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- - - - First he lifts it up by seemingly only physical strength alone, but soon the city starts floating on its own upwards and out of reach of the attackers
  - - - Ordinary man
      - Worshipping God of Secrets
      - Seems like genuine and honest man
      - Warns Tarcus about the approaching army
- - - - Freshly baked breadrolls from his commune's bakery
        
        Would stop everytime before entering the bakery when fetching bread for the family and take in the delicious smell
    - - Fresh spring water
  - - - Brother leaves the valley
  - - - Architecture
      - Statescraft
      - History
      - Religion
    - - Farming
      - Building
  - - - His brother starts to be influenced by the rumors
      - Tarcus sometimes feels like an outcast because of the rumors but most people look up to him and he is generally well liked
- - - - Some call him a madman for it (and spread nasty rumors about him being abnormal)
      - Others call him a visionary and a beacon
        
        More and more people flock to his assistance and help building, supplying and defending the construction site
    - - Raiders
      - Wolves
      - Weather
      - Monsters from inside the ruins
      - Vanishing workers
  - - - Building
      - Sculpting
    - - Awarded a seat on the city council and bestowed with a crown of laurels as a sign of office
  - - - The Colossus (Statue of Giant representing the virtue of hard work)
      - The Founders' Plaza (Surrounded by marble statues of the 7 city founders including Tarcus)
- - - - Inside a icy volcano (cold instead of hot and blue instead of red/orange)
      - Scale that you can go to and let yourself be judged every 10 years
      - Musty cell with iron bars
      - Gigantic Ice Dragon in the center of the volcano
    - - Every day the prisoners have to chip away at the dragon's ice, but it regrows every day anew
      - The ice harvested is shipped away to an unknown location
      - Most people here seem to have deserved this punishment
      - Wrongdoing and misbehaving is punished by isolation
      - Impact on Tarcus (he does not know why he is being punished, but takes it as another trial), but it costs him part of his hope
      - Jailers are kind towards Tarcus and he gets the feeling they feel sorry for him
      - He bears every day of these 10 years without complaining
      - At the beginning he tries to motivate and lead the other prisoners but grows more and more quiet over the 10 years
  - - - 10 years after his imprisonment in Hell's Core he goes to the scale and gets judged innocent (since it disconnected from the Celestial Eye)
      - Tarcus is transported to the city of the Underworld
      - He is given a small house, with the opportunity to work hard toi gain better living conditions within the city
    - - Celestial Eye is closed, with all contact to the Celestial Realm lost
      - Choice between several places to work at
        
        Vinyards
        
        Ambrosia Trees
        
        Honey farms
        
        Mines
      - Products that are produced in the Underworld are shipped to the Mortal Realm
      - Giant City
        
        Several Districts
        
        Champion's District
        
        Arena
        
        Drawing upon his past combat experience
      - No magic (time in the underworld and his gradual loss of hope diminishes his ability to work his magic)
  - - - People become uneasy
      - The Underworld's ruling council announces that they can put people to sleep until the Celestial Eye opens again
      - Everything except the arena were shut down
    - - Discordia's valley was in a constant state of warring and made a pact with the god of harmony and her family agreed to have always have an agent of harmony
  - - - One of only three places in the whole world that cannot be spied on (not even gods), the other two being on the Mortal and Celestial Realm respectively
- - - - Bedtime stories of the gods
    - - Envious of Tarcus
    - - Dream of uniting the valley
      - Watching the night sky together
  - - - Aidosian Creed
        
        Virtues
        
        Patience
        
        Preservation
        
        Enduring the challenges presented before you
        
        Hard Work
        
        Shouldering the Burdens of others
        
        Trials/challenges
        
        Empathy for others
        
        Humility
        
        Sins
        
        Bragging/Pride
        
        Relinquishing hope
        
        Betrayal/Dishonest behaviour/Deception
        
        Decadence/Sloth+Gluttony
        
        Cruelty
        
        Origin
        
        As part of the Creed they are admiring the heroine Aidosia who was known for great sacrifice and devotion to the Beast of Burden (or maybe even being an Avatar of it)
      - Religion
        
        The Beast of Burden
        
        Symbols
        
        Pillar
        
        Person holding sphere above them
        
        Whale
        
        Legends
        
        They hold the world together or hold the sky up (different interpretations
        
        They are (or at least in part) responsible for the collusion of the continents / the split
        
        They sleep below a mountain range
        
        They reward self-sacrifice and hard work
        
        They were betrayed by their fellow gods
        
        They care deeply about the plight of mortals
        
        Alignment
        
        Benevolent
        
        Enduring
        
        Earnest
        
        Sometimes harsh
        
        Constellation
        
        The Wheel
        
        Powers
        
        Power over Gravity
        
        Shrines/Places of Worship
        
        Usually floating places like islands of various sizes with statues or buildings on them
        
        Avatars
        
        Giant wearing only loincloth holding up the sky or world/holding it together with bent back under the weight
        
        Giant flying whale with rings of stone gravitating around its body and swallowing everything in its path (mostly clouds) through its ginormous maw which houses a large sphere of gravitational force pulling everything close inside it
        
        Old worker with bent back from years of physical labour and sore limbs from abuse, usually with shackles around their wrists, but still with an air of nobility radiating from them
        
        Color
        
        Purple
        
        Domains
        
        Self-Sacrifice
        
        Physical Labour
        
        Gravity
        
        Perserverance/Endurance
        
        Preservation
        
        Burden
        
        Bonds
        
        Gems
        
        Amethysts
        
        Monikers
        
        The Drudge
        
        The Workhorse
        
        The Beast of Burden
        
        Artifacts
        
        The Cornerstone
        
        The Wheel of Woe
        
        Chains of Humility
        
        Aidosia's Legacy
        
        God of Agriculture
        
        God of Water
        
        God of Sun
        
        God of Death
      - Democratic System
        
        Representative Council
      - Decent education level
      - Very communal and people help each other out
    - - Main Resources
        
        Marble and other Quarries
        
        Agriculture
      - Ancient Ruins
        
        Fallen civilization
      - Surrounding mountains
        
        Rumors of a powerful creature living within
      - Home to several unique creatures that mostly lurk near the ruins