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A spoiler-aware field archive for Neon Moths: Welcome to Nova Fortuna. Each entry is built to grow with the official series—without filling the gaps with rumor.
Volume 1 is live in the archive.
Expand any transmission for the confirmed record. Tags show how close an entry comes to Volume 1 story turns, so you can choose the depth of your read.
Locations
Districts, thresholds, and the terrain that holds Nova Fortuna together.
Nova FortunaVolume 1World detailThe city at the center of Neon Moths: Welcome to Nova Fortuna—a vertical, contested place where survival, power, and memory collide.
Volume 1 names Nova Fortuna's Uppercity, Undercity, Lowercity, Authority District, Vault, and central cenote as parts of its lived geography.
The Codex treats the city as a changing record: each volume can widen the map without rewriting what earlier releases established.
UppercityVolume 1World detailA named upper tier of Nova Fortuna's cityscape.
Uppercity is part of the vertical language used to describe Nova Fortuna in Volume 1.
Its detailed civic boundaries and day-to-day texture remain outside this public entry until a later canon source makes them clear.
UndercityVolume 1World detailThe pollution-choked depths of Nova Fortuna, where life is shaped by scarcity, pressure, and improvisation.
Volume 1 grounds Jax's early survival in the Undercity and its hard-won street knowledge.
The Undercity is not a backdrop alone; it is a condition that informs the city's social divide and the choices made within it.
LowercityVolume 1World detailA named layer of Nova Fortuna associated with its street-level struggle and mercenary economy.
Jax's Volume 1 profile places her reputation and work in the Lowercity.
The Codex keeps Lowercity distinct from the broader Undercity label rather than assuming their exact boundary or hierarchy.
Authority DistrictVolume 1Story detailA named district bound to the structures of power in Nova Fortuna.
The Authority District appears in Volume 1 as part of the city map and the wider conflict over control.
This entry avoids assigning a complete operational map to the district before later canon confirms it.
The VaultVolume 1Story detailA named place in Volume 1 whose significance is tied to the unfolding record of Nova Fortuna.
The Vault belongs in the city's canon map, but this public entry deliberately does not flatten its narrative role into a tourist description.
Read the Volume 1 context before treating the Vault as fully decoded territory.
The CenoteVolume 1World detailA central cenote that anchors Nova Fortuna's geography and its deeper sense of inheritance.
The cenote is part of the city's core landscape, connecting the futuristic city to what came before it.
Its presence reinforces a central Neon Moths tension: technology presses forward while older memory remains close to the surface.
Factions
The forces shaping the city and the resistance moving through it.
The Authority / PantheonVolume 1Story detailThe power structure pressing its order onto Nova Fortuna, with the Authority and Pantheon named as forces in Volume 1's conflict.
Volume 1 frames the Authority/Pantheon against the Way of the Moth and the people resisting its control.
This shared entry records the conflict without collapsing the Authority and Pantheon into identical institutions; their complete relationship remains for the text to reveal.
Way of the MothVolume 1Story detailA resistance-aligned current in Nova Fortuna, set against the Authority/Pantheon's rule.
The Way of the Moth carries the story's themes of community, cultural memory, rebellion, and survival beyond official propaganda.
Its name signals more than a faction label: it is a way of moving through a city built to contain people.
Characters
The people at the center of Volume 1, recorded through their established character files.
Jax (Jacqueline Torrez)Volume 1Story detailA Lowercity mercenary whose street knowledge, defiance, and cybernetic power place her at the heart of Volume 1.
Jax's established character file preserves her Undercity origins, appearance, combat style, personal losses, and the Book 1 events that draw her into the fight over Prometheus.
Her identity is recorded here as Jax (Jacqueline Torrez); the character gallery remains the canonical presentation file.
GlitchVolume 1Story detailA gifted hacker and Jax's close ally, known for navigating the city’s systems from the shadows.
Glitch's established character file preserves his appearance, technical capabilities, relationship with Jax, and Book 1 involvement in the Prometheus job.
The public record keeps his character history connected to the gallery rather than assigning him to a faction or technology category.
AshVolume 1Story detailA central Neon Moths figure whose character file documents his role, appearance, capabilities, and Volume 1 context.
Ash's complete canon biography, quote, appearance details, capabilities, and Book 1 record remain in his established character file.
His connection to the Way of the Moth remains a relationship, not a replacement faction record.
PyraVolume 1Story detailA Neon Moths character whose established file records her identity, capabilities, and Volume 1 arc.
Pyra's complete canon biography, quote, appearance details, capabilities, and Book 1 context remain in her established character file.
