Every year in The Central City, champions from all the different dimensions in the Starfire Express universe gather for the Unification Tributary Festival.

In honor of the Dragon Overlords, who liberated the worlds from the Fairy Court's iron-fisted rule, every world brings luxurious food in abundance for an outdoor feast in the City Square. 

Streets are decorated with strings of gold and green lights and lanterns.

​A grand arena (once used by the Fairies for executions), now serves as a place where Champions from outlying worlds can duel for the opportunity to bring their families permanently to the Central City and all its comforts. 

The grandest celebration in Queen Arlena's innocent world falls on the first day of spring--the first day where farmland is tilled. 

After a Soil-Breaking ceremony, where the Queen breaks the first ground of the season and leaves a magical Wish for abundance for the next harvest, the Castle Chefs serve a feast in the main hall for all the people to enjoy.

Marriage ceremonies in the main hall are often scattered throughout the day, at which the Queen leaves more Wishes for long marriages and many children.

Children participate in annual games of skill, hoping to be selected by a master of their choice trade for future apprenticeships.

​The day ends with bonfires, dancing, and a special magical fireworks display in the Market. 

While all the worlds in the Splitting Worlds universe have their own holidays which vary by culture, the Doubling Day Festival is a day that all races (except Humans) celebrate.

As Doubling Day is the day that the gods sacrificed over half of their family line to separate one world into four separate dimensions (for the survival of all races), it is a highly-respected religious holiday.

Shrines are packed with worshipers who bring incense and financial offerings to support the gods who reside within each of the Worlds. Parades bring the new year's tributes of linen and supplies to the High Temples, where the priests and monks perform plays reenacting the Doubling.

Standing-room-only feasts are held just outside the Temple grounds, where--between courses--everyone from the tiniest toddler to the oldest elder are invited to join in ritual dances late into the evening. 

The evening ends with a person pledge to the gods, which is written in blood on a smooth flat stone. The stones are added to an ever-building Oath Wall, which encompasses the Temple grounds. 

Scaren is the home of both the Greek and the Norse gods in Starfire Express. 

Under the rule of the universe's wealthiest, most fashionable, and arguably most powerful beings, life in Scaren is beyond luxurious. 

June, our young Human college student from Earth, can't helped but be awed by the opulence and beauty of Scaren and those who live there--especially Loki, the first god she meets when she disembarks the train.

When water-beings (mermaids, krakens, and squish) aren't vacationing in Earth's oceans and lakes, they live on the water-covered world of Ipalgo.

Ipalgo has a few barren rock-scapes to host visitors, but otherwise all fortresses and cities are underwater. 

June quickly grows attached to the infant prince on the Celebration Tour, "Squishy", and endears herself to the Kraken family as well.

After the Fairies were cast out of the Central City hundreds of years ago, they were banished to the war-torn ruins of the world known as Donterra. 

All suspected and known traitors and rebels live out their days with their entire clans here, including the werewolves, vampires, and now the Fae.

It is from this world that Hunter, the Chief of the Not-So-Secret-Police, has worked  hundreds of year to free full-blooded Wolves so they can return to the Central City. 

Home to the Dragon Overlords and their loyalists, the Central City can only be reached by transdimensional portalling or aboard the Starfire Express. 

Restricted access leaves the city safe, peaceful, and well-protected from would-be usurpers. 

It is also the only world that has direct portals to and from the prison dimension where The Godmother, a notorious crime boss, will be banished at the end of the Celebration Tour.