#the nevernever

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It's springtime here in Michigan, so it's springtime in the Nevernever! Kael is relaxing in the Wyldwood and enjoying nature 🍄‍🟫

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Cabbalusa

The last pre-prepared entry. I need to get around to develop the Turtle Islands, and write the planned entries on Atlantis. I also have Divia’s Army of the Lost to make some entries for, and I need to finish Trys’ world map...

Cabbalusa is a tiny island in the Atlantic inhabited by a certain type of Faerie that was banished from the Nevernever as a whole after gravely insulting one of the Faerie Royals.

These Faerie take the appearance of women with donkeys hooves for hands and feet. They are normally nude, living of fish when they have no visitors to their island, and spending most of their time sleeping, making alcoholic beverages of the fruits, berries, and plants on the island, and having island-wide parties. They use what magic is in the air of this island to set up a siren song for travelers, to draw them in. When they do have a traveler on their island, they are known to sleep with them, get them drunk, and then eat them.

The island has few buildings, mainly a few buildings where they dock their fishing boats, brewery buildings scattered across the island, several gazebo-like buildings that are building-sized beds, and a grand hall at the center of the island, where they take their visitors to eat them.

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The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, place of mystery, suspense and disappearances. A lot of disappearances, really, and especially in Viesn where this triangular location is the location of one of the very few permanent openings to enter the Nevernever.

That is not to say it's a good idea. Entering the Bermuda Triangle may be a surefire way to enter the Nevernever, even in neutral territory, but you also end up in the lair of one of the largest and oldest Solitary Faerie in existence - intruding, at that. A former Count/Countess of the Moon Court, and more likely to see anything that enters as a snack rather than anything else. On top of that, the one way out of the lair leads directly into Moon Court territory.

So while the Bermuda Triangle is a reliable way to enter the Nevernever, it is also an unreliable way to enter the Nevernever and stay alive.

But if you can enter from there, you can also leave from there. In the Mortal Realms half of the Triangle is a small, uninhabited, and unnamed island used mainly for the Fair Folk as a neutral location for making deals and, most noteworthy, bargaining for new Pets during the yearly market set up by a trio of Solitary Fae Pet handlers, sellers, and acquirers known as the Crow Sisters. This market takes place in a structure in the center of the island, looking akin to a Roman theater, and is greatly encouraged and enabled by the Faerie Royals.

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Viesn Presentations

If you want the quickest and least detailed quick course on Viesen you can go here for Viesn as a whole and here for the Nevernever.

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↱ the basic regions of the nevernever ↵

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Hy-Brasil Religion

This is my first fictional religion I have tried to describe (the second I’ve created).

Also it is definitely not recommended to worship Faerie Queens. It has not stopped Hy-Brasilians, obviously, but it is worth noting. Faeries do not have mortal morals, and the High Queen only answers to the worship benevolently because it amuses her, and it strokes her pride. Plus, they give her a lot of enchanted objects - magic cores.

Anyway, on to the actual entry...

The mist sees the truths of the world.

The religious beliefs of Hy-Brasil is centered around the Queen of the Mist, the Queen of the High Court of the Faerie, High Queen Vialii. They focus mainly on her title as the Queen of the Mist, but they don't forget her various other titles, both sinister and not. However, she is never spoken about by name, she is never directly called a goddess, and she should not be bothered needlessly - which they believe addressing her by name would do.

They know who and what the Queen of the Mist is, and that is a major reason behind the worship.

The religion states that the Queen of the Mist was the beginning of everything, and the Terror of the Void will be the end of everything. She was the beginning, she will be the end.

They give offerings to the Queen of the Mist in form of books, heavily enchanted jewelry, mist-like drinks, crystallized fruit, and art. They build her temples, mainly in the temple city Vialii's Garden, aside from the main temple at the top of the highest tower.

The religion developed around the moment they found that the island is hidden and watched over by the High Queen, through the mist, and the day she granted them a visit. She there spoke to several of the islands inhabitants. The inhabitants put down what the High Queen spoke to them about, the advice they gave her.

Do not kill each other. Do not hinder your process by your former society. Embrace magic. Embrace what you mortals call sin.

But likewise, she gave insights on the past, back to the birth of the universe, in cryptic speech, and titles of hers long forgotten, and lead to the belief that she was the beginning and will be the end. This revelation is usually delivered in private to an assembled group of followers.

The religion has priestesses representing the Queen of the Mist, one at each temple, with three at the main temple. Those who spoke the Queen's word only stated themselves to be messengers, and so the priestesses style themselves in behavior. Questions and doubt are treated with care and thoughtful answers. While loyalty and obedience to the High Queen's word is expected, it is not enforced strictly due to the Queen herself not asking them of much else than offerings, an open mindset, and worship. Individuality is embraced, and there is no need for them to spread the word outside of the island.

The religion was there to help people co-exist better, at first, when they were prisoners and wardens in mindsets still. To even it out to one group. Now, it exists as a way of comfort, and when the Queen of the Mist is praised and given gifts she shelters them, gives them answers and boons.

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So, time to tackle what I made maps for, and need to create cultures for. Do not mind the tiny notes in the bottom corner. They are to make it easier for me.

Avalon

The Island of Apples, the Island of Fortune.

Avalon is a safe place for escaped Pets, those seeking a place where they are truly hidden from their Faerie owners. It is not very heavily populated, only a few hundred people at a time, but has developed it's own little society away from all else (that I will not go into detail about now).

It is an island of apple tree forests, a dense deer population, and a nearly nonexistant predator population, springs of drinkable water, and small villages of Pets. The island is ruled by seven women, one from each of the major villages and picked through democracy whenever one of them dies, who live in a temple at the center of the island, protecting the artifact that keeps the island from being discovered by the Fair Folk.

At this island there is a wealth of artifacts stolen from the Faerie, collected over years, often passed down though family lines. 

Magic is highly discouraged to use at the village, outside of inborn abilities, as it might spike through their protection.

It is rare that the core inhabitants leave the island.

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Interbreeding

I have, at most, 9 more posts ready. 6 of which is a culture in process. All Viesn. But, well, without further stalling...

This is an interesting subject I just stumbled upon and thought I should bring up.

Interbreeding between certain of the intelligent races is possible. In some cases.

Let's begin with those who can't. Dragons can't interbreed with anyone or anything, their subspecies is all they get, and that is one of the problematic issues they faced during the dragon hunts and why several sub-species are extinct. Vampires are entirely sterile and as such can't even breed with other vampires. Nobody knows with Dream Weavers, but they are assumed to be incapable of interbreeding.

Nightmares can interbreed with humans. As in, they are capable of doing it, but the child of such an union would be sterile, weak, and would not live very long - 20 years at most. On top of that, it is extremely unusual for a Human and a Nightmare to even be friendly due to the Nightmares malicious nature.

Demons can interbreed within their own species, but it is unheard of that demons can have children with humans. That is, however, possible, and such a child would have access to powerful demonic magics, but also be more vulnerable to developing mental instabilities, and addictions.

Faerie can interbreed freely within their own species and with humans. Half-Fae are common, and nearly always it is their father who are the Fae, but their Fae-gained powers would be fairly weak unless they chose to embrace their heritage, which will slowly transform their minds to more and more Faerie than human. Mostly, Faerie are really bad parents to their half-human offspring.

There are one more example of interbreeding, of a human and an Anthropomorphic Personification, but that is highly unlikely to happen again.