*Uses the words people, folks, individuals, and souls almost 100% interchangeably
The Map
Resources
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The Vibe/Inspiration:
Warrior Cats / WCUE, Sheep & Wolves + Alpha & Omega (if they were executed better), Tumblr RP Blogs, The Golden Compass (movie, haven't read the books), RP games, TTRPGs, the concept of fanfiction itself
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The Team:
(If you want to join, just ask!)
@catsithkelpie
@sirenboness
@pinpointedradars
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Magic/Soul System:
• In Hamr-sál, the body, mind, and soul are one. People present exactly how they perceive themselves at any given time. Individuals can separate or meld together through mutual choice via magic.
• Reality is fluid. Feats like teleportation, telekinesis, and just generally magical acts are all possible.
• Some magical entities give off UV light to keep the areas without sunlight that need it lit.
• A sál mynd, soul shape, or soul mark is a marking on someone's body that is the truest representation of self. It can be on any part of the body, and is the one permanent part of someone's appearance. It's how identical individuals can be told apart. (Think cutie mark, that's essentially what it is.)
• You can't really copy someone's sál mynd, because it's the truest representation of self, so you'd literally have to believe with all your heart that you are the same person.
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Geography:
• Hamr-sál is in its own unique galaxy called "The Glimmer". There are additional alien planets (created by individuals OOC) with their own systems and geography.
• Very layered geography with plateaus, mountains, and floating islands. Generally speaking, the higher up the area, the more advanced the technology (with exceptions ofc). The celestial deities are in space. More physically present gods are on the grounds of their followers' settlements.
• There aren't any "races," due to the whole... "Everyone looks exactly how they perceive themselves at any moment, which is the whole point of the whole project" thing, but there are names for the people of the different regions.
• The regions: Terresta, the lower, "feral" region with more nature-based societies. Aeriela, the floating islands— mostly populated by avians, dragons, fairies, etc with a more modern, architecture-based society on average. And Galatia, at the tops of the tallest mountains and into sky and space, populated mainly by sentient works of science and minor deities.
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Community/Conflict:
• There are a plethora of communities both small and large across the surface and sea, sometimes grouped by species, sometimes not. "Species" is a concept that only exists in an abstract sense, anyway. When souls look and/or behave similarly, people form communities from their shared lifestyles.
• There's a general sense among most that all creatures are equal, and "self" is a limiting concept at times. This opinion may vary between individuals and distinct communities, of course.
• Socialism because I said so. We ain't bringing wealth inequality and monetized survival into my fantasy world.
• Not everyone gets along between or even inside communities, as one's perception of reality literally affects the shared reality sometimes, and opinions between people just naturally vary.
• If you wish to create your own community and thus be a leader, you get to decide the culture and beliefs of that community. But careful, individuals within may decide it's time for a change!
• Territory is one of the most constant features of this realm, and thus is solid enough to fight for. Communities may dispute or even go to war over territory if they have need or want for it.
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How it works OOC:
• This is not a Tumblr-specific thing! It's essentially fandom mixed with a ttrpg. You can make discord servers, fanfiction, fanart, video game rps, heck, even Minecraft worlds. Treat Hamr-sál like a piece of media, and engage with it however works best for you!
• Everything you make is canon! All of it! Like Miku! It's a community writing project. Every rp, fic, comic— they're all like individual books in a series.
• You, yes you, can host events, polls, contests, whatever you want. This is a public domain universe! Have fun! This world will never die as long as someone picks up the torch.
• Make ocs! Kinsonas! Homebrew whatevers! That's how this world is expanded. You can make multiple characters and have them interact, even! This is fandom made canon!
★ Don't be a dick! Do no harm unto others or thyself. This world is for everyone, as long as they're not hurting anyone. (This does not mean that personal boundaries are to be disrespected. If you're in someone's DNI, DNI!)
I had a fun idea to get things rolling on the rp side of things!
What if we made like warrior cats and held a prophecy raffle? My character, LichenFrost (because I need to be present to narrate stuff), and two others picked by a wheel, will be the chosen ones destined to save Hamr-sál from some great disaster? Life could continue as normal for everyone else so as to not interrupt rps, this would be an "evil lurking in the darkness" sort of thing
To submit your character for the raffle, just comment under this post! A rp blog isn't necessary as long as you have a character bio somewhere that folks can access.
Ok now that the poll is finished, please submit your characters
The prophecy won't be public at first, I'll send it to everyone who wins the raffle individually, then I'll make it public in a rp chain
Edit: Oh yeah, this'll have roughly a 48hr deadline for submissions. If we don't get the required number of submissions within that time, it'll just be given to the first 2 who apply
I had a fun idea to get things rolling on the rp side of things!
