Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- settings:jaern [2024/01/02 19:28] – quiddlesticks
+++ settings:jaern [2025/02/06 00:48] (current) – [Jaern] quiddlesticks
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 ====== Jaern ======
-A land of fantasy, sword, and sorcery, the planet of Jaern is the main setting of PFC. About 90% of Jaern's surface is water, with archipelagos and small landmasses dotting the world. Although planar-traveling adventurers have brought technology and knowledge from all sorts of ages, the main technology level of Jaern is similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery|Earth's Age of Exploration]] (1500-1600). [[:gods|A single pantheon]] exists on Jaern, made up of fourteen gods.
+A land of fantasy, sword, and sorcery, the planet of Jaern is the main setting of PFC. Current scholars estimate 90% of Jaern's surface is water, with archipelagos and small landmasses dotting the world. These estimates may be off, however - knowledge of what exactly lies on Jaern's surface is extremely limited. Although planar-traveling adventurers have brought technology and knowledge from all sorts of ages, the main technology level of Jaern is similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery|Earth's Age of Exploration]] (1500-1600). [[:gods|A single pantheon]] exists on Jaern, made up of fourteen gods.
 > //Welcome to the world of Jaern! The historians of this little blue orb seem to insist on centering the entire cosmos around it. Little do they know that the Center of the Universe is in fact on a different plane entirely, on another little blue orb, in a place they call “Oklahoma.”// - An excerpt from //Mimir's Grand Enchiridion//
+See the timeline of Jaernian history here: [[history:jaern|Jaernian Historical Timeline]]
 ===== Geography & Astronomy Overview =====
-This section focuses on Jaern’s place within its (current) solar system, and its history within the cosmos. It details other bodies within this solar system, some of which are home to extraterrestrial life, and could make for interesting backstories and campaigns. While this chapter gives some general remarks about the orbits, rotations, and tilts of various astronomical bodies, more detailed measurements for the scientifically curious are provided in [[jaern:astronomy|Astronomy]].
+This section focuses on Jaern’s place within its (current) solar system, and its history within the cosmos. It details other bodies within this solar system, some of which are home to extraterrestrial life, and could make for interesting backstories and campaigns. While this chapter gives some general remarks about the orbits, rotations, and tilts of various astronomical bodies, more detailed measurements for the scientifically curious are provided in [[settings:jaern:astronomy|Astronomy]].
 Jaern is a water world - its surface is mostly water, with islands scattered about. These islands are where the vast majority of Jaernians live, with the largest landmass being [[settings:jaern:kratal|Kratal]]. Many [[lore:races:lizards|lizard]] populations live and swim beneath the waves, and the elusive [[lore:races:onivero|Onivero]] do the same - but when it comes to adventuring and most activity on Jaern, the islands are where to go.
@@ Line 35: / Line 36: @@
 ==== The Sunovarm ====
-Named "sun's warmth" in Paroli, this region lives up to its name: tropical and balmy year-round, Sunovarm is where many of Jaern's crops are grown. The warm, shallow seas are filled with coral reefs, schools of fish, semi-aquatic lizard settlements, and drifting Onivero villages. After landing on Jaern, most of the elves and dwarves elected to stay in the Sunovarm instead of moving towards the poles.
+Named "sun's warmth" in Paroli, this region lives up to its name: tropical and balmy year-round, Sunovarm is where many of Jaern's crops are grown. The warm, shallow seas are filled with coral reefs, schools of fish, semi-aquatic lizard settlements, and drifting Praxia-Onivero villages. After landing on Jaern, most of the elves and dwarves elected to stay in the Sunovarm instead of moving towards the poles.
 **[[settings:jaern:ageron|Ageron:]]** One of the larger contiguous landmasses of Jaern, the land of Ageron is fairly new - having been created by the joint efforts of earth mages. It is located in Jaern's southern hemisphere, and maintains a mostly subtropical climate. Many adventurers have taken up residence in Ageron, particularly in the psions' city of [[settings:jaern:ageron:uzumi|Uzumi]] and the necromancers' city of [[settings:jaern:ageron:koth:toth|Toth]].
-**[[settings:jaern:geleia|Geleia:]]** Perhaps the oldest settled landmass of Jaern, and the ancestral homeland of Jaernian elves. Geleia is a mostly agricultural and rural place, split into three provincial Realms: The Kingdom, Southam, and Liston.
