@amity206 i wrote out and organized the world building a long time ago, so it’s not exactly up to date with the newer seasons and season area’s but i guess if someone’s interested i should maybe look into updating it? hm something to think about ig lol either way, here’s my whole world building sheet its veryyy long so uh take your time reading it, im totally willing to answer any questions you have too :3
Isle of Dawn-Binial
where all moths are born
Moths are Megabird shaking off their feathers
those feathers fall to isle in a meteor type fashion and when they land, they are a ball of Megabird’s light which soon reforms into a classic moth with no cape, the basic moth hair, pants and mask
this happens at random which is why sky kids must keep constant watch over the beach for new arrivals
its rare for more than one moth to be born at a time but it can still happen
they are usually considered siblings more than most and its strongly encouraged not to separate them
they can leave each other when they are old if they so wish but most dont
Moths are called Mids, the species of sky kids are called Skids, and butterfly sky kids, so someone between moth and vet are called Butids
Caretakers-a whole “job”(i say job very loosely) you can have as a vet where you simply wait at the beach in isle for moths to be born to then help them adjust to their new bodies and take them to one of the various house in isle to grow up and either get adopted or picked up by a guider or just get old enough to choose to set out on their own
Guiders-more similar to mentors than a parent
they wont adopt the moth into their family but simply help them learn how sky works and take them through the realms til either they reach Empyrean or find a place they want to live or an apprenticeship learning sometime of art or craft
they can take more than one moth too where people adopting rarely do
they usually are either near the end of their lives or they are simply bored for a while, sometimes they do it just to be nice, it depends on the guider
Guiders and sky kids come to adopt moths here
Some stay for the community feeling because its like a suburban neighborhood with many moths and elder skids sticking around
Others like it for the quiet they can find by the shores as mids are typically contained to the center of Binial for their safety
houses above ground and houses built into caves and buried in the ground
Cave of prophecy
It's more like a fun training ground! Or an obstacle course
They don’t actually die, the prophet just laughs and helps them back onto the course
They're more like a referee than a prophet
Daylight Prairie-Digarem
Fisherman type region
Everyone here fishes or builds the various types of boats, water or air
They can also train mantas for various jobs
Some people are butterfly breeders/keepers
Other don't have an area specific job but like the peace and quiet
Sanctuary Isle
A beach type resort place
People commonly go to just relax and play with the flock of mantas and swim in the water
Hidden Forest-Hirthlim
Mainly filled with artisans and researchers
only place in this world you can die unnaturally is from the deadly rain of Hirthlim
Very dangerous which is why younger skids are rarely wandering alone and if they are, everyone will constantly check up on them and ask if they need help
Wood carvers, painters, jewelers, metal workers, forgers, etc etc
They just carve out like mini statues and then plop them down, scattered everywhere across the forest. You can just find one hidden away a little bit as you’re walking/flying your way through the forest
there's hand crafted stuff everywhere in forest, various sculptures littered along side the paths, crystal garlands hung from branch to branch etc
at night you see the reflection of flittering fireflies in the rivers and lakes that make them look like the stars in the sky that is actually hidden behind the leaves and branches above
The cave in the tree has gems, metals and stone that they mine to use for decorations
Treehouse
A big commune basically
People go there if they need to hide from someone or they simply need to get away from it all
It's also where mids who’s guiders/family have died or the mids who got lost in Hirthlim are taken to
Sometimes the mid isn’t a good fit for the family either they are brought back to Binial or brought to treehouse to be readopted or if they are old enough, to simply figure out if they want another family or if they wanna go off on their own for a while
the mids take a while to show their personality and sometimes the family either cant properly take care of them for some reason or its detrimental to the family itself and the mids are well taken care of and due to being so young, they quickly forget the past family and harbor no sadness or trauma from the parting
skids who work/live here commonly go searching through Hirthlim looking for lost moths
Flight
The mail center
Also a huge manta training grounds but only for riding or helping with pulling carts
Also used as training grounds for flying in tight spaces or with really strong winds
the mail is carried by the wind currents and birds pass messages between the spirits and skids that work there
like the big current that takes you all the way around flight but hundreds of tiny ones
mail leaving flight is either put on a cart dragged by a big manta or given to mail skids who have a specific section of each realm that they deliver to
they ride smaller mantas to travel around quicker and deliver the mail
the skids do the sorting and taking them out of flight
The widespread corruption and the fall of King Resh and of Sky has not happened yet
Its is starting to though, with small infrequent dark plants sprouting in Hirthlim and the corruption of the first manta in Gaial
The draining rain is not caused by the corruption, it is part of the natural Sky world that people have come to live with
