Karral

The planet Karral was green and verdant, and it’s people like any in a typical category lesser-7 un-contacted civilisation. They fought their wars, worshipped their gods, wove their spells. Their world was as peaceful as can be reasonably imagined, and brimming with the richness of life and magic as a world reasonably can be.

The arrival of the Exarchs of The Argent Court was like a dam breaking, a flood of technology and new war swept over Karral. The Argent Court brought across the stars the knowledge of industry and production, the harnessing of magic into power and energy to power the machines of a new age. They, and their chosen followers, were the founders of a new empire, crushing the old world beneath them.

Above it all, the great ash eye still turns its gaze down upon the world, an unblinking watcher of the planet below.

The World of Karral

The world of Karral is the long past of Ashkar. It is a roughly-earth sized rocky moon, orbiting a gas giant known as the Great Ash Eye, or the eye.

• Karral is:
  • Roughly earth-sized rocky moon (surface gravity 0.93 earth’s), and with a day cycle of 22 hours.
  • Orbits the Great Ash Eye at a period of 3 Karral days.
  • Orbits the eye out of the solar plane, meaning eclipses are rare.
• ~50% surface one large landmass, also referred to as Karral.
  • Was once predominantly lush jungle, rolling plains, and airy mountains. Now the great desert grows from the West as the mining concerns of the dragon empire continue to grow.
  • Extreme and relatively slow tides, creates complex ecosystem at shoreline.
• The life on the planet is rich and vibrant.
  • The forests are dark and strange, richly coloured and scented, with a thick underbrush, giant mushrooms, and trees reaching up to a canopy far above.
  • The creatures are strange and diverse, with anything from 4 to 8 limbs.
• Karral is a world of old magic
  • Not everyone can work magic, it requires rigorous study, or an innate knack
  • But everyone is aware of it, and only a very poor (or shortsighted) noble house would not employ a wizard at their hold.
  • Magical power comes from many sources:
    • Veins of the inky black liquid metal running through the earth called the Formulate, this is a precious resource brimming with magical potential, and the Argent Court arrived on this planet to extract it.
    • The power of the Eye above.
    • The power of the dragons themselves.
• Karral has undergone a technological boom, with the knowledge of the Exarchs spreading across the world. New machines, technology, and strange devices are found everywhere.
  • They are powered by cells, honeycomb crystal structures set in metal frames that can storage magical power. They are reusable, but their manufacture is a closely guarded secret of the Dragon Empire.
  • Machines in this world are very clicky and clunky, with levers and knobs and dials. They are made of rusty or oily metal, and are dirty. Rarely wood, rarely ornaments - save on expensive magical handguns and other devices of high expense, made for the nobles of the Dragon Empire.
• Karral is now almost entirely unified under the rule of The Argent Court, the dragons sitting at the top of the Dragon Empire.
  • The old nobility capitulated or died defending their holds.
  • The Silver Church is the only allowed religion.
  • A few mountain countries, and some of the outlying islands off the coast of Karral remain unconquered, due to the protection of ancient wardings or simply being too unimportant to conquer.