Questions and Notes
The Beginning
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What is the relationship between and the previous movers?
- Why does tolerate ?
- / reconciliation conversation.
- What knowledge do humans get from caretakers?
- How does having access to knowledge affect a child?
- What are the cultural and technological differences between eras?
- How does the empire form and fragment?
- What are motivations after the sealing?
- Are there multiple languages on ?
- Develop original human language and the title language.
- Develop the and languages.
- Did the creators create the planet or just the inhabitants?
- Were the caretakers created or transferred?
- What motivates the original movers?
- Are there multiple species of caretakers?
- How does Ru die?
- Is sentient?
- Who/what is Rel?
- How did meet ?
- Who is wife?
Creation of
- What is the theme of the world's creation?
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How much variance is there among habitable worlds?
- Volcanic planets might not be breathable unless there is plant life to manage the atmosphere
- habitable ice planets may be temporary (earth like ice age)
- Mars like planets are not habitable
- Ocean planets may exist
- Desert planet?
- Global forest planet?
- The tectonic plates should have some form of symmetry.
- Land to water ratio, # of biomes, biome area ratios.
- Prime habitability: As much land as feasible; areas of temperate climate.
- Varied hostility: treacherous forests, brutal arctic, harsh deserts, large mountains, extreme environments with macroscopic extremophiles.
- How small can oceans be and still support aquatic life and produce air/water?
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How violent are tectonics? Is there one continent?
- One continent to start
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Noticeable movement in a century
- What effect does this have on habitability / climate?
- On planets with fast wind, are there safe zones?
- How do winds flow on eyeball planets? Do they have storms?
- How many moons? Are they habitable? Inhabited?
- How are tides affected by multiple moons?
- Does the planet have a ring?
Granularity of sparks
- What constitutes an individual?
- Are sub-entities considered distinguishable with their own spark or is it conditional?
- What effect does a sub-entity have on the parent entity if that sub-entity is a living being in another plane?
- Can inanimate objects that are living beings in another plane be considered dead matter?
Motivations
- Why does want to complete the plan? What is his version of the plan?
- Does know that this aligns (at least partly) with the goals of ?
- Does know about ?
- Do the caretakers know about ?
- Does get his goal from the caretakers or did he arrive at it independently?
- Do the caretakers regret the decision to lock human potential?
- Does inquire why and his children have power?
- Does discuss in any way the plan with ?
- Do children know why they have powers and about the plan?
- Does confide in the plan?
- What actions does take to progress the plan?
- Other than maintaining the war, does have other ventures?
- What is relationship with Bel in regards to the plan?
- Does train anyone other than ?
- What is relationship with and in regards to the plan?
- When does realize that , and have their own plan?
Soul Sheaths
- How does a being grow a soul sheath?
The Original Plan
- Were there others that pushed to accomplish the plan?
- Did tell that would be the one to complete the plan?
- What other things did try?
- How did he unlock the imprint ability?
- What was the experiment that increases life energy?
- Did know about life energy?
Chosen Weapons
- After transcends the 8 he chooses a nagamaki as his weapon of choice.
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chooses a halberd as his weapon due to its similarities to a spear, the king's weapon.
- He does not want to use the same weapon as .
Creators
There are two creators, “” and “.” creates species with potential to transform or adapt. creates advanced species that are static. created and all its life with the aim that humans would develop into a diverse and powerful race.
The original race, “,” had no form. They could form objects from their bodies but doing so took energy and life. An individual’s life/energy was equivalent to their mass. They learned that they could split their consciousness to create subordinate beings and that they could also create realms inside themselves. They could control the properties in those realms and create elements, states, races, etc. Some individuals created universes inside themselves including the one where the exists.
that create universes loan portions of their life energy to the universe. They grow smaller the more energy they give to their Universe. They can manifest within their universe. Regardless of the energy remaining in them, they are sovereign inside their universe. They cannot be harmed by residents of the universe. Outside the universe, however, they cannot use the loaned energy without the residents' consent, leaving them vulnerable depending on how much energy is loaned.
