Talk:Drifting Tokyo Cosmology Sketch

Makai and Mazoku

Youjuu Toshi

The 'wicked city' or 'city of demon beasts'. A techno-organic nightmare where machines rule flesh and the strong rule the weak. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is matter.

Kin no Toshi

The 'golden city'. An exquisite metropolis that pursues aesthetics without limit. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is mind.

Arechi

The 'wasteland'. An expanse of bone dust and wreckage of what has been lost. The red horn tribe are prominent here. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is entropy.

Zouria

The 'viscera'. An enormous creature of bottomless hunger that eats continually. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is life.

Kase no Toshi

The 'chained city' or 'shackled city'. Its inhabitants toil endlessly to build their habitation higher above the swamp. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is matter.

Jagoku

The 'prison of wickedness'. A labyrinth of occult technology that traps and feeds on its inmates forever. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is entropy.

Koufuku no Houko

The 'treasurehouse of good fortune'. In this realm are found classics of surpassing beauty, maxims of astonishing wisdom, vaults of gems beyond compare. However, none of them can leave. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is prime.

Kesshou no Tou

The 'glass tower'. A crystalline structure whose inhabitants are constantly watching one another, and the rest of the cosmos. The blue horn tribe are prominent here. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is correspondence.

Honnouji

A temple-castle megastructure, perpetually burning and wracked by storms, ruled by a small red horn claiming to be Oda Nobunaga. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is forces.

Yaoyorozu no Yuri no Hon no Amadera

The 'convent of eight million lily books'. A sacred library containing the wisdom of ages, but unsorted indiscriminate. Its miko-scholars take up study there until they have mastered a topic and graduate, but as the knowledge expands faster than it can be processed, they remain there in an eternally suspended life. In Kondou's codex, its governing sphere is time.

Red Horn Tribe

A feminine humanoid mazoku with one or more red horns that grant strength in battle. They deny any connection to oni, but few believe them.

Blue Horn Tribe

A masculine humanoid mazoku with one or more blue horns that grant sorcerous power. They claim to be the originators of oni, but few believe them.