Tisker - Pilot of Wind Sabre. Grew up as an orphan in Subrosa until he asked Talis for work aboard her ship. Cutter.
Talbot - Business associate of Talis. Captains a ship but also operates a smuggling ring out of Subrosa. Passionate about grooming and pickpocketing. Likes a challenge. Cutter.
Zeela - Businesswoman offering expensive and hard-to-find items out of the Platform District of Subrosa. Owns Zeela's House of Antiquities. Vein. Vessels
The Emerald Empress - Galleon-hulled private merchant ship that sank to the flotsam layer with a certain artifact among its cargo.
The Serpent Rose - Imperial hunter class airship under the command of Captain Hankirk, tasked with retrieving the ring of Lindent Vein. Equipped with arms and cannons and at least seventy-five hands. Not equipped with descent gear.
Wind Sabre - Carrack hulled airship crewed by Talis, Dug, Tisker, and Sophie. Locations
Assessor’s Hall - A long stretch of alley in Subrosa, adjacent to the Corrugated District, where pawnshop kiosks crowd the relatively dark passages.
Corrugated District - A section of Subrosa. High traffic. Named for the corrugated metal sheets used to construct much of its walls and flooring.
Diadem - The Cutter territory capital and home to the Emperor and his family.
Fall Island - Bone desert island, as close to Nexus as many dare to settle. Sand continuously flows from the center of the island, over its edges. Home of the High Holy Bone Temple of the Feathered Stone and the trade port Talonpoint.
Hartham - Moderately sized border island on the Cutter side of the Bone-Cutter border. Day-and-a-half journey from Subrosa at cruising speeds.
Horizon - The centralized altitude at which most cities and settlements on Peridot have been positioned. There was an organized effort across all four territories to migrate all activity on the planet to one plane, as maps were almost impossible to manage and read when altitude and overlapping landmasses had to be accounted for. However, some poorer communities, or those dependent on features of a non-Horizon island, still live off this plane.
Nexus - Collection of energy released during the Cataclysm, which holds Peridot’s loose tectonic remnants together. The home of Peridot’s five deities.
Peridot - An unusual planet whose natural course was altered through an alchemical ritual for power transference.
Platform District - A section of Subrosa. Constructed and maintained by a business co-op of Vein merchants and business owners. Constructed with exposure to open air, from solid wood.
Rosa - A smallish island in Cutter skies, a trading post turned metropolis, located convenient to the border crossing into Bone territories. Populated by all five races of Peridot. Crowded, and prosperous.
Silver Isles - A tight grouping of small inner radius islands in the Cutter territory. Connected to each other by bridges. Strong Imperial presence. Well-maintained.
Subrosa - Black-market “bottom-hanged” city suspended from the underside of the island Rosa.
Talonpoint - Port city of Fall Island, a densely packed but well-organized cluster of housing, hospitality, civil offices, and businesses arranged along streets which diagonally spoke outward from a central ‘green’ in which public addresses, events, and markets are held. High stone walls surround the city to keep the blowing sand of Fall Island’s desert out of the streets.
Temple of the Feathered Stone - Central temple of Onaya Bone on Fall Island. Features a communing chamber where supplicants may be permitted to speak directly to the goddess via video feed. Center of operations for the priestesses’ intelligence network.
Tined Spoon District - A section of Subrosa, adjacent to the Platform District, almost entirely dedicated to restaurants and bars. Religion
Alchemy - The practice of manipulating elemental forces to control reality. The dangerous practice is taboo among mortals, enforced most actively by Onaya Bone.
Cataclysm - Catastrophic event which caused the planet to explode, destroying all life except for the five beings that committed the alchemical transference responsible.
Recreation - The action taken by Peridot’s five deities to make Peridot inhabitable again, and to create the peoples, flora, and fauna which can be found there afterward.
The Five - Refers to the five alchemists whose transference ritual in ancient history gave them high-level control of elemental magic, immortality, and the power to create life.
The Divine Alchemists - Another honorific term for The Five.
The Deities
Arthel Rak - God and creator of the Rakkar. Associated with the element of fire.
Helsim Breaker - God of the Breaker people. Alchemically proficient with the element of life.
Ketzali - An enormous, six-eyed male raven created by and favored by Onaya Bone.
Lindent Vein - God and creator of the Vein people. Blind. Disdainful of eyesight. Alchemically proficient with the element of water.
Onaya Bone - Goddess and creator of the Bone people. Associated with the element of earth. Has a romantic past with Silus Cutter, though they are not currently affiliated.
Silus Cutter - God and creator of the Cutter people. Associated with the element of air. Groups / Affiliations
Cutter folk / Cutters - People created by Silus Cutter during the Recreation. 1.75 meters tall by Earth measurement. Naturally athletic build. Hair is typically brown to black. Eyes are typically brown or hazel. Skin is a warm honey gold color. Innately prone to wanderlust. Claustrophobia is not uncommon, though not all suffer from it. Primary exports are shipbuilding, glow pumpkin sprouts, water, and aeronautical equipment. Most populous of all Peridot races. Government is an empire, with heavily ingrained bureaucratic infrastructure for local and regional management.
Bone - People created by Onaya Bone during the Recreation. 1.85 meters tall by Earth measurement. Lithe, angular build. Blue-black hair and purple-blue-green iridescent feathers form a full head of hair, though many shave parts or all of their scalp. Dark skin. Eyes range from gray to purple. Fingernails, when allowed to grow, curve sharply as talons. Traditional martial art is taught as part of educational process. Initiation by solitary hunting expedition to earn adulthood and voting status in tribal councils. Tribal elders form Leadership Council and convene every five years to renew relations as part of a meeting of the tribes,
