El Hazard:


El-Hazard is located somewhere far away, in a different dimension even, from Earth, its history streches back thousands upon thousands of years, far past even the Holy Wars that ravaged the lands and left many relics(such as Ifurita and the Eye of God) and ruins across the landscape.

At the time of our story, the Holy Wars are long past, the Bugrom lack a strong queen and are contained to one side of the Holy River of God, Roshtaria(in controlling the Eye of God) leads the Alliance of tribes united against the Bugrom, and the Phantom Tribe plots its revenge from the shadows.

The architecture, dress, and overall culture of El-Hazard feels like it was pulled straight from an Arabian Nights tale(bits of it were, in fact), but it also contains technologies superior to those of Earth, including flying crafts powered by some form of hover mechanism.

The only other sentient form of life on the planet seems to be a simple-minded race of creatures that look like a big, furry cross between an owl and a penguin. They seem to be relegated to a position of servitude under the humans of El-Hazard, at least some of them, for we don't see much of the species in the OAV. Other native life in El-Hazard include the odd dolphin-bear(as coined by Guardians of Order, makers of the El-Hazard RPG) and flying fish-like creatures that live in pouch-like nests on trees.

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