Weldiff - The capital city of Weldiff is relatively unimpressive compared to the capitals of the other world superpowers, but is a sizeable city nonetheless. The two things that set it apart from capital cities in the rest of the world is the opulent castle-palace that rests in the center of the city in a motte-and-bailey fashion, and the also very large headquarters of the Kadari Knights. The latter is also surrounded by a several barracks that house the surprisingly numerous members of the Knights, including those who work for them but aren’t tasked with hunting down Abbdi.

Pilk Cavalry - Emiril, besides hosting the Kadari Knights, is one of the few places in the world with climates conducive to the raising of Pilks; a type of lizard that grows to be the size of horses, and has very terrifying claws/teeth. There is a guild of people who devote most of their life to training, riding, and fighting atop these great beasts. While the valiant (and frankly, terrifying) riders of the mounts are too few in number to even consider for front-line combat, they are very effective for guerilla tactics.

Emiri Highlands - To the northwest of the Emiri Capital, in the foothills of the mountains, are the Emiri Highlands. Here there exists a number of strong warrior tribes that are generally considered part of the Kingdom of Emiril, but are in truth independent. The rough terrain of the land and the vigor of the inhabitants has kept Emiril from conquering them, but many warriors from the tribes often find themselves in the employ of the kingdom.

Yahanobe - The Hai Sanese capital is a sprawling and surprisingly down-to-earth city, if it can even be called that. The roads splitting up the naturally grown city are made of dirt, padded down by generations of citizens walking up and down them. Some areas, such as around popular temples and amongst the barracks, the roads have been paved and widened for the sake of traffic. The capitol building itself, a four-story wooden structure with significant religious design, stands on the edge of the lake that most of the city draws its water from. The most notable feature of this city is the large sacred gardens around the temple of Kami.

Munitions Corps - The Hai San Munitions Corps is the first full company of soldiers armed with muskets in the human world, though much beyond that is not known. They have only been around for roughly a year, but in that time they have distinguished themselves as a powerful force on the battlefield—at short range. Only the most skillful snipers able to hit targets regularly at ranges greater than twenty-five meters, and most only at five or ten.

The Northern Tundra - The lands north of the Hai Son Kingdom are cold and fruitless, yet home to several Viking-like warrior tribes. They raid coastal villages and islands all over the world, looting them for food and women, though they usually leave the town intact. The Hai Sanese have developed effective defenses against these raiders, but occasionally will coerce them into raiding towns owned by other nations if it suits them.

Adilla - A city built entirely in the last century, Adilla is an impressive feat of engineering. The port city is mostly built over water, with entire arms reaching into the sea in order to house more and more boats. The city can play host to several hundred ships simultaneously thanks to this design, and this connection to the outside world makes it almost unsiegeable. The other major facet of the city is the grand roost in its center, which holds the nation’s entire air-force. It isn’t a single building, but a large collection of tall buildings meant to house everything from small wyverns to sphinxes.

Air Warriors - Something almost entirely unique to the empire, is that a large number of winged beasts live within its borders. They have tamed a fairly large number of these and turned them into mounts for dragoons, cavalry, and archers. The three major beasts used for this section of their military are: Wyverns, while only large enough to fit one person at a time, can carry people in heavy platemail into the sky with no problem; Gryphons, which are most available mount to the empire, carry archers or lightly armored cavalry into battle regularly; and sphinxes, which are warriors in their own right (They’re also usually too dangerous to ride). This special attack force grants the Amidal empire a huge advantage in almost any fight.

The Wide Deserts - In the southwestern part of Peruwix lies the Itle Desert. It is mostly desolate wasteland, though a number of tribes roam over it to the various oasis. There are a few permanent settlements here, but they are large towns at best. The area is also a popular place for salamanders and basilisks.

The Grand Tower - The Tower is a massive, man-made structure, that houses over two hundred mages, and contains the most extensive set of studies, laboratories, and libraries in the world. The building itself only stands thanks to it being built and maintained constantly by magic. It is also built atop the only Magic Well on the continent, where even a novice’s spells are amplified tenfold.

The Madari Mages - The Madari Mages are a convent of magic users from the world over, wielding sorceries granting powers those without magic can only dream of. Many study and practice their entire lives at the Tower, learning the secrets of the world, though there are also those who sell their services to the powers of the world or join groups like the Kadari Knights. Mages that show particular aptitude have the potential to become one of the twelve Archmagi, who possess some fraction of knowledge of The Truth. They make decisions for the whole of mage kind, and have the power to forbid mages from working for a particular individual or whole group.

The Madari Mountains - The Madari Mountains are actually an artificial construction. They were created in a much more tumultuous time of the world, when Abbdi stalked the countryside regularly, and the armies of the world felt they could demand the services of the Archmagi in destroying the monsters. As they marched to the tower, threatening it and mages everywhere, the Archmages gathered together and cast a massive spell which rose mountains beneath the armies, crushing them. Now, the mountains are practically impassible for armies, and the groups living within the mountains know when an attack is coming well before it arrives.

