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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
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
- Hobs are known as vibrant, exciting people who love to explore and discover new things
Kingdoms and Nations
- 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
- constitutional monarchy
- Extreme wealth disparity
- all of the faults of victorian england
- Peninsular
- Attempting to take over the moons for their magical power, and control the flow of souls
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