The Accord
Laws & World
The treaties, limits and dependencies holding a dying planet together — and the cracks running through every one of them.
Law I
The Accord
Alien inter-breeding and Treaty Weddings have long been used by The Alliance and the Planetary Members of The Accord to hold peace across the galaxy. A treaty wife becomes royalty — and is granted extended use of the Elixir.
Law II
The Limits of the Crown
King Anu is Planetary Overlord of Islandia and involved in the affairs of every kingdom except the Ice Peaks and the Swallow Sands. Those houses run themselves. For the sake of planetary harmony he holds neither the constitutional authority nor the weaponry to control them — a decision he may yet live to regret.
Law III
Control of the Elixir
The Elixir is created, controlled and distributed solely by King Anu and the royal bloodlines of the Floating Garden realm. Its distribution is a political instrument; slowing it is an act of war. Illegal trade thrives in the backstreets of Megatropolis.
Law IV
Mutual Dependence
No kingdom survives alone. The Swallow Sands generate solar power, the Golden Banner produces food and clean water, and the Ice World supplies the minerals for Elixir production. Break one link and the planet dies.
Law V
Dimensional Law
Contact with beings of the 10th Dimension — the future tellers, time travellers and parallel multiverses — is outlawed on Planet X. Some future tellers are permitted to operate inside the House of Anu.
Law VI
Passage to the 7th
The Spirit World is entered by dying in the 5th for a short time before revival. Long journeys must be guided by a Shaman, and a soul without an anchor can be lost. Not every being met beyond the veil is who it appears to be.
Time & Longevity
Because the planet travels behind its hypervelocity star at five percent of light speed, time on Islandia runs slow. Ordinary lifespans reach 5,000 years, royal pure bloods pass 15,000, and generational Elixir use has carried the oldest beyond 30,000 — long enough to be worshipped as gods by younger species.
The 6th Dimension Economy
Cryptocurrency earned inside the computer-simulated virtual worlds buys Elixir back in Base reality. Self-evolving server farms sit atop the spacescrapers of Megatropolis, and citizens spend weeks, months or years in hibernation beds. Die in a simulation and you simply restart in a new world.
The Dying Atmosphere
The gold held in the planet's protective atmosphere is eroding as Islandia drifts toward NUN. Heat and radiation are rising, the Swallow Sands and Ice Peaks are tipping into extremes, and the search for a Birth Planet rich in gold becomes the crown's only remaining strategy.
The Fragile Peace
King Izisis of the Ice World has conspired with the Swallow Sands to topple Anu and seize Elixir production. An epoch of galactic peace shatters the moment an assassination attempt is made on King Anu's life.
