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Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen
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Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the Cronox binary star system. The stars Cordes and Arjos are distant binaries, so on Helevos, Arjos is only seen in the northern hemisphere as star, sometimes bright enough to be seen during the day, circling roughly over the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen is a fantasy world of magicplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMagic

In common terms, magic is the art of producing a desired outcome through occult means. Various arts are described as magical, from common street illusionists, village herbalists, and rituals for the intercession of deities. However, true magic is the art and science of elemental mastery, harnessing elemental creatures and instructing them to perform simple or complex tasks. and science, divided by two incompatible biologies: the Green Kingdomplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. of humans, trees, grasses, cropsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFlora

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Virid Flora

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List of red-blooded mammals, members of the Green Kingdom closely related to humans.

Fauna

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topics faun1, and the Virid Kingdomplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. of toxic jungles, poisonous plants, terrifying creatures and airborne infectionsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSpor

Spor are the single-celled reproductive units of virid plants, distinct from seeds or spores found in the green kingdom. Most spor are airborne, release from spor-pods, the fruiting bodies of virid plants. Many spor are motile with rudimentary flagella, either fertilising mature plants, or randomly bonding with the spor of other plants and settling to make a new plant seedling.viridviridvirid.

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The Civilised World has many nations, from small island republics to vast continental empires, which over the millennia have carved homelands out of the once hostile virid landscape. The two great opposing world powers of today are the holy nation of Ororr and the maritime empire of of the Civilised Worldplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCivilised World

The Civilised World refers to the known regions of human civilisation, notably the continent of Anásthias, the Natorn Archipelago and surrounding islands.

Gastrinimer's 3rd century BME Map of the World, showing Anásthias and the Natorn Isles. Note: old maps place north to the right.AnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthias on the island continent of Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable HartheraOrorr, dominated by the two Great Powersplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreat Powers

Great Powers are the most powerful nations in the world, the greatest modern powers being Ororr and Harthera.: the magicalplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMagic

In common terms, magic is the art of producing a desired outcome through occult means. Various arts are described as magical, from common street illusionists, village herbalists, and rituals for the intercession of deities. However, true magic is the art and science of elemental mastery, harnessing elemental creatures and instructing them to perform simple or complex tasks. theocracyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMother Church of Ororr (Therism)

The Mother Church is the state religion of Ororr, which combines both religion and government in one institution. It is based on the teachings of the Great Prophet Therion, who in the early decades of the modern era raised an army that conquered much of northwestern OrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrMEOrorrMEMEOrorrOrorrHerHerHerHerHerHerHerHerHerher of Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrviridlanguagelanguagelanguage, and the steam-powered naval might of Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridviridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr.

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Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life.

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Anrel Isles

Anrel [ANN-rel], or the Anrel Isles, is the most northerly island group in the Natorn Archipelago. It consists of three major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest, colloquially if infrequently called Mainland, is divided between the kingdoms of HM
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Anrel [ANN-rel], or the Anrel Isles, is the most northerly island group in the Natorn Archipelago. It consists of three major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest, colloquially if infrequently called Mainland, is divided between the kingdoms of Trésard and Narette. The island Isles

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Harlon

Harlon is the largest and most prosperous city in the world. Sitting at the mouth of River Velun, it is the greatest city in Harthera, a vast metropolis of docks, shipyards, markets, with a multiplicity of languages and communities which make it the foremost trade and shipping port in the world. storm tidesHarthera
Great port of Harlon

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Ra (RAH) and Ratér (rah-TAIR) are mutually-orbiting binary planets in the Cronox System. The two are both marginal for human life but were settled many millennia ago. Rivalry and conflict between the two throughout their history laid the foundation for a series of accords for mutual co-operation, which was the foundation for the
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Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the Cronox binary star system. The stars Cordes and Arjos are distant binaries, so on Helevos, Arjos is only seen in the northern hemisphere as star, sometimes bright enough to be seen during the day, circling roughly over the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen
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MEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigModern Epoch (ME)

The Modern Calendar is a dating system acknowledged throughout the Civilised World. It numbers years from the Modern Epoch, abbreviated ME and BME (Before Modern Epoch). It is also called the Modern Era.

