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Perfectly Chaotic at 03:24, 24 November 2018

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	It has been suggested that Loko is the birthplace of the [[Orcs]], and the refuge of the last surviving members of the race.		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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Jagra at 18:11, 18 September 2015

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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 ~~centaurs~~ and ~~fauns~~. This region may also be home to some of the last surviving [[Orcs]] on the [[Disc]], according to {{UA}}.		'''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.		[[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.

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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 centaurs and 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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