+**[[settings:jaern:geleia|Geleia:]]** Perhaps the oldest settled landmass of Jaern, and the ancestral homeland of Jaernian elves. Geleia is a mostly agricultural and rural place, split into three provincial Realms: The Kingdom, Southam, and Liston.  **[WIP]**
+**[[settings:jaern:grp|The Great Rice Patty (GRP):]]** An expansive shallow area of Jaernian sea, adjacent to Geleia, where much of Jaern's staple crops are farmed. Much of this land is shared between dominion of Centralia, Keer'Levex, Geleia, and certain powerful adventurers.
 **[[settings:jaern:kratal|Kratal:]]** Located on the other side of the globe from the rest of civilization, Kratal is an isolationist land populated mainly by dwarves. Travel in and out of Kratal must be facilitated by portals, usually those accessible through the Centralia Mages' Guild's [[settings:alpha_site|Alpha Site]].
-**[[settings:jaern:keerlevex|Keer'Levex:]]** An island originally on [[settings:torandor|Torandor]] that was transported to Jaern's equatorial seas by devotees of the dragons. Remains the center of Jaernian dragon worship to this day. Surrounded by a magic barrier that keeps invaders out, but allows merchants and peaceful visitors to come and go freely.
+**[[settings:jaern:keerlevex|Keer'Levex:]]** The ancestral home of Jaernian [[lore:creatures:greatbeasts:dragons|dragons,]] inhabited by both dragons themselves and their mortal devotees. Remains the center of Jaernian dragon worship to this day. Surrounded by a magic barrier that keeps invaders out, but allows merchants and peaceful visitors to come and go freely.
 ==== The Malhelakvo ====
@@ Line 49: / Line 52: @@
 Certain departments within the governance of [[settings:jaern:therhine:centralia:centraliacity|Centralia City,]] [[settings:jaern:ageron:vesuna|Vesuna,]] and [[settings:jaern:geleia|Geleia]] have been hiring adventurers to set off into the Malhelakvo in search of land - who knows what one could find out there?
+**[[settings:jaern:alwadiha|Alwadiha:]]** **[WIP]**
+**[[settings:jaern:forgottenisles|The Forgotten Isles:]]** A massive archipelago just south of the equator, surrounded by an ever-constant hurricane and band of impassable ocean currents. Inside lies a world of untouched wilderness and endless adventure under clear skies and through tropical winds.
 ==== Unexplored Isles: A Note to GMs ====
@@ Line 60: / Line 67: @@
 Jaern spent about nine million years traveling across 23 lightyears of empty space before it ended up drifting into the Onra System. Entering the system triggered a held psionic ability and reactivated the planet-wide shield, as well as charting a course towards the star’s habitable zone. Unfortunately, the Onivero did not anticipate that Jaern’s new home would already be occupied by another planet with developed life.
-Within Onra’s habitable zone, the planet **[[settings:torandor|Torandor]]** was home to the many races we categorize as humanoids and orcish, including Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblinoids, and more. Jaern’s entry into the Onra System was seen as an apocalyptic calamity that spurred the people of Torandor to act, and a great human leader known as the Chaos Lord reconfigured a weapon of mass destruction into a city-sized ark known as the **Kaaren of Destruction**, in order to assure the survival of many thousands of people. Jaern collided into Torandor’s moon, Tysyl, destroying it and sending Torandor into a spiraling orbit into the star Onra, where gravitational tidal forces tore it apart and turned it into an elliptical asteroid belt. Jaern then took Torandor’s place within the Onra system, albeit orbiting the star in a “backwards” orbit compared to the other astronomical bodies.
+Within Onra’s habitable zone, the planet **[[settings:torandor|Torandor]]** was home to the many races we categorize as [[lore:races:humanoids|humanoids]] and [[lore:races:orcish|orcish]], including Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblinoids, and more. Jaern’s entry into the Onra System was seen as an apocalyptic calamity that spurred the people of Torandor to act, and a great human leader known as the Chaos Lord reconfigured a weapon of mass destruction into a city-sized ark known as the **Kaaren of Destruction**, in order to assure the survival of many thousands of people. Jaern collided into Torandor’s moon, Tysyl, destroying it and sending Torandor into a spiraling orbit into the star Onra, where gravitational tidal forces tore it apart and turned it into an elliptical asteroid belt. Jaern then took Torandor’s place within the Onra system, albeit orbiting the star in a “backwards” orbit compared to the other astronomical bodies.
+The Ark landed on Jaern, and the Torandoran refugees founded the **[[history:jaern:veiledempire|Empire of the Veil]]** on Jaern. The next few thousand years have been spent rebuilding what has been lost, and the Jaernian and Torandoran peoples became the progenitors of the current population.
-The Ark landed on Jaern, and the Torandese refugees founded the **Empire of the Veil** on Jaern. The next few thousand years have been spent rebuilding what has been lost, and the Jaernian and Torandese peoples became the progenitors of the current population.