✤ History
​It has been long since the universe's collapse; the expansion folded on itself and then created a domino of events following, destroying the bright and beautiful universe that once was…
In the darkness of the void, leftover cosmic dust floats scatteredly and sparsely. Then suddenly, a cluster of cosmic dust collides and starts forming a planet, something the universe has not seen in eons… A blinding light appears, and roaring noises are heard throughout the universe… a new world is being born.
Alone and in the darkness of the void, this world may not last as the darkness consumes any energy for itself.
Within the planet's core, full of cosmic dust and immense power, between exosphere and space realms formed. These realms are different dimensions filled with magic, creating a barrier between the exosphere and space. These realms affected how the planet grew and these realms are the Sky, Ocean, and Land. The realm's magic formed a spirit within the core to aid nature and keep this planet alive amid the storm of the void. We will survive.
Life is beginning…slowly but beginning, taking millennia to form, but it is here; they are alive, they are thriving. The realms created life based upon their power, and that power lives on forevermore, even when a lifeform dies, its spirit remains. These beings that are born have essence from spirits and nature, Akimaru from the land, have crystals growing on their bodies, and their crystal hearts beat together; other Akimaru are born from the oceans with winding and flowing limbs, with the sea runs through their hearts. Lastly, the sky Akimaru have soft and widespread arms, light as feathers, they float around the planet's atmosphere… stargazing together as one.
The guardian spirit within the core becomes the Akimaru's Guardian, this Guardian has protected this planet for so long that their life force is depleting, and there is no time for them to recover. A process had to be created for regenerating their power, the Akimaru although fragile beings, their magic was powerful enough together, to assist the Guardian with regenerating their life force.
The realms bless and nurture the Akimaru, providing them with stardust, the most rare and powerful substance to the Akimaru. Stardust creates a new way of magic through spells, potions, and more inventions, this magic creates harmony for the Akimaru, aiding in the creation of kingdoms, domains, and towns. In return, the Akimaru assist their Guardian by worshipping them and creating cultural event of bestowing their power on a sacred crystal, at the start of every month. This regenerated the Guardian's life force enough to keep them and the planet protected for the time being.
Crystals can store and transfer power, which the guardian granted some sacred crystals to chosen Akimaru. The chosen Akimaru assist their realms and maintain harmony amongst them. In return for the power, those Akimaru have a responsibility to keep the abyssal dust from spreading on the planet, destroying plants, and altering life forms.
The chosen Akimaru ally with the Guardian to keep track of all the abyssal dust appearances and annihilate them. While those Akimaru are diligent and efficient at destroying the abyssal dust, some creatures and regular Akimaru get affected by it before they can aid, and unfortunately, those affected by the abyssal dust have their DNA altered. We call these Akimaru the Tainted.
The Tainted glow with unnatural auras, as their veins are now luminescent. Though the abyssal dust doesn't always affect the Tainted's personality, they are treated by Akimaru with utmost caution and vileness, because of that, some Tainted run away to more accepting communities or form tainted groups, fighting against the discrimination.
These groups can cause havoc upon innocent Akimaru, and some of the Tainted groups cause irreparable harm to nature. The stigma around the Tainted is more harmful every day, with television and newspapers reporting on their every bad move. The Tainted have almost caused a war before, but it may happen for certain if this stigma grows…
✤ Magic
Much of the magic and power of this world has been dabbled in the History and Behaviours of the species but this will explain in more depth about this universe's magic system.
There are four types of magic within this universe, Accord, Arcane, Abyssal, and Acrid.
➜ Accord
Accord is magic that Akimaru and some creatures are either born with or blessed with. Accord magic is based upon light and life, within this planet, its core is full of this magic which creates said light and life which the void devours and surrounds.
This magic is fast acting and the casters can be quite specific with its pathway and potentcy. It can create seals, sacred objects, and pathways that can encrypt a script of what the magic does, its material requirements, and how to cast it. This magic is usually unique to species and individually, though most Akimaru can float and direct small to medium objects, they also can illuminate small mana particles and crystals like a torch.
Each species has additional more powerful magic blessed from their respective realm which is covered in the Habitat and Behaviours section above. These powers are another example of Accord magic.
➜ Arcane
Arcane magic is based on mana and stardust, it doesn't require a lifeform to house and cast it. It's usually stored in crystals and can be used in combination with Accord magic. This magic combination is used in the form of spells and specialized altars that utilize seals, tomes, and pathways created from Accord magic.
This magic can also be mixed into potions, with different ingredients, processes, and equipment, it can strengthen or weaken non-magic commodities and create new unique potions with a various range of effects.
