Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork333 View Post
Huh, now this is an interesting concept to explore. It raises a few questions though...
I thought so

1. What were the levels of technology in the world before the Salvation war?
The short answer is all over the place. I'd sorted out that food production equals or surpasses modern food production, the printing press was in widespread use, the ship technology is probably early 18th century, military armor and weaponry is late medieval (gotta keep up that classic fantasy vibe), and gunpowder was not widespread (though the formula probably existed). Culturally, it was in the middle of an absolutely massive reconfiguration of society in the aftermath of the food (and therefore population) explosion that could be compared to a double whammy of the World Wars and the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars. Lots of war, lots of bloodshed, lots of benefit to be had through demon summoning.

2. No other races are mentioned, but the existence of dragons and fey raise the question, have any humans been transformed into new races, or is it solely humanity vs demons?
There aren't any fully separate races of demihumans, as written. There might be genetic variations that we don't have in our own world, ala the Valyrians of ASOIAF, but no Totally Different Races in my mind. Though that's just personal preference due to the fact that history is probably short in Achys, like 1.5 thousand years since the cradle civilizations. Too many magical advantages not to give the edge.

3. Demons and holy forces are mentioned but there's no explicit mention of angels or divine forces overtly confronting them, do they exist at all?
Well, almost everyone thinks that angels or divine beings exist in some form. But they haven't appeared to bail humanity out of its problems en masse (though there are certainly Touched by an Angel kind of stories floating around for every religion) and they can't be summoned. Anankean are classical theists, the religious culture of the Necessitian Empire was what you'd expect if the Enlightenment hit 8th century Arabia. The Anankeans had control where they were and were a slight majority, but the Tree of Simuri is the location of a non-revelatory philosophy-religion that focuses on escaping the wheel of reincarnation and the Temple of the Gods is an old religious site for an intricately connected spiritually kingdom organization from the first gods to the lowliest of tree spirits.

The factuality of all the specific religions is up for debate, but there is broadly agreed to be some sort of positive afterlife or higher realms of existence.