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| ====== Myrah: The Grey World ====== | ====== Myrah: The Grey World ====== |
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| Myrah (pronounced "MY-rah," with the first syllable rhyming with "my" and the second with "rah" as in "hurrah") is the home world of [[Will|William Davenport]], often referred to as the "grey world" due to its pervasive gloom and oppressive atmosphere. It serves as the starting point for William's story, a planet marked by environmental degradation, rigid social hierarchies, and a corrupted magical system that has shaped its history and society for over a millennium. Once a vibrant and wild place, Myrah has devolved into a dystopian realm where magic is wielded by an elite few to maintain control, contrasting sharply with the freer, more diverse worlds William encounters in his travels. | Myrah (pronounced "MY-rah," with the first syllable rhyming with "my" and the second with "rah" as in "hurrah") is the home world of [[Will|William Davenport]], often referred to as the "grey world" due to its pervasive gloom and oppressive atmosphere. It serves as the starting point for William's story, a planet marked by environmental degradation, rigid social hierarchies, and a corrupted magical system that has shaped its history and society for over a millennium. Once a vibrant and wild place, Myrah has devolved into a dystopian realm where magic is wielded by an elite few to maintain control, contrasting sharply with the freer, more diverse worlds William encounters in his travels. |
| Technology is mundane and limited, relying on steam or coal engines for automobiles and heavy gas lights for illumination. Scientific study is restricted by the elites, who fear it could disrupt their magical dominance and social order. This contrasts with Myrah's magical infrastructure, like city-protecting bubbles and barriers against space debris. | Technology is mundane and limited, relying on steam or coal engines for automobiles and heavy gas lights for illumination. Scientific study is restricted by the elites, who fear it could disrupt their magical dominance and social order. This contrasts with Myrah's magical infrastructure, like city-protecting bubbles and barriers against space debris. |
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| | ===== Outside the wall ===== |
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| | {{ story:outside_the_wall.jpg?200px}} Outside the wall, life is incredibly difficult. The entire planet has been polluted by the megacities but very small patches of green sprout up. A rebellion group exists and is ironically mostly kept alive by seemingly inadvertent 'drops' of supplies. The ruling class needs a scapegoat to maintain their hyper-vigilant security and keeping a permanent lowest-class population alive in the wildlands makes this easy. |
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| | The people here have to use magic for survival on this dead world like everyone else, but they try to be more deliberate and have a better understanding of how the arcana needs to flow in both directions. |
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| Myrah represents a cautionary tale of power's corruption, where a once-vibrant world has been reduced to a grey, oppressive prison that drives William's journey to escape, learn, and ultimately return to dismantle its aristocracy. Its bleakness is frequently contrasted with the cleaner, freer, or wilder environments of other dimensions, underscoring themes of freedom, nostalgia, and reform. | Myrah represents a cautionary tale of power's corruption, where a once-vibrant world has been reduced to a grey, oppressive prison that drives William's journey to escape, learn, and ultimately return to dismantle its aristocracy. Its bleakness is frequently contrasted with the cleaner, freer, or wilder environments of other dimensions, underscoring themes of freedom, nostalgia, and reform. |