Categories: Lore

Overview

Your briefing of the TIR world.

A brief overview of the world to get you a most basic idea of what this paracosm entails!

The world

So, there is a continent that as far as we're concerned is the entire world unless one day I just snap and create another continent out there.

On the continent there are six countries. From south to north, they are Bauhinia, Fanton, Atlasia, Westavia, (Atlasia and Westavia are next to each other) Moreland, and Sylvandia.

To the east is a vast ocean where nobody can sail far. To the west is barren wastelands uninhabitable by man.

All of them are republics, but Sylvandia's a federation while others are all unitary.

They're locked in an perpetual cold war between Bauhinia and Moreland, splitting the continent into the north and the south.

Both of these two countries have two allies, one staunch ally and one unwilling ally.

• Bauhinia has Atlasia and Fanton.
• Moreland has Westavia and Sylvandia.

Bauhinia

The main focus here is Bauhinia, a bureaucratical fanatical corporate dictatorship¹.

There's a company called Starcorp, the most powerful company in Bauhinia (and undoubtedly the whole world), having gotten rich during the war through arms dealing, declined for a bit, but rose again thanks to the legendary chairman Hyrax. Starcorp now controls most of Bauhinia's industries and resources.

Major storylines

I love it when many characters' lives intertwine and everyone is the protagonist of their own story but side characters in someone else's story, so that's basically TIR's structure too. There's no clear protagonist aside from Sparky, and no clear main storyline. That being said, here are some of the major storylines you can follow!

• Sparky, the center of our universe. She solves mysteries and gets in trouble with her friends. Also her stepdad Peacock is the personal attorney of chairman Hyrax. Later, after Sparky grew up, Hyrax had his son Animus replace him as the chairman, and had Sparky become Animus's bodyguard. See her stories here.
• Kismet, the dictator president of Bauhinia, has his own arc and all.
• Candlelight, a pile of misery, goes through a lot of shit.
• Sunflower, a girl who paracosms, dies.
• Qibli, one of Sparky's friends, becomes an outlaw and stuff.
• Sky, one of Sparky's friends, becomes a spymaster and stuff and then goes to teach at Spy School.
• Harmony and Sugarcane's friendship gets tested as they go to said spy school.
• In Fanton, a group of friends tries to find their missing friend.

Of course there are many more characters and their arcs, but that's about it for the overview. Read about the plot devices superpowers some people in this world have. Or read about the history of the countries!