A resident of a universe can leave the universe with the permission of the universe's . They must become an to enter the exterior world which means they need enough life energy to be self-sustaining. That energy is taken from the original . This is a form of splitting the and creating new authentic life. Because elements do not exist in the exterior world, beings leaving a universe lose their elemental form. They can regain that form if they re-enter that universe. They can also form similar forms in other universes if there are analogs to the elements in their form.
can enter other universes. They can enter with that permission or they can break in. When entering, they can either keep their own life energy, which limits their interaction with the universe, or they can join their energy with the universe's and become fully a part of the universe and effectively fuse with that .
The Universe
In ’s universe, “The Universe,” the creator , “,” created a number of beings that took a large part of his power. Some of those beings split or procreated, creating beings of less power. This continued and each generation was less powerful and more numerous. Eventually, beings had so little power the generations were indistinguishable, that is every being had practically no power. However, not every being spilt or procreated and not every being was subject to death. Thus there exist some beings in The Universe of great power. Some of the oldest beings still know of the origin of The Universe. also created a manifestation of himself in The Universe, “The Avatar.”
Life Energy I
When beings die, their energy is collected into stars that radiate it back into the universe. Other beings can gain energy from stars and beings with little or no energy require this energy to live. The life energy from the universe's not contained in beings is stored in stars.
Original Races
Some of the original beings were given tasks by for maintaining The Universe. One of these was tasked with creating more beings to populate The Universe. This being split into a race of beings, “.” and , the ones responsible for creating life on , are .
Progenitors and the
After creating , and moved on to different parts of The Universe. Both periodically return to their creations to check on them. The humans developed with great speed and were sought after by other nearby races as soldiers and slaves. , was conquered multiple times, the last by “”. Another race, the , leaders of , aided in revolution. The king at the time, , managed to defeat the with the ’s help. His brother, , allied himself with the and upon their defeat, escaped with them. , in order to make less of a target, sealed the potential of humans. He then took control of the while an controlled the Sun.
A number of squid, and a new ally Jafar eventually defeat and the and take control over the Sun and then the .
Life Energy II
A being’s life energy is a budget that can be spent on different aspects of life. That can be size or complexity of the body or a reservoir of energy for other tasks. Energy used in tasks is released and collected into stars. Starlight can be used to replenish this energy but it is difficult to store more energy than a being's original capacity. If a being has more energy than their capacity, the excess energy will leak out. Beings can, however, grow their capacity. Energy can also be given or shared amongst different beings.
Three Planes
The Universe is made up of three planes: the mind, body and soul planes. Beings can have awareness in none, some or all of these planes. Having awareness in a plane means being able to perceive aspects of that plane. Each plane has a biological association in the other planes. The mind and soul of a being are housed in the brain of the body, for example. Thus the brain is the connection of beings with awareness in the body plane to the other two planes. Most lesser beings have awareness in only one plane. Humans only have awareness in the body plane, though a few have transferred to other planes. Transferring to other planes requires a bridge. Bridges can be accessed through meditation. Traveling a bridge is a physical metaphor for the change in perception that is going from one plane to another. Beings with great awareness in a plane are represented as complex and sentient organisms. Beings with little awareness are represented as plants or other non sentient organisms. Beings with no or extremely little awareness are represented as inanimate objects. Because awareness in a plane is tied to complexity in that plane, it requires life energy. Therefore having awareness in multiple planes costs more energy than having awareness in only one or none. Beings with enough energy to have awareness but do not have much excess energy without the consciousness to use it. Such beings can be sources of energy to other beings.
Plane Creatures
There exist in each plane races that represent the three planes and their bridges. These races can be used to gain awareness, influence or power in these planes and bridges. The beings , and used a nix, a representation of the body-soul bridge in the body plane, to create and , whose fusion was able to give access to that bridge and increase his influence on the soul aspects of the body plane.
Vision for Humanity
When created humans, created static races to serve as source material for humans development. also created beings to be caretakers of humanity and to aid them in their development. These beings remained mysterious to most humans for most of their history, revealing their true purpose only to a few humans, including the ruling line of . When sealed humanity, those beings removed themselves from humans and took to protecting humans’ existence instead of their development until found and communicated with them and gave them his son .
Culture of Names
Names on earth do not have meanings. Titles of course have names but given names do not. It is also frowned upon to choose a given name that is the same as a real word. The reason is that attributes of someone's character cannot be known at birth. A person's name will come to carry meaning based on the owner's life. It is also generally frowned upon to take the name of someone else. This is often unavoidable but people often come up with variations on existing names. Taking someone else's name is a strong statement.
