Alllright long time no see for the thing that actually made the DragonScape so lets talk about The Steiron in as detailed a view as I can afford to give!
Can't have billions of dragon gods flood into our reality for no reason what soever after all, its the closest this setting has to a McGuffin that about noone knows exists, and really noone truly understands until the very end of its existence.
First lets go back to the one that weaves the blanket
There are things higher than the Raddir, higher than any god and, the way I refer to it outside of canon is as "It that weaves the blanket" or "the one that weaves the blanket". Whatever it is and/or is not, it is the entity/entities that make realities, the infinity of realities that ideally never actually clash or merge or nothing of the sort. and it is this entity that makes and places the Steiron. As for our reality The Steiron is a keystone that keeps the other realities nearby from flooding into our own, it's a sink plug in a way of thinking, it seals realities and separates them.
In the case of our reality it is a humble stone, modest really and rather unassuming. For one reason or another it wound up onto our planet and over billions of years of gradual tectonic processes would wind up where it is in 2020 when a Brazilian mining operation would incidentally damage it, causing The Pulse and the creation of the DragonScape in it's entirety.
It is also a massive rock, standing at 18 meters tall and about 8 meters in width, its an imperfect butte of a rock made up of a dull red material, the qualities of which are like stone, but of no specific stone. Prior to its breaking it most certainly would have appeared benign, perhaps the only sign of potential supernaturalness about it being the resonance emenating from it, enough to give someone near it an understandable unease.
But after it was broken
It has become a font, spilling forth Õndemic reality into our own, initially resulting in the Pulse and creating a Õndemic wave pushing through space and reality well past the speed of light. It is from the Steiron that the endless spiral of Õndemic reality flows and, it was its breakage that caused The Pulse to begin with and the consequent DragonScape
Since then It has remained, broken no further and rarely touched as, ontop of other things it is a death sentence to approach even if not for violent reasons.
Coming within 30 meters of The steiron's location will bring people into something of a different space of a barren landscape, wracked by the unfiltered resonance of the Raddir that will likely result in the death of any living creature or spirit by resonant dissipation, or by starvation, dehydration, etc. due to being trapped in the space
Though this would change in the Human Thalmvaric war
In which a united alliance of draconic states would seek to 'set right the balance between monster and drake' by breaking the Steiron entirely, fully consuming what what remained of "human reality" with that of Õndemic space and reality. To this end a sacrifice was made in the form of a team of dragons who faced their own outright annihilation (no afterlife for those who die near the steiron) who ensured the steiron would be truly shattered once and for all. This second break and crumbling would cause Õndemic reality to flood reality and a centuries long apocalyptic war between the remnants of the reality that was against dragonkind that would be known as the Human-Thalmvaric war.
or, more generally, as What Wrought the Ongoing, a war so apocalyptic that it led to the death hundreds of billions of creatures across the universe, the collapse and scouring of draconic society across the planar, and the extinction of the last of the reality that was, humanity included.
And from that point onward, the Steiron was no more and two realities were forever joined, one swallowing the other.
But back to the Steiron in the Awakening period
Particularly Who knows about it?
Which namely, is just about noone. There are only a handful of people in the DragonScape who even know of it's existence, and I mean about 4 people during the Awakening Period. Those being what was left of the miners who originally broke the rock. Even then they most certainly don't understand what the Steiron even is, just that they broke it and it probably created all the problems they face today.
So we can get into the Guardiões da Mina
who also refer to themselves as the Rencaões are the society built closest to The Steiron and have a lot of indirect feelings about it.
The Rencaõ chiefdom lives amongst the hostile saltmarshes of Renca and, over the decades have built up a surprisingly successful urban society from these marshes and, by the time of Imuas arrival, would be a growing regional and military power. This society would start off led by those 4 aforementioned miners and was mostly constructed off of one major goal (at least on their part)
being: PLEASE GOD DON'T LET ANYONE ELSE GET NEAR THIS GOD DAMN THING
While the city isn't really that near to the Steiron, most of the drekir there understand the supernatural properties of it and, the 4 miners included, see it to some extent as a holy land, a sacred space beyond space and time that is theirs to protect. It's not just a pragmatic duty, its a religious and cultural one.
This has lead the Rencaões to become a highly militaristic society, but also one hellbent on manatechnological experimentation to better make their land liveable and to better protect what they see as the thing to protect at all costs, which would lead to them becoming the dominant power of Southeastern (what was Northeastern) South America, becoming one of the earliest empires in DS history as early as the 5th century PA
Though on the long run this region like so many others would face maaaany societal shifts, collapses and reconstructions, dark ages and golden ages, and ironically 20 thousand years later, it would be the long descendent peoples of the Guardiões who were known to devote themselves to defending the steiron this who would crumble the steiron once and for all
So yeah
The Steiron, lore as old as the setting itself and the thing that broke, which then broke reality. Drew it last about... 5 years ago? yeah 5 years ago, man crazy!
