Shelluria
Ervenian Era, 1051 AB
Shelluria, is the realm of Persana, and it is a stately archipelago of living citadels and measured currents, Shelluria is where cities sing and walls grow; blue avenues spiral around coral bastions, and every eddy knows its duty.
Law and Defense
Fouling waters, predation on citizens, and unlicensed large-scale magic are high crimes. Sentences tend toward restitution and public works; in war, offenders are conscripted into Boom Wall duty (projecting and maintaining mobile force-ramparts). Wardens coordinate with elemental cohorts and chorus beacons to field checkered phalanxes that fight with nets, tridents, and moving barricades.Economy and Exchange
Exports
Fortress-reefs, harbor works, tide-mills, plan-pearls, trained wardens, and civic hymncraft.Imports
Rare metals, fine timbers for instrument-bracing, scholars, and coastal treaties seeking enforcement.Customs
Foundation Vows
Before any public work, architects, wardens, and citizens clasp a tri-pronged trident and swear to the plan; the reef responds with a resonant thrum and begins to grow.Rotation of Service
Every adult triton serves one Tide (five years) in either defense, construction, education, or mediation; postings rotate by lottery to prevent factional stagnation.Court of Tides
Disputes are heard in rising pools; as arguments make water level climb or fall, judgments are delivered when the pool reaches the engraved mean line.Shell-Tithe
Visitors deposit a shaped shell or plan-tile; in return they receive a stamped route-token that grants safe passage and basic quarter.Muster Hymns
On alarm, streets sing, chorded whale-song that guides civilians inward and soldiers outward along counterpointed routes.Geography
Shelf after radiant shelf rises from sapphire deeps: each rim bears a ring of conch-bastions, their towers fused from pale coral, nacre, and aragonite bone. Between shelves, boulevard-currents curve like broad avenues, lit by lantern-jellies and lark-pink conch beacons that pulse civic signals. Parks are kelp colonnades trimmed into cloisters; aqueduct-streams arc from cistern domes to irrigation beds of sea-grape and spiraling shell gardens. Old walls do not crumble here—they thicken into memory-ridges, reading like strata of past sieges. At the realm’s heart, the Crown Shelf lifts a tiered metropolis whose avenues spiral toward a conch-shaped keep whose fluted chambers hum like a choir.
Notable Locations
Conch-Crown Citadel
Persana’s palace-fortress, a vast fluted conch whose inner halls are war-rooms and studios; its song can still a riot or rouse an army.The Armature
Naval yards and tactics college built around a ribcage of ancient leviathan-bone; cadets war-game with living currents.Hall of the Nine Codes
A forum of etched nacre tablets—the civic laws—kept by pearl-magistrates and precedent-spirits.Foundation Vault
Blueprint archives and seed-reefs; a single stolen plan-pearl could grow a fortress anywhere water will consent.Civic Spiral
Grand helical boulevard-current circling the Crown Shelf; parades, musters, and treaty processions.Breakwater Chain
Living bastions spanning three shelves; during siege they extrude latticework to net incoming threats.The Choir Groves
Kelp cloisters tuned to hymn-winds where guilds train singers who “conduct” currents during emergencies.Embassy Quay
Okyanus mooring and Asathalfinare row; neutral ground for sea-deity envoys and coastal city-states.Travel and Access
Conch-Gates
Heraldic conch shells keyed to civic sigils open pearled doorways from allied sanctums and triton cities in the multiverse.Boulevard-Currents
Waymarked flows (blue chevrons inset in coral) carry travelers shelf-to-shelf; keep right or be courteously redirected.Pearl Writs
Sealed pearls bearing a charter glyph grant entry to fortress precincts and accelerate bureaucratic rites; crushing one whispers your petition to a registrar-spirit.Okyanus Spur
A seasonal back-eddy from the River Okyanus moors at the Crown Shelf for embassy convoys and pilgrim fleets.Inhabitants
Tritons (architects, wardens, magistrates) form the backbone; merfolk, aquatic elves, and dolphins serve as guides and messengers; water elementals and coral-guardians patrol the boulevards; Asathalfinare envoys hold embassies. Petitioners of Persana manifest as charter-souls, having pearlescent silhouettes with measurable, practical talents. Kraken, Sahuagin, and Merabyssian marauders are repelled at the shelf-rims by living breakwaters.Localized Phenomena
Lawful Currents
Registered flows keep formation as attempts to swim against traffic meet a polite, irresistible nudge.Chorus Beacons
Conch towers broadcast orders as harmonics; attuned tokens translate the chords into your language.Blueprint Bloom
Approved designs seeded in plan-beds sprout scaffolding-coral overnight; unapproved changes refuse to take.Civic Silence
In courts and archives, sound above a measured whisper is absorbed by velvet anemones until gavels ring.Oathwake
Sworn oaths leave a faint wake as diviners can read its vector to verify intent and jurisdiction.Trait Type |
Description |
|---|---|
| Gravity | Buoyant, axial. Orientation aligns to the nearest civic axis (a spine-street current or tower-reef stray water feels “level” when you face the nearest thoroughfare. |
| Time | Steady-tidal. Court hours and musters run with clockwork regularity; outside crises, spells tied to construction, wards, and oaths last 25% longer. |
| Shape & Size | An infinite procession of reef-crowned plateaus called “shelves”, which are linked by boulevard-currents into a grand helical circuit of civic seas. |
| Morphic Traits | Divinely morphic to Persana; civic-morphic to chartered plans—registered streets, plazas, and walls slowly realign to relieve congestion or strengthen defense. |
| Elemental Energy | Water Dominant. |
| Alignment | Neutral. |
| Magic | Creation, protection, community, and water-shaping are enhanced (coral shaping, wall of water, glyphs, hallow). Unregistered large-area transmutation inside fortress districts is damped; chaotic blasts and wildfire effects are suppressed or deflected into baffles. Sonic effects travel cleanly along marked “voice lanes”. |
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