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Science in Zalonia

Dark Energy

Dark Energy can be used for magical purposes. It is generally used for vital healings to save someone who is dying. This type of magic doesn’t work on age related decay, but it can help those who are wounded on the battlefield. It has to be used before the person who is injured fully dies. Dark Energy has stronger healing properties than regular magic. In order to obtain the ability to use this magic, one has to go through the extra courses necessary at the magic schools in Magdad. Dark matter magic can also be learned with a mentor and student. Very few magicians are willing to learn this kind of magic because of its difficulty.

Dark Matter

Dark Matter is related to Zalonia for it’s use in magic. What is dark matter? I don’t think anyone knows. It makes up a bigger portion of our universe than regular matter. It is assumed that dark matter would be cold. The only thing you need to know is that the magic derived from Dark Matter which has a very raw form of magic. It can cause some brutal injuries, such as bending the arms back until they break, and the same with fingers, legs, and so on. It is a very painful side to dark matter.

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Other Space Phenomena

Aetherlites

Aetherlites are other objects that can be seen using instruments like telescopes. The medes can see them with their eyes, which are seven times the strength of the human eye. They are light objects that orbit around the sun. They have a short lifespan of about 3,000 years for a really large one, to about 500 years for a small one. There is fear among medes that these objects could collide with Aztharian. In fact, some medes have predictions as to when one will hit. However, no one knows for sure because it is hard to tell where they are coming from, and each has a different orbit. They produce their own light source, and if one comes near the planet, even humans can see them with their naked eyes.

Glimmerglobes

These are objects that glow, but are smaller than the stars and planets. They are part of the solar system, but do not follow a particular path. There is some fear among the medes that one of these can collide with Aztharian and destroy the planet. However, the glimmerglobes have an antigravity aspect to them which is how they seem to avoid colliding with large bodies such as planets.

Skygleams/Shineliths

Skygleams/Shineliths are objects in the sky that appear similar to stars. However, they are low in gravity. Legend has it that the Nine Ancient Ones put them there as constellations to help give people directions. They do not twinkle like stars but hold a solid look. They are larger than the sun, but are at least a few light-years from the solar system. They are called both shineliths and skygleams, depending on which culture is talking about them.

Celestiorbs

Merging “celestial” with “orbs,” this term emphasizes their heavenly, spherical nature. They are beautiful if peering through an instrument. They are almost like crystals, and they give off their own light. They are different from the stars and are typically diamond-shaped. There are only three or four that can be seen in the night sky. It is believed to hold certain magical meaning, such as it is good to focus on a celestiorb when it is in the sky. The main magic it produces is that of healing. There are temples that have open ceilings so people can be healed through these space objects. Some high priests and priestess can access their magical properties, especially if their magical strength is in healing others.

Luminarocks:

A simple combination of “luminous” and “rocks,” indicating their glowing appearance and possibly lower density compared to normal stars. They can only be told apart from the stars due to their behavior. They are in the solar system, and while small, they have a strong glow to them. Once in a while, they will crash onto the planet, and magic users often grab the remnants. While the remnants can be used for magical purposes, the luminarocks have no magical qualities while they are up in the sky.

The dust gathered from them can enhance many magical abilities. It is often used in times of war, whether it is a defensive or an offensive war. A laser-like beam can be produced by the particles of luminarocks, and the laser is typically deadly. It is a great advantage to have luminarocks in war, but they are very hard to find.

Ethereospheres

Combining “ethereal,” which conveys a light, airy quality, with “spheres,” indicating their shape. They are the largest objects found in space, and there aren’t any in the same galaxy in the stories. They are bigger than galaxies, but they are so far away that their influence is minimal. They are not close enough to be able to work with in a magical sense. However, they appear in various shapes like triangles and circles. They are too far away to see with the naked eye, but the medes have found them using their devices to stretch how far they can see.

Radiant Stones

A more literal name that directly describes their appearance and nature. They are asteroids that glow, and they have their own irregular belt that is typically between Onog and Anohpmi, but they sometimes come closer. Sometimes, a Radiant Stone can go off course and crash on either. There are magical properties that give one the ability to temporarily disappear. They can also make one quieter when sneaking up on someone, so they can be used for this in times of war. They also work as lie detectors. The one accused of lying has to come before the stone, and if he is lying, then the stone glows. The larger stones, about 9 inches in diameter, can sometimes help a person teleport to a different part of Zalonia.

