Cel's AUs

Haha just a list of them

## Machine River:

### Premise:

An all female/androgynous humanoid world characterized by ancient machines known as Old-tech, sentient forests, and sisterhoods of Engineers. Biological humans are not native, having arrived after intelligence developed on the planet. It's a sepia/red color scheme, but the full spectrum does exist. Wildlife is semi-mechanical or fully-mechanical. Time and space are weird, and while magic cannot be controlled by humans, it is there. 243-day years, with 8 hours a day.

### People:

#### Humans:

Standard humans. They are moderately intelligent, somewhat athletic (land-based) and restless. They dominate Palya's West.

#### Lawless:

Humanoids. Androgynous, but with a feminine appearance using she/her pronouns. Long lived, up to 200-300 years. Moderately intelligent and adapted to land enviroments. They only have sexes when mating, and after that they go back to androgyny. They are an older civilization than Earth. Known for defying the laws of physics: for example, being able to throw themselves at the ground and miss or build in 2 dimensions. They can hear radio waves through special glands in the earlobes. Mostly tan-skinned, though some in the Barrens are pale and the Eastern plebes or Lawless living near the equator have dark skin. Their native language and name is known as the Yarra.

##### Engineers:

Special Lawless that can manipulate Old-tech and magic. They organize sisterhoods, or covens. As close to a government as the West has.

### Culture:

#### The Claiming:

In both East and West, both races choose their youth at the age of 12 for their future jobs. However, this assignment is far stricter in the East. Based off an ancient Lawless tradition known as the Seyapolo.

#### Radio:

The radio is extremely important. In the West, it is used as news. It is sacred to the Lawless, who use it as a source of communication.

#### Pidgin:

A mix of English and Yarran. For example, "How are you?" is "How yaki?"

#### Constellations:

Palya is located in the Local Arm so the sky and constellations are much the same. Their North Star is located in Cygnus, though it changes quicker than ours. Several constellations include Sne, the Lantern, and Sen, the Flint.

#### Old-tech:

The ancient, semi-sentient machines litter Palya. They are only controlled by Engineers and are highly valuable. Nobody knows where they came from.

### History:

#### 50 B.E. (Before Earth) :

Palya is semi-settled. The world teems with life. Civilization flourishes.

#### 0 B.E.:

Earthlings arrive. They settle the East and name the native people the Lawless for their habit of breaking the laws of nature. Lawless are forced West.

#### 50 A.E.:

Kayla Redrock establishes the trains and the radio as a line between East and West.

#### 100 A.E.:

Rebellion rises in the Lawless plebes of the west. Tension grows.

#### 150 A.E.:

The Last Forest begins to crawl over the land and Old-tech awakens- it is the present, a time for Engineers and change.

### Geography:

#### Moons:

##### Milsoo:

The "sacred" moon. It has rings and is a perfect distance for eclipses.

##### Selene:

A moon discovered by the humans. Its dark shade blends in with the night almost too perfectly.

#### Palya:

Name of the continent. A rocky land divided into East and West.

#### The Badlands:

Uh weird broken plateaus made of Old-tech. They take the form of human females and walk about. It's where the town of Machine River is located. Between East and West.

The Plateaus:

Normal plateaus with bits of grass, sagebrush, and lupine. This is where most of the Lawless people live. Winding, steep rivers carve their way through the rock. Between East and West.

The Last Forest:

The literal last forest. Located in the West, it is a lawless land (like the rest of the frigging West) and is sacred.

#### Oceania:

The ocean. It encircles Palya. Inhabited by octopi and strange creatures. Wild and grey.

#### East:

Flatlands and farmlands. "Civilized". Electric-tech and magic is forbidden. A "utopia-in-progress". Ignorance is paramount.

##### Scrabbel:

A semi-large city with important trade to the West.

#### West:

Wild, mountainous country with neither rhyme nor reason. Smoggy and heartless. Magic channels in the rock, ley-lines, Old-tech, and the Lawless people all make their homes here. No major cities.

#### The Barrens:

The mountains dividing East and West. Rocky, rugged, and dangerous, they are a true no-mans-land. Inhabited by volatile wildlife.

#### Redrock Station:

The radio station. Located on the Western side of the Barrens, it broadcasts news and alerts to the West, and occasionally orders to the Eastern rebels. In the shape of a temple, and ran by a woman known as Kalya Redrock. She's infamous.

#### The Express:

A train connecting East and West. Steam-powered and entirely Old-tech. Maintained by three sects of Engineers, the Leykla, Skybrane, and Colast.