The Path in which We Walk
It’s a season of firsts in the country of Urundel. Chromerian-Styled Magic made a renewal within the city of Jasper. Discoveries in Alchemy and Forge-workings in Ethral found the new material called Sakurodite made the perfect source of power for electro-trans-mutants, and the capitol city of Fenrir reformed the system of justice. But it was within this system of justice that Jeremiah Gott-Oswald found himself framed for murder. An unpopular man and an even more controversial Alchemist, the juries of Fenrir found no quarrels when deciding to give this man the most serious punishment: execution on the charge of murder and treason. It was not unusual for “Jeremiah the Lie-ah” to be found transmutating substances like wood or steal in objects that can move “mechanically” or asking “patients” to try potions that only gave bad stomach aches, but surprisingly enough, it never occurred to the general population that Jeremiah never lied. He was only crazy, convoluted, and unfortunate enough to be the creator of the first Sakurodite bomb.
“Well, how in the world was I supposed to figure out whether it would explode, if you don’t even know half of what I ever talk about?” He said to the courts that night. It was supposed to be a public lecture on the mechanism of a sakurudite engine thirty days before the murder. President Clovis actually presented himself at the lecture, and after it failed, he criticized Jeremiah saying, “You’re a sham. Jeremiah, Explosive Master? More like Jeremiah, the Liar, to me.” He said liar to rhyme with the name, Jeremiah. Before being called a liar (and then having one of the most drastic changes in popularity to date), he was a great explosive alchemist. He was notorious for “the power to level building in the blink of an eye” and for making “cannonballs that could split armies in half”. In the past, however, He never took on an apprentice.
“I couldn’t teach a thing to this ‘Lost Generation’,” he nonchalantly replied, but when people insisted, he sent them away empty handed, making himself actually seem a bit conspicuous.
But we’re digressing from the situation, aren’t we? They carried me away in chains, thinking I killed the President of Urundel, giving both a charge of treason of murder. I didn’t do it, but who listens to crazy men like me? I was to be killed immediately. They took me to the public arena, to be executed blindfolded, like they always do.
“It’s the end for me,” I thought while being pushed up the steps to the gallows. I closed my eyes to what I thought would be eternal rest… except I didn’t die. The last I remember was being unbound and able to take off my blindfold to see my new beginning.
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Chasm, Welcome to the world of Urundel. As we've discussed, there's going to be Renaissance-styled technology, and I'll leave it between the two of us to explain this world that we live in. I also left it for you to decide how I got out of being "executed" in public.
Annotating certain parts:
-Urundel is the central country and it is, overall, about the same size as France or Germany. It has a massive variety of different geographical areas (such as the mountains to the north and the central lake, Lake Sapphira, near the South-west corner of Urundel (I'm terrible at drawing maps so try to bear with me.)
-Fenrir is the capital of Urundel, and the new jurist system is being referred to (as before this time there was only a highly disciplined and educated judge).
-Chromerians are one of the types of magicians in this world (that is if there are going to be more) Chromerians rely on the power of light to do stuff (light being the color spectrum of light, heat, and ultraviolet light, all which have different, unspecified abilities.)
-electro-trans-mutants are members of a guild of alchemist and iron-workers who use "electricity" in their work. Seeing that this is the Renaissance era, their work is highly unaccepted and mostly inefficient.
I now leave you to improve. Good luck. :)