Loko

2018-11-24T03:24:35Z

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'''Loko''' is a region located in [[Uberwald]], the main geographical feature of which is a massive ring of mountains that surrounds a very deep valley. It was said to contain all sorts of curiously shaped magical creatures like [[Centaur|Centaurs]] and [[Faun|Fauns]]. This region may also be home to some of the last surviving [[Orcs]] on the [[Disc]], according to {{UA}}.

[[Stanmer Crustley]] led an expedition to Loko. While he successfully recovered ancient scrolls from the caves and brought them back to [[Ankh-Morpork]], he died of planets soon after. In fact, everyone on the expedition and anyone else who visited Loko contracted a strange magical disease. As a result, people began to believe this place was cursed, but the truth is that it has an extreme amount of magical fallout and very, ''very'' strong background magic.

Evidently, this is a result of a previous attempt to split the [[thaum]] (as instructions for doing so were found on the scrolls discovered by Crustley). Ancient [[Wizards' Magic|wizards]] attempted it, and when the [[Thaumic Reactor|reactor]] began to overload, they attempted to turn it off. [[Ponder Stibbons]] theorizes that this attempt is why Loko currently consists of a massive ring of mountains surrounding a very deep valley. Therefore, when Stibbons' own reactor begins to overload in {{SOD1}}, the wizards channel the magic into creating [[Roundworld|a new universe]] instead.

Loko is also evidently the origin of [[Stygium]], according to [[Lord Vetinari]] in {{MM}}. That may expain much about the strange properties of that magical metal. In {{HFOS}} the wizard [[Sensibility Bustle]] used instruction from one of the Loko scrolls to build a device to attract and trap a [[Hiver]]. The result was only partly successful, highly dangerous and very messily fatal for several wizards.

It has been suggested that Loko is the birthplace of the [[Orcs]], and the refuge of the last surviving members of the race.

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An interesting [[Roundworld]] reference is a region called [[wikipedia:Oklo|Oklo]], in the Central African state of Gabon. Oklo was a French colony, and the site of rich uranium mines starting in the 1950s. But by the 70s, some of the mined uranium was found to have a lower concentration of uranium-235 than expected, as if it had already been processed in a reactor. Geologists found that it ''had'' been in a reactor before—two billion years ago, in Precambrian times, the natural uranium had possessed sufficient concentrations of isotopes to behave as a natural nuclear fission reactor, the only one of its type ever discovered. Self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions are thought to have ran for a few hundred thousand years, although quite quietly and not in the explosive fashion that may have produced Loko's immense crater.

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