Eternum

This is a side blog for my world of Eternum ::) I'll try to mostly post about that and may reblog some stuff if it catches my worldbuilding fancy

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Hi hi I'm making an introduction post for my world (my main blog doesn't even have one) I might not post much here so no expectations :p. All of this information is subject to change.

Eternum is the name of a classic fantasy world I've been writing about and developing on and off for a few years now. It was all very impulsive so my lore and such might be all over the place but I enjoy doing it. This blog is kinda just so I don't flood my main blog with stuff no one really cares about so if you're here hi hi.

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Different aspects of my world I will be posting about on this blog and the tags for them (most are self explanatory). Most stuff I post for a while will be excerpts from my larger document on Eternum since I think it's too large to post in entirety.

The world in general- countries, climate, all sorts of other average world building things. will probably be most of what I post - tag: Eternum

Myths- myths in the world of Eternum - tag: Myths of Eternum

Random thoughts- self explanatory I hope - tag: Miscellaneous Eternum

Art- very rarely I might post some art, I don't draw very often but once in blue moon I might - tag: Art

Elementals- basically just gods, they get a cool special name because they are intertwined into the elements that make up the world - tag: Eternum elementals or (name of elemental) elemental

Fantasy species- I am not a biologist, none of them are by any means plausible but neither is anything else here. Let me have fun. - tag: Creatures of Eternum

Navokian- it's a shitty conlang that I made for Helkiran, I might post about it or such but most likely not - navokian

Characters- I never plan on writing anything narrative about this world but I might sometimes post things about the ocs which inhabit this little world. - Eternum Ocs

That's pretty much all :::) This blog was an impulsive decision so I don't know how much this will be used.

Writing- okay maybe I lied, I may sometimes post narrative writing about characters but don't expect it - Eternum writing

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More sad doomed gays for pride month I guess? There are multiple of these, all the gods are gay. Maybe I'm the problem. No one likes burying their gays more than the gays.

-^- The Sky's Severance

Once in a time before time, the day and night were one in the same. The sky a mix of dark and light, the sun shined with the stars and danced with the moon in the early days of existence. Space and all that crossed it was unified in divinity as a lost elemental, Cyfnos.

Space is the barrier between the Now and the Before. The pressure of looming infinite creation caused the beginning of the sky's collapse, cracking and splintering apart releasing some of that everything beyond the clouds.

Cyfnos first went to Knowledge to ask and beg for a solution of which he could only offer one. To hold the heavy sky the burden must be spread but no other elemental could reach the sky to hold it's weight, only Cyfnos. Even Nova was to low to hold what Cyfnos carried. So, together Conrad and Cyfnos created a plan of the only way that was known. It was to separate the primordial soul of Space and those two halves would carry it together.

With this knowledge, Cyfnos approached Time. He asked for him to tear the sky in half, allowing for two to carry the burden so that the weight would no longer be too much. Zaman was hesitant with the knowledge Cyfnos wouldn't survive. But seeing the future which had already lost him, he knew there was no choice.

He pulled Space and Sky into two, separated, night and day. The sun no longer met the stars, the moon no longer danced with rainbows and the sky no longer fell. The two halves forever only partial, new from an immortal soul, separate from it's full life.

Lux and Nox two pieces of one soul apart eternally, after the severance on the first of many nights Nox cried and when celestial tears fell on muddy shores and grew a sapling. When light rose with the first of many days it nurtured the sapling into a tree infused with divine energy.

And twice a year on the equinox, when day and night are closest the sky grows heavy and is pressed thin by creation, you can see The After through the sky. The trees will glow a dim ghostly white and mark the fight between the Now and Before.

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It's so weird to describe humans in a documentation kinda way but I have to because mine have increased intelligence

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I think I'm going to work on grammar and names in my conlang. I already have ideas for past tense and future and such but names are an interesting conversation because it's a logographic language

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Random funfact about a species in Eternum, demons (I can't bear to give them cool names)

They're easily regonizable by horns, tails and slit pupils. Demons are a sexually dimorphic species with most males having shorter tails that end in sharp arrow head-like points and females having longer tails that ends in short hair. Demons are born with neither tail nor horns and aren't sexually differential, growth begins after the first few moons, and the size horns and tails they have around 3 years of age would likely be the size they will have for their entire life.

