Cinder Spire World

[SUPERsmitty]

So I am only about halfway through the Audio Book and I am enjoying it so far.

I've been thinking about the series and the world the book is set within and I had a thought....
Alera was colonized by Romans (Specifically a lost Roman Legion). Does that mean Cinder Spire world was colonized by Greeks?  Or I wonder if perhaps the Builders were Altanians?

Just a thought.....what do y'all think?

[Romulan Cmdr]

Naw, I dont think so. It does seem to remind me of echos of the old countries.
Consider the flags of the various ships.

[Rozarius]

Honestly I think that it is earth. Way in the future.  Albion is the english spire. Olympian greek. And so forth.

[Quantus]

My current working theory?  Cinder Spires is a future post-apocalyptic world, set after the Butcher equivalent of the Protoss invaded.

It lets me dream of an Alera Cinder Spires crossover where the vord-Zerg and some crystal energy wielding "Archangels" duke it out. 

[lt_murgen]

My belief is that this is a retro-future world.  Imagine a world where settlers from Earth arrived ages ago.  They planned to live in their space-ships for a decade or so until they got habitable natural cities built.  But they found that the atmosphere, somehow, was corrosive to their metal. 

So the spires are giant, tube-shaped spaceships covered in earth to protect their exteriors. 

[Quantus]

My belief is that this is a retro-future world.  Imagine a world where settlers from Earth arrived ages ago.  They planned to live in their space-ships for a decade or so until they got habitable natural cities built.  But they found that the atmosphere, somehow, was corrosive to their metal. 

So the spires are giant, tube-shaped spaceships covered in earth to protect their exteriors.

Ill have to go looking to find the link, but I believe in a recent interview Jim stated that the different Spires are all different shapes and sizes.  That would still fit pretty well with spires as ships from a last-ditch Earth Evacuation fleet, which would need mass support systems similar to what the spires have.  Good Idea, I like it; simply being another planet with earth colonists would make the Mist and Ether much easier to explain, rather than it developing on a future Earth somehow.   

[lt_murgen]

What brought me to that conclusion was the vat grown meat.  We know they can't farm the land, since the ground is repeatedly described as horribly dangerous.  We know they grow meat in vats.  It is likely they grow vegetables in vats as well.  With air ducts and power conduits described, it seemed very spaceship-like to me.

[Quantus]

What brought me to that conclusion was the vat grown meat.  We know they can't farm the land, since the ground is repeatedly described as horribly dangerous.  We know they grow meat in vats.  It is likely they grow vegetables in vats as well.  With air ducts and power conduits described, it seemed very spaceship-like to me.

Ya, they mentioned that, Gwen found the idea of plants grown in dirt instead of nice clean hydroponic nutrient vats to be gross.