Everchill
Overview
Everchill, as the name suggest, is a cold world sparsely inhabited by humans. It's run by the People's Republic of Everchill, who's closed it off from the rest of the Mirrorsky. It is Elias' and Elena's homeworld, where they grew up and spent their youth.
History
According to the government approved educational material, Everchill is the cradle of humankind, where humanity was born, grew up and reached the pinnacle of society, which democratic institution lead by humanity's finest, elected through a delicate voting process to maximize equality. The truth though, is bit harder to know because of the historical purge of year three Republic Calendar. It's very likely though that Everchill started as a colony, probably through accidental Nhihn gate migration. Before the People's Republic, Everchill was probably Feudalistic and containing several smaller countries. This changed with the people's revolution, when several simultaneous peasant uprisings through the different nations lead to the creation of the People's Republic of Everchill (this period of time is today known as the Era of Unshacklement according to textbooks). The details of how the super state was created though has been lost in the turmoil of revolution.
Today the year is year 77 Republic Calendar, meaning 67 years has passed since a formal government was formed. Life still isn't any better to the peasants than it was pre-republic era, but they don't know that anyway, since all official pre-republic information has been routinely purged, and the old revolution generation is dying off. Only rumors, myths and government propaganda remain of the old Everchill.
Nature
As the name strongly hints, Everchill is cold, and very much so. Most of the year the whole world is buried by snow, and winters are long, followed by a brief spring before a "summer" that only lasts for about a month at best. Only the equatorial line is populated by something larger than bacteria, and even then, population is sparse. Because of this harsh environment, the things that actually live there has to be tough to survive. The native species of Everchill are freaks of nature that lives in the harshest environments imaginable and sometimes even thrives there, but there are also migrated species, animals that has come from other worlds and have now adapted to Everchill, usually by becoming bigger and meaner. Ever seen a polar bear? Well, Everchillian Polar Bears are twice the size of that.
Most of the wildlife in Everchill lives off eating something smaller than themselves, but this precious ecological cycle still wouldn't be possible without the extremely tough plant life that exists at the equatorial circle. Everchillian plants are especially adapted for their environment, and are able to sustain themselves even though the ground is frozen. These plants, although tough against weather, don't fare well against concurrence, and attempting to raise them outside of Everchill is bound to fail. Everchill's primary agricultural crop is Snow Wheat.