Calendar

This is in a series of articles about calendars and dating systems.HMOrorrHartheraHMOrorrHartheraOrorrOrorrHMHartheraHMHartheraOrorr is short for Modern Epochplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigModern Epoch (ME)

The Modern Calendar is a dating system acknowledged throughout the Civilised World. It numbers years from the Modern Epoch, abbreviated ME and BME (Before Modern Epoch). It is also called the Modern Era.

Calendar

This is in a series of articles about calendars and dating systems.HMOrorrHartheraHMOrorrHartheraOrorrOrorrHMHartheraHMHartheraOrorr, the modern method of numbering years.

Soay

The soay [SO-ay] is a breed of domestic animalplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBiology and Ecology

Helevos has two separate families of life, which compete with each other for resources and space. Various cultures give different names for these two competing families, but in Anrel they are commonly called “the Virid and the Green”, a quotation from the GreenViridgreengreenGreengreenviridGreengreenviridGreenviridviridviridgreenviridgreengreengreengreenviridviridGreenviridgreenviridgreengreengreenViridgreenviridViridgreenviridviridviridViridgreenviridviridViridgreengreenvi…, bred for its meat, skin and fur. Soay were bred in Miyarrisplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMiyarris

Miyarris [mee-YA-riss], (also Miarris, from Mayápo Mayarous) was a hugely influential ancient civilisation located which flourished during the Celadon Epoch, from 4000-3000 BME. It is considered the first great civilisation in history since the the mythic Godmen.

Ancient Miyarris

languagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguage, along with the boretrayplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBoretray

Boretray [BOH-reh-tray], along with soay, are the commonest domestic livestock in Anásthias and throughout the Civilised World.

Fauna

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fauna mammals green livestock, and are now common across Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable HartheraOrorr with a myriad of local breeds of distinctive size, colour and shape.

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Common soay are dun-coloured quadrupeds with splayed ungulate feet. They have a tapered prehensile snout, with short downward-pointing tusks which they use for digging up roots and for defence. They are omnivorous, eating roots, fruits and tender vegetation, but happily consume eggs and any small burrowing creatures they dig up. Soay are particularly tolerant to viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. vegetation, and are valued by farmers for their habit of digging up and consuming the roots of viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. weeds.

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Mutualism is a cultural philosophy deeply ingrained in the culture of Otekahré, and in particular in the polities of Kahtoyn. Mutualism emphasises the need for people and communities to work together in harmony to fulfil their common objectives, and strong opposition to hierarchy, violence and coercive control. Without a central authority to regulate the economy, non-monetary economies arise..

Helevos Biology & Natural History

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Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life., and the greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind..

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The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. includes humans, and all domesticated plants and animals which are nutritious and useful to human exploitation. Greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. life is considered to be soft, benevolent and useful, an essential part of human settlement and civilisation. Virid lifeplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. is a thing of wild nature, choking lands untouched by human hands with jungles of strangely luminous vibrant green, with stems and ribs of violent red and purple. Viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. plantlife is non-nutritious at best, deadly poison at worst. There are stories of men stranded on uninhabited islands, starving to death despite gorging themselves on virid fruits.

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Helevos has two categories of life which are mutually incompatible, the virid, and the green.

Green life includes humans, and all domesticated plants and animals which are nutritious and useful to human exploitation. Green life is considered to be soft, benevolent and useful, an essential part of human settlement and civilisation. greenviridviridgreengreengreenviridgreenviridgreenviridviridgreenviridviridviridviridGreengreengreenAnrelgreengreenAnrelAnrelAn…

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Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen

Tradescript

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Doroun [doh-ROON, dɒ'ruːn] is the common language of Ororr, the principle language of law, trade, government and the Mother Church.

