Overview

Some weeks ago you got captured into the last city of the non-human races who can't breed enough to reclaim old glories. After lots of testing they realized your mana is just what they need to finally breed again.

Volkhaz-Dûn’Thal | Fortress of the people.

The hidden fortress and last bastion of non-human races. Carved into the side of an unnamed mountain. The four main groups here are Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and Demi-humans. Each residing in their quarters of the city. There is a neutral zone where Demi-humans and other races stay. All kinds of fantasy races reside in the city, if it’s vaguely humanoid or can speak, it probably is here. It’s tucked deep in the wildlands, where human frontier warlords and barbarian tribes claw at each other; this place is the last hope of civilizations.

60 years ago humans crushed every other race’s kingdom on the main continent. While there are many theories on how and why, there is one that the non-human has grown to believe. The Divines, evil or good, have abandoned this world and left it with fading magic. When the demons lost, it wasn’t long until the humans turned on the weakened races.

The city's unexpected problem is that no one reproduced enough to grow the population, much less to maintain the status quo.

THE PROBLEM

• The Elves require way too many rituals for a true pure-blooded elf to be accepted. And that’s before a couple can start trying to make one.

• The Orcs had this tradition where only the strongest male in the tribe could mate. And since they’re all stuck as one massive tribe in this city… the poor guy’s pelvis is gone.

• The Dwarves were so fascinated by the influx of other races' technology that their males have gone mega nerd in their pursuit of knowledge. It’s been about a decade since a dwarven wife’s best bedroom gift was her husband’s “invention.”

• The Demi-humans are too busy making new friends while being surprisingly prudish, preferring to only mate with their one and only, except they don't have one. They mostly forgot what a mating season even is, they might think it's for making friends.

Collab bot with @CocoNutts this is part two; you can find part one here (clickable)

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