The Plan
After attracting the attention of outside clans, King manipulated the planet to seal the potential of humans. This brought about an era of man that forgot about and lost belief in the abilities of humans and other beings more than their base nature. The ruling family retained belief in the potential of man and one king, , along with other individuals, and , designed a plan to unlock human potential. They eventually came into contact with ’s protectors who agreed to aid them. tried to recreate the experiment of that gave birth to the four subspecies of man and fathered four new augmented humans. and his wife Ru left their son to be cared for and taught by the protectors. began studying and attempting to lock the powers locked in the Kin bloodline. The five children are not made aware of the plan but independently choses to follow the same path after his parents’ deaths. also discovers the ties between and . After leaves, goes into hiding with his daughter and carries out the plan along with his new allies as .
Belief, elements and items
There are fundamental concepts in any universe. These fall into the categories, race, item, element and phenomenon. The creator of the universe can specify these concepts and those concepts will be immutable inside that universe. New concepts can be added by beings inside the universe. If a concept with a name carries commonly held beliefs, that concept can be elevated to universal among the immutable concepts. These concepts can change over time as the beliefs of the resident beings evolve. These concepts have physical manifestations in a certain place in the universe. A being can manipulate or even destroy these concepts if they go to where the concepts are physically stored. Beliefs are weighted by the life energy of the believer so the beliefs of larger creatures matter more than those of smaller creatures.
Nil and soul
Matter in a universe typically belongs to one or more elements of that universe. Matter that does not have an element is made up of some mixture of dead matter and life energy and is called nil. Living creatures have a core made up of pure life energy (that core may be their entire body for primordial creatures). That core is often called the soul but is distinct from a being's body in the lower plane which is also called the soul.
Hok and herta
The original human, crafted by , was able to manipulate their own body to adapt and evolve. King later sealed this ability leading to a form of sub-human. renamed the original human Hok and the sub-human Herta. A human that has partially unlocked their potential or has gained power through other means, e.g. fusion with other races, is called a Shihok.
Resurrection and information
A being is defined by the makeup of their body (including their soul and mind). This makeup exists as information in a universe. If a being can put together the information of another being that has died, they can recreate that being, essentially resurrecting them. There is some leeway: if not all the information is known but all the critical pieces are there, the universe will supply the missing information. An advanced technique involves manipulation of information to create alternate versions of beings or entirely new beings. The information required to resurrect a being is vast and typically unobtainable for simple creatures like humans. Creating new creatures is even more demanding and all information must be known; the universe will provide none.
Granularity of sparks
What constitutes an individual?
In the soul plane entities exist as black boxes. They have no subcomponents. In the mind plane, entities exist in a hierarchy of composition. Entities can be made up of other entities recursively up to a point. In the body plane, everything is an entity and every part of an entity is an entity itself. The question is are the sub-entities alive. Since a sentient being in one plane can and usually is an inanimate object in another plane, it is possible for a separate entity in one plane to be a sub-entity in another plane. Or a sub-entity can be part of one entity in one plane and part of another entity in another plane.
Are sub-entities considered distinguishable with their own spark or is it conditional?
What effect does a sub-entity have on the parent entity if that sub-entity is a living being in another plane?
Can inanimate objects that are living beings in another plane be considered dead matter?
Stormy Lake Blade
To demonstrate his ability to create powerful tools, creates a sword. He finds a lake and begins communicating with the lifeforms there. He talks to the animal, the plants, the rocks, the water in the lake and the ground around and under the lake, imbuing them with knowledge until they become sentient. also talks to the sky over the lake and to every cloud and storm and every gust of wind. Eventually the local sky becomes sentient and a race of clouds and storms and wind also gain sentience. trains the newly sentient beings and helps them all discover their true powers. He develops a contract amongst the residents of the lake and the sky above the lake. then creates a subrace from the rocks that have higher mineral purity using the purifying abilities of the decomposers in the lake. They eventually form a race of metal. He takes some of those metal beings and fuses them into a piece large enough to forge a sword. heats and folds the metal to remove impurities. He then forges the metal into a blade. The being that is the metal assists in shaping itself into the desired form. takes a branch from a tree and forms a handle for the blade. The blade and handle fuse into a single being that forms the sword. The sword forms contracts with the residents of the lake to give it energy and to be able to use their abilities.
