Arcerra

Arcerra is one of many continents in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth, and is the setting of the Elementalist Series.

History
Arcerra's history can be divided into 5 distinct Eras, periods of time all greatly contrasting in tone and atmosphere than one another. The end of an Era is signified by a Calamity: a disaster of incomprehensible proportions that usually ends with Arcerra's destruction. The end of one Era marks the beginning of another.

Arcerra's History Spans 7000 years i think.

Pre-Origin
Earth, Christmas 2017: Scientists discover that a Meteor the size of Jupiter is set to crash into the Earth in 90 days and the End of the World is officially declared. Humanity descended into madness, with no hope of survival in the upcoming days. But when the dreaded day came, something unforeseeable occurred: Origin, the Jupiter-sized meteor in question, collided with the moon instead of earth. The fragments of both hurtled towards earth and ripped it apart, leaving it a planetary mess of Human civilisation's broken remains, mantle, moon-rock, Ethraksha and Pallobalt.

Earth's land was uprooted and shuffled with other parts of the planet that were originally nowhere near each other, creating new landmasses of colossal size infused with the extra-terrestrial energy of Origin's Three Gifts. One such landmass is the continent of Arcerra, a fusion of what used to be the UK, Japan, most of North Africa, and like half of the USA.

Yh thats how Arcerra came to be.

Era I
THE EVENTS OF ERA I DO NOT HAPPEN ON ARCERRA. THIS IS FOR ANOTHER SERIES. I'm skipping over a lot here, but the point is:

The Ethraksha that Origin brought with had dissolved into an incredibly poisonous substance called Aura, which drove all life to flee underground. A few hundred hours later L.U.C.Y, a being made out of Ethraksha, created Tomahtra: the fabled Relic that allowed her to do something about the deadly magic situation. She Enacted two plans: the Divine Blessing and the Bedrock Solution, which allowed all life to return to the surface. This event is known as the 1.5th Calamity and it affected the entire planet, including Arcerra.

During the 1.5th Calamity, Silva, a prominent Eidolon figure where this is all happening, was killed by L.U.C.Y in a fit of rage. Before he truly died, the Silva transferred all of his deranged teachings to random individuals across the planet, as far as he could reach. One such unlucky prophet was a man on Arcerra, who then went on the spread Silva's deranged word across the continent. Which is where Arcerra gets it main religion.

After all was said and done, L.U.C.Y deserted Tomahtra on Arcerra.

Tomahtra's desertion on Arcerra was the worst thing to have happened to the entire continent.

Era II
Humanity began to live above ground again, and things were looking nice. EXCEPT. Predaters, beings of Ethraksha that fed on humans, sought to make them suffer as punishment for the way they treated the planet during Pre-Origin times. This marks the beginning of the 2nd Calamity. They consumed over 70% of Arcerra's population and left the rest to descend into madness for 100,000 years in the Faux Paradise: a Heaven where all of a person's wants and needs are met. Eventually the humans in the Faux Paradise ran out of things to do, got bored, and once again descended into madness. One of those unhinged humans escaped this heaven-turned-hell, slayed nearly every single Predater and forced their leader, "The Original", into destroying the Faux Paradise and freeing humanity. Two devout followers of The Original witnessed this happen and fell into rage, razing Arcerra in its entirety to the ground on their lonesome. L.U.C.Y, who had now become Arcerra's God of sorts, used her powers to restore the continent to a habitable state, undo the effects the Faux Paradise had on humanity, and scare the rouge Predaters into passiveness.

Era III
After the 2nd Calamity, it only took about 100-ish years for Arcerra begin dawning on a second industrial revolution. Unfortunately, several Dozen Arkin began to awaken at the same time. These Arkin, unlike L.U.C.Y, were conceited, arrogant, megalomaniacs who lack any real form of empathy towards non-Arkin humans. The worst of which were the Great Kings, two brothers who were the first Arkin to awaken during this Era. Over the course of four centuries they terraformed the entire continent to suit their needs, enslaved EBOs to harvest their Ethraksha, created weapons capable of destruction comparable to the 1st Calamity, and employed a eugenics scheme on a continental scale in order to prevent any other Arkin from awakening. Arcerra's environment deteriorated into a state tenfold worse than what pre-Origin Earth EVER could have created and 99% of all life went extinct. It was only after The Great King's decided they would spread this horror beyond Arcerra's seas, that L.U.C.Y decided to intervene. All Arkin were destroyed and the continent was again reverted to a habitable state. The Great Kings were reverted to regular humans to be taught a lesson, but they managed to reawaken into Arkin a short while after and were promptly killed for good by L.U.C.Y.

Era IV
Not really history because it's where we're at now, but:

Arkin and The Elementalists have been reduced to greek-god-level myths

Silvanism is a dead, forgotten religion, and only a secret society believes in it anymore.

Ethraksha's very existence isn't common knowledge, with how incredibly rare it is to see any of the raw material.

Arcerra is at peace with itself, no conflict. (besides internal ones)

The Arkin Preventative Measure worked incredibly well

Geography
Arcerra lies on Earth's northern hemisphere, and takes most of it's space up too. The differences in climate and temperature among various areas across Arcerra is so drastic one wouldn't even assume they're on the same landmass.

