Worldbuilding

## Locations

*Panamico**:*** The most northern city of the region of Colombo, it is home to just about fifteen thousand individuals and is notably nestled in between the large, jungle mountains of La Platea, making it difficult to access. It is a moderate sized city, however it is relatively underdeveloped and amenities are minimal. To its west however is a flat plains that is mostly uninhabited, due to its proximity to the Western Seas. Panamico forms the most northern border with the wall known as "The Golden Gate," or the "Rich Man's Conviction" by aliases, which leads into the more prosperous lands of Caribbea.

*Colombo:* The most populated region in the entire world, consisting of an extremely dense population of 120 million, in the area once known as Colombia, Ecuador, and parts of Venezuela. Consisting mostly of a scattered array of jungles and mountains with few open grassland, life is difficult as populations struggle to provide enough food to feed everyone adequately. Large cities are present such as in New Bogoto, Coracao, and San Dima, but they often consist of dense urban populations living in squalor. Central government barely exists and most populations, especially in villages, fend for themselves.

*Caribbea:* Caribbea aligns with roughly the land once known as Latin America, and consists of a thin isthmus of land coupled with the thousands of islands located in the Caribbea Sea, such as Dominicano and Cubano. East Caribbea typically refers to an extremely thin strip of land in the eastern part of the isthmus and all of the islands in the Caribbea Sea, while West Caribbea is consists of most of the small isthmus itself. Much of the landscape consists of flat, rolling hills, with sparse forests of jungle every so often, being true of both the mainland and islands. A population of about thirty million reside here.

*Western Seas:* Once known as the Pacific Ocean, the Western Seas lies to the west of Colombo and is known for its immense size and seemingly endless nature, as ever since the Great Calamity no one has been able to explore it entirely. However, due to the nature of frequent tsunamis and storms, causing thousands of deaths each year, it is seen as a feared entity and something to be avoided, and outright shunned by the people of Colombo. The people of Caribbea hold a more neutral view as storms become less common the further north one travels.

*Marien Gap:* An expanse of swampy land between the region of Colombo and Caribbea, flanked on each ends by the city of Panamico in Colombo, and Santa Maria in Caribbea. Filled with marshy lands and untamed creatures, the only people who even attempt to brave this landscape typically do so to reach better lands to the North. It is rumored that very sparse populations live in the Marien Gap, likely numbering no more than a few hundred, as the occasional explorers claim to have run into remote villages and isolated shacks along the many waterways. Early in 200 AC, a large group of individuals disgruntled with life in Colombo attempted to cross the Marien Gap and build a settlement along the way, but most of the expedition numbering in the thousands died of exposure and since then no attempt has been made again.

*Amurcia:* A land once known as the United States of America before the Great Calamity, Amurcia is best known for its vast canyon landscapes, but notably very little exploration has been done past "The Great Gorge," which is an exceptionally large canyon formation running from Californique to Tejas, hundreds of miles wide and many miles deep. It is said that before the Great Calamity, Amurcia used to be a land filled with many urban metropolises, which now stand as nothing more than scattered, ominous ruins. The land of Californique, although abandoned, is said to contain the most beautiful lands in all of the world, and is the most accessible location to reach. Some speculate that there might be habitable and beautiful lands past the Great Gorge, but the landscape of the Northern Deserts and wide canyons makes it difficult to travel through.

*The Great Desolation:* It was said that before the Great Calamity, the lands to the south of Colombo used to consist of a vastly large rainforest called the Amazon, which in present day has been reduced to an ominous spectacle of ash and fire. What once were hundred foot tall trees are now nothing more than charred monuments (still equally tall), and millions of these trees now create a dense, smoky forest of inhabitable ruin. It is said that fires burn on the ground nonstop, as most of the earth has been replaced with charred material, and likewise when it "rains," it is soot and ash that falls instead of rain. The rainforest, as many comment, resembles more of a dying, rotting, decaying graveyard of corpses more than anything else, and prevents any form of travel to the south of Colombo.

*The Unending Wastes:* In the land of Eurasfro, which is a combination of the words that make up Europe, Africa, and Asia, it is said that the Great Desolation left behind its greatest mark here - Across all of these vast continents, it is said that there is nothing more than a vast, unending desert, a complete wasteland only populated by ancient city ruins and scraps of metal. No contact or exploration has ever been made with this area, so it is assumed to be devoid of life, as it is the harshest place in the entire world. Some say that there must be pockets of habitable land somewhere, as surely the destruction could not be so complete of so vast an area, but until this can be proven concretely it is assumed by most scholars to be a land of sand and dust, nothing more.

