It is an original conception of Spiders, “created from scratch in less than three years… with a language, different people and different factions” This is a world of politics, magic and brutality the colonial-inspired setting and the competing worldview of depicted powers precipitates the expected hatred, exploitation and armed conflict. Greedfall is set in a high-fantasy world inspired by the Age of Discovery a number of continental powers, locked in wars and beleaguered by plague, depart with their beliefs, technologies and conflicts for the new world of Teer Fradee in search of a cure and to pursue characteristic ambitions, be they mercantile, scholarly or religious.