Usually I don't post these concepts but I have, for about a year been stuck on a concept that started with the Hasketton (if I recall right) wyverns that I've wanted to shift into more of an Alternate dragonscape canon that I wanna ramble about here.

Frankly I like the DS, drekir, etc. and I think the concept has a lot more potential like that, at least to me. But anywho

Lets talk about a concept I dont have time to draw right now, the "portal canon"

TLDR before I get into the details and deeper lore changes that may fly over some heads, a bit reductive on the concept but:

The short of the concept is that, instead of a singular apocalyptic Pulse that destroyed parts of two realities, creating the DragonScape, this portal canon would involve the wild formation of "portals" that lead into the DragonScape from our reality. Each portal may come and go, with each leading into a different plana for the time it is open.

So people can choose to enter the DragonScape. However once someone enters they cannot leave. Inanimate objects that they are wearing or holding can pass both ways through the portal they entered from, but once that portal closes so goes their contact. They are stuck once they enter and there may never be a portal that leads to that plana again.

With a focus on the political, economic, and social ramifications of the human world dealing with people simply leaving in a way in which they can't be pursued, and the way people establish lives in the dragonscape given the opportunity to take a small amount of personal belongings and equipment. All while also dealing with a group of powerful Sovardi (instead of balãr), a Sivilão system in their golden age, and some éldimor both from their world, as well as õndemic reality and other worlds in our reality.

Onto some details of this "Portal Canon"!

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One of the major breakaways is a change in motivation of the Sovardi and/or More sovardi, IE the immortal ascended sogaluns who escaped the scourge of the Sivilão. With their motivation shifting towards a more active resettlement and repopulation of the planar, both from éldimor who escape the sivilão, and from other intereality sources (like humanity). In this canon the Sovardi may serve more the role of Balãr due to the lack of an apocalyptic "pulse"

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The Sivilão golden age may still be happening at the time of this settings equivalent of the Pulse, though the sivilão are far less stable than they may have been previously. With thousands of years of descendant sivilão abandoning the fold, often given safe harbor and a way out of Agõrl thanks to the help of the Sovardi But this is a sivilão that is overall still somewhat unified and closer to their prime, especially when compared to the sivilão dark age of the main canon setting that is seen in The Long Hike. Though their focus may not quite be as single minded as it once was. They are still dealing with more social unrest than prior and while they can crush such things easily, they also need to focus more on maintaining Agõrl than the heretics beyond.


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When the steiron is broken, or an equivalent event causes õndemic reality and ours to collide, it doesn't result in The Pulse that would destroy the Americas, but rather the two realities would peck into eachother, puncturing eachother with short lived portals. Portals may only last a few weeks on either side before disappearing and, during their existence, will lead to the same location on the same plana.

so a group of people could leave together and wind up in the same area to gether. though once that portal closes access to that plana will likely be on hold for some random amount of time until another portal that leads their opens. When traveling through such a portal, õndemification is immediate. A human is most likely to become a drek, but has a far smaller chance of becoming an orm, and a vanishingly small chance of becoming a mavõt.

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tentatively, what a person carries immediately on their person is maintained when entering õndemic reality. Moreover inanimate objects can be thrown through the portals.
Immediate carried objects include clothes, things in pockets, things worn on the back, and things carried on hand. But does not include things driven, ridden, pulled, or pushed. Meaning people can take things into the DragonScape.
though as always their ability to maintain that technology is as always, unlikely in the long term once that portal closes and they become isolated and its doubtful any one of those fancy electronics someone could have brought would be something they could repair.

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The More numerous Sovardi may take a more active role in integrating these newcomers, helping them learn what they are and what their new world is. Essentially tutorialing the newcomers and giving them the knowhow on their respective plana to survive. Though from there may very well go hands off, preferring to let the éldimor diáspora develop freely. This may also involve interactions with the non sivilão éldimor of this alt canon who newcomers may learn from and work with

Though, I would imagine the Sovardi, weary of empires, colonialism, or imperialistic ambitions may happilly level the playing field against a blatantly expansionist group.

Say if a militia organizes an entry into the DS with loads of modern firearms, explosives, etc. with the idea of conquering a large area and becoming regional warlords. I would doubt the Sovardi would let that fly. They may simply destroy their weapons and force them to compete on an even playing field with the other newcomers and locals, or, if they feel such a group is large and organized enough to present a sizeable threat to regional stability, may actively kill them and dismantle their ability to do harm. It's less a "you must be peaceful and never conquer" but more a "You must do it on the terms of the world, you may not bulldoze reed huts with tanks.

on that note it would probably be quite common for weapons like guns to be destroyed by the sovardi actively specifically to avoid such a case. Though perhaps may still allow tools that could be weapons (axes, shovels, knives, etc.) as of course a steel axe, at least as a weapon, probably won't make that much of a difference as opposed to a bronze axe at splitting heads.

