Fictional locations on Earth

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.***Earth** is the predominant location for many of Adira's stories, although sometimes not explicitly stated. This includes all locations in the animal stories as well as any realistic or historical fiction tales.

## Stories that mention/take place on Earth

* Journey to the Magical World
* Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus

## Fictional locations on Earth

### Lydia Brown's boarding school

The boarding school is located in New York City. The cafeteria is part of the school, and it is described as huge with banners representing the school unfurled and hanging on the walls. The food served at the boarding school is the "best foood out of all the boarding schools in New York City." Later, Jaden causes the cafeteria to explode because his dragon body is too big for the space. There are also hallways with lockers as part of the school.

## Earth in relation to the other worlds

### Solstrale (Journey to the Magical World)

#### History

Earth and Solstrale are side-by-side separate realities. Earth is known by several names as denoted by the magical creatures that live in Solstrale, such as "The Otherworld," "The Human Realm," "The Isle of Betrayal," and "The Beyond." Humans lived on Earth thousands of years before Solstrale was settled. Daring explorers traveled around the globe and ended up in North America. These ancient humans had a much more robust connection to magic forces (their spirits were more sensitive to the Beyond) and to their environment than the ones that would come in the far future. As a side note, North America was a continent hardly inhabited, so the magical bond was much stronger here than there, although there is no explanation as to why this is the case.

A young woman, possibly of Southwest Asian or Middle Eastern descent, had exceptionally strong ties to The Beyond and could hear voices from the Beyond talk to her; they could sense a human walking on their mortal soil, and they could tell that she was pure in spirit, so they wanted to invite her over to the world and meet her. The voices taught her the way of magic and she becomes exceptionally skilled in this. She was able to open a passage and her entire village entered The Beyond. These people are the first humans to enter Solstrale and are the ancestors to any humans who came after his event.

After the first Solstralian Civil War, the humans returned to Earth, specifically North America, and they became known as the Native Americans.

During the Second Solstralian Civil War, the Veil took heavy damage from the fighting. King Andor’s abuse of magic put such a heavy strain on the Veil that in some places, it ruptured, shattered, chipped off, or received punctures. On the other side, absurd new ideas trickled into the Otherworld, leading to the creation of the technology we know as a result of the Industrial Revolution. As more time elapsed, humans began to transfer ideas over to Solstrale; they gathered and made living or functioning in some allocated areas impossible.

#### Portals

Humans and magical creatures travel to Solstrale via portals that usually take the form of green-colored lightning, though if the individual is not magical, they risk being seriously injured.

#### The Veil

The Veil separates humans and monsters apart, though in the past, it had been especially weak. Because of that, the two species could contact with each other and allow humans to "see" magical creatures--this later became the basis of ancient Egyptian, Greek, etc. legends. Creatures pass through the Veil as they transport to other worlds via portals. After the first Solstralian Civil war, King Andor enforced the veil so almost no one could travel between Earth and Solstrale. The Veil also separated the "wild dreams, ideas, and imaginations" of humans from Solstrale so that they don't corrupt the world.

#### Storms

Some storms on Earth are caused by pressure build-up on the Veil from magic abuse, wars, natural disasters, and such on either/both sides. When there is too much pressure, the Veil will crack, translating to lightning on the Earth side. Note that there is a difference between this kind of lightning, lightning from regular storms not related to events in Solstrale, and green lightning.

## References and citations

1. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 3
2. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 6
3. ↑ *Lydia Brown and the Quests for Olympus*, page 7

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