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Planets of Zalonia

Latrina (1st Planet)

It is similar in size to Aztharian, but is too hot for life as it is the closest planet to the sun. However, there might be heat-resistant beings on it, but no one is certain. Once in a while, the planet can cause a small eclipse, but not as thick as a lunar eclipse. The surface can reach 300 degrees F, but it rotates more slowly than Aztharian, and the side facing away from the sun can get down to about 50 degrees. Most of the planet is covered by an unknown light green liquid.

It represents both romantic and sensual love, creativity, artistry, and self-expression. It rules beauty and pleasure, arts and crafts, all of the sweet things of life. It is particularly associated with sexuality, but like the Maiden, her most essential quality is strength of self.

In negative terms, Latrina is associated with selfishness, greed, and indulgence. Negative Latrina thinks of herself first, and others second, if at all. Over-indulgence of all sorts, but especially sexual, is associated with Negative Latrina, as well as a conspicuous lack of concern over consequences.

Symbology – The hieroglyph for Latrina is the Sphere of the Conscious Self over the Cross of Matter; that is to say, the conscious self-expressing itself in the physical, with little reference to the Higher Self.

Aztharian – World (2nd Planet)

Aztharian is the world where Zalonia exists. Think of it as an alternate world that’s roughly the same size as Earth and follows similar rules of physics, especially gravity. However, the continents and landmasses are arranged differently. Most of the stories happen on the large landmass of Zalonia, but there are other big landmasses on Azatharian with lots of mysterious things, creatures, and more.

People have lived on Azatharian for a really long time. The folks in Zalonia can trace their roots back to close to the beginning of the First Age when they were created. But there are whispers about a Lost Age that might go even further back. On those other landmasses, there are beings that might have been around since that rumored Lost Age.

Now, some ancient stories, especially those from a few mede historians, talk about the Prophet of Old and their descendants in a place called Ruinoneo before it was cursed. Legends say that this Prophet might have been the one who made medes, humans, and the legendary stiminites. But remember, these are really old legends, and a lot of time has passed. There’s some evidence that hints at these ideas, but it’s all a bit of a mystery now.

There’s something unique about its night sky. Instead of regular stars, they have these magical constellations known as the “9 constellations.” These constellations are made up of objects with very little gravitational pull. They might look like stars or planets to the naked eye, but they’re different. They don’t twinkle like our stars; instead, they move across the sky like stars, which could be quite puzzling for someone from Earth who notices these differences.

It has 3 primary moons, which can cause various kinds of tides. There is only one star in the solar system similar to our sun.

Populations exist where food, water, warmth, and shelter

World Population
Humans – 13 million
Medes – 950,000
Elves before destruction – 3 million – There is one elven territory not found in Zalonia
Woodland Elves – 100,000 – They are only in Zalonia
Frolm – 500,000 before the shadow thieves and about 2,500 after – All in Zalonia
Rokars – 9 million
Sxiox – 2 million

Alien Satellite (3rd Planet) – Onog

Onog is a satellite that is near Aztharian. It is used as a base for technology and weapons to spy and try to influence things on Aztharian. There is a wormhole on the side that faces away from Aztharian that leads to the aliens’ (Gnonows) home planet. It is a very compact satellite, but small and further away than the blue moon. To the human eye, it looks like a faint planet. The medes can see it better, but they can’t see the aliens themselves. The aliens also use a force field that the medes can’t see through. This is the satellite they used when they fought in the Great Battle of the Fourth Age. Some believe this is the furthest planet away because of its small size, but it is relatively close to Aztharian.

Gas Giant (4rd Planet) – Anohpmi

This is a further out planet, a little bigger than Jupiter, that works as a shield to destructive materials such as comets and asteroids. Seen up close, it looks like a beautiful planet and has several moons. There are said to be over a hundred moons. It has various colors such as red, yellow, blue, brown, and so on. It is an impossible planet to survive on because of the gravity, but the moons could possibly hold life. It is the biggest object in the night sky besides the moons revolving around Aztharian. Its diameter is thirteen times as long as Aztharian. It takes about 8.6 years to orbit the sun. It is often associated with wisdom.

It is a symbol of wisdom according to the medes. When it is seen in the sky, the medes study a little harder because they believe they will gain knowledge more clearly when it is visible. It is a gas giant with hundreds of moons revolving around it.

There are several spots on Anohpmi which the medes believe are dangerous storms, but they are uncertain. The spots seem to move around on the planet and increase and decrease in size at a slow rate. Its magnetic atmosphere is so strong that it can crush virtually everything that comes through it.

