My TSS AU World Building
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Modern-Medieval Fantasy. By that I mean it's set in a time frame where P!ATD, Disney, YouTube and all of those glorious things exist. But there's also Kings, Queens; a more Medieval-like system that's rolled up in modern day-ish politics.
The King and Queen sit in a large castle while everyday folk have modern houses with the occasional area of more medieval-type foundations.
Owning coaches is almost as popular and as used as owning a car. .
Some humans have magick, others don't. It's more common for two people with magick to have a kid that also has magick, but rarely they can be just normal. Or two normal people having a magick kid is just as rare.
If two people with the same magick have a child; there is no certainty that the child will have the same magick. For example; if two people with water magick have a child; they won’t have something fire related, but they could have Flight or could conjure thunderstorms.
Shooting fire from their hands, Changing hair colours with a thought, Flying, Super strength, Superspeed etc. aren't rare types of magick. They're all fairly common and most children with magick go to public schools and just have a magick class to go to.
But then there's kids who have rarer magick. Invisibility, Charmspeak, Telekinesis, Breathing underwater etc. Stronger versions of common magick can also count as ‘rare’; such as having the ability to control wind and they’re able to conjure entire tornados. .
The children with ‘rare’ magick go to the King Cygnus Aurelian’s School of Magick; a private school named after the current King’s grandfather. Everything is free to the student; including housing and they get money for food. They have to pay for extra furniture and whatever else, but the basics are all free.
The dorms are in rows of ten. Each row is assigned a letter. Such as row A goes to dorm 00-09. B is 10-19. C is 20-29. Most new children can pick a dorm to their liking.
Dorms A are restricted for special guests such as those recognised by the King and/or Queen.
Dorms X, Y and Z are restricted for those with movement disabilities and those requiring, fortnightly or less, therapy sessions.
Children can change rooms at the start and end of the year. Only certain exceptions can change dorms during the year.
There are some exceptions to who can be enrolled. Children who have shown that they either need special training with their magick -for example, they can’t control when they can light their hands on fire- or have exceptional grades, have the CHANCE to go to the school as well. They cannot apply for the school, only chosen.
Children aged 12 and above are enlisted to the school as the majority of the populace's magical community have powers by their twelfth birthday. Those who are found any older than that and have hidden their powers for one reason or another are rarely punished for doing so. .
Magickal creatures and Fae are rather rare for humans to find. Unicorns, fairies, mermaids, dryads and even dragons aren’t an everyday sight. When they are seen; they're commonly killed without hesitation. Humans have believed for years now that the majority of magickal creatures are out to get the human-race.
That belief started when they started hating Botanokinesis; more commonly known as ‘Plant Magick’. It's a VERY powerful magick that no one has a full grasp upon; they don’t even know the magicks specifics. The people who had it never seemed to grow tired after using their abilities, managed to never get lost, avoided even the most sudden of ambushes and could even attack a hundred foes at once. None who had this magick told anyone else how it worked.
Eventually even the three main Royal Families began to fear them and when one person with this magick had been reported to have killed a small family, they were all hunted down.
The hunt had led to an extensive search through forests, where they found tons of magickal creatures that had attacked the armed forces on sight. This caused rumors that the ones with Plant Magic were killing the soldiers and using the creatures as a decoy; and so they had killed a lot of creatures by the time the hunt ended.
There is a chance that another person with Plant Magic can be born at any time, but they had simply stopped appearing two hundred years ago; the same year that the hunt had ended. .
All Fae can understand the Dragons language (shortened to ‘Fae speak’); with some also being able to speak it.
The majority of the Dragons are led by a mysterious figure known as the Dragonwitch; who is rumored to be several thousand years old. Humans don’t know if they are a humanoid or a Dragon.
She is both. A witch with a large range of magic and the ability to change into a Dragon. No one knows her birth name, even herself, but Dragons and the Fae call her by a different name that the Humans don’t know.
Human and Fae World’s
The Fae world is at least twice as large as the Human world. No one knows which came first, but the Dragonwitch believes that they came into existence at the same time.
The Human world consists of five main continents, with three Royal families governing over them. The Aurulien family control the two largest continents. The Ambersworn family controls one, which is the third largest. With The Fujisaki family controlling the smallest two.
The Aurulien’s and the Ambersworn’s have constant disagreements. The Fujisaki have never chosen sides.
The Aurulien’s have the most history connecting them to the Fae. The Ambersworn’s continent rarely sees Fae, most likely because they are the most violent towards them.
The story starts on one of the Aurulien’s continents; where their castle and where the main School is.
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The Fae world has nine main continents.
The Fae haven’t had a Royal family in decades. The majority are led by the Dragonwitch, with small groups of clans (most with Dragons as their leaders) that dislike how she runs things.
The Dragonwitch controls all nine main continents, with the rebel clans scattered across them.
The last Royal family (who were dragons) were chosen by the forest, and so that’s what the Fae are waiting to happen.
Humans do know that they have no Royals and that the Dragonwitch is in charge. They don’t know how Royals are made. .
Humans know that the Fae are connected to the forests but aren’t able to see any Fae communities from the sky or by satellite. They theorise that they use magick to move between worlds; but they don’t know how or what magick they use.
A few humans have come back to talk about seeing these communities but are never able to find them again. .
The forests and larger mountains create secret roads that most Fae can see; the ground lightly glows points in the direction of where to go. Some Fae can also hear the quiet voices of the forest and use them to guide them.
The paths from the Human world lead to random places in the Fae world. Even if two paths are a few kilometers apart, it could lead to two different continents.
The forests have been known to remove and create paths if needed. Such as, if it senses a large group of humans coming towards one and inevitably find it; so it gets removed. It adds more roads depending on weather and how many Fae are in the area- there’s a lot of variables.
And yeah! That’s the world my story (that I haven’t written much of yet...) is going to be placed in. Feel free to ask questions, give tips, all around talk about it because I’d love to hear people’s opinions!
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