Category: Sweetland Novels

Main category for Sweetland.

The Concilio

Governing council of the Communities of Sweetland, located in Sangre del Corazon. It is housed in the Wheel, the capitol building. Thus, members of the Concilio are called Spokes. The Wheel Parties Involved: What Happened: Back to Index

The Convergence

The Convergence of a Thousand Worlds was the name given to the planets of the Memories by early explorers over ten millennia ago (as measured by the the rotation of the dead planet Ertfiil around its sun – the Convergence standard year) after the Time of Forgetting, when the ancient technology of the Memories was lost to common knowledge. The name has been shortened to the Convergence by current day citizens from the original hyperbolic title.  The Convergence is an alliance of six primary intelligent (related) species, spread out for hundreds of millennium over the galaxies of their home universe via the Memories, a “highway” system built by a much older species, now gone and forgotten. Now, there are sixty-three settled worlds in the Convergence, and nearly 200 more unexplored worlds connected by the Memories. Government Parliament: The Convergence is a confederacy of the sixty-three settled planets of the Memories. It’s parliament consists of two representatives from each planet, plus a representative…

The Crossroads Waystation

Encyclopedia of the Convergence The Crossroads Waystation A waystation and consulate at the main Axial on Torzucán. It is a small lodge near the south shore of Lake Adan’dohi, and is under the guidance of Aeiroh Juola, consulate of the Convergence. Entity: Dates: Details:

The Great Forest

Encyclopedia of the Convergence The Great Forest of Torzucán An enormous forest which covers over a third of the Continent of Sweetland. It is an integral part of The Memories, a technology from a long gone, and unknown, culture. Entity:

The Memories

An ancient, organic, quantum-DNA technology, also known as The Great Forest on Sweetland An ancient organic technology that ‘absorbs’ the worlds it connects, changing and improving the DNA of their inhabitants. It is like a rhizome, producing ‘copulas’ which are gateways between the planets. Few have the skill to navigate the ‘copulas’. The Memories connect the worlds of The Convergence. Type: Who: Where: When: What:

The Rupture

An historical rupture engineered by bringing down the Grid in 2038. The Grid undergirded the worldwide infrastructure of society, bringing down the capitalist economies and causing an abrupt and massive political change. Back to Index

The Temple

Encyclopedia of the Convergence The Temple is the generic name for The Temple of the Eight Roots (known on Earth as The Temple of New life.) The Temple of the Eight Roots Beliefs & Teachings: The Temple’s beliefs are gnostic in nature. The structure is a hierarchical matriarchy, with a pseudo-priest class, called Order of Sofia. They profess to believe that all is illusion, and that the sheep must be led into the future. In practice, most are scientists and teachers. Political Tendency Politically, the Temple is on the left side of the spectrum, generally associated with the Mutualists, although there are conservative and reactionary factions, as well. The Temple of New Life (Earth) The Temple of New Life has its origins on Earth as an RPG. It was concieved and designed by The Temple Of The Eight Roots, a religious group allied with the Mutualist Tendency in The Convergence.…

The Temple of New Life

About The Temple of New Life The Temple of New Life is the Temple of the Eight Roots as manifested on Earth. Precepts of the Temple Mythology In New Life mythology Granddaddy Chaos guards the gate between the realms of Chaos and Information. The Creation Myth In the first instant, nothing existed, only the Mist. And from the Mist was born Mother Chaos, and Mother Chaos spoke, and so was created the Word.  But the Word was yet an illusion, without substance.  Then, in the infinite void, where Time did not yet exist, Mother Chaos slept and she dreamed. And she dreamed all things, and she put them in order, and this order she called the Grid. And the Grid was still but a dream. So upon awakening, Mother Chaos recalled the dream, and she pulled a thread from her gown. And one end of this celestial string she tied…

The Unities

Connected by the organic technology known as the Memories, the Unities are believed by scientists to be bubble universes within the multiverse. They have garnered a complex religious mythology, as well. Mythology of the Unities According to myth, the ancient race of the Ertfiil are responsible for the creation of the Memories. Technology of the Memories Created by an ancient, forgotten civilization, the Memories are a bio-engineered rhyzomatic organism with roots capable of spreading to alternate dimensions, called Unities. There are eight known Unities, seven of which have been seeded with the mutual descendants of the genus, homo. Peoples of the Eight Unities: homo ysali homo anjahri homo qrei homo tongrari homo skiili homo omi homo humanis The Eight Unities Unity (or Root) Primary Planet/Culture Secondary Planets Outer Planets Unity 1 (Primary Root/Mother Root) Ertfill / Uninhabited Unknown Unknown Unity 2 (2nd Root) Ysal / Ysali Moornal, Yaanaan Vizucan, Kip…

The Verge

The Verge, a Carlee Morgan-Hicks book

Time of Forgetting

According to myth, the diverse species of the Convergence derives from the dead origin planet, Ertfiil, although it is so far in the past, before the Time of Forgetting, that no one really knows the truth. The mythologies also tell of other diverse origins for many of the outer worlds, although, due to the assimilating technology of the Memories, the actual cultural and DNA origins of these people are shrouded in mystery. The Memories and the paths between the worlds was re-discovered 10,000 years ago after the Time of Forgetting.

Tongrari Planets

The major planets of the Tongrari universe are: Tongra and Barrash. They are located in Unity-4, or the Fifth Root, according to mythology. A very conservative people, usually allied with the Qrei and the Anjahri. Tongra One of the more conservative—some would say reactionary—worlds of The Convergence. Along with nar Anjahr, it is the origin of many Guardians. It’s people are the Tongrari.  Barrash Barrash is a larger, tropical world. Heavily populated. Outer Planets of the Tangrari Outer Worlds are Knesh, Gyö. See also: Planets of the Convergence (chart) Return to Index

Torzucan

Also know as Sweetland. A planet on the periphery of The Convergence. Recently settled by humans, it is located in the universe designated, Unity-7, or Root 7 by the mystics. See Convergence. Where: Principle: Demographics: Description: Return to Index

Traveler Karim

Brother Karim is a Templar and a Traveler. He is a member of the Mutualists, and organizes allies within the Communities and the Temple. He became a Traveler after emigrating from Earth to Sweetland. He is at the Guide level – can travel alone, can guide an apprentice, but has limited knowledge of the network. He was born in Chad and his family fled to Algeria when he was a child. He spent many years in a refugee camp in Algeria. — Family: Return to Index

Travelers of Eckhau

Order of The Temple to which many Travelers belong. Politically, it is aligned with Mutualists and Autonomists, and contains many Travelers from the Outer Planets, and the Travelers Guilds. Return to Index

Tsalagihi

Tsalagihi is in the homeland of the Five Nations, in what was once Eastern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas. It’s capital is Tahlequah. History In 2041, near the end of the First Continental War, the Cherokee Nation declared itself the independent Nation of Tsalagihi. It reclaimed all of the original United States treaty lands west of the Mississippi and north of the Arkansas River, including much of northern Arkansas, and Missouri up to the Osage River. In 2043, the new Texas Republic claimed all of the lands south of the Arkansas River and sent an occupation force into southern Oklahoma, threatening to uproot the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal lands. The alarmed tribes petitioned the new nation of Tsalagihi to join. Tsalagihi agreed to accept the petitions, along with similar petitions from the Creek, Osage, and Seminole Tribes. After negotiations, the neighboring tribes were admitted into the United Tribal Council, and…

United States

United States of America Popularly known as The U.S., founded in 1776, its current borders are a fraction of the original nation, See: Map of North America, 2055