Four Families
In the era of powerful humans, one man, , became one of the most powerful humans in the history of the world through self modification. His changes to himself were inherited in part by his four children, two male and two female. Their descendants gave rise to four subraces of humans: , Bruji, Kalifa and Holo. Each family had different abilities and each had a visible trait. The family were all slight and fragile, fast and agile. They were in fact inhumanly fast. They had blood that was pure red at all times. Their blood was thick and stained easily. It would even glow red in the dark. Often, their veins would be visible through their skin even though were typically dark skinned. Bruji were large, almost giants, with bulky muscles. They were very strong, stronger even then should be possible even with their large muscles. They were also very durable, having almost unbreakable bones. Their bones were black, as were their teeth and sclera. They were so black that they seemed to absorb light. No details could be seen in the bones due to how black they were. The Kalifa and Holo families had mostly normal appearances. The Kalifa often had abilities relating to foresight and had blue hair. Their hair glowed blue in the dark and lacked definition. The Holo displayed abilities like sealing, mind control and abilities relating to vision. All their abilities were attached to their eyes which glowed violet. The colored parts of the families were so strong that they had no shadows or highlights. They remained the same color even in darkness or when illuminated by light. When members of different families have children, those children will almost certainly have traits from only one family though at some point, some of the Kalifa and Holo families interbred and created the King family. They had abilities of both clans, with males tending to have more Holo abilities and females having more Kalifa abilities. Their hair and eyes were gold. No other families have successfully merged. The and Kalifa families descended from the daughters of and the Bruji and Holo families descended from the sons. The Kalifa and Holo ancestors were the elder two. THe four children each crafted a weapon to harness their powers. These weapons could only be fully utilized by them and their descendants. These were the dagger, the Bruji axe, the Kalifa sword and the Holo claymore. The King family was later able to create the King's spear. These weapons, in the absence of proper wielders from their family, transformed into normal swords but members of the family could, depending on the strength of their bloodline, restore the weapon to its original form. The swords would transform in stages, according to the purity of the wielder. The swords would first change to the family's color, then lose definition, and then transform into the original shape. By time, the four families' bloodlines had thinned significantly. Members of the families often showed diminished versions of the traits; the colors were not as strong. The King hair often had streaks of different colors and did not glow and details could be seen. The blood seemed almost normal. Bruji bones did not absorb light and had shadows and highlights. The five weapons had all become normal swords and it was extremely rare for a member to be born that could even make the color change slightly. The Kalifa and Holo families had almost disappeared, with less than 10 members each living in seclusion. A member of the Lusel family, , recreated experiment on himself. He had four children that had traits similar to the four families. They had white features instead of red, black, blue and violet. They were Leira (), Kilta (Bruji), Lessa (Kalifa) and Lionis (Holo). also performed experiments on , a member of the King family, , father and a member of the family and another person from the Bruji family. Their children had strong traits from their families. son was Rith. , who had been given the dagger by , who stole it from the Zishki clan, was able to transform the dagger back to its original form completely. Ruth, as a baby, was able to make the King's spear change color and lose definition. later discovered that many of the traits of the families were not genetic. Some were mental or emotional. Some were not permanent and could be adopted and dropped at will. They were also not all exclusive. He sought to acquire the traits of all four families. At one point he was able to transform the Bruji axe to its full form.
Amendment 1
- Holo color: violet -> green
- Kalifa color: blue -> violet
First and Second Generation
The Sovereign designs the abstract structure of the Universe. The Sovereign created the first generation to design the details and maintain creation. There is one that destroys and absorbs dead worlds, stars and other matter and converts it into energy. There is another that uses that energy to create stars and habitable planets. There is another that populates the planets with life. The first generation made the second generation to help them with their tasks. The one that populates, the Progenitor created the Progenitor race, among which are and .
- Do the first and second generations have genders?
- Do the Progenitors operate in pairs? In groups?
- Are any of the first two generations humanoid?
- Are there patterns the Progenitors use?
populates with humans, creatures from and one or more races of caretakers. The humans are given potential and the other races serve as models for evolution, environmental pressures, parts of the ecosystem, etc. The caretakers are to guide the progression of humans and to ensure their survival. They protect from internal and external dangers. They are to limit their intervention so as to not contaminate humans' evolution. The other races are capable of limited evolution.
