Solaria

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**Solaria** is the main location of the series Crystal of Dawn. It is an alternative dimensional universe to Earth, and it is home to elemental magic.

The continent is divided into five provinces: Solaris, Taurus, Auriga, Andromeda, and Orion. The capitol, Solaris, is named after the sun, while the other provinces is named after constellations. Due to the usage of celestial bodies in conducting time, the calendar years are de jure 10 years ahead of Earth, however, true time still aligns de jure.

## History

### Overview

Solaria was created before the split of Pangea on Earth, and is in a slightly volatile stage, due to the time and elemental resonance it was lifted from Earth, known as the Cataclysm. Prior to Aeri's descent into Solaria, only few were blessed with magic. When the spread of elemental magic started, those with animate control magic locked themselves up in Solarius for several generations, disallowing the spread of their magic across the continent, due to the fact the elemental magic had not been studied properly, even pre-cataclysm. Soon most human inhabitants had different elemental abilities, and this would continue in generations to come. Some would even leave Solaria to start a life on Earth, leading for some generations to discover Solaria as a well-kept secret for generations.

Aeri would be chosen to eradicate Sirens by the high court, and won. During her attempts she met three people; Harmonia, the queen of Sirens, Hellacious, an exiled tyrant, and a hunter, they would help her eradicate the Sirens from her hometown, causing irreparable damage. After which, the courts would tell her to wipe out the Sirens from Solaria, causing the genocide of Sirens. Harmonia and Hellacious would go into hiding soon after.

Despite Aeri's victories, she had achieved them in such malicious and underhanded ways. The people of Solarius did not want the common folk to know that their goddess had tampered with such high magic governance, thus several scholars opted to rewrite history in order for Aeri to appear as a humble ruler. Aeri practiced laissez-faire with this proposal, letting the scholars deem what was "best" for the people to know about their goddess. As a result, generations of Solaria would benefit from the idea that Aeri was such.

Solaria operates as a federal, mixed system of government (with the exception of monarchy). Before the Transient Ivory War, Solaria used a rotational elected monarchy system, where three families were blessed by Aeri herself, with reinforcement from the High Court of Solaria. After the Transient Ivory War, the monarchies were devolved into their own aristocracies that stemmed from each differentiated family name, creating their aristocracy class. There were about 16 families branched from the original three families, which led to many inter-family disputes to inherit the title of grand duke. After the Kingsley family's eldest son was named the Grand Duke, they developed their peerage system, classifying the dukes, marquis, counts, earls, viscounts, and barons. As they relinquished their duties to serve their prefectures, they each were stripped of their roles, but still kept their prestige over time; they still would provide much influence in major political events.

### Inscribed History

#### **Overview**

* Pre-Cataclysm
	+ Inscribed history was initially written by non-magic academics from Pleiades Academy before their transformation into a magic infliction-based academy, who were unsanctioned by the courts of Solaria and were considered the most reliable written history from a national standard. Despite being unrecognized by the courts, governing bodies alike use their documents as official inscriptions for most historical accuracies. Given their previous curriculum and lack of magic, academics would study magic and their history without bias.

* Post-Cataclysm
	+ After Aeri's ascension to high court, the group was forcefully disbanded and the academy was transformed, with an exception of their curriculum's programs which tried to include as little magic application in their curriculum as possible, which only a few had figured out and commented on. The school still teaches the original text, despite the National Educational Board's protests.

#### **Original Texts (Copied from *The Complete Post-Cataclysmic History of Solaria, Vol. 1*)**

"*A girl from Earth named Aeri would soon descend on the lands, with divine permission from the high courts themselves. Her mission was a simple yet difficult mission: diminish the Sirens' population in Solaria because of their noncooperation with the high court. However, from instability from the portals between these worlds to pass the message ultimately caused Sirens to cross over to Earth, in which would change Aeri's mission to eradicate them from spreading within her hometown in Earth.*

*After a long 9 month cycle of non-stop breeding of Sirens, Aeri would come across the king of Sirens who had revealed they had left Solaria because they were frustrated with the higher court's unreasonable terms. Despite the empathy she felt, she engaged in a battle with the King and won, but in the process eradicated most of her hometown with irreversible magic. Declaring her victory against the King, she was hailed a hero, with the knowledge of her massacre hidden with the help of a hunter, the queen of Sirens and her twin brother, an exiled tyrant of a knight who ascended to the monarch's throne at the age of 19.*

*By the high court, Aeri was given the task to eradicate the Sirens, employing the help of the hunter, who she took all the credit from. They would then tamper with the unknown elemental magic seals, which would cause the spread of elemental powers across the lands of Solaria. It is unknown for the reason of this, but it is speculated that she wanted to adopt these powers for personal gain. Despite that, her actions were very different. She then used these powers to wipe out the Sirens, known as "The Slap". Her victory would allow her to reign Solaria, but at the cost of her friendship with the twins Harmonia and Hellacious; Harmonia was rumored to have bore a child between her and the hunter.*

