Common knowledge

250 years after The Bakers Dozen, the 13th age will come to a close and the world will enter the 14th age. Normally the changing on an age is brought on by a world changing event, in this case an industrial/magical revolution. Think steampunk but instead of purely water and coal, elementals and their magics as well. The discovery and invention of such technologies has unified or allied the majority of races excluding the dragons. Seeing as how the humanoids now have weapons strong enough to destroy them and all.

Because of this, there are two main "leagues" known throughout the world that you as the player may be a part of should you choose: The League of Artificers and Tinkerers, and The League of the Drake Riders. The first is known world-wide and tasks its members with finding, creating, and testing the latest magics and technologies to better further civilization. These adventurers and scholars are often looking for lost relics of ages long since past. The League of Drake riders was formed by the Drakes' hatred of dragons and fear of being hunted. They purposefully allied themselves with the humanoids as partners to protect the world from the larger threats to civilization, such as the dragons.

All of these advancements has lead to the decline of humanity and so now, they are far more rare. However this allowed other, more obscure races to come out of the wood work. Races like catfolk, birdfolk, and lizardfolk (including the Lotl, now Milotl should Million live) are just as prevalent as elves, dwarves, and gnomes.