Please have a patience with incomplete and partial information about
this world. It's under very detailed construction since 2015.
Let me introduce you to in-game settings of World of Colderra.
It originally comes from fantasy book series Brissinge in working on - Bear's
blood.
World of Colderra events are loosely based on the story of books, but
world build is pretty much the same and both book and game contributes to
eachother.
Whole world is situated in medieval/fantasy, though there's projected Brissinge's
love for machines and science. So magic works more like having inborn ability
to control physical laws rather than literal connection to supernatural, even
though supernatural and god exists in this universe. Speaking of gods...
canonically there's only one god, creator of the world similar to how
Christianity perceives it. Canonically. Player characters can have whatever
believes they consider sufficient.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION....
Let's start from outer space.
Andahari galaxy is place, where you can find solar system of star Yorhad and
planet with scene for our game. Name of planet is Cesferus (pronounced with
'k'). It has two moons, one big on Cesferus' orbit - Iat, and one small on
moon's orbit - Taitu. If you wonder about other planets, we have those too.
On a map below on the left you can see how Cesferus looks like, with it's continents and oceans. In case you wonder, yes, North and South, West and East are really mirrored on this planet.
Planet Cesferus fun fact: year has 324 days divided into 9
months counting 36 days each. From first to last months are: Bahnivec,
Květokrás, Duhovec, Ohnipal, Sklizník, Červelist, Mlžnik, Sněhupad,
Zimomráz. Names come from czech language.
English literal translations would be: Muddy one, Blooming beauty,
Rainbow one, Burning scorching, Harvesting one, Red leaf, Foggy one,
Snow fall, Cold frost. It sounds very stupid, I don't use it :D. If you get very fancy, I can provide names in language constructed
specifically for the universe: Sloughia, Borsia, Agelondia, Sorria,
Cefia, Haimonia, Ikaia, Rembia, Kröhia.
Here's actual political map of Cesferus, with all the
lands/kingdoms/empires/whatever on it. Here, check all
races.
BRIEF CESFERAN HISTORY
Dating started 5556 years ago. These centuries and millenniums are sequenced into
3 Eras.
1st era lasted from Creation until The Great Epidemic,
which was at 1996. Dragons came to the rescue to cure the epidemics.
2nd era lasted from The Great Epidemic untill The Fire war, which caused that the dragons went basically extinct, sea level raised and many places were destroyed and flooded which changed shapes of continents. Also, planet got way warmer, but since then temperatures are slowly decreasing again. 2nd era ended at 4928.
3rd era begun after end of The Fire war. It's the era in which you see the world now. So current year (to REAL date of 6th January 2021) is 628/3 (628 - number of year, /3 - number of era.)
2nd era lasted from The Great Epidemic untill The Fire war, which caused that the dragons went basically extinct, sea level raised and many places were destroyed and flooded which changed shapes of continents. Also, planet got way warmer, but since then temperatures are slowly decreasing again. 2nd era ended at 4928.
3rd era begun after end of The Fire war. It's the era in which you see the world now. So current year (to REAL date of 6th January 2021) is 628/3 (628 - number of year, /3 - number of era.)
In 3rd era many things happened. But since everything in this game is put
in relation to Kingdom of Colderra, let me pin point important dates
relevant to it:
- In 615/3 Azol'Amath (water naga empire) attacked Colderra and the war begun.
- In 620/3 was great Battle of Zindar (main city of Colderra). Nagas besieged Zindar for two weeks. During this time Sirrael Stormcaller and Danarion attacked (now destroyed) naga main city Servenalla and naga army had to pull back to their own land. Naga emperor Maxara'ah was killed and war officially ended at beginning of year 621/3. It took long 6 years, to repair and heal shattered lands of Colderra and Azol'Amath. Emperor was replaced by council of Six Lords - Lord Percival, Lord Sirrael, Lord Akarin, Lady Nalja, Lord Gittana and Lady Kalisa. Colderra and reborn Azol'Amath united and live together in peace now.
- Few years later portal to Antharia* was opened, and Colderra made alliance pact with Norranon. *World of my friend Efirende we are tightly cooperating
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All these events opened golden age of Colderra, allowing international trade
to bloom and provide exotic goods from foreign countries overseas. Also it
let to increased curiosity in foreign countries and a lot of explorers set
out to explore.
KINGDOM OF COLDERRA
It is fairly young human kingdom founded at beginning of 3rd Era as result
of disintegration of much larger empire. Nature of Colderra is expandious,
as they already colonized and took over few smaller countries and still are
willing to do so, if there's a chance. Colderra also stands as founder of
North Coldairan Alliance.
Colderran main advantage is superiorness in manamechanics over rest of
Coldairan continent and has history of extraordinary political leaders.
Speaking of extraordinary leaders, current king is
Mikelon I. of the Falstir house
and well...he has his quite...significant human flaws...such as arrogance and
short temper. He's highly intelligent individual very well suited to lead a
nation. Future king will be his firstborn son
Anderevas Falstir.
Highest war general and prince
(and currently outrun, cause he left Colderra through portal to
Antharia)
is
Danarion Hammerhand Falstir. He's only one so far known to possess ability of transforming into dragon.
This curse (disease or mutation) is called dragima, and dragon helped Mikelon
to win war with Azol'Amath.
Why to mention these characters? Because they are Brissinge's OCs, that will
repeatedly occur in in game events.
Interested? Here are few more maps of Cesferus (So far most of them in Czech
language only, sorry!).
World before the Fire war and melting of glacial areas. |
Mount origin map. |
Largest cities and population. |
Another picture of Yorhad's solar system. |