Valley of Triumph-Valem
Large bustling city, think new york and street fairs
Valem + Empyrean hold like 70% of all skids permanent homes
It has many markets and schools and overall is just a huge culture landmark due to its size and population
Anything you can think of, they have have
A lot of mids stay here a long time before making the journey to Empyrean and some just never leave
Super big on competition and flying
Many sports and they hold a ton of games and celebrations
Village of Dreams
Moth epicenter
Basically the suburbs
Many many families have their permanent homes here
Huge houses
Where ice skating lessons are held :3
Hermit Valley
Where a lot engineers and inventors and scientist and researchers live
many move up to hermit valley because no one else lives up there so they dont have to worry about bother anyone with their creations and since everyone is a researcher, they are used to dangerous stuff
They are the ones making the flying boats and looking into the dark plants and the power crystals
There’s also the normal types of researchers like how the world works and there’s a lot of researchers investigating the old murals and trying to write of of sky’s history and religion down
There’s also a lot of people looking into helping disabled sky kids and making better gear for various jobs + mantas
They’re looking into creating fake wings for skids that can’t fly but so far are unsuccessful
They mainly focused on saddles for service mantas as well as other needed aids such as googles to improve eyesight
at the peaks of this giant mountain range where it snows and is giant enough to fit whole villages and a city
Along side all the birds you fly up to the top to Valem and suddenly you burst through the blanket of clouds and you’re soaring above them
You can either take a boat or manta up or fly up a wind tunnel/highway to get up
Golden Wastelands-Gaial
mainly farming fields before the big border wall for Empyrean
inside that wall are smaller villages
basically like the midwest, farms for miles and miles
a canyon is in the west but people rarely venture that way due to being so far out of the way (where the first corruption of a manta, the first step towards krill and the person who has semi control over it)
a small town/castle thing lies on that coast
Forgotten Ark
there's no ark there
its just another farm but since its an island, they have different crops and such
very floral and such, think tropics
Abyss
very veryyyyyyy small fishing village
its very hidden and people rarely go there
the fishers there venture out sometimes to sell their catches but its mainly made up of 2-3 large found families that dont want to interact with other sky kids nowadays so they just stay in their village
Vault of Knowledge-the library
its filled with researchers and scribes
all of the kingdoms history is recorded here
this is where the “priests” live too
priests arent actually priests but more the high level scribes, because they know a lot of information and can offer good advice
no one can actually talk to Megabird obviously but they have studied the memory cubes for most of their life so they know more than anyone else which is why people go to them for advice
this is like home base for all researchers
any researches elsewhere come from the library and will return there if their research is finished
they also send all their reports there
Starlight Desert
the childrens library!
this is where moths can learn about the history or just hear stories
sometimes older sky kid will leave their moths here for a while like a daycare
there’s people who live in eden that are like school teachers basically that work in starlight
Eden-Empyrean
this is like a huge spiraling city
i saw someone compare it to the tower of babel so i’m strongly referencing that
there’s multiple levels, getting smaller as they go up
the very top level is where King Resh and his advisors live and work
lower level down is where they hold meeting with the elders and just general important stuff idk
floors 1-4 are split in half basically
one half is purely the library and the other is normal house and stores and workshops and such
spirit mantas are used to move large groups of people around like buses or to travel around on one floor if they dont want to fly or have a large package or something
spirit mantas are also used in the library to reach the memory cubes higher up because that way the scribe would be stable instead of having to flap up and down
spirit mantas are used instead of regular mantas because they are calmer and easier to train
they also grow up quicker and can fly stationary in the air which is great for the confined space of eden
that’s all the like physical world, the rest is the culture and society of my world
Culture/Lore
Families are called flocks and some flocks have a bird as their emblem kinda thing
Memory cubes
the things that line the walls of vault, you can record information in it like a book, you can either record a little hologram like a video or your voice reading out words like an audiobook
they are how sky stores all its information and how they send information thats too much to fit in a letter
King Resh
the King of sky (he’s also the one that caused its downfall but that hasnt happened yet in this world and won’t for a while)
the ruler chosen by Megabird and he oversees all of sky
lives in eden and mainly is in charge of big transportation projects like new boat systems like in dreams and hermit valley
theres a lot more of them in this world due to the fall not happening yet
he also can request the researchers/scribes to look into certain topics like the darkstone/power crystals and such
also gonna have a huge religious role but i have to finish the religion first
Geography
the world is one big island surrounded by ocean
its just a straight line from one realm to the next
