New Everlight

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:

• Sight: glittering, warped, veiled
• Sound: buzzing, whispering, echoing
• Smell: ozone, metallic, acrid
• Taste: bitter, acrid, effervescent
• Touch: tingling, thick, buzzing

Districts - Named Locations

• The Gilded Mile(High Class Residential)
• Everlight Commons (Park)
• The Ivory Ward (Academic)
• Elysium Heights (High Class Residential)
• The Neon Quarter (Tech)
• Runestone Plaza (Commerce)
• Urban Flats (Middle Class Residential)
• Concord Square (Downtown)
• Twilight Row (Slums)
• The Ironworks (Industrial)

Travel Times

Notation: Street Travel Time/Subway Travel Time

In New Everlight you can travel each day a total of 14 Shifts. Going from one location to another via the Carta Style map costs a certain amount of Shifts if you go by street or by subway. Travel in the table below assumes using a vehicle to traverse the street such as a personal vehicle or public bus.

Other Modes of Street Travel

• Walking is 3 times the street level cost
• Biking is 2 times the street level cost

Note: You can go home or to your office/work location for free each once per day. Each other time costs you 1 Shift. If you do not have a shift to return home at the end of your day, you will start with -2 to your next day's travel time and have an Exhausted tag added to your character sheet for the full day. In order to remove the tag you must rest and regain a full 14 Shifts of travel. Exhausted does not stack or compound over multiple days. Exhausted hinders physical and mental actions

Mermaid Graph

graph TD

%% District Nodes
    GildedMile["Gilded Mile"]
    EverlightCommons["Everlight Commons"]
    IvoryWard["Ivory Ward"]
    ElysiumHeights["Elysium Heights"]
    NeonQuarter["Neon Quarter"]
    RunestonePlaza["Runestone Plaza"]
    UrbanFlats["Urban Flats"]
    ConcordSquare["Concord Square"]
    Ironworks["Ironworks"]
    TwilightRow["Twilight Row"]

%% Street Connections (undirected)
    GildedMile --- EverlightCommons
    GildedMile --- IvoryWard
    GildedMile --- NeonQuarter
    NeonQuarter --- IvoryWard
    NeonQuarter --- ElysiumHeights
    NeonQuarter --- RunestonePlaza
    IvoryWard --- ElysiumHeights
    ElysiumHeights --- EverlightCommons
    ElysiumHeights --- RunestonePlaza
    ElysiumHeights --- UrbanFlats
    RunestonePlaza --- UrbanFlats
    RunestonePlaza --- ConcordSquare
    RunestonePlaza --- Ironworks
    RunestonePlaza --- TwilightRow
    ConcordSquare --- UrbanFlats
    ConcordSquare --- Ironworks
    UrbanFlats --- EverlightCommons
    UrbanFlats --- Ironworks
    Ironworks --- TwilightRow

%% Subway: Red Line (one-way circular)
    GildedMile -->|Red| NeonQuarter
    NeonQuarter -->|Red| RunestonePlaza
    RunestonePlaza -->|Red| ElysiumHeights
    ElysiumHeights -->|Red| IvoryWard
    IvoryWard -->|Red| GildedMile

%% Subway: Orange Line (one-way circular)
    EverlightCommons -->|Orange| UrbanFlats
    UrbanFlats -->|Orange| ConcordSquare
    ConcordSquare -->|Orange| ElysiumHeights
    ElysiumHeights -->|Orange| EverlightCommons

%% Subway: Green Line (one-way circular)
    RunestonePlaza -->|Green| TwilightRow
    TwilightRow -->|Green| Ironworks
    Ironworks -->|Green| ConcordSquare
    ConcordSquare -->|Green| ElysiumHeights
    ElysiumHeights -->|Green| RunestonePlaza

History

Ska’té -- Shaman and dream walker

The Beginning

Year 1
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
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:
Ruler: Ska’té (Age: 49)
The defenses being built are poorly constructed.

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

Year 44:
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:
Ruler: Salinae (Age: 22)
Teymoa grows too old to see clearly and steps down and lets Salinae take over her duties.

Year 77:
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:
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:
Ruler: Minoke (Age: 34)
After 12 years of distrust and fighting, Minoke sides with those in favor of closing up the Everlight.

Year 115:
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:
Ruler: Ahonai (Age: 23)
There was a historically hard winter due to the increase in magical presence. Creatures and storms brewed supernaturally.

Year 139:
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:
Ruler: Ollen Vatch (Age: 44)
Defenses are upgraded and everything finishes quickly and goes well

Year 154:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Ruler: Asha Lyndel (Age: 64)
It is a bountiful year for crops and the town expands

New Everlight becomes a Large Town.

Year 364:
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:
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:
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:
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 58)
He’thari Veluun weaponizes magic in New Everlight in the guise of technology.

Year 414:
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:
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:
Ruler: He’thari Veluun (Age: 74)
A cult around the Noctari forms and begins to have an impact in New Everlight.

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

Year 438:
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:
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
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:
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:
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:
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:
Ruler: Nimra Saye (Age: 38)
Someone finds the entrance to the Everlight. They go in but never come out.

Year 509: (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.

Year 510:
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.

Year 512: 1987
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 25)
The Veil Accord is signed, creating protocols for cross-realm contact.
Year 515: 1990
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 28)
Public backlash rises after a dragon attacks a city in Brazil. Anti-magic riots erupt.

Year 518: 1993
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 31)
Magical Registration Act (MRA) passed in several countries; protests follow.

Year 520: 1995
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 33)
Corporate interest peaks: conglomerates begin harvesting magical resources.

Year 524: 1999
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 37)
The First Rift Crisis: a Nether leak causes mass casualties in Ukraine.

Year 528: 2002
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 42)
Introduction of magically-enhanced surveillance programs. Civil rights groups sue.

Year 530: 2004
Ruler: Marek Varn (Age: 44)
The DVT (Division of Veil Transit) is formed under the NEAA to regulate realm travel.

Year 533: 2007
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 27)
Schools worldwide begin offering “Magic Awareness” curricula for children.

Year 536: 2010
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 30)
The Everlight Treaty restricts magical research without government oversight.

Year 539: 2013
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 33)
Refugees from Faerie and Nether realms reach peak levels; border restrictions tighten.

Year 541: 2015
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 35)
The Shadow Ban passes—no realm-native can hold office or own property without special licensing.

Year 544: 2018
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 38)
Ashford University is raided during an investigation into illegal chaos-magic experiments.

Year 546: 2020
Ruler: Eliya Thorne (Age: 39)
Citywide magical dampening zones introduced in New Everlight. Violations treated as terrorism.

Year 548: 2022
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 25)
Magic-tech hybrids begin malfunctioning globally, causing mass distrust.

Year 550: 2024
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 27)
“Keep the Veil Closed” movement becomes a dominant political faction.

Year 551: 2025
Ruler: Tristan York (Age: 28)
Outsiders are surveilled, detained, or deported. Magic users must wear enchanted ID sigils.