System: Quintespace
World: Quinternia
Key Denizens: Psions of Quinternia, Kylia Summerchilde, Summer Court Fey, Crystal Golems and crystalline creatures, extraplanar creatures visiting Quinternia
Forming the northern border of New Radiance, the Nexus Mountains rise high out of the Summervale Forest. Trees cover most of the mounds before large built spires break the skyline and form the great structures of Nexus. Finally, the Crystalline Woods tops the highest peaks in glittering spectacle.
•Bypass: The sleepy mountain town of Bypass grew from a quarry camp established to build the Spires of Nexus. Originally founded alongside the only natural path up to the southern peaks of the mountains, Bypass is now home to the bulk of the inhabitants of Nexus and hosts the largest community of psionics in Quinternia.
•Planararium at Nexus: Built by Kyntar the Gatekeeper at the end of the Eidolon War, the Planararium hosts a complex magical system of portals that caps travel from Quinternia to the planes and back. It also serves as a sort of diplomatic center for Quinternia's relations with other planes and is frequented by leaders of Quinternia's nations.
•Crystalline Forest: The highest elevations of the Nexus Mountains see a receding of the treeline like any other. However, due to an arcane experiment generations ago, the greenery of the Summervale is replaced by clear and colorful crystalline structures. Flora and fauna have developed into crystalline counterparts to the natural world into an otherworldly ecosystem.
•Road of Roots: Crafted and kept by the fey of the Summer Court, the Road of Roots is the only safe passageway through the Summervale Forest as well as the Feywild shallowings that crop up.
•Spires of Nexus: The sprawling stone halls of the Spires of Nexus form a radiant skyline above the peaks. Kylia Summerchilde has made the Spires an asylum of sorts, sheltering the strange and infirmed in peaceful solace above the remote mountains. The Spires also host the Aethernaut, the legendary ship crafted to turn the tide of the Eidolon War for the Radiant Fist.
•Bahani Observatory: On the northern peaks of the Nexus Mountains, an ancient observatory of the Hajji was found and restored by the Radiant Fist in the waning days of the Eidolon War. It served to first observe Lunaria and has been used to study the celestial bodies of the Quintesphere ever since.
Associations: Magic crystals, psionic items, fey treasures, planar energies and entities, esoteric knowledge of places beyond Quinternia.