Wait, what's this all about?

 Maluna is a place that refuses to sit still for long enough to be ignored.

At its simplest, it is a setting built on its people, their struggles and travails and a reality that reacts to how it is understood. A glittering veneer of fantastical elements overlaid atop a somewhat more realistic whole.

A place where every moment is meant to feel as if it has a pulse. Settlements rise around unstable opportunity, power shifts and even authority is something that has to be maintained, as it cannot be assumed. The wondrous and fantastical have happened and continue to happen right alongside the more mundane slices of life that help to drive and define such a place.

Every story has a hero and that hero's meant to stop something bad and Maluna is no exception, but the articles will also focus on the smaller things. The nitty gritty and the overlooked. However the prose goes, as they say. Do they say that?

If you are looking for a setting that feels alive, reactive and slightly unpredictable in a way that still follows its own internal logic, Maluna offers that experience. It is not a backdrop for stories so much as a system that generates them.

Though if there's interest, maybe there'll be some stories as well.

Presently the articles will be written from the perspective and in the tone of Friar Albert, a historian and naturalist who has journeyed the length and breadth of Maluna in his time. At times his articles are incendiary, at others quite dry, but they are always relevant.

Occasionally there will be an article drawn from one of Friar Albert's contemporaries, though they may not always be willing to be known as a colleague. One such for instance would be Preceptor Becky Chambers, recognized at the Midlands' foremost monster expert and quite valued for her insights, indeed.

I've spent a long time so far working on my little world, making it into a bigger one, and hopefully anyone reading this far can enjoy what I've worked on.

-Roto

(P.S.: Most articles will also have some art involved. The vast majority of things I've got for this project came from Pinterest and are very difficult to source. If I've used something of yours and you'd prefer it not to be here please reach out and I'll remove it. I'll do my best to source appropriately where I can, of course!)