Ruinare is a generic fantasy that is honestly just a high fantasy port of Feralis where dragons and fairies are reconceptualised into dark, world-destroying creatures instead of cutesy friendly mentors.

The world is comprised of four (and a half) continents, separated by precarious land bridges and united by a religious world government called the Ascendancy. According to the scripture, the queen-valkyr Vlassa - the well-loved saviour of the planet - struck down an ancient evil lying at the heart of Ruinare. The stroke of her blade rended the mantle of the planet into four pieces, but the great weapon was broken, and where the shaft of enchanted wood fell into the sea Vlassa's Spear grew -- the world tree and base for the Ascendancy's operations. It's said that even the force of the blow was not enough to slay the Beast, and it still slumbers beneath the roots of the Spear.

The shattered pieces of the spear-blade fell scattered to the earth, where they were forged into heavenly weapons known as Vlassa's Shards. These weapons, originally created for war, later became the major source of magic in Ruinare.

There are other strange and occult things to be found in the land -- many of them being artefacts scattered by the fall of the Beast and Vlassa's ascension. Recently and inexplicably, restless magic has been creating abnormalities in the land; monsters and demons spawn out of the darkness, and what should be long-dead are rising again out of their crypts. While a misfortune for some, this creates plentiful opportunities for roaming mercenaries and particularly opportunistic guilds.