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Within paradigm, the term dimensions refers to a general area that predominantly shares a singular purpose or culture. The boundaries regarding these areas are often defined by some sort of geological feature rather than legal borders, and are used more so as colloquial markers for the everyday traveler.

There are seven main dimensions recognized by your everyday citizen, which are listed out above and below!

ETERNITY

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Secluded behind mountains, Eternity resides in the far northeast, a place avoided by most but coveted by some. To outsiders, not much is known of this area, except that it is populated by artifact fanatics and self-proclaimed “traditionalists,” hardliners in their belief for the age of rebuilding. The lost and damned are welcome, they’d proclaim, to join them in the wealth of land, resources, and community, to live in mansions and eat fine foods! But rumor goes that such dreams are not free of charge, and those who accept find themselves repaying a debt that lasts lifetimes over.

THE MIRROR SHORES

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Located to the far northwest, Mirror Shores is known as a technological hub. While a majority of exterior territory was built upon the rubble of old world cities, the true heart lies within: Long-forgotten space centers, abandoned software servers, factories full of metal and robotics! Over the 200 years of Paradigm’s rebirth, any and all who had interest in the illusive and almost magical old world tech flocked here, the place where such things come in abundance and the studies never end.

THE ORCHARDS

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Running throughout Paradigm, the Orchards are expansive towns built along old world highways, train tracks, monorails, or even subway systems. Much of the public transport has been rebuilt, allowing an unique freedom for those who settle here to move about Paradigm as they please. This ability intices many, especially for the aspiring entrepreneur, with many business taking advantage of the free transport to quickly ship out goods and receive supplies. The rest are those who can’t sit still: hopping from town to town, those looking for purpose: on the search for their forever home, and those with less than savory intentions, who move within the shadows for the sake of their affairs…

THE CARRION SEA

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A series of tiny southwest islands, Carrion was once a toxic wasteland, broken off bits from the mainland considered too dangerous to even step foot on. However over 200 years, the land has regrown into a lush haven, populated by an older generation that holds a great pride and protectiveness for the nature that surrounds them. Many here heavily believe in reinvention, and have created small communities for themselves, enjoying a bounty of fish, ocean, and simple lives.

THE HOME SPHERE

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Spanning across the mid-north areas of Paradigm, Home Sphere is a blanket term for the towns dotted across Paradigm. Once just forest and wreckage, many have made permanent settlements within this territory, using the leftover remains of old world houses or scavenger trades to rebuild. While communities generally vary from place to place, fluctuating between extremes of hostile and friendly, small and large, specialized or balanced, all are brought together by one simple fact: that together is better if they want to survive.

SOLSTICE

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Connected to both the Orchard and Eternity, the Solstice is an entertainment capital completely rebuilt from old metropolis, though it feels as though it was ripped from time: Advanced tech, old world delights, its own form of currency…it almost is as if the apocalypse never happened here, as if things were just as they were 200 years prior. Never a dull moment can occur in Solstice, with everything from concerts to celebrity sightings to clubs to gambling! If fame and vice are your bread and butter, never has there been a better place to shine!

OUTERLANDS

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Mostly consider the mid-southern areas of Paradigm, the Outerlands is an area left mostly untouched or uninhabited by a majority of the population. The wreckage in these areas is too great, the resources spread too thin, and the terrain too dangerous to ever permanently settle. Still, many nomadic groups wander this area, either those outcasted from Paradigm, or preferring a life of movement. Others are scavengers, folks who either out of curiosity or mercenary interest, hunt and gather artifacts, aka pre-apocalypse objects/materials, to collect, trade, or sell to others in Paradigm.