Shieldon was the last town they built on Durus that had any special
characteristic that could be used to describe it, in contrast to all others.
The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth towns, which were named Milton,
Bristol, and, Tidsdel, respectively, were built in 2084, 2086, and 2088,
respectively. These three only had a few years in them before the Mage
Protectorate fell—not to the war with the monsters—but the end of the
war; the final battle. After Shieldon put up their protective barrier,
everyone sort of agreed that there were no more new ideas. Except for Astau,
there really weren’t any towns that actually followed the standard model. The
source mages envisioned a world where they created a town’s mages, and those
mages would protect that town’s borders. The unique ideas to add an extra
layer for safety and security all came later, during the planning stages of
each. Milton, Bristol, and Tidsdel were made to be simple. They were just
places that people could live, and be happy, as they would have on Earth. It
would ultimately be a relief that they didn’t waste energy trying to figure
out how to make these towns special. Society collapsed into chaos shortly
thereafter. Of course, they didn’t know this. They just thought that the world
was becoming more normal. If they could make Durus look more like Earth, then
that could only be a good thing. This desire spoke to the innate goodness in
the Earthan way of life, at least when it was at its best. Almost none of the
people alive in the 2080s were also around early enough to recall their world
of origin. Only Ecrin was old enough to have been there, but she was very
young at the time, so she didn’t know too terribly much about it. Still, they
read about it in the books that made it through the Deathfall portal, and even
though few were conscious about it, that always seemed like their goal. These
three towns were finally it. In fact, people were now starting to believe that
these would be some of the last towns ever. Back on Earth, that was how a
civilization began. Settlements started out small, and expanded from there. At
some point in the future, Durus would probably have a city of its own. Some
even believed it was only a matter of time before they figured out how to
contact Earth, so people could come and go as they pleased. That would turn
humanity into a real interstellar species. Sadly, this was not in the cards
for them, or rather, it would not be for a very, very long time.
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My name is Nick Fisherman III. It's not my real name, but that's not because I'm trying to hide from my former agency, or something. I named myself after someone I've known for most of my life, and he chose it in honor of his late best friend. I took up writing when I found myself failing 8th grade science, and realized I might never reach my dream of becoming a biochemist, a meteorologist, and a quantum physicist. I started developing my canon after a scouting trip to an island inspired what I thought would be my first novel. I founded this website upon the advice of many people, who told me I needed to get my work out there, and not wait for an agent to accept my manuscript. You can expect one new story every day. Weekdays are for microstories, which are one or two paragraphs long. They're usually only thematically linked, so you won't have to read one to understand another, but they do sometimes tell a combined story. Sundays are for my continuous longer story, The Advancement of Mateo Matic, which I started in the beginning, and won't end until 2066. Saturdays are for long series, most of which take place in the same universe as Mateo, and add to the larger mythology.
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