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i am so sorry. i put it in my drafts and forgot i put it there 🫠
- there are floating cities and cities under the sea, but i haven't developed them yet. there are also houses that walk on legs baba yaga style.
- idk if i'll ever delve into this, but i keep dropping hints there was some kind of war in the US before its eventual collapse.
- the death cult javier's family belongs to is an offshoot of the order of the body, which is this religion that worships the body as like a temple that holds the soul. (their worship isn't just to the human body, but also animals as well. they find it extremely disrespectful to touch someone's remains without permission. with animals they find some kind of animal speaker to ask them how they would like their bones to be dealt with (burial, cremation, released to descendants to be worn in honor of them, enshrined in family altar, etc.). necromancy is sort of grotesque/sacrilegious to them. as is cannibalism. which is kind of a problem with eliya and helena being necromancers.)
- there's also another order called the order of solitude, which is kind of ironic considering they're a group of people living in an abbey lol, but anyway.
they believe living cut off from the world in total silence brings them closer to the self. they're only allowed to communicate to each other through writing or sign language.
(noise and music aren't prohibited because they *are* people. just speaking and singing. so it would have to be instrumental music.)
- st bernadine's was a convent for the order of the body, that sort of became a hospital during the war, then a school. saint bernadine was killed defending her students from a group of intruders. she loved flowers so the school and the city are covered in flowers to honor her.
- the order of the body wear different colors for the different cycles of life and death (red for life like blood, black for death, and white for rebirth. they can mix up colors, depending on what cycles they feel closest to. they also wear skull paint in the different colors.)
