Basic Assumptions about Ayenee

Wes

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I think we should create some basic "common facts" about what Ayenee actually is. These will come in handy as we rebuild the realm from archives and fill in the blanks.

So, here's what I think would be good basic assumptions about Ayenee:
  • There is an Earth-like planet named Ayenee
  • The Ayenee Star System is where the planet Ayenee is located.
  • Due to its chaotic nature, there are few established nations on planet Ayenee - most territories are ruled by clans in a sort of feudal system, although there are also spots controlled by military forces (e.g. Fort Miller) or corporations (e.g. Qel'noran Industrial Sector, ZCorp, etc.).
  • Magic is real in the Ayenee universe, particularly on planet Ayenee
  • Some areas on Ayenee are better for magic than others, so the magic users tend to live in those.
  • Advanced technologies, such as space ships, are also found in the Ayenee universe.
  • Tech users tend to congregate in areas that are less magical.
    • Ayenee Capital City and particularly the area south of it is one of these areas
    • This has prevented ACC from being magically being destroyed in the past, but has also resulted in corporations and tech entities fighting over the city.
  • Other universes outside of Ayenee universe are known to exist, and sometimes people have come from them or gone to them using advanced technology or advanced magic.
Stuff that might be good to decide on:
  • Are realms like Tenaria other planets in the Ayenee system, other continents, or other universes or what?
 
So basically Ayenee is an Earth like planet, probably 2 or 3x the size of Earth itself... With magical Leylines, like most planets, the hubs that connect are more magical than other areas and thusly where magic users collect, the areas outside of magic are more technology.

Sounds like a Final Fantasy game to me... Where there's magic, swords and guns and cars... Like Techno-Fantasy. Lol. Where technology meets magic.

I'd think other realms would be just that, other realms. possibly other planets within the universe, not the same solar system. How often would you find multiple habitable planets in the same solar system in real life? It hasn't happened yet. Lol
 
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Wes and I have been having a very interesting discussion about the planetary physiology of Ayenee. It has caused a good variety of ideas and possibilities.

I came up with the concept of Yahell as a destruction level event for use as a marker, a milestone in Ayenee's timeline. It is a point in time where few new lands arose, few new kingdoms developed, and those that existed started to slowly decline, basically the moment yahoo pulled the plug on user rooms.

That being in place, Tenaria is very much tied to Ayenee, I have never seen a rise in Tenaria forums or a Tenaria.com or .org, because a majority of those players either quit/moved on to something else, or migrated to Ayenee. The same can be said of the other roleplay realms in the chat sections of yahoo. Ayenee was the most popular obviously to still be around, but those other sections are were many of Ayenee's future rpers started out and developed. They are ecosystems that supported Ayenee in the long run. I think it only fair to include them as merely being tied to the realm of Ayenee, not a major part of it, not a landscape, but something where people migrated from.

It could be a realm tied to Ayenee that exists in a way you can't see. Maybe like the Bermuda triangles of Ayenee. Places where the veil between reality and other realms exist.

I hesitate with the inclusion of magic and tech, because mainly I see magic a force only limited by one's power and imagination and tech where it is limited to more of what you can make to replicate or create an action. In that way Magic would appear to always beat out tech. Oh a spaceship, well I cast a spell to alter the air filters where they now act as bring walls preventing air flow, or I increase the gravity around the spaceship by 10xs. A bullet flies at me it bounces off a magical shield or worse is wormholed to appear behind the shooter in some fashion.

A separation of tech and magic landscapes with a central point where they overlap can be a good rule foundation for the world. That or breaking up their existence in the realm of the Ayenee timeline, they would still coexist in some times.

The one thing though that is needed for either is an explanation for why magic works well here, and not well there. The other thing would why tech doesn't work well in certain areas, because unlike magic where you have to rely on leylines and celestial bodies, tech only has the problem of the people's ability to use it and manufacture it. Even so though, tech is very movable as well compared to magic.

I developed my own world so I enjoy discussing various things, but progress is hampered by lack of additional opinions and agreements.
 
What if, as an example, if at one point in time during the reign of Yahoo Chat, Tenaria had at one point been a part of Ayenee. And like our own world it eventually separated away from the original world via an unrecorded or forgotten about cataclysm?
 
Are you aware of the theories behind the show Fringe or most other things that follow the many worlds theory? The idea that worlds are layered on worlds just on another dimensional level. Often times dimensional travel is vibrational. If you can force your molecules to vibrate at a different frequency you can 'phase shift' to an alternate universe. The fundamental idea is that existing wavelengths that we see go on potentially infinitely but the range at which those things can interact is limited to the physiology of the object. Seeing things like apparitions comes from the idea that the after life exists on the edges of these wavelengths only it occupies a more limited range and some people are able to see and potentially interact with those things.

Magic and technology can interact with both of these things. Technology and magic are not different things, they are means to the same end. While ideally they don't work seamlessly with each other because they are powered in different ways, technology can be enhanced by passive magic and magical energies can be contained with the right technology.

