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Furnaf

Constructed 4,097 years ago and gaining Mechanica status during the Final War, Officer Furnaf is enjoying the peace he spent the first years of his sentient life fighting for. He’s an officer of the Galdredan Standard Division of the Under-realm Branch of the Railway Investigations Agency and is one of the best officers of the organization. Upholding the law with his sister, Durgu, his investigations always get whatever criminal is guilty of a crime. He’s married to three Rail-type Mechanica ladies, (Tranfii the Tram, Lurdan the Narrow Standard Tank, and Eldram the Maximum Tender) and a Rail-type Mechanica man (Rutur the Minimum Tank).

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Realm Railway Gauges

Like us, the Realms have their railways and have different gauges for different types of jobs, tourism being chief among them. There are fifteen gauges throughout the Realms, and each has their own name. Just to clarify for those that may not know, a railway’s gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track.

  1. 15.25 Zarruks (Minimum)
  2. 24 Zarruks (Cirrus)
  3. 24.4 Zarruks (Pebble)
  4. 1.2 Smargs (Narrow Standard, used in Mountain Railways)
  5. 1.4 Smargs (Mine)
  6. 1.6 Smargs (Ballast)
  7. 1.7 Smargs (Light)
  8. 1.9 Smargs (Harbor)
  9. 2.2 Smargs (Medium)
  10. 2.3 Smargs (Standard, also used in Mountain Railways)
  11. 2.4 Smargs (Iron)
  12. 2.5 Smargs (Boulder)
  13. 2.6 Smargs (Heavy)
  14. 2.7 Smargs (Kingdom)
  15. 3 Smargs (Maximum)

Lushar, pictured above, is a Standard Gauge engine.

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Lushar

Built 2,004 years ago in the engine workshops of the Under-realm’s Galdredan Lava Kingdom for its railway, Lushar became a Rail-type Mechanica two months after the Mechanica Trial near the end of the previous Age of Unity. Like her brother Dreshel and her sister Murmath, Lushar’s a shunter and goods engine. She works at the Drapnar Quarry arranging stone trains and bringing them across the railway. She’s married to Sandu, the Ship-type Mechanica extension of the Sand Dune. She’s a bit cheeky, a bit vain when it comes to her paint and clothes, and has a great work ethic.

(I’ve been wanting to draw a Rail-type Mechanica since I first wrote about them in the second book. She’s inspired by a few of my favorite engines from the Thomas the Tank Engine franchise. She’s got Thomas’ cheekiness, James’ vanity, and Duck’s work ethic.)