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Wellreach
World · A round world
Wellreach
Every bright engine draws from someone else's well.
Overview
Wellreach is a broad, temperate world threaded with underground springs of raw magic. Its people learned to harness those springs with brass engines, turning isolated valleys into a linked network of farms, workshops, and lively market towns. The machines bring comfort, but their appetite is growing: old wells run low while new districts demand power. Neighbors argue over fair shares, and every broken engine can strand a town or turn a season against it.
The world
ShapeA round world
What it is likeWellreach is a spherical world with broad continents, a temperate belt, and deep magical springs running beneath its crust.
How people travelPeople travel by road, river, coastal ship, and spring-powered rail carts; long journeys still depend on local water and working engines.
Themes
Heroic adventure, Community and consequence, Magical industry
Laws of the world
The rules
MagicMagic rises from deep springs in the earth and can be shaped by trained hands, spoken measures, and carefully built devices.
TechnologyMagitech is common in major settlements: water-lifts, signal lamps, rail carts, and small household charms are powered by spring-fed cores.
Death and soulsA person's soul departs at death, leaving memories only in those who knew them; spirit-binding is possible but dangerous and widely condemned.
Special rules
Engines draw from local springs, so heavy use can leave nearby wells weak for years.
Promises sworn beside a working spring are magically binding until fulfilled or publicly released.
The skies
SkiesThe sky is usually clear, but magic gathers in pale bands above active wells and glows softly at night.
Moons and stars
the Sun, the Moon, the Blue Star
SeasonsA year has four familiar seasons, though local engines can shift rain and frost; every town keeps a public clock calibrated to the Sun.
Ages
3 agesA century of ambitious construction has strained the world's magic, leaving some districts flooded with power and others running dry.
Powers
3 powers · 2 conflictsPowers
- The Brass CouncilCivic leagueReach: A league of engineers, merchants, and city delegates whose rules shape trade across the central lands.Keep the major engines running and secure authority over every spring that feeds them.
- The WellkeepersReligious and practical orderReach: A scattered order of village stewards with influence wherever a natural spring is found.Protect local access to wells and preserve the customs that limit extraction.
- The Salt RoadTrade companyReach: A powerful network of caravan captains and station owners crossing the dry interior.Open new routes through unsettled country and make their caravans indispensable.
Conflicts
- The Well ClaimsSidesWho controls the deep springs that feed the engines, and whether distant communities can refuse their share.
The Brass Council, local well-keepers, independent mages
- The Dry RoadSidesA failing chain of waystations threatens food, medicine, and the fragile peace between inland regions.
the Salt Road caravans, river towns, raiders
Atlas
10 regionsSecrets
Secret 1 · GM only
Secret 2 · GM only
Plot hooks
4 hooks- 1The New WellexplorationA remote spring has begun producing clean water that restores exhausted magic, and several powers race to reach it first.
- 2Grain Above the PassrescueA missing engineer took the only plans for repairing a lift that carries grain across a mountain pass.
- 3The Borrowed CurrentinvestigationA town's public engine is accused of stealing power from its neighbors, but its shutdown would ruin the harvest.
- 4Stations in the DustconflictRaiders have seized a chain of water stations, and the caravans need escorts before winter closes the road.
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