Binial is a flat beach
Digarem is rolling hills with lots of rivers and both sides are by the ocean
it gently slopes up as you get further from Binial but you can still reach the ocean easily
Hirthlim is a big forest that starts to slope up more rapidly
there are streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes formed from the water run off from Valem and the constant rain
at the beginning it doesn't rain and you could still kinda reach the ocean below but there's no beach anymore
as you get higher, on the ocean sides is a sheer cliff face with no beach below, just like rocks
Valem is the mountain range that separates Hirthlim and Gaial from each other
you pass through the clouds to reach the snowy peaks of Valem
then there's a kinda steep slope down to Gaial which is closer to the ocean
the sides near the ocean slope down to meet it so fishing can occur here too but rarely does due to most people farming here
then there's the border wall to Empyrean
the villages inside with smaller farms and then the circular city rising up
Darkstone
a mysterious stone that is mined from the mountains
Power crystals-darkstone is refined into a power crystal which is used to power machines like the boats and doors
Powered by light, either the skids natural light or the sun
Theres a job of just refining darkstone
Gives a connection between life and their machines
sky kids bodies are made of light and as they grow up their light get stronger
thats how you gain your cape and more flaps
you gain a lot when you’re younger and then it slows down as you get older til you start losing it
then eventually you lose all your light become extinguished and you turn to ash and scatter in the wind
so its very common for families to take them to their favorite spot so their ashes can be scattered where they love most
basically the rain leeches away your light and so you are slowly drained and if you get extinguished here you just die
Megabird
basically god and the universe and light
its where all things come from and all things go
it created all of sky, people and everything and is a being of pure light
its also semi the sun?
it doesn’t really dictate what people do but is part of sky’s natural rebirth cycle where when anything light dies, their light/soul returns to Megabird to then later be sent back down to sky
its the deity that the spirits and sky kids worship
its who appointed Resh as king
its commonly depicted as a bird in all the murals in sky which is why ive just made it a bird
Megabird is like straight vibing, making the universe but at the same time is the universe but is also traveling through it
its complicated
Megabird is the very fabric of the universe and each atom and plant and animal is made up and created by Megabird
but Megabird is also just a giant bird thing made up of pure light and stars gliding across the galaxies
but like at the same time the trail left behind it is what makes stars and planets and comets and everything
Logic behind why Days of Rainbow and Lights exist is because Megabird is a semi physical being
it cares deeply about all of its creations which is why it returns to check up on Sky twice a year
Rainbow being a brief pass by on its way elsewhere and Lights is Megabird checking in more closely on everything, that its all going well and nothing is horribly corrupted or anything
Jobs
the whole thing about sky is there is no “jobs”
no one is forced to work
you can quit or change jobs because everything is basically an art or a genuine love for what they are doing
some sky kids dont have a profession at all, they are simply wanderers or just like vibing and exploring or staying home with their flock or whatever
Death and Rebirth
you dont die in eden
basically your light returns to Megabird and for a while you are one with it until your feather falls down to sky again
reborn as a new moth; people reborn wont remember their past life nor will people from their past life recognize them but they will have similar characteristics to their past life and sometimes feel deja vu from their past life
skids are rarely reborn while their surviving family is still alive as it takes a while for their feather to be shaken off again so past family and reborn moths rarely exist at the same time and even rarer do they meet
skids dont remember what it was like to be one with Megabird but they know that it is nice and Megabird is kind so people dont fear natural death
when someone dies its a happy sadness because their family knows they are “whole” again and they will return to sky as well as when the family dies, they will meet up with their loved one in Megabird
Moths learn about the rebirth cycle from a young age but in a soft happy way
Spirits-??? still unnamed
arent actually spirits, cause they arent dead yet
basically they were the species Megabird sent down before the sky kids
they've lived in sky a long time before sky kids
they have a very long life span so when we arrive they are tired from their long life which is why they rarely move from the area theyre in
a year to sky kids is like a day to them so they are content to watch us enjoy ourselves and be so lively and free
they still give us the cosmetics and such but its like kinda a spell
like your body is made of light and they are teaching you how to manipulate that light into that specific hair or clothing style
The first time they help guide your light into the right shape so you know how it feels and then you can recreate it
Kinda like this
