New Avalon (Horizon Realm)
🏰 History of New Avalon
Type: Horizon Realm / Reality Stabilizer / Memory Construct
Location: Deep Umbra, tethered to the Capitol Node beneath Madison, Wisconsin
Size: ~77 square miles (mirroring a mythic Madison)
Founded: Circa 1300 CE (first foundations), completed by 1803 CE under Jay Dee
Current State (1985): Glitching – Zones destabilizing – Paradox bleed increasing
Other Names: The Gleaming City, Avalon Above, The Architect’s Failure, Echo Sanctuary
🧠 Overview
New Avalon is a Horizon Realm—a vast metaphysical construct floating deep within the Umbra, built by Jay Dee and aligned to the Capitol Node in Madison. It was designed as a sanctuary, paradox buffer, and utopian memory engine—intended to stabilize the Seal that holds the Nameless at bay.
Now, in 1985, New Avalon begins to fracture. Buildings forget their shape. Signs loop endlessly. And shadows lean the wrong way.
📜 Founding History
✨ Origins – The Dream of Sanctuary
- 1300s–1500s: Echoes of New Avalon appear in Hermetic grimoires and Chorister prophecies—visions of a gleaming city beyond time, meant to hold back the End.
- 1600s: Proto-versions of New Avalon are attempted by the Solificati and Dreamspeakers, but fail due to lack of resonance tethering.
- 1720s: A Time-shifted Chorister cabal known as The Veiled Watch attempts to “summon the memory of Avalon.” Their failure gives rise to a paradox echo still present in the Correspondence Zone.
🏛️ Jay Dee’s Construction (1790–1803)
- Jay Dee, a Hermetic architect and dream-mage, begins construction after discovering the fractal equation of the Capitol Node.
- New Avalon is built not from stone, but from thought, symbol, and sacrifice.
- The city is divided into nine primary zones, one for each Tradition, each aligned to their primary Sphere and Paradigm.
“To house the soul of magick, we must mirror the soul of Earth.” —Jay Dee, Treatise on Echo Geometry, 1796
🔐 Key Events in New Avalon’s Timeline
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| ~1803 | New Avalon Completed – Tethered fully to the Capitol Node |
| 1820–1870s | Golden Era – Mages from across the Nine Traditions study here |
| 1904 | Capitol Fire – Paradox surge threatens tether; Avalon flickers |
| 1929 | Financial Collapse Echo – Mortals’ despair affects reality in Avalon |
| 1944 | Technocratic Infiltration Attempt – Time Zone destabilized |
| 1969 | First Loop Echo – A Mage trapped in a paradox cycle relives the same day 42 times |
| 1985 | Nameless Awakens – Cracks widen, structures collapse, the number appears: 1.36791013192342 |
🗺️ Structure & Zones
New Avalon spans a mirror-dream of Madison’s layout and contains:
- Nine Tradition Zones: Each tied to a Tradition’s magickal resonance and primary Sphere. Examples:
- Hermetic Citadel (Prime)
- Dreamspeaker Wilds (Spirit)
- Virtual Spire (Correspondence/Data)
- Euthanatos Necropolis (Entropy)
- Verbena Grove (Life)
- The Axis Library: Center of memory. Books shift as readers recall or forget.
- The Spiral Reservoir: Stabilizes quintessence flow from the Capitol Node.
- Refraction Gate: A paradox construct that remembers alternate realities.
- Council Chambers of the Nine: Location of the Council of the Erased (Act I of Nameless Echoes).
🌀 Collapse Signs (as of 1985)
- Reflections move on their own.
- Building names shift between sessions.
- Flickering numbers appear in street signs.
- Paradox Glitches pull mages into Echo Selves.
- Digi-8 Static sometimes manifests in data-rich areas of the Virtual Spire.
🧙 Key Figures
| Name | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Dee | Architect and Reality Anchor | Slowly forgetting his own creation |
| Selene Vargas | Euthanatos seer | Keeps vigil at the Necropolis Echo Gate |
| Abel Washington | Virtual Adept | Interfaces New Avalon with the Digital Web |
| Lacy Z. Rivere | Hollow One hacker | Documents Avalon’s fall in glitch zines |
| The Nameless | God-force of Erasure | Cannot enter—yet. But its influence pulses in signs |
🔍 Narrative Function in Nameless Echoes
New Avalon is the dream mirror of Madison—a place where the players glimpse:
- Who they were
- What they could have been
- And what the world once remembered
It serves as the unstable sanctuary that players must decide to save, sacrifice, or rewrite. Every glitch, every number, and every echo begins here.