Most Recent - 24 December 2025: The Canticula Amelioration Movement - 1091 to 1093
The first signs of the change to come arrived in 1071 with the deposition of the Provan Crown. Of the Weller Royal Family, Queen Rebecca ruled the Provan Kingdom from 979 to 1060, and was seen as a fair ruler presiding over relatively prosperous and stable times. Upon her death in 1060, the Throne was succeeded by King Daren, whose rule was rejected by the inhabitants of the Red Desert...Read More
23 November 2025: The 1223 Invasion of Notulfa
Not much is known about the foundation and emergence of House Esary, seated in the far-Northern nation of Notulfa. What is known was that they were initially a small but powerful family of spellcrafters who, in the late 1000s, settled in the location of the present-day city of Notulfa proper, which at the time was a small outpost named New Givenna...Read More
29 October 2025: A Brief History of Mass Transit in Northeast Ancondria
In 1263, a team of Cabotton scholars aboard an airship, which was blown off-course by a storm near the Mid-Westerlies, took photographs of the mountain peaks of Northeast Ancondria, thus becoming the first modern-day Circlarians to make records of Ancondria's existence available for study by Greater Circlarian public institutions. Such photographs were mistaken for those of other parts of the Magnumarian Ocean, initially; but Cabotton professors studying the images in 1268 made the realization that such were of significant pieces of uncharted territory. Thus began the Era of Ancondrian Exploration...Read More
24 September 2025: Pax Canticula
Throughout most of the 1000s, the territory encompassing present-day Lesterre, Furthing, Lotemn, Vasilca, Remstruhs, and Munnicale was under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of the Great North, seated in Northern Remikra. Meanwhile, the territory encompassing present-day Rellihan, Sarsota, and Umcings was under Motanian Imperial rule. The West Peninsula nations of Nasem, Tennur, Yecourt, Rewen, and Paolina were each an independent nation under a constitutional monarchy, as were each of the Midland River States...Read More
02 July 2025: Overview on the Drakes of Ancondria
Native only to the Great Ancondrian River Basin, drakes are winged reptiles of various sizes ranging from that of ponies to that of horses. Aside from the wings, drakes also have snouts, tails, and pointy ears. Contrary to popular belief, drakes are mostly herbivores; although some of the mountain-dwelling species can be omnivores due to lack of vegetation in the area. Drakes nest in caves, or other kinds of enclosures, in high places such as mountains or tall trees...Read More
30 April 2025: A Brief History of the Sayleronian Maritime State
On a strip of land along the Ancondrian Antarctic Coastline facing Remikra stands a series of small fjords, the greatest of which is home to the Isle of the Heart in its center. This Fjord branches into smaller Sub-fjords: the Western Sub-fjord and the Eastern Sub-fjord. And this region, in the time leading up to the year 1032, was home to two native Ancondrian groups: the Maneraks, who lived along the Western Sub-fjord; and the Takriems, who lived along the Eastern Sub-fjord...Read More
18 April 2025: The Esurchian War
Established in the 600s CE, House Onitalep would receive a commission from the Motanian Imperial Seat to carry out oathcrafting assignments against the population. After the fall of the Empire in 1209, House Onitalep took root in Southeast Ostar and began interfering with local politics by infiltration. Such efforts would succeed in 1314, when House Onitalep overthrew the local authorities and established the authoritarian City-State of Kysornen, which they governed through oathcrafter-based mind-influence...Read More
27 March 2025: Julina [Rewritten]
The small unnamed airship drifted toward the illuminated towers of Bridgetown. But nobody could see the airship from down below, for its beacons were unlit. That was the intent. Looking out the window of this ghostly aircraft was Clarissa, who was carrying a small backpack. She was ready for the assignment...Read More
12 March 2025: A Meeting in the Basin [Rewritten]
John Richards looked down upon the Isle of Opportunity from the vast window of the Airship Cornerstone, which was due to land in 30 minutes. To the Eastern end of the Isle stood the Torch representing Liberty, to the South the Torch of Justice, and to the North the Torch of Equality. John was no nationalist but he had to admit, for a moment, that the scenery with the three Torches flanked by the circle of Retunian flags, with both the flags and flames waving majestically in the wind, gave him a slight feeling of pride. This was his home...Read More
