Aela

Aela is a fantasy world used in RPs by Khrrck

Overview

Name

To the dragons, it is Aela. To the humans, it is Asunia. To the Wyrms, it is Kanari. To the Jzna, it is Echaus. To the Rahoni, it is Lisast.

The Known Lands

According to the astronomers and geographers, who know of such things, Aela is, technically, a sphere. In practice, it's a bit stranger.

As you journey near the edge of the Known Lands, things change. Magic works differently, not at all, or functions perfectly, apparently at random. Tales have been told of double moons and green skies. Strange mechanical monsters are glimpsed at the edge of sight...

Very few explorers venture beyond the Known Lands. And fewer still have been known to return.

Map

The Western Lands (not to scale)

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Key:

"," - Sunset Ocean

"." - Freshwater

"G" - Glacier (Northern Ice)

"M" - Mountains

"f" - Forest

"^" - Hills

"-" - Grasslands

"d" - Desert

"W" - Waste

"o" - Dragon Outpost

"0" - Crater City (Subterranean)

"%" - Forest Lair (Valley)

"*" - Khr Caves (Subterranean)

"+" - Sunset Bay

"=" - Savannah City

Primary Races

Human

Habitat, sorted by population

• Villages (everywhere, esp. forest & mountain valleys)
• Savannah City
• Forest Lair
• Sunset Bay
• Crater City

Wyrm

Habitat, sorted by population

• Caves, tunnels, mines (everywhere, esp. hills & mountains)
• Khr Caves
• Sunset Bay
• Crater City
• Savannah City

Dragon

Habitat, sorted by population

• Caves (AKA Lairs; mountains, forest, southern plains)
• Forest Lair
• Savannah City

Minority Races

Jzna

The Jzna are a race of lupine humanoids. They live a mostly solitary, carnivorous lifestyle in the forests. The Jzna produce some exceptional engineers, surpassing the Wyrms in certain aspects of magical and mechanical construction.

Rumor has it that the Jzna are the descendants of a small group of Changed humans.

Habitat, sorted by population

• Forest
• Crater City
• Forest Lair

Rahoni

The Rahoni are a race of fiercely proud, feline humanoids. Most of them live in nomadic tribes across the grasslands, accompanied by their shamen.

Some of the best wizards in the world are Rahoni shamen.

Habitat, sorted by population

• Grasslands
• Crater City
• Savannah City

Other Races

Changed

The Changed are composed almost entirely of members from other races who have been hit with blasts of raw magic, either because it was used a weapon against them or because a spell backfired against them. As their name suggests, the Changed have mutated in strange ways, producing an assortment of strange creatures with an equally strange assortment of odd and unusually powerful abilities.

Seeing more than a single Changed in one place is an unusual event, except for in Crater City.

Crossbreeds

Crossbreeds are even rarer than Changed, but they do happen.

The relatively common combinations are:

• Changed/Changed
• Human/Jzna
• Human/Rahoni

Sometimes, one of these rare combinations occurs.

• Dragon/Wyrm
• Dragon/Changed
• Human/Changed
• Jzna/Changed
• Jzna/Rahoni
• Rahoni/Changed
• Wyrm/Changed
• Wyrm/Human

Except for vague tales told in taverns, these combinations are never even heard of.

• Dragon/Human
• Dragon/Jzna
• Dragon/Rahoni
• Wyrm/Jzna
• Wyrm/Rahoni

Roleplay featuring Aela

Ice Blades (dead)
Roving Saws
Games Without Frontiers (dead)
Games Without Frontiers is actually a virtual reality simulation, which contains as one of its "Zones" a variant of Aela named Chroma.