- Grand ships of metal once sailed the void between the orbs. The well learned will tell you the truth of this can be found in many ancient tomes that must be read with light in the libraries of the College of Sandmür in Raqsptkatoon. The well traveled will tell you the truth of this can be found in the snows of the southern wastes, where well preserved hulks of marooned metal hulled craft can still occasionally peek above the snow drifts. The wise will tell you the truth of this can be found on the lips of gods themselves and that Amblequous the Void Spanner still allows their followers the powers to traverse worlds.
- The Old Gods are real and were once more powerful than the Pentagra. While this is no news to any brave enough to still live in the provinces of the highlands, young city state dwellers are still surprised to hear that fairytale creatures like Neseekus, Shimhooks, and Grome are still revered by practitioners of the old ways and their light has not gone out just yet, though it maybe in twilight.
- Diaspora, conquest, immigration, assimilation, enslavement, and colonization have led to diverse physical populations across the globe with little genetic consistency among cultures. People of all colors, sizes and genders make up the cultures of the world from the barbarian tribes of the far southern ice wastes to the god-like intelligentsia of the equatorial tower islands.
- Civilization has risen and fallen many times upon the face of Galiu and it’s sister worlds. The evidence is everywhere. The Cobleswords of Daimo are a prime example. Their alien and varied materials are likely of some ancient technology or metallurgy. But they often come apart at the welds as the exact secrets of their smithing are long lost. And who hasn’t heard of the lost city of Cozu on Mora? Surely magics alone did not stand the multitudes of spires on end for the ages to devour.
- “Men of Metal” have traveled through time and brought with them knowledge of strange, reality bending technologies, but whether they come from the future or the past is unknowable. Even the travelers themselves are unclear on the relation of their destination to their starting point. Many have come as wise refugees. Some use this knowledge to further their fellow humans while others hold it over them and bask in the power it brings. Any city state worth its weight in Titan dung will have at least one Man of Metal in its employ as a trusted technical advisor or uneasy partner to its ruler.
- Once upon a time, the night sky was full of stars if you can believe it. It is written in so many scrolls and texts that it surely must have been more than myth. But where did they come from and where have they gone?
- The weather of Nizour is highly unpredictable. While some planets have seasons, the encroaching icy poles and limited axial tilt lead to inconstant season lengths and severity. While some geographical areas or places with ancient magical enamourment may trend towards more consistent patterns much of Oramba is at the whim of mother nature. Luckily It has been several centuries since the last world storm: The Green Eye. There have likely been six recorded in history although there is some ground for debate if some may be reckoned twice in some cultures by mistake. Once spun up, these great cyclones circle the globe time after time remaking the surface of the planet.
- The massive volcano along the equator of Nizour is known far and wide as Howk’m the World Killer. It is believed to have smoldered and sputtered since the first knowings of men yet no eruption has ever been recorded by history. With good reason, the wise posit that its final eruption will spell the end of all things. It was long ago decreed that all directions should flow from Howk’m so that no country would be considered the center of the world as no civilization was possible upon the Doorstep of Doom. The East and West hemispheres take their names using Howk’m as a central point. The continent on the opposite side of Nizour, The Far Lands, are the long lost kingdoms upon which the first tendrils of chaos played fourth and began their ruin.
- The Eastern, Western and Far Continent have all fallen to the hordes of chaos. Lonely and desolate (by comparison) Oramba just east of Howk’m and the thousand islands of the seas West of the volcano are the last home for a scattered and civilized humanity. Even now the lowlands of Oramba are not safe and many have been overrun. The Wild and exotic mesas, however, remain largely untouched by the full force of the chuning shadow.
- The Far Continent was once known as Zeith. In the first ages of humans it is said that the first woman crawled from the Cave of Ized and gave birth to all men who came after. This same hallowed ground was, ironically perhaps, the same that birthed Aprazhury and the Burned Man. Zeith has ever been the most civilized and advanced lands of Nizour and the wise mourn the secrets lost in its now razed libraries and colleges.
- On other worlds, plants are largely green in color. This may be hard to believe but many worlds only harbor what we would call Cone and Acorn bearers. The sky-blue Pod and Feather family, the rich magenta Blade and Rope Family, The vivid and vibrant, orange-brown Dome and Platter family and the rainbow hued Tower Walkers are all thought to be unique to our orb.
- We are not the only Orb to have been touched by the Pentagra and their wretched Anathema Kin. It is whispered that the strife has come to all Haucumgalium in some form or another.
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