Cardea is a land of mystery, danger and high adventure. It is a place where your wildest dreams and your worst nightmares materialise side-by-side. In a rich world where city-states compete for limited resources, guilds manoeuvre for power, and the priesthoods work the will of their deity, people forge their own destinies. Some opt for the life of a merchant or a humble priest; many content themselves with a life of questing and adventure. Others choose a life of administration and of resource management, joining one of the guild councils or city governments. Others still learn the arts of the blade, or the ways of nature and healing. A few learn to control energies that can only be called 'magic,' and even fewer study to master the realms of demons, and of the undead. All this, and a great deal more, awaits you within Cardea.