Emerald City

Located in Australia’s top-end, Emerald City- sarcastically referred to as the City of Oz –is named for a dimensional rip on which it is built. The only physical sign of the rip is a slight over-emphasis of the colour green, for which the city is named. The presence of extradimensional energies has made Emerald City Australia’s alternative energy/lifestyle/culture capital.

Professor Jonathan Gale, a member of the All-Seeing Order’s guiding council, considers himself an anthropological mage of the Ranwold (a pre-WWIII scholar who argued for historicity in regard to the occult) School. He realizes the danger is posed by an environment that combines superpowers, a dimensional rip and naive supernaturalism and considers it his duty to guard (and eventually seal) the otherworldly gate on which Emerald City sits. However, with a horde of extra-dimensional horrors on one side of the gate and a city of ignorant worshippers on the other, the task is titanic.

Arcane Armoury

Jonathan Gale Jr. is the son of one of the worlds’ mightiest mage’s. While Jonathan senior holds a seat on the Council of the All-Seeing Order, John Jr. displayed no magical ability whatsoever in his youth. In fact, John has always displayed an inability to practice or be affected by arcane energies of all kind. Described by his father as a magical ‘black hole’, John was the reason his mother- an arcane partitioner herself –left John senior when their son was an infant. Moreover, John has been regarded by his father’s colleagues as an aberration at best, a monster at worst. Still, John has studied long and hard to work even the simplest spells. But while weak, John was clever and over many long months he weaved minor spells after spell together, creating a suit of arcane armour. From the armour, John could pluck any combination of the hundreds of spells weaved into it, essentially channelling them into a solid conjured item. While the other mystics have yet to stop treating John with scorn, they have come to treat his with the respect an equal deserves.