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TIGER for anivi and exordium!

TIGER - What is the most dangerous creature? Did you create it?

I feel the need to preface with the fact that I struggled so hard with this question. I don't monster design. It's a huge blind spot for me in these big fantasy worlds, lol, but I'll do my best to answer.

ANIMUS VITRUM: Probably the fae if I'm being honest, as the landlords and wights and what have you are the big drivers behind all the danger of the world as a whole. A specific one that sticks out, though, is the miasma, a leftover from one of the old ousted Unseelie Kings. It's a big cloud of hungry spirits that appears wherever darkness is great enough, and tends to be the reason why the wells are guarded at night and there are no corpses in caves.

The miasma is partially inspired by the Vashta Nerada from Doctor Who, Minecraft mob spawning, and of course medieval miasma theory.

EXORDIUM: Well, dragons are real, as are angels and powerful elementals. There's a much higher chance of encountering custom critters. One I've made is a servo, a serval cat with even bigger ears that subsume most of its forehead, a few extra spidery legs, and big articulated arms coming out of its back that can grab things and shoot beams. Its hunts with echolocation and can teleport towards sounds.

orange worldbuilding asks

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Yeah can I get that uhhhh Bronze 🥉 for anivi and exordium 😈

BRONZE - What is the currency?

ANIMUS VITRUM: On Tela, primarily Heartglass, which is made by harvesting a heart with the Animus Vitrum spell (which normally compresses body and spirit into a gemlike object), grinding it into sand, and blowing it like glass. There's bartering systems around bespoke Heartglass items, as Heartglass retains the properties of the flora or fauna it originated from, but a base unit of essentially pounds of Heartglass dowels has also been established. Most of these are pretty generic and have no additional properties.

EXORDIUM: This one is tricky. I wanna say that old, pre-war currency is still in use in Eikas and in certain circles on the other two planes, though I have no concept of what that should be outside of standard fantasy gold suns/silver moons/copper stars, which is in line with the astrolabe theme. Musaphia and Wickrath also have strong barter systems because of the scavenger nature of both of their economies. The most valuable materials are fulgurite (crystalized lightning, often found as a storage unit for power granted through oaths), moonblood resin (pieces of the shattered moon and strong sources of dream magic), and exordium (a type of metal used often in war machines, angel husks, the celestial mechanisms themselves, and anything in between. The precise manufacturing technique for this material has been lost.)

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Gimme Exordium and Anivi for that orange ask game, first question

ORANGE - Describe the world!

ANIMUS VITRUM: I didn't talk much about the world in this other ask, only the characters. The world name here is currently Tela (though I keep going back and forth on the names for this setting), and is largely intended to be a dark fantasy vaguely themed after pre-modernist Europe. Running rampant throughout it are a number of capricious gods and spirits; three notable ones include:

The Seelie Queen, Vesna Oberon (current), Midsomnir Titania (previous), Lady of the Endless Hunt

The Weaver of the Tapestry (the one that consists of the fabric of time and space), and their Threadbearer attendants

The Unseelie King (gender neutral term), Hel (current), Ozymandias (previous), Lord of the End

Humanity isekaied to Tela thousands of years ago and immediately found it difficult to survive after having been essentially reduced to the Stone Age. They quickly splintered into nomadic groups and began to adapt in genetically divergent ways (into something adjacent but not identical to stock fantasy races) to the many, many threats. Humanity as we'd know it is extinct on Tela.

EXORDIUM: This world I went into a bit in a different ask, but here's an overview! The world of Exordium doesn't have an overall name currently, but in it, day, night, and the celestial firmament (and the celestial mechanisms that help facilitate the movement of the heavens--like gears in an astrolabe). Overall, the world used to be a standard globe

The Day-Plane, Wickrath, is locked in permanent day. People survive in the shadows of the giants, ancient earth elementals that are as large as the mountains themselves, and move slowly enough for societies to either settle directly on their bodies or gather in their shadows. However, the giants are ancient, inexplicable in the movements, and seem to war with one another. Albeit at the timescale of a landslide.