Her relationship to the Way of the Moth remains linked from that faction entry; Pyra is not a faction record.
Firewall (F.W.)Volume 1Story detailA character in the Neon Moths record whose established file carries their canon biography and Book 1 context.
Firewall's supplied quote, appearance details, capabilities, and Book 1 context remain in the existing character file.
This entry connects the Living Codex to that identity file without recasting Firewall as a faction or system.
Soren ApexVolume 1Story detailCadabra Corporation’s public figurehead and a ruthless representative of Nova Fortuna’s ruling elite.
Soren's established character file preserves his supplied characterization, appearance, public role, capabilities, and Book 1 context.
His ties to Cadabra and the Pantheon remain relationships in the broader record, not a substitute for his character entry.
Brik & JCVolume 1Story detailA paired character file whose established record preserves their shared role, appearance, capabilities, and Book 1 context.
Brik & JC are intentionally represented as one duo entry, matching the main Characters section and dedicated character route.
Their supplied canon details remain in the character file rather than being split into unsupported duplicate records.
CipherVolume 1Story detailA Red Chrome fixer whose character file records his mercenary network, Authority ties, and role in the Prometheus job.
Cipher's supplied canon biography, quote, appearance details, capabilities, and Book 1 context remain in his established character file.
“Grrecko” remains a separate slang entry in Key Terms and is not an alternate name for Cipher.
Koor & DahliaVolume 1Story detailThe Haven commune’s paired heavy-hitters, mechanics, armorers, and devastating line of defense.
Koor & Dahlia are intentionally represented as one duo entry, matching the main Characters section and dedicated character route.
Their supplied quotes, appearance details, capabilities, war-rig defense, and Book 1 ending context remain in the established character file.
Technology
Named systems, interfaces, and civic technologies from Volume 1.
LuciVolume 1World detailA named part of the technological vocabulary of Volume 1.
Luci belongs to Nova Fortuna's recorded system of names and objects, where technology and legacy often overlap.
This entry preserves the term without inventing a wider specification that has not yet been established in public canon.
What are Luci's full origin, capabilities, and limits beyond the Volume 1 record?
PrometheusVolume 1Plot revealA named system or intelligence that becomes directly entangled with Jax's Volume 1 arc.
Prometheus moves from background vocabulary into the core of the story as Volume 1 develops.
Its deeper history and precise nature are intentionally left for the book's reveals rather than fully decoded here.
AetherVolume 1World detailA named technology term in Nova Fortuna's Volume 1 record.
Aether is included as part of the setting's established technical language.
The public Codex does not assign an expanded definition beyond what the released story supports.
How much of Aether's operation is public knowledge inside Nova Fortuna?
Avatar StationsVolume 1World detailNamed stations connected to the setting's interface between people, systems, and embodied presence.
Avatar Stations are part of the Volume 1 technical landscape.
Their full access rules, ownership, and operating range will be added only when future canon confirms them.
Synthetic CitizensVolume 1Story detailSynthetic citizens are part of Nova Fortuna's civic reality and its questions of identity, personhood, and belonging.
Volume 1 positions synthetic citizens within the city's wider human and technological tensions.
The Codex retains the term as a people-first category rather than reducing a group's existence to a machine specification.
RehabilitationVolume 1Story detailA controlled social practice named in the Volume 1 world, where care, correction, and coercion cannot be assumed to mean the same thing.
Rehabilitation appears within the pressures that Nova Fortuna's systems place on people.
This entry does not soften the term into a promise of care or overstate the machinery behind it before more canon is released.
Mythology / Belief
Figures and belief systems carried through Nova Fortuna's living record.
Camazotz / MothmanVolume 1World detailA paired set of mythic references that helps frame the moth symbolism moving through Nova Fortuna.
Camazotz and Mothman belong to the story's mythology and belief vocabulary, where fear, guidance, and transformation can share a shape.
The Codex records the names without declaring one fixed interpretation of their meaning.
Ix ChelVolume 1World detailA named figure in the belief-world surrounding Nova Fortuna's deeper cultural memory.
Ix Chel appears as part of the mythic language that endures alongside the city’s neon systems.
Future entries can clarify how this figure is understood across communities without retroactively inventing a single doctrine.
Key Terms
Names and language that help keep the signal clear.
GrreckoVolume 1World detailAn in-world slang term equivalent to “gringo.”
Grrecko is not Cipher's proper name.
The distinction matters: the Codex names people as the canon does and keeps slang in its proper place.
New releases expand the map.
The Codex adds confirmed material with each official volume. Community theories belong in the open channel—not in the canon record.