Again though, that's just a theory a meta-magi-physical theory!
 
What about the other ones that existed, I think the roleplaying chat one was eden or was it rhydian? I spent very little time in both of those. The current state of Ayenee is one of decline in population, with that a decline in relative and interesting occurrences. There is no real political face to Ayenee right now, the few kingdoms that exist have hardly enough population to pull any sort of power away from anyone accepted by about 10 or so people as being in power. If Ayenee is going to survive we need a new breeding pool, like Tenaria once was, we need something that interests people into roleplaying textwise, they will spill over from whatever glorious invention or idea that is into the landscape repopulating it.

I sort of fancy Ayenee as part wastelands, part survival of the fittest, part chaos reigns world at war right now. The npc nation should be rising up against one another due to the sudden power vacuums and mass hysteria of vanishing landscapes and time rifts. Logically my character has no point in this Ayenee, he is an agent of chaos, but in this world chaos rules. I think it might be time for him to find some new life's work.
 
That sounds like a very good idea. Rebuilding, surviving in a wasteland, going outside of the normal occupation said characters were once used to.
 
Ayenee's middle region was also known as Central Ayenee.

Eden was West Ayenee.

Rhydin was North Ayenee.

Tenaria was East Ayenee.

Starthra was South Ayenee.

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For Aoyn, we made these changes, to have 7 continental regions on the planet.

Ayenee was Central Ayenee/Middle Earth.

Eden was broken into:

Delteria, the Western Realm, West Ayenee.
And
Eden, the Far West.

Rhydin remained the North Ayenee.

Tenaria remained the Eastern Ayenee.

Starthra was broken into:

Zoir, the Southern Realm, South Ayenee.
And
Starthra, the Far South, or Deep South.
 
I have about five kingdoms in Southern Ayenee that I had started in Ychat after Velusia was successful and began to annoy me with the people in for ooc reasons. Then Yahoo dropped the no user chat rooms three years later and I had to find some place to put them, which for a short time was the forums, then I moved them to my tabletop game.

Funny you mention Starthra being in the south, the Blackthornes had an alliance with them, met them on a few occasions in chat and forums. I haven't heard from or of Starthra since 2004 or 2005. Is there anyone still around from there?
 
When it was in chat it was easy, I only ever was in that kingdom with the people playing characters in it at that time. On the forums I usually made a habit of at least one post on each kingdom depending on their activity levels. Some I posted on more than others, but eventually all that allowed me to compiled a database for those kingdoms. They became defined areas, with each have a unique feel and experience to them. Some of the characters I played in them have elements of that difference embedded in their beings, so transitions were always clean and easy. I never went into Velusia feeling compressed and surrounded like I did when I was in Vanguard. Also the players helped greatly, I would assign roles to players some would be sort of like law enforcers while others were heroes that would be called upon for aided in times of need. I have a huge file of just roleplays that took place in the Southern Republic and Regalia as well as Velusia, but none of them feel like the other.


Oh also quick note, some of the kingdoms were created because I had characters along with other friends that had specific backgrounds that those environments reflected. So over time I either merged new ones I created into old ones, inherited kingdoms from friends or conquest and merged them also into preexisting ones. When I conquered Zalentra in ychat, by forced and accidental means, that led to me killing the king, I changed the name to Zalentrae, then later I turned the kingdom into a state within a kingdom, sort of like a large city, but within the boundary of the kingdom.

Same thing with the country the Wolfsteins lived within, Haven it became a city and province within Velusia. When I took Lysia from the Windcrest family after defeating their army in battle, it became a kingdom that I inherited eventually it swallowed the small province of Windsor after they were killed off. I picked up a lot of kingdoms from my chat days, usually I moved them into other ones or just renamed them after I grew tired of the previous name.
 
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Ayenee's middle region was also known as Central Ayenee.

Eden was West Ayenee.

Rhydin was North Ayenee.

Tenaria was East Ayenee.

Starthra was South Ayenee.

===
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For Aoyn, we made these changes, to have 7 continental regions on the planet.

Ayenee was Central Ayenee/Middle Earth.

Eden was broken into:

Delteria, the Western Realm, West Ayenee.
And
Eden, the Far West.

Rhydin remained the North Ayenee.

Tenaria remained the Eastern Ayenee.

Starthra was broken into:

Zoir, the Southern Realm, South Ayenee.
And
Starthra, the Far South, or Deep South.
Hmm. Interesting. 🤔

Said one of the Kings of North Ayenee apparently.
 
The original idea of Ayenee was suppose to be very all-encompassing so everybody and all of their ideas could be included. The most popular concepts from the start were vampires, demons, werewolves, things of a darker nature. This gave way to heroes and adventurers with more than simply swords, they wanted guns, so of course technology was a thing to match the supernatural powers of the vampires.
 
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