New Everlight

Approximate Coordinates: 44.1894857108483, -106.81077274944631
~3mile long, ~1mile wide

Average Population: 214K

Whispering Message: "Magic is everywhere."
Crisis: In response to rising global instability linked to unregulated magic, the Arcane Compression Doctrine is being introduced by multiple nations—including the U.S. The NEAA, under federal pressure, begins quietly enforcing far more aggressive magical restrictions, targeting even Tier I and II casters under the guise of “proactive containment.”
Why: To protect a Magical Nexus of Ley lines

New Everlight is a modern city in today's world with the exception that magic is real, everyone knows it exists but it is not accessible to everyone. New Everlight has the same technology that exists today with the addition of magic. New Everlight is a big US city like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. There are underlying factions. There is the Faerie Mound, which connects New Everlight to the Wyld. And a Shadow Rift that connects it to the Nether. Supernatural creatures dwell in the shadows, and some even right out in the open.

Senses:

Districts - [[Actual Play/Fractured Veil/Locations|Named Locations

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History

Ska’té -- Shaman and dream walker

The Beginning

Year 1 1475
Ruler: Ska’té (Age: 45)
The settlement begins as a hamlet that was founded to control and protect the magical nexus of ley lines underneath called The Everlight.

Year 4 1478
Ruler: Ska’té (Age: 48)
Everything goes well as they build up their new settlement. They call the hamlet Tókari (Where the Light Dwells).

Year 5: 1479
Ruler: Ska’té (Age: 49)
The defenses being built are poorly constructed.

Year 25: 1499
Ruler: Nahvoh (Age: 22)
Roads being built are poorly constructed.

Year 44: 1518
Ruler: Teyoma (Age: 31)
Nahvoh dies but no on knows how or why he passed, while he was an old warrior, he was healthy and should have lived several more years. Teyoma takes over

Year 60: 1534
Ruler: Salinae (Age: 22)
Teymoa grows too old to see clearly and steps down and lets Salinae take over her duties.

Year 77: 1551
Ruler: Salinae (Age: 39)
Tókari's population grows to be called a village after they successfully found a safe way to get to the Everlight.

Year 94: 1568
Ruler: Minoke (Age: 22)
After Salinae's death the population begins to wonder if they should close up the access to the Everlight to keep it safe. The people are torn.

Year 106: 1580
Ruler: Minoke (Age: 34)
After 12 years of distrust and fighting, Minoke sides with those in favor of closing up the Everlight.

Year 115: 1589
Ruler: Minoke (Age: 43)
It took nine years before they came to a consensus to blow the entrance up. The explosion caused a massive surge of magical energy to flood the valley.

Year 133: 1607
Ruler: Ahonai (Age: 23)
There was a historically hard winter due to the increase in magical presence. Creatures and storms brewed supernaturally.

Year 139: 1613
Ruler: Ahonai (Age: 29)
Ahnoai got sick and passed and with no clear successor, three candidates must debate and the people will decide which is a change in the way things worked in the past. No one knows what Ahnoai died of, some suspect magic and others suspect poison, but most think it was murder.

Ollen Vatch (Age: 32) wins by a landslide with a friendly face and a good backing against the natives of the village. Yshani and Marra Ko weren't liked enough by the other outsiders.

Year 151: 1625
Ruler: Ollen Vatch (Age: 44)
Defenses are upgraded and everything finishes quickly and goes well

Year 154: 1628
Ruler: Ollen Vatch (Age: 47)
Disease ravages the village and Ollen Vatch dies painfully.

A new election is held and Rusk Varin (Age: 22) is chosen as leader.

Year 162: 1636
Ruler: Rusk Varin (Age: 30)
An experiment with magical architecture fails dramatically and demolishes half of a district and they need to rebuild.

Year 168: 1642
Ruler: Rusk Varin (Age: 36)
Selvek Thorne arrives in town and upsets the natural order of things. He begins turning people against the current rule and factions of unrest grow among the natives and outsiders who now reside in the village.