Origin of the Four Families
changes to himself made him very adaptable, taking in qualities from his environment. These qualities were all transient, however. When his children inherited this adaptability, however, they formed permanent attributes. The four children took residence in four different places and developed traits from those locations. The ancestor lived in a forest of giant trees. A river ran through the forest. The water contained substances that made it strongly red in color. It gave vitality to those who drank it and bathed in it. There were deer-like creatures that lived in the forest. The ancestor developed her red blood from the river and her agility from the deer. Similarly, the Brolo ancestor developed tough skin and strength from a crab-like creature that lives in canyons. Strong winds blow in the canyon and only bulky and/or strong creatures can survive without being constantly impeded by the wind. The wind erodes all rock except exceptionally hard black stones that form great pillars in the canyons. The ancestor developed their black bones from these. The Kalifa ancestor lived in a meadow with a violet waterfall and giant water serpents. The Holo ancestor lived in the desert with large green crystals and giant four winged owl-like creatures.
The children of underwent similar transformations, though they all lived in the same area, a forest in the Lusel territory of Deilet. Leira drew her power from wolf-like creatures and a white river. Kilta drew his power from white trees and giant centipedes. drew her power from giant arachnids and their webs. Lionis drew her power from white crystals and lion-like creatures.
Motivations
Why does want to complete the plan?
What is his version of the plan?
Initially seeks only to bring back the era of magic, more specifically, unlocking magical abilities in humans. When realizes that there are more humans like him that are able to use magic, his goal shifts to making magic more prevalent. After merges with and discovers how was made, he gains the additional goal of creating the perfect human form.
Does know that this aligns (at least partly) with the goals of ?
Does he know about ?
Do the caretakers know about ?
Does get his goal from the caretakers or did he arrive at it independently?
Do the caretakers regret the decision to lock human potential?
experiences the powers of the caretakers and discovers his own powers. He is told that other humans do not possess these and experiences that for himself when he meets other humans. He first meets Leira who ventures into the forest when he is around 5. He later meets the other siblings as Leira invites him to the outskirts of the forest where the siblings are able to reach. Eventually, when he is around 10, he leaves the forest to live with . He does not gain his motivation fully until realizing the powerlessness of common humans. ’s children exhibit less power than . Leira shows the most due to her powers being similar to those of and counseling her. But the other Lusel are powerless. The and Bruji are only slightly better. wants to empower them all.
Does inquire why and his children have power?
Does discuss in any way the plan with ?
Do the children know why they have powers and about the plan?
Does confide in the plan?
He definitely at some point tells n.
What actions does take to progress the plan?
tells that her death and the war are pivotal to the plan.
Other than maintaining the war, does have other ventures?
What is ’s relationship with Bel in regards to the plan?
Does train anyone other than ?
What is relationship with and in regards to the plan?
When does realize that , and have their own plan?
Complexity
When a being gains new life energy it first goes to their energy store. It can later be spent on size or complexity, depending on the organism. Most organisms are unable to simply grow in size or complexity so doing so often entails transforming into another type of organism, but this is nontrivial and is more difficult and costly than when the organism already allows for it. For example, the original humans were capable of transformation so gaining life energy could easily be spent on complexity, and to a much lesser extent, size. But after having their potential locked, transforming would require unlocking or transforming into non humans.
Soul Sheaths
Primordial beings, entities comprised solely of life energy, can only exist if their life energy is passed a certain threshold. Entities with life energy below the threshold must have a sheath to survive or their life energy will dissipate. The sheath can be made of matter of dead energy. While these are not mutually exclusive, having both is rare. The complexity of a being can be manifested in either its life energy or its matter sheath or both. Dead energy sheaths (or soul sheath) do not have complexity. It is possible for primordial beings past the threshold to still have a sheath. This usually happens when a primordial being passed the threshold grows a sheath or when a being below the threshold already has a sheath and gains enough energy to pass the threshold. The former case is inordinately rare as there is little reason to grow a sheath for such beings and growing a sheath is already extremely rare.
