Xan’dar Teslan was looking for solitude. They found an island called Onwe, and built a nation on it.
Teslan is the home of Druse Academy, the world’s foremost school for Crystal Priests — the rare few born with the gene that lets them touch raw Azurean ore. Everything Teslan makes — the Azurean tools that power the rest of Tikor — comes from the quiet workshops between Bushe Beach and the Academy itself. All of it is overseen by the Inner Circle, and by a vetting process so strict that there are no unknown people in Teslan.
The island itself is a climate in miniature: the wet Azurean Coast on the east, the dry windswept Bushe Beach on the west, the volcanic Mount Marion rising in the center, and the green hills of Druse to the south. One nation. One school. One purpose.
But the Red Dot Brigade believes using Azurean drains Tikor’s life itself — and they kill Crystal Priests in the field to prove it.
Factions
- The Inner Circle — Teslan’s governing body
- Druse Academy — the world’s foremost Crystal Priest school
- The Red Dot Brigade — fundamentalists opposing Azurean use
- The Sentrylocks — Teslan’s defensive order
Notable places
- Onwe — the island itself
- Druse Academy — Teslan’s center
- Mount Marion — the volcano that created Onwe
- Azurean Coast (east, wet) and Bushe Beach (west, dry)