#manual meme

[rosalind-hawkins]

Don't ask me anything

[sinesalvatorem]

In The Beginning

I feel like I am failing in my commitment as a blogger since my brain has not been producing any quality material today. As such, here’s an info dump. It’s the creation story of a fantasy world I’ve been working on. If you’re curious and want me to elaborate on anything ala the manual meme, just send me an ask with “+[whatever you want details on]”.

+In the beginning, 24 beings of immense power existed in the void. +However, they weren't infinitely powerful. They wanted a universe, but they only had enough power between the 24 of them to create one world. +So they decided that they would come together and design a world that incorporated all their interests and desires. +...This went about as well as you might expect. +So, after realising This Was Not Working, they decided to try a new approach. Basically, they'd procedurally generate a world from simple ground rules, and then they'd work on it in fine detail afterward. +Now all they needed was a simple set of rules to build the world out of. A dozen pages of mathematical formulae, perhaps. Thus, they created what was basically a Github project and started contributing code. +After several centuries and hundreds of billions of lines of the world's cludgiest code, they finally threw up their hands and said "Fuck it! Close enough!" +Thus, the universe was compiled. +Almost all the suffering that exists in the world is bugs. Almost no one is evil, but everything is broken.

+During the centuries of writing the universe's code, the gods realised one important truth: They didn't trust each other as far as they could throw each other. +They needed a system to prevent each other from fucking with the perfect good decent only world they had. In order to do that, they created the angels. +The angels are not really what we'd think of as "angels". They're more like extremely human-like AIs. +They are extremely powerful (though not as powerful as gods) and are immortal. +However, what's important here is that the gods locked the world such that they could never enter it, for the fear each had that their rivals would fuck it up. +Instead they created the 600 angels, who had minds like their own, and gave them the ability to enter the world. +The point of this was to require that, before any god could do something, they'd have to convince a critical mass of angels to support them. As such, only the gods with the Truest artistic vision (which each god interpreted to mean "me") would have their preferences represented in the world. +Approximately 3 seconds after being created, the angels said "You're not my real mom!" and wandered off to do their own thing. +So now there are 600 beings of immense supernatural power (and their half-blood children) wandering the world and shaping it as they see fit. +That day, the gods agreed on something for the first and only time in history: "We done goofed."

[lethriloth]

+The Birth of Uskuaga

+In the beginning, Uskuaga was not the single empire we see today but a number small, isolated villages in southern Terraur.+An ambitious Tengu warlord united a number of Tengu villages and began to drive out the Goliaths who dwelt in the lowlands, founding the Uskuagan empire.+Generations later, the Kitsune were integrated into the growing empire.

[lethriloth]

+This part probably was not optimized for a manual :P

-Well, it’s like... geography?-And geography is notably easier to describe with a map than with words-(Source: Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. 14-15)-It’s probably even more difficult to describe with small snippets of text-Even if they are organized snippets.

[lethriloth]

+Ancient History

+The rivalry of Elves and Dwarves+Of Orcs in Those Days+The Birth of Uskuaga+Myths and Legends

[lethriloth]

+What Came Before

+Ancient History+The Acian Empire+Fall of the Empire+After the Fall

[lethriloth]

Domunder: +People and Near-Approximates

+People of Domundor+People of Terraur+People of Rovandor+Monsters that Speak

[lethriloth]

+The Shape of the World

+This part probably was not optimized for a manual+Physical Geography+Political Geography+Cosmology