A non-comprehensive list of notable planets in Yokea.
The history of Siikatal is divided into three eras. Most pages on this wiki will refer to dates using the Aeon Calendar, which mark the number of years since the beginning of the respective era (for example, 922 UE = 922 years after the start of the Unified Era). However, for the sake of consistency, this timeline will use dates according to the Schizocene Calendar, which revolves completely around the Great Schism as its epoch. Functionally, it is an extension of the Divergent Era calendar: 4515 DE = 4515 AS (After Schism), and 1950 GE = 8828 BS (Before Schism). 10778 GE is Year Zero in the Schizocene Calendar, and the following year is 1 DE.
The World Seeders and the Star Forgers create Siikatal (the galaxy) and foster the necessary conditions for life to emerge.
The Exalted are born and inherit the galaxy from the World Seeders and the Star Forgers, who leave Siikatal.
Yongmaek is integrated into Siikatal by the Exalted via Dragon Links into a species of primitive hominids on the planet of Terra, who eventually evolve into modern-day humans.
Humans invent spacefaring technology and escape the confines of Terra.
Humans discover the Sekhe and learn to utilise its properties to travel even greater distances across the galaxy.
Siikatal (the kingdom) is founded by Sotuknang the World-Shaper, an Exalted posing as a human.
Siikatal successfully annexes the last few corners of civilisation in the galaxy.
A group of rogue Exalted, the Hoshi, revolt against Sotuknang and the other Exalted, beginning a great war.
Sotuknang sends the people of Siikatal on a journey to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in order to protect them from the fallout of the war's climax.
The Divergent Era lasted 20027 years, ending at the end of 20026 DE.
The Unified Era begins with its year one in 20027 AS.
Aether is a pressurized substance that fills the space of the magic universe. It is the property of that space that allows magic to exist. The physical (sci-fi) universe has no aether.
The magic universe is an alternate physics engine. It has similar fundamental particles and similar fundamental forces to the physical universe. All the particles in the magic universe are collectively called magical carrier particles.
Gravity and the strong force roughly work the same way in both universes.
There are slight differences that lead to interesting consequences. For example, there may be no relativity in the magical universe, while there is in the physical universe.
The two universes haven’t diverged so much that magical particles and physical particles can’t interact. The difference is that magical particles carry magic.
Magic turns into magical carrier particles when it is transferred from one universe to the other.
Magical carrier particles decay in a vacuum with no aether. This is why magic can’t survive in the physical universe on its own.
When the two universes collide, the aether wants to spread into the rest of the universe. Aether is pressurized and the vacuum of the physical universe is empty, so by the laws of thermodynamics it leaks out.
In the sci-fi world:
Areas form where magic is allowed to exist, but only for a period of time. Then the aether disperses like water vapor.
Aether interacts poorly with the particles of the physical universe. Anything that comes into contact with aether is damaged or destroyed.
In the fantasy world:
The aether becomes thinner and thinner.
Magical carrier particles start having more and more malfunctions.
In some places magic stops working altogether. This has cultural consequences: religions stop functioning, which can lead to societal collapse.
If the leak continues long enough, the aether content of the combined universe becomes too high for regular matter to exist and too low for magical particles to exist. The result is a state of perfect disentropy: the whole universe becomes uniformly aether and energy, and all particles are destroyed.
Preventing perfect disentropy is the central threat that the characters are trying to stop.
Because aether is a physical substance, the threat is a physical problem: how to keep a liquid from leaking out of the other universe.
The core concepts of Siikatal are defining attributes of the world. They are what determine the things that can happen, as well as the way in which things happen. In a sense, it's a common set of rules that physics, magic, and everything in between follow.
The Aether - the physical manifestation and medium through which all magic flows.
Yongmaek - the legendary soul archive of myth, the "Dragon Veins" that carve the truth of life, consciousness, and even the divine throughout Siikatal.