➜ Abyssal
Abyssal magic is forbidden magic in this world as it can distort matter at an atomic level, this magic is immensely powerful and almost no other magic can rival it.
This magic is used to create an anormous amount of energy, this energy can create earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides. It is extremely destructive and only a few can handle its power, one such the Guardian has aced this magic, whereas the Chosen have only a fraction of it, they can distord matter only on a smaller level.
Abyssal magic is extremely rare and currently, the only beings with this magic are the Guardian, the Chosen Akimaru, and some scarse anomalous creatures roaming the world.
➜ Acrid
Acrid magic is filled with dark matter from the void, if lifeforms come across fallen dark matter, it can infect them and warp their magic. This magic can spread already contaminated areas where dark matter has fallen, helping further spread infections to other lifeforms.
The Akimaru that are infected by the dark matter are called the Tainted, this magic weakens and sometimes diminishes the being's prior magic. Some Tainted use their magic with experiments, researching and documenting on how dark matter and Acrid magic reacts to different environments, materials, and minerals. Some work along with uninfected Akimaru to assist in finding a cure for it.
Locations
✤ Kingdoms
Caelum Palace
| Caelum is derived from a roman word meaning heaven or sky.
| Architecture
This palace features Ionic Order, Corinthian Order and Baroque styled architecture. The palace looks lavish and luxurious no matter where you walk. Base building materials feature white and beige colors, making the palace a beam of light and hardly ever dark even at night.
Many buildings showcase art like with windows, doors, and trims. Inside most buildings there are magnificent paintings on the walls and featured murals.
| Culture
The culture of the palace values the arts and performance, you will see this with the everyday fashion, having characteristics from ancient roman clothing, long robes and wrapping fabrics. They also adorn themselves in precious jewels and ornaments.
There is much judgement if you look untidy or unpleasant, people do not take kindly to those who look displeasing here. If you are a tainted you be extremely discriminated here, you will be able to pay for services or even walk down the street without people shouting at you ensuring you know you do not belong there.
| Environment
The Caelum palace is on a massive floating island in the sky surrounded by clouds, and smaller islands lower to the ground.
The majority of the island is a large pasture but there is a massive lake in the middle of the island with rivers trickling out to the edge and a few mountains on one side of the island.
Osira Sanctuary
| Osira is a combination of Oceana (Greek for ocean) and Sereia (Portuguese for mermaid)
| Architecture
Osira features Ionic Order and Corinthian Order architecture from classical Greek architecture, builders create the foundations out of bedrock and cover it with sand, matching the marine environment around them. Smaller buildings are made from sandstone and sometimes massive seashells.
The folk of this city like to adorn the walls and structures with shells, plants and flowy fabrics, creating a colourful and cheerful environment!
| Culture
The people here like focusing on the positives, they have a strong teamwork focused culture and are always welcoming to new faces in the city.
This city is a bustling trade hub as travelling through currents underwater can be much faster than carriages or flying.
| Environment
Mainly a flat sand seabed, featuring some rocks and plants scattered in every direction. It is much deeper than the other towns and realms nearby.
Creatures such as Dolphins help transport materials and are faster transport for merfolk and visitors to get around the city. Narwhals help protect and guard this sanctuary, you will most likely see them patrolling around or at their stations keeping a lookout. Critters such as sea slugs, crabs, large range of fish, etc.
Bolete Kingdom
| The name Bolete is a fungus that contains pores instead of gills, on the underside of the cap. That symbolizes how safe and sheltered this kingdom is.
| Architecture
The Bolete kingdom features Brick Gothic and Fachwerk Style Architecture inspired from Germany.
The architecture also includes the forests and nature surrounding it, they sometimes use mushroom heads for roofs and fungi is frequently featured in furniture and smaller buildings.
Mood lighting and shelter is focus on heavily here, fairy lights are common in shop districts and busy sections making feel magical and welcoming.
| Culture
Many folks here are artisans, woodwork is especially common. Other jobs like foraging and alchemy are popular in this area as well.
People are proud of their creativity and skills; their culture focuses much on learning new skills and trades.
| Environment
Surrounded by a temperate forest, covered with many types of mushrooms, many creatures call this area home too. Like the owls, lizards, many small to medium bird types, deer, rabbits, foxes, etc.
✤ Towns
Yuka Valley
| Yuka is a Japanese name that carries multiple meanings such as reason, fragrance, and flower.
| Architecture
Yuka Valley features traditional Japanese architecture famously featuring red in all their builds. They have many gardens which invoke a calm atmosphere. A beautiful long river runs through the town almost splitting it 1:1.
| Culture
These folk are quiet and modest, because of small size of the town, they do have a culture that is close knit and community focused culture. Everybody knows of each other.
