Navagar

Navagar is a roughly Earth-like world in the Orbis Augis system, mainly inhabited by the roughly humanish forelen who share the world with various other denizen specids. It orbits the star Etharius, and is in turn orbited by three moons, Niduron, Talasa, and Yaltorh, which have their own moonlets except for Yaltorh. Navagar is highly magickal owing to the various critical events that have allowed magick to dominate it in its 5 billion-year-long history.
It is roughly Earth-like because while at first glance it possesses many characteristics similar to Earth's in terms of geology, geography, atmosphere, wind patterns, and more, there are subtle but fundamental differences in how these parts of Navagar operate, courtesy of magick's primordial influence and the actions of the world's inhabitants, as well as many other factors.
Ever since the beginning of Star's Reckoning, various colony worlds have been established, with the acknowledgement of Navagar as the Motherworld, original home of all colonists. The most prominent colony world whose repute nearly equals or even shadows that of Navagar (it all depends on the viewpoint) is the sprawling, shining New Star, catering predominantly to urbanites, cosmopolitans, and city lovers in the most famous of its places. Despite this, Navagar remains the prime representative of its kind in the interstellar council due to native Navagarians expectedly having more intrinsic knowledge and experience with one of their most valuable assets, magick, compared to their more popular New Star kin. This is reflected in the name of the representative face of Navagar and all its colony worlds, The Navagarian People.
Since its inclusion in Alliance, Navagar has a consistently decent standing in the Allied Races and the broader Intergalact, and is considered among the somewhat special members primarily because it is the mainworld of the first two Theoi found and contacted by the Intergalact in a long time.

Geography

There are 10 terra firma continents in the world: Sakoshina, Akebu-llan, Hazim, Kamayapa, and Diru on the Westside, and Acathar, Gelgard, and Falyron on the Eastside. The last two, the Far Lands and Samastad, are not agreed to be in either halves since the latter is in the middle of the Great Ocean and the former is high up in the North. Besides these land continents, there are also several "water-continents" or regions as stated in the affairs of the myrmidonian world.
Navagar has all kinds of geographical features expected from an Earth-like world, as well as entirely new features that are made possible by many billions of years' worth of magickal influence, such as the ashland terrain that characterises the region Diru, the unnatural Dead Dunes in the heart of continent Akebu-llan, the underregions carved and mapped by ancestral valgatin all over the worldly underground, and the cursed, frigid Far Lands megacontinent.
Some of these were not always around though. After its molten phase, Navagar took shape in its own way then saw the rise of the Antenean species, who very likely left a lasting impact on the environment. The planet took on its present form somewhere in the last hundred thousand years through "guided terraforming", becoming less uniquely alien and more Earth-like, though this has not completely eliminated all the original features of old Navagar.
Among the most visible differences between Navagar and Earth is the ocean; landmasses are dwarfed even more by the amount of water found on Navagar. This gives the impression that Navagar has less land than Earth, though Navagar is roughly 1.6 times the size of Earth and its significant landmasses are larger than those on Earth by varying degrees. Another visible difference is the lack of land in the south pole, and conversely the very large Far Lands at the north.

