The world as we know it, known more commonly by its colloquial shorthand Ava. Still reconciling the old world.
To start an adventure through article-story, via the wiki-world model, follow any links of interest until their terminus, then return here to follow another link until the stories and information begin to blend into a world all its own, very much resilient and alive.
Wastelanders of Fame & Infamy[]
- Goggles, the wastes' first luminary
- The Beardsman Family for their constant pursuit of knowledge
- Avariel, the gliding girl behind the greening movement
- Arthur Ridcully and his trio of wastelanders The Flying All-Star Trio
MARAUDERS
- Thallo'steel the falchion scissor hawk falconer
- Number 13, the bare-breasted bandit on a jettercycle
- Bandit King, the rotating position among the Brigand Brigades
- Zz'Gashi the Dunerunner, a fully sentient, speech-capable skaldron who commands an elite mercenary company
- Nadyasonika, Ava's premier infiltraitor and head of Sonika Inc
- Body Massage, the traveling brute who can't tell the difference between death grips and a hug
SCHOLARS
- Rokks in the Bush, a naturalist
- Bleardio Beardsman, current head of the affluent Beardsmans
- Tester L. Tay, compounder of the List of Homeless
- Butterfly Cho, the oldest living member of the greening movement
CELEBRITIES
- Cheversly, the first Si-Mas Silo operator
- Fast Snorlax, the bellowing insane Champion of Rot
Region[]
TECTONICS - Populated areas across the Avantsphere's fractured surface. Many are separated by large ravines.
When the Old World broke and shattered, many mysteries of what came before fell into the cracks or got flung into space. Find out more about the current layout of the Avantsphere and its plated structure by clicking here.
Breeds[]
Strains and forms of mortal across the waste:
- Dudes, common mortal being, thought to be the origin. Squishy but clever.
- Skeniks, a quickly evolving mix-pool of beast and dude, bred with harshness of the land (they also "love" animals).
- Shikes, these awful, lazy, land-stealing curses to common decency are still alive, and hated by all credited scribes.
- Twibbers, considered a mutated "sub-race" they claim to be reincarnated lives from the Old World.
Brigand Companies[]
Brigands are larger clans, bigger than kennels, that number over 100 active members.
Notable kennels of bandits and highwaymen assembled into large factions or small raiding bands. As deadly as they are crazy, and they are very crazy.
- Brigand Brigades, the largest collective of wasters
- Jetsetters, the jetterpack highlife company
- The Dunerunners, a company of mercenaries under Zz'Gashi, a skaldron
- The Be-Good Bylaws, reformed moralists of Ava
- The Sullen, those rejected from the Be-Good Bylaws
- The Big Scientists, a small elite operating group of characters, usually good guys
- The old hags of fire, storytelling crones garbed in red
- The Cult of Chromo, not so much a brigand group as mass of happy hippies, non-violent
- The Boomies, a group of raiders mounted on working jettercycles that relies on hit-and-run tactics with homemade explosives
Famous Bandits to find some notable examples of stand-out outlaws, see Some Bandits of Some Note
For further reading on the ways of rogue life on the Ava, please reference What Is A Bandit?
Fauna & Flora[]
FAUNA[]
Massive Monsters and Big Beasts[]
- The gaulyms of legend
- Chromodoris, the unknowing leader of the Cult of Chromo
- Deepsea terror, the Crawdledaunt
- Sheridan the Time Sheep, crazed wandering time-traveling chaos prophet
(For more pioneers of old world destruction and new world surival, please see The Unkillables for a list of unofficial, seemingly immortal life)
Living things, unbred and wild.
- Ohbocho, a large flightless bird rumored to have a golden ohbocho among its numbers
- Falchion, known as the scissor hawk
- Corvus, a large black carrion bird of remarkable intelligence (pl. corvi)
- Dingle dogs, scavenger hunters known for intelligent grouping
- Bulo, dense pack animals used for shipping and meals (pl. buloes)
- Skaldron, a large sand-skimmer made of blades and bloodlust
- red paca, the red-winged gabber-mouths of the green canopy (pl. pacas)
- sawna boids from the eastern Ava, they live only in hot ponds (pl. sawna boidses)
- dakura, transport specialists and symbols of affluence
FLORA[]
- prickle pear, An easy meal, if you can get past the spikes. Festive and sweet.
- mud blossoms, small blue flowers with psycho-toxins that ope when exposed to moonlight.
- krips, a subterranean vine fungus that grows expansively and makes greening impossible.
- heatbloom, small flowers that in abundance can produce flame when exposed to rainbow water.
- fungs, super-massive mushrump-like structures that can house entire villages.
- snapping seeds, aggressive seeds of the snapvine, that burrow into organic matter to sprout.
For a full list of different plants, vines, and other things green in color, please see the full list of flora.
Happenings[]
Things which what happened.
There is yet to be a reliable method of chronology universally developed and accepted enough to record history. But these things definitely happened. Maybe.
- The Great Whump, that started the Avantsphere back from the brink of a dead world.
- Winter
- The Peace Wind
- Sprawl, the animalistic lawlessness of regressed human instinct
- Greening, the effort to restore life to the waste
- The Last Great Air War
- The act of reseal, the process of reincarnating on the Ava
Strange Locales[]
Places that make the common dude go "Oh, dang."
- Goo, a strange substance occasionally oozing from the ground
- Went Water, a wide pool of yellow muck
- Ro'Ro Ravine, the deepest of cracks in the Avantsphere
- Chino's Shed, a famous bandit hideout
- D'Scarr, the deepester of cracks on the Ava
- Silo LX-59, the first operating silo
- Apotheosis, an ancient city of carrion
- The waste, basically the whole of the Ava with the possible exception of the Green Belt
- The poison mountain of Rot
- Mice-Two-Meet-You, the small tribal settlement with unsettling animals aplenty high in the Stormies
- Manhole, the maekshift city around the rebirthing pits of dudes who've gone through reseal make their way back up to the surface following death
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