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Automata

Only the most expert gravitologist and patient tinkerer can design a True Automata.

Assembled from simple parts, these ancient devices excel at one very specific task. Some place bricks and move laterally, others can stir a soup (but can’t cut vegetable) and some can read a text aloud. A Debarmata only moving part is a 4 axis keyholder.

The real genius is that they barely require any energy - relying on a finely adjusted set of weights and counterweight, pendulum energy and gravity… or almost. A careful inspection reveals a minuscule power source hidden somewhere that needs to be replaced every 100 years. Only True Automata are accurate perpetual devices.

While Automatamakers were shunned in their day, their devices are now prized possessions, even in poor condition. Very few people have the expertise to create new Automata, but cloning them is not impossible - just tedious. Radiomata are easily assembled out of discard nails and radio oscillators and can be used to relay messages over long distances. Make sure you have a fair reserve of non-Euclidean springs and weights of irrational numbers.

Types of Automata
Slicamata - slices fruits or people.
Stakamata - assembles perfect stacks of brick sized objects.
Radiomata - repeats any spoken language aloud.
Photomata - creates photosensitive record of whatever is placed in front of them.
Wingomata - floats and drifts to a geocoordinate. may take several days to arrive.
Serenamata - emits a high pitch whistle sound when someone approaches.

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The Castle of Lux-Anima

Four hundred feet high scaffolding hazardously disposed across a rocky landscape. The castle has never once been finished. The hundred something workers are calmly assembling wooden structures and lifting metal beams with rusty, rumbling cranes. A technician carries a blue acid battery, harvested from a ship or a fallen satellite to a nearby wood splitting automata.

Here is a detailed plan of the current castle configuration (Configuration 22b):

The first three stories are made of crude blocks, assembled many decades ago. It used to be the main entrance, but it is now hardly maneuverable since its reinforcement. Many Maleas can be seen turning the cracked pillars into permaglass.

The fourth is made of pine wood and host a large community dining room and bakery.

The fifth is a temple to the late Nekkedy - hexavatar of luck. He was a neighbour to the Castle and ferryman of the Coral Agora.

The sixth and seventh have both been purged clean. The plans not yet approved.

The eight floor is made of ceramic and pearls and is where the Queen rests and studies. This floor is situated at 233ft, the heights at which the Red Wing Blackbird prefers to fly.

The ninth floor is the strategy room. The few old colonels and architects meets there to plan the defense of the castle - no army has been seen for 7 decades, allies or rivals. Arch-architect Hobb’s drawing table takes 1/4 of the level’s floor.

The tenth floor will be a garden or an armory. Both inspires and display wealth extravagance.

The eleventh floor is for guests and baths. It always smells of lavender and salt. There are 2 prison cells which holds at least 1 Alchemist.

The twelfth floor is an astronomy center. It is important to keep in touch with the stars and observe approaching ships. This is how The Queen met The Pilot some years ago, with whom she is still friend.

There might be more floors eventually, following Arch-architech Hobb’s wishes and drawings.

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Pyrochilds

When you were young, you found a strange piece of coal, egg shaped and soft. You swallowed the ruby-fruit whole and burned your throat and vocal cords.

With time, your skin will turn coral and bronze, slick and slippery. You wake up with sand in your eyes, half burrowed in the ground, searching for the salamander’s heat.

You are mute but can breathe terrible fire. Forever young, fiery and mischievous, the world is your flammable playground.

Was that coal-fruit the egg of your kin?

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Emerald Domain

Omnipresent and invincible are the century old oaks. They are the only masters of the Emerald Domain - gargantuan fields of trees and vines.

With the pyrochilds and blade golems now vanquished - only a handful of humanoids are trying symbiotic life with the oak-masters. The forest is full and plenty of everything needed for the ones who can participate fully in the chain of life and decay.

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Origins

loose, unrefined and ever-changing - the cartography of an unknown world.

  1. the forest has healed, and its might is restored.

  2. knowledge is once again forgotten and fragmented - new rituals are instigated.

  3. there are 5 mystical symbols : mouth / fish / magnet / disc / ?

  4. data-occultist are the seer and archivist of the world - they can travel between realities

  5. there is magick in all 5 symbols - some people see and spell the symbols inner arcana.

  6. technology can be repaired, altered, transformed - devices are genius made physical and require energy.

  7. a great device has been misused and some part of the world are back to their atomic state.

  8. by travelling to the plains of projection, you can see unreal things and manifest them into the world. hronir.