World & saga

Systems.

Vril, flight, time, light, work and language, each tied to chapters of the 1871 novel.

Vril

Book VII, IX, XVI

A disciplined natural agency with opposite operations: heal or destroy, rend or clear, body or mind. Any ethical framing should stay unnumbered unless Tim asks for game rules.

Flight

Book XV, XX

A learned bodily art with a real garment. The narrator’s failure is canon. The book’s feathered mantles and the locked silver-rib wings are not yet reconciled.

The twenty-hour clock

Book XVII

Silent Hours, Easy Hours, and labour.

Light as government

Book IX

The department of light is the most essential civic work.

The children’s fund

Book XIX

Children assist and control machinery; their pay seeds later independence.

Emigration

Book IX, XIX

Surplus population leaves at stated periods from the Station.

Automata and obsolete arms

Book V, XVI

Servants and museum pieces; wonder and warning, not a second superhero kit.

Language

Book VI, X, XII

Ana, Gy-ei, Tish, Koom-Posh, Glek-Nas and A-Vril.