What if we made like warrior cats and held a prophecy raffle? My character, LichenFrost (because I need to be present to narrate stuff), and two others picked by a wheel, will be the chosen ones destined to save Hamr-sál from some great disaster? Life could continue as normal for everyone else so as to not interrupt rps, this would be an "evil lurking in the darkness" sort of thing
To submit your character for the raffle, just comment under this post! A rp blog isn't necessary as long as you have a character bio somewhere that folks can access.
(Note: you do not have to follow this template exactly. As long as the listed information is readily available without having to scroll through a million posts, you can add whatever categories you want in whatever form you choose.)
Copy-pasteable version (safe link to Ellipsus, no link tracker.)
Image version (made by @sirenboness) *Please accompany this with an image ID if you want your creations to be officially listed.
We're almost done with the character/community creation templates! Everything but the image version of the community template is done. Sirenboness is busy for a couple days, so that'll have to wait, but once it's done, I'll post everything and link it in "resources."
Do you have more general info on the world? I'd like seeing more world building events and stuff!!
If not, can we have more information about soul-marks?
General info
Expanded info
Soul marks don't really have that much info about them that could be made. I just needed a way to solve the problem of "wait what if two beings are identical?"
Soul Marks can be removed at the cost of withering away the person, however it takes something incredibly powerful to fully destroy one.
Who has the ability to remove soul marks? Just…anyone who spends enough time…decades. I'm not sure if liminals can. (If anyone makes a liminal, they can if they want!!)
(Purge classifies as a parasite…type world that could possibly remove a soul mark but….it chooses not to. Maybe it doesn't know it can do that)
Maybe the natural destruction of one is where a soul…fully gives up, and succumbs to shattering. As if one fully gave up with the state of their being, and wished for no more.
A forced destruction can be caused by higher gods. I don't know how to define who can do forced destructions.
holy fucking shite
Hi so why do people need training over removals?
An improper removal can basically cause immense psychological issues, prevent them from using magic, and warp and distort their form. It's…like losing themselves.
Take only a small chunk and this'll distress a being, however not cause too much damage.
Attempting to remove too much of a soul mark without removing it fully could potentially shatter it!! Which basically kills them for a damn long time, yknow….the complete "you can't undo for a damn long time this now look what you've done". They'll be like mindless husks, drifting along. Maybe their minds are still intact, maybe they're just…trapped in a body. Holy shit no. hell no.
Their shards of who they once were cannot be fixed together…and they'll basically be damned to have no mind, no will, and no emotions.
Shattering is not destroying a soul.
Destroying a soul basically vanishes a person. Prevents them from reincarnating. They're gone. Bam. No more.
Shattering is where a being turns into a mindless husk of themself, and cannot regain who they once were. They can still reincarnate, but it'll take millennia to basically fix themselves up and become a being of thought. Whatever. Have fun with basically paralyzing someone for decades.
Why would someone want to know removals??
To get rid of people. Maybe to control people. Maybe to get rid of people.
if an improper removal means turning them into a being without will, then a proper removal could…force people to do stuff. it's a type of coercion.
destroying a soul mark basically wipes them off.
it's called divine intervention fuck you, we don't think you should come back. ever.
anyways ramble over have fun with this idea
this sounds really fucked up so don't think too hard about this
Do you have more general info on the world? I'd like seeing more world building events and stuff!!
If not, can we have more information about soul-marks?
General info
Expanded info
Soul marks don't really have that much info about them that could be made. I just needed a way to solve the problem of "wait what if two beings are identical?"
Do you have more general info on the world? I'd like seeing more world building events and stuff!!
If not, can we have more information about soul-marks?
General info
Expanded info
Soul marks don't really have that much info about them that could be made. I just needed a way to solve the problem of "wait what if two beings are identical?"
When souls die, their light wanders around the world for a while until the souls are reincarnated. This is not a universally known fact. (The "reincarnation" can also be into the heavens/afterlife.)
The multiverse is canon not only because I personally believe in it, but also to deal with any conflicting storylines or retcons. All universes are still canon in some sense.
Some souls emit UV light, while others do not. The exact qualifications for whether or not a soul glows are essentially just whether or not the being in question is wholly "magical." (Roughly just "Do you consider yourself more therian or more otherkin" for kinsonas.) This has a few rare exceptions.
While all living things (and even some nonliving things) have a soul, folks gotta eat. Circle of life. It's generally considered dishonorable and frowned upon to not pay your respects to anyone or anything you kill and/or eat though.
History
Though racism/speciesm doesn't really tend to be an issue in Hamr-sál due to the existence of shapeshifting (though I suppose if you really wanted it, there's no limit to the mental hoops bigots will jump through to defy logic), xenophobia is a fair bit more common. Territory, after all, is one of the only constants in that world. People may fear or hate souls from communities they aren't allied with.
