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Rather the beeing one big world, the stories take place in shards, islands of life separated by a great darkness. It is believed that the darknesses inhabitants are demons, shapeless beeings hungering to expand the darkness by eating away at the land. This can be seen at the edges of the shards where a misty fog of inky black shadow sometimes consumes part of the land. Its not clear how many worlds exist and only few of them seem to know of the existence of other shards. Most of them are isolated. As the shadows consume everything they touch it is impossible to leave a shard by crossing the great darkness.
All the worlds of Shakar know of demons living in the great darkness. These beings sometimes take bizarre forms at the edges of the shards where but rarely are experienced inwards. On rare occasions tough, there might be an „eruption of shadows“ spawning the darkness inside the land. If it happens it leads to catastrophic consequences as everything the shadows touch is destroyed.
The only known way to overpower and destroy Demons/ Shadows is a state of mind called „Shahkar“. In this ritual a person trained in ancient lore called the shah summons an area shaped like a chess board and all demons in the area are drawn into a physical state. No one really knows why but it this state the demons are vulnerable and bound to certain rules regarding their movement and attack. The ritual starts a game between the shah and the demons and winning the game will cleans the area from all shadows.
The inhabitants of the many worlds of the ShahKar universe believe that calling upon their ancestors is giving them magical power. In an otherwise pretty predictable world the ancestors provide those who seek it with magical powers seemingly born out of chaos.
The only way to learn magic in Shakar is to find a shrine that us dedicated to the mind of the Ancients. Other names for the Ancients are Ancestors, Forefathers or in some worlds Creators.