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====== Farneas ====== | ====== Farneas ====== | ||
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**Capital: | **Capital: | ||
+ | **Demonym: | ||
**Export:** Augments, magical texts, magical services | **Export:** Augments, magical texts, magical services | ||
Farneas' | Farneas' | ||
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+ | The land is predominantly covered in deciduous forest, with shrub land to the North, fertile woodland to the North-West, and low hills to the West. | ||
+ | The weather is usually cool and rainy for prolonged periods of time. | ||
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+ | They are technologically disadvantaged but maintain high-magic communication networks with their international allies. | ||
===== Intriguing facts ===== | ===== Intriguing facts ===== | ||
+ | * Farneas is home to the most prestigious magical learning institutions in all of Alaraes, the town of Obsidian | ||
===== National character ===== | ===== National character ===== | ||
+ | Their people are often stereotyped as being guarded, humorless, and attentive. | ||
===== Cities and Sights ===== | ===== Cities and Sights ===== | ||
==== The Wells of Power ==== | ==== The Wells of Power ==== | ||
+ | Great geysers of magic that spring forth from the very essence of the world, pure magic flows like water out of these springs into a sizable series of wells. Lying just a mile or so under the Obsidian Tower, they are constantly being studied by their scholars and guarded by their knights. Not much is known about how they formed, but what is well documented is their effect on humans and beasts. The Wells are renowned to have a strange effect on the living. If a live creature is plunged into the serene pools of raw physically manifested magic, they have a very small percentage chance of living through the experience. Those that survive the process come out changed, capable of channeling intense physical magic, but mutate slightly, often losing all their hair and their eyes becoming a milky white. | ||
- | Great geysers of magic that spring forth from the very essence of the world, pure magic flows like water out of these springs into a sizable series of wells. Lying just a mile or so south from the Obsidian Tower, they are constantly being studied by their scholars and guarded by their knights. Not much is known about how they formed, but what is well documented is their effect on humans and beasts. The Wells are renowned to have a strange effect on the living. If a live creature is plunged into the serene pools of raw physically manifested magic, they have a 1/1000 chance of living through the experience. Those that survive the process come out changed. They are capable of channeling intense physical magic, but mutate slightly, often losing all their hair, and their eyes becoming a milky white. | + | ==== Obsidian ==== |
- | + | Originally a convent | |
- | ==== The Obsidian | + | |
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- | The Obsidian Tower was founded when six of Farneas' | + | |
===== Current affairs ===== | ===== Current affairs ===== | ||
- | + | * There are rumors that someone has broken into the Order of the Obsidian Towers mysterious vaults and stolen an ancient artifact. | |
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