An ancient world war that involved even the celestial gods turned Centerpoint from a lush island paradise to a large expanse of blackened earth. Still, the traditions treating it as a sacred place of peace have once again arisen.
The world of Hamr-sál was once a much more dark and dangerous place, but it's healing. Communities form alliances and aid eachother instead of fighting. (Most of the time.)
Around a thousand years ago was when Hamr-sál first made contact with other planets (The gods are a different story). Not every planet has been discovered, and not every part of Hamr-sál has even been explored. The planet is much bigger than most imagine.
Liminals are an umbrella term for the other worlds that border the edge of what is “real”
These are worlds that technically exist in their own dimension, however connect to the world of Hamr-sál. Instances include “Haven” (the abandoned bus that leads to a safe haven and the hostile world), and “Purge”.
Small bits of info:
These are created by people out of pure desire, and run on a creator’s whims.
(The reality bended to the creator’s will in order to make a liminal!!)
A liminal cannot cultivate life by itself, and instead rely on emotions and beings.
If a liminal fades from all memories, it’ll disappear.
These worlds are usually popular rumors and myths, and they have yet to be proven true.
Well, most of them. “Haven” turned out to be true.
The rest have yet to be proven to exist.
What is Purge?:
“Purge is a terrible place.”
A liminal for souls with no more purpose in life, with no more hope or reason to exist in Hamr-sál. There lies a purgatory where it claims purpose can be found. If you dwell too long, it’ll purge you of identity and consume you into the liminal. It’ll tempt souls with fond memories, purpose, and comfort you until it sees fit to consume you. Auld, Lang, and Syne the enforcers part of the Purge, with Syne being the “representative”. (It’s more of “More commonly known compared to their siblings, due to being the most seen.”)
If you leave fast enough, you’ll be unharmed.
How does Purge consume you?
it …wipes off your memories, and consumes every little thing until the sál mynd is left. It gets extremely close to destroying one’s self, however it cannot destroy a sál mynd. (I feel as if it can get extremely close, and leave just a remnant of a soul, before forcing and warping it to become part of the machine. This sounds really fucked up.)
(Feel free to make Auld, Lang, or the Creator if wanted!! Lmk though :D)
Syne Info!!:
Syne is an enforcer of Purge, and travels in search of finding the lost souls that they believe Purge can save. Once a member of the Tribe of Fern, they have been consumed by the Purge, with what little remnants of their will turning into what they are today. Syne offers the Purge’s salvation to the desperate, and in their free time, chooses to indulge in Hamr-sál’s culture for now.
They haven’t visited Purge for years, having to spirit souls away.
Due to their time spent outside of Purge though, they’re slowly regaining their identity and will.
Ages: All, Literacy Level: 2-3 sentences minimum (don't feel pressured to be detailed though), Universe: @hamr-sal
Community post version (safe link, no tracker)
Each and every soul is called to meet at the world's Centerpoint for a gathering. The leaders of each community must discuss recent goings-on to keep the rest of the world up-to-date, make demands, or request aid from the other communities.
These annual gatherings are also perfect opportunities for souls to decide whether they might want to leave their home and move to a land better suited for them once they are to leave Centerpoint.
LichenFrost padded up to a boulder at the center of the ring of souls all here to hear what he and the other leaders had to say.
He leapt onto the rock and climbed to its peak, sprouting sprawling black wings for emphasis as his yowl boomed through the whole of Centerpoint.
"Welcome, everyone! And may I be the first to say that I am once again honored to see you all here, together. These gatherings are a way to foster unity, and camaraderie among all of us, no matter where we hail from or where we've gone. It warms my soul to practice this time-old tradition."
[He nodded down at the other leaders and slid off the boulder to give the next center-stage.]
Dari was next to ascend the boulder, tail sticking in the air as they did. When they reached the peak, they waved to the crowd and laughed to themselves to calm their nerves, adjusting their clothes as well. After the whooping crowd had calmed after Lichenfrost's introduction, they began to speak.
"Hello, everysoul! It's great to be back, yeah?" They paused for applause, watching the crowd thoughtfully.
"As far as Dust Clan is concerned, I presume most have heard of the recent ore deposits on our western half. After we begin steady production on harvesting these ores, Dust Clan will be opening trade routes to exchange these minerals and gems, but this will be done in due time, certainly not soon. As for our... altercations, with Dune Clan, I hope we can come to some form of agreement upon a ceasefire, though it's undetermined as of now. But, that's all the heavy stuff- Happy Gathering! Let us all be merry!" They jeered, sliding off from the boulder and nearly stumbling on the landing.