06 February 2025: The Circlarian Calendar [Rewritten]
The Circlarian and Ancondrian Realms both rest upon Planet Juno Minor, an Earth-sized body orbiting the gas giant: Juno Major. The Juno Major System, which includes Juno Minor and its sister planet, Nephina, revolves every twelve years around the superstar: Alphachrome, which has unique properties and provides a very large "habitable orbit zone"...Read More
05 February 2025: Inland Sea Cyclones [Rewritten]
Extending as a shallow body of water into the heart of Remikra, South of Ereautea and North of the Chemko/Zyrtin region, the Inland Sea delivers a warm, temperate climate, with its waters warming up quickly during the springtime and summer, and cooling off quickly during autumn and winter. It provided an important trade route during ancient times and presently serves a variety of commercial purposes...Read More
22 January 2025: The Merger of Locin into Pharonde
On 15 April 1481, Locin and the Tecaren Council entered a deep-trade Motion of Union and formed the Republic of Pharonde, which officially became the newest member of the multi-national South Circlarian Trade Federation. Ceremonies on the Motion took place at Plains Crossing in the nation of Furthing. And such an event was attended by representatives of Locin, the Tecaren Council, the Independent Commonwealth State of Retun, the Sayleronian Council, the Kingdom of the Great North, and the nation of Furthing...Read More
03 January 2025: The Peak Years of the Kingdom of the Great North, 1050 to 1068
The years having elapsed between the completion of the rail line connecting Edora to Linbrae in 1050 and the beginning of the Hoblandish War of Independence in 1068 have been considered by historians to be the Peak Years of the Kingdom of the Great North. At its height, the Great North held its current Northern Remikran territory as well as present-day Combria, present-day Layda and Pimdan, East and West Hobland, Tandeiyah, Northwest and Northeast Canticula, the Meredythian and Rim Isles, Monassa, the Mid-Westerlies, and Recastelaren...Read More
20 November 2024: A Brief History of OCEA
The Occupational and Communication Engineers Association, or OCEA, was established in Kindol, Furthing on 4 February 1238, led by the original founders: Perry Lovelston from Furthing, Karl Venn from Vasilca, Marie Quinne from Lesterre, Frederick Duhn from Gamroa, and Joseph Green from Yecourt. Upon establishment, OCEA set out to construct a convenient messaging and publishing platform for individuals across the Circlarian Realm...Read More
04 November 2024: The Typical Structures of Airships and Gyroplanes
Throughout roughly the latter half of the 1200s, short-distance airships in Remikra were used to transport passengers and lightweight cargo between Counties within each Province. This blog entry will focus primarily on passenger transit...Read More
04 October 2024: Scrall [Rewritten]
First played in Wannonia during ancient times, the game of Scrall initially involved mock armies and spellfire-induced fake weapons, such as archery, of that era. In 1002, scrall tournaments began adapting technological advances such as hot-air balloons. However, leading figures of scrall have since aimed to preserve past traditions of ancient mock-warfare...Read More
23 September 2024: Krylandia [Rewritten]
Straddling the North Pole, the landmass of Hobland consists of three regions: East Hobland, West Hobland, and the Arctic Steppes. East Hobland has towering mountain ranges in its North and plains in its South, and is known for its short summers and cold winters. West Hobland has two sets of lesser mountain ranges that run North-to-South between which lies a long, narrow plain, while a set of lower coastal plains lies near its Southern tip. The Arctic Steppes region consists of high plateaus and glaciers, and is cold year-round...Read More
09 September 2024: Combria [Rewritten]
Combria is the Northeastern-most province of the Independent Commonwealth State of Return (the ICSR), and borders the Kingdom of the Great North. Jestopole, the provincial capital of Combria, is home to the University of Combria and the House of Masons...Read More
26 August 2024: Spellfire-Crafting [Rewritten]
Southern Circlarian communities often criticize the National Institute of Research and Development in the Independent Commonwealth for being "too Northern" when it comes to structure and function. However, its hierarchy is based on that of the Circlarian School of Spellfire-Crafting...Read More
14 August 2024: National Institute of Research and Development [Rewritten]
