Orthos

Orthos is a generic fantasy world, with dragons, elves and magic. It is heavily inspired by video games and anime.

Deprecated notes
These need to be picked through and updated with Worldfall.

Energy shells
The shells are 100km thick. They actually repel from the inside; creatures trapped in the shell can leave, but not reenter.

One sacred grove was caught in a shell barrier, and will die. When the shell drops, the inhabitants will be outraged.

City of Objects
A floating tower with things floating around it; fireballs, meteors, ships, statues, parts of the city that once existed here. Defensive magic still works, but there is not a city to protect. Down below, the ruins of the city are nearly completely gone, having been overgrown for so long.

Clemens Coils
The Teslan Mages created these devices to redirect quantum manipulation, only allowing certain bioetheric signatures to use it. That means, within the radius, only certified mages are able to use spells. All other abilities are also dampened.

Sortition

 * http://unenumerated.blogspot.tw/2008/03/unpredictable-elections.html - How the Venetians chose the Doge using alternating lotteries and elections.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarchy

Tower of Rayew

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ben - inspiration for the tower as I am writing it
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Welby_Northmore_Pugin - The designer of the clocktower, descended into madness as he created it. Lends his name to the first three arrivals.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_%28horology%29 - For the clock itself

I do not like "Clockwork College", change that.

Three Cogs - Augustus, Wilby and Pugin

New Laika
New Laika is about 100 kilometers in some direction from Towerfall. Its major feature is the Great Library, which was the only building in that whole city that had anyone in it.

It is named after the first living creature to enter space (a Russian space dog).

Elementary
If a summoner is able to learn an Elemetals name, they can summon that specific one, and can learn and grow with it.

Random bits

 * Wood in the wall of a temple, used to control a druidic ritual.