generations to feel the same as the original inhabitants did. This became the Zone that the orcish race comes from, as an example.
Those who were peace-loving and considered violence to never be an answer, and co-existance the only correct behavior formed the original inhabitants of another Zone where Sentient Plants and Swamp Kin originate.
There were many, many other Zones.
But the gods were not stupid and realized that there are some rare individuals who can overcome their own culture, breeding, training, and brainwashing- and that they could adapt and learn from others without bias. These are the characters controlled by you, the players.
Earn the right to pass through the wall of light and get to know how the inhabitants from other Zones behave, earn their trust, and they will teach you their own skills to use in any combination with any other skills, in time.