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~Welcome to Tuvia! Check the yellow comment below.~

A PLANE MADE AND UNMADE

The world of Tuvia is a semi artificial one created by the a gap in the aether itself, formed as a tube with the land water and air all encompassed by the rest of the plane. It's land only holds temporary permanence as from creation to destruction any location will only exist for at most seven years.

At the 'forward' of the plane is a sea that caps off the tube, featuring a great whirlpool known as The Vortex, and the source of all in Tuvia. It churns out the smaller seas and the land itself, constantly growing and birthing the world itself. Known only to the few Merfolk that have pushed upstream is the existence of a Sunfish the size of a continent, always swimming and swirling The Vortex and protecting the mysteries deep within its infinite ocean.

At the 'end' of the world however is a being that only knows one function, that being consumption. Loubus the Great Hydra is less of a creature and more of a fixture of the aether, it's endless expanse of heads eat away at the plane itself and devour all that doesn't keep moving upwards. The World Grinder is a reminder to all sentience of inevitability itself while it eats.

In the core of it all, suspended in the very centre of Tuvia is a stone spire that reaches both ends yet touches neither. The one place of true permanence is here, it is both Sun and Timepiece for a world with little history. From the Spire comes orbs of light that rotate slowly around it to simulate the effects of day and night. On the night side one would see much dimmer lights of variant colors marking changes in seasons and acting like a calendar for Tuvan residents.

THE RACES OF TUVIA

All that live in Tuvia are nomads by birth, taking part in the crawl forwards to the vortex and away from Loubus. Each species has its unique way of traveling, some by purpose and some by sheer luck.

Humans: White and Black Prolific and industrious, humans of Tuvia travel in ordered form with little remorse for a land that won't exist in another few years anyways. Through slavery of their own they carve out roads for themselves, laying clay brick so they may cart their accumulated treasures and stores in direct defiance of a world that asks you to release your burdens if you want to live.

Goblins: Blue and Red

Goblins live in zepplins soaring above all the little folk that walk. Wielding the most advanced technology on the plane they keep a dutiful watch on the landscape below and the Spire above. They are the only ones known to have actual written logs of the history in Tuvia, along with maps of generations past, including knowledge of the goblins own extraplanar origins. They deploy rapid working mining crews to the mountains and hilly regions where ores and fuel are formed in the exposed landscape, returning with the supplies and materials needed to maintain the Goblin Flotilla.

Fungus: Black and Green

The Ukari swarm is a semi sentient fungal growth that sprawls around the end reaches of Tuvia, propogating itself ahead of Loubus with spores and various successful mutations. The Ukari is the planes last processing of the land that passes through, absorbing and digesting the debris and flotsam left behind by Tuvans. Occasionally the nerve systems of the swarm will catapult themselves further along the world and spread, shaking up the lives of stragglers too close to the end.

Catfolk: Red and White

The roaming tribes of the Khatna are a tight knit and cooperative clowder, traveling light as they traverse Tuvia. They pass down tales of glory both old and new as songs of travel, the rhythm of their running casting the beat. The Khatna are of the few treat joy of experience as a greater goal than survival, and traditionally will travel to see Loubus up close at least once in their lives.

Merfolk (Option 1): Green and Blue

Merkwell residents are a reclusive group, seeing themselves as superior to the other races only for the fact that they live the closest to the Vortex, an assumption that causes minor discord amongst them. They have unintentionally become the shapers of the lands that trail past them, the accelerated erosion and weathering by their finicky magics defining a landscape.

Moonfolk (Option 2): Green and Blue

The Soratami that live in Tuvia are a reclusive group, studying the plane from their hanging palaces that are chained to something deep in the waters of the vortex. The only place in Tuvia where gravity goes downward to Loubus, they watch the world spiral away in endless descent. Though they didn't create Tuvia they were among the first to be brought there by means unknown to them, the chained palaces fashioned for them by an unknown creator.

AS A MAGIC: THE GATHERING EXPANSION

This is a creature oriented set that plays into creature types and the mechanical space there, with a light graveyard theme coming through as well.

Updated on 30 Jun 2018 by HarrisonA