Revery

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History

The city of Revery was built upon the remains of an older, all but forgotten civilization. Little remains or is known about the people From Before. It is thought that this older civilization began the construction of Revery , but it was probably a culture from another region that arrived to finish it.

Society

Cults

There are no major religions in Revery. Instead, there are lots of small cults and schools of thinking. They often center on reverence for the culture From Before or various creatures that dreamcrafters recreate. The reverence that dreamcrafters give to the unicorn can sometimes pass as a small religion.

Culture

Revery is in the midst of a renaissance. People are turning their attention to the arts and sciences more often than in the past. It is the golden age for dreamcrafters, as they are seen as envoys of the best things science and artistry has to offer.

Entertainment

Commerce

Each citizen is registered on the Ring Network, which is also used to keep track of a person’s money. The unit of currency is the "fenn," after the ring-shaped token used in olden times.

Citizens can transport money via a fenn key, a specially shaped and encoded crystal. The keys can be unlocked so that anyone can use them, or locked to a specific set if ID glyphs and voice pattern. A citizen inserts their key and speaks their identification glyphs into a special Net-connected terminal and transfers money from their account.

Bartering goods and services is also a common practice, especially in the lower middle class of people.

Fenn

Taxes

Government

Elder Parliament

Hive, The

Law

The laws are created by the Elder Parliament and enforced by the Hive. While their laws are similar to those of our world, there is a free, frontier-town quality to Revery. Citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons and protective devices as long as they have registered with the Hive.

Ritual duels are NOT illegal, but wanton homicide is, of course. Most drugs are illegal, especially idj extracted for use as a hallucinogen or poison.

While Drone Brothers and Sisters often use lethal force to deal with criminals, the most severe punishment in the Revery judicial system is not death, but exile. The criminal is stripped of all identity on the Ring Network and is banished into the lands beyond. Exiles who return to the city are slain on sight.

Exiles often end up in Wyldhame, either by desire or through capture by roving bands.

Sefftarch

Sefftarchy

Power

Most power in Revery is generated by steam and solar power or by Aether Combustion Engines similar to fusion reactors. Electrical energy can be stored in crystal batteries.

Transportation

Communication & Media

There are no newspapers, televisions, telephones, radios, internets or other familiar types of media in Revery. Books are unknown. Citizens of Revery have come to rely on dreamcrafted technologies and the spoken word as vessels of information. The thought of reading rows upon rows of text would be distasteful to most citizens. The population isn’t exactly illiterate. Glyphs serve in place of labels and signs. Most communication is through imagery and the spoken word. This is, of course, augmented through the use of Dreamcrafted technology, such as the Ring Network.

For instance, instead of viewing information on a television screen, a ‘Crafted golem is projected from a personal or public projection unit and the golem reports the news. There are also town criers linked into the Ring Network who report important announcements.

Medicine

Of all technologies in Revery, medicine was one unaffected by dreamcrafting. The cities’ accelerated technological growth in other areas has left medical research about 100 years behind. There is no health care system and medicians’ fees are incredibly expensive for anything out of the ordinary.

Grole’s Touch