Golangane, the magic plane is a massive planet that is only has 10% of the planet is water, and most of the world's water is magic.
Only the largest family's live near water and control the large areas of land around it. There are wars for the water and farmlands and enemy water mages would be used as agricultural slaves.
The Shatteredsoul Family was on the southern hemisphere of the planet located on the Coast of The Sea of Callia. Along with the Dawold family and the Lamor family. the Dawold to the south and the Lamor to the west.
The Ebonheart Vale one of the reasons for the Shatteredsoul Family rise was due to the elves that lived there being in close alliance with the Shatteredsoul Family.
1000 years before Wil Payne was born in the realm of earth he was known by another name in Golangane, Grem Shatteredsoul, but he was forced to leave that plain by a spell cast by his parents to protect him from the Dawold family.
The Dawold family brutally attacked the Shatteredsoul Family for their land and the Vale so it could begin to spread it's empire to the north towards Lamor, city of Gardens.
The world is controlled by those with power a world where the strong prosper and the weak fall and serve. The only law is that of the jungle "either your strong or your wrong" says many of the ones in charge.
As for the rest of the world that is a secret only Grem can reveal hope you stick around.