Fauna & Flora

Navagar possesses a dazzling global biodiversity expected from a living planet, some of it not originally from there (such as the forelen themselves). The very rare portions of this biodiversity that have lived in absence of the influence of the terraforming, i.e. the "truly original" Navagarian biota, are extremely prized in the academic world and met with huge fascination from the normal people, as seen in the Anteneanology craze of the early modern era.
While the majority of Navagar's specids are truly native and they indeed look quite different from Earthly life, a human would still be able to find some identical features in some lifeforms. This is blamed on the necessity to adapt to a world that is radically different from the pre-terraforming one, one that had almost no Earthly semblance. The very superficial similarities of some specids are thus mostly products of convergent evolution under conditions identical to those on Earth. This can be observed in the preserved specids from pre-terraforming times--at the time, many couldn't believe they were native Navagarian lifeforms.
A few examples of the many animals found on Navagar include the binagalon (a feared predator endemic to Sinolaya that looks like a panther-monkey hybrid), the yaruga/yarug (a physically imposing, tough large-horned herbivore that is tamed as either burden beast or fearsome steed in several parts of the world), the maesh (a soft insect that is an important food source around the world), the gijran (a large flighted mammal-like avian of legendary fame and cultural importance to many Eastside lands, taken mostly as mount or companion), the guala (a common farm animal with thick wooly fur), the rui (a widespread aquatic specid, practically the "fish" of Navagar), the barambur (a graceful, elusive woodland herbivore found all around Acathar, important to many Wildheart tribes), and the muthanica (a group of winged insects highly similar to members of the Earthly family Lepidoptera, almost universally beloved for their beauty and poetic significance).
Navagarian flora includes the talan, fif, goy, talac, brusilcantus, selavy, eruner, madegora, asparic, chirungyarap, and thrifle. Flora such as the sansiprene, ficem, perelone, and elberone constitute as the trees of Navagar, with nearly all of them having some use in magickal industry, especially in the crafting of witch-wood of which perelone and elberone trees are well known for. There are also "pseudo-flora" specids, such as the sharab or shell-stalkers that make up the eponymous, famed Shell-Stalks forest on which the city kingdom Laran sits upon the canopy.
Navagar has several places considered among the greatest biodiversity hotspots, like Mogadawa, Greater Bivantalis, Batsang, Sinolaya, many parts of the Sohneb, the entire Hazim continent, the Body of The Beast, rural Verratia, and the Stretch of Vidaya. It may also come as a surprise to some that Diru is considered to have a competitive biodiversity due to the unique conditions in the region. And the oceans are no slackers either; regions such as the Lower Navel region of the Tanimea and the Snake Channel seas that whistle around the traditional Three Suns of Eastside are considered to harbour the most biodiverse packets of existence for marine life.
More numerous than surface biodiversity hotspots are those of the worldly underground, of which a great portion has mostly steered clear of the effects of the guided terraforming to various extents. Alongside the Far Lands, the deepest reaches of the ocean, and either of the three moons, this physical underworld is also the only place people can hope to find preserved original Navagarian life, dead or alive.
It is an old speculation that under the icy layers of the Far Lands are a million years' worth of preserved original Navagarian lifeforms, possibly including the Anteneans themselves and their artefacts, as the megacontinent once harboured a great majority of Antenean era life. It remains unknown what has happened to this archaeo-biological trove following the banishment of the Lightbane to the Far Lands.
Far beyond the sky, the three moons have been suspected of harbouring some life, perhaps possibly even pre-terraforming species that have escaped to the moons. While Niduron is confirmed to have some sort of "forests" and strange underground structures, no substantial evidence of life beyond the bacterial have been found so far. Or at least they say so.

Natural Resources

Like any other living world, Navagar abounds in all manners of natural resources. Besides all the usual resources (including some that are unique), Navagar is especially rich with magick, making possible a plethora of cultural, academic, and even personal expressions of the arcane all around the world.
Some resources of note include but are not limited to the following:
Minerals, metals, rocks - ultratanium, diamondite, elecherium, misphalite, urgonium, omethol, hasphar, herngis, and lithel.
Resources acquired from animals - shallone, tolan, woolsheet, animal natua, raw kausa (cooked to become kausaloir), epolyn, and valaamb.
Resources acquired from plants - bronikar, grey glitter, mese/mesa, plant tuion, batleol, brimbaum, rice (Navagarian variant), and mahat (seed of the maha jestika).
Energy sources - industrial vitae, Annimaeus/applied opera, teustechaon, processed citrogen (PIC), tuion (hypothetical), and many forms of telemer such as neutromer.
Nearby Niabyssian (outer space) resources - various forms of xenolithel, void dust, nenerite (from meteorites), icefalls, sapralchium, yiraculme, star salt, Yird ice, neutromer from Etharius, and rainbow rocks/stones.
Thanks to its worldly magick enrichment and sizeable stock of services and more importantly materials considered universally valuable across various regions in the cosmos, Navagar sees a decent trend of interworld trading with a number of Outworlds and alien organisations under the affiliation of the Allied Races, most prominently the Halaacarians, allowing them to procure useful natural resources non-native to Navagar. However, since the flourishing of its own colony worlds, this strength has weakened moderately, as more and more investors are attracted by rising stars such as New Star, Mirror World Trantus, Sayasheim, and Bathiom.
Fortunately, on the side of interworld trading with its colony worlds, nearly every party is doing fine. Through these trades, Navagar can more easily acquire natural resources that are common to both itself and the colony worlds, giving it some insurance in yet hypothetical disasters, such as a worldwide water-food supply crisis or pandemic where overall Navagarian medicine has reached its bounds.

Alternative Name(s)

originally called Shena Anoria, sometimes called the Motherworld by inhabitants of the forelen colony worlds (post-Star's Reckoning), Nav (shortening),

Type

Planet

Location under

Orbis Augis

Owning Organization

The Navagarian People