"Magic, of course." He spread his hands and summoned a few voodoo veves to hover in front of him for a brief moment before dismissing them.
"If you go past the forest and keep going north, you'll reach the ocean. However, any other direction and you'll find the wasteland. Black sand, oppressive atmosphere, significantly-increased noctaere presence, there's no mistaking it for anything else. As for how big it is, nobody's been able to chart it out. The only reason Eustace and I found Orkili at all was because we'd been following a thief who'd been stealing objects rich with positive emotions to try and cool down the reactor. Without that, we probably would've never met their people."
He nodded in response to the last question. It didn't surprise him that Tobias wasn't including himself in the community. It wasn't uncommon among newcomers.
"We've also been exploring the caverns around their city as much as we can. However, the noctaere of the wastelands are far more dangerous than those surrounding our quaint little town. The noctaere around here prefer to stay out of the light and are harmed by positive dreamotion. My current roommate and I once fought one of the noctaere in the abandoned mines around Orkili and had to throw out everything we knew about them. Not only did it have no issue with light, it ate crystals filled with positively-charged dreamotion."
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"If you go past the forest and keep going north, you'll reach the ocean. However, any other direction and you'll find the wasteland. Black sand, oppressive atmosphere, significantly-increased noctaere presence, there's no mistaking it for anything else. As for how big it is, nobody's been able to chart it out. The only reason Eustace and I found Orkili at all was because we'd been following a thief who'd been stealing objects rich with positive emotions to try and cool down the reactor. Without that, we probably would've never met their people."
He nodded in response to the last question. It didn't surprise him that Tobias wasn't including himself in the community. It wasn't uncommon among newcomers.
"We've also been exploring the caverns around their city as much as we can. However, the noctaere of the wastelands are far more dangerous than those surrounding our quaint little town. The noctaere around here prefer to stay out of the light and are harmed by positive dreamotion. My current roommate and I once fought one of the noctaere in the abandoned mines around Orkili and had to throw out everything we knew about them. Not only did it have no issue with light, it ate crystals filled with positively-charged dreamotion."