# **SPQRΔ** Welcome to Mercury’s Republic™ **Step into a world where The Roman Republic Rome never fell— instead reborn through a pact with the heavens, watched over by gods in boardrooms, and powered by state ritual.** ## What You Need to Know - The year is 513 DC - 513 years ago a Divine Convention between gods and men quantified, systemized and commodified divine intervention. Making magic measurable, repeatable and real. - The Divine Convention was sealed on **March 15, 44 BCE**, the Ides of March - In our world Julius Ceasar was assassinated - In this world he was put on trial and executed - A ritual sacrifice to deal the pact - Belief is power. - Worship and emotion generate "Gravitas" which transmutes into "Harmonic Resonance" also known as "Res", the power source of magic. - Res is: - Stored in crystals like batteries - Used to power enchanted objects - Carved runes or sigils + Res = Magic effect - Magic is infrastructure - It’s licensed, measured, and integrated into everyday life—from transport to healing to surveillance. - Elemental magic: Earth, Air, Fire, Water - Aqueducts that flow up hill - Powered tram lines run through the city - Sewer systems pipe waste out of sight - Flying palanquins float through the street to carry wealthy romans by magic, not slaves - The gods are real—and political - Divine innovation makes the modern Republic possible. - Gods are now Titans.... of industry - More CEO than Divine Patron - "Employees" sign slave contracts or must purchase their positions in the company - Divine operating systems shape law, memory, war, and justice. - New Integrated Logic node technology has slowly revolutionized the magical infrastructure of the world and each cult is in a race to dominate the emerging field - Logic Nodes (Computers) have revolutionized the world and now they're talking to each other - The Mercurium, a protocol that enables Logic Nodes to communicate can be accessed by any Roman with a Mercury Tablet - PhosphorOS, the protocol the Mercurium is based on allows mages to access the Mare Internum with a mystical object, the Vellum Mentis, through intense meditative protocols such as m.USE and noSYS - The [[Mare Internum]] is the soul of the world - A metaphysical sea of memory and code, accessed by dream-sailing mages - Part internet, part matrix, pure mythology. The Mare Internum, latin for Inner Sea, is a metaphysical space mages project their minds into to: - Do routine magical maintenance on magical infrastructure - Architect metaphysical constructs to solve the needs of the physical world - Databases that are giant halls of scrolls - Act as couriers for messages between nodes - Protect against hostile incursions - But also: - Create art, music and poetry hidden in the Mare - Build impossible structures with architecture that has no physical laws - Discover their true selves --- ## Canon – The World’s Systems These pages explain the nuts and bolts of the world. Dive in here to discover structure, history, magic rules, and cultural law that keep the Republic humming. ### World - [[Eternal Republic]] – Explore the [[Juvinate]], the [[Senate]], and the [[Legions]] that maintain civic order or read the [[Timeline of the Eternal Republic]] - [[Cults]] – From legal temples to underground sects, explore how divine contracts shape society. - [[Charriot Racing]] - powered stones pull floating chariots manned by a driver, archer and mage. The track? Depends on what leg of the race, it changes climates, conditions and alternate routes. Think mario-kart-pod-racing in tunics. ### Magic #### Theory - [[Harmonic Resonance]] – Learn the mechanics of Harmonic Resonance, get a [[Modes Overview]] and find some forbidden spells. - Want your head to hurt? - Take a deep dive into [[Chromatic and Diatonic Magic]] or [[Refinement]] - [[Vitruvian Axioms]] – The metaphysical laws that govern the cosmos. - [[Vitruvian Equations]] - The rules derived from those laws that give us the language of harmonic mathematics. #### Application - [[Mare Internum]] – Where thought, memory, and gods collide. - Take your [[Velum Mentis]] and don't forget a map! [[Mare Access Protocols]] - [[Anima Navis]] - you'll need a ship too #### Ritual - [[Apotheosis]] – Want to learn how to be come a god? - [[Saturanlian Renewal]] - or just live longer? - [[Mithran Severence]] - how about removing your emotions entirely so you can do magic in the real world like a sorcerer? ### Myth - [[Gods]] – From house spirits to Titans, understand the divine stack and its metaphysical logic. - [[Timeline of the Divine Council]]- Trace the timeline from Titanomachy to the Mithran threat. - [[Titans]] – Discover the twelve primal harmonic constants that shape all things. --- ### Narrative Read at your own risk. Understand the [[Alchemy Formula]] when applied to storytelling and its integral part in Jasper Wren's story. Look at the full outline for the book [[Full Outline]] --- This website is a living document of the world building for Mercury's Republic. It is incomplete, inaccurate and unfinished. This will be updated as more is remembered from my trips to the Mare. -Lincoln