Sekhe, the Bridge Between Realms - a fifth dimension separate from the three spatial dimensions and the time dimension that separates the different realms, such as Yokea and Wakhan. Its strange spacebending qualities also allows it to serve as the only means of transportation and communication faster than light.
The origins of what people called "magic" were things that people did that were seemingly unexplainable using conventional scientific methods alone. In Old Siikatal, these abilities were very rare and not very well documented. Often, the knowledge of how to harness magic was hoarded and passed down in secrecy. In Wakhan, however, magic became a much more commonplace thing thanks to the efforts of the Exalted Demiurgos, who taught humans and other sentient species how to bend magic to their will.
However, magic cannot do just anything. For example, magic cannot operate outside of the Aether, its physical confines, and it cannot do drastic things such as breaking the law of conservation of mass-energy. It can, however, make processes that are normally quite difficult, such as cancelling out electromagnetic fields at the microscopic level, cold fusion, and mass-energy conversion much simpler, as a lot of magical techniques actually inadvertently do this at small scales.
Magic, as well as the Aether itself, is inherently tied to the Yongmaek. The limits of what one can achieve using magic is decided wholly by what those who use magic believe it can achieve, and this idea itself is said to fuel the power of sorcerers.
Due to the Aether's complete absence from the realm of Yokea, the inhabitants of Yokea cannot use magic at all.
Sotuknang the World-Shaper was an Exalted Primordial assigned to be the leader of the Exalted in Siikatal. He was the founder of the Great Kingdom of Siikatal, and the creator of the split realms of Wakhan and Yokea. He was sealed in Yokea until the end of the Divergent Era. He was married to Demiurgos the Face-Carver, who served as his king consort during his rule.
Demiurgos the Face-Carver was an Exalted Primordial who is known for being the chief designer of the human race, as well as various humanoid races that populated Wakhan. He is also known for teaching magic to the people of Wakhan, and was the king consort and husband to Sotuknang the World-Shaper.
this is one of my ocs! i just wrote a quick synopsis of who she is but i'll update it later when i have more time
-kaya
Thalassia Star was originally born Michael Korrin to a family of farmers on Cambria, which at the time, was a sparsely populated archipelago planet. She and her family made a living farming a variety of aquatic flora and fauna to sell as food to intrastellar markets.
When she was eleven, while passing through a Dragon Gate to another planet to sell their produce, Michael was caught in a rare malfunction that, instead of linking the Dragon Gate to its twin on another planet in Wakhan, sent her on a one-way trip to a Star Terminal located in Meltwater, the capital city of Svaria, an icy planet in Yokea. Overwhelmed by the drastic difference in her surroundings, she broke down into a tantrum and was picked up by the Meltwater Police, who were completely unable to identify her. For three years she lived in the Meltwater Orphanage, feigning amnesia as she gathered information about the foreign world she'd found herself transported to, before finally claiming that she remembered her name to be Thalassia, and became adopted by the Star family, a middle-class family on Svaria.
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basically she became a super genius bc of her knowledge of both magic and science, and also figured out how to go between yokea and wakhan at will, and also figured out that yokea and wakhan were slowly coming towards each other, and also founded Star Academy in Yokea (as a tech engineering school) and Star Academy in Wakhan (as a magic learning school). she is remembered forever as a giga genius. also i almost hesitate to label thalassia as transgender because her decision to transition was like 20% gender identity and 80% for the sake of deception
Terra is a water world with large oceans rather far from the galactic nexus. It is the homeworld of Humans in Siikatal, and served as the capital of the Great Kingdom of Siikatal up until it fell in 10,761 GE.
Sekhe is a fifth dimension in neither space nor time, but a third kind of dimension that is somewhat spacelike. This dimension is what embodies the separation between realms, and has the unique property of dilating space the farther away from a given realm you are. By extruding oneself sekhally (that is, along the sekhal dimension), one can exponentially improve the efficiency of spatial travel. This is what allows the inhabitants of Siikatal to travel not only between realms, but also from place to place within the realms, and allows for travel across thousands of light-years to be completed in mere days.
