#fictional cosmology

[ryans-artblog]

The subraces of the diezmo, or sky'lk, of the New Imperial Loreverse in ceremonial dress. These tieflings are part of my DnD homebrew setting and are going in my lore primer. Yap about them below >>

After the opening of the Boca del Infierno by foolhardy human nobility, the sky'lk developed their culture in relative isolation in the Underdark, leading to rich traditions including high ornamentation for everyday wear. Subraces follow the lineage of patron archdevil Lords, as in canon DnD lore, and common offerings and symbolism are notated. The subraces, or loc'sky'lk (Colors of the Lords), adhere to fairly consistent trades and skills within the sky'lk, and derive their respective cantrips from their Lords, making up larger social classes. The intermarriage of a now long-gone overseas colonial group lent the diezmo the human portion of their blood at the fall of the First Empire. It also influenced their linguistic and aesthetic values - this is clearest in the fashions of their traditional armour, and their name to other races, diezmo, short for diezmadores, the tithers or the decimated. It is not the overseas tongue spoken by the race, though, but a pidgin of tlic'tp, the liturgical language of the diezmo. Most sky'lk grow up bilingual by default, but the very insular clans speak only tlic'tp. Along with their lineage-lords, the skh'lk revere a mysterious fae spirit of the Upper Planes called the Intercesora; the drips in limestone caverns of aquifer pools are said to be her voice, and have been notated in tlic'tp since the dawn of the diezmo race. The syllabic click language is designed to resemble these subterranean sounds of falling water. Its flowing calligraphy form decorates almost all diezmo clothing, in no greater glory than on the ceremonial chapel and diplomatic wear of the races. Worship of the skh'lk Lords is shrouded in esoteric tradition, with belief in the magic of charms, gemstones, prayer medallions and potions still ruling the faith of many of the tlic'tp. Jewelry hewn from the abundant ore of Yuri's Back drips over every part of their bodies, said to draw the patron Lords closer to oneself. Since the enslavement of the tieflings in the mines during the Second Empire, these traditions have grown possibly even more fervent, with most diezmo taking a coming-of-age ceremony involving a hot branding iron and swearing never to leave the Black City Sangre or the rim of the Boca. The scar of the iron, tp’uik’sky (my promise to the Father), can be seen on the chest of most faithful.

Very few rebel against the enslavement of their race or the stripping of their ancestral wealth, placing their hopes in the hands of the Intercesora to spread her merciful arms and guide them back home into the Nine Hells, 'lk. Only those skh'lk of Zariel, diezmadores Dezariels, are of the constitution to become vigilantes, establishing colonies as far as the Caliphate. While still shunned by other races, those who defect from the promise of the Boca perceive freedom as their divine vocation.

[wonderstruckuniverse]

Which topic to cover next...

Salvete! After poll results were in I made some posts about some topics. I'm gonna make another poll for topics to talk about next!

Which topic next

Adamic Ages: Long before history. I wonder if theres a word for that

Nation of Thaumastia: Magic is in the air. It can kill you, do be careful.

Doublets: 2 Earths, 1 Universe.

Archaeology: Solving the past by saving the world

Galactic frontier: Cant handle the cold? Get outta the vacuum

Voting ended onMay 4

Like always, I'll probably touch on all of these, but the most popular will be talked about first. I'm not done with the school year yet, so I can't follow through until summer break.

Until then, valete!

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Have decided on the motives of "to be named ancient civilisation" and that being to build a big fucking gun in order to meet god.

In the worldbuilding as is there are two ways for a human to enter the realm of the divine. There's the pressure point method, in which you carefully apply some degree of force to any point where the divine world connects to the mortal world, such as what the protagonist attempts to do at the end of chapter 1. Then there's the ancient civilization's method: make a gun big enough to shatter the very foundations of reality, punch a hole into the universe.

[wonderstruckuniverse]

The Wonderstruck Universe's current cosmology and theology (OUTDATED)

Editor's note: a lot of this has changed, so I'll eventually make a new cosmology post

Salvete! For this post, I want to go over the Wonderstruck Universe's cosmology. Because I hope for the Wonderstruck Universe to become a collaborative project with multiple worldbuilders and storytellers, I'm currently more hesitant to have a definitive cosmology or theology for the Wonderstruck Universe. However, for the stories I have in mind, these here are the motifs and themes of the cosmology and theology. Not rules, but things I want to have as overlaid themes.

What's most important about the cosmology on a multiversal scale is that the multiverse has somewhat like its own creative consciousness, and different parts of multiversal cosmology are meant to be analogous to creative writing. Similar to Plato's theory of forms or theory of ideas, the Multiverse has its own theory of ideas. An idea is anything that exists in a universe. It can be a character, it can be an object, it can be a superpower, it can be a category of loosely related things. Everything that can be defined is an idea. Every idea, big or small, has a ripple throughout the multiverse. An idea has inspiration, and that idea will inspire a million more.

Something I want to introduce is deities or entities who exist on a multiversal scale, and are like the multiverse's storytellers or artists, and their roles are analogous to real-world creative work. I want to have them be analogous to an idea's director, to an idea's writer, to an idea's artist. Think about the Spider-Verse, the Web of Fate, the Spider-Totems, all that. Imagine if it were one idea in the multiverse, and there were a team of storytelling gods who were like: The Spider-Verse Director, who makes creative decisions for the idea; the Spider-Verse Writer, who makes the actual events and stories on behalf of the Director; or the Spider-Verse Editor, who oversees the Spider-Verse's consistency and integrity. They wouldn't have those exact names, but they might be analogous to those roles.

Speaking of gods and deities: I don't want to make a super strict definition of what is and isn't a god. My only definition would be that if they're called a god, and have some form of relatively godlike power, then they can be called a god. I probably would introduce gods from mythology at some point, and at least one collaborator definitely will. In my more mythology-based stories, I probably will have mythological gods not have some kind of galaxy-destroying power, but in certain powerscaling terms: like halfway to being planetary level.

What could be an interesting idea for me to introduce is that mythological gods are real because they were such prevailing ideas on a multiverse-wide scale that in many universes they were physically manifested into real beings. It could set up the worldbuilding theme of the Wonderstruck Universe's characters being like these modern day mythologies which have an equal multiversal presence to the ancient mythologies of Hercules, Krishna, and Anansi.

Something about universes is that I want to have different universes have different models and dimensions to them. One is the model our universe has. The real-world universe's structure is more-or-less how the Prime Wonderstruck Universe would be modeled. However, other universes might have other structures or models. One I had in mind was a wide abyss where island-like structures would drift along the abyss, and on those islands life would be able to exist. In another model, the universe is a world tree of branch worlds which you can travel between, and eventually branch worlds will fall off and form their own world trees.

That's all I have in the Mind Palace for today. Valete!