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Regardless, I would imagine some degree of political crisis caused by people simply choosing to escape the Social Decay of their timeline of humanity.

First the portals may be avoided, a few adventurous, desperate, or accident prone individuals may be the first to enter, or those with nothing else to really lose. The governments would likely just try to cover them up once becoming aware. Then the portals become more unavoidable and hard to cover up, the goverments of the world may try to contain them, explain their dangerous, try and figure out whats on the other side. They may learn, probably thanks to recordings being passed through the portal (as inanimate objects can leave, thus a phone, data card or other medium of recording can return).

So I figure many governments would launch missions into the DragonScape, presumably being disarmed by the sovardi and eventually left to make things work.

Though eventually the portals become obviously uncontainable, as they disappear with new ones appearing in different areas on a timescale that is too fast. Likewise the knowledge of what lays on the other side becomes more public and people who, for whatever motivation, want to travel to this new area. Be it escaping totalitarian or failing states, be it with ambitions of colonialism and conquest, be it with scientific purposes, religious motivations, Or just be it a disenfranchised person or group of people who just believe the grass is greener on the other side.

People may eventually understand how portals open to specific areas, but only for a relatively short amount of time (around a month or two) and may use social media to coordinate and plan to get around local government efforts to stop and contain people trying to get into the portals
So perhaps that creates a short to medium term crisis in many countries.

Speaking for the US, as its my home and the place I feel I have some more perspective on,

The US may see a pretty severe impact if even just a million people just disappear in those portals; If its more than a million, lets say 2 million people or more, it could be severe. Could be the working poor, the disenfranchised, people with more radical political leanings (left or right), Organized crime groups may also seek these portals out, believing them to be something they can take advantage of.

Of course regardless of their motivations, they're probably gonna find a very different life


But that sudden loss of potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of people, presumably the less invested, usually on the younger side (15-40 years of age) of the demographic chart may cause serious economic problems. The Job market may have a serious lack of workers in certain areas, various asset markets may deflate with things like housing, causing crisis for large property holders and institutions. So at least speaking of my country, I imagine there would be a lot of interest in not letting people leave. As when they leave they make it impossible to collect value from them.

Their debt, taxes, their money flowing into the economy to buy goods and services, and sometimes even some of their belongings and assets.

all that would just be gone

And those efforts, as well as rumors (true and false) of what lays on the other side may spur a lot of social unrest as people look for the right to jump realities, and a dramatic slip in social stability, unity, and economic stability. Which may apply to the whole world, causing a breakdown in the current order of things
Frankly, if you as a government rely on paying a bunch of people low wages to do shit jobs to run your economy, and if they are disenfranchised enough to just bail to a reality you cannot drag them back from, your system suddenly now has to change somehow, be it for better or for worse.

And that issue would become more severe as different governments crack down on efforts to do so. Probably leading to even more people becoming disenfranchised and wanting to leave. Or if a state collapses, a large segment may just take their chances being a refugee in the DragonScape rather than sticking around.

So long term the world order as we see it today would likely crumble. I don't think everyone would journey into the Dragonscape. But I imagine the human population would likely Go down by a statistically significant number. of 8.5 billion people I bet at least 1% of that over 100 years would disappear into the portals. perhaps even more!

which I mean, thats 85 million people on the low end I feel, enough to cause a serious dent in various countries depending on how those 85 million were distributed. What if its 10%? (850 million), could be quite drastic.

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Eventually as years start stacking and the newcomers become more local, developing their own communities. I figure while there would be a few differences from the main canon

I think the first thing is there would be more prepulse technology in these communities. It would gradually phase out but unlike the main canon, stuff can and is maintained. Solar panels, Plastic tarps and sheets, Modern hand tools, steel saws, axes, knives, shovels, etc. Would likely mix with more indigenous material culture. As those new populations likely wouldn't be able to recreate any of the things they take into the DragonScape, nor would they really want to I bet once they get a handle on manatechnology and its capabilities.

Though there may be later arrivals on other points of the Plana, resulting in different generations of technology coming in.
I think the more interesting long term impact would be both Indigenous éldimor and newcomers working together, combining their heads to combine their technological perspectives over time to kinda 'speedrun' the technologies of more advanced manatechnologies.

Someone may take some short wave radios, knowing how they work, and may work with indigenous éldimor folks with a more concrete understanding of resonance and manatech to produce crude pulse radios, certainly not comparable to canon thalmvaric radios but something that appears far earlier in the timeline.

