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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Tell us something fun about your setting

Thank you! In my main Headworld, World of Drakes, there’s a race of bird people called sygis who absolutely LOVE crafting and weaving things! Since they adapted to weaving nests and such, it became part of their culture to weave more intricate things for fun as well, like baskets and stuff! I’d imagine they would use strips of bark or needles as materials, and use old discarded feathers to decorate!

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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! I'd like to talk about hobbies! Are hobbies allowed? What are some common hobbies? (tag @fields-of-ink)

@fields-of-ink

thanks! hobbies are certainly allowed! there are many different activities, but some common ones include: fighting/spectating in the Drake Arena, collecting things, astrology (I have yet to flesh out that one), travelling, dancing, and singing!

my character macca likes to dance with ribbons tied to their hands and feet as a way to express themself and feel personal freedom from their trauma

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There are 5 main races in the World of Drakes world:

Humans, Elves, Draecons (Drakes), Sectus, and Sygis. [the terms draecon and drake are interchangeable]

Each race has their own differences and similarities in culture, for example, Sygis tend to live in trees and forests in communities rather than towns, a draecons tend to let children fend for themselves at a younger age.

among races there tends to be a lot of hybridization and such, which is one of the things that led to certain species of draecons like avian ones existing in the first place. (Avian draecons are a hybrid of Harpies and Common draecons that stabilized into their own thing.)

Sygis started off as a weird hybrid of harpies and humans called ‘Vultures’ that eventually became their own thing. I’ll probably go more in depth on harpies later.

Sectus are the only Insectoid race, and have no sex/concept of gender, as all sectus are hermaphrodiac. (They are the only species that can’t breed with the others.) They can’t speak the common tongue due to having bug mouths, so they use special translators to communicate. More on them some other time.

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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! How are stories passed on in your world? Orally? In writing? Are historical records kept and are they kept well?

It depends on who’s doing it! Humans and elves are a lot more fond of keeping written record than drakes and sectus are! Since sectus (insectoid race) are a lot more proficient in “magic,” they would probably find some way to record oral messages within certain devices!

most stories of the god’s are told orally though, as there aren’t any divine events on record, but there are many sightings and smaller events spread through word of mouth

Historical records are kept in the capital’s archives, and only archivists are allowed to view or modify them, unless someone has permission to read them.

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Deities in the World of Drakes world:

There are several gods and goddesses in the WOD universe, both tangible and imaginary.

Several of the gods do exist, and have/had real effects on the world they rule over. Some malicious and lazy, others kind and mysterious.

They all chill in this pocket dimension thing called the divine plane, where they can watch what’s going on in the world. Some beings, like angels, (Not your typical kind, more horrific and amalgamous), can travel into and inhabit the divine plane, while others can only see visions of it in their dreams, like demigods.

Angels are rarely seen, super violent beings of pure divine energy. They’re often on fire, and look terrifying with too many limbs, eyes, or what have you. They are extremely territorial, and if they fight with another angel on the mortal world, it can lead to disastrous events. They cannot speak either, which makes their presence feel even eerier.

Sometimes a mortal individual really sticks out or makes an impression to a god, so they become “blessed” and are transformed into Demigods. Demigods essentially don’t age and are impervious to most damage. sometimes becoming a demigod is an achievement, or a punishment, like with Serse.

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You can look at all my characters/worldbuilding for the “draecons universe” in #WOD (world of drakes) on my tumblr.

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