Quickly Tarisia became besieged by a voracious sentient jungle known simply as “The Wild”. Filled with all manner of extreme fauna and flora, it consumed everything in its path, destroying cities and temples in a wave of green sweltering jungle. Swallowing the buildings, animals and citizens whole and absorbing them into its hulking mass. Frighteningly, it seemed to have a psionic sense, gravitating towards society, hunting and growing as if fed by some ancient, indomitable power. Advancing forever outward and unstoppable, with or without water or arable soil.
Quickly the countries and city-states abandoned their campaigns of war; a new universal threat had appeared. Now they were under siege by The Wild and no fire or blade would prove effective enough to stop it. Only the dark defiling magic contained its spread.
More about how the sorcerers and magics were used to hold back The Wild
While the Thrones continue to rule over the people of Tarisia with a capricious iron fist, they also serve to stave off the encroaching jungle. The methods they use to maintain control and ensure that the people are safe, are sometimes questionable or even downright evil, but they provide the only safety from The Wild.
I think this part is important, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be all the Thrones. Perhaps those on the “front-lines” are perceived this way. I’d also like to make it clear that they aren’t exactly peaceful with each other. There’s a tenuous truce when it comes to The Wild, but they still go to war over water, territory, or other resources and they use their subjects as pawns for those battles.
I’d also like to have more about how this is the world of now, the world of the setting, this is the life your character lives. Particularly at the end
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