A World Divided is a free browser-based game set in the world of Kalerat. Every player takes charge of an empire belonging to one of 4 races.

• Claim land
• Build armies
• Destroy your enemies
• Defend borders
• Control land infrastructure
• Forge alliances

The great continent of Erinron is in flux. The Empress has ruled the human lands for nearly a century, yet is now ancient and rarely seen. Rumours of malcontent, always common in the borders, have gathered pace and become seething cauldrons of ancient grudge and hate. Long suffering Baronies, their coffers emptied to pay the Imperial tithe, are turning their gaze away from their rival feuds, and towards the crumbling Imperial city. The Border Wardens are stretched further then ever, their retinues of private armies struggling to cope with the growing discontent. They are resorting to desperate means to keep the peace and ensure the Imperial tax is paid. More than one Barony has been raised to the ground, amidst grumblings from even those neighbours who benefit from the new land. It will only take one Baron, one leader, one hero, to take a stand and, perhaps, Great Mother willing, usher in a new age.

But matters are never as simple as they first appear, for whilst the rebellious Barons scheme and whisper, there are other enemies watching the ancient Imperial crown, and threatening the very Baronies themselves.

The Leatherskin hordes, always a threat when the migration-winters take hold, are gathering at the base of the Lowkin mountains. Population numbers have reached epidemic levels, internal pressure and the threat of disease is forcing those Leatherskins westward, where the vast fertile plains of the Empire glitter like jewels. Lowkin requests for Imperial help are ignored, ancient treaties forgotten as the Empress remains in her palace, out of sight and uncaring, and the Lowkin have long grudge-bearing memories. All the while, the decadent Achaemenians are suffering a series of bad portents; the landblight which has destroyed crops and resisted all magiks, the great swell of the Western Ocean which has swallowed entire fleets of merchants, and the unexplained celestial turmoil. All have caused the Achaemenians to regard the healthy Imperial lands pregnant with food and space, with envy. Their envoys to the Imperial palace are reporting that the Empress is ill, her army riven with corruption, the Empire ripe to fall.

Can the Empress survive? Will the Empire, which has ruled for so long, crumble beneath its enemies? Who will step forward to wrest the great obsidian crown from the ancient cracked hands of the Empress? Or will the threats revitalise the Empress, whose armies remain a force to be reckoned with…