The Spirit Plains was a general name for a vast stretch of land in the northern part of the New World.
The region was immense, roughly equal in area to Nordtov's Great Wilderness or the entire territory that had belonged to the Seland Kingdom before the Plantagenet Kingdom was founded. This mostly flat land, dotted with a few hills and two mountain ranges, was fertile and peaceful.
At least, it had been a place of tranquility before settlers from the Old World arrived and began to make their mark.
The Ganote who lived there were nomads who had never established a unified nation. Descendants of the Aztec forebears who had expanded northward, they had always lived in scattered clans in their fertile, beautiful homeland.
Depending on where they lived, they had developed a distinctive system of primitive worship. Every clan revered an animal totem.
Strangest of all, perhaps thanks to the protection and teachings of the Feathered Serpent, the beasts worshipped by the Ganote clans were mostly creatures from the major races of the astral realm.
The reason this plain was called "the Land of the Spirits" was that, after nearly a thousand years of primitive worship, the Ganote had shaped many "demigods" in the fractured astral realm through their offerings of faith and the weaving of belief.
Of course, each clan had a small population and could offer only limited faith. And the astral realm was hardly a peaceful, harmonious place. As a result, the "demigods" the Ganote had shaped possessed little more than the life forms of the creatures they worshipped. They were weak in both absolute strength and supernatural authority.
Considering that the Feathered Serpent had once betrayed the New Gods and had suffered from Chaos corruption for a long time, seeking a way to cut it