- Arrival From Earth
- Notable World Details
- Cultures & Languages
- Politics & Economics
- Technology
- Religion
- World Biology
Arrival From Earth
The year was 1416. With no warning or explanation, a high quantity of people from all walks of life and reaches of Earth up and vanished without a trace. Whether or not anyone had seen the event occur or witnessed a person who was taken by it would be left only to be speculated since no one who arrived on Prymec so unceremoniously had any recollection of the event themselves. Roughly three million individuals in total were ripped from their former lives and cast into a place which has since been named the “Plain of Emanation”, a sacred place that is a dedicated neutral ground and sanctuary which rests independently between the borders of a few nations as no one dares lay claim to the region out of superstitious beliefs. While those who arrived began in one massive group, the general nature of humanity to cast off and form circles of like-minded people with similar values and more resulted in this original population breaking apart and going separate ways in order to experience their new world in their own way. For many years the settlers would remain relatively near the Plain of Emanation, forming the first cities and strongholds within a respectable distance of the area in case some other miracle occurred and provided the displaced peoples an opportunity to return home to Earth, as it had been demonstrated soon after the mass’ arrival that Prymec was an unforgiving place to call home.
That was roughly 840 Prymecian years ago. Humanity, as it does throughout history, moved on. Most of the foreign cultures came to the conclusion that there was no returning home, and many at that point couldn’t even claim Earth to be home anyways since they already were a few generation in as Prymec born citizens. Thus real progress could be made, as long as Prymec itself would allow it. The struggle was real, as the multitudes of phenomena all across the planet would be a constant hindrance to the safety and tranquility of the residents, but tenacity and perseverance triumphed to a degree. Now, Prymec is home to a small assortment of nations and cultures that while familiar to some from Earth, have been adapted to the harsh environs and circumstances their peoples have faced over the years.
Notable World Details
- Prymec is far from fully explored. Currently there are three known continents, and only one of those has been mapped from sea to sea, but the interior has yet to be filled in. New discoveries pop up on a regular basis.
- Prymec’s sun is a bright shade of violet in color. It is unknown as to why this is the case, whether the star is actually violet or if it has something to do with the atmosphere. Due to this, the sky during a typical day ranges from a lavender to pink.
- Technological level of the various cultures is on average the equivalent of the very early Victorian era on Earth. While the timeline on Earth is the near future compared to the real world in this setting, the involuntary settlers of Prymec arrived with little and had to start whole new civilizations from scratch, which impacted their advancement.
- Despite the vast array of phenomena on Prymec, the majority of the average denizens fear one thing the most: an enigmatic entity known as the Crimson Husk which seems to bring all manners of potential calamities to people within its sphere of influence as it wanders the world like a lost soul. More on this being can be found further below.
- A Prymecian day is still 24 hours in length, as the original settlers used their knowledge of sundials to learn the new flow of time here, though each hour is apparently a fair bit longer than they were on Earth. Thus Prymec is either larger than Earth, or spins slower.
- Seasons seem to flow differently on Prymec than on Earth, but not by an extreme margin. Astronomers have determined that perhaps the planet’s tilt is a little more intense than Earth’s had been, but they have no way to determine this officially. Winters and summers are longer, and a full year is 779 days.