Can't have billions of dragon gods flood into our reality for no reason what soever after all, its the closest this setting has to a McGuffin that about noone knows exists, and really noone truly understands until the very end of its existence.
First lets go back to the one that weaves the blanket
There are things higher than the Raddir, higher than any god and, the way I refer to it outside of canon is as "It that weaves the blanket" or "the one that weaves the blanket". Whatever it is and/or is not, it is the entity/entities that make realities, the infinity of realities that ideally never actually clash or merge or nothing of the sort. and it is this entity that makes and places the Steiron. As for our reality The Steiron is a keystone that keeps the other realities nearby from flooding into our own, it's a sink plug in a way of thinking, it seals realities and separates them.
In the case of our reality it is a humble stone, modest really and rather unassuming. For one reason or another it wound up onto our planet and over billions of years of gradual tectonic processes would wind up where it is in 2020 when a Brazilian mining operation would incidentally damage it, causing The Pulse and the creation of the DragonScape in it's entirety.
It is also a massive rock, standing at 18 meters tall and about 8 meters in width, its an imperfect butte of a rock made up of a dull red material, the qualities of which are like stone, but of no specific stone. Prior to its breaking it most certainly would have appeared benign, perhaps the only sign of potential supernaturalness about it being the resonance emenating from it, enough to give someone near it an understandable unease.
But after it was broken
It has become a font, spilling forth Õndemic reality into our own, initially resulting in the Pulse and creating a Õndemic wave pushing through space and reality well past the speed of light. It is from the Steiron that the endless spiral of Õndemic reality flows and, it was its breakage that caused The Pulse to begin with and the consequent DragonScape
Since then It has remained, broken no further and rarely touched as, ontop of other things it is a death sentence to approach even if not for violent reasons.
Coming within 30 meters of The steiron's location will bring people into something of a different space of a barren landscape, wracked by the unfiltered resonance of the Raddir that will likely result in the death of any living creature or spirit by resonant dissipation, or by starvation, dehydration, etc. due to being trapped in the space
Though this would change in the Human Thalmvaric war
In which a united alliance of draconic states would seek to 'set right the balance between monster and drake' by breaking the Steiron entirely, fully consuming what what remained of "human reality" with that of Õndemic space and reality. To this end a sacrifice was made in the form of a team of dragons who faced their own outright annihilation (no afterlife for those who die near the steiron) who ensured the steiron would be truly shattered once and for all. This second break and crumbling would cause Õndemic reality to flood reality and a centuries long apocalyptic war between the remnants of the reality that was against dragonkind that would be known as the Human-Thalmvaric war.
or, more generally, as What Wrought the Ongoing, a war so apocalyptic that it led to the death hundreds of billions of creatures across the universe, the collapse and scouring of draconic society across the planar, and the extinction of the last of the reality that was, humanity included.
And from that point onward, the Steiron was no more and two realities were forever joined, one swallowing the other.
But back to the Steiron in the Awakening period
Particularly Who knows about it?
Which namely, is just about noone. There are only a handful of people in the DragonScape who even know of it's existence, and I mean about 4 people during the Awakening Period. Those being what was left of the miners who originally broke the rock. Even then they most certainly don't understand what the Steiron even is, just that they broke it and it probably created all the problems they face today.
So we can get into the Guardiões da Mina
who also refer to themselves as the Rencaões are the society built closest to The Steiron and have a lot of indirect feelings about it.
The Rencaõ chiefdom lives amongst the hostile saltmarshes of Renca and, over the decades have built up a surprisingly successful urban society from these marshes and, by the time of Imuas arrival, would be a growing regional and military power. This society would start off led by those 4 aforementioned miners and was mostly constructed off of one major goal (at least on their part)
being: PLEASE GOD DON'T LET ANYONE ELSE GET NEAR THIS GOD DAMN THING
While the city isn't really that near to the Steiron, most of the drekir there understand the supernatural properties of it and, the 4 miners included, see it to some extent as a holy land, a sacred space beyond space and time that is theirs to protect. It's not just a pragmatic duty, its a religious and cultural one.