Voldttism - Named after Audrey Voldtt, one of the heroes who founded the Kadari Knights and the only survivor of the encounter with a legendary Abbdi. They believe strongly that good people go to a place called the Aether, an absolute antithesis to the nothingness of the void. A part of this belief is that the Aether and the Void came together to form the world, and that the heroes that founded the Kadari Knights were, essentially, Abbdi from the Aether. Followers of Voldttism also believe that there is a god watching over all three planes of existence, and who decides where one goes after death. This religion is held primarily by the Emiri peoples.

Iodism - Iods believe that the void is not something separate from the world, but just another part of it. They believe that all of nature is a singular, flowing, river. From Birth to Death to the beyond one flows, and along that path one must respect everything that follows its own parallel path. Iods see the Abbdi as those who have broken from the natural order of things, and that is why they act so evilly. It is most usual for the people of Amidal Empire to hold these beliefs.

Manduism - Manduists believe the Abddi are spawned from creatures in life that were already horrible, and their evil persisted in them to their next life. Otherwise, their beliefs are simple: You do what you are best at in life, and after you die you are brought back as either something higher in the order or lower depending on how well you did it. They believe in many gods that rule the universe, the most powerful and important of which being Kami, the god of creation. The Hai Sanese almost exclusively follow this religion.

General Facts of Magery - Being a mage is not a simple matter. Almost no one trusts magic, and in many societies mages are killed if they don't have someone or something standing behind them, metaphorically speaking. This is why most Mages who manage to live to adulthood join groups like the Kadari Knights and Madari Mages. From within those groups, mages can safely act in the world with the knowledge that there are people who will make sure they don't get hurt. This safety is usually used to study aspects of the world and learn new spells not available in the stuffy classrooms and libraries of the Grand Tower. When out and about, however, Mages are usually have to rely on melodrama, wit, and slight of hand in order to avoid being attacked anyway. Even most relatively powerful spells are rather dull looking, and very few people who would attack a mage fear dull-looking spells more than they hate mages.

The Learning of Spells - Aptitude, as a mage, is impossible to determine at a glance. The first part of being a mage is having a natural talent for Magic, which is often referred to as one's 'mana.' This dictates what levels of magic someone can learn can learn, and texts describing magics someone does not have the mana to learn will usually be completely incomprehensible (It is rare, but not unheard of, that a spell different from the one the book teaches is learned that is within the scope of the reader's mana). The second part is one's studiousness. Spells are learned through research and understanding of the spell and its effects on multiple levels. If someone cannot sit down long enough to learn, they will never be a mage. The third part to learning spells is one's disposition. Every mage has their own understanding and interpretation of a spell, based on their biases towards the spell and their personality. An excellent example is the spells 'fireball' and 'fire heal.' Both were originally learned (by different mages) from the same text, but one create wounds and the other closes them.

The Components of a Spell - Part of learning a spell is figuring out what basic magical 'components' form it. Components are the subdivisions of magic that make up the spell. All components fall under five types: Aether, which is associated with light and warmth; Order, which is peace and shaping; Void, normally gathered with darkness and a lack of heat; Chaos, denoting war and destruction; and Limbo, which is beyond the scope of most people's mana and is associated with creation and fate. Of any given spell, these components can be quantified and counted, but doing so requires a significant amount of resources put forward by very powerful wizards. This is why it is usually left to the user of the spell to know the components of the spell.

The Casting of a Spell - Casting a spell is simple. One must simply speak the word, or words, of the spell and have a focus for the spell to effect. The word is what is learned when one learns a spell. It is a word from the language of the world, referred to as simply Truth, and these words hold so much power that if you do know the word when you hear it said you can't quite understand it. For example, if the word were 'Claroan,' one might hear something like 'Cl**oh**n,' if they did not know the spell themselves. The simpler part of the spell-casting process is the focus. One must simply have their mind dedicated to the object or place the spell is meant to effect, and when the spell is spoken it will effect that object or place. Most mages, however, lack the discipline to focus their mind cleanly on one object. The way to get around this incapability is to make some kind of hand motion towards the object. Even a flick of the wrist and a glance can be enough is one is practiced.

Now simply put the word and focus together and... Oh dear, your fireball barely charred his shirt you say? Well, that is simply because magic is inherently weak. To create the truly catastrophic effects you are looking for, one needs to add Reagents. The reagents needed for a spell are specific to the kind of spell and the particular effects of the spell. Ashes, for example, are common for fire spells. These regents are used up at the mages discretion when the spell is cast, and amplify its effect to some extent. Higher quality, better mixed, or more aligned reagents usually will provide stronger effects. An alternate way to power a spell is to use one's own life force. This is incredibly ill-advised however, as life-force does not 'grow back' or 'return' in any sense of the word. The use of life force in a spell, however, greatly increases its power. Theoretically, even a novice mage could destroy a city if, from being perfectly healthy, they sacrificed all their life force into a single fireball spell. A feat which is, indeed, possible. However, no one has ever hated a city with such a passion they would kill themselves to destroy it, and oftentimes cities have enchantment spells that would protect against such things to some degree.