*Pacifica:* Synonymous with the Western Seas, which is the name used by the people of Colombo and Caribbea, Pacifica is the name given to the vast expanse of water once known as the Pacific Ocean, and used by the people of Panacea and of "Pacifica (the people who live in it)." In the time after the Great Calamity, the oceans have not been completely explored, with much of the eastern portion being completely uncharted. Many people are aware of the fact that despite its massive size, there are lands to the very east of Pacifica, but not many have attempted to find them. Pacifica harbors countless amount of islands, both large and small, and thousands of them are inhabited by small villages and large cities alike, ruled by warlords and regional power brokers. It said that well over fifty million people live in the islands of Pacifica.

## Cultural Lore

*Asiaticos:* A rare race of people once known to be Asians in the previous age, which number the fewest in the modern land of Caribbea and Colombo. Most census indicate they make up less than one percent of the population, and although are highly "exoticized," are still mostly treated as genuine residents of their respective regions, and hold equal standings with the more common populace of Latinos, Europas, and Amercios. Typically, it is Asiatico women that are highly desired by prostitute rings, while the men are stereotyped to be be more generic.

*"El Kalamitas:"* A reference to the storms and tidal waves caused by the Western Seas, El Kalamitas is seen as an oppressive force that prevents the extremely fertile land of the west coast of Colombo from being populated due to fear of these massive storms, typically in the form of hurricanes. It is however only the people of Colombo who hold this destructive and negative connotation of the Western Seas, as notably Caribbea suffers much less from these catastrophic storms. As a result of El Kalamitas, sea exploration is completely nonexistent and any association or reference to the ocean is met with disdain.

*The Great Calamity:* Occurring in the previous age during the year 2052 AD, it is speculated that over 99% of the human population was wiped out from a series of "World Wars," where weapons that were said to contain the wrath of the sun filled the skies and encompassed almost every piece of habitable land in the world. It is said that these weapons not only led to mass deaths, but also irreversible environmental damage, as much of the world remains unrecoverable from the effects of said weapons, as only Caribbea and Colombo are capable of holding a basin of human life. In lands once known as Europe, Africa, and Asia, it is said that an unimaginably vast desert stretches from one end of the landmasses to the other. Ever since the Great Calamity, technology has drastically regressed and has far from recovered, and quality of life in the present day is nothing like life as it was five hundred years ago, where it was once said that the humans of this previous age "commanded the skies, the earth, and the seas to their whim."

*Treasure Port:* These port cities, notably such as Havano, Los Cruces, La Dominga, Santa Maria, number approximately thirty, and consist of exceptionally well planned Urban cities with an extremely high quality of life, some say to be like paradise compared to the hardships faced elsewhere. These cities are controlled underneath the West Caribbea Trading Company, and each boast a specialized form of production, generating enormous wealth, which in turn is used to create more Treasure Ports. The fundamental idea behind a Treasure Port is that they are free cities in which anyone can succeed in, and which actively provides for its civilian population, but due to the high demand of life there each city has a quota for the number of residents in which can inhabit one city. Besides beautiful housing however, there are an immense number of amenities, shops, restaurants, festivals, and bars, which is unheard of almost everywhere else in the world, and in general, technology there is significantly more advanced.

*The Golden Gate/"Rich Man's Conviction":* A massive, golden colored border wall standing thirty feet tall separating Colombo from West Caribbea, it is said to have been built right after the Great Calamity to stem the flood of people from entering Caribbea from Colombo, which is notably more fertile but overall a much smaller land. In the modern day the wall borders the city of Santa Maria, which is controlled by the Old Elite, albeit it is the last holdout of the Old Elite in East Caribbea as a whole. Many people from Colombo have dubbed it the "Rich Man's Conviction" due to the fact that it is widely circulated that the people of the North are wealthier, and the people of Colombo view them as hoarding their wealth with the wall, despite the fact that most civilians in Caribbea still live in poverty. There is no direct road from Colombo to the Golden Gate, as between the closest city in Colombo, Panamico, and the Gate itself, there is a difficult to traverse marshland, known as the Marien Gap, filled with mosquitos and swampy landscapes. Very few have made the journey and lived.