Baklava solar system

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Baklava solar system タロタロ太陽系 Tarotaro solar system
Graphic from Magical Starsign
Plane	Material Plane

The Baklava solar system is where the Magical Vacation series takes place, and serves as the main setting of Magical Starsign. Existing on the Material Plane of the universe, it is comprised of six planets and a sun, which hosts two other planets.

Planets

• Kovomaka, the magic planet
• Erd, the earth planet
• Cassia, the water planet
• Puffoon, the wind planet
• Gren, the wood planet
• Razen, the fire planet
• Nova, the light planet
• Shadra, the dark planet

History

Creation

Main article: Putty song

Over 10 billion years ago, the brownies created the universe in the big bang, personified as the queen of light. The first consciousness was also born at the heart of the universe, which split into a consciousness of light and another of darkness. Enveloped in the song of the beginning, the queen of light shaped the Baklava solar system on the Material Plane, the dimension of matter, with the sun at its very center.

In this new world, there was nothing but a song for no one to hear, until someone who was no one realized he was the only one there. This "someone," a man, searched for the one singing this song of warmth, which produced the land and the heavens. When he imagined the singer, she appeared before him and they sang a song together, birthing streams of wind from their mouths. The wind was truthful, but sometimes treacherous, and it found its own voice to create lands and skies of wind. Children were born and nurtured by the wind's song, growing up to become the people of wind (かぜのひと), and the land created from warmth faded in the breeze. As time went on, however, the wind faded from the land and it was named "the lifeless" (いのちなきもの).

Once every song in the world ended, the wind people could no longer repopulate, so they sang a song that turned the desolate land to solid earth. The land of earth adopted the likeness of people and harbored infinite life, which gave all kinds of forms to the wind peoples' song. Although the wind people eventually faded, they continued watch over the life in the earth. Songs of wind and fire echoed in the chests of the newborn people of earth (つちのひと), and they used the land to create whatever they desired. Wind and fire were born when the earth people sang, which collided with each other to become water. This water turned to rain, but the rain was filled with blood that sunk the earth people and their land. The waters were sentient and changed its form to birth new lives. When the people of water (みずのひと) were born, the waters were filled with unintelligent life. The sunken land sang its song of the end, causing underground fire and wind in the sky to also sing their songs of the end. When the people of water sang a melody woven from water, the sunken land erupted with heat and the winds danced in the heavens.

Kovomaka, the planet of hope

After a great tempest swept through the world, the people of wood (きのひと) were born. The wood people, imbued with all the power, sang praises of each other and pronounced themselves the first "true people" as they gazed at the sun's majestic light. Their melody shook the whole planet, and one of the wood people assumed the role of king. As the king looked into the starry sky, the sun emitted five streams of light that gave power to the planets. The king, named Vermicelli, sailed the skies and hopped between planets before setting foot on Nova inside the sun. There, the queen of light encouraged Vermicelli to sing despite his self-doubt and embarrassment. Vermicelli ran to a cave where he sang the song of the beginning in solitude, reciting the melody until his voice fell silent. He could sense his own death, to which he felt a song of the dead, the song of the end, echo in his heart. This song summoned legions of monsters, but Vermicelli refused to stop. The song of the end echoed through space, striking people with a fear of death that war sparked between the five planets. The people then sang their own song that united the five planets' light, and gave rise to the planet of hope, Kovomaka. The queen of light created life on Kovomaka, and to prevent it from clashing with the other planets, she sent it to the dark outskirts of the Baklava system. Given Kovomaka's distance from the rest of the planets, many would think its existence to be a fairy tale.

Nova and Shadra are connected by the the Starway, a dimensional gap

Hundreds of millions of years later, a neutron star called Shadra experienced a peak in magical energy. This caused a new sun to form around Shadra, which was absorbed by the original sun that contained Nova. Instead of coexisting with Nova, Shadra occupied its own dimension, and the two planets switched places on a sort of day-night cycle as their powers fluctuated. When the two suns merged together, the Phunnel Pit, Glissini Caves, and Starway were spontaneously created to bridge Nova and Shadra's dimensions. A rift beneath Nova's Glissini Caves also used to connect these dimensions, until an obstruction of plasma and matter sealed it shut.

