Raiken

Raiken is a plane of newfound freedom, ancient powers unleashed, and the resolve of heroes in the face of conflict.

Raiken is the setting for Limit Break!, an in-progress set by Dravos Argentium.

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Eons ago, Raiken was an extremely mana-dense plane, with a staggering variety of magical creatures, most extremely dangerous and aggressive, eventually leaving the humanoids of the plane on the brink of extinction. However, one crucial twist of fate left an individual, who would have saved countless lives, dead in their village as a child. Seeing this, the planeswalker Feris finally decided to intervene, granting a significant fragment of their power to the individual, who would go on to take the name Nova and become the immortal hero of the plane.

Unfortunately, one person, no matter how powerful, can only be in one place at a time, and even Nova's powers weren't enough to clear the path towards stability. Nova decided that drastic measures had to be taken, and set to work binding those responsible for the most dangerous of beasts, and for their aggression, a number of the living leylines of the plane. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, a small organization bent on destroying magic hijacked Nova's spellwork, and in the chaos of forcing the binding upon the leylines Nova believed that they had bound every leyline themselves. Nova believed this to be a tragic accident, but a price well worth paying for safety and the chance, after centuries, of stability.

In the modern day, Raiken strikes on unusual sight on a multiversal scale, being far more technologically advanced than the average plane, but with almost no magic to speak of. Batfolk and other aerial beastfolk can fly despite the best efforts of physics, a few crime lords seem suspiciously well informed, and the odd hedge mage in the deep country still gets by with the odd flicker of mana, and of course Nova defies all known laws of reality, but for the most part magic is something small to nonexistent, certainly not something to make use of on a daily basis.

And yet, the chains weaken. Even the best spellwork can only last so long, and countless ages have passed. One of the most powerful corporations on the plane began to become overconfident, and let slip the hint of magic. Atia, a conspiracy theorist and prodigious hacker, pounced on the trail, and set to work uncovering the greatest conspiracy the plane has ever known. Eventually she found the source. The chains that bound the gods are still being used. A planeswalker, true proof of other worlds, has been captured and trapped, made into a lab experiment.

After many near-lethal failures and several heist attempts, Rikalna was eventually freed. But her chains were linked, all the way down. With her freedom came the living leylines, the embodiments of Raiken's mana. And so the plane's oldest denizens were freed once more, countless beasts finding themselves unleashed into a world that failed to resemble their own in any way.

The world is in chaos. Cities are under siege from without and within. Magic has been unleashed, and the common folk have nothing more holding them back from destroying the status quo if they so choose. Rikalna and the living leylines have begun taking their revenge, vowing to tear the cities out at their roots. Nova and their Seekers find themselves with new purpose, finally living up to what they were made to do once more, and yet conflicted in fighting off the true native inhabitants of the plane.

Natives

 * Nova
 * Kaidae
 * C.C
 * Atia

Other

 * Feris
 * Rikalna

Trivia

 * This plane was originally created almost by accident during an MSE Survivor challenge as a mono-artist concept, and was later combined with an almost entirely unrelated plane concept, also first concepted in a Surviver challenge, as they both filled in gaps the other badly needed.