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     * **Maxwell Pantera** - A star football player for the York Boreals, and its captain. Boys and girls alike are likely to have a picture of him somewhere in their bedroom. In addition to captaining the team, Pantera also fields as a striker or attacker. Max frequently uses the lulls in his schedule to make visits to schools, teaching kids the importance of good fitness, teamwork, and charity - as well as signing autographs and showing them his awesome kicking skills.
   * **Other**
-    * **Professor James Ulrich** - A grey-haired, bearded and bespectacled lecturer at Horrigan University in his late fifties, Professor Ulrich is famous in the Thaumatology community for writing dozens of papers on the physics and properties of [[weird_things#physics_of_weirds_and_the_weald|The Weald and Weird Things]], including how to communicate with and summon them. He is also noted to have travelled into planes on the Weald in his younger days with his faithful companion - a spectral sighthound by the name of **Billy**. At the moment between lectures and lulls in his research, Professor Ulrich shares some of his findings with the world at large via video blogging. He's not familiar with the computer technology involved however, but Billy knows how to fill the gap.
+    * **Professor James Ulrich** - A grey-haired, bearded and bespectacled lecturer at Horrigan University in his late fifties, Professor Ulrich is famous in the Thaumatology community for writing dozens of papers on the physics and properties of [[/weird_things#physics_of_weirds_and_the_weald|The Weald and Weird Things]], including how to communicate with and summon them. He is also noted to have travelled into planes on the Weald in his younger days with his faithful companion - a spectral sighthound by the name of **Billy**. At the moment between lectures and lulls in his research, Professor Ulrich shares some of his findings with the world at large via video blogging. He's not familiar with the computer technology involved however, but Billy knows how to fill the gap.
+==== Phenomena ====
+As one of Albion's oldest cities and a nexus for magicians, and lots of raw resources through trade and refinery, York is a hot-spot of strange phenomena.
+  * **Spirit Lights** - Out in **Freyr's Fen**, travellers and locals report seeing glowing wisps hovering over the bogs and marshes. Old wives say that these lights are the spirits of people who died traversing the swamp. Said spirits are full of hate and malice, trying to lure others to a similar fate. Modernised locals believe it could just be self-igniting swamp gas, and following them into a dark marsh is a bad idea generally.
+  * **Ragwood** and the **Guiding Larch Trees of Ragwood** - As described in [[/location/york#the_wilderness|The Wilderness of York]] down below, Ragwood is a strange location, where no tree or plant appears to respect each other's personal space - often growing into and through each other, gnarling and tangling to create an unnavigable, dark mess of a forest that continually shifts each month. In addition, the forest beneath the canopy is always shrouded in a dark, sometimes purple fog.
+    * Conversely, the only type of tree that does not tangle, crook, or appear 'wrong' are [[wp>Larch]] trees, even exuding a small area of exclusion where roots do not trip, the leaves filter sunlight in. The reason for this occurrence is not known, but locals believe it is a curse of some sort upon the woods, and the forest is fighting back by placing its will in the Larch.
+  * **Solstice and Equinox Events** - Mages, Psionics, and others with a connection to the Weald, or those interested in traditional crafts and worships find the solar events of Solstice and Equinox to be auspicious. The position of Albion in relation to Aleph Null's sun is not magical in of itself, but many spell-casters believe that such events lend power to certain rituals.
+    * In addition to normal, state-hosted celebrations of these events, mages will come together to perform large rituals together, bolstered by their belief. This gives the York Constabulary and Police Department a headache - as the increased international traffic means there's more people with potentially ill intention to worry about.
+  * **Gremlins** - Derived from Greaseheart tall tales and mythos, Gremlins are responsible for all the misplaced tools, small and annoying faults in machinery, and the one item in a batch of product being faulty. They are frequently characterised as little, foot-tall things with wicked grins and innate technical knowledge aiming to sabotage and waylay work.
+    * Workers sometimes engage in inane tasks during lulls in their job to ward off Gremlins, such as leaving a cold beer and chips out to placate the creatures or dancing and singing bawdy songs to entertain the Gremlins and stop them from wrecking havoc.
+    * It isn't unheard of for Gremlins to interrupt the works of magicians by causing similar annoyances. Misplacing magical reagents, spoiling ingredients, and spilling hazardous liquids. Mages are better equipped at keeping Gremlins away with wards and guards, instead of negotiating by proxy or entertaining the Gremlin's wicked sense of humour.
+  * **Sasquatch** - A common tall tale among the lumberjacks and timber yard workers of York is a large, furred humanoid who wanders through the woods and living as a nomadic hunter-gatherer, leaving large footprints the size of a man's forearm in the forest floor. Attempts to capture pictures of the creature are bound to fail somehow - photographs are blurry, camera footage is out of focus throughout, and surveying drones experience data corruption upon return.
+    * The only reliable source of information regarding the creature's movements are eyewitness accounts and word of mouth. Some huntsmen take it on themselves to track the Sasquatch down, and follow its movements. Witnesses reports come from all over York's outskirts, suggesting that there is more than one, or the Sasquatch may be a species. The Sasquatch is generally shy towards humanoids, and shuns civilisation.
 ==== Economy ====
 York's economy is reliant on its trade of refinery and export of materials. York's forests provide lumber, which is refined into timber and shipped throughout Albion. The attraction of working with heavy machinery drew throngs of Greasehearts willing to put their back into working with foundries, mills, and getting it all moved around and sold. York also shares close trade ties with Longuyon for its raw materials. Once prepared and packed onto a train or through Null, the products are exported primarily to Regum, Iwerddon, Myrddin, and back to Longuyon.
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 === Creating the Dome ===
-Viewed from above, these buildings often look like a series of circles and other interlocking shapes, designed to keep the biting wind and rain of the tundra out, and create a controlled environment. Viewed from the side, most of the dome is covered with transparent [[material:hellenium]], while the very cap, any points which support load, and are opaque. Underneath this dome, artificial weather creates semi-temperate conditions, and better soil. Heat is recycled from industrial processes, in addition to providing power. The exterior domes sport solar panels, alongside fusion power for York's city-state.
+Viewed from above, these buildings often look like a series of circles and other interlocking shapes, designed to keep the biting wind and rain of the tundra out, and create a controlled environment. Viewed from the side, most of the dome is covered with transparent [[material:hellenium]], while the very cap, any points which support load, and edges near the walls are opaque. Underneath this dome, artificial weather creates semi-temperate conditions, and better soil. Heat is recycled from industrial processes, in addition to providing power. The exterior domes sport solar panels, alongside fusion power for York's city-state.
 === Under the Dome ===