¶ The World of At-Breith
At-Breith was, once upon a time, a world of technological and magickal wonders. Her people flourished and spread across the entire world. Massive floating cities dotted the oceans, mirroring the sprawling cities below the waves. Some cities were even found adrift in the clouds. It was, in many ways, a utopian world where all needs were met. For a time, the world was united in their progress and all eyes eventually turned to the stars.
Accounts differ about what, exactly, caused this utopia to collapse into war. Some say it was nothing more than the doom laid before all mortal endeavors. Some say that something came from the stars and disrupted the carefully maintained balance of power. Some say that it was never a utopia to begin with, simply an illusion sustained by the powerful mages who secretly ran the world. In the end, the result was the same: the perfect peace came to sudden and brutal end.
Stories of the this unimaginable war have persisted through the eons. The world itself was reshaped, the physical laws were warped and corrupted. Magick ran rampant accorss battlefield after battlefield. Unspeakable monsters were created and destroyed on an almost daily basis. From this chaos, a cabal of mages stepped forward and undertook a working that would redefine At-Breith.
¶ The Renewal Cycle
The World of At-Breith now exists in a continuous cycle of renewals based around the semi-divine, semi-sentient, ritual working undertaken by that first cabal of mages. These renewals happen so infrequently, and with such a long span of time between them, that they swiftly become the stuff of legends.
¶ The Fires of Creation
The Renewals themselves happen when the Fires of Creation are unleashed upon the world. They reshape everything about At-Breith.
The Fires of Creation are, in some ways, a divine force unto themselves. They are the manifested product of the ritual enacted at the first Renewal, yet they have become something entirely Other since then.
It has been hypothesized that the rise of elementals is a direct reaction to the Fires' existence, though this has not been confirmed.
¶ The Current World
¶ Torradell
The Torradell Continent
¶ Ascorea
The Ascorea Continent
¶ Sidhe Realms
The Sidhe Realms
¶ Civilization
¶ Weights and Measures
At-Braithe in the 8th Renewal shares some similarities in weights and measures with modern Earth, specifically: measurements of time (seconds, days, centuries, etc), measurements of length, weight, and volume (metric measurements specifically), and seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn).
¶ Dates and Times
At-Braithe has an orbital and rotational scheme that produces a 448 day year and a 25 hour day. The calendar is framed around 14 months. Two of those months (Solara and Lunara) are not contiguous as their weeks are scatter amongst the other 12 months. A yearly calendar looks like this:
- Oriena
- Aurora - Week 1 & 2
- Solara - Week 1 (Vernal Equinox)
- Aurora - Week 3 & 4
- Florana
- Lunara - Week 1 (Vernal Aggeriox)
- Aestara
- Luxara - Week 1 & 2
- Solara - Week 2 (Estival Solstiox)
- Luxara - Week 3 & 4
- Calora
- Lunara - Week 2 (Estival Aggeriox)
- Autuma
- Messara - Week 1 & 2
- Solara - Week 3 (Autumnal Equinox)
- Messara - Week 3 & 4
- Metona
- Lunara - Week 3 (Autumnal Aggeriox)
- Vespara
- Frigara - Week 1 & 2
- Solara - Week 4 (Hibernal Solstiox)
- Frigara - Week 3 & 4
- Liquera
- Lunara - Week 4 (Hibernal Aggeriox)
An At-Braithe month is formed from four weeks of eight days each. Most cultures have adopted the three days on/one day off schedule and the following names:
- Skyday
- Tresday
- Mareday
- Luxday (off)
- Eythday
- Porrday
- Embeday
- Teneday (off)
¶ Climate
At-Braithe has a slightly less severe axial tilt than Earth, roughly 20 degrees as opposed to 23 degrees. As a result, the seasons are milder and more stable, days and nights are more consistent in length, and the polar ice cap regions are smaller.