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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
- 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
- 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
- Attempting to take over the moons for their magical power, and control the flow of souls
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