Yggdrasil

Pretty integral to Tsunia. Needs it's own page.

Yggdrasil is the colossal EMF situated in the center of the entire continent; slab dab in the middle of the Yggdrasil Zone, Tsunia, and Arcerra. Tsunia would collapse without Yggdrasil. It provides power, housing, water, shade, even deals with all of Tsunia's waste.

Yggdrasil

YZAAP is a huge ring of facilities, dorms, and buildings

With a massive field in the centre.

The main thing that sits underneath yggdrasil is the Great King's royal palace which has been reformed into a private school / university / kings agency headquarters by era 4

ok

My only argument for even attempting to change the day night cycle

was to stop the King's Apprentices base hq from being covered in shadow for half of the year

but i dont really care about that so eh.

I REALLY SHOULD MAKE THE DAY NIGHT CYCLE A REALLY INTEGRAL PART OF ARCERRAN CULTURE the amazon boroughs are now inside the shrines. shrines arent one big stump. MORE smaller trees fuse into the branch first. buildings can fit underneath this.

Yggdrasil needs an upgrade. Glowing parts graveyards that absorb corpses

Don't think of Yggdrasil's branches as solid trunks. They are trees fused into biger trees fused into bigger trees The wood weaves. so you see with Yggs stumps I dont expect it to be just one massive cylinder It'll basically be a large forest whose trees all merge into one at the canopy there will be space for buildings underneath. Maybe one of them can have a swamp maybe each of them can have different biomes-ish only a few, probably those assigned to high houses will be amazon zone residential areas depends on the artifact

So in essence no we do not need to change the day/night cycle

congreed of truth is now another arkin. or SOMEONE DANGEROUS. Not just a random animal. underneath the field inside YZAAP is a max security prison located many miles unerground hitoshi was sent here at one point the "field" is actually the size of a city itself.

yzaap doesnt need to be a ring of buildings

i mean it has to be a set of modern buildings (old to arcerrans)

NO IT DOESNT FUCK YOU

Making a lbyrinth of Tree-houses in a massive forest directly connected to Ygg is better

THINGS UNDERNEATH YGGDRASIL'S STUMP.

there are zones

inside the branch bases

Space between each branch base

Space inbetween branches bases and stump (underneath main branches)

underneath stump.

convergence (The stump itself. This is where each of Yggdrasil's main branches converge and begin to form the trunk.)

the kings apprentices are based in convergence this gives them a lot of space to train and stuff good view of the Yggdrasil Zone below, plus getting to the city is a short dorp away. Loads of flying space that nobody else gets near. also forces apprentices to get comfortable with flight. keeps everyone living close for social shenanigans near to the king's agency's hq the false canopy and the airport (i say airport but its just a flight stop) its also host of several training areas

false canopy (Yggdrasil's branches spiral into each other. There's a small portion of Ygg's lower stump that has a bunch of smaller trees stucking out of it. This is the new royal palace. Large enough to be a forest all on its own. glows.)

heaven piercer (people dont know how high this goes. Goes to space but nobody can handle that nowadays)

Yggdrasil

An EMF of incomprehensible scale and the largest of it's kind on all of Tsunia. The entirety of the city of London could fit beneath it. Yggdrasil lives up to its namesake by being the tallest structure in ALL of Arcerra, visible from every other country (probably if you're right next to the border)

Yggdrasil is formed of thirty-five (number highly subject to change) colossal EMFs ("Roots") that were made to spiral into each other and fuse together to form another massive tree, which is Yggdrasil itself. Each root is about the size of a small town and fuse into Yggdrasil's Stump about 6 kilometres into the air.

Yggdrasil has infinite regeneration. It will always regrow if damaged. It takes quite a bit of power to damage Yggdrasil though, so that'll rarely happen. If regrowth does need to happen, the Druids of Origin will ensure that it regrows in the right shape.

Shrines

The bases of Yggdrasil's roots have been hollowed out and transformed into chambers called Shrines, and are the resting place of an Artifact when not in use, guarded by Arcn. rank King's Agents. One slightly themed Shrine for each Artifact (obviously). When it IS in use, however, an Artifact Shrine will become the personal quarters of the Agent who possesses it. The first few rooms of each Shrine is accessible to the public as a sort of museum dedicated to Myths surrounding the Artifact in question.

Distinguished Houses

The Distinguished Families of Tsunia each have a signature Artifact that it used only by them. Therefore, the Shrines of these Artifacts are actually the headquarters of the Distinguished Family that owns it. Distinguished Houses don't use their front yards as museums either.

