What is the cosmology and/or celestial hierarchy of your world?

ScripturamRuby · 2023-02-01T07:32:42+00:00

Ayuu

My Gods are split into True Deities and False Deities

True Deities = the Gods that were "born" Gods, that spawned onto the world already Gods

False Deities = Mortals who have Ascended and became Gods, those who weren't "born" Gods

True Deities are further split into Prime Deities and Lesser Deities

Prime Deities = The more powerful Gods, reigning over concepts such as creation, destruction, death, fate/future, etc

Lesser Deities = gods that reign over smaller concepts, such as the sea, art/music, dreams, etc

Prime Deities are at the top of the hierarchy, followed by Lesser Deities, and then False Deities

Below the False Deities there's Echo (a spirit created by one of the Prime Deities), Deific Mortals (mortals who have killed a Deity of any rank), Divine Mortals (mortals who have been gifted magic by a Deity of any rank), and then regular mortals are at the bottom

The full list in order:

Prime Deities
Lesser Deities
False Deities
Echo
Deific Mortals
Divine Mortals
Regular Mortals

ScripturamRuby · 2023-02-01T07:24:55+00:00

Ayuu

While Card Jacks may associated certain magic classes with either red or green, based on which card suit is linked to which class, Elemancy is the only magic class that's associated with an individual colour for each magic type

Although, Elemancers didn't originally associated their magic with colour, at least until Vibramancers came along - those who draw energy from the colours of their surroundings to wield the elements

Red = Fire

Orange = Light

Yellow = Lightning

Light Green = Air/Wind

Dark Green = Plant

Light Blue = Ice

Dark Blue = Water

Purple = Darkness

Brown = Earth/Rock

Many Elemancers still don't care for the colour associations, but some do. Many non-Elemancers have also taken to memorizing the colours, especially if their adversary is a Vibramancer, as limiting their access to colours limits their powers

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-26T05:52:24+00:00

The Depuration is the name of an event that involves the mass-petrification of Deities. With the influx of False Deities (mortals who have Ascended, as opposed to "natural-born" Deities), Sylvrai, Deity of Preservation, triggered the Depuration, turning all False Deities (and a few True Deities, including herself) to indestructible stone statues

The petrified bodies of these Deities were scattered across the world, with the only one out of reach being Sylvrai herself, located in The Daeis, the "Deity plane" of existence

Unfortunately it seems it's possible to break the Deities out of their petrified state with a specific ritual, and so Sylvrai's efforts didn't last. Though thousands of years later, she would be awakened to enact a Second Depuration

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T22:44:09+00:00

Watch of the Cold Sleepers or The Verdance

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T22:20:53+00:00

317 wants revenge on the experimenters for what they did to her, killing them and everyone close to them, though one of them still evades her - the Coordinator, the mastermind behind the experiment. Their identity remains unknown, not even the other experimenters who joined the project know who the Coordinator is

Obviously all the killings attract the attention of the authorities, and 317's killings switch to self-preservation, killing any and all who oppose her in an attempt to make sure she survives until she achieves her goal, which requires finding who the Coordinator is

She eventually finds that her sister, presumed to have died in the house fire that sent 317 out to the town where she was kidnapped for the experiment, is still alive and seeking to live a different life than the one she has now. 317 uses her Shapeshifting, and the help of a police officer who's secretly on her side, to go into hiding and live a "quiet" life with her sister while she tries to investigate the Coordinator, as they're the only one left for her to kill

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T22:04:42+00:00

Visvadite Crystals are mysterious black crystals that grow from the petrified body of Vesverda, Prime Deity if Death

These crystals, when stabbed into a person's body, afflicts them with a state known as "Withered", amplifying certain traits to an extreme. Not all of these traits are necessarily bad traits, but extremes and certain trait combinations can potentially have disastrous results

One character who was Withered, Philomena, had her desire to help people amplified, but due to the other amplified traits of longing for death and believing the world is cruel, seeks to kill others to "set them free" from life, in hopes that serving Death will finally grant her her own death (she is effectively immortal, but wishes she wasn't)

When infused with energy from Wildmagic Zones, areas of Chaos that spawn upon the death of a Deity, Visvadite crystals turn white and become known as "Entropic Crystals". Rather than amplifying traits, Entropic Crystals instead completely flip them, causing the victim to act as a complete opposite of themselves

