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Kona
- Kona is the name of the planet. It means “Garden” in the player's collectively used tongue.
- We like oceans
Religion
- The Pure Lightplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Pure Light is a cultic, women-only faith whose core is 500 ascetics led by High Priestess Mara which began originally among The Kavisi. It is a belief system that revolves around a belief in 'Rejoining'.
The primary meaning of 'Rejoining' as expressed by the adherents of the Pure Light is that
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
- 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
- Hobs are known as vibrant, exciting people who love to explore and discover new things
Kingdoms and Nations
- The Kavisiplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Kavisi
The Kavisi are semi-nomadic traders who pioneered magical airship technology. They have some more permanent settlements on massive mesas in the desert that are only easy to reach with their help. They have a fairly elitist culture, rarely letting outsiders in. When they do, they are carefully vetted. - 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
- 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
- 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
- Zhavvygradplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMidtown
The lights, the parties, the music, the dancing. Where the decadent rich rub elbows with gangsters and artists alike. From the grand opera houses to the back alley gin joints, there’s nowhere on Kona like Midtown in Zhavvygrad.
The Provod Tower - A monument to the achievements of industry, the Provod Tower stands higher than any in the world. - 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
- Attempting to take over the moons for their magical power, and control the flow of souls
- In conflict with the The Kavisiplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Kavisi
The Kavisi are semi-nomadic traders who pioneered magical airship technology. They have some more permanent settlements on massive mesas in the desert that are only easy to reach with their help. They have a fairly elitist culture, rarely letting outsiders in. When they do, they are carefully vetted. 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 Kavisiplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Kavisi
The Kavisi are semi-nomadic traders who pioneered magical airship technology. They have some more permanent settlements on massive mesas in the desert that are only easy to reach with their help. They have a fairly elitist culture, rarely letting outsiders in. When they do, they are carefully vetted. 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 Zhavvygradplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMidtown
The lights, the parties, the music, the dancing. Where the decadent rich rub elbows with gangsters and artists alike. From the grand opera houses to the back alley gin joints, there’s nowhere on Kona like Midtown in Zhavvygrad.
The Provod Tower - A monument to the achievements of industry, the Provod Tower stands higher than any in the world. - Salamander folk from here
- Transylvanian vibes like classic vampire movies
- Series of discs built on a giant pillar jutting out of the landscapes
- Bird people
- Good blimps
- Germanic-style fantasy kingdom, sword and sorcery
- Affected by a famine. Refugee crisis affecting nearby nations
- Talassoplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigTalasso is a shattered fiefdom in the northwest kingdom of Kanara. Of moderate political significance in the political games of Kanara, its chief exports have historically been textiles and fibrous woods. Its biome is rocky beaches and forest.
Within the past 10 years it has been significantly affected by blights, plagues, and famine, leading ultimately to the total collapse of its economy and feudal hierarchy. It is presently a dangerous place to travel, with most of its villages emptied by di…
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
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