Nidus Descendi Nidus Insula Nidus Lacus Nidus Nova Lux Nidus Silva

Kaarden Desius Winterholme

Ruled over by self-style Lord Agate by force of charisma and insight, the Arx is home to hydras, baletouched monsters, demonic gods, and troublemakers alike. Do you dare tread this desecrated land? You'd best have a guide... or a sharp sword indeed.

Carved into the cavern-riddled mountain range furthest East of all the united Niduses, Descendi plays host to beautiful geological phenomena and a strong contingent of Star City space station refugees. Descendi is also developing a strongly militaristic, somewhat caste-based structure based upon Pernese, Alskyrian and Danachian traditions, in order to combat Arx Infusco's constant incursions.

Descendi is a fantastic collison of new and old, futuristic and prehistoric, and is very welcoming of innovation on celebrated traditions.

Spread out across a large ocean island off the coast of Nidus Novalux, Insula is divided by several species and sub-species of dragons. Being so isolated, artists gravitate here: visual artists, dancers, performers, etc.

Insula sends its artists out throughout the Nexus and across Aleph to expand on its traditions.

It protects all the others against the monsters that spill out of Arx Infusco on occasion, hunting them down with ruthless efficiency. When not actively patrolling its borders, the Nidus is home to festivities and an attitude of deep appreciation for life that can be felt from its leadership to its dragons to its humanoids and pets.

Nova Lux is built along the northern banks of a huge estuary into cold ocean, and is split into two societies: dragons with larger clutches, shorter life-spans, and an instinctual psychic bonding mechanism form the very dragon-human integrated Vetus caelam society. The longer-lived, live-birth or small-clutch-bearing dragons (as well as a few humanoids with dragon-shifting powers or draconic features) are a little removed from the main Nidus, and call themselves Nitidus luxan. Luxans and Caelam sub-species intermingle, but the Luxans are magically powerful and played a large part in keeping the Nidus viable through all its long years in isolation.

Nitidus luxan offspring are typically more mammalian, with a variety of elemental features related to their magical natures. Some humanoids and some part caelam and luxan clutches occur on occasion. Caelam clutches usually rank instinctually by colour. Luxan clutches do not have visual rankings.

Nidus Silva is a forest retreat for the bondless and the wild-at-heart.

Located a continent away from the United Nidusi and suffering its own problems with its introduction to the Nexus, Kaarden Desius was once the bastion of a race of digitigrade elven creatures known as Aigard. The city of Kaarden Desius is located in the far north between ranges of ancient, tunneled out mountains, and is an open battleground between Aigard, their dragons, and a clever Balespawn Queen. The surrounding region of Ford Aigan hosts camps of the highly caste-based Aigard, while gem dragons inhabit nearby tunnel systems below, mostly uninvolved in the war on the surface.

Note: Aigard are openly xenophobic, with some troubling sociopolitical views. Though they are less invasive than Balespawn, they are mostly not good people. Nexus Tourists are warned to avoid.

Winterholme is located on the same continent as the United Nidusi listed above, but it is far north, past the tundra line of the planet. It's a cheerful place, its habitability reinforced by the various combined efforts of some very magical creatures.