Creating New Lore

"This article is about creating lore for a character's backstory. If you want to know about adding lore to the wiki, see Contributing to the Wiki. If you create any lore that you would like to make available for DM use, please contact @Ferrite on the Discord."West Marches is a rich world with many diverse locales and inhabitants, which can make it tricky to figure out if you're stepping on anyone's toes with your character's backstory—you want to say that your dragonborn is from a tribal society, but has someone else already said they're city folk? Not to fear! The DMs have done a careful job ensuring any such backstory details can still work.

Cataclym
Main article: Cataclysm

The Cataclysm occurred around year 0 by the current calendar, over two thousand years ago. No player character, however long-lived, has memory of life before it. You're welcome to include myths about it or what came before, but there's no concrete knowledge of it.

Setting Lore
There is specific lore for the main cities found in the archipelago (Freeport, Kairos, and Kanara) and on the continent (New Gork and Livbringaren). Beyond that, players are welcome to create their own small backstory island within the archipelago. If you would like to do this, speak with a DM to have your island approved. The continent is, generally speaking, an inhospitable place, and the only places a player character would be from on the continent is New Gork, Livbringaren, or potentially one of the ancient forges, if the character is a warforged (please read the warforged page for more information). Contact a DM with any questions.

Racial Lore
West Marches has no set, world-specific racial lore. Players are welcome to use published lore or their own personal lore, but should not make overarching statements about all members of a race. This means that any lore is canonically viable. To use the previous example, if a player wishes to make a dragonborn from a tribal society, they're more than welcome to, as long as they don't imply that all dragonborn are the same. This allows someone else to make a city of dragonborn with a cutthroat capitalist environment without the two ideas being mutually exclusive. Contact a DM with any questions or to get your lore approved.