Ortosis Wiki

Welcome to the Ortosis Archives
27.05.2012: No! No Wikia! No adoptions! 30.03.2012: Uni means no updates. I'm going to keep posting to make sure the Wiki doesn't die though. Aaaaaaa 10.01.2012: Long time no update. Tol'Helkar is our newest page. Enjoy!

13.12.2011: Check out our new pages, Dragons and Dacura! Both are filled with juicy fantasticalness. Expect more, and soon!

06.12.2011: Declaration: TUESDAY is LORE DAY. Every Tuesday a new page will be written and posted. There will probably be more on non-Tuesdays too but at least this way we can get a page a week so we remain active :)

16.11.2011: With the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, both of our major editors have become mysteriously indisposed. There will be only a few minor updates over the next few weeks until the joy of having a brand spankin' new fantasy game wears off.

What is Ortosis?
Ortosis is a Late Antiquity - Early Middle Ages styled fantasy world. It draws influences from several areas of mythology, namely Celtic and Norse. It is a land mass roughly equivalent to the size of North America, and climatically it covers just as many different biomes - from the icy tundras of the north, to the rolling plains of the eastern shore and down south to the almost savannah-like grasslands, which eventually peter off into sandy deserts.

Severely divided by two towering mountain ranges - the East-West lying Himrist mountains, and the North-South running Rithwyn mountains - the mainland of Ortosis is split into five vastly different provinces or kingdoms. To the North East, only eighty miles off the coast, there is a collection of small islands known as the Shards, and across the Atalyian sea to the West, there are two islands known as the Raynefeldes.

Ortosis is inhabited by three primary races - the Humans, the Elves, and the Orcs. Currently, Ortosis is unified under the reign of the Second Arminian Empire.

What is the purpose of Ortosis?
Fundamentally, Ortosis is a playground for the imaginations of it's creators, Mykal Bailey and Matthew Greenwood. Within the confines of this glorious continent, and without, there are enough characters and tales to fill a library. There are several planned novels set in the world of Ortosis and its surrounds, spanning not only over several provinces but several centuries. This Wiki is intended to serve as a compilation of all the world's lore, for reference purposes.