Trasidy

This Squiggle is a Maze of the first water. Its population is a puzzle.

Its origin is lost to time and only a clever searcher could find who created the original Squiggle. It is located multiversally nearer the Tosa/York systems. There are many rumors about this realm but a few are clear after a little investigation.

Arrival

• Entrance into Trasidy can be achieve in a number of ways. Pattern Transfer, Logrus Tendrils, Trump, and several other magical pathways. However all forms of entry deliver the traveler to a magnificent Temple called the Hagia Rosada. In the Grand center await the Priest of Rosada who speak with new arrivals. The sense is that new arrivals occur frequently. They greet arrivals in Peace, offer them food and drink, and show them to a giant cavernous room with many doorways to sectors of the city.
• Upon entry at the Hagia Rosada one can see one is in a city of millions of buildings. There does not seem to be an end of them. There are also no highways though there are some roads that are little more then allies. It is a insane collections buildings of every architecture. Millions of Plazas, stoas, strip malls. The Hagia Rosada has commanding views of the place and seems to sit upon one of the highest points.

Technology and Cosmology

The general technological level is early electronic age with some exception.

• Gunpowder, in many forms, do not work here. Neither do lasers or focused energy weapons.
• Electrical light works, at approximately 1900 level of incandescent light. There is no widespread energy grid. many energy sources have been imported from outside of the realm. Common light sources include a specially treated lichen that emits light and heat just below the level of a candle. Candles are ubiquitous. Oil Lights are Ubiquitous. Cottage industries exist for the production of Lichen, Candle and Oil lights.
• Most magical systems work here though practitioners comment on the sticky nature of working magic here. As if there is a delay in magic's functions.
• There is a Night/Day cycle but no ambient light source: No sun. It simply gets lighter and darker.
• Weather is regional and tends to travel around the flat plain.
• There are many waterways among and beneath the buildings. The water is drinkable and has a vast plethora of fish, crustacean, and other water based-lifeforms. Fishing is common.
• Earthquakes occur frequently.

Plant Life

• Plants grow well. Everywhere from box gardens to courtyard and sports fields, crammed in the center of buildings. .
• A lichen grows plentifully that glows at night, is edible, makes a fine tea, works as a great thickener for stews and medicinal preparations.
• There are hundreds of types of mushrooms that seem ubiquitous. They clog niches, grow like rings on grassy areas, under ruins, nearly everywheere. They are edible, taste varies, are usable for all types of food preparations.
• Rock ivy: An Ivy that grows wildly over ruins, as if its part of the process of breaking them down. They are a common ingredient in the diets of inhabitants. It grows fast. They are a wide leaf, that can be prepared for consumption in several ways.
  • Boiled, they can be eaten as spinach. Most recipes that use spinach can use Rock Ivy.
  • Used fresh they an be treated as grape leaves. They make a sturdy wrap for nearly any food.
  • dried they can be smoked like pipe tobacco, rolled as cigars, cut like tobacco. The taste is hearty and sweet.
  • Pickled, they make a ready vesssel for how ever they are pickled.
  • The vine, cleared of leaves, can be twined to make twine and rope. There is a local method for treating partly dried Rock Ivy vine that causes it to break down into ling fine thread that is easy to spin, weave, and create cloth. The cloth is easy to cut & sew, making a rugged, and easy to clean fabric. The thread may be dyed until it is washed in a broth of local lichens that sets the color permanently.

Residents-Sentient and animal

The natives of this realm are vast. A casual population guess puts the populations of this city at billions. Clearly many were here at the creation of the Squiggle but many others have come here since. The arrival process at the Hagia Rosada implies that arrivals, as individuals, small groups, and large diasporas are easily absorbed.

• Racially there are large swaths of different races and cultures but they seem to get along well on a racial basis. Individuals, even groups, gangs, and other associations may have violent conflict but it is not a function of race.
• While there seem to be no overall government there are Judges who settle conflicts and complaints and their ruling is law. A Board of Review of 12 Judges, including the Acting Judge,can over-rule a judgment.
• Nearly any religion in shadow can be found here and often that is a criteria for the Priests of Hagia Rosada to send one to a particular area.
• Sports seem to be a driving passion in this world. While combat sports exist, like boxing, Knife, Jousting, and even an elaborate Gladiatorial League exist, most of the driving sports are less bloody. Baseball, football, hockey, basketball, and many other games of a dizzy variety are actively followed.

There may be many shadows within this realm but if there are they are small pocketed ones