Category:Greyhawk

[Greyhawk] was the first Dungeons and Dragons setting to be published back when it was created. Many of the spells with named inventors in the title are the creation of characters found in the Greyhawk setting. Bigby (of the Bigby's hand spell series), Evard (of Evard's Black Tentacles) and Mordenkainen (of Mordenkainen's Sword and Disjunction) are some of those magic users. This setting has been displaced by the Forgotten Realms setting as the most popular players' choice but it still retains a unique flavour and a number of things have be brought into the core rulebooks (most notabley, some of the greyhawk deities & the spell names).

The recent [Temple of Elemental Evil] computer game used this setting. Wizards of the Coast's [RPGA] organization also features Greyhawk as its most popular campaign setting, known as [Living Greyhawk].

Geography and population
In the Greyhawk universe, the planet [Oerth] has four continents, but only the [Flanaess], the eastern part of the continent of Oerik, is home to "enlightened humanity." Several human cultures co-exist, including Oeridians, Flannae, Bakluni, and Suloise. Villains have been drawn from each of these cultures, in particular the Suloise. The Baklunish and their arch-foes, the Suloise, once fought a devastating war that decimated part of the continent and nearly destroyed both cultures. This war sparked the migration of the Oeridians and Sueloise refugees into the Flanaess, where they displaced or subjugated the native Flannae and founded their own kingdoms and realms.