Overview
Valrindor is the core world of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire in the Hyperion Spiral. Emperor Isandro rules the empire from Maraveth. Rafe operates core panels and scanner data, Eamon directs breach repairs, and Mike examines arrivals and prototype equipment there. Local overseers administer imperial worlds such as Novaris and Meridian.
By 5368-5369 AX, Valrindor is a low-essence, technologically advanced world where active magic users are rare. Before essence began fading, old Valrindor had abundant essence and gods who walked the world. Amos and Isandro use "the other Valrindor" for the essence-rich Valrindor reached through the Zarephon breach.
Imperial Places and Routes
Maraveth is the imperial capital and the seat of Isandro's palace, government operations, and the red Maraveth Core. Chronasis is an imperial city where Thalena appears through a gate preserved in the Ancient Relics of Malverand Museum. Zarephon contains the mountain lake breach, and most of the empire's magic users live there. Zeydrith is another imperial city with harsh local oversight and core-supported weapon production and research.
Imperial starcharts use the Valrindor system as the coordinate reference for nearby worlds. Vireen is an imperial colony and the site of the ancient Malverand expedition. Corthis is charted as an uninhabitable inner planet. Longer imperial routes extend toward places such as Atraxis Prime Omega, the Hyperion system, the Tyrren system, the Proxion system, and Earth.
Essence and technology
Valrindor's modern society uses particle and nanite technology. Imperial cities use wrist devices, scanners, holograms, self-opening doors, trains, starports, warpships, lasers, autonomous machines, public broadcasts, and core-powered city utilities.
The empire designs its technology for low-essence conditions and protects it with heavy shielding. Essence repellers, containment equipment, and protected cabling keep the Maraveth Core and imperial machines functional. High-essence visitors from the other Valrindor can disrupt or damage imperial machinery. The same particle technology corresponds to origin-magic-like effects in the essence-rich world.
Zarephon Breach
The lakebed breach beneath Zarephon connects Valrindor to the other Valrindor through the void. Thalena's essence-made body is pulled toward the breach in Maraveth, Amos uses the Maraveth gate and the void to recover capsule-bound traces of Thalena and the others, and Eira, Kaelion, and Xarion later arrive through the same void route.
The breach gives Valrindor a crossing point between the Malverand Intergalactic Empire and the essence-rich world.
Secrets and Mysteries
The Zarephon breach allows Eira, Kaelion, and Xarion to reach the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. They reach the empire through the breach opened by the source-closing attempt, but their essence can overwhelm imperial technology.