Anohpmi has many moons, and it is possible that they have life, especially the moons with water on them. Between their strong eyesight and telescopes, the medes can’t see the moons well enough to see actual other beings on the moon, but there seem to be enormous structures that appear to have been built by intelligent life.

Gas Giant (5th Planet) – Itenasa

This is the furthest planet away from the sun. It is about half the size of Aztharian. The planet appears blueish green due to its methane gases. There is rumored to be life on this planet among the Zalonians, but that’s only been in legends. Not much is known about this planet, and even the Gnonows have never explored it or looked at it closely. It holds about 20 moons, some fully made out of ice. It is also believed to be a portal somewhere in Zalonia that can reach this planet, or at least near it. This planet also has rings like Saturn.

It is often associated with chaos and uncertainty among the Quintum. The Quintum will never point their ships toward Itenasa because they believe this will lead them to chaotic situations at sea, such as large storms and whirlpools.

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Wormholes in Zalonia

Wormholes are an important concept because they connect our world with the universe that the world Azthanian is part of. Apparently, they can only be held open by exotic matter. The Soul Chaser is the only one capable of creating a wormhole to our realm. There are alien races that can create wormholes to Zalonia, but not to Earth. Wormholes happen when two sheets of spacetime are joined together. A wormhole closes because of gravity, so there would be a need for “negative energy” to hold them open. Negative energy is behind the acceleration of the universe’s expansion. Some believe they may exist at the center of very bright galaxies. Matter coming out of one side of the wormhole would collide with matter going in, and this would cause a spectacular display of gamma rays.

Unlike a black hole, a wormhole would leak some of the gravity from the other side. There are weird “odd radio circles” in the sky. Some believe that black holes are a type of wormhole that leads to a white hole.

Exotic matter does not behave like gases, liquids, or solids. Extremely cold helium is one example of exotic matter. It is called superfluid helium, which is a liquid that can climb walls. It might be a key ingredient in making wormholes. Exotic matter that could be related to wormholes is matter with negative mass. Matter with negative mass would push other matter away from it. ‘

In Zalonia, there is an alien race known as the gnonows. They have a base on one of the satellites that float around the planet of Aztharian. In the back of this satellite, there is a wormhole that is consistently open, which allows the Gnonows to return to their home planet at will.

There are sometimes wormholes that open for other alien species, but they don’t stay open for long. They are usually made because the alien was experimenting around. They have to leave quickly because the wormhole won’t last long. There have been some aliens who have gotten trapped in Zalonia for not returning to the wormhole in time.

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White Holes of Zalonia

White holes are sometimes seen by the inhabitants of Zalonia. They appear as sudden explosions, and the medes don’t really understand them much. There is a science to it, though:

There are white holes found in space that create explosions and disappear immediately, kind of the opposite of black holes. From afar, White Holes look exactly like black holes. It is like a time reversal from a black hole. It is impossible to enter a white hole. Objects from a white hole can interact with objects on the outside, but nothing can interfere with the white hole. Only the Soul Chaser knows what they are. There is a theory that black holes turn into white holes when they die. This may happen when the black hole gets so small that it no longer obeys the common-sense rules of stars and billiard balls. Quantum randomness takes over and transforms the black hole into a white hole. Some think the white hole might explain the Big Bang.

There is also a theory that white holes are on the opposite side of a black hole. In other words, when something is sucked into a black hole, it explodes out from a white hole in a different part of the universe, or a parallel universe.

White holes could experience a belch. It is described as a black hole’s “time reversal,” a video of a black hole played backwards. Nothing can enter a white hole. Things can leave the white hole, but because nothing can get in, the interior is cut off from the universe’s past: No outside event will ever affect the inside. It would be like a singularity in the past that can affect everything in the outside. In a black hole, the outside universe can influence the inside of a black hole’s horizon, but the interior can’t affect the exterior. No one knows how a white hole might form. Playing a video backwards of a black hole doesn’t make physical sense.

If white holes did form, they probably wouldn’t exist for long. Any outgoing matter would collide with the matter in orbit, and the system would collapse into a black hole.

There is a question of what happens to the internal record when a black hole evaporates away? General relativity won’t let the information out, and quantum mechanics forbids its deletion.

Some think that a white hole is the death of a black hole, but that would violate the general relativity equations. Maybe the black hole grows so small that it no longer obeys the common-sense rules of stars and billiard balls. Quantum randomness takes over, and the black hole transforms into a white hole.