Same goes with electricity, electric grids would probably look a lot different. Less rubber coated wiring, and more solid copper rods moving over short distances.
Things like small windmills that can charge up rudimentary mana batteries that can be carried by seminomadic peoples to keep charging small electronics
Long term While manatechnology would likely win out, just thanks to human world tech resupplies being unreliable at best and nonexistant at worst, I would figure the technological understanding and ideas of those newcoming humans, along with the deeper understanding of manatechnology by the local éldimor would result in a pseudo thalmvar. Not nearly as complex technologically, nor with as many ruins, No artifices (or at least complex ones) nor powerful alchemistry.

But it may be similar, villages and nomads with small radios. Efficient alchemical lights, technologies like boiling and freezing bronze allowing for simple water heating and cooling, very limited electric grids driven by solar panels. Either brought in or crude photovoltaic panels made of crystalline silicon made from silica. Far less effective though. You may still see people running around with old, decades old electronics that are cared for like relics. Probably less as tools of communication (wifi? Whats that?) but more as recording devices.

And of course on the scale of a century, unless there are consistent portals to a plana that bring small reintroductions of human tech to a region, it would be phased out completely. Instead with the perspectives and ideas of those devices and tech being adapted into the far more localized infrastructure, and small scale appilcations of the DragonScape

Turning into small short wave radios used by Tribal networks to coordinate counsel meetups or announce local emergencies.

Small solar cells that look more like large crystals electrifying mana batteries to power small light arrays, radios, or audio recording and playing devices
So effectively it may look like a lot of things, but perhaps mostly a blend between the results of the Awakening and the Thalmvaric age

Small tribal networks of people, mostly making tools of lithics, bone/chitin, ceramics, copper, bronze and natural materials. But those who at the same time may dedicate a lot of time, expertise and creativity in engineering rudimentary electric systems or at least utilize and maintain human systems.

Such technologies would likely not be as common or widespread as in the thalmvaric age of the main canon, but would exist

And things I want to experiment that I have yet to decide on


1) I want to fiddle with a "no breed" system, one in which there is no concrete set of "breeds" for dragons. The environment they hatch into may have notable impacts on them, but there may not be extreme distinctions between breeds. Those regional differences may be a mix of resonant influence on things like general height and size, scale and fur color. As well as genetic aspects passed down from the parents.

Essentially the current system but with a far milder impact of resonance on an eggs development.

2) How active the sivilão may be here, These are more the Golden Age Sivilão and so would be a lot more powerful and coordinated. But they would also be somewhat less socially stable. How regularly would they make expeditions to other planar to take people? What would that look like and if they do concentrate on a plana, how could the people there resist them?

3) Balãr? Technically there was no pulse to yank the raddir from their fold in reality so on paper there wouldn't be balãr. Besides if there were in this scenario then they may present very serious threats to established entities in this canon like the Sivilão

The Prejarngalmõk is the most powerful being to occur naturally in the living fold and is comparable to a bal. But if you have a handful of balãr who see agõrl as an eyesore, the sivilão machine will break.

The Prejarngalmõk is unimagineably powerful. But the balãr are literally fallen raddir so on the very fuzzily defined powerscale of the main canon... that wouldn't end well for it if the balãr felt like it was a threat
though otherwise the Sovardi would have to be more numerous and the Sovardi are neither as powerful nor as impersonal as the Balãr. Sovardi, once being mortal beings who are the last survivors of their own civilization being exterminated down to the last mortal dragon, have some motivations usually.

In the kindest of cases (Dekúdeku, the Warlord of Tal, etc.) Its more of a neutral "any free society is a good one" kinda anarchic view informed by their reaction to the nightmare of the sivilão.

But if there are more sovardi, there would logically be more varied perspectives. Some may become more active. some may see an opportunity to become immortal kings over those they view as "inferior mutants" and adopt fascistic viewpoints, with the power to easily enforce them.

there may be others that are caring to a fault. Those who try to construct a Utopia only to wind up constructing a social artifice. A civil garden of people forced to pantomime some demigods vision of the perfect state that is simply not the vision of those forced to live it.

Out of a failed state or corrupt human nation, into a different sort of nightmare. The personal pet project of some egotistical sovard
Maybe the more true 'let people people" sovardi are able to take on these misguided or fascistic sovardi. But on the scale of the DragonScape that may take hundreds of earthen years for anyone to action respond to a horrific pet project of a demigod driven mad from watching the end of its own world
So really the Sovardi may in some cases become as nightmarish as balãr like Shõlresa, Veidrasil, Godomer, or Fruskod... just not as powerful. Though not so much less powerful as to be realistically overthrown by the mortal oppressed

so yeah

Just an alternate canon I've been thinking of. Take it as you will!