# Kona * Kona is the name of the planet. It means "Garden" in the player's collectively used tongue. * We like oceans ## Religion * [[The Pure Light]] ## Tech on Kona * [[Tech on Kona]] * Airships have limited range; in early development * Magical Airship can't go over water; they just become normal ships because the water can't support the pressure. Antigrav bubbles * Blimp airships exist but have all the downsides of blimps. More common than magical ones but slower ## Souls on Kona * [[Souls on Kona]] * All things are ensouled, but some souls are more complex than others. * Some things have an external source and are not ensouled * Souls are perhaps an emergent property of life in some way? * Souls are a system of metaphysical particles? * Stars are complexly connected the the souls of living things on Kona. * Astronomical events tied to events on Kona * How does the Sun factor in? * Several Moons; different kinds of magic draw from different moons * New moon recently showed up? * Evil empire trying to conquer the moons and consume their magic * Different moons blocking out different stars have an effect on the status of Kona * When a soul goes to the Star, the Star stores their memories and other "gunk" and filters them out * Sometimes the soul recycle system glitches out and a soul is left behind on Kona * Every time a soul gets filtered through the moon, the moon deposits something onto the soul * Necromancy moon causes souls to bounce back to Kona. Lead? It's very visible, and when the moon passes overhead you try very hard not to die * Possible to miss a moon when you die, and it becomes a "pure death". This causes a slow loss of souls. * Counteracting this, some souls get split and become two souls. (Soulmates??) * Another counteracting force; sometimes a soul from a different star arrives. * The cosmos as an orchestra - the cycle of reincarnation is playing another note in the melody of the cosmos * None of this is 100% predictable. * The sun adds more, fresh souls to the world. Festivals when these happen * The aurora are called "The Dance of Souls" ## Conflicts and Struggle * Evil empire trying to conquer the moons and consume their magic * What is the dominant mode of production? * Start of a space program * The edge of an industrial revolution? ## Shape of the world * Sphere earth ## Inhabitants of the world * Sentient clockwork beings * Humanoids with animal features * Salamander folk * [[The Hobs]] * Hobs are known as vibrant, exciting people who love to explore and discover new things * ## Kingdoms and Nations * [[The Kavisi]] * Semi-Nomadic traders, who pioneered the magical airship technology. * Have some more permanent settlements in a hard to reach place in the desert that is only easy with their help * Kind of elitist culture * Carefully vet outsiders * Settlements on Mesas, only reachable with a good airship or a cable car * In desert * [[Hobbargah]] * Collection of city-states * Many kings amongst the states * Built over a large, ancient battlefield/warzone * Scavenging and excavation society * Culture of re-use and re-purposing * Lots of Moss, not to many trees in this region * Mutated area * Megaflora * Mushrooms * [[Myxomycities]] * Goth nation who believe that souls should be combined * death rituals * Underground * Below the Hob States, underground * Love in the ruins * Crypt nation - oriented around dungeons and caves and crypts * Bone architecture * [[Zhavvygrad]] * constitutional monarchy * Extreme wealth disparity * all of the faults of victorian england * Peninsular * Intellectual hotbed * Dominated with capitalists * Has a socialist movement * General nervousness about [[Claug]] * Parliament * One, megacity with farmland around it * Street trolleys * [[Claug]] * Attempting to take over the moons for their magical power, and control the flow of souls * In conflict with the [[The Kavisi]] for their technology * Early space travel * Going through an industrial revolution * Weapons manufacturers * Strip mining * Extreme pollution * Rich earth metals * Used to be a collection of states with a lot of heterogeneity, homogenized by force * The [[The Kavisi]] used to trade with them and kind of indirectly enabled the fascism * National myth * An old nation state oh Claug is partly responsible for the massive battleground that [[Hobbargah]] is built on, and they are trying to get the area back. * Uneasy peace with [[Zhavvygrad]] * [[Fabian Deltas]] * Salamander folk from here * [[Venalia]] * Transylvanian vibes like classic vampire movies * [[Alghan]] * Series of discs built on a giant pillar jutting out of the landscapes * Bird people * Good blimps * [[Kanara]] * Germanic-style fantasy kingdom, sword and sorcery * Affected by a famine. Refugee crisis affecting nearby nations * [[Talasso]] ## Enigmas and Mysteries * The actual truth of how souls work and get reincarnated * A new moon has arrived. How did it get there? * How old is the ancient battleground below [[Hobbargah]]? People have been settled there since before writing? * Some ancient magical creatures have gone extinct. What are they? Dragons? Extinct? * Why do rocks have souls? * Does Kona have a soul? * Why are there so many rules but just one sun? * What are cryptids? * How does a soul get in an automaton? ## Threats * Weird stuff has been happening since the new moon showed up. * The ocean is starting to sink very slowly. Where is it going? * In addtion to the mainstream deities, there are lovecraftian outer gods * Pollution from [[Claug]] and other industrialized nations is coagulating into physical beings * There is a famine affecting [[Kanara]] * There is something that eats souls - it is rising from a hole in the bottom of the ocean and it eats souls