History

The Creation
Before the deus dawn, long ago, at the formation of the world, the elements had their materials fall/form the world, and the materials are what affected geography. So the volcano isn't leaking magma, but rather, the planet was a rocky firmament/maybe a spherical asteroid, and the firmament got bombed with these substances.

Ignoll landed where Mt. St. Sol is, and became the source of internal heat, since it penetrated deep. Glaciite landed next, cooling the surface with a miasma that we know today as snow and water. This is the core of frosthaven, and the city is powered by a reverse of geothermal energy, where the core is cold and the transfer of heat spins a turbine, generating energy. The miasma also formed an atmosphere around this world.

Then came Midorite, which, thanks to the atmosphere, was able to give rise to plant life as we know it, and similar plant-based creatures like forest sprites, etc.

Rakthyst was the one to bring animal life, the seed of blood: where plant life mixed with this blood to give rise to animal life.

And lastly came the Deorchor, source of the supernatural and decay, but mostly only leading to death and decomposition. Only after Deus Dawn, did the conditions become right for shusks and other such creatures to form, which are based on Deorchor.

Deus Dawn
The apocalypse, known as Deus Dawn, is when the earth "woke up" and brought all sorts of creatures and monsters of myth to life-- However, these only arose in places where the world was actively being leeched off by industry. Deus Dawn brought forth these corrupted creatures known as Shusks (shadowed husks), and where most of the world saw turmoil as the global economy went to shambles, some vulturous futurists saw opportunity. They built synthetic bodies similar to Shusks, titled Spectres. Where Shusks possessed creatures and machinery to take it down, Spectres would be used as weapons of mass destruction, and were used to establish tyranny, in the places which clung to the old empire's ideals, as they shut themselves off, and led conquest after conquest.

Outside the walls of these tyrannical regimes, however, the people learnt to govern themselves, and built communities on the ideals of collaboration, and live in sustainable refinement. They have their own systems of computing, an interconnected network to exchange information, and sustainable energy sources.