#eitheria

[raspberryberyl]

She-ra mini comic, Happy Together

I recently started watching the new She-ra, I haven’t finished, and have experienced some loss myself. I felt I could relate my feelings to this show and how these princesses have lost many, and so made this comic about it connecting them. Many characters in this I made and designed myself, we haven’t met everyone’s families, and it is of course my head canons and how I’ve interpreted the show so far.

[willowingway]

Enter the new world.

Art and design by my moirail @10yrsy

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In the world of Eitheria, the dominant species are tree fairies. When a new tree is born, so is a fairy. The community as a whole raises the young fairies that are born -- working together to maturity. These fairies are neither male nor female, though they may look the part . All are agender. They have no concept of the gender spectrum, as their entire planet is made of forest and rivers. It’s a beautiful world, really. 

When a fairy becomes a “teenager”, they wear a veil on their face, a right of passage more than anything else. It symbolizes their shielded view of the world, and how one day they, as adults, will have to shed this ignorance and childish ways. Almost all tree fairies have horns, as they’re.. well... trees. If the tree is to die, then so is the fairy -- it is forbidden from harming another’s life force. To do so is punishable by death, as is the saying ‘an eye for an eye’. 

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The world of Eitheria, cont.

...Now, dear reader, you must forgive me as I will find it suitable to delve a little further into Mieta phenomena before moving onto next wonderful species, but there’s much to be said about their society, which, although resembling standard cerebral societies to a certain degree, has its fair share of uniqueness.

As Folk of Woo proclaims mathematics the greatest science and holds naturphilosophical approach to the things, feeling compelled to sketch out the secret safe of Nature’s inner workings before cracking it open and stealing the boons, Mieta approach resembles the work of a smarter burglar who does not care much about all possible safes out there as about the code needed to crack this one. They perfected the methods of testing and finding the solution to the problem based on solutions to similar ones, and while for some it may seem that never stopping to think about what the problem “really is” is a travesty, they’d argue it a waste of time. Their most prized science is medicine, and they know so much about organic lifeforms — in the utilitarian sense — that it didn’t take them much time to pick up on otherworldly species, too.

Apologies for my speculation, but i feel the connection between their science and their politics, which consists of an “entrance exam”, a test every qualifying adult must take regularly, and the amount of them necessary then graduate in a special school to deliver solutions and justice upon their peers. I imagine this could be an abusable system, but I do not find it much worse than some of our own ones.

Mieta development is all about being complacent, largely, and finding happiness by austerity and ways proven by the past. Their science and politics seem to me as an extension of that, slow iterations to improve status-quo, rarely a breakthrough, rarely a revolution, and lots and lots of useful results. I would remark that we might have something to learn from them, but I’m not delusional enough to believe we truly are able to...

All Mieta (again, it’s a small nation) share the same language, with a dialect here and there, called “Mie”, or “Dark speech”. “Mie-ta”, is” correspondingly, “those who speak Dark”. The origins of that are in the well-known creation myth that in the early ages of the planet, there existed the Light Speech which didn’t have many words, but each had the power to change the universe. Their descendants were Mieta, who got scared of the power and invented a language in which a lie can be told; unfortunately, the grace of knowing the Light Speech was eventually renounced from them, leaving them powerless but all more happy. This connects back to the popular ascetic philosophy of the masses.

I urge readers who have access to the translations of Mieta popular works of the past to familiarize themselves with the wildest ranges their culture takes. Poetry I find especially remarkable. But I am afraid I’m not a culturologist, so no comment will be given on that matter; and next time I shall move onto Neyer, an incredibly curious society of semi-sentient fungus.

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Eitheria: basic world information

This post is the first in the (hopefully long) series about the wonderful world/setting of Eitheria, intricately intertwined with the rest of the worlds of “Nihilverse”. It’s intended for RP, so bones and technical details may appear later.

To strangers, soldiers and emptywalkers Eitheria may seem like an unwelcome world. The sun is bleak, the land is drenched with waters; the resources are scarce, and the never-ending arms race between plants seeking to survive and animals seeking to devour them historically left nigh all species in a miserable place, with every day being a fight to survive.

How sentient races came to be is still argued by scholars both of Eitheria itself and of outsiders. Sapient life is common for inhabited worlds; what’s curious is that it sprung forth almost simultaneously from multiple points on the globe, resulting in several species developing technology and language independently. Other worlds largely show one dominating species (like va’er on Elins, or folk on Oooh). Driven by natural segregation, each of the species proceeded to organize into a separate country – although exceptions occured, they were rather brief.

To the outisdes, Eitheria is best known as the world of Mieta. However, this is a misconception – Mieta merely were the first to discover interdimensional travel in its rudimentary form and proceeded to fight so many wars on such a short notice that peace treaties signed afterwards formed a so-called “Mieta Alliance”. Their conquista, although atrocious, was not without reasons: a mysterious and dangerous substance, commonly referred to now as “Ruin”, was devouring their homeland (and several neighbouring kingdoms). The world was quick to blame the Mieta for the appearance of Ruin, blaming their unjudged and unregulated use of magic, which resulted in multiple armed conflicts and the rebellion inside the country. Claiming another land to live in seemed like a natural course of action to their government, not used to lands being tightly packed with other sentient beings with their own plans for the future. After the rebellion was drowned out and peace established, they proved a valuable science and trade partner.

Assuming the reader comes from an estate participating in the Alliance, they are perhaps familiar with appearance of Mieta: bleak skin devoid of any pigment, brittle bones, hair growing on the body in uneven patches, big eyes and long, wide ears. Despite not being conventionally ttractive to most other species, they are widely considered “kinda adorable” which I feel is a bit patronizing attitude. Clearly we have much to learn about interdimensional etiquette.

(to be continued)