Year 183: 1657
Ruler: Rusk Varin (Age: 51)
A shadow organization lead by Selvek Thorne reopen the way to the Everlight, the seepage of magic engrosses the city but no one knows where that entrance is, only that the touch of the Everlight is once again upon the land.

The Middle Ages

Year 189: 1663
Ruler: Bastian Kor (Age: 23)
Bastian Kor, protege of Selvek Thorne, successfully fends off an attack by mystical creatures trying to get to the Everlight

Year 196: 1670
Ruler: Bastian Kor (Age: 32)
With the secret knowledge of the Everlight Bastian and his team make extraordinary magical and technological advances for its time.

Tókari becomes a Township and in this upgrade they decide to change the name to New Everlight

Year 211: 1685
Ruler: Bastian Kor (Age: 47)
The Ashford University is built on top of the secret entrance to the Everlight. People from everywhere come to Ashford to study strange and esoteric subjects that aren't quite magic, but could be.

Year 216: 1690
Ruler: Riven Mora (Age: 35)
New smaller settlements outside of New Everlight pop up for those people who want to be close but don't want to live in the big city.

New Everlight is now a Small Town

Year 221: 1695
Ruler: Riven Mora (Age: 40)
A criminal syndicate begins to make their name known in New Everlight. They begin to control much of the underworld.

Year 236: 1710
Ruler: Riven Mora (Age: 55)
While magic is not exactly known through the world, in New Everlight it is a hidden truth everyone knows about. It is used to empower much of the town.

Year 256: 1730
Ruler: Jorek Vale (Age: 26)
Mystical creatures (Noctari) come seeking the Everlight and there is an out and out war in the town. No one knows where they came from or how they found out about it, but New Everlight militia is more powerful.

Year 267: 1741
Ruler: Jorek Vale (Age: 37)
The war went well, many people died, but they succeeded in defending the Everlight but the war continues to wage in the shadows.

Year 277: 1751
Ruler: Jorek Vale (Age: 47)
Jorek Vale as his last act before he is elected out of his office achieves peace through diplomatic talks with the enemy and tribute to the enemy draining all the coffers leaving the settlement broke.

Tahlryn Skye (Age: 22) is elected leader.

Year 296: 1770
Ruler: Tahlryn Skye (Age: 41)
An alliance is formed between the Shadow people and the city of New Everlight, they are the minor partner in this alliance.

Year 306: 1780
Ruler: Sha’hael Vothari (Age: 64) -- Noctari
With the new alliance in place and their mystical popularity Sha’hael Vothari becomes the new leader advised by a council of all clans and species in New Everlight.

New Everlight becomes a Town.

Year 308: 1782
Ruler: Sha’hael Vothari (Age: 64)
A statue is made of what people think the Everlight looks like deep with in the shadows of the earth and placed as a central piece in the center of courtyard at Ashford University.

Year 312: 1786
Ruler: Sha’hael Vothari (Age: 68)
The criminal syndicate that rules most of the underworld assassinates Sha’hael Vothari and puts their own figure head into the leadership, though they were elected through fear.

Asha Lyndel (Age: 25) becomes leader.

Year 330: 1804
Ruler: Asha Lyndel (Age: 25)
Va’haen Vothari son of Sha’hael comes seeking revenge for the murder of his father. With a secret organization following his lead in the shadows.

Year 347: 1821
Ruler: Asha Lyndel (Age: 64)
It is a bountiful year for crops and the town expands

New Everlight becomes a Large Town.

Year 364: 1838
Ruler: Rellin Vohr (Age: 26)
The Vothari family who have been terrorizing the town since Va'haen's return joins up with the underground syndicate and the New Everlight Government struggles to keep law in the land.

Year 373: 1847
Ruler: Rellin Vohr (Age: 35)
The new Everlight pulses with energy and mystics in the city see the cities furture as bright

The Modern Age

Year 389: 1863
Ruler: Rellin Vohr (Age: 51)
The Vothari family has many hidden spies and are almost in power.

He’thari Veluun pushes Rellin Vohr out of office with blackmail.

Year 401: 1875
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 58)
He’thari Veluun weaponizes magic in New Everlight in the guise of technology.