The National Institute of Research and Development was founded in 1383 on the property of the former North Kempton William Solomon Airfield, located in the former municipality of North Kempton, now renamed Maxima, in the province of Nintel. The purpose of the Institute has since been to provide a democratic, objective, and all-inclusive foundation of education for the Independent Commonwealth State of Retun...Read More
14 June 2024: Monassa [Rewritten]
Existing as the world's largest island and the world's largest island-nation, Monassa boasts unique geography consisting of a low-lying coastline around its edges and a large plateau, accompanied by mountain ranges, in its interior. In the Southern region of the interior plateau lies a desert lacking of plants but crawling with a variety of native snakes, serpents, and scorpions. The Northern region is slightly more temperate, with an alternating wet and dry season...Read More
08 June 2024: Early Republic Economics and Politics [Rewritten]
After the formation of the Early Republic (Federal Estates of Retun), the enactment of its Constitution, and the election of James Black in 1248 as its first Prime Minister, the political dynamics leading up to the 1260 election consisted of a major divide between the progressive National Labor Party and the conservative National Foundation Party. Initially, during the war of the 1240s, the Council of the Early Republic had been united in solidarity against the Chartered State of Combria, the country from which they were gaining independence...Read More
04 June 2024: What is "Void"?
There are numerous hubstone structures throughout the Circlarian Realm each of which contains two components: the core and the web. In Combria, the core is mostly spherical and 100 feet in diameter while the web, made of shale, covers most of the province of Combria. This is just one example of a core-and-web structure, with many others bearing wildly different appearances and size proportions. But for the sake of explaining "void," focus will be given on the Combria structure...Read More
28 May 2024: A Brief History of Aviation [Rewritten]
Invented by John Dane of the Edoran Kingdom in the early 900s, the hot-air balloon was the first aircraft to dominate the skies. The layout of a hot-air balloon was simple: a basket held by a lift chamber made of cloth, which relied on a heat source for the production of hot air. There was no method of steerage or propulsion, so hot air balloons depended on the wind for both. With these vessels used primarily on the battlefield, the crew for a hot-air balloon typically consisted of a Captain, Navigator, and a Gunman or Bombdropper...Read More
25 May 2024: Journalism in Middle Remikra
Journalism platforms in Middle Remikra fall generally into three categories: factual, discord, and expressionist. Factual platforms are taxpayer-funded and have a top-down payroll. These platforms report purely facts and, although are allowed to quote opinions made by individuals, must give credit to those said individuals. Discord platforms are privately-owned platforms whose writers are paid directly by subscribers, where writers take a portion of the subscription payments while the employer takes a portion...Read More
28 April 2024: The Congress of Circlaria
Housed in the Canticulan city of Cenofan in an international district between the nations of Gamroa and Tymol, the Congress of Circlaria is a governing body of representatives, elected or appointed to serve on behalf of various Circlarian nations and entities, who vote to pass and enact laws and regulations in order to preserve the balance of power across the Circlarian Realm...Read More
11 April 2024: A Brief History of North Kempton
The area encompassing what would become North Kempton consisted of relatively flat terrain through which ran a small river known as the Paddyne River, which was 30 feet deep and 300 feet wide. In fact, the said region was a very wide and shallow river basin with a two-foot-tall, round plateau standing facing East over the down slope to the Paddyne. To the West and North stood flat plains while gentle hills dominated to the East and South. Trees were relatively sparse, existing in small clumps, like mini-forests, here and there...Read More
16 February 2024: Tickers vs. The Ticketer
Serving as the predominant form of exchanging text messages throughout Circlaria in the 1200s, the ticker consisted of a roll of special ticker paper running through a special viewport-and-keyboard apparatus, which displayed the messages sent and received...Read More
14 February 2024: Prefects
In the Third Level Society, Prefects are avatars who oversee certain parts of certain Sectors of the Arturian Realm, as well as the avatars and daemons therein, to ensure that everything and everyone is in compliance with both Administrator and Dungeonmaster policies...Read More
12 February 2024: Granular Strings