They travel nearby to the Yamane settlement to get daily items and food, as Yuka Valley lies nearby but at a high altitude, amongst the mountains, food production is non-existent due to the nutrient poor soils, specialized plants only grow here.
| Environment
Between mountains in the highlands, has a river going through the valley. Features mainly sakura trees, rocks, moss and small pastures. Humitity is quite high in the valley.
Yamane Springs
| Yamane is a Japanese name meaning mountain root.
| Architecture
Traditional Japanese architecture in all of their builds, using surrounding dark wood for beams and structure. Small farms surround this settlement, providing fast trade to Yuka Valley as they live in the mountains.
| Culture
Yamane is a tight-knit community and encourages a work focused atmosphere, they are used to receiving visitors as they take pride in their natural springs.
This settlement is a growing trade route amongst travelers and vendors, with this there is a growing market here possibly rivalling a famous holiday location Mimosa Archipelago.
| Environment
The natural hot springs are a main feature of Yamane, making it quite humid, it’s surrounded by forests along with being right next to a massive mountain range, the tallest and longest in the world.
Mimosa Archipelago
| Architecture
Mimosa's architecture involves natural local materials built in a Hawaiian Hale architecture style. Some buildings use coral, shells and seaweed to symbolise the house owner's job and status.
| Culture
Mimosa is filled with many skilled cooks, the food here is considered the best of the surrounding islands. Their culture is big on fishing and tourism, they also have a massive team of people who specialise in species and reef preservation.
| Environment
A set of tropical islands, Mimosa is main and largest island, named after the archipelago itself. Surrounded by a large coral reef, featuring a diverse range of birds, fish and crustaceans.
| Mimosa is a species of plant that grows in tropical areas.
Luana Reef
| Architecture
Luana features many shipwrecks and sunken cargo, they feature scrapped goods and parts to put them together. The main area hosts a large goods market, you'll find many of the markets housed in the sunken ships and cargo.
| Culture
Curiousness and energy are rewarded well here, people love exploring and telling stories about the reef and sunken ships, creating folklore that tourists find interesting. Parties and celebrations
| Environment
Luana is the largest reef in the planet, its broken records for the amount of diverse coral and fish species. Found between the shores of the Mimosa Archipelago and Levarian Grove, Luana is considered a very sacred place, used as a sign of hope and abundance.
| Luana is an Albanian and Hawaiian name meaning happiness, light, enjoyment and lion.
Osani Forest
| Architecture
Osani has indo-saracenic architecture featuring colourful patterns and shapes, symbolising their mastering of magic and academics. The buildings are rather large with many open spaces between to showcase their wonderful gardens and waterways.
| Culture
There are many scholars and teachers that call this home. It attracts researchers from all over the globe with its mystic and solid teachings. Intellect is considered extremely important among the people, board games and card games are most popular.
| Environment
Amongst this dense forest, the Osani settlement hides. Animals and plants clutter making it even harder for light to shine through this dense forest. Glowing bugs and plants have made this forest their own, it has become known for its glowing beauty.
| Osani is name created by combining Oswald which means divine power in English, and Imani meaning belief in Arabic.
Chione Alps
| Architecture
Logs and rocks are the main resources to build cabins here in Chione. A-Frame and Arctic Barbecue Cabins architecture is commonly found here. Snowy trails connect each cabin leading to the village centre where the market, pub, hospital and administration is located.
| Culture
The alcohol industry is extremely popular, as alcohol helps warm up the body. A huge sheep shearing farm is located here as well, for making all the villages clothes, rugs and blankets. The people here have skills in many different areas as they have to rely heavily on themselves.
| Environment
Thick snow covers everything all year round, the cold never ceases, only lowers by a fraction. This village is tucked between tall mountains and towering trees, cliffs are found north westerly, leading to the large ice filled ocean. Polar bears, reindeer and snow foxes call this icy place home.
| Chione means snow in Greek, derived from the goddess Chione, daughter of Boreas.
Levarian Grove
| Architecture
The traditional Mongolian Yurt architecture style is what these locals live Making them out of local materials like sandstone and driftwood, also weaving the leaves into rugs, walls and seats.
| Culture
Many fruit farms are located here, along with wild fruits making foraging a very common job in this area. A large fishing market is also here and not just for eating there are some rare and unique specimens that called this mangrove home. Many tourists also visit as it is shark hotspot, they do lay their young here.
| Environment
A tropical climate, usually featuring sunny and warm mornings along with a short storm of an afternoon. A huge mangrove forest grows here, concealing the vulnerable fish and young sharks.
| Levarian is inspired by the sea monster called a Leviathan.