*Before her passing, Aeri would live for several hundred immortal years by freezing Solaria from Earth, and bestowed three books: the Book of Antiquity, Contemporaneousness, and Prognostication. These books were of claim to have told the past, present, and future of Solaria, however, upon closer inspection and handling, the books seem to be a guidebook of sorts. Claims from scholars of the high court were to be that Aeri's divine knowledge allowed her to perform divinations despite interruption of the annual clairvoyance tradition that was held.*

*At the time of writing this, it seems that the scholars of Solarius are in the process of writing down Aeri's achievements, which will be immortalized for the future to come.*

*Aeri's descension from Earth and ascension to Solaria's high court would strongly influence the education and rapport of the people. After completing her missions from the higher court of Solaria, she was bestowed unfathomable power no mortal had ever received before...*"

### Rewritten History

#### **Overview**

* Post-Cataclysm
	+ Rewritten history was written post-elemental magic spread, by scholars sanctioned by Aeri to rewrite history. They did not exist prior to the cataclysm. Aeri chose most of these scholars from Solarius, but it was learnt that she did not do much background checks on them and most had sketchy backgrounds in general.

## Magic

*For more in-depth information on this section, please refer to the Magic page.*

All residents are different generations of immigrants from Earth, given to them by crystal shards that were spread around 1740 (E). Due to the lack of spaces to practice magic, those who fail to master magic at the age of 20 experience some sort of loss of control. Due to this, there is multiple schools for all grade levels (sectioned off by 3 for each stage that consist of 4 grades) with a rigorous curriculum that is a requirement for the tertiary graduation.

There are four major types of magic - elemental, intangible, tangible/physical, and spiritual magic. Most are split between elemental and tangible magic, and usually all share intangible magic, such as telekinesis. Spiritual magic is reserved for the archons of Solaria - the high court of the continent.

## Provinces

#### **Solaris**

The capitol of Solaria, it is home to officials and those within the educational branches. They are surrounded with a wall made of iron and it is extremely hard for visitor entry, for unknown reasons, however it is speculated to hold various artifacts with powers that surpassed even more than the government officials. The government is known to have massive overhaul of major systems for the better, and is widely praised across the provinces. Despite its regional concentrating being technology, it is rarely distributed. With their influence, all five regions take up a part in *STEAM*, with Solaris being technology, Taurus with art, Auriga with math, Andromeda with engineering, and Orion with math.

Majority of the population in Solaris, especially government officials and educators, are all blessed with the control of animate objects *—* such as invisibility, mind control, time manipulation, shapeshifting, etc. *—* all powers that elemental users that are rarely blessed with.

#### **Taurus**

One of the first provinces created; it is home to high-class educational and recreational arts. As they are the oldest province, they are known to speak in a slight Transatlantic accent around the province, but this is currently being forced out of the province's culture as it was no longer the standard way of speaking by the capitol; despite this, the accent is quite prominent when speaking roughly. Taurus is a magical rich horticulture-rich region, known for its flowering beauties, in which floriculture is a regional pride. Floriculture festivals are hosted annually during spring and is visited domestically and neighbors alike.

Taurus is known for its major contributions to the arts and recreational arts alike in Solaria, where they specialize in the educations of visual, performing, and language arts, as well as concentration in combat magic within its martial arts sector. The education's curriculum is known to be the most progressive and technologically advanced in terms of application; many prestigious alumni of Solaris Academy have previously taken up education there.

Dubbed the province of "superstars" due to the huge amount of stars hailing from said province; there is a myth that jokingly states that if one were to be born there, that their future held great opportunities. Immense pressure is put on these individuals themselves; it honors the Solaria Supereminence Program, a program designed for advanced baccalaureate studies for easy pathways into Solaris Academy, to an extreme degree. It is highly competitive and easily makes a distinguished individual.

#### **Auriga**

The second province created, it is known for its aptitudes in strength both mentally and physically - math and athletics. Its capitol is Capella. Some of the most dignified engineers and contributors of science have hailed from Auriga.

#### **Andromeda**

The third province created, its history known for the mutated species of sirens dubbed the "Song of the Sirens", contributed to Aeri's ascend to power. She was known to have committed a mass genocide of these dangerous species of sirens for the Solaria high court, and is highly reveled for this victory. They specialize in engineering.

#### **Orion**

The fourth province created, it is the last ever province created due to the inhabitation of destructive magical creatures. It is the poorest of the provinces, and due to its major peninsulas being sunk in water, aquaculture and mariculture came to a declining halt. They specialize in science, conducting scientific studies relating to magical creatures and residual or archeology of extinct creatures.

### Culture

Each of the provinces carry different attitudes towards education - in Solaria, it is highly looked down upon to not have an education; in Taurus, with comes education hand-in-hand with esteem and acclaim; in Auriga