Volas Lunam

Volas Lunam, The City of The Moon, was a city raised on 102 TE by Yoakens above the Sea of Refuge in the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire that later got lifted to the Frotbitten Sea, by the shores of New Yoake. Volas Lunam was a place of mysterious magic and technology overgrown and decaying from negligence.The city was compriced of many islands with different buildings. The architecture followed the Yoaken style with some inspiration from the surrounding nations.
The city ran on many magical and complex machinery not seen elsewhere in Eldham, including anti gravity generators, mass transit, and skylifts. Those machines were the combined efforts of Fjord Motor Company, a Skjoldish energetic company based on oil, and the Yoaken company Vona-Vorp. Together, both corporations were able to create artificial floating islands utilizing the magic of the moon and whale oil to power it.
==History==
The founders of Volas Lunam are the Celestial sisters of the Yoaken Family, Snickee Yoaken and Von Yoaken. Fleeing from the constant struggles of their home in New Yoake they used their connections to truly ascend above the world.
On 200 TE, a ritual known as "The Darkest Night" took place in the city of New Yoake. The objective of the Yoakens were to lower the sea level in the Drakaen Sea using the old powers of the Patrons. As a side-effect, probably planned by the conductor of the ritual, the city of Volas Lunam was summoned by the coasts of the island of Yoake, in the Frostbitten Sea. The city was siezed by Regnum Yoake. Delta Drake Canalopin was named Moon Princess of Volas Lunam and was given ownership over the flying city.
Barely four years later, in 203 TE, the Twilight Empire of Amarillo, a short-lived nation in which Volas Lunam was located, was forcefully dissolved by Simulami and Valreach. The latter took control of the city and a new period of stagnation began where no development nor changes took place in the city.
On 226 TE, Valreach signed a deal with the Yoaken Dynasty, a nation founded by Pablo Yoaken, original founder of Yoake. Volas Lunam was given to the Dynasty in exchange of 500.000$. In a similar fashion to Valreach, the Dyansty did not develop the city and their presence there was minimal. Over time, the Dynasty government lost control of some of the islands that form Volas Lunam and their control was limitted to the royal palace and the town's center.
==Architecture and Features==
Yoaken architecture was simplistic, massive, and overwhelming yet stayed at a human scale. With brilliant white roofs and tall white pillars the Yoaken structures stood tall. Yoaken architecture takes from the Yoaken style yet the use of different materials creates an all new look. Alternative materials plus the bonus of amazing gravity defying magic has created a style all its own.
===Soul-Powered Automation===
Within the city, there are many golems going about various maintainance and improvement tasks. The most common golem are the Model G’s standing as guards throughout the city. These Fjord M.C. constructs are stitched together through an animancy network commonly referred as Golem Hive Network. To manage the collective mind bound through soul, there is an entity created by Von Yoaken that it became known as Vona.
=== Vona ===
Vona is an artificial spirit that was created using hundreds of thousands of human souls. Using the network, Vona is able to see the memories stored in the souls within the network. Together with additional Soul Vacuum Tubes to stabilize, Vona is able to process information in a matter of seconds. If Vona ever destabilizes she is to be immediately terminated as her functions within the city of Volas would cause a major failure on the flying islands.
As the Spirit that is the Hive Mind for the entirety of the golems of Volas Lunam, she is integral to the stability of the floating islands. All seeing and all powerful within the city she watches over everyone. With her many golem bodies, she has an unfathomably amount of man power to build and maintain the islands alongside her human caretakers. Vona was not allowed to repair her main body for any reason after an incident around 120 TE.
=== Golem Hive Network ===
The Golem Hive Network is a large imcomporial glob of souls that have been magically forced together. To keep the Hivemind tethered to the mortal plane there is a device that uses moonlight to hold them halfway in the mortal plane. Vona was created as a way to constantly monitor the Hivemind and watch out for anomalies that pop up. There is an anomaly within the Network known as the Pale Man. It is believed that this entity or soul has grown so large that it can relapse back into the mortal plane. These relapses can only happen under special circumstances. Those cases led to The Four Rules of Volas Lunam.