Elio Desert
| Architecture
The people use clay, sandstone and dry leaves to construct their houses, using a Kutcha architecture style and decorate their homes with colourful fabrics.
| Culture
Elio Desert has a large mining trade, making it the crystal capital of Aki. Plain clothes are always matched and bedazzled in gorgeous gemstone jewels.
Mining and gemstone capital, best quality crystals.
| Environment
An extremely dry arid desert, but surprisingly many small oasis's are cluttered around this town, giving the towns folk fresh water and recourses. They use camels to traverse and transport goods to other towns and ports nearby for trade. You'll also find all sorts or lizards, insects and small critters.
| Elio is a name meaning sun in Greek, derived from the name Helios.
✤Terrain
Serene Waters
| Creatures
Turtles, jellyfish and medium fish species frequent here often, as it a common breeding ground for them.
A turtle species in this area, features a crystal shell, people consider them a blessing and good luck when you come across one. Like these turtles many creatures and species in this world may feature unique traits.
| Environment
These waters are a shallow type of the open ocean. There are many rocks scattered and some large coral clusters can be found sparsely around. This ocean located roughly between Mimosa and Osira.
| Meaning calm body of water.
Ardeen Greenwood
| Ardeen meaning great forest and greenwood meaning lush forest.
| Creatures
Various types of woodland species call this massive forest home, some of these are deer, woodpeckers, wrens, bears, foxes, etc.
These critters have their own magic and special traits as this forest is teeming with mystery and magic.
| Environment
Ardeen is a large and lush forest nearby the Bolete kingdom.
Many warn about getting lost in these forests when exploring as it, because of its massive size and it features similar flora and fauna throughout the forest, many get disorientated and therefore go missing.
Folklore pasted down for centuries has talked of many tales of dark entities and monsters, making this forest well known and used in horror films, books and games.
Alatus Isles
| Creatures
Birds and other flying critters call this place home, a haven to be more exact. It is the largest settlement of bird species in the world, as other usual predators cannot reach these floating isles.
| Environment
Alatus is full of floating islands nearby to Caelum Palace. These islands are said to be raised by a special stone, crystal and critter combination, all contributing to this amazing sight.
The critters found in these isles, react to the crystals causing them to transport water to the larger floating isles, making this a unique water system. The view is marvelous, consider the most beautiful waterfall by the nearby lands.
| Alatus is a Latin word meaning winged one.
Quartz Cove
| Underground cave filled with quartz.
| Creatures
Lizards, beetles, and some salamander species live deeper in the cave where water is. They feature crystals on their bodies and sometimes their eyes.
Local legends talk about the critters with crystal eyes being able to see spirits and unusual entities due to their rather weird behavior patterns, alas this is yet to be researched, maybe one day they will figure this tale out.
| Environment
Near the outskirts of Ardeen Greenwood, a massive open cave leading to a smaller entrance featuring a large amount of quartz and other precious gems.
Due to crystals being able to house power, this location is considered dangerous, and you are suggested to have a well-rounded guide with you!
Fae Willow
| Creatures
Fae are abundant in this willow, they live in the trees and amongst the lily pads or duckweed. There are also many different species of dragonflies and frogs whom the fae take care of. Owls and other quiet birds also call this willow home.
| Environment
A large redwood forest lays within this deep swamp. Sunlight can only peak through the branches for very little time during the day, so it remains fairly cool but humid.
| Fae is french for trust, belief & fairies. It is called Fae Willow as many fairies call this willow home.
Galen Wetlands
| Creatures
These wetlands are the perfect home for ducks, swans and many other water loving birds. You will also find some small critters like capybaras, herons and turtles.
On the sidelines of the wetland bunnies call it home as well many species of deer travel here.
| Environment
This wetland has a cooler climate and some windy days but the beautiful views and sound of flowing water maintains the peacefulness.
| Galen means calm or peaceful in greek. Alluding to the tranquilness of these wetlands.
Ember Canyon
| Creatures
This arid land doesn't host many species from the look of it, but you'll be surprised the amount of critters camouflaging into the surroundings. Lizards, snakes and beetles are just a few of the animals who roam this barren land.
| Environment
Dry as they come and filled with nothing but large towering rocks and a sea of red sand. The heat gets so hot here even the plants look thirsty, though it is said there are water filled caves beneath this land. No one known has confirmed it yet unfortunately.
| Ember meaning spark or a smoldering remnant of a fire in English.