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OOC: Scrambled Lore
Oct. 2nd, 2021 12:04 pmA gathering for random terms I might toss casually in stories that Might Require Context.
(Listen, I am the queen of what I love to call "context without context", and I am Super Aware Of It.)
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The three moons:
Umrakiel - the first song
Khaari - the new song
Eriat - the mirror moon
Iiyeta - the hidden moon
Esteban's world has three moons; and each race has their own legends about them. Each has an independent orbit from the other two, but their cycles match up every three months or so, where they all align.
This of course makes an enormous tidal wave, which sweeps across anything of a too-low altitude, and covers the land for a week or so in water. This means that all cities and villages are always inevitably on mountains, or uprises, to avoid the floodings. This also means that permanent structures on the "flat land" is practically impossible, hence why horses, wyverns and other such travel companions are so important to their society. Airship travels are still experimental, but slowly becoming a viable mode of transportation.
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Children of Chaos/ The Gods Eaters:
The gods are dead. This isn't a theory in Esteban's world; the Children of Chaos rose from the Abyss and ate the gods, or at least that's how the story goes. The truth is a bit more than that.
A mad scientist and experimenter, wanting to be on par with the gods created these monstrosities to destroy them. Joke's on him, because his creatures ended up killing him, but not before he managed to open a portal to the Abyss, thus ripping Demons and Devils into this world. And, since the event set loose the Children of Chaos, mortal kin assumed that the two were related; that the Children of Chaos are servants to the Demons and that the Devils can summon them with their Evil Eye.
The Children of Chaos are just monsters. Giants that destroy things in their way because they have no conscious thought of their own.
Two goddesses managed to escape them, and became the second and third moon, but they can no longer reach down to the earth, as one of the Children is now one with the sky; it's glimmering body makes up the rainbows that appear when rain hits it just right.
Most people are Aware of the Children of Chaos in a bit the way people are aware of myths and legends, or maybe ancient civilizations. That they exist is rarely disputed, but very few have ever seen the Children of Chaos themselves; some say that they slumber, some say that they are active. No one knows for sure.
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The Imprisoned God:
This is in reference to a fanatic/religious order, who have apparently found and sealed a god at the top of a tower, to keep him safe from the Children of Chaos. The truth is that the god in question is just a naive, but powerful sorcerer, who can bring his drawings to reality. The priests keeping him imprisoned have convinced him that to give life to his creations, he sucks the life out of anyone he locks eyes with, thus trapping him into isolation and consolidating his power into a tool they can use to control the citizens.
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Medusa's kiss: [CW: Addictive Substances, Mood Altering Substances.]
A highly addictive drug-and-poison that slowly paralyses its victims over the course of many years of consummation. The drug takes its name for the distinct shade of grey it afflicts on its victims' skin; advanced stages will have their limbs crimped and unable to move, and skin may crack as stone does when the body starts breaking down. Can be dissolved in water, and apparently tastes just a little sweet, like flower nectar.
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Naming Trees (Common), Remembrance Trees (Draconic), Memoriam Trees(Elvish):
The center of every Moon Mountain, and source of its survival, Naming Trees roots run deep to the core of the world, where the souls get reforged before their next lives.
There are many aspects of the Naming Trees; they embody both life and death for the Elves, and are regarded as sacred. A Naming Tree is born when an old and wary soul-- usually an elf-- asked a god to let them rest. The god would pluck the soul and mind from the body, rupturing the Tether of the Being. The word in Elvish for this both means Wreath, Braid and Tether, all in one.
Then, the soul and mind are planted along with the seed of a tree. The soul grows with the roots all the way to the forge of the dead, and the mind remains the anchor to the world outside, growing with the tree.
♫☼♪
"One's for the silver, two's for the sungrass~
Three's is the golden, the one that we saw last~
Fourth is the rustgrass, fifth is the bronze~
Sixth is the icegrass; the nights all get long~
Hide from the darkness, hide from the moonlight,
Hide from the floodings, but don't get a fright!~"
"Ready or not! Here we come!"
