Lunabella

New Olympus

Description

Lunabella's economy doesn't involve money, but Reputation and Services, and operate on a framework western humans find alien- everyone is in a hierarchy of "slaves" up to the king at the top, who is himself considered a slave to the Iron Tablets, a form of unchangeable founding laws that the king himself wrote sometime around 660 AD, which include a responsibility to the health and vitality of Lunabella and its citizenry. Other Founding witches act like a Supreme Court in vetting the King's actions against the Iron Tablets. There are strong rights centered around the individual, with consequences to masters that mistreat slaves. Who are themselves slaves to someone higher up the food chain. Similar to having a boss who has a boss, who has a boss. And lastly, there are no taxes. Instead, the hierarchies act as a division of labor for upkeep and maintenance of lunabella, and there's a culture of taking pride in that upkeep and in the wellbeing of slaves under your care. Despite being slaves, social mobility is good as you earn promotions or someone gets demoted. A lack of scarcity means everyone can be provided for and there are constant feasts and events being planned and implemented at every social rung in the ladder and everyone can expect a lot of free time. There are undefined concepts of imposition and command that act as a balancing act between the extent that a master can will on a slave and a sphere of influence that contains the master's authority to their domain. A master over a house can command a slave for the benefit of the house, but not for her own interests beyond the house, such as her own entertainment in isolation. While out of that domain, the master holds no unnatural authority over them, they're both then in the same position as slaves to the master of that domain they both fall under. Doing harm to the slave of another is a property crime. If that master doesn't care, it goes up the food chain until the King himself is offended on their behalf, instituting a barrier of security for the protection of individual rights. This includes protection against sexual abuse, though individuals can choose to sign away that right to specific individuals, backed by a strong Bureaucracy of only the necessary legal frameworks as a support structure for individuals and the society, rather than the bureaucracy being a hammer against the individual as seen by most civilizations. Life in Lunabella is extremely relaxed and a paradisiacal place, some might have more responsibility than others, but as a new citizen you can auction yourself to masters for a form of bidding, where you can then choose an offer to accept after investigating each, even talking to their other slaves, masters encourage it; After all, remember that status is associated with the well being of one's slaves, so them sharing their opinions is equivalent to someone wealthy showing off jewels and finery. If a master is disagreeable, you can petition someone a step up the ladder to reassign you or to renounce citizenship to step out form the hierarchy entirely and try again or move elsewhere. Visitors are welcome and treated as guests, but you can outstay your welcome and lingering too long begins to be seen as parasitical and taking advantage of your host, guests are expected to have a level of graciousness themselves. As a citizen, even the very bottom of the hierarchy, expect ample free access to luxuries not seen on Earth.

Location

Most glaringly, Lunabella is on the moon, with Earth on its horizon, the city was originally built by liches and vampires with no need of life support, it underwent a revival as they desired something less stale, and they worked together to forge a new magic specialization of Dominion, which when used on an industrial scale with heavy enchantment in the construction of crystal towers, can create great domes wherein reality is mutable, terraforming the lunar surface into a paradise with a false blue sky, rolling clouds, a water cycle, radiation shielding, oxygen. Within these domes the liches employed magic for a century to transmute and sculpt the land, and create life. Then the invitations were sent. Modern Lunabella has a contained sea, lakes, rivers, with temperate islands and mountain peaks filled with marble temples, palaces, and estates with wide open spaces of courtyards and winding paths, with crystal towers occasionally rising above the trees to project and sustain a bubble, with backups, and forming a network of bubbles in a superstructure, and some peripheral bubbles that might be separated away from the core where they maintain a different biome for someone's preference. The bubbles can't be seen from outside, appearing as the natural lunar terrain prior to the bubble forming. Occasionally the magic bleeds and you can find plantlife somehow growing outside a bubble in the lunar regolith, so some people have a job to head out and cull it to mask detection from earth, though the governments will suppress slip ups.

Relations

Lunabella is friendly with Arcadia and Hawthorne, there's even an area where a connected portal caused its expanding city to grow itself here.
Lunabellans dislike Watchers for the most part, and are strongly opposed to Hespatia and firmly resist the establishment of their families or associations with them.

Cornucopia
A living horn of plenty, with this perk you can will into existence any nonmagical food item that you have eaten before. Some Lunabellans cultivate exotic new plants that can then be shared by Cornucopias, including Steakmelon, and Blood Apples that satisfy vampire needs. Food produced in this manner is always pure and free of imperfection or disease that might make one hesitant to try a natural variety. Can produce meat, but not living creatures.
Dominion is half price for you, stacks with affinity.