Overview
Earth is David Vorrel's original world and the place he leaves when a timerift near the Alps carries him into Xalmyrra. It is a human world with advanced non-essence technology, very little accessible essence, and no public knowledge of gates, Valrindor, or Xalmyrra.
Some Valrindorians also call Earth Dirt or Planet Dirt. Thalion Zenith starts the name as a joke during Ozaith's ancient pyramid-gate project and later uses it as the planet's official Valrindorian name.
Geography and Society
Earth exists outside Valrindor and Xalmyrra. Earth locations in its cross-world history include an ancient pyramid gate site, Rome, Zurich, Crete, Lake Lucerne, and the Alps.
Earth's human societies use roads, hospitals, computers, communications systems, spacecraft, AI tools, and powerful weapons. Thalena studies German, English, rocket science, and Earth technology during her long exile there. Scattered traces of primitive magic exist among humans. David's 2040 research near Lake Lucerne uses a molecular analyzer and neural translator to study the Alpine fog anomaly.
Earth Locations
Crete
Crete is an island on Earth along the northwest route from the pyramid gate toward Rome, the Alps, and Lake Lucerne. Its Linear A inscriptions resemble Xalmyrran and include the Data-Scar name.
Alps
The Alps are the Earth mountain range near Lake Lucerne where David Vorrel's timerift crosses into Xalmyrra. The Alpine site contains the fracture Thalena opens after destroying the pyramid gate, and David's 2040 experiment activates that crossing.
Lake Lucerne
Lake Lucerne is the Alpine lake near David Vorrel's home, Thalena's cabin, and the mountain clearing where the fog anomaly forms. David's 2040 work there detects Xytheron-12B6 with the MANT and activates the timerift through a neural wave emitter.
Linear A
Linear A inscriptions on Crete resemble Xalmyrran. One inscription names the Data-Scar.
Gate and Timerift
During the ancient gate project, Ozaith poses to local humans as a sun god and works beneath a pyramid. Thalion gathers materials for him. The gate is built with Earth materials and can be powered by lightning or electricity. Thalion inscribes the completed structure with "Welcome to Planet Dirt."
Deylin and Thalena reach Earth through that gate in Earth year 1901. David leaves Earth for Xalmyrra in 2040. After Deylin returns through the void, Thalena destroys the pyramid gate, travels to the Alps near Lake Lucerne, and opens the fracture that becomes David's later fog anomaly.
Thalena lives on Earth for roughly 140 years. In disguise, she builds and later sells the cabin near the anomaly. The fog contains Xytheron-12B6. David's experiment with that compound pulls him through the timerift into Xalmyrra.
Malverand Status
The Malverand Intergalactic Empire places Earth under imperial non-interference policy. Contact is forbidden except for approved covert scientific research, and ships need core guidance to reach it. By Earth year 2035, Xarion and Rafe prepare for a seven-day trip there; Earth is the same world Deylin came from and where Thalena lived.