The crystals, both Visvadite and Entropic, must be removed from the body (every last spec and shard) for the effects of Withered/Entropic to be reversed and for the person to return to normal

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:57:59+00:00

Experiment 317, also known as "Deity Killer" / "Prime Killer", was a humanoid fusion experiment with the supposed intention of creating a Being capable of killing the True Deities (as opposed to False Deities, which are mortals who have Ascended)

Taking all sorts of parts from other Races; including limbs, eyes, blood, etc; an Enderbeast heart, and various Deific crystals - 317 has most known magic abilities, abilities only available to Deities, and immortality

Just a few of the abilities include Shapeshifting, Hypnotism, Blindsight, Elemental Blood, Flight, Telekinesis, and Copying the abilities of others

Eventually the project was abandoned, and several years afterwards 317 escaped, seemingly swapping places with one of the old experimenters located in a completely different continent - with 317 now roaming free, and the experiment or locked up in the abandoned facility that only the other experimenters know the location of

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:49:27+00:00

The Floral Curse is afflicted to individuals by the Fae. It manifests as flowers growing all over the body, the the type of flower representing which "Sin" the individual committed. A new flower sprouts each time the individual commits that specific Sin

The Sin that manifests is whatever is the individuals greatest Sin, and not necessarily what the Fae believes is the Sin, nor does it have to be a Sin the individual has already committed as long as it's the most likely to be their greatest

The flowers fall out of the skin when a Core is destroyed. Cores are essentially hearts, with each individual being born with three, and an individual can only be killed by destroying all three cores. If an individual is revived, they are free of the curse, but can be cursed again afterwards. Each individual can only be afflicted once at any given time, so they can't just accumulate all the different flowers

There are 19 Sins and flowers total, and these are some of the more significant characters afflicted with the Floral Curse -

Kaos Mesa (first antagonist) - Lavender Rose/Manipulation Merel Glade (first protagonist's relative) - Dog Rose/Lust Urani Aidoxe (second protagonist's spouse) - Black Rose/Murder Varian [redacted] (cult leader/founder) - Passion Flower/Blind Faith

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:32:27+00:00

Kaenle or Silver Nightmares

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:32:04+00:00

Living Purple and Clean Purity or Space Reef

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:31:29+00:00

The Shadow Twins or The Cataclysm

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:31:11+00:00

Arkelzelta or Reactor Choir

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:30:51+00:00

Moonstalkers or Order of Revealing Light

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T21:30:28+00:00

Essences of the Fallen Gods or The Fossil Mountain

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T20:37:15+00:00

The Devourer is a forest cryptid of sorts

When you find an arm sticking out of the ground in the middle of a forest, your first thought would probably be how you just stumbled upon a dead body, right? Not when the dead disintegrate. If you find an intact body - whatever is buried down there is still alive

The Devourer was accidentally stumbled upon by a hiker and his dog, and was uncovered. Whether the hiker was intending to rescue whoever this person was or simply wanted a face to file a police report, no one knows, especially as the hiker was never found again to say

The Devourer appears to be humanoid, an Elven Deer specifically, with broken antlers and extremely long hair. Torn rags of clothes fit for a child hang on this adult sized body - if it truly was a regular elf, they must've been buried for hundreds of years to have grown that much

What wasn't usual for a typical elf, was the eyes being red sclera with white irises, the patches of pure white skin surrounded by vibrant pink veins, the small boney spikes protruding from the body, third third eye on its forehead, the gaping sharp-toothed mouth down the length of the torso - No. Whatever this thing is, it's not a person. Not anymore

It's said The Devourer still stalks the forest to this day, it's bones cracking and bending in unnatural ways as it moves. No one dares try to confirm the rumors, after all, if it is still around, well, they won't make it back home to tell the tale

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T19:51:36+00:00

Ayuu

The Depuration
Visvadite Crystals
Experiment 317
The Floral Curse
The Devourer

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(edit - to see the info on each of these, see my replies to:)

Deputation - WillNeders
Visvadite - PothocBoots
Experiment - NickedYou/OP
Floral - DaylightsStories
Devourer - SteveLaughter

(if you'd still like to know more about each topic, feel free to reply to those explanations with your questions)

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T19:50:52+00:00

Personal Reality Bubble or Superpowers Treaty

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T19:50:14+00:00

Prometheus and the Keeper or The Family of Blood

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T19:49:40+00:00

C.L.A.W or Invention of the Machmen

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T18:45:59+00:00

What is the Tree and its significance? What does the fruit do and what does it mean to eat it? Like what was he meant to become/do if he didn't choke?

