Havagerly
Havagerly is a country La Luz just took back. It was part of the old La Luz empire, got independence at some point, and is now back inside La Luz with its borders sealed. It shares a border with Tsun’s Arc — that border used to be the most direct route between Tsun’s Arc and Portofiro, and now it isn’t.
The launch wiki commits to those four facts. Everything below is what falls out of them.
What “re-annexation” means here
Zero Parades’ setting is shaped by something called the Reunión — the moment La Luz, once a colonial empire that lost its territories, became resurgent and started taking them back. Havagerly is one of those territories. So is the Tenantries of Saint Ulwen (re-annexed in the Reunión). So is, in a different way, Portofiro’s position vis-à-vis the mainland of La Luz across the strait.
For a player, the practical effect is: Havagerly is in La Luz now. Anything you hear about Havagerly is filtered through La Luz’s current policy.
Why the closed border matters
Tsun’s Arc is on the Periphery. Tsunese characters in Portofiro — the Stranded Passenger most visibly — got there via routes that aren’t simple. The Havagerly border being closed for travel takes the most direct option off the table.
So: if you’re a Tsunese person in Quisach and you want to go home, you have to take the long way. The closed border is one of the small ways the game’s geopolitics squeezes the people inside it.
What Havagerly is, vibes-wise
The launch wiki doesn’t describe the place itself. Two things you can read off the geopolitics:
- It is, or was, an in-between place — a borderland between Tsun’s Arc (Periphery) and the Developed World.
- It now sits inside La Luz’s resurgent border, which means whatever local arrangements existed before the re-annexation are either gone or are now subject to a different state’s rules.
How to read it
Skills that pay off if Havagerly comes up:
- Records — La Luz’s imperial history, the Reunión, Havagerly’s independence period.
- Statehood — border-closure policy is statecraft. Statehood reads it.
- Cold Read — anyone who came out of Havagerly recently has a story about getting out. Cold Read picks up the gaps in the story.
Source note: the closed-border / Tsunese-routes consequence is documented on the Tsun’s Arc / Tsunese pages, not on Havagerly’s own page.