My world building :3
(Sorry its a little convoluted)
How the world was made:
The world was once the same earth we live in
After new ai breakthroughs Technology started gaining more advancements by the day
It reached the point that most things were full of tech rather than full of life, and the living animals were becoming extinct faster and faster
Scientists tried to fix it, find a way to stop tech from harming the animals
then one day something got messed up and the lab exploded
the lab was connected to base servers of tech and a similar explosion happened everywhere on earth where tech can be found
The fumes caused everyone to pass out and go in this coma like state
In their minds they found a area special to them, like their bedroom or favourite cafe, in there they also found an animal
One that mattered the most to them
This includes mythical creatures like unicorns and dragons
They connected with the animal and woke up
Only they now had features of the animal they connected with
As though them and the animal are one
They can also change their form to be more or less human-animal
People who didn't wake up either got eaten by animals or decomposed at some point, the population decreased extremely in this world
How the world exists currently
technology:
The use of technology exists in simple forms again, created using only natural sources, for example there is something similar to ipods and a basic communication device, they look like basic technology in the current time this is made using things like shells wood and stone, along with some small form of magic
Money:
Money is no longer a majorly used thing and instead people trade, money still exists but that's just a placeholder for some trades, like you might trade money instead of a resource or so if your currently unable to give a service, but its not accepted everywhere and is a now a much rarer resource made of a new material that formed in the explosions when lava formed into something new under the force of the explosion called atheum, the currency itself are athus coins
Living situations:
As money is no longer main-stream the money hierarchy is no longer there, people now live in tribe like things as according to their animal, usually accompanied by multiple actual ones of that type
Some animals are travelers and stay in small groups or alone and move according to situations
Others have fixed territories that they claimed, they usually have proper houses or so built, for example bird tribes usually make a temporary house in the trees that they take down before moving, while lions have fixed caves or that they stay in
schools:
School is usually one animal but there are some boarding schools made for any species, many also homeschool as many animals are solidary in nature
In school they learn practical things according to species
For example tiger schools teach hunting and protection skills
Or a beaver may learn building and architecture
alongside the subjects based on individual students choice
Everyone communicates in two ways
In english
In species specific communication
Magic system
Magic exists through mythical creatures, and new rocks that hold magical abilities
Magic is not a special or important thing and rather a small thing to help in daily use
Magic in people is just like a part of their body and mind, using it to an extent can tire them, magic is quite low in levels, for example a dragon can create elements in very limited amounts, so a fire dragon is able to create fire and doesn't get harmed by fire as much as a normal animal, but if they try to create something bigger than a small flame they can pass out without training
For the rocks they have a little bit of power in them, for example a connect rock is able to send signals to other rocks nearby and a replay rock can repeat something imputed into it, a flame rock can turn into fire and so on
These rocks cannot to anything major but its useful in daily life
These rocks are found in many places and are easy to mold
This can be used to make weapons and similar
If you are constantly around a power source and care for the nature of it, along with using magic of that form you can develop a connection to the rocks of that type, this shows in marking on your skin and specific features of yours feeling similar, for example a life grow may start getting leaves in their wings along with vine looking marks on their arm or leg
Magic types
Rock come in many many forms, the most common categories are
Flame stones (fire, blast, melt, steam etc..)
Aqua stone (water, drain, melt, water locate, etc..)
Tech stones (replay, connect, copy, move, stop, find, etc)
Air stone (air burst, suck air, fly, etc)
life stone (grow, healing, destroy, etc)
Soler stone (moon, sun, stars, planet, space/empty, etc)
Soal stone (heal, sleep, steal, tell [tells future], read)
Weather stone (thunder, change, stop, etc)
While these are the most common stones there are many types of stones, some stones can be used many times, others can only be used once and is usually destroyed in the process
Weapons can be made of all kinds of rocks but some are harder to make than others