This has lead the Rencaões to become a highly militaristic society, but also one hellbent on manatechnological experimentation to better make their land liveable and to better protect what they see as the thing to protect at all costs, which would lead to them becoming the dominant power of Southeastern (what was Northeastern) South America, becoming one of the earliest empires in DS history as early as the 5th century PA
Though on the long run this region like so many others would face maaaany societal shifts, collapses and reconstructions, dark ages and golden ages, and ironically 20 thousand years later, it would be the long descendent peoples of the Guardiões who were known to devote themselves to defending the steiron this who would crumble the steiron once and for all
So yeah
The Steiron, lore as old as the setting itself and the thing that broke, which then broke reality. Drew it last about... 5 years ago? yeah 5 years ago, man crazy!
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>Though this would change in the Human Thalmvaric war
Can I ask? Why draconic states decided to do that? The breaking of Steiron I mean. They find humans or human reality "intolerable" to them or can't coexist with them or something? Or they considered that existance of two separate realities can cause something bad? It's just looks like planar-level dickmove on their part to destroy Steiron. Considering that after that followed apocalypse and horrible war confirms this was indeed a dickmove.
Also speaking about "balance between monster and dragon", correct me if I'm wrong, all this dragon species are invaders into human plane of existance, and treating humans as "monsters" kinda douchy on their part (despite that humans have many flaws and failings of their own) if I'm being honest.
Can I ask? Why draconic states decided to do that? The breaking of Steiron I mean. They find humans or human reality "intolerable" to them or can't coexist with them or something? Or they considered that existance of two separate realities can cause something bad? It's just looks like planar-level dickmove on their part to destroy Steiron. Considering that after that followed apocalypse and horrible war confirms this was indeed a dickmove.
Also speaking about "balance between monster and dragon", correct me if I'm wrong, all this dragon species are invaders into human plane of existance, and treating humans as "monsters" kinda douchy on their part (despite that humans have many flaws and failings of their own) if I'm being honest.
It was a lot of factors, by this point the American plane had been conquered and subdued by a series of larger draconic states, and considering that the late-prethalmvar was one smothered in romanticized notions of radical nationalism and imperialism, many states were looking either to other planar to colonize or to expand their own plane.
Knowledge of humans by this point was pretty well spread, most people knew humanity laid beyond the chiming haze and, a common notion in many nations was that land should have been rightfully theirs. And instead of their rightful rule a bunch of horrific looking skinwalking monsters were letting it waste away under their poor leadership. But for a while nothing was really able to be done about that due to the whole chiming haze being a hard border.
But after the Steiron became more well understood the notion of breaking it and settling a land of monsters became more appealing until, eventually, a coalition of states decided to shatter the steiron once and for all and wage the apocalyptic human-thalmvaric war.
also keep in mind that by this point it had been 20,000 years since The Pulse, to many dragons the origins of the DragonScape itself is very very foggy. Many a dragon at that period doesn't really know that their deep past ancestors may have very well been human themselves. It's kinda a lost understanding so to many a dragon, they see the human plane as the invading one.
Still bigoted, these dragon societies and the soldiers that fought in this war were outright fascists and there is a reason these states fell apart in the aftermath of this war. They have a justification (well many) and they are all generally wrong
Knowledge of humans by this point was pretty well spread, most people knew humanity laid beyond the chiming haze and, a common notion in many nations was that land should have been rightfully theirs. And instead of their rightful rule a bunch of horrific looking skinwalking monsters were letting it waste away under their poor leadership. But for a while nothing was really able to be done about that due to the whole chiming haze being a hard border.
But after the Steiron became more well understood the notion of breaking it and settling a land of monsters became more appealing until, eventually, a coalition of states decided to shatter the steiron once and for all and wage the apocalyptic human-thalmvaric war.
also keep in mind that by this point it had been 20,000 years since The Pulse, to many dragons the origins of the DragonScape itself is very very foggy. Many a dragon at that period doesn't really know that their deep past ancestors may have very well been human themselves. It's kinda a lost understanding so to many a dragon, they see the human plane as the invading one.
Still bigoted, these dragon societies and the soldiers that fought in this war were outright fascists and there is a reason these states fell apart in the aftermath of this war. They have a justification (well many) and they are all generally wrong
Since this war was "apocalyptic", humans were not afraid of using forbidden weaponry I suppose? And let me guess, unified dreks probably didn't expected that humans of "mainland" was not pushovers unlike SEAC colonies which settled in their lands? Anyway what exactly happened after breaking of Steiron? Their reality finally consumed ours or Old Mother Earth resisted influence of another plane and this have become some sort of weird symbiosis of realities?