=== Sporitals ===
Around the city, there are Sporitals. These medical facilities practice mushroom medicine. Unlike normal medicine, mushroom medicine utilizes magic and different kinds of mushrooms to truly better people and not simply heal them. Doctors who practice mushroom medicine are normally followers of ROT, a religious belief of decay and renewal.
===Soul Vaccum Tubes===
Soul Vaccum Tubes are a small glass cylinder with netherite caps on both sides. Inside of the cylinder is a trapped soul that is forced into submission with animancy runes on both netherite caps. Each soul is used to complete mundane problems or more complex problems that would take ten to a hundred Soul Vacuums to solve.
==Culture==
The people of Volas Lunam mostly came from the Vampiric nation of Yoake, the land of freezing curses and immortal woes. The city of Volas Lunam, instead, was full of warm summer days and the breeze of salty sea water. Volasen took many deply rooted Yoaken traditions and over the years have altered them and created their own.
===Fashion===
Volasen clothes are mostly weaved from the silk of Silk Wyrms who build their nests on the underside of the floating islands. The silk of a silk wyrm is delicate yet also durable and easy to work with. Though it takes time to process the silk to the state used in clothe making the final product is worth the effort.
Popular for women of Volas are the colors blue, pink, and green. High necklines are not a must but low necklines are seen as less dignified however is very popular amongst younger women. Shoulders coverings called calidum are considered the main focus of a women's attire along with the many delicate patters. Though long dresses that cover the legs completely are traditional Yoaken styles the more modern Volasen style is to have a tight form fitting dress with a slit to show off the legs. Because the salty sea is right beneath them straight hair is extremely hard to maintain as its easy to frizz. Most ladies keep short hair styles with curls, but long flowy straight hair is seen as desirable since it is so hard to maintain.
=== Animaiter ===
For an outsider, the first unique cultural phenomenon that most notice are the mask that adults wear. These masks are called animaiters as in soul paths for they display ones true person. Animaiters are a traditional mask that is hand carved by the owner on their 20th birthday as a ritual transition from childhood to adulthood. At the age of ten one selects a sapling to slowly feed their blood to over the next ten years. The slow feeding of blood to the sapling infuses the owners soul into the wood truly solidifying their bond with their animaiter. Since each animaiter is not only a view into their true selves, but also a part of the persons soul, to destroy a animaiter is a crime that even a murderer wouldn't commit.
==Government and Administration==
The city was initially ruled by the council of the Yoaken sisters, Von and Snickee. They diligently watched over their decaying paradise. They welcomed people from all walks of life, for if their mind is bright, they are treasures to the sisters. After the two sisters the laws were determined by A.W.E.
De jure, this system was kept until 200 TE, when Delta Drake Canalopin was named by the Yoakenreiges as Moon Princess of Volas Lunam. A legal system was never introduced for the focus was to repopulate the city. It is believed that a council of Yoaken aristocrats assisted the princess on the management of the city's affairs.
===The Four Rules===
The only laws or rules that the Yoaken sisters established were the following, commonly known as just "The Four Rules".
#Don’t get on the train that arrives at 12pm.
#Don’t get off the train if the station isn't announced.
#If the last whale lamp of a street is blinking, count how long it stays lit. If it stays lit for three seconds between darkness don’t walk to the end.
#If you lock eyes with a strange pale man, check to ensure your windows are locked before going to sleep.
==Legacy==
Some fanart has been created by the founder of the city, VonObby. This one is not considered canonic nor has any impact in the world, but rather expands ideas and concepts that the creator had in mind.
File:Volas Lunam 2.gif|Volas Lunam Propaganda
File:Vona Moyye Street.gif|Moyye Street on Volas Lunam
File:Vona WeVibe Poly 1.gif|Idea of virtual V.O.N.A. recording people.
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