A while hole, similar to a mass to a human hair, wouldn’t have the gravitation of a black hole but would hold all the information swallowed in a previous life. Too small to attract orbiting matter, the white hole might remain stable enough to eventually spit out all the information accumulated by its forerunner. This means that white holes could dominate the universe one day.

The Big Bang’s explosion of matter and energy looks like potential white hole behavior. They are even mathematically identical at times.

White holes appear in the theory of eternal black holes. There are no observed physical processes through which a white hole could be formed. Supermassive black holes might be at the center of all galaxies, and Hawking and others have proposed that these supermassive black holes spawn a supermassive white hole. Hawking argued that the time reversal of a black hole in thermal equilibrium results in a white hole in thermal equilibrium (each absorbing and emitting energy to equivalent degrees).

White holes are predicted as part of a solution to the Einstein field equations known as the maximally extended version of the Schwarzschild metric, describing an eternal black hole with no charge and no rotation. Here, “maximally extended” refers to the idea that the spacetime should not have any “edges” for any possible trajectory of a free-falling particle (following a geodesic) in the space time, it should be possible to continue this path arbitrarily far into the particle’s future, unless the trajectory hits a gravitational singularity like the one at the center of the black hole’s interior. In order to satisfy this requirement, it turns out that in addition to the black hole interior region that particles enter when they fall through the event horizon from the outside, there must be a separate white hole interior region, which allows us to extrapolate the trajectories of particles that an outside observer sees rising up away from the event horizon. The Einstein-Rosen bridge can either connect two black hole event horizons in each universe (with points in the interior of the bridge being part of the black hole region of the spacetime) or two white hole event horizons in each universe (with points in the interior of the bridge being part of the white hole region). It is impossible to enter the bridge, though.

Here is a little for you science nerds:

Some researchers have proposed that when a black hole forms, a Big Bang may occur at the core/singularity, which would create a new universe that expands outside of the parent universe (Fecund universes).

A 2012 paper argues that the Big Bang itself is a white hole. It further suggests that the emergence of a white hole, which was named a “Small Bang”, is spontaneous—all the matter is ejected at a single pulse.
In 2014, the idea of the Big Bang being produced by a supermassive white hole explosion was explored in the framework of a five-dimensional vacuum by Madriz Aguilar, Moreno and Bellini

For white holes to exist, there can’t be a single speck of matter within the event horizon.

Loop quantum gravity

In theory, a black hole singularity would compress down until the smallest possible size predicted by physics. Then it would rebound as a white hole. But because of the severe time dilation effect around a black hole, this event would take billions of years for even the lowest mass ones to finally get around to popping.

WHAT WHITE HOLES ARE IN ZALONIA

  • White holes don’t just release matter…
  • They release possibilities, timelines, and broken pieces of reality

WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO

1. Reality Spill Points

Effect:

White holes eject things that don’t belong

  • creatures from unknown realms
  • fragments of other timelines
  • objects that shouldn’t exist

2. Time Fracturing Zones

Effect:

Time becomes unstable near a white hole

  • moments repeat
  • people experience future memories
  • time speeds up or slows down

Danger:

Someone could:

  • age rapidly
  • relive the same moment endlessly

3. Memory and Identity Distortion

Effect:

White holes don’t just affect reality—they affect minds

  • people remember things that never happened
  • identities begin to blur
  • someone might “remember” another life

Creepy angle:

Two people might remember being the same person

4. Raw Magic Eruption

Effect:

White holes flood the world with unfiltered magic

  • spells become wildly powerful
  • magic mutates unpredictably

Danger:

  • magic users lose control
  • spells gain unintended effects

 5. World Alteration Events

Effect:

Land itself changes

  • forests grow overnight
  • mountains crack open
  • new ecosystems appear

👉 reality is rewritten locally

 6. “Observers” Are Drawn to Them

Effect:

White holes attract:

  • powerful beings
  • unknown watchers
  • possibly your gnonows

Lore idea:

Some entities don’t want the white holes to stay open

THE BIG RULE

White holes are unstable—and eventually collapse.

When They Collapse:

  • everything they released becomes unstable
  • creatures may vanish
  • people may disappear
  • entire areas may reset or distort

RARE EVENT: WHITE HOLE STORM

Multiple white holes appear at once:

  • reality breaks across regions
  • time fractures everywhere
  • magic becomes uncontrollable

This could be a major series-level event

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