Granular animation is defined as "when a form, be it human, animal, or inanimate object, is transformed by deep spellfire into its separated but condensed molecules. It is also noted that such molecules are separated and connected by special spellfire bonds known as nodules"...Read More
08 February 2024: Cabotton University Administrative Structure
During the time of its existence, Cabotton University stood out as the first modern educational institution in Middle Remikra to be governed democratically. The three basic democratic institutions of Cabotton University were the University Council, University Administration, and University Affairs...Read More
13 January 2024: Cable Trains
New readers probably saw their very first mention of "cable train" by Daniel Orville Carter in the beginning of the Third Level Society story series. This article will give a clear explanation on precisely what a "cable train" is. In summary, though, the cable train was one of the most common modes of transit throughout Remikra between the years 1200 and 1300. And such networks existed in two different categories: Long-Distance Cable Trains and Short-Distance Cable Trains...Read More
19 December 2023: The John Waysworth Scandal
In 1285, a trade arrangement signed between the Lykian and Retunian Republics split the Meredythian Island of Vantacula between the two nations and allowed private businesses to establish themselves here. Legally, all of Vantacula was under Lykian jurisdiction, but the Lykians had decided through the trade deal to lease the Western half of the Isle to the Retunians. Thus, Retunian businesses, primarily deep-trade firms, were allowed to open alongside similar Lykian businesses...Read More
12 December 2023: The Duchy of Nalesh
After the prolonged war and defeat of the Kingdom of Tomlas, the Edoran Duchy of Nalesh was established in the year 775. The Duchy of Nalesh would be ruled by the second oldest Edoran royal family, the Kathingtons, and the third oldest royal family, the Ericsons. Standing as one of the most respected of all Edoran Duchies thus far, Nalesh would be formally recognized by the Crown of the Great North, giving it political legitimacy in diplomatic affairs...Read More
10 December 2023: The Underworld Structures of the Arturian Realm
Administered by the Third Level Society, founded in the year 1243, the Arturian Realm is an interplanetary realm spanning multiple star systems, each hosting multiple gas giant systems, each of which are home to multiple planets. Each planet contains a Terraworld, Divineworld, Dungeonworld, and Underworld...Read More
09 December 2023: An Overview on the 1475 Northeast Ancondria Coup
On the afternoon of May 24, 1475, all communication networks across the United Confederation of Ancondria went dead. Moments later, armed military personnel blockaded the national capital Providence, and after a few hours, invaded it. Political extremists stormed the Legislature while opponents of the coup were made to escape the city and establish a holdout in the nearby city of East Providence...Read More
13 November 2023: Circlarian Religions - Aktunism
Aktunism, like Alconism, has its roots in Alphaesianism, in that Aktunist followers believe Alphaesianist events to be true. However, they disagree with the teachings of Alconism. Aktunism emerged from the Red Desert around the 100s or 200s CE based on stories having supposedly taken place in the very early years of the Common Era...Read More
02 November 2023: Circlarian Religions - Alphaesianism
According to followers of the Alphaesian faith, the Earth (Juno Minor) was conceived into being by the One Unnamed God, and that this world was all a garden with fair weather and infinite supplies of food, water, and resources. Moreover, the world was originally flat and infinite, as what came to be the Land of Men was one with the Land of the Divine. Both humans and the divine were immortal...Read More
20 October 2023: Mount Carris Perimeter and the Wall
Early on, the land surrounding Mount Carris was under the darkfire domain of Holz Finzi. This was not in legal terms; however, the area and the land surrounding Lake Maern was restricted from the public since 1237. Finzi subdivided the land into cantons, each run by a darkfire cartel base...Read More
20 October 2023: The 1187 Coup
Even today, it is a matter of speculation whether or not Cixela Esary, herself, was directly behind the event. But what is known, however, is that in 1187, Michael Fvenn led a group of militants, seemingly under the oathcrafting influence, in an attempt to topple the government of the then-District of Ereautea in Lerutan...Read More
20 October 2023: The Monarin Stylus