>Many a dragon at that period doesn't really know that their deep past ancestors may have very well been human themselves
It's ironic really that bigoted humans were right in the end, that drekified humans will "turn feral" (forget that they were humans once), not in the way they expected though.
>Still bigoted, these dragon societies and the soldiers that fought in this war were outright fascists and there is a reason these states fell apart in the aftermath of this war
What happened with them after war? Raw carnage of war caused change of heart or all extremistic ones simply all died off? And since humanity officially gone after this period, their "legacy" (history) will be preserved or yet again forgotten as form of tragedy for story? If after war didn't happened world shattering event that is.
PS I hope I'm not very pestering with my questions, your worldbuilding is just very interesting
>Many a dragon at that period doesn't really know that their deep past ancestors may have very well been human themselves
It's ironic really that bigoted humans were right in the end, that drekified humans will "turn feral" (forget that they were humans once), not in the way they expected though.
>Still bigoted, these dragon societies and the soldiers that fought in this war were outright fascists and there is a reason these states fell apart in the aftermath of this war
What happened with them after war? Raw carnage of war caused change of heart or all extremistic ones simply all died off? And since humanity officially gone after this period, their "legacy" (history) will be preserved or yet again forgotten as form of tragedy for story? If after war didn't happened world shattering event that is.
PS I hope I'm not very pestering with my questions, your worldbuilding is just very interesting
I mean by 20k PA humanity had their own extreme weaponry, from Nuclear lasers to Õndemic reality deafeners that could halt the wave of Õndemic reality in some areas, creating small fortresses. This is a war in which many of the Balàr were even killed in the last stand fights of humanity.
Of course after the final crumble of the Steiron began the human thalmvaric war, mentioned above which raged for centuries until eventually humanity died and the war engine of these increasingly fascistic societies fell apart, leading to massive societal collapse, environmental collapse, and economic collapse. So much so to where the American planar would be rendered uninhabitable and the survivors of the americas scattering across the newer planar to resettle, over time diverging from the cultures they escaped from.
This would lead to the Thalmvar, which is more or less 20kPA onward and is marked by a near infinite scatter of dragons across thousands of planar, mostly smaller non state societies.
I wouldn't say drekir turned feral either
If anything the fascistic, nationalistic fervor that led to the human thalmvaric war was the opposite of what human colonials would refer to as "feral". Their societies became larger and more centralized, domineering and more imperialistic, and more complex in technology and social organization.
The societies became bigger or, as a 19th century Dave might describe them as, "Civilized". These would be the draconic societies that crushed the other smaller societies of the DragonScape, founded empires and then looked to the humanland to take more.
And no problem! I am here to answer questions!
Of course after the final crumble of the Steiron began the human thalmvaric war, mentioned above which raged for centuries until eventually humanity died and the war engine of these increasingly fascistic societies fell apart, leading to massive societal collapse, environmental collapse, and economic collapse. So much so to where the American planar would be rendered uninhabitable and the survivors of the americas scattering across the newer planar to resettle, over time diverging from the cultures they escaped from.
This would lead to the Thalmvar, which is more or less 20kPA onward and is marked by a near infinite scatter of dragons across thousands of planar, mostly smaller non state societies.
I wouldn't say drekir turned feral either
If anything the fascistic, nationalistic fervor that led to the human thalmvaric war was the opposite of what human colonials would refer to as "feral". Their societies became larger and more centralized, domineering and more imperialistic, and more complex in technology and social organization.
The societies became bigger or, as a 19th century Dave might describe them as, "Civilized". These would be the draconic societies that crushed the other smaller societies of the DragonScape, founded empires and then looked to the humanland to take more.
And no problem! I am here to answer questions!
>This would lead to the Thalmvar, which is more or less 20kPA onward and is marked by a near infinite scatter of dragons across thousands of planar, mostly smaller non state societies
So this is like "wild west" or "wild fantasy world" with drekir now after everything? I hope this small tribes at least keep the history records, because, you know, to not repeat the same mistakes again.
>I wouldn't say drekir turned feral either
Under "feral" I meaned that dragons which descended from transformed humans have forgotten or even didn't know their ancestry or origin, and because of that they turned native, basically assimilated into dragon society and of course into "human-hating order" too
So this is like "wild west" or "wild fantasy world" with drekir now after everything? I hope this small tribes at least keep the history records, because, you know, to not repeat the same mistakes again.
>I wouldn't say drekir turned feral either
Under "feral" I meaned that dragons which descended from transformed humans have forgotten or even didn't know their ancestry or origin, and because of that they turned native, basically assimilated into dragon society and of course into "human-hating order" too
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