How does a being grow a soul sheath?
gave himself the ability to imprint on creatures, plants and other aspects of his environment. Through this process he would gain abilities and/or attributes from or related to that source. himself imprinted a number of varied sources. When he had his four children, they inherited none of his gained affinities but inherited his ability to imprint. When they imprinted, their focus was singular: a single environment and a single creature and object from that environment. They imprinted consistently on these sources for their entire lives. Their children seemingly did not inherit the ability to imprint but inherited the gained aspects of their parents, starting the four families.
The Original Plan
The three original proponents of the plan, , and , each had their own ventures to pursue. , as king, was largely unable to make direct progress and instead, sought out and mentored other to drive the plan, namely .
Were there others that pushed to accomplish the plan?
Did tell that would be the one to complete the plan?
, being a descendant if , was closer to being unlocked himself. He sought to study the nature of , and eventually also Bruji, in an attempt to use that as an avenue to fully unlock himself and others. , as a fully locked human, sought to unlock via other means. He tried a number of things (What other things?) including trying to recreate feat on himself.
How did he do this?
This attempt seemingly failed. He actually succeeded but only partially. He gained the ability to imprint but was unable to use it as he was still locked. He also performed another experiment that resulted in him gaining a large amount of life energy, enough to exist without a sheath.
What was the experiment?
Did he know about life energy?
When he had his four children, they inherited the imprint ability and some of his energy. They, being born with a large amount of energy, were able to unlock the imprint ability (unknowingly) and used it to become the second set of four.
and n become
unknowingly follows in the footsteps of his father, i.e. studying the four families. While in Deilet, he studies the and Bruji. Eventually, he and his family move to Kayelta. While there, he studies the Kin clan. knows of the locations of the remnants of both the Kalifa and Holo clans but only the Kalifa clan is friendly with . This is due to them foreseeing the plan's completion and knowing is partly responsible. The Kalifa clan allow to visit them and he goes through training by them and he studies their race. In studying the four races (the Holo clan through who is more Holo than Kalifa), discovers that you do not need to be born in the races to gain their abilities. He discovers the imprint ability and that descendants all have it. uses the ability along with his knowledge of the four families to gain the abilities of all four races. He eventually discovers that children are a second set of four and after having studied them as well ( is dead but he knew her well enough and could also study n) gains their abilities as well. Eventually, he learns how to use the imprint ability to gain the abilities of other sources outside the eight, becoming something similar to . n is a descendant of both and . She does not exhibit traits, nor does she have red hair. As she grows, however, she develops the traits of the four families and of her mother. had met members of the four families and begun his journey to exhibit traits of the four before n was born. This changed him enough that n was able to inherit latent traits of the four that get stronger as she learns more about the four alongside her father. She eventually gains the traits of her uncles and aunts in a similar manner to . She inherited the imprint ability from both parents and has some affinity to her uncles and aunts so is able to gain their traits after further interaction with them, even though she only inherits biologically traits from her mother . The end products, and n, are slightly different. gained most of his abilities from learning so his body is still only . He can exhibit traits from the eight on command but they are transient. n gained most of her abilities biologically. Even the traits from her aunts and uncles became ingrained in her body. n's traits from the eight are permanent but less powerful, although she can fully manifest the abilities of the eight on command like her father. When either of them fully manifest the traits of more than one of the original four, the associated colors turn gold, like the Kin clan. When manifesting traits from matching pairs from both sets of four, the color is white with accents of the original color. When doing both, the color is white with accents of gold.
Sigils
The descendants of , after becoming proficient in magical energy, develop a technique to artificially produce certain braids of energy capable of performing certain techniques. They locked this technique into sigils. Having a sigil would allow the owner to give it energy and produce the braid and perform the abilities associated with it. Care was taken to prevent misuse by making the nature of the sigil unknown to those that have it and preventing the ownership of it to those that know the sigil. Thus any one person could either be able to bestow the sigil on others or use the sigil but not both. There were, of course, many countermeasures to this. If one was able to recreate the braid without the sigil, they would no longer have any need of it. These sigils were for use by those with insufficient proficiency in magical energy to perform magic.
