Things You Need to Know About Your World #8-10

Things You Need to Know About Your World #8
    Nine hundred years ago representatives from each of the Alderian countries met and created an international currency. These are the gold pieces primarily used in both Aspen and Ash.
    In the time since the conference, some nations have adopted their own currencies and will no longer accept Alderian coin.

Things You Need to Know About Your World #9
    The gods are said to live above the Hub in a floating city known as the Citadel of the Gods. All the gods live there, except for Chaos.
    Angels and demons are purported to live in and run the worlds of the dead. Wherever those are. Angels and demons generally hate each other.
    Gods cannot breed with mortals, but angels and demons can.

(That last was important to note because in our former campaign there were several god-children PCs, all of whom possessed badly-defined, potentially-game-breaking powers. They were lots of fun, but played havoc with the storyline.)

Things You Need to Know About Your World #10
    The color of a dragon, and its abilities, depends on its alignment. Baby dragons are grey.
    Recently there have been rumors of more dragon activity, but this hasn't caused much alarm as dragons mostly keep themselves to themselves, nesting in wild, out of the way places.