Lorica
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Preface
Feel free to add to edit to your heart's content. Thank you.
Lorica is a fantasy themed constructed world which you can edit. Here you can help create a world resemblant of the real one yet with various elements of your imagination, and those of others. The possibilities are endless--you could help out with Lorica's species, culture and society, technology, organizations, magic, history, myths, etc.
- By default, any species and physical laws are the same as those in the real world, and any histories, places, etc. are different and undefined until filled in.
- Once an article on a particular topic has been written, it replaces the default concept of the event.
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Introduction
Lorica grew out of The Neverending Wiki's various sections, but before long it became evident that it could not stand by itself. Therefore, it became a different conworld entirely, with different species, magic, lore, and history (though there are still overlapping parts and residue). Since then, Lorica by itself has grown to about the same size as its parent conworld.
Lorica operates on the assumption that the real world (as of early twenty-first century) exists, but there are a variety of things that humanity has yet to uncover, and therefore develops an alternate timeline that keeps the timeline on Earth intact while building an entirely new chronicle for another planet where humans had arrived in 300 AD. This other world, Lorica, is where the project gets its name and is the major focus of said project. Its recorded history rather parallels that of people on the earth, with all the elements territorial expansion, government activities, population growth, scientific discovery, cultural evolution, and environmental interaction. Lorica is by far the most complicated, hard-to-understand conworld anywhere, with nearly everything tying together in unusual ways, as well as a completely internally justified magic system that features critically in the project's various subcategories.
The magical system is based on individual magical components, akin to atoms, called stars, that exist on another "plane", the Outside, whereas everything physical exists on one of many insides (which includes our accessible universe, the Primary Inside). Magic falls into two major pathways occurs between the "membrane" between the two planes (telmol magic) and within the Outside (tessa magic); each of the pathways forms a technology tree (one magnitudes more complex than the other) which the Lorican people gradually develop over the millennia (which in this project is no hollow statement).
While humans are the race that the project focuses most heavily on, there are a variety of other prominent species as well. Most of the additional species are tessaea or deriva - they are made from the most basic magical components (stars) and create or consume (respectively) other forms in which magical energy is stored. The tale of the bestiary is of the interrelationships between humanity and all the other species that they find on Lorica. Early on, humanity uses the characteristics of other species to cast specific forms of magic; towards the end almost all magic has been converted to an ultra-flexible, ultra-complicated variety that is strongly reminiscent of computer science's programming and development. All the way through this process, Lorica remains true to the ideal of believable realism. Thus the project is a synergy of old world (fantasy), real world (realism), and new world (science fiction).
The Lorican history spans seventeen centuries and is very complicated; see the overview page for an introduction to Lorican history. It begins with the Second Coming of 350+ humans to Lorica via a portal in 300 AD and ends with the Lorican civilization's return to Earth, and the totally different civilization that had developed there, in the twenty-first century. Additionally, Loricans have a complex lore that merge at some points with the canon history, as well as developed societies that are totally different from that of the people on Earth.
The world of Lorica - several times smaller than Earth - is mostly covered in water, though a few continents and many islands rise above the seas. They are Origina (the first to be settled), Tyria (to the southwest), Detaria (to the northeast), Ethaya (to the east), and Aeta (north pole) (see map).
On top of all this, Lorica also comes with an entirely new constructed language, now with hundreds of entries, which becomes crucial to appreciating Lorica's otherworldliness. So... Enjoy!
