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I just got into bed because I was cold, it took them all of 5 seconds to corner me and fall asleep

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Stigmus: The Strangeness

So... This is my first post, I don't know how this hellsite works but I'm gonna try anyways.

I'll format these posts a bit weird, the title is basically the name of the setting this is from followed by the thing about that world I'm trying to explain since my blog is going to be mostly about the worldbuilding I've done.

I'll start with an old setting I don't use anymore, mostly because I lost all of it to a dumb mistake.

The Strangeness was a weird phenomenon that took place in Stigmus where information would randomly disappear. Not only from books and the walls of ruins but also from people's minds which meant that everyone lived in fear of suddenly forgetting their loved ones or other things that meant a lot to them.

This obviously shaped a lot of the culture in the world for example most people saw being a historian as a lost cause, since the information you spent your whole life gathering could someday be completely erased from existance. Your entire life's work, gone in an instance to a whim of fate. Despite this, many still pursued history believing it was worth it, if history was erased so be it but they would gather as much of it as they could and teach it to the world.

The origin of The Strangeness was... Well, strange (Please forgive me) it all began with a king who had taken his crown really early in life with the death of his father. He didn't really know how to lead a country and so his counselors, the eleven archmages of the Regnum, basically leaving him to be an extremely powerful idiot who wasn't really good at much. But he eventually fell in love and had a beautiful daughter, though this was at the expense of his lover who died at childbirth despite all the resources and magic at his disposal. He promised the man he loved (I... I don't think I need to clarify this, but it was a trans man... That's why he could birth) that he would take care of his daughter even if it meant destroying the world for her. To his dismay when his daughter was barely thirteen years old she fell ill to a terrible disease nothing could cure, there was no medicine, potion nor healing magic that could deal with such terrible ailment that had the girl bedridden for years. Eventually, desperate, the king started investigating old myths and legends until he found something that, if real, could work: The legend of the Wish Stone.

You see, despite being a DnD setting, there isn't such a thing as a wish spell in Stigmus; there aren't genies or similar creatures. The idea of something altering reality to such degree is ridiculous to the people of this world. But through a lot of research and resources the king eventually found his way to a continent lost to time where the stone waited to be rediscovered in some ancient ruins. The king made his wish holding the stone and with tears on his eyes "Cure my little girl, whatever it takes" and the stone granted his wish. Though the king's research never told the him that within the stone resided a guardian; a guardian who had grown bitter and resentful a creature simply named "Wish" who, for every wish made with the stone, got a wish for themselves. And so, with the king's wish, the guardian's plan was set in motion and the first step was to plunge the world into chaos, to make sure it could not organize against the plan.

The wish of the guardian was simple; to make the world be just as the king thought it was. Most countries became mere shadows of what they actually were and the information of the world, having to go all through a normal man's head, sometimes got lost and sometimes simply forgotten as his brain couldn't manage it. With all this happening, the king fell ill himself, bedridden as his mind couldn't really process what was happening to it.

Maybe I'll tell Wish's story sometime, it's a doozy.