Typical background you can find in The Lord of the Rings or similar romances. Since it is not a real time age, it is normally a background where technology is similar to Middleage one, Energy is available through Magic and different races exist.
Life is quite adventurous and epic events are not rare.
- Weaponry: Wood, stone and metal weapons. No firearm exists.
- Communication: Use of verbal forms, production and diffusion of handwritten texts.
- Handcraft: Daily usage items, made with stone, wood, animal hides, vines and other natural materials; production of pottery, amulets, jewelry and funeral works; building of defense systems with embankments, forts and walls twisting for hundreds of miles; building of cities able to contain hundreds of thousands people.
- Medicine: Use of all available and useful herbs, metal instruments, first examples of surgery.
- Social Organization: Clans, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Theocracy, Feudalism and some attempt of Democracy.
- Food Production: Agriculture and sheep-farming are well-structured, fishing is very active, thanks also to ships.
- Religion: Pantheism.
- Resources Exploitation: Everything the intelligent race is able to exploit, among things offered by nature (wood, fire, etc.) and mine costruction to collect present materials (stone quarries, mines for different metal both precious and mundane, etc.).
- Transport: Animals are used both as mounts and for carriage towing and similar; building of ships fit for offshore sailing.