* Long ago, the elves got tired of constant racial warfare driven by racial gods. 
  They conquered all other races, and started a golden age with flying cities and 
  a network of teleportation portals. 
* The halflings were a starfaring race, who arrived but were concerned that the 
  teleportation magic and abandoning the gods would open the world to demons. 
  They set up "The Veil" - which prevented the halflings from leaving the planet 
  and prevented all teleportation magic from working. This was known as "The Stop", 
  and caused a total collapse of civilization. 
* Haven was a agricultural village in an isolated valley. Refugees were lead there 
  by Theen and Dagda. 
* A thousand years later, Haven is a thriving community. 
* The first campaign PCs were set up in Haven, above the Whiterock Academy. 

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There has been about 500 years after the period of the first Haven campaign. 
Important events include: 

* Haven has grown very large, draining the swamps to the south for farmland, 
  and got into wars with the Rusted Lands about 100 years later. A warlord 
  named Vorn attacked them, using magic from stolen books that resulted in 
  demons appearing. 
* The Rust Angels and Haven made a treaty against demons. Haven opened its 
  grain markets, and Vorn went east and founded the city of Vornheim.
  An order of demon-hunters was founded (called "The Order"). 
* Old-style wizardry (except for greensingers) is only allowed from the 
  Whiterock Academy, whose practitioners are under severe restrictions and 
  must take a number of oaths. 
* Greensingers are farming wizards and healers that can openly practice. 
* Mechana are steam-powered, runically-inscribed robots with no free will
  or mind. Typically a person has only one mechanum that they are bonded to, 
  that they can give telepathic commands to. 
* Ti'xnas was the driving force behind airships and mechana. He married a 
  young elf named Evelyn Gloam, who is now pregnant. He wanted to achieve true automata. 
* Three months ago, Ti'xnas figured out how to make true automata, and he 
  was killed by an automata. His (male) elf assistant Wilifred has promised 
  that everyone will get automata. 
* Evelyn needs to get out of town, and is hiring a crew for the Improbable 
  to take her to Vornheim. She is offering the Improbable as payment to take 
  her and protect her from Wilifred - who is the actual murderer of Ti'xnas. 
  (Secretly, she is pregnant with Ti'xnas' first child.) 

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Rather than buying individual spells, you invest levels in your elemental talent. 
The talents are air, earth, fire, and water. 

Another broad talent is rune-smithing, who cannot channel elements but can 
inscribe and activate runes that require charging by an elemental talent. 

A steamship requires fire and water to power the steam engine, air for lift, 
and earth to have a keel that allows steering. 

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The Improbable is unlike most other airships that has no passive source of lift. 
It requires channeled air power to stay aloft. 

* Megan playing Karis Mountainheart, a dwarf pilot and Earth adept, with a set of steambot wings for flying
* Guy playing Bob, an anti-social human engineer and cogsmith, with a powerful falcon-like steambot
* Chrissy playing Astrid Flula, a 100-year-old elf water adept/healer/greensinger, raised in Haven, with long white hair and a companion mobile plant named "Tangle Steve"
* John playing Montgomery-Emerson Prator-Fisk, a halfling airship captain ("Napolean ninja") and air adept
* Laura playing Phrynne - a human demon hunter and runesmith
* Jenny playing Boots - an elf ninja with an ocelot ("Spots")
* Joe playing Ethan - a human air adept, who seems to secretly be a wizard
* Anami playing Leah - a young elf (70 year old) apprentice demon hunter who quit the order, and fire adept

* Tazz (temporary player) playing Seamus, an artistic runesmith