the spirits having the skykids just sit down while they give like a magic lesson lol. One spirit standing with a bunch of lil skykids sitting around them on the ground staring up at them with awe. It’s dark out, and you can clearly see that they are a spirit. The stars are twinkling up in the sky and then they start to demonstrate how to make their hairstyle. The spirit is like “now follow my hand movements” and then they do like a twirly thing with their hands and lights are sparkling around their hands and poof! Wow suddenly a hairstyle! “Now let us go through the movements together. Picture [insert cosmetic here]. Feel your light magic flow through you. Feel it building in between your hands.” The little skykids follow and mimic what the spirit showed them
you can get all the cosmetics, including seasonal cosmetics and past ults
ults are more rare as they are only given by quest givers to those they like or gain their favor
some give out ults more easily than other, everyone has flight ults as Ms Flight gives them out freely but Prophecy or Gratitude’s ults are harder to obtain due to them being more picky/higher standards
Clothing/Cosmetics
because the cosmetics are the spirits teaching you how to manipulate your light, theres no physical object you obtain
if you buy clothes or a mask that another sky kid made, that would be physical and you would have to pick it up and put it on, to replace the spell you’re wearing
if you are wearing a sky kid made cosmetic, you have to take it off like actual clothes
the only cosmetic a sky kid cant make is a new style of hair due to that being pure light and you cant cut that
some of the older sky kids can combine two or three hairs to make a new style, but that takes a lot of discipline and concentration to achieve which is why only older kids can do it
researchers are looking into making new hair style spells but unsuccessful so far
Skids can talk and emotes and calls arent a thing, you can see and talk to people without lighting or friending them
Bc of this you have to actually learn to dance and do the various emotes, you cant just perfectly copy it
Economy
There isnt rlly any
money doesnt exist
usually sky kids will just give things away for free or trade things
like if youre a seamstress and you want a special wood carving you can offer an outfit or something in exchange
people are incredibly kind and if you give them something for free, they will remember it and be sure to pay it back later
Bc of this its next to impossible to be poor
you dont have to buy or pay for a house
if youre down on your luck, people will just help you out, giving you clothes and food, a place to stay for a while so you can look for your own house comfortably
Housing
since sky kids are so nomadic almost? many families will have more than one house in different areas
they have their permanent house which is where they live most of the time and have most of their stuff in
sky kids will have extra, usually smaller houses, in other areas to vacation in or move to if they want a change of scenery for a while or if they travel a lot
they can stay in their extra house while passing through, like a large family could have a big house in village of dreams but then have a beach house in Binial for when they want to adopt a moth or one in Hirthlim to stay in while passing through or maybe they’ll get a house just cause it looks pretty while passing by
houses are free
there are sky kids that just build them for fun and as long as its structurally sound, they can build it however they want
so theres many different types and colors and shapes of houses and lots of empty free ones
if you want a house, you simply need to hang a wreath of flowers on the door to show its claimed and that no one else can have it
every house has basic furniture which is needed because if you a wandering sky kid, you can stay in an empty unclaimed house for a day or two instead of sleeping outside, though some still do that
theres not rlly any hotels, well there is a couple in Valem and Empyrean but you mainly go there as a vacation, to relax and not have to cook your own food or make your own bed or anything
Army
sky doesnt have an army, cause theres nothing to fight
there are people who like spar for fun, like boxing or martial arts or like archery and fencing
most sky kids are trained in basic survival like climbing and fishing, just in case for when they are out exploring or wandering
most people are nice but there are a very very small amount of sky kids that others might need to defend themselves against
Calendar
Normal january to december, 24 hours, monday to sunday system
they have clocks to keep track but nobody really bothers with them
they go off of the sun or moon in the sky and its always a vague time
if they do use a clock, like two friends could agree to meet at like 3 pm and it wouldn't be uncommon for them to actually meet at 3:30-4 pm
scribes in the library are the ones keeping track of the years and major events and such
Holidays
each holiday lasts a month, so there are 12 major holidays
people dont celebrate every single day of the month obviously but it makes it easier to meet far away friends and family and making time for everyone, plus the mood and festivities can continue for longer
most of the holidays are based off of ones already in the game but theres two ive added and ive changed the others to fit better
Days of Fortune-Fortune
January, specifically the first as the big celebration day obvi
theres fireworks and wishing everyone happiness and success
its incredibly popular time to change professions or try something new
moths come down more often in isle as well
Days of Love-Love
February, specifically mid feb
this is when you just let people you know you love them
adoptions and confessions are very common during Love
its a very soft emotional month
Days of Prayer-Prayer
March
this is when everyone thanks Megabird for all its done and wishes it well in it’s journey through the universe
usually they ask for advice or wishes during this month as its rude to do it any other month
this is also generally the month when moths learn more about Megabird and the religion
Days of Bloom-Bloom
April
celebrating the start of spring