Someone drew Arcerra's map wrong. The REAL North is actually in the direction of Arcerra's North-East. Nobody changes it because of tradition.

Arcerra used to be a collection of several hundred islands that formed one massive archipelago. During the reign of the Great Kings, they terraformed the land in their image: nearly all of the water that took up most of Arcerra's space was filled up with land, creating a near-perfect circle of a continent with virtually no rivers except from those that were deemed necessary for living purposes. The region of Esten was mostly untouched since they objected to the idea of terraforming the entire continent to suit people's needs (They had an Arkin powerful enough to resist the might of the Great Kings).

Don't forget that the Great Kings are the reason that each Region represents an Element of the Flow System: they made it so. Because they were egotistical bastards.

Gravity is also 1.6 times greater than what you'd experience everywhere else on earth. Specifically on Arcerra. Why? Another Arkin thought it would be cool and reversing it now would cause more issues than it would solve problems.

Regions
Arcerra can be divided into nine distinct regions. There's one in the middle, and eight surrounding it. Like an eight-piece pizza with a hole in the middle. They're all quite nice to each other since there's nothing to fight over. Each Region has a drastically different climate from which they derive their namesakes. Inter-regional peace has been achieved across Arcerra, so any form of dispute is each Region's own business.

Region Tyrants
In summary, Region Tyrants are colossal EBOs that were "born" during the 2nd Era, when humanity was damned to the Faux Paradise and all other life was able to thrive.

There is a single Region Tyrant in each Region.

Besides Tsunia. Theirs was weak so the Great Kings killed it and turned it into a pet.

Tsunia
Tsunia is the Region located in the centre of Arcerra and is the main setting for most of the entire Series. The Great Kings were born in this Region. Ok. Think FFXIV. Think Gridania. But get rid of 95% of the wildlife and replace every other tree with a skyscraper. Except the skyscrapers are hollowed out trees people live in. It's ALWAYS 22 degrees. It NEVER RAINS. They use a person's value as a human being as a currency instead of money. Their royal family are direct descendants of the Great Kings and their nobility are descendants of The Elementalists.

The Kingdom of Flames
The Fire Region of the South. The Kingdom of Flames isn't that prominent in the show, aside from two of their best students acting as minor antagonists during the Certamine Autem Casia Arc. They're one of Arcerra's hotter Regions, being only a little north of Earth's equator.

Their Region Tyrant is Berne, which currently takes the form of Nuntisol, the Seraph of the Dark Star.

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The Steam Region of the South-East. Honestly, I don't think this place is ever gonna be mentioned in the show. If it were to be, it would be for a short Arc past 4/30.

This region's Region Tyrant doesn't have a name yet, and it's current form has no name either.

I don't give a shit about this Region.

Esten.
The Water Region of the East. Esten is mainly made up of large islands, unlike the rest of Arcerra, because they refused to let the Great Kings terraform their land back in the day. One of our characters grew up here. Their climate is pretty much the same as Tsunia but you're swapping trees for water.

Esten's Region Tyrant is Hallowell, who currently takes the form of Wai Rowo.

Cryotia.
The Ice Region of the North-East. Cryotia is the coldest of Arcerra's Regions. It's very prominent during Era IV, being where it's Main Character hails from. Most of the cities and towns in this place are your regular old Snow Towns. Cryotians don't like Tsunians because they think they're too decadent.

The United Archipelagic Sky-Islands.
The Wind Region of the North. The UAS, during Era II, had an abundance of Raw Ethraksha that led to a Predater outbreak and was the main setting for Extinction Event's happenings. Nowadays in Era IV the UAS is comprised of, you guessed it, a multitude of magically floating Sky Islands that most of it's population lives on. There are stuff on the ground level though, such as giant craters that suspiciously look like they can fit Sky Islands in them...but besides that, the UAS is only visited about once during Era IV and is barely touched upon during Era III.

The UAS' Region Tyrant is Grange, who currently takes the form of the Advisor.

Neruma
The Sand Region of the North-West. Neruma is the most sparsely populated of the nine Regions. Another one of our main characters grew up here. It's a desert, but just as cold as Cryotia. There's a strange Transparent metal that can only be found in Neruma that replaces glass entirely. Neruma isn't all too prominent in any Era, but it gets some love.

Narishaela
The Earth Region of the West. Narishaela is geographically similar to Tsunia but home to a LOT more species than it. The place has more than any other region I'd bet, since the whole place is like one great nature reserve. It's people, also like Tsunia, are quite at one with nature, however they're not too keen on bending it to it's will. Narishaela has no real prominence in any Era.

Noxtyres
The Lava Region of the South West. Noxtyres is the true capitalist industrial region, being responsible for the manufacture of nearly everything. It's also the hottest Region, which also makes it the only place on Arcerra capable of melting and moulding Pallobalt. That's BIG money. We've got a single Noxtyran in the cast, she's alright.

Trivia
General funerals probably involve encasing the deceased in a pallobalt furnace shaped like something symbolic and cremating them inside of it.