DFR in a nutshell:

We aim for serious, mature roleplay survival in a realistic dark fantasy world inspired by the lore of Fall from Heaven II. We have 4 main races with MCMMO and Heroes offering 129 possible tier6 combinations of race dependent combat classes and 3 tier6 professions. For a settlement to be self-sufficient it only needs 3 characters with the tier8 professions: Enchanter, Engineer and Forgemaster!
A dedicated plugin set offers a.o.: Towny, a precious things economy and many realism enhancing features. We also have a trusted rank system offering perks for our most dedicated players, who rankup though playing, voting and/or donating.

On March 10 we have opened a dream world for all to join called Somnium during alpha. On June 6th we declared beta phase and on September 21st we launched a new and bigger (16k*16k!) carefully selected vanilla seeded map for Somnium. Check out our Live Map @ play.dawnfirerealms.net:8123/# !
Somnium is the world where you all (Souls) can enjoy the experience of our plugin set and the enlightening presence of the other community members, moderators (Guardians) and administrators (Seraphs). All players will start in a spawn town, Astarte, on Somnium.
We are creating a huge (32k*32k!) custom designed map for our mortal world Vesperus. That will be whitelisted and requires a dedicated character bio. Whitelisted players (Mortals) wil be allowed to travel there through Nemesis. Somnium will not be disbanded and will remain non-whitelisted and a training ground for both roleplay and survival.

Since Somnium launch we have build a decent roleplayer base, we have significantly expanded our staff team and build a decent plugin set that supports realistic immersive roleplay survival.

On Sept. 21st we launched a new Somnium Vanilla seeded map of 16k*16k!
... and much of Somnium is still uncolonized (April 13th 2015)!
Players that haven't played since before Sept. 21st haven't lost anything. Their characters can stuff their inventories with all their valuables and do /spawn to start in the new Somnium world.