It is believed that the Monarin Stylus was first produced in the early years of modern Combria, more specifically during the 1090s. Its blueprint is unknown. However, what is known is that it serves a multitude of purposes. Among many things, it can give and obtain information, cast complicated spells, and even go as far as engineering the psyche of the masses...Read More
20 October 2023: The Combrian Telephone System
Very few people seem to know about the origin of telephone technology in Circlaria, but the first system was implemented in Combria. That system featured a private line between the House of Masons in Jestopole and the House of Commerce in South Masonia. It was experimental and was used exclusively between the two locations. Each end of this line was in the form of a giant sound shell inside a designated operating room with equipment to make and maintain a stable connection...Read More
19 October 2023: Avatar Forgery
Every active Member with an avatar in the Third Level Society has a "key" to access that avatar when intending to engage the said avatar in a chosen dymensional plane. With present-day technology, the way to use the "key" in order to gain access is to enter through the granular dymensional gate (or the GD gate) by placing the palm of your hand on a panel that reads your hand print, and to activate a special talisman that allows the server to read the "key" off the said talisman...Read More
19 October 2023: Ancient Post-Ashen East Hobland
It is rather difficult to draw a map of East Hobland for the nearly two-thousand-year period between the Ashen Years and the twelfth century because of its drastically ever-changing borders. And this is due to the fact that the region during this time was consistently fought over by numerous small rival kingdoms, duchies, and city-states of varying sizes and power. Some of these entities formed alliances with one another and sent mercenaries to assist one another against enemy factions in order to make territorial gains or defeat government heads entirely. However, diplomatic alignment in this place and time was rather dynamic and unstable...Read More
19 October 2023: Middle Remikran Dialects
For the past one-hundred years, Middle Remikra has grown more integrated and interconnected in every aspect of life owing to great leaps in advancement in technology, communication, and transit. For example, one can now take a gyroplane from Egdir and arrive in Pimdan within two hours. However, despite such progress, there still remain elements giving distinction to various regions of Middle Remikra; and a few of those elements include regional dialects. For example, what is referred to as the game of "scrall" in Ereautea is referred to as the game of "scrum" in Pimdan...Read More
19 October 2023: Legion of Myria
The Legion of Myria is a multi-national, multi-faceted organization of traveling ranger-clerics spanning nearly every region of Circlaria as well some parts of Ancondria. These ranger-clerics dedicate their lives to ritualistic communications with the apparent forgotten divine spirits of ancient Totia...Read More
19 October 2023: Dymensional Plane Technology
Dymensionalism has been in practice for millennia and has come in many different practices and methods. However, with the advent of the Circlarian School came a standardization of the use of dymensional planes and what medium to use for its inscriptions. Initially, the standard medium was scrolls...Read More
19 October 2023: Combrian Qors
The "qors" currency was established by the Kingdom of the Great North as a way to standardize credit. In fact, the term "qor" is an acronym standing for "quantity of revenue," and was originally based on a standard unit of silver. However, it became a fiat currency by the middle of the eleventh century...Read More
17 October 2023: Jon Morough
Jon Morough had taken missions where he was not permitted to speak to the passengers or even look at them. He had also done assignments where location names were classified. But never before had he accepted an assignment where both would be the case. This certainly was a first...Read More
17 October 2023: Hywater Bank Scandal
In the late afternoon of 15 May 1340, two hunters found Ceraphin Blayne and a young woman named Kintella Marshall dead at Blayne's summer cabin. In March 1341, seventeen Stonekeepers from Hywater Bank were convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to prison...Read More
17 October 2023: Commonwealth Qors
Between 1310 and 1344, the official currency of the Commonwealth was the Commonwealth Qor. And unlike any other Remikran Union currency that came before and after, the Commonwealth Qor was based on an actual item of value: the Darkfire Floan, the standard tradestone for darkfire...Read More
17 October 2023: Visit to Nephina
