Personal Canon Elements

[Zook Murnig]

So, we all know about the official Althanas canon for each region, but what I wonder about it how much each of you make up your own personal canon for the world. Ancient civilizations that play into the development of the current nations. Secret societies operating in back alleys and personal sitting rooms. Even made up races. Tell us about them!

[SirArtemis]

I know that Orphans has a TON of stuff and I only gloss the surface when I write with him. Same with Duffy and his Tantalum. Personally, I'm working on founding a new town in Salvar somewhere (the highlands are the current plan given some feedback from others). I also want to create something known as a Dragon Council in a solo I'm working on, but otherwise I'm not too interesting/exciting I suppose.

[Rayse Valentino]

Canon that isn't explicitly written on the site but that I consider true:

The Tap. I believe there was a time when, like WoW's wellspring thing (I wonder if that's where Sighter got it from), it was accessible to everyone and then some bad stuff happened and it became only accessible to those who would later become the Thaynes. The price they paid was casting off their physical bodies, planting them in a realm in which they could observe the world and interact with it in subtle ways, but mostly they're off in their own world with their own problems. The Tap is still around, but it is extremely difficult to even grasp a speck of it, and I consider Caden to have only grasped that one speck with his stories.

I consider the king of Salvar dead. I believe the Church destroyed Knife's Edge in their quest to invade Rathaxea Square, but they lost the war outside the city, and they were finally finished off when The League closed in on them in The Cathedral and eliminated them once and for all. Now I believe Salvar has been divided up among the remaining feudal lords, forming their own quasi-countries but still militarily and economically aligned in case Alerar gets snippy.

Also the whole planar multiverse thing. Planes are cool. I guess it's written somewhere but it's worth mentioning.

And some stuff about dragons.

[Skie and Avery]

With one of my first characters, I established a hidden city for my demonic race in Concordia forest. The city is well guarded, and can only be accessed through a magic portal - if you know the spell. It's a civilization and culture of succubi and incubi, where Avery is currently the ruling king.

[absentwizard]

I have a set of characters (and I believe others are starting to make them, too) that are fairies from Tenger Jerhal, which is a pocket realm inside a pot which is on a table in a palace in this pocket realm.

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

I generally play well within the canon of Althanas; but when I need to create characters or groups that I need to treat as kind of a big deal, I find myself simply defining them to be "of some infamy".

[hoytti]

I have a couple of Coralians,they are creatures that live in the oceans around the continents. They have recently settled down and started to grow crops. One has been on land for ten years while another one is going to be emerging soon. They recently have had trouble from pollutants that have been dumped in the sea, I might make a secret organization that will be doing this for a while.

[Mordelain]

I tend to weave personal canon into a tapestry with established information.

Mordelain's world and her history has become interwoven with the Vhadya and Fallien lore, through extensive research and dissemination of Inkfinger's excellent Fallien Almanac. I always think it's best to not take liberties with canon, but, that's not to say you can't cause an upheaval or two along the road to self-exploration. She is, after all, the only character on Althanas with il'Jhain tokens, and the only character to have completed one of the Fallien missions - she's going to want to stay on the desert for a while, so she best start to know her Nirakkal from her common glass!

[Sighter Tnailog]

For the record, I don't know anything about WoW, but the Tap was far more modeled off of my high schooler's affection for Robert Jordan and the "One Power" than anything else -- also, the Tap was as much Leopold's creation as mine, in fact he was probably the guiding force behind most of it and later developments were just my embellishment.