(Listen, I am the queen of what I love to call "context without context", and I am Super Aware Of It.)
♫☼♪
The three moons:
Umrakiel - the first song
Khaari - the new song
Eriat - the mirror moon
Iiyeta - the hidden moon
Esteban's world has three moons; and each race has their own legends about them. Each has an independent orbit from the other two, but their cycles match up every three months or so, where they all align.
This of course makes an enormous tidal wave, which sweeps across anything of a too-low altitude, and covers the land for a week or so in water. This means that all cities and villages are always inevitably on mountains, or uprises, to avoid the floodings. This also means that permanent structures on the "flat land" is practically impossible, hence why horses, wyverns and other such travel companions are so important to their society. Airship travels are still experimental, but slowly becoming a viable mode of transportation.
♫☼♪
Children of Chaos/ The Gods Eaters:
The gods are dead. This isn't a theory in Esteban's world; the Children of Chaos rose from the Abyss and ate the gods, or at least that's how the story goes. The truth is a bit more than that.
A mad scientist and experimenter, wanting to be on par with the gods created these monstrosities to destroy them. Joke's on him, because his creatures ended up killing him, but not before he managed to open a portal to the Abyss, thus ripping Demons and Devils into this world. And, since the event set loose the Children of Chaos, mortal kin assumed that the two were related; that the Children of Chaos are servants to the Demons and that the Devils can summon them with their Evil Eye.
The Children of Chaos are just monsters. Giants that destroy things in their way because they have no conscious thought of their own.
Two goddesses managed to escape them, and became the second and third moon, but they can no longer reach down to the earth, as one of the Children is now one with the sky; it's glimmering body makes up the rainbows that appear when rain hits it just right.
Most people are Aware of the Children of Chaos in a bit the way people are aware of myths and legends, or maybe ancient civilizations. That they exist is rarely disputed, but very few have ever seen the Children of Chaos themselves; some say that they slumber, some say that they are active. No one knows for sure.
♫☼♪
The Imprisoned God:
This is in reference to a fanatic/religious order, who have apparently found and sealed a god at the top of a tower, to keep him safe from the Children of Chaos. The truth is that the god in question is just a naive, but powerful sorcerer, who can bring his drawings to reality. The priests keeping him imprisoned have convinced him that to give life to his creations, he sucks the life out of anyone he locks eyes with, thus trapping him into isolation and consolidating his power into a tool they can use to control the citizens.
♫☼♪
Medusa's kiss: [CW: Addictive Substances, Mood Altering Substances.]
A highly addictive drug-and-poison that slowly paralyses its victims over the course of many years of consummation. The drug takes its name for the distinct shade of grey it afflicts on its victims' skin; advanced stages will have their limbs crimped and unable to move, and skin may crack as stone does when the body starts breaking down. Can be dissolved in water, and apparently tastes just a little sweet, like flower nectar.
♫☼♪
Naming Trees (Common), Remembrance Trees (Draconic), Memoriam Trees(Elvish):
The center of every Moon Mountain, and source of its survival, Naming Trees roots run deep to the core of the world, where the souls get reforged before their next lives.
There are many aspects of the Naming Trees; they embody both life and death for the Elves, and are regarded as sacred. A Naming Tree is born when an old and wary soul-- usually an elf-- asked a god to let them rest. The god would pluck the soul and mind from the body, rupturing the Tether of the Being. The word in Elvish for this both means Wreath, Braid and Tether, all in one.
Then, the soul and mind are planted along with the seed of a tree. The soul grows with the roots all the way to the forge of the dead, and the mind remains the anchor to the world outside, growing with the tree.
♫☼♪
"One's for the silver, two's for the sungrass~
Three's is the golden, the one that we saw last~
Fourth is the rustgrass, fifth is the bronze~
Sixth is the icegrass; the nights all get long~
Hide from the darkness, hide from the moonlight,
Hide from the floodings, but don't get a fright!~"
"Ready or not! Here we come!"
