New Academe

New Academe is a large river-side city located South of the Center of Iaddithis at the coords: X=-580, Z=980. It was founded directly after the end of the first age by survivors from Academe.

## History

New Academe was founded by TheLuapian on the 30th of June 2023 alongside the surviving citizens of old Academe, who had escaped on the city's flagship "The Whale Shark" with literature, relics, and the Graviton Spike. The citizens were able to survive on "The Whale Shark" because they managed to wield the magic of the Graviton Spike to levitate the ship out of the water, and avoid the apocalyptic damage on the surface. The details of this event are recorded in "Log 4: Escape". Their first act after founding New Academe was to rebuild the Grand Archive and fill it with all the surviving texts they managed to bring with them, so that the old world would not be forgotten.

## Attractions/Monuments

### **Grand Archive**

The Grand Archive is the collections of books, banners, and relics in the world. The town of New Academe was built around the Grand Archive, and it is the single focus of the town to upkeep and expand this place of lore and knowledge.

As of writing, the Grand Archive is home to:

* 70+ Books (Including many pre-calamity texts)
* 10+ Banners (currently not on display)
* 3+ Relics (currently not on display)

### **Marketplace**

The Academian marketplace is renowned for its variety of goods, one of the few places in Iaddithis where you can get everything you need. Below are the different shops and what they sell.

#### ***Teslarc's Rocks and Stones:***

Diamonds, Gold Ingots, Iron Ingots, Copper Blocks, Lapiz Blocks, Redstone blocks, Mithril Ingots, Ruby, Sapphire, Onyx, Silver, Coal, Cobblestone, Cobbled Deepslate, Tuff

#### ***The Academian Butchery:***

Leather, White Wool, Black Wool, Feathers, Cooked Beef, Cooked Chicken, Ink Sacs, Glowing Ink Sacs, Honeycombs

#### ***Teslarc's Enchantery:***

Bottled XP (1395xp), Shulker Boxes, Golden Apples

#### ***Teslarc's Woods and Plants:***

Spruce Wood, Dark Oak Wood, Various Leaves, Apples, Bonemeal, Cocoa Beans, Baked Potato, Sugarcane, Carrots, Seeds, Wheat, Sweet Berries, Various Flowers

#### ***Teslarc's Soil and Sands:***

Dirt, flint, packed mud, clay balls, sand, red sand, gravel

#### ***Teslarc's Pawn (Sell your items here!):***

Glowing Ink Sac, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Glowstone

### **Graviton Spike**

The Graviton Spike is the purple crystal located at the center of Academe. It possesses many gravitational effects and is constantly being researched and experimented with by the Grand Scholar and founder of New Academe: TheLuapian.

The Graviton Spike appeared during the construction of the Grand Archive, crashing from the sky. It has unexplained gravitational properties, which TheLuapian used to his advantage by adding it to the construction of the Archive to keep the structure more stable, as well as make his work easier by making his materials nearly weightless. The Graviton Spike can still be found floating in front of the Grand Archive to this day, as well as 16 fragments that have been gifted to different people across Iaddithis. The Graviton Spike would constantly have small gravitation anomalies that would last only a few moments, but they would become increasingly long, powerful, and common as time went on. At the peak of this exponential instability, the Graviton Spike had an large and final anomaly known as 'The Awakening'. This led to several permenant gravitational oddities around Academe, which would result in great advances in realms of science and magic. There is currently research going into the Spike to figure out if it can be used to create flying machines and other inventions.

During the vents of the calamity, the citizens brought the Graviton Spike with them on the "Whale Shark" flagship. The ship would have been sunk by the meteors and debris falling from the sky, had Teslarc and the other scholars of Academe not managed to temporarily wield the Spike to form a repelling shield around the ship. This left the Spike weakened, and seemingly dormant. The Graviton Spike now resides in the center of New Academe, and TheLuapian is looking into ways to wake it from its dormant state.

More information on the Graviton Spike and its history can be found in the books: "Log 1: Academe", "Log 2: Visions", "Log 3: Anomaly", "Log 4: Escape", and more.