Orchid Bay

Orchid Bay City is the city where Juniper Lee lives and where most of her past adventures have happen. It also has a barrier that prevents any current Te Xuan Ze (e.g. Juniper Lee) from leaving.

Orchid Bay is a sunny beach town on the western coast. Besides being the home of Te Xuan Ze for centuries, it is also a nexus for all of magic, attracting much of evil magic as a side-effect.

## Public Locations

**The Park -** is a popular place among both
humans and monsters. Fire Demons enjoy taking jogs in the park, despite the hazards they may create.

**Orchid Bay Beach -** Both monsters and mortals use the beach to relax and take time off. It seems to be a popular tourist place for both, enough so that in the summer time it is packed. Surfers especially enjoy the waves here, unaware that
 bigger waves are actually made by monsters launching themselves into
the water. The beach has a Bay with a welcoming sign and is sided by an actual bay.

**The Zoo -** While the Zoo appears to be a normal Zoo, but in fact the animals kept inside were actually magical creatures
captured by the evil Zoo keeper and transformed into common animals with
 the intent of draining their magical energy. Since then the Zoo has only had real animals and has been to known to have gods visiting the
zoo out of boredom.

**Museum Mall** - The current Orchid Bay mall also doubles as a museum of natural and human history. When June and friends go to research for school, they talk about how they liked the museum a lot more before it was bought by the mall. It now features art exhibits alongside the
historical exhibits.

**Schools -** Before leaving, June and her brother Ray-Ray would attend the Orchid Bay Elementary School while their older brother Dennis went to Orchid Bay High School.

## The Veil

Orchid Bay is surrounded
 by the Veil, an invisible barrier that cuts off just at the border of
Orchid Bay. Its main objective seems to be as a physical barrier for any current Te Xuan Ze, to prevent them from leaving the city and shirking their duty, but it is later revealed that besides shielding the monsters from human eyesight, it also keeps truly evil magic at bay. It was put
in place by the Magical Elders before recorded history, at the end of a big planetary war between the world of humans and world of magic which happened possibly during the Forgotten Age.

To put a stop to it, they gave up their physical forms and empowered three
touchstones, which gave rise to the actual Veil, making the world of
magic invisible to mortals, separating the two worlds forever. Along
with the Veil, the Elders also instated the position of the first Te Xuan Ze, a human given great power to hold everything in balance. A current Te Xuan Ze is also the only one in power and able to destroy the
 three orbs.

The Veil is really a spell protected by three Sacred Touch Stones which control it through three different aspects:

1. The first touchstone - "gets the ball rolling"; destroying this one starts the process of lifting the spell of the Veil.

2. Magical Sight - The second one holds up the actual veil spell itself.

3. The third is a keystone that acts as a last resort. Destroying it will make the magical veil gone forever as well as let truly evil magic in.

Reciting the oath of the Te Xuan Ze at the third stone will restore all of the other touch stones as well as the magical veil. It is possible that the Veil was located somewhere else but was moved to Orchid Bay as the location became a nexus for magic. The barrier did not exist as a physical limit barring departure for any Te Xuan Ze before Kai Yee, the
Te Xuan Ze's "strongest warrior and greatest curse" after whom the
Elders decided to bind the Veil to the role of The Protector as a literal barrier for all current Te Xuan Ze.