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 Avishraa is a fantasy setting of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy|highish]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fantasy|darkish]] flavor. Medieval-level technology coexists with [[concept:empathic_sense|psionics]] and several forms of magic, some of which are [[chosen:|inborn]] or [[concept:doomtouched|granted by cosmic beings]] while [[concept:enchantment|others can be learned by anyone]] with the time and resources to do so. Avishraa is a fantasy setting of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fantasy|highish]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fantasy|darkish]] flavor. Medieval-level technology coexists with [[concept:empathic_sense|psionics]] and several forms of magic, some of which are [[chosen:|inborn]] or [[concept:doomtouched|granted by cosmic beings]] while [[concept:enchantment|others can be learned by anyone]] with the time and resources to do so.
  
-This last kind is becoming increasingly widespread and parts of the world stand on the brink of what is, essentially, the magitech equivalent of an industrial revolution. The world is in ferment for other reasons, as well - the discovery of [[avishraa:geography:enarri:|new]] [[avishraa:geography:talmat:|continents]], the newfound [[concept:glyphic_teleportation|ability to reach other worlds]], rising tensions between species, political realignments, and mages responding to eons of mistrust and hate with [[organization:hzataalar|plans to remake the world]].+This last kind is becoming increasingly widespread and parts of the world stand on the brink of what is, essentially, the magitech equivalent of an industrial revolution. The world is in ferment for other reasons, as well - the discovery of [[geography:enarri:|new]] [[geography:talmat:|continents]], the newfound [[concept:glyphic_teleportation|ability to reach other worlds]], rising tensions between species, political realignments, and mages responding to eons of mistrust and hate with [[organization:hzataalar|plans to remake the world]].
  
 Avishraa is, in short, on the edge of titanic change. And like most such changes, it threatens to crush those in its path. Avishraa is, in short, on the edge of titanic change. And like most such changes, it threatens to crush those in its path.
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 //For more details, see [[meta:players_guide:Setting]].// //For more details, see [[meta:players_guide:Setting]].//
  
-[[Avishraa:]] is in fact a large moon of a gas giant, smaller and with lighter gravity than Earth. In some ways it is remarkably Earthlike - in its variety of landforms, lifeforms, and climates - while, in others, it is radically different, like its lengthy day-night cycles. The three known native intelligent species all exist on the continent of [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:start]], which until very recently none of them had traveled very far beyond, though even by itself it is quite spacious.+[[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa]] is in fact a large moon of a gas giant, smaller and with lighter gravity than Earth. In some ways it is remarkably Earthlike - in its variety of landforms, lifeforms, and climates - while, in others, it is radically different, like its lengthy day-night cycles. The three known native intelligent species all exist on the continent of [[geography:sekhaa:start]], which until very recently none of them had traveled very far beyond, though even by itself it is quite spacious.
  
 But in the last few cycles, vessels have finally crossed the oceans to the west and south, finding new lands - and linking books have opened up the paths to other worlds, possibly even other realities, entirely. But in the last few cycles, vessels have finally crossed the oceans to the west and south, finding new lands - and linking books have opened up the paths to other worlds, possibly even other realities, entirely.
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