[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

Comments

[arcanepower]

A world tree? [Ohh, this is interesting and familiar territory, for sure.] How interesting that your tree produces mana. Ours revitalizes the land in a similar way, but it is very much the realm of druids and dreamwalkers. A tree could not nourish my people.

[Anyone else would be intimidated by the infodump, but not Belthazar.]

It makes sense, then, that they would have some dominion over it. Still, to hear that you have elementals in charge of your world's lifeblood-- it seems risky if they are anything like the elementals we have on Azeroth.

[A pause.]

When you say elves settled your world, do you mean a widespread and prolific migration across the continent, or are you implying they came from somewhere else?

[cloakand_danger]

The spirits are guardians, whose entire purpose is to manage their domain and guide the younger races. They're not dangerous unless provoked, and most of them will refrain from killing someone who challenges them. [And then there's Volt, but let's not go there right now.]

Good catch: the elves actually came to Aselia from a different world. I don't know if it's where they originated, but they traveled on a mana comet called Derris-Kharlan until they found a planet that they could reshape and settle. They rained mana fragments down from the sky until the surface had enough mana to support life, then began to move down to the surface. ...At least, that's what I've been told.

[arcanepower]

I see... The elemental lords don't give a whit about us, and they have been known to overstep their boundaries in terrible ways. I have heard that the elementals on other worlds are more cooperative, however.

[Well, he read about it. Shamanism is more interesting than he'll admit.]

-- Your elves are space travelers?

[Belth looks a bit like Yuan just turned his world on its head, and maybe he did.]

I have so many questions. Like: why did they leave their original home? Were they running from someone? How long were they adrift? Why did they choose your world instead of a different one, if they had the power to make it habitable? How long did it take to settle the world? Where did humans and animals come from?

[cloakand_danger]

[Yuan holds up his hands palm-forward to stem the tide of questions, although the continued smirk on his face says he's at least amused rather than annoyed by them.]

All good questions, kid, but I think you're forgetting the part where the elves don't tell people much about anything. I have no idea why they left, where they came from, how long they traveled that way, or anything more than I've said about the settling of Aselia...except this: apparently Origin, the king of the Summon Spirits, created humans in order to give the elves the gift of companionship.

Given that humans now control most of the surface of the world, that may not have been his best-thought-through plan. Not that I'm really about to give him grief over it myself. [Not that he wouldn't sass Origin if given the opportunity, but half of his own parentage probably isn't the wisest topic.]