Soul Conglomeration
There is a powerful form of fusion that temporarily (but sometimes permanently) joins a group of individuals' souls. The fusion is powered by the shared experience of the individuals. Almost any experience will work but the magnitude of the connection it forms between individuals determines the strength of the fusion. Originally, a multitude of experiences were used and people of different relations used it. It could be the love between family members, the trust between comrades, a shared purpose of compatriots or the passion of lovers. Eventually, this form of fusion fell out of fashion by all but those who chose the lovers route. The other routes require more from the participants as passion is often intense. This continued to the point where the technique was solely used by lovers and other routes were forgotten. While performing the technique, the participants are transported to an alternate dimension that exists for the duration of the fusion. In their place, an avatar of the dimension appears and acts on behalf of the participants. While in the dimension, participants can engage in activities that enhance the shared experience, which usually means intercourse for the passion route.
Alternate Dimensions
Alternate dimensions are common in this universe. They can be created through aberrations or inconsistencies with individuals. Typically this means fusion but specifically methods of fusion that only partially fuse the participants. If two individuals fuse their soul bodies but not their physical or mental bodies, a dimension is created to house their physical and mental bodies while an avatar of the dimension with a soul body takes the place of the original soul bodies. This can also occur when individuals of one plane are a single entity in another plane. All alternate dimensions have avatars, although that avatar need not always be sentient.
Four Families' Politics
Their are six major factions between ${entity fac-kayelta} and ${entity fac-deilet}. First are the original four families: ${entity char-grp-holo}, ${entity char-grp-kalifa}, ${entity char-grp-bruji} and ${entity char-grp-zurel}. Then there is the combination of ${entity char-grp-holo} and ${entity char-grp-kalifa}, ${entity char-grp-kin} Finally there is an organization of non four family members, ${entity char-grp-lusel}. There are additionally a few ofshoots including the ${entity char-grp-zohkrel} and ${entity char-grp-krobruji} proto clans that broke from the ${entity char-grp-zurel} and ${entity char-grp-bruji} respectively. The caretakers have varying interaction with the six groups. The ${entity char-grp-holo} and ${entity char-grp-kalifa} families maintained close contact with the caretakers with the ${entity char-grp-zurel} and ${entity char-grp-bruji} have completely lost contact, however, the ${entity char-grp-zohkrel} clan was reintroduced to them. The ${entity char-grp-lusel} family formed after the sealing and therefore never met the caretakers as a whole, although ${entity char-roiz} forms relations with them. The ${entity char-grp-kin} family does not interact with the caretakers outside the hierarch who always goes before them after inauguration. The ${entity char-grp-holo} and ${entity char-grp-kalifa} clan are kept hidden and most people, in both ${entity fac-kayelta} and ${entity fac-deilet}, do not know of their existence. All four families value purity of their bloodlines. The two offshoots also enforce purity of their bloodlines but also value emulating the other bloodlines. The ${entity char-grp-zurel}, ${entity char-grp-bruji}, their offshoots and ${entity char-grp-lusel} control ${entity fac-deilet}. The ${entity char-grp-holo} and ${entity char-grp-kalifa} families have had a fairly close relationship ever since the formation of the ${entity char-grp-kin} family and its rise to royalty in ${entity fac-kayelta}. The ${entity fac-deilet} factions developed animosity towards the ${entity fac-kayelta} factions due to their growing political power. This eventually led to ${entity fac-deilet} splitting from ${entity fac-kayelta}. This may have something to do with why the ${entity fac-deilet} factions have little to no interation with the caretakers. The caretakers have wanted to unseal humans since the time of ${entity char-rei} but needed humans to pioneer the effort. When the royal line decided to try to unseal humanity, the caretakers paid extra attention to the royal line and therefore maintain connection with the ${entity char-grp-holo} and ${entity char-grp-kalifa} families. The ${entity char-grp-kalifa} family supported the plan from the start, either explicitly seeing of having a feeling that the plan would succeed due to the forsight of ${entity char-grp-kalifa} members. The ${entity char-grp-holo} family felt that unlocking humans would threaten the four families' superiority overr the world and opposed the plan. The ${entity char-grp-zurel} and ${entity char-grp-bruji} families' powers and knowledge of history and the nature of humans diminished since their split from ${entity fac-kayelta} and the caretakers. (Maybe ${entity char-roiz} discovers the history somehow and with ${entity char-zel} pursues the plan independently from ${entity char-ril} and they discover their common goal around the time ${entity char-zu} and his children go to ${entity fac-kayelta}. Although ${classStart question}what reason would they have to go to ${entity fac-kayelta} if not for the plan?${classEnd question})