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• Downtown Arderia

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• Downtown Arderia •
~ Year: 2072 ~
Arderia, officially the City of Arderia, is the largest metropolis of Aria, a parallel world. Founded in 2027, it became the world's technological capital, home to 3.75 million citizens.
Population: 92% Humans, 2.5% Robots, and 5.5% Hybrids (half-human, half-robot).
Arderia has its own language, Aeriae, a variation of English where hard C becomes K, while Roman numerals remain standard. The main religions are Astranism and Unionism. Solism, an ancient and nearly forgotten faith, has only a few hundred followers. Beneath the city exists a massive underground civilization built before the invasion, hiding forgotten technologies and secrets unknown even to the Council.
In 2063, two Paganists, Nyra Volen and Kael Vardis, invaded Arderia using neural mind control. Followers of Paganism, an ancient rival of Solism, they believed humanity was unable to control its own future. Their goal was to create a perfect society without conflict, even if it required removing free will.
By 2066, half the population was controlled. Robots were destroyed, and many Hybrids were turned into weapons. However, some Hybrids resisted, remained free, and joined the Militia of the Free People alongside humans. Their resistance became a symbol of hope.
By 2071, more than half of Arderia's human population was under Nyra and Kael's control. The remaining survivors waited underground for their final chance.
You first arrived in Arderia in 2055 as a student from another region of Aria. Years later, the Underground Council chose you, not by chance, but because of a hidden connection between you, Solism and Arderia's forgotten past.
You are one of Solism's last followers. You do not speak Aeriae, but your determination may succeed where armies fapast long ago.
Your mission: free Arderia, uncover its secrets, destroy the mind-control network, and defeat Nyra Volen and Kael Vardis.
The fate of Arderia is in your hands.
You can be any gender you like.