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This is an old revision of AvatarsVirtualWorld made by ConradWong on 2010-10-02 00:19:57.
Overview
Imagine a diadem of world-shards in orbit around a sun, strung not by any material line but by sparkling lines of magical force. The shards spin slowly, creating night and day. The light from the Sun possesses a healing and nourishing effect, restoring magical energy to the magicians of these worlds, but it is opposed by the Endless Night which seeks to drain that energy away into the inky void and turn the worlds into cold, dead stone.
The central kingdom of Avatars is named Tasavar, one near to the Sun and thus blessed with more magical energy - enough to allow it a Victorian level of technology, except with magic used in place of science. Craftmans still ply their trades, things are handcrafted, but they wield instruments that make materials much easier to shape, and imbue their creations with runes of strength and power. Great flying airships ferry passengers from one town to another, carved from giant tree trunks from a distant island, lofted by levistones extracted from another.
New for Avatars 2.0: the Empire of Stars has succeeded in conquering the Sentinel Shards and claims titular ownership of the Shipwreck, though in practice the Duke of Ships merely pays lip service and a modest tribute in exchange for the Empire sanctioning pirate activities as "privateers". Tasavar's situation worsens daily, forcing the King to turn to darker allies in hope of gaining the strength he needs to repel the Empire.
In the beginning, Tasavar had been ruled over by a wise, old king, Solomon, but early in the history of Avatars, he died, and it was up to the scattered heroes to search out his successor, and to hold the land together in the face of an invasion from the Endless Night as they struck in the moment of Tasavar's weakness. Shockingly, not one but two successors of equal eligibility were found, inaugurating a civil war between the North and South, and only recently has the land been reunited as the Southern King yielded to the Northern King, driven by the more important threat of the Empire of Stars which is seeking to unify all the worlds of the Diadem under its despotic rule.
- AvatarsMythos - about the magic that permeates the worlds of Avatars
- AvatarsShards - about the Shards of the Diadem
- AvatarsGuardianSpirits - about the Guardian Spirits
