Scope:Chromagaia/Keppel

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Under Heaven and Serenity, thy Cradle of terrible Magics turns.

This content takes place on Keppel, within Chromagaia.

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Chromagaia's time moves forward with ours! Today's date is:
Tyrrhsday, Liliyogh 22, 1134 LE

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Index / Lexica / Timeline

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IN LORE ARTICLE CONCERNING KEPPEL CAN BE FOUND HERE:

Overview

Keppel, one of the planets around the Sun Haerox, is the primary loreset, setting, and Parascope of the Scope of Chromagaia. Created by SunlitSmoothie, it follows a significantly more grounded set of storylines and genres than the wider Chromagaian universe, with philosophies and esoteric themes confined to the characters' own lives or the magic systems they interact with. As with all of Chromagaia, Keppel occupies the far-fantastical end of genres, though it tends to focus on low to mid-tech high fantasy. The setting itself is shaped by many adventure fantasy elements, including:

• An expansive multicultural world separated by vast wilderness.
• Persistent threats to the people of the world that encourage adventuring.
• Thousands of years of mysterious lost history able to be expanded on for myths.

Keppel's wider narrative is generally emergent from more character-focused narratives, though the power scales involved with the exploitable magic available to most people create periods of relative localization following global scale events. The presence of constant threats from monsters, spirits, and natural planetary phenomena shape the history of larger groups, but these are often explored in response to a character's story being written there.

Collaboration

Keppel is designed to be much easier to collaborate on than the rest of Chromagaia, featuring an immense array of pre-named city-states and an endlessly expandable list of races that can be contributed to by anyone who wishes to add. The lore affecting the wider universe, namely the astrography and the inhabitants (Dragons and Solborne spirits), is subject to much tighter control by Smoothie themself, but factors for explaining a much wider range of peoples and locations on Keppel itself have been put in place.

It is highly recommended to be careful when connecting histories together; periods of easy travel are uncommon and the majority of history has been done on a very local scale.

Themes

Keppel as a whole has room for various themes, but some of the more prominent ones that have emerged thus far include:

• Nature and magic versus technology and expansion
• Control contrasted against collaboration
• Personal identity
• Where authority ends

Most of these are explored in very localized settings (city-states, character arcs) but please feel free to contribute! There are plenty of world elements ready to interplay with a variety of ideas you may have.