*Syne followed a soul to be here, curious about this spectacle. They heard of this…meeting. They thought that probably, some lost soul needed to be sent to the Purge.*
*However no lost souls were to be found, and it was just…leader introductions. Damn. Listening to the leaders isn’t very interesting to them, nor was moving clans. They were already a wanderer anyway. They seemed to zone off, choosing to stare at the bugs at the ground. Even as the festivities started, they chose to focus on the bugs and rocks on the ground…just staring.*
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*They’re gently tracing patterns in the ground with their bright red umbrella, their joints gently creaking and clacking as they move it to draw an image of ladybug heh… buggie…. oh look a catterpillar…..yay!!!*
*They are somewhat…vaguely listening to the chatter around them. However…bugs.*
*They eventually just crouch down and pull out a well tended bug enclosure, as they decide to put a caterpillar inside the enclosure, making sure to add leaves and such.*
i've been meaning to join the current RP but...idk what to do....I'm mildly intimidated....does thou have any tips??
Well it depends on if you want to be a leader as well, or just a member of the community. At least in terms of how you'd continue the plot.
First of all, do you have a character ready? If not, get that done first and then proceed. If you need help setting up a blog, templates are a work in progress but for now just take a look at @lichenfrost-official for inspiration, and the "resources" section if you can't/don't want to draw.
As for rp itself— If you're a leader, just make up a little status update about the current state of your community. You can also make requests or demands from others.
If you're just a member of a community, pretend like every leader has already gone and write what your character is doing. Are they keeping to themselves? Attempting to mingle? Where are they in relation to the other characters?
If this isn't the advice you're looking for, you can send another ask with more specific criteria. Sorry if I sound like a robot
Now that I've got everything prepped for Hamr-sál that I wanted prepped (including copying it over to Unvale at sharksirenboi), I can get to work on actually doing stuff with it to encourage interaction and use of the material!
Ok so this didn't work. I'll go ahead and say that we do already have an open roleplay that anyone can join. That'll be what we do for now. And I'll open the q&a! Go ahead and send your asks or comments with any questions you may have!
While those two events are open, my co-writer and I will work on one each of the two remaining updates.
And then once both of those are complete, we'll move onto the writing/art challenges!
Okay okay so!! Are YOU an alterhuman/nonhuman/system who loves worldbuilding and large-scale, deep roleplay? Do you like miku? Well, do I have the place for you! Hamr-sal (meaning body-soul) is a public domain roleplay, meaning anything YOU create really affects every other sector! Everything is canon! Write, make art, roleplay- Hamr-Sal is deeply intricate, and has a unique twist never before seen in roleplay (by me, anyway)
(Pause for dramatic effect…)
The characters of hamr-sal have a unique ability to shapeshit how we they want, whenever they want at a whim! Multiple kintypes? System? Still kinsidering? We got you! Not only that, Hamr-Sal expands from ocean trenches to distant planets, for alienkin to deities to foxes to fish! Anything!
You can find our man information hub at @hamr-sal, and you can find me personally at @dari-hamrsal :))) can’t wait to see you there!
-Dari
(this was created by two sirens lol, and isnt JUST for alterhumans, so share with your human friends if you think they’d like this !! :3)
wait…since everything is cannon, there is an abandoned bus in the middle of a forest, living in a field of flowers, if you walk into the bus you will enter the realm of subconscious, a liminal space system, it’s like the backrooms except without hostile entitys, it is a safe space where you can not die, it serves as a home for those in danger and it’s labryinth of liminal spaces shift to serve those with harmless intentions. If you need a home you will land in a place knowen as the hall, there are rooms that once you walk in yours it scans your sal mynd to give you a space u feel comfortable in, including a window into your world. You can escape the subconscious realm whenever you want
There lies a world that you can only reach from 2am-3am. This world is neighborhood-like, with a never-ending sunset with no sun in sight.
You are safe here, but at night, when the sky turns balck, choose a house to stay in. If you see a Magenta paint splatter, run. That house is not safe. However, if you don't find a house in time, they will get you.
During the day, if you see a human-like figure with cat ears and no face, run. Do not look back, run until you hear the footsteps stop. And if any residents ask you any question, do not answer, except for if they are a white bird. If they ask you "Who is Chi?" Say "Yami." And they will disappear, and a door will appear at the end of a field. Run to the door, that is your exit.
these two worlds are tied together, the creators were siblings, one offering a safe haven, one you are ment to stay how ever long you like, but the other wanted their travelers to stay, living in fear of the entitys that roam this world at night. The first one tried to reason with their dear sibling, telling them a life of fear is no life at all, and that they should know that very well, but the 2nd one had a twisted sense of comfort knowing that they sparked fear in their travelers.
