The Dominion, mostly consisting of Sprites, want to use their inventions to find out what secrets the forest holds, and are determined to be the first to do so. Anyone else after the same goal can and will meet resistance.
A group of Gnomes recently left the group after hearing about the Gearspire Bastion, where supposedly their lives will improve tenfold.
The Inventor’s Dominion recently discovered some ancient magic, possibly related to the Ancient pantheon.
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