Sooo this post is full of random information. Basically what I hope to do is take things from the Stuff post and work it in here. Going to work is apparently great for my creative process.
Details Details DetailsPlaces
Annalis The Keeper's Territory's Capitol city. (Think Minas Tirith type Architecture. The largest number of the city's inhabitants are military in nature. The city is build in the side of a mountain with four "rings."
From bottom to top:
1) The largest ring is the common sector/Garrison
2) Market/Trade district
3) Noble/higher class section- This is also the section where things such as the hospital are located.
4) Governmental/royalty
Deconstructed Zone the outer edge of the SDW. Floating rocks and whatnot, uninhabitable.
Dimensions
Shal-Doewelt the name I'm giving the Shadow world. Shal-Doe being "Shadow" and Welt: a doubled edge, strip, insert, or seam (as on a garment) for ornament or reinforcement. Sooo the Shal-Doewelt is essentially a "buffer" realm between worlds/dimensions that keeps them from colliding.
-"The Place that Is"
-for the most part, color does not exist in this world. In extremely rare cases the color blue can be seen. This is generally taken the as a sign of some great apocalyptic event or whatnot.
-time is absolutely relative (yeah wrap your mind around those two words put together). This means that for one person in teh Shal-Doewelt an event may happen in two minutes, for another two years. Mastering the time flow, however is extremely difficult, and most inhabitants follow a normal pattern set by The Timekeeper.
-History Lesson
+SDW was just a void until the Keeper and the Errant came from Prime. They molded the land to their will.
+Eventually their visions for the SDW no longer meshed and the Continuity War began, each gathering their own army to fight.
+The writings of the original Keeper were bound and given to the care of Baeloc.
Di-Vel Worlds The actual dimensions and alternate dimensions and alternate alternate dimensions and so forth. Think kind of like plant cells. A self contained little universe with the Shal-Doewelt between it and the next cell keeping things nice and separate. These can be mapped on the
Ova-Dimensional Grid.Prime The first world, holding the 0,0 coordinate on the Ova-Dimensional Grid. This is the dimension that all first generation Di-Vel Worlds came from. Our reality is NOT Prime. (City Planet)
Peoples
Relavis Corporation Maker of the PETS and other fine devices that make use of Drearon Energy. Founded by the twins, Marcum and Calum, the Corporation is responsible for bringing technology into an otherwise standard Fantasy world. The corporation claims neutrality in all conflicts between the Keepers and the Errant as their technology is available to all, without bias.
Walker Someone that enters the Shal-Doewelt from a Di-Vel world.
Dreavian the humanoid race born in the Shal-Doewelt. They are pretty much human, though a small percent of the population is born with the ability to manipulate Drearon Energy.
-a war-glorifying culture
-women generally do not hold positions of power
-upon passing their trials, males are given a unique title that takes place of their name
+title has no bearing on military or social rank aside from the fact that having one boosts status. It is personal, said to be a description of one's soul
+There have been 12 titled Women
+The only living titled woman is the Seer
-Religion: Being a war based civilization, their gods glorify war as well.
-they believe that when you die there is no afterlife so to speak, but your soul is measured. Depending on the result you Ascend or Descend to the next plane. When you Ascend it is to a more glorious life (Say, if you died a foot-soldier, you'd be reborn a general) and if you Descend it's to a less glorious life, where you have the chance to prove yourself worthy of Ascension (Foot soldier dies and comes back a blacksmith).(
Warrior Heaven)
The Keepers Followers of the Keeper. They are ruled by the descendants of the Keeper (general royal line). However, the last heir went missing a decade ago during a skirmish with the Errant, so they are currently ruled by a reagent lord.
+All male Keepers of age go through their rite of passage in the Chamber of Destiny. Think the cave on Dagobah. They spend a night within the chamber, and upon surviving leave with their title. The rite is different for everyone, and most chose not to speak of what they witnessed in the chamber when it's over. The ordeal is deeply personal.
The Errant Followers of the Errant. They are currently ruled by a group of Warlords that form a council.
+All male Errant of age also go through a rite of passage. Their version however is a trip to the Deconstructed Zone where they look out into the void in meditation. Those that survive with their mind intact are granted their title. If asked, most cannot describe what it is they see in the void.
Things
PETS - Personal Extradimensional Transport System. This is a small world hopper that allows a person to leave the Shal-Doewelt for two hours as a shadow. It works by punching a hole in the Zyhperious Membrane, and returning you through that same hole. It can only punch a hole from the Shal-Doewelt, so if you do not return before the two hours is up, you become stuck in the world as a shadow until a new hole is opened. Made by the Relavis Copropration. (
Ride the Lightning)
Zypherious Membrane This tangible substance serves as the boundary between the Shal-Doewelt and other worlds/dimensions. It is only tangible when one is in the Shal-Doewelt, however. Has almost a jello like consistency.
Drearon Energy The "electricity" of the Shal-Doewelt. It is gathered and stored in crystals. Select few in the world know that this energy is given off from the dreams of people in Di-Vel Worlds. Yes, the Shal-Doewelt runs on dreams.
The Five Relics of Borian Five relics come together to form the device that rips holes in the Membrane: Pendant, Trident, Focus, Shaft, Source. Borian was another early dweller of the SDW, who along with the Errant and the Keeper attempted to find a way back to Prime. The result was a polearm with the capability of tearing a hole in the ZyMem, allowing travel through. The problem with this is they didn't know where to tear the hole to get back to their dimension.
While they attempted to find the location, for safe keeping they split the polearm into five pieces, and intrusted each piece to a different family. Later, when the Continuity Wars began the pieces became scattered and hard to track. Using historical records, the Revalis Corp attempted to make another device. However, through testing the ZyMem, they discovered that a hole of that size would rip the SDW apart and in all likelyhood lead to the collapse of the Ova-Dimensional Grid and the project was scrapped.
Because of this new information both sides of the raging conflict have been searching for the pieces of the original device.
Major Events
Continuity Wars The Keepers and The Errant have been at war since the first Di-Vel world split off from Prime and the Shal-Doewelt was formed. This has been going on for a few billion years or so. The origins of this war have been so convoluted over the years that no one really knows why the war is being waged. Children are taught from birth on both sides that the otherside is wrong and it is their duty to fight.(
The World is Always Doomed)
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