Editing Setting:MercWorld-Seratartes (section)

==World==

Seratartes is a dangerous world full of squabbling nations, corporations, and city-states with only a tenuous peace and memories of the destruction from the previous wars keeping them from outright war. Outside these places that mankind has wrested from the grasp of nature there lies the untamed wilderness, while home to wondrous sights and valuable materials it is also home to all sorts of fantastical, strange, and incredibly dangerous beasts and monsters.

To fulfill the ever present need for soldiers children are raised within mercenary schools to provide elite troops and specialized services, and there is no lack of tasks to take care of. Jobs range from the hunting of monsters, the protection of trade routes and expeditions into untamed lands, retrieving goods, defending towns from bandits, and acting as bodyguards, to assassination, sabotage of nations and corporations, border skirmishes, and supporting coups, just to name a few of the things a mercenary may be called upon for.

There are gleaming cities that shine like the gems they mine from within the earth, great fortresses that blot out the sun as they travel through the sky, industrial towns pumping out thick smoke and reliable weaponry, oases in barren lands calling for travelers, villages built within massive trees far above the ground. Frozen tundras where the reflection of the sun off of the pristine white snow blinds any who gaze upon it, deserts of shimmering glass of all colors, wild jungles where the survival of the fittest is the only rule, great black craggy mountains separating two nations, beautiful paradises infested by creatures anathema to human life, lands where the flow of lava has wiped out all life, and some few ocean depths hold great beasts that ought never be awoken. It is a world of death, war, and for those brave, talented, or just plain lucky enough it is a world of heroism and great deeds.