Year 414: 1888
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 71)
A new faction arises wishing for a softer side of magic. They begin to influence the citizens and want peace not war.

Year 415: 1889
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 72)
He’thari Veluun marries a Ferai (human) woman of the rising faction to soothe over the masses and be influenced by her path. Nyla Crane is secretly plotting to kill her husband.

Year 417: 1891
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 74)
A cult around the Noctari forms and begins to have an impact in New Everlight.

Year 430: 1904
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 87)
Some of the outside villages begin to revolt because of the growing religion around the Noctari.

Year 438: 1917
Ruler: Davin Solas (Age: 34)
Davin Solas pushes the Veluun from the leadership role with force of will and charisma. The people like him until he gets in office where his rule because law and there is not room for anything but. The people chafe against him, but the town prospers.

New Everlight becomes a city

Year 444: 1923
Ruler: Davin Solas (Age: 40)
The Town hall where all government meetings were held is set ablaze and burns to the ground in vengeful protests against Davin. No one claimed the deed and no one was found in the crime.

Year 463: 1942
Ruler: Davin Solas (Age: 59)
After town hall was build, Solas instituted a barn building ceremony to help construct the new city hall. Every year since them there is a large party that fosters good will and quells most of the cities distrust of Solas.

Year 464: 1943
Ruler: Davin Solas (Age: 60)
Zareth Kinn comes seeking refuge and brings new of the Noctari plans from the other side of the veil.

Kaelen Dross (Age: 25) becomes leader after solas steps down due to age.

Year 474: 1944
Ruler: Kaelen Dross (Age: 35)
Ten years after his rule began Kaelen Dross is found to have predatory sexual activities with minors and he steps down gracefully with little more than a blip in the media.

Nimra Saye (Age: 23) becomes the new leader after a special election.

Year 486: 1956
Ruler: Nimra Saye (Age: 35)
An experiment with the Everlight causes those with magical natures some discomfort around the world. But no one really understood what happened.

Year 489: 1959
Ruler: Nimra Saye (Age: 38)
Someone finds the entrance to the Everlight. They go in but never come out.

July 4th, 1984
Ruler: Nimra Saye (Age: 58)
A young boy opens up a rift in the Wyld and magic and the existence of dragons is revealed to the world and changes everything irrevocably.

1985
Ruler: Nimra Saye (Age: 59)
With the knowledge of magic ripping the world apart, new experiments begin and one goes drastically wrong ripping whole into the Nether.

World leaders hold the first Global Summit on Magical Security.

1987
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 25)
The Veil Accord is signed, creating protocols for cross-realm contact.
1990
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 28)
Public backlash rises after a dragon attacks a city in Brazil. Anti-magic riots erupt.

1993
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 31)
Magical Registration Act (MRA) passed in several countries; protests follow.

1995
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 33)
Corporate interest peaks: conglomerates begin harvesting magical resources.

1999
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 37)
The First Rift Crisis: a Nether leak causes mass casualties in Ukraine.

2002
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 42)
Introduction of magically-enhanced surveillance programs. Civil rights groups sue.

2004
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 44)
The DVT (Division of Veil Transit) is formed under the NEAA to regulate realm travel.

2007
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 27)
Schools worldwide begin offering “Magic Awareness” curricula for children.

2010
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 30)
The Everlight Treaty restricts magical research without government oversight.

2013
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 33)
Refugees from Faerie and Nether realms reach peak levels; border restrictions tighten.

2015
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 35)
The Shadow Ban passes—no realm-native can hold office or own property without special licensing.

2018
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 38)
Ashford University is raided during an investigation into illegal chaos-magic experiments.

2020
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 39)
Citywide magical dampening zones introduced in New Everlight. Violations treated as terrorism.

2022
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 25)
Magic-tech hybrids begin malfunctioning globally, causing mass distrust.

2024
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 27)
“Keep the Veil Closed” movement becomes a dominant political faction.

2025
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 28)
Outsiders are surveilled, detained, or deported. Magic users must wear enchanted ID sigils.