he city of Graecia and its surrounding environs are a somewhat strange place, being, as they are, uprooted from the Surface world proper by divine magics and placed in a cloudbank, linked to the ground below by means of a mystical silver cord. This feat was performed by the god Zeus, King of Mount Olympus and leader of the Graecian pantheon, to give his mortal followers some measure of protection from other nations of the Surface.

The city of Graecia proper is one of many human settlements of the world, but less cosmopolitan than most due to its secluded cloud-top status. Its King, Agamemnon, is accounted a master tactician as well as a skilled fighter, and the city's inhabitants include many heroes such as the legendary Hercules. These heroic individuals, together with the King's guards, do their best to keep the city at peace and free of crime.

To the west of the city lies the Graecian Ocean, while to the east, the wild and lawless woodlands of eastern Graecia are more of a haven for assassins, thieves, and other bandits, for King Agamemnon's guards do not venture so far from their city's walls. These ruffians have only to worry about the vicious beasts with whom they share the woodland and the fighting skills of the visiting explorers upon whom both bandits and beasts prey—that is, unless they venture too deep into the woods and enter the dark realm of Dah'l-tan, whose undead master is always seeking new bodies, or become lost in the clouds and ascend unknowing to the heights of Mount Olympus itself, where the gods and those who serve them have little time for trespassers.