New Avalon
🏛️ New Avalon – The Horizon Realm of Memory, Magick, and Collapse
🧠 Concept:
A metaphysical construct built within the Umbra, tethered to the Capitol Node beneath Madison, Wisconsin. Once envisioned as a sanctuary against Technocratic persecution and the chaos of the Consensus, New Avalon now teeters on the brink of dissolution.
🗺️ Core Facts
- Location: Deep Umbra, tethered via Correspondence to Madison’s Capitol Node
- Size: ~77 square miles, roughly mirroring Madison’s real-world layout
- Type: Horizon Realm / Paradox Storm Buffer
- Architect: Jay Dee (Order of Hermes)
- Founded: Construction began in 1925, built upon principles of Prime, Correspondence, and Dream-space geometryMadtown World of Darkne…
🧱 Purpose and Founding
New Avalon was created to:
- Reinforce the Third Anchor in the seal imprisoning the Nameless
- Serve as a sanctuary for Mages during pogroms
- Buffer Paradox fallout and reality bleed from the Capitol Node
- House echoes of failed timelines, sealing them from infecting the Tellurian
Jay Dee designed New Avalon as a city-sigil, with architecture, ley-lines, and metaphysical geometry forming a ritual of perpetual binding. Its layout mirrors Hermetic sigils, Dreaming anchor points, and Umbro-spatial currentsMadtown World of Darkne….
🌌 Structure of the Realm
New Avalon contains three main zones, each now under threat:
🕳️ 1. Entropy Zone – The Shattered Spire
- Once a tower of memory and fate—now collapsed.
- Serves as a Nephandi stronghold, channeling entropy into the Realm.
- Riddled with shadow glyphs, recursive logic traps, and resonance voidsMadtown World of Darkne….
🌿 2. Spirit Zone – The Totem Grove
- A sacred glade once used by Dreamspeakers, Verbena, and Fae.
- Spirits are now corrupted or silenced; Umbral pathways have collapsed.
- The Gauntlet here is bleeding: dead ancestors whisper of broken oathsMadtown World of Darkne….
🪞 3. Mind Zone – The Mirror of Shadows
- Originally the Mirror of Reflection, used to examine consensus cracks and identity recursion.
- Now warps perception, memory, and time.
- Anyone gazing too long forgets themselves—and becomes something elseMadtown World of Darkne….
🩸 Current State (1985)
New Avalon is unstable. Key facts:
- Paradox storms now echo through entire districts.
- The Seal within the Realm is failing, weakened by ritual murders, node corruption, and memory bleed.
- Reality loops and shadow echoes are appearing. Visitors report meeting alternate versions of themselves, or “remembering” events that never occurred.
- The Council of Nine is fracturing. Infighting between the Traditions and the Disparate Alliance (led by Lacy Z. Rivere) is weakening New Avalon’s defensesMadtown World of Darkne….
🧙♂️ Mage Activity
Key Tradition figures are working—often at odds—to either save or sacrifice New Avalon:
- Jay Dee is split between despair and hope. He believes the realm can be stabilized—but may not survive its purpose.
- Lea Nosson Goodwin (Celestial Chorus) maintains spiritual barriers but is internally unraveling.
- Ann Johnston (Akashic) trains Umbra-walkers to replace fallen defenders.
- Miriam Greenfield and Glory of the Morning attempt to call forgotten spirit allies—but many refuse to answer.
- Evan Adams (Society of Ether) unknowingly powers unstable Reploids with Quintessence pulled from New Avalon’s waning Node grid.
- Lacy Z. Rivere (Hollow Ones) argues New Avalon has become a prison and demands it be “rewritten from the street up”Madtown World of Darkne….
🔓 Secrets and Metaphysical Phenomena
📌 Origin Connection:
New Avalon was originally seeded through rituals that mirrored the construction of Madison itself, linking civic structure to metaphysical purpose. The Capitol building acts as a keystone, with corresponding sigils encoded into New Avalon’s center.
🗝️ Deep Secret:
The original glyph sealing the Nameless within the Realm is now unreadable—fragmented by paradox. However, some say Sophia “Sable” Moreau remembers its prior version… or is writing its next.
⏳ Echo Zones:
- Time loops activate randomly. A mage may exit a corridor they never entered, or die and wake up mid-ritual.
- Echoes of previous Council meetings replay with altered dialogue.
- Ghosts of people who never existed occasionally advise players with cryptic warnings.
📉 Strategic Risk
If New Avalon collapses, the consequences are dire:
- The Capitol Node will destabilize fully, triggering a spiritual, magical, and possibly digital rupture in Madison.
- The Nameless will regain access to both Tellurian and Umbra layers.
- The Digital Web will be exposed, as tethering lines to New Eden are rooted in New Avalon’s framework.
- Reality fractures may become permanent, allowing recursion overlaps across all realms.
📜 Final Note from Jay Dee (from a sealed Council archive):
“New Avalon was not meant to hold forever. I lied to you. I lied to myself. But if it can last one day longer—if it can buy us one more breath—then maybe we deserve a future. And if it fails... I pray to every Pattern and Sphere that you remember why we built it.”