Roots

The roots of Yggdrasil are also hollowed out and contain various facilities of decreasing importance the further away they are from Yggdrasil's base. Facility locations vary slightly root from root, so as to ensure that you don't have to travel too far to reach any one place.

Royal Palace

Unfortunately Tsunia's Royal Palace isn't at the top of Yggdrasil; that extends into space and it's too high up. (There are ancient ruins atop the canopy of the world tree tho). The Diarchy live at the bottom of Yggdrasil's Trunk above the stump and roots, and even that is barely reachable since the air that high up is nearly unbreathable.

Tsunia, like all of Arcerra's countries, is in possession of a M.E.E.T Converter, a Relic originating from Era III that can convert all incoming energy into electricity. Tsunia uses their M.E.E.T Converter to consume all of the excess sunlight absorbed by the expansive network of trees that spans the country and uses it to power all of Tsunia. Given the fact that every tree in Tsunia is connected to Yggdrasil (More on that later on), that should give you an idea of how much sunlight the entire thing catches in a day. This electricity is redistributed through back through Yggdrasil into homes (and everything else that needs it).

Water Magic runs over the streets of the entire Yggdrasil Zone, leaving the entire city 1cm deep in water. This Water Magic is created by giant Gemstones near the bases of Yggdrasil's roots. These Gemstones are kept filled by the Lavenblood family, who need somewhere to deposit their infinite reserves of Flow. People aren't too keen in touching other people's Magic, but the Lavenbloods have been doing this for centuries, people are used to they way that their magic feels.

ALL of the sewage and garbage in Tsunia is directed to a pit deep underground to become fertilizer for Yggdrasil. Several dozens of it's roots lead to this compost heap, where they take in all the would-be waste and use it to grow.

Transport

As is the case throughout Arcerra, there are next to transportational devices or services provided in Tsunia, besides your own ability to fly. There has never really been a need to develop anything beyond large cargo crates that can be carried by a group of four people. Towards the outskirts of the country, remnants of asphalt roads scatter the plains of Tsunia, relics of a time past.

The branches and leaves of Yggdrasil's roots and the trees below it fuse together to form large tubes that behave as mid-air roads and control air traffic. They span across all of Tsunia's Zones, forming an Treetop Motorway of sorts.

The Concrete Jungles (Amazon Boroughs)

The "Concrete Jungles" of Tsunia, the Amazons are the parts of Tsunia that you don't talk about. Located in the parts of Yggdrasil Zones that receive the least sunlight year-round, these boroughs are the least attractive part of any city.

Architecture

Tsunian architecture is truly a thing to behold. Spirals, Helixes, and Twisting tapers have always been a staple in ancient Tsunian design. That, coupled with the fact that EMFs can have the direction in which they sprout manipulated, allowed Tsunians to create living art sculptures from nature itself. Nearly every building and structure in Tsunia was created with EMFs that have been shaped and moulded to function as houses without cutting down so much as a single branch.

This being said, that means that nearly every single house in Tsunia was made during Era III with long-lost technology so there won't be any more showing up any time soon, which is one of the reasons that Tsunia refrains from expanding their city-scape beyond Yggdrasil's embrace, because that'd mean making houses themselves and next to nobody is bothered to do that.

Every single EMF house in Tsunia is connected to Yggdrasil in a biological network similar to mushroom colonies or aspen trees. Yggdrasil generates electricity that is redistributed throughout the region, namely to street lamps and homes. Yggdrasil takes in fresh water from the oceans close to the Water Region of Esten. Most houses have natural water plumbing systems in them, but others (less valuable ones) use Lavenblood brand Water Gemstones.

The canopies of houses in Zones closer to the south extend over the roads to form shaded areas that protect citizens from the harsh daytime sun.

There were originally no living areas in the shadowed areas underneath Yggdrasill, but Era IV needed somewhere to put their working-class so they create concrete buildings reminiscent on the ones we live in today and called them the Amazon Zones, concrete Jungles named after the gargantuan forest of Tsunian mythos.

Tsunia is the Country. There are other cities in Tsunia. But Yggdrasil is in the Yggdrasil Zone, the capital city of Tsunia. I don't have a name for the area underneath Yggdrasil's stump The Amazon Boroughs are the city Scapes situated near Yggdrasil's Shrines

ygg zone central

I imagine that there was a point in time (most likely in era III) that Ygg's roots sprawled across the entire continent but other countries disagreed with this. it only became an issue after the terraforming (around the same time that the great kings were dealing with the Kiyota Arkin) so at that point the great kings were being a lot nicer and decided to have yggdrasil retract a bit.