Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Four:Special Rules and Systems (section)

==== Lemuria: ====

Once upon a time, no one thought that the continents could move. This posed the world's scientists with a serious quandary: how did animals scatter all over the globe in the patterns that are seen today? For example, how did the lemur (the little monkey-like animal) get to Madagascar? The answer seemed clear: land bridges had helped them across, then fallen back beneath the sea. These land bridges could rise up over the ages and disappear again, all the time. The land bridge that got lemurs to Madagascar was called Lemuria. 

By the time evidence appeared to support continental drift and then plate tectonics, Lemuria had moved from a convenient explanation to an ancient wonderland full of psychics and spiritual techno-beings, similar to the stories of Atlantis and Mu, due to the imagination of Theosophists and other 19th century mystics and spiritualists. And when it turned out that there had been no Lemuria, the manes there disagreed...violently. Their time-traveling hijinks are recounted in further detail elsewhere; basically, if they are to be believed, their work created our current timeline.

After the Last Invisible War, Lemuria was reduced to a smoldering wasteland: nothing remains today but a few scorched fingers of land rising out of the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and whatever remains beneath the waves. The intelligent inhabitants, a mix of serpent-people and apparently normal humans, are mostly dead or scattered, though the remains of Lemuria are dangerous even without their xenophobic and devious natives. Strange monsters dwell beneath the surface, emerging at night, while the remnants of ancient Lemurian war-machines and cogitators still possess flickers of life and can awaken at any time to destroy an unwary traveler. Only recently have geniuses (often mixed groups from the Peerage and Lemuria) begun to return to Lemuria to explore it in numbers.