Beyond the dark forests, the mountain ranges, the center of the continent, where the belongings of the last elves are already protected by powerful enchantments and beasts invoked since the dawn of civilization, even further away are the cities of the West, the creed and culture is radically different, people here are very careful what others see through the windows, Dominated by a pair of puritanical gods, they did not enjoy the variety of misery that the peoples along the east coast did, they lived in poverty, but it was a self-inflicted poverty, they supported religious crusades, money they did not spend on health or clothing was gladly donated to the paladin funds, thus some of the most misunderstood creatures of all were born.
These situations are an example of how strict their deities were, Phaladine, without going any further, was able to offer his will to priests and knights named like him to eliminate a pagan cause, but he would not lift a finger to guide them on how to punish the corrupt rulers.
These peoples were miserable, technologies even discovered by humans from the East were unknown here, concepts like crop rotation, hygiene or the use of medicinal herbs were not only something strange, they were forbidden, the integration of humans with other races, magical or not, was taboo, thousands of trade attempts ended with dwarves in prison, their precious goods burned and in many cases they lost their lives. The hatred to other species was not only based on how "demonic" they could be, if the magical power resided in other species, these people were especially attacked, seeing that none of these people resisted, they were enslaved and taken by the thousands to work in giant constructions, where their religion, their gods sunk them more than helped them.
All beliefs were fundamentally built on primal beliefs and fears, while in villages like Bloody Axe the gods of wit and wisdom deigned to look in their direction, pushing technology to a level where humans could survive until the fall of magic, here it was sacrifice, resignation, belief coupled with a useless faith based on the concept that the pure, the innocent would sooner or later be rewarded, unfortunately for their society, it worked.
When the great wizards of other races retreated into this self-exile, the villages as the "Hammer of Justice" celebrated their victory, sweeter by the act of having been predicted by the priests of Phaladine, they renounced technology, magic and magical people were run from their family, To say that they were disinherited is a mild way of saying that if they were seen they would be killed, but in their stupid eagerness to eliminate and limit their own nature, they forgot that magical beings were far from being characters who only enslaved and killed people, they were also amused by all strange and stupid behavior, they modified a very harmless plant, Normally used to alleviate fatigue when chewed, thus allowing eternal days of more than 20hrs in the field, or cutting down trees to expand cultivable land that could only produce for a few seasons before becoming dry, arid, this plant was added a very mild aphrodisiac, it was not something that could be noticed with the naked eye, in fact men copulated with their wives and fathered children left and right, when these couples died, due to unhealthy lifestyle, upbringing and feeding, The man, by divine law, could even take minors as long as he had his dominion, among them even relatives (as long as they were not their daughters, Phaladine said that only the daughters could not be theirs because they were obscene, not so the sisters or cousins), however, one out of every thousand seedlings was particularly strong, it upset the person, perhaps even this gift of dubious meaning (more like an erotic theater that satisfied some perversions of those who owned the continent) was forgivable, but the last gift was something abominable.
By choice of Phaladine, when one of these cases occurred, the affected being in question was stoned to death, many times covering the needs of those who were later executioners, but one night, says the high priest, an angel arrived and placed his golden gaze indicated that there was a more advanced way to locate the sin in the heart of the wicked, So, in a single night, he descended on a table surrounded by four crystal columns, "place there who doubts their faith in Phaladine, if this is a man or woman of good, nothing to fear, otherwise his body will be deformed and show that he is a servant of evil, Phaladine has spoken".
Everyone followed the instructions, these were a sign of miracles, in the ten cities where the Puritan religion is practiced these structures appeared, for the moment I travel there, my beloved rests in the Alcazar, I must recover a number of wretched who were mutated by magical technology of the high elves, They enjoyed turning the poor men and women into demons without self-consciousness and then, if they survived, enslaving the humans in the villages, but by then they had already laughed too much at the ignorance of the villagers' little knowledge... unforgivable!