Age of the Espressos

The Kahve Ruins, where the Espresso civilization developed robots

By the time of the space age roughly 12,000 years before Magical Vacation, civilizations across the Baklava system developed technology that enabled interplanetary travel. To prepare for this new era, King Panna Cotta of Bena Rikashi had a spaceport constructed on the wind planet, Puffoon. At some point, the Espresso civilization, led by Dr. Calzone, traveled to the earth planet, Erd. Calzone heard that the indigenous yogart gurus could visit Nova, the "land of light," in spirit, and speculated that a gateway existed somewhere on the earth planet. When no such gate was found, the Espressos settled on Erd and commenced a four-year plan to develop an AI program titled Ribbit Ribbit. The robots operating on Ribbit Ribbit used artificial gummy matter as fuel, which were generated in Kahve, a plant co-developed by the Espressos and Craaken, a yogart archmagician. Calzone's technicians performed PSI amplification tests on people with psychic abilities whom they invited to Erd, including a girl named Applepie. These tests proved that strong mental energy could twist the fabric of space, something the Espressos hoped to replicate in the Beta version of Ribbit Ribbit to physically enter the land of light. However, before the Beta version was completed, the brownies declared war on the Espressos and the haywire robots turned them all to gummies in the Kahve plant. While Calzone presumably escaped the conflict by leaving his cohorts behind, Craaken fled to Cassia where he opened Ambergris Preparatory School.

At Ambergris Prep, Craaken taught aspiring magicians the secrets of the universe, and preserved his teachings in the Book of the Darned. These teachings included etherealization, Nova and Shadra's shared existence inside the sun, and the imminent death of the sun. Craaken predicted that a giant larva called Shadra, the dark planet's namesake, fed on magic gummies that crystallized inside Chromagar Cave. In the end times, Shadra would use the gummies' energy to metamorphosize and devour the sun, destroying the entire universe. Shadra would then give birth to a new sun, and with it, a new universe. Craaken also fashioned the Stone Stage in Shishkebab Cave on Razen, a device that used the planet's energy to twist space and open a path to Nova.

Legends of Cassia

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On Cassia, a being called the Dragon God caused the planet's undersea volcanoes to erupt, clouding the skies with smoke and turning Cassia frozen solid. This sudden ice age ended the lives of many otters in Port Pescato, until one otter suddenly cast a flame from his hand and set a glass of water ablaze. The villagers relied on this flame to survive the cold, and named their savior the "fire otter." As for the glass of water, it was imbued with magical properties that made it immune to freezing or evaporation, becoming the ultimate water particle known as aquarino. Regular water could gain the aquarino's properties when mixed, so the otters sealed it away inside Nata de Coco Door to prevent contamination to Cassia's ecosphere.

While the fire otter's brother was out fishing one day, he accidentally caught the Dragon God and was pulled into the deep waters. The fire otter spent three days and three nights fighting the Dragon God, and after he defeated it, he made a gravesite for his brother and built Great Dragon Road to honor his adversary. Some otters from Pescato gathered at the altar in Great Dragon Road, where they sacrificed gummy frogs to tame the ocean. Around this time, the otters landed on Granule Island in the east, home to a tribe of water people. The water people hid inside Holy Water Pyramid, a temple made of stones they had quarried from Nata de Coco. The pyramid also contained a pit where the water people performed rituals using the power of water, but the otters rebuilt it and installed a cauldron to perform honorary fire rituals.

Trivia

• In the ending of Magical Starsign, there is said to be another galaxy that exists outside the Baklava system, but there are no details about it.
• According to Grenadine, there is a ranking for the best magicians in Baklava. Madeleine and Biek Fowler contend for first place, while Rogan Josh ranks somewhere between 10th and 75th.
• Kōji Tsuda, the game's art director, designed Baklava's five main planets with unique shapes to reflect their respective attributes, which is why Kovomaka is the only spherical planet.

Nomenclature

Its name comes from baklava, a Turkish pastry made with nuts and syrup.

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	タロタロ太陽系 Tarotaro taiyōkei	Tarotaro solar system, possibly from taro
English	Baklava solar system
French	Système solaire de Baklava	Baklava solar system
German	Sonnensystems Baklava	Baklava solar system
Italian	Sistema solare di Baklava	Baklava solar system
Spanish	Sistema solar Baklava	Baklava solar system