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WBJ Day 30: Disasters

Final WBJ thing for this year. I have two other things to post afterwards, then I need to sit down and stockpile entries again. Now, on to this...

Disasters, oh dear...

Aside from the regular disasters of our world, both Trys and Viesn has their own disasters from different changes from our world.

Two disasters in Viesn is caused by ley lines growing violent. Disortions is one of them, an event that causes localized gravital disturbances and lights to fail, creating strange floating lights, and makes the magic there even more powerful but also uncontrollable for anything short of Faerie, even lashing out unprompted. The other is a Void Maw, which is far less dangerous but classified as a disaster by magic users, where magic is being drawn away from that specific place and an area around it, into the void between worlds, making magic incredibly weak at that location and nearby. It is currently unknown what causes ley lines to go violent.

Large-scale disasters tends to happen on their own, but there have been times they have been a result of Faerie Royals arguing, Faerie fighting using magic, or dragons having been provoked far beyond their breaking point. They very much deal with these events in the same way as we do in our world.

On the other side of the coin is Trys, where Chaos Storms, as covered in Weather yesterday, are counted as a natural disaster, and Void Openings, which are localized black holes for Order opening for a time between an hour to a day, after which it closes - leaving a mess of melted, recoloured, and downright weird things in it's place. Both are caused by high concentration of chaos.

Disasters are usually accounted to the Goddess of Life and Nature, except for those two specific - which are known to be the fault of the Goddess of Chaos. There are prayers made to calm the Goddesses or to ask the God of Order to put everything right, there are buildings built to last despite natural disasters and protective magic to guard against them.

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WBJ Day 29: Weather

Next to last piece, while I wait for dad to finish in the kitchen so mom and I can take a day to be creative.

Well, I... Okay, so I'm not sure where to begin here. Uh, worlds? Viesn doesn't have weather different from our world...

So. Trys again. While I can't yet say which areas are more hit by rainstorms, and which experiences droughts out of not yet naming countries and continents, but we can talk about some of the weathers from the Age of Chaos that stayed. Chaos storms, which happen without warning, where it rains paint and frogs, and chaotic energies blow through the winds causing changes where they hit. There are ash rain where there are no volcanos on occasion, winds of bright light and heat known as Sol Winds aren't unusual, St. Elmo's fire can happen anytime anywhere, lighting storms with clear skies, and storms that are made of only diffrently coloured lights. These weathers are a varying degree of dangerous, and often sudden, and defies science causually due to the chaotic energies allowing them to.

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WBJ Day 28: Communication

There is absolutely nothing new in Viesn here, so let's go on to Trys, where I have very little to say as well...

In Trys, all long-distance communication is by written word or by herald. Riders carry messages, and books and scrolls hold information, but information doesn't generally spread quick outside of word of mouth, which is generally a bit unreliable. Mages may send messenges through magical crystals which only mages can activate, and very recently telephone technologies has started reaching testing stages - it has yet to be released to the public in the countries it is being developed in.

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WBJ Day 27: Major Figures & Important Players

Last day of school for the week. Here we go...

Oh man, I don't have a lot for this... As I have not thought of this much. And I generally don't name specific people in their history, focusing on events over people.

In Viesn, in most cases it mirrors our world, or has mostly been covered. But where it doesn't are Hy-Brasil, where most are undecided yet but they worship the Faerie Queen of the High Court as their goddess and protector, as well as Avalon and the Island Turtles, where everything is currently undecided.

In Trys... Countries and cultures not being decided upon yet, it is difficult to name characters of importance. The Goddess of Chaos, however, is a very important figure given she is why the world is as it is, she and her Age of Chaos. The name she is usually called is Grimstone, a figure of danger and doom for most people of Trys, destructive and spreading unrest.

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WBJ Day 26: Transportation

Way early in the morning for school.

I’ve been awake for two hours.

And as Viesn is once again lacking something new here...

In Trys most people travel by foot or by horse (or horse-hybrids, or yet-to-be-created fauna caused by the age of Chaos that can be ridden), maybe even wagon or carriage, although some species may favor flight, or other ways of natural transportation. Mages are capable of teleportation, somewhat limited by not covering too long distance. Ships of wood are the main way of transportation by seas, although steam boats are starting to be a thing. Cars and trains are new inventions, with travel by train is not too expensive but cars are a privelage for nobility to use.

Riding animals are not only bred for the stamina and speed needed for travel, but also for hauling, utility, entertainment, sports, and combat. Likewise, ships are used for transportation, shipping, and combat, and trains for both transportation and shipping.

People generally aren't all that well-traveled unless their culture is nomadic, and they don't tend to go far from family and home.

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WBJ Day 24: The Backpack

My off-day is here. Yeah, it’s a Tuesday. Nontheless...

Yeah.

This.

This is a thing.

Uhm, sorry, but this will be very short. The Backpack has not changed from last year of Viesn, and for Trys there is not really much to write. Don't get me wrong, I love this prompt, it's really fun, but I wish I could write more.

Well, here goes...

Most people in Trys carry two things with them. A money pouch, and a dagger of some sort. Mages often carries crystals made by those who worship Lady Knowledge, that can record voices, store data and magical energies, and locate places heavy with magical energies, but as it is activated and deactivated with magic it is only mages who can carry it. When they travel they tend to carry dried meat and a water skins with water and possibly alcohol.

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WBJ Day 23: The Frontier

As I’m back at school, you recieve an early update before class.

While in Viesn the frontier is much like our world, space, there are some places where people still try to explore. The deepest depths of the ocean is one of those places, far deeper than the Island Turtles swim, is a huge curiousity, and the wilderness is constantly being explored. But there are also people going to try to explore and lay maps of the Underground or the Nevernever, a dangerous and seemingly fruitless endeavor in very hostile lands. Magic users, especially of Hy-Brasil, study strange magics and experiment with magic to find what it can be used for, where the limits are.

In Trys, the planet has been fully explored so far, although the depths of the ocean has not, and space is yet far beyond them. Their frontier lies in technology, in combining magic with it, and trying to scrape together what was before the Age of Chaos.

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WBJ Day 22: The Sky

There are a few short ones in this list.

Only Trys once more, so here we go.

The sky of Trys is very similar to our own, but with minimal pollution so starry skies is a givn at night. The stars locations are unchanged, as is the colour, but there are one major diffrences - there are two moons, smaller than ours, for one, in pale blue colours.

But above the continent shaped like the symbol of Chaos, the sky is different. It is a catastrophy of colours, merging and changing constantly, with no clouds, and from here the sky looks black, the moons shining white. No stars can ever be seen at this sky. There are a lot of theories why this piece of the sky was left as it was during the Age of Chaos, but no answer has been satisying to those who wonder.