The Hub

The Hub is the central Verse of the known Multiverse, often depicted as being in the center of the Celestial Pentagon. The Hub is a kind of collection of the surviving species and cultures of intelligent peoples, as well as the several colonies created by the great governmental powers from across the Multiverse. While quite a few of these colonies step on the toes of the previously untouched civilizations, they have largely reached an agreement for peace, though tensions are still present. The Hub houses a fragment of each element in a maelstrom of elemental chaos known as the Entropic Wastes, as well as a small region in the center of the Verse that holds a perfect balance of every element in harmony called Elysium. Elysium is also home to the largest city in the Multiverse, Kal'suud, as well as many other regions, being the ancestral home of the Hub races, the races of peoples who sprang up without the aid of the Alchemicals.

Geography

The six regions, including Elysium, are all incredibly varied, but each of the Entropic Wastes correspond to their own element. On the border of any two Wastes is a unique mixture of the two with equally unique environs. Elysium is largely hilly grassland with intermittent forests, mountains, rivers, and the like.

Ecosystem Cycles

The Hub is the most environmentally variable of the six Verses, changing its general climate more drastically than in other Verses for each of the five seasons. None of these are unbearable in any way, however they do pose an unusual challenge to settlers who are not used to the seasons affecting the environment so heavily.

Localized Phenomena

The Entropic Wastes, being as they are, are theorized to have come into being sometime soon after the Great Separation as a reaction to the rending of the world. Outside of them, Elysium seems to be the only region of the Multiverse that does not allow Majikai to attune to any one element evenly. There is a strange phenomenon that seems to be connected to the Hub's changing levels of elemental energy and that causes Majikai to attune in a very strange way, if at all. Their first attunement could be any element, or none at all, causing an unusual condition known as Carpenter's Syndrome, where a Majikai is completely unable to use magic at all.

Fauna & Flora

The Hub is home to a wide variety of wild life due to its unique amount of exposure to each element, especially in Elysium. There are many different kinds of creatures, both mundane and magical.

Natural Resources

There have been several ventures into the Entropic Wastes, discovering unique substances and energies which have been found to hold incredible, yet volatile alchemical properties.

History

The Hub was discovered nearly a thousand years ago by an unknown TempoMajus who had been working on long distance teleportation. The existence of other Verses was later theorized by those who had noticed the Wastes belonged to more than one element. A short time later, the first Multiversal treaty had been formed between the larger nations across the Multiverse. Eventually, border tensions and racial tensions started the Multiversal War. While each country war at war with each other, however, the several different intelligent races that were native to the Hub took their chance and started an uprising because they were sick of being trampled on and oppressed, which actually worked very well. Overall, the revolution succeeded in harming each major nation significantly, eventually forcing them to recede their land claims and granting these peoples their ancestral homes back by the end of the war. Afterward, a second treaty was signed including representatives from each participating nation, including those involved in the revolutions of independence, forming the Hub Council, a council that was to meet yearly to discuss the growth and maintaining of peace throughout the Multiverse. Since then, racial tensions have ebbed, as have national tensions, allowing for wider acceptance of different races of people, though some still hold "old-fashioned," racist and/or xenophobic beliefs and prejudices.

Tourism

The Hub is often visited by aspiring people from all walks of life for many different reasons.

Type

Universe

Included Locations

• Kal'suud