Carey Norman was still not sure why he was invited to come or what his colleague wanted from him. But here he was, boarding the shuttle to go down to the new world. The delta-plane was a sleek vessel, quite possibly the very same one he took to leave Juno Minor two weeks previously. Nonchalantly, he entered and took his seat, fastening himself...Read More
17 October 2023: Peter Quora
Peter Quora was born in Combria as an only child. His father, Roger Quora, worked as a Federal Marshal while his mother, Annette Quora, worked as an accountant. In November 1286, they relocated to the town of Bogedary in the province of Gymia, where Quora would live until his college years...Read More
01 October 2023: The 1301 Crisis
The economy, up to this point, was prosperous in the Early Retunian Republic, having fully recovered from the 1290 downturn. This recovery was the result of Prime Minister John Waltmann's economic reform measures, renewed prospects of deep-trade reform, and the expansion of the lightfire industry in Ancondria...Read More
01 October 2023: Woody Madden
For the 1299 Provincial Elections, the population of Gymia elected Godric Fane, who ran on behalf of the Diplomatic Party and carried a starkly conservative platform that favored eliminating taxes for the henshale industry as well as dictating a "social reform" agenda that involved strict enforcement of the existing nationwide darkfire prohibition. Also as part of his agenda, Governor Fane carried out a promise to bolster local firearm training programs as well as an already-robust firearms industry...Read More
01 October 2023: Traditional Combrian Settlers
The area encompassing present-day Layda had previously been sparsely populated by a variety of people including Great Northerners, Kitalans, and indigenous groups. However, it was the Combrians, arriving in the 1190s and early 1200s, who began to transform the landscape...Read More
01 October 2023: Middle Remikra Rent and Wages
In 1238, when the surrounding territories of the Basin District gained independence from Combria, the new nation of the Federal Estates of Retun established a democratic government and a new currency. Its currency, the Retunian Qor, was based on the exchange of credit gained in the form of Combrian Merchant Qors, and the base unit of the new currency was based on the quantity of Remikran Union Credits...Read More
28 September 2023: The 1308 Study
Much may be known about the Early Republic of Retun and its tense politics in 1308, with the ultra-nationalist Walter Scott Mason campaigning against the darkfire community to unseat the incumbent Prime Minister John Waltmann in the upcoming election. But what is seldom discussed is the influence of the Leyeasah Maritime Council leading to the 1308 Study...Read More
28 September 2023: The Combrian Air Postal System
The Combrian Air Postal System was established on 1 January 1201 and provided a faster means for mail transit and package delivery across the nation's broad and expanding territory. Although carrying messages and cargo by air was not a new concept, the Combrian Postal System was the first in Circlaria to be funded and administered by a territorial government...Read More
28 September 2023: Bordergate
Bordergate is a large metropolitan city straddling the border between Locin and the Independent Commonwealth State of Retun, joined at the border, itself, by a large bridge similar to the structure of Bridgetown. And although the urban landscape is modern in character, the area is home to a structure dating back to the pre-Ashen years...Read More
27 September 2023: The Five Industrial Revolutions
The evolution of Remikran society from the old landscape of tales and adventures to the modern landscape that exists today occurred between 900 and 1400 CE, and is divided by scholars into five Industrial Revolutions: the Practical Industrial Revolution, the Steam Industrial Revolution, the Hubstone (or Modern) Revolution, the Gridstructure Revolution, and the Gyrostructure Revolution...Read More
27 September 2023: Sea Entities and Granular Animation
As noted in a previous article, granular animation is when a form, be it human, animal, or inanimate object, is transformed by deep spellfire into its separated but condensed molecules. It is also noted that such molecules are separated and connected by special spellfire bonds known as nodules...Read More
27 September 2023: Vac Trains
Until 1345, most cross-country mass transit [in Middle Remikra] consisted of a mesh train network. Comprised of metal mesh tubes for tracks, which carried trains along via magnetic levitation, mesh trains were developed in the late 1320s, and were in full force by the 1330s. They became commonplace by the end of former Prime Minister Schraber's first term...Read More