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Doroun is spoken as a first language in the regions of Dunasanin and Gaskanin, and as a second language in other regions. It developed from the languagelanguagelanguageOrorrlanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguage… traders of the River Wiyelplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigRiver Wiyel

The River Wiyel or Weil [WILE, WAH-yil] in Ororr is the longest river in the Civilised World. The Wiyel Basin drains two thirds of modern Ororr, running over 5000 km from its source in the southern Dun Trisan mountains, flowing northwards to the sea.

Names

As the river is so long it has been known by many names by different civilisations throughout history. 'Wiel' is the name used during the time of the AnásthiasGreenOrorrgreen, used for drawing up trade deals and simple contracts. It is an ideographic script, with a limited set of symbols for trade goods, numbers, dates and practical concepts.

Tradescript became important during the Empire of Dor-en-Sannplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEmpire of Dor-en-Sann

The Empire of Dor-en-Sann, [DOORR-enn-SAHN] also called the EnSanni Empire, was the largest empire in history. It dominated central Anásthias for nearly two thousand years, from 1903 BME, until the conquest of Galkesh in 59 ME. The empire consisted of hundreds of ethnic groups and cultures, its people were collectively called the MEMEHartheraOrorrOrorrHMOrorrherHMlanguageHartheraME as a vital method of communication when peoples throughout the imperial trade network spoke hundreds of different languages. Despite languageplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguages

List of human languages and dialects, contemporary and extinct.

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topics sidebar cult1 differences, tradescript pictographs were unambiguous and understandable in any language.

Contracts were originally inscribed into mud pressed into a rectangular frame, so were to be clear will easy to inscribe with a reed stylus. Two copies of documents were signed by both parties using a carved seal stamps, then the clay was fired in a brief ritual which dedicated the sanctity of the contract to the gods, and made the contract unchangeable.

Tradescript was officially replaced in the second century MEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigME

ME is short for Modern Epoch, the modern method of numbering years., as Dorounplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDoroun language

Doroun [doh-ROON, dɒ'ruːn] is the common language of Ororr, the principle language of law, trade, government and the Mother Church.

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Doroun is spoken as a first language in the regions of Dunasanin and Gaskanin, and as a second language in other regions. It developed from the languagelanguagelanguageOrorrlanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguagelanguage… writing became the lingua franca of business and education throughout Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrviridlanguagelanguagelanguage. However, tradescript symbols are still used on signs, inscriptions and by merchants and street traders throughout Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrviridlanguagelanguagelanguage.

Enpoul

Enpoul is a city on the River Souraynplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigRiver Sourayn

The Sourayn is the great river of central Kahtoyn in eastern Anásthias. It connects the cities of Leimoo, Enpoul with the sea port of Desol, irrigating the richest farmlands in Kahtoyn along the way.

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Kahtoyn (called Bhourdan in Hartraan), also called the Confederation of Kahtoyn, is a political entity in the region of Otekahré. It is unique in the world that it is not a nation in the true sense, since it has no formal governmental structures, no kings or governors, no military or police, no codified laws, prisons or justice system. Instead it is made up of thousands of self-governing polities who follow a common ideology of good behaviour, common standards, and (mostly) friendly com….

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Otekahré [oh-tek-AH-ray] (also called Anarthis in Harthera), is the southeastern region of Anásthias, lying south of Harthera and east of the Dun Jaen mountains. The region has no central governments, but the cities and polities are joined in a loose cultural and economic league, called HartheraviridHartheraOrorr in eastern Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable HartheraOrorr.

Chalcint (rock)

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topics sci1. Chalcint is generally yellow-white in colour and highly porous, so that landscapes with chalcint rock have no surface water and are often dry plains with a thin soil. Chalcint geology also leads to karst landscapes, with potholes, caves and other features.

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