#fi sci

[allwind]

Isn't it weird how in most fantasy all the major races need basically the same amount of sleep?

We don't even think about it... So, i've been thinking. Orc and goblins of Allwind are kind of the apex predator on their world, and lions, for instance, are lazy as fuck. Sleep 16-20 hours a day and such.

It Just Makes Sense. Orcs and goblins are eepy peoples. This means they can get less done - they build slower, they travel slower, they can't really agriculture. They are either hunters or herders. Or fishers.

So in contact with dwarves they would be amazed at how little they sleep. Only half the day? Dwarvish colonies under the south pole icebergs expand comparatively fast, despite being slower walkers dwarves can travel further in a day than orcs. The few who venture into the broader world(oh they came from space btw, their homeworld is entirely iced over, that's why they live undeground) become very popular craftsmen as they can simply work faster and such. When eventually a few daring humans arive(there's a whole other deal with humans, so there aren't many on the world in question), their Staying Awake For 2/3 to 3/4 of a day perk lands them the roles of watchpeople, merchants and messengers. And of course this affects my name pendinghalf blooded OC, who is almost as strong as orcs, but can stay awake for much longer, and has more stamina due to the human half.

[cossachka-offical]

I might have come up with the peakest name for my setting. Allwind. Yeah, that's. That's it.

Now, it's referencing one of the concept from the fi-sci(order intentional) physics of this universe. Basically, you know how mass warps space to create gravity? Yeah, here, that doesn't happen. Instead, worlds are held together by ancient magic crystals. But mass creates wind.

Like the wind of the ball. Yeah, that's a real scientific concept, it's wrong, but it's from real life. The idea being, that upon a near miss of a canonball, the "wind of the ball" can cause internal injuries. In reality it was low-velocity balls that have penetrated some obstacle and didn't have the energy to break the skin.

Anyway, it's kind of like that. Massive objects "pull" everything around them in the direction of their movement. How much depends on the mass, the distance to it, and the perpendicular-to-movement surface area of the thing being pulled. And on wether it is being shielded by another thing, that gets pulled instead. Of course, that thing would eventually hit the thing it's shieldkng. Anyway, it's kind os similar to aerodynamics, but simpler. And there are no particles, that's just how the void behaves.

The Allwind is the hypothetical stationary state. Like, if you summed up all the winds in the infinite universe, you'd get the allwind. Now, in Deep Void, far away from any specific massive object, you get a pretty good estimation of that, as closer objects affect you more, but there are simply less of them. It's not perfect, it is impossible to experience the pure allwind, unless you are some sort of infinite nothing that phases through every object, but still experiences wind, without affecting it, somehow. It's a theoretical concept, that is useful for some calculations, in-universe, of course.

But it's also what i decided to name the setting, after i came up with the name for this concept, because it's so all-encompassing. Also it sounds rad as fuck.

[cossachka-offical]

O hey. It's me again. Because i frankly ain't got the energy of saying anything profound or comprehensively structured rn. And i have a tummy ache.

Imma just throw some reduncolous nubers at ya. So. Allwind. It's a setting i am working on. It got humans. And elfs. And dragons.

And elfs live like 300-500 years, depending on their job and bloodline.

But dragons live for up to a million. But. No god up here other than me. And they gotta have evolved somehow. So i give you. Twenty billion earth years. The dragons of allwind in their modern form have existed for longer than the universe of real life. They have evolved over trillions, though. Noone could ever trace the common ancestor between dragons and everything else(saves me the work of having to come upwith one), because that. Was ten trillion years ago. Approximately ten trillion years ago the first species evolved to traverse The Void, from world that no longer exists. The Allseed is the hypotheical world where all life originated. It couldn't have lasted until today though, and even if it did, despite worlds being held together by magic crystals that lose power after 50 billion years on average. It's probably so far away only a dragon could reach it.

The protodragons have carried early life forms from there onto all other worlds on their own very selves. There's also this sapient humanoid race from fuck knows how far away that came riding a dragon, like it's a fucking generation ship. They've been at it for thousands of years, and aren't closely related to anyone else, they just evolved convergently.

And no, i am not forgetting how time works. Galactic empires rose and fell in mere millenia, dragons are just above it all. And also. Everything in the more or less isolated region that all things i have thought of take place in have much, much closer common ancestors. Only a few billions years ago, brought in by them damn dragons.

Anyway. Hope that was fun.

Also. There's this existential horror story. It's in-universe fiction. About an infinitely big relatively flat wall. And noone can comprehend it, which is why it's scary.

and it's totally possible too, because allwind has no fundamental particles, so scale is as relative as everything else, which means that the square cube law doesn't actually matter(how we got dragons btw). and this means that. essentially. everything is the same on every scale(isn't the case in real life).