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In honor of pride month, Adora elemental of love and her Star. A short myth of love and loss

-^- The Lover's Star

Long before any current mortals memory, when elementals lived alongside us as the same, an mortal and immortal life entertwined. An elemental had fallen in love with a mortal, not such an unheard thing as even immortals aren't immune to the whims of love. But Adora was not like other elementals, a being of love and obsession can't simply move on from a love so great.

The Star met Adora long ago after praying for love, they say she met a beautiful woman while walking home that day and she believed her prayers to have been answered. They say The Star fell instantly and requested her hand within the moon. One must fall fast for the Lady of Love. The woman agreed and they were wed within the season.

And they lived in joy for many years but eventually Adora came to realize that The Star would age and she would not, one day she would die and Adora would not. This was a startling realization, she made a plan to reveal herself and to offer a way for them to both live eternally. She would gift her a part of immortal soul, of magic so full it would allow them to remain together forever.

The Star however immediately rejected the idea, she could not live forever it was against the nature of her kind. The fragile nature of a mortal to live and die. A blip in the eye of those in the likes of Adora. It was sadness which came first, no anger, nothing which would ever overwhelm that love. Just sadness. She begged and begged but The Star refused, she insisted they live with each other until she dies. To accept the natural order of love and death.

Eventually she agreed to live without regret but even then she watched as time whisked away her love. As the years so small to her would take their toll in her face and mind. It was still saddening to watch the forces that stole away her youth but she found the smallest joy in knowing her love was happy and that they had lasted as long as they could have.

They say years after their first meeting, in The Stars final night or maybe just her final moments there was a beautiful show that lit up the sky, a moment where the stars danced and every life waited and watched. A beautiful thing born of such greif. They also say that when the dance ended another star had joined the sky, one that shined just a little brighter than the rest.

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Anali or now better known as Topaz, the elemental of luck, fate and destiny. They rule over a concept with no rule. Holds luck in their hands. There was once a time when they would wander the streets of small villages challenging travelers to children's games or offering bets to the local drunks. But now they say they can be seen when one truly puts it up to fate, you might see orange tails weaving through crowds or find a pair of dice someone must have snuck into your pocket.

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A short rundown of countries in Eternum (continent) with a map at the end

Cryolith- northern country, mostly tundra and taiga, small population, known for mining and fine goods, very wealthy country, ruled by the Vexilith family

Arithon- on the east coast, plains, forests and swamps, large population, known for inventing and agriculture, ruled by the Dalein family

Pyrovein- west of Arithon, large population, mostly savannah and grassland, known for mining and textiles, wealthy country, ruled by the Kealthor family

Helkiran- west of Pyrovein, medium population, mostly deserts and savannah with some grasslands, known for metalwork and strategy, ruled by oligarchy, royal family Navork

Kovirad- west coast, small population, taiga and deep forest with some plains, known for fine goods and agriculture, ruled by the Darkwoods

Eden's Forest- a small territory in the center of the country under protection of Eden, unclaimed out of respect

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The first is a new map and the second is an old biome map because I haven't gotten around to making a new one but the biomes are still accurate enough

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-^- Luck of the Sheepherder

A mortal sheepherder proclaimed fate biased against him as wolves kept stealing his sheep. He cursed Anali for their injustice, Anali to prove that fate has no bias proposed a deal. That in a month's time if his sheep had lost more numbers than any other herd they would give him power to protect his sheep from whatever may harm them.

After a month had passed Anali visited the sheep herder once again and asked him about his sheep. He cried and lamented the horrible numbers of sheep he had lost and showed the bodies of mangled animals to prove it. He insisted that since no other herd had even half the amount of damage he had won their deal. Anali knew this to be wrong as this man had never lost his luck, so they searched the pasture and the fields and even the surrounding woods but found nothing.

It was only when they searched the sheep herder’s home did they find an explanation for his lost herd. A bloodied knife tucked into a drawer with a scent so similar to that which lingered on those poor, dead sheep. Anali realizing what the herder had done, went back to them and stated that he had won the bet and that they would fulfill their end of the deal. The man celebrated until he began to feel his gift. His body shifted to that of an animal, wolfish features took over his face and his mind was clouded with new instinct.

The man became incapable of control and killed the rest of his flock. Roaming the woods and fields preying on herds and slaughtering animals. Eventually the local farmers and villagers had realized it wasn't just a wolf terrorizing their herds and decided to find this new beast and slay it. When the townspeople found what was once the sheep herder, his mind had truly gone. The townspeople brought the corspe back to town and in the end it was his mangled body being shown for a victory

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This is just a creature for Eternum that I've been having fun figuring out anatomy and such