Solspath

Symbia has no inter-city roads, but there are a few paths for runners. The longest and possibly best-known of these is Solspath, between Angelic in the west and Central in the east. There are two limbs, a northern one that bows up above the lakes, and a southern one that dips down near the Gulf coast. The paths are fairly well-maintained, but suitable only for walkers, not for any sort of vehicle that can’t be carried up steps.

There are three traditional names for the act of completing the path.

When an individual goes from Angelic to Central along the southern path, in the winter, it’s known as “Arran’s Walk” after a well-known brawnic teacher, who took a double-hand of students with her, nine brawnics and a numeric for surveying, and built the entire trail in six months.

The northern way, suited to the summer, is called “Astrid’s Path” after Astrid Callor, who took four flame-elementals, a water elemental, and six backpacks full of concentrated fruit juice, and constructed a path from Central to Angelic in a week and a half.

Doing the entire path within a calendar year (with, of course, breaks at either end, and sometimes in the middle) is known as Turning Sol or Turning the Bowl.