Old Ways

Introduction

The ancient, blasphemous technology found in ruins across Hallus. The people of Hallus have little understanding of the Old Ways, leading to fear of or devotion to these ancient machines and factories. Despite the cultural apprehension to the Old Ways and the often extreme sacrifices to keep these machines appeased, the people of Hallus have begun to rely on the Old Ways more with each passing generation as the SunFade makes surviving without advanced machinery impossible.

Children Technologies

• Reliquarium

General Information

Related Realms

Hallus

Related Materials

• Machine Blood

Confliction

When conflicted Primal Elements are placed together, a form of primal energy known as Confliction is created. In natural environments, this energy is only found in small amounts and quickly disperses back into the Primal Elements in conflict when they separate. When Confliction was discovered by the First Engineers of Hallus they used it to power a variety of devices from simple lightbulbs to entire factories.

Around Hallus, the unauthorized use of Confliction is considered a crime.

Soul Works

The process of using Sophontic Souls as a way to create autonomous machines can be found on many Realms but it is the Spirians who took this artifice the furthest.

In their desperate attempts to maintain the legacy of their First Engineer ancestors, the Spirians developed techniques to not only separate the Sophontic Soul from its natural body but also disconnect it from any Divine Domain. These bodiless, domainless Souls could be used to create living machines able to maintain true autonomy at the cost of endless pain noted to be completely indescribable.

The practice of Soul Working is most commonly found on the continent of Spire but societies across Hallus rely on these ancient, pain-maddened, living machines for their very survival.