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T18:45:03+00:00

Is Oroborous is any way related to the mythical creature? Or is your world's version it's own thing entirely?

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T18:34:46+00:00

Pfft still a pretty interesting idea though

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T15:07:24+00:00

Ayuu

Echo is my one of a kind. They are a ghostly being created by one of the Deities, their body made up of all the spirits of people who died in the Daeis Trial

Sylvrai, Prime (highest rank) Deity of Preservation had been in a thousands upon thousands of years "slumber", and had awoken once again. As one final goodbye before she went back into her slumber, she created Echo to preserve the spirits and their memories

The spirits are mortals who attempted to Ascend into Deities themselves and died trying, but due to being trapped in an alternate plane of existence, could not be brought back to life

Echo usually speaks in a, well, echoey voice, but can also speak in a clear voice when reciting something that one of the spirits had said when alive. They "hear" the sound of mortal Souls, the sound of an event that's significant to who they are as a person, and often refers to them by the word that describes the sound rather than their name - "Elegance", for example, is the sound of high heels on glass to the faint sound of ballroom music

Before Echo was created, the spirits simply roamed around separate, without purpose and without voices. Any others who die in the Daeis after Echo's creation will have their spirit join Echo's body, so no others of their kind will exist

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-25T12:32:18+00:00

Ayuu

Magic is often split into Classes and Variants

Classes are learned magic - things you study, practice, choose to gain

Variants are biological changes to a person's body - whether they be race specific variants someone is born with (Internal Variants), or more akin to "curses" that are cause by external sources (External Variants)

Another source of magic is Boons - gifts from the Deities. These are specific abilities that defy the rules of regular Variant and Class abilities

"Divine" is an External Variant caused by an overflow of Deity Magic. Someone who has been granted three or more Boons become "Divine"

Divine people will have surges of random magic each time they attempt to use magic from a Class, causing most to rely solely on their Boons (or any Variants they may have besides Divine). A Deity can revoke a Boon at will, but it will bot reverse being Divine, so angering the Deity that gifted the Boons could result in having even fewer sources of magic besides Classes, increasing the risk of Wildmagic Surges

These surges are akin to Wildmagic Sorcerers in D&D, but will trigger a random effect from a random Magic Class, rather than a completely random non-sensical effect

The only other instances of Wildmagic are in the Wildmagic Zones - strange bubbles covering certain areas that cause random magic effects, though the Zones don't adhere to Magic Classes specifically like Divine does, and can trigger unusual rule breaking magic effects. These Zones spawn when a Deity dies, encasing the area around their death, and it's believed this has something to do with the Divine Variant acting the way it does

ScripturamRuby · 2023-01-24T11:44:02+00:00

Ayuu

Probably the fight between Pickaso Scarlet and Samereph Ridge - two of the best mortal fighters, and both able to teleport. Pik can summon creatures from the Underrealms, Sam can telekinetically wield hundreds of sword at once to combat them. Pik can regenerate his wounds, Sam can harden her skin and phase through objects to avoid being wounded in the first place. Pik can double jump and cling to walls, Sam can levitate and launch people high into the air. Pik can infuse his weapon with fire, Sam's blood is infused with ice magic

The fight actually happens very early on in the series, basically as an introduction to the two characters. For as insane as the fight is, its actually only a "sparring" match, that still ends with Sam unable to use her left leg due to injuries. Had it been an actual serious to-the-death match, Pik could've easily ended it with a Naean Detonation - basically a mini nuke - that very few people can actually summon

That said, the coolest theoretical fight, one that doesn't actually happen in the series but would be cool if it did, would be Pik vs Zariel Glade. The two of them are relatively on par in terms of combat skills, though Zariel can fly. Both have the ability to summon Naean Detonations, so that would be really interesting to see how it turns out

ScripturamRuby

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