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Kona
Some notes for amber:
- Kona is the name of the planet. It means “Garden” in the player's collectively used tongue.
- We like oceans
Religion
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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
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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