Worldbuilding June

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19. How are wars fought in your world?

A great war broke out across the different Platebearers, known as the Rending War. It ended when one of the Platebearers was killed by a superweapon, causing it to fall to the earth. Conflicts echoing it occur in the game's story... and it's PVP.

 

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20. What sorts of weapons & armor are used in your world?

Both Players and the NPC inhabitants of the world can equip various types of gear and weapons. These are often imbued with magical qualities and provide various benefits to their users. Trade in these gear and weapons is highly lucrative.

 

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21. What do people do for work in your world?

Both NPCs and Players can take on various jobs and odds and ends. These do various things - for most it is a way to make money, but for the Players it can lead to more valuable things or even advance plotlines. And ultimately the NPCs and other characters serving the Players is, in and of itself, a job.

 

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22. What do people do for fun in your world?

For the Players, the entire world IS the fun. The NPCs and such meanwhile have games and activities - often rooted in the setting's history - that they occupy themselves with when not entertaining the Players. However entertaining said Players are widely considered to be pretty enjoyable as far as duties go.

 

[Venia Silente]

This time I'm gonna cheat a bit, mostly because I haven't had the time nor the power to develop 20k new species. But hey, gonna promise *something*, right?

WBJ 2024 P4E1: Flora and Fauna​

The Many Ways of Life​

From kyeugh’s prompt:

What else are the people of your world sharing their planet with? Feel free to go into detail on any monster or creature in your world […] .

Even though Nrafhal is not influenced by humans in-universe, it doesn’t mean it is not influenced by our reality at a deeper level. After all, this world and its characters are stuff I, an IRL person I swear, just made up (sssssh, don’t let them know!) – it’s just I’d rather not spend the effort of creating a whole new ecology and some 30k species.

…Yet.

Thus, Nrafhal (in particular in -zmer) will have a good background variety of mushrooms, trees, worms, mollusks, bugs and whatever siphonophoræ are conveniently and nondescriptingly similar to but not exact as in IRL or as in the already existing Pokéverse (“time flower”, remember?).

Hey, fishermons in Notgos and Elergaba gotta earn their wages fishing something, after all.

These creatures will be there, implied most of the time, until the need comes to concoct a good Ekans-specific antivenom or when a superpowered elemental thunder dog has to deal with fleas or blood parasites.

After all, something has to have adapted to the existence of prevalent and regular phenomena such as the Shackle, Remlia’s magicks, or just the good ol’ elemental powers. Just imagine what a psychic predator could do in a world where psychic energy is plentiful…

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rev 1.0 (2024-06-22)

Referenced at the Nrafhal portal.

 

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23. What’s the sky like in your world?

The atmosphere itself is populated by many Platebearers, which harbor a good chunk of other life. The planet is obit by various crystalline spheres in place of moons, which rotate in erratic patterns. Far in the distance a sun shines, though eclipses by the spheres are not uncommon.

 

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24. What places are still unexplored in your world?

The surface of the planet is a forbidden zone where few dare venture. The calamity that depowered Aulwyr and forced the inhabitants to flee to the Platebearers irreversibly warped it, and now it is a hostile landscape filled with hostile flora and fauna. However some dark beings, like the dark dragon Calabria, still make their lairs there.

 

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25. What do people carry with them on a daily basis in your world?

Players have entire inventories to themselves they fill with exotic odds and ends. NPCs keep simpler things with them, usually only necessities for daily life... or their current quest. Both store their items in special "hammerspace" pouches.

 

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26. What sorts of art exist in your world?

The NPCs have their own depictions of art and statuary around, a few with plot or historical importance. Players can express themselves with special messages and graffiti they send to each other, as well as hosting events to draw each other's characters. Out of universe art sometimes shows up in-game as well.