the flowers are blooming and the air is sweet
everyone is energized for the coming months
moths born during this time are more playful than most
Days of Nature-Nature
May
everyone takes a little time to appreciate the world they live in and how well it takes care of them and they take care of it
people visit their favorite locations and enjoy the scenery
photo taking and painting/sketching rises dramatically in this month as everyone wants a memory of where they’ve been
Days of Rainbow-Rainbow
June
rainbows appear frequently around the world of sky
due to the fact that Megabird flies in front of the sun and the rainbows are a sliver of its brilliance reflected on the world
Days of Sovereign-Sovereign
July
this was the month that either Resh was born or made king, depending who you ask
generally people send gifts to him as thanks or be grateful for the services he provides such as the boat transportation system and the researchers
Days of Summer-Summer
August
the crops are growing and being harvested food is plentiful
it's a time for long days of hard rewarding work and storing the food away for feast
sky kids that arent farmers come to help them with either temporary labor or taking care of them after the long days in the fields
Days of Lights-Lights
September
Megabird draws closer to Sky so everyone’s light grows brighter so for this month people start glow
the glow starts at the beginning of sept grows brighter and then mid month starts to dim so by the end of sept everyone is normal again
moths born in this month naturally glow a little year round and is the brightest sky kids during lights, makes them very easy to spot
Days of Mischief-Mischief
October
time for funny pranks and tricks
everyone can dress up and be a little crazy
it's a giggley time and people are relaxing after the harvest
Days of Remembrance-Remembrance
November
this is when people remember those who are gone
its days of the dead type thing
its a sad kind of happy, cause they know their loved ones are safe and well and theyll see them again and it isnt forever, theyll return to sky one day
they cooked their favorite foods and visit their favorite places and tell stories and memories about them
its a very mellow time
Days of Feast-Feast
December
they've celebrated their lost family now time to celebrate their current family
huge huge meals
people coming from all over to meet up, gifts are given and merry times are had
Basically you have Remembrance with remembering your dead family and friends, then Feast with appreciating your living family and friends and then Fortune where you look forward to new family and friends to come
Realm specific holidays
Binial- they celebrate every time a new moth is born of, they make sure to mark down the exact date and time so the moth can always know when to celebrate; they also celebrate fortune extra hard
Digarem- celebrates when a group of mantas completes training or there is a particularly big catch of fish
Hirthlim doesnt have many forest specific celebrations, sometimes flight will have a “theres no mail for a few days lets chill” celebration
sometimes older vets will go out and dance in particularly heavy rainfalls
some specific artisan groups will celebrate the completion of a big project or a particularly good mine from the caves
but the only forest wide celebration seems to be the quiet mourning that comes with finding someone turned to ash too early
Valem has so many celebrations that people physically can't celebrate them all so they just celebrate what's important to them, there's sports celebrations and arts celebrations and family ones
Gaial also doesn’t have many celebrations just the first planting, first harvest, end of growing, last harvest, everything stored til feast
Empyrean has a random assortment of celebrations, most of them religious or related to the researchers/scribes, i never finished the religion so maybe i should do that lol
Food
basically there's a lot of fish and crab dishes
there's food crabs and pet crabs but pet crabs get a distinct marking painted on their back so people know not to eat it
Crabs aren't corrupted yet and thus are passive
but those are the only meats in sky, so its mostly vegetarian foods and such
they do have eggs from birds but they grow like corn and sugar and wheat and rice and such
how it works
basically everything is made/grown with light from the sun which is Megabird so food is what helps grow and maintain your light
when sky kids are younger the effects are more obvious, they gain more stars on their back and cape strength
when they get older and this slows down, food helps maintain the amount of light u have and basically like slows the aging process
because aging is just losing your stars and food makes that happen slower so food is vital to growth and maintaining a sky kids light
people also tend to eat a lot more often in forest to survive the draining rain and replenish their light so it's less likely they'll die and can stand out in the rain longer
Arts
Every art is revered
Everyone plays their part and enjoys what they do and its incredibly important because it’s what people fill their lives with
Theres no job to do, no money to worry about, no school that you must attend so people have time to fill with whatever arts they chose
Spirits do still hand out music sheets to those who ask but they don’t make new ones
Sky kids can and do create new sheets to share with others
i am only now realizing how long this, oh god. i should have split the world and the culture into two posts or something, im really sorry Amity (is that your name? i just guessed from ur username) but heyyy uh if u manage to read all this, good job! and also im dying to talk about this again so yea just reblog this with whatever questions or comments or anything u got
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