Wickrath is also, consequently, in the Sun's domain, and has many practitioners of the Sun's magic of Oaths, contracts, and exchanges. Still working out a lot of the mechanics here, but it's pretty much just animism.

The Night-Plane, Musaphia, is locked in permanent night. They're able to get by with low-light plants and funguses, though there's several ancient structures with with highly-sought-after magical relics that can command the elements and help people survive.

Musaphia is also riddled with pockets of dream magic, the Moon's domain. Dream magic, unlike oath magic, is entirely mental and metaphysical. It can't create something from nothing the way that Oath magic can, but it's the most versatile form of magic available.

The Twiling-Plane, Eikas, is the heavenly firmament between the day and night planes. Many of the spirits had voluntarily retreated into Eikas at the end of the war, but in the centuries that have since elapsed, extended proximity and restrictions have caused tensions to rise. Many spirits, out of a sense of claustrophobia, have been agreeing to be reborn as angels purely for the opportunity to leave.

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Gimme that GINGER for anivi and exordium

GINGER - What does the average person look like? How close are they to humans in reality?

ANIMUS VITRUM: There's a few major races on Tela! Most of humanity has either kind of mutated into their own thing or become integrated with the indigenous population, but there's still some differences.

Vitra are the largest group of surviving humans, distinguishable by the fact that every vitra is born with one, if not two innately known abilities. One is incredibly personal to themselves and often relates to their role as an individual within the Tapestry. The other is Animus Vitrum, the ability to create and use Heartglass. Vitra frequently pass on these abilities both genetically and naturally, the way one might inherit their parents' trade. They also tend to mutate intergenerationally depending on how long a bloodline has been cultivated.

Elfin-folk are descended from people that turned to making agreements (or even worshipping) the fae for an endowment of magic. They often have pointed ears and tails as well as some form of fur or scale-like skin variations depending on the type of agreement made in antiquity. Many tend to live in the frontiers and have more naturalistic color palettes that reflect the land.

Huldras are analogous but not identical to dwarves. They are a group of people that found shelter from the fae, given a particular magic that let them survive underground by storing a light inside their chests. This also gives them access to a potentially endless amount of storage space, given the contents of their bodies. Huldra have an extra finger and often gravitate towards reflective objects.

Beast-folk all have a variety of origin points, from being cursed into the form of another animal, to intermarriage between a human and a fae, to an animal that has been blessed with enlightenment and raised to the spiritual power of the fae. Beast-folk have a range of presentations as well on the hybrid animal spectrum, though they tend to skew reptilian if they're from Earth.

Indigenous Tela peoples tend to be extremely similar to the beast folk, but most are talented shapeshifters by nature and take on highly personal and contextual forms. There's three notable ones: Gvnomes, Mer-folk, and the Fae themselves.

EXORDIUM: Exordium has less-strict rules on what people look like, though the lore has kind of determined that humans overall are more common than otherwise. People have roughly the same variation as one might see in an shounen anime. There are elves and goblins which can have inhuman skin tones and eye colors. Elementals have a vast range of presentations but they're usually within what one might expect for them. The main thing here, really, are angels, which can be divided into the old style (ethereal figures made of solid gold light and matching vessels) and the new style (they just took whatever materials they had lying around and smelted an angel out of it).

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quick about:

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Infinite and Eternal Masterpost

Summary

"Whole Hog"s

099 | Enyd

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Exordium Masterpost

Summary

Exordium Setting Asks x

"Whole Hog"s

Ida | Ellie | Elthrandor | Elythra

BG3 AU Ellie Discussion (feat. Francois)

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Animus Vitrum Masterpost

Summary

Animus Vitrum Setting Asks x

"Whole Hog"s

Autumn & Vernon | Cy & Newton | Winter | Yule | Naomi

Angst asks feat. Winter and Mindy

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WIP Masterpost Navigation

Splitting these up/adding to these as I go for organizational purposes!

Masterposts

Animus Vitrum Masterpost Exordium Masterpost Infinite and Eternal Masterpost Misc RP Masterpost

Other

Misc ask prompts I've answered

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gonna work on migrating my wip and oc posts to #chesca.wip and #chesca.oc so it's easier for me to search on my own blog lol