World Building

!WARNING THIS CHAPTER IS FULL OF SPOILERS!

The spoilers mainly include: history of the world, mechanics of the magic system, inhabitants of the world, cultural world-building, and similar.

The spoilers don't include: the story of the novel (plot).

Find the most up to date version of this chapter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsfmhfKf_7KWLemQPD7r2-CVVKYGYxJX_8eysaetA-o/edit?usp=sharing

Boundless Human Core

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| Legend

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+ = Category

+- = Sub category

>text< = Unsure, high likelihood of change

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Start

| World (Plains) (finished v.2)

There are 5 Plains "floating" in the small universe, they are connected through their heavens that neighbor each other.

Every Plane has two heavens, one day one night, for example, the center world is most similar to earth in vegetation and its heavens, one sky blue in the day, the other dark violet in the night speckled with small stars. (Stars are not distant actual stars with solar systems, but part of the night heaven, you could actually walk up to them)

-The Plains result from Genus' Body

+ The Five Plains

The five plains are the central plain, the southern plain, the northern plains, the eastern- and western plain.

They may all be called "plains", but in actuality, only one's geography really matches the typical plain, the northern plain, the word plain(s) is more used as an identifier.

The rest have their own unique traits, the eastern plain is mountainous, so the plain is also called "Eastern Mountain Range".

The southern plain is very cold and huge parts of this plain are covered by ice and snow, only in the summer, you may spot the ground below in the warmer regions. There are mountains and valleys, but they are not as abundant as in the "Eastern Mountain Range".

The western plain is full of seas and oceans.

The northern plain is half desert, half plain.

The central plain has the most features of them all, it incorporates a small bit of every other plain, there is a fair share of mountains, seas, snowy mountain tops, small deserts, and so on. It is the most balanced of all the plains.

| World (Heavens) (not finished v.2)

The heavens connect neighboring>Plains< to each other making it possible to travel between them by reaching the heaven's edge and jumping over the void into the other plane's heaven. But before one does that they need to watch the timing as only either the night heavens or the day heavens touch depending on the time of day. When it's day, the night heavens will touch and make the void skip (jump) possible and vice versa.

That is because the two heavens are in an infinite cycle of competing for the spot above the >plains<. As it gets later in the day, night heaven's strength will grow as day heaven's will fall, the same goes for the seasons as we approach summer, day heaven's strength will grow and make it possible to hold out longer (The reason for different day-night cycles in different seasons).

The heavens are dangerous places, even more so the night heavens, though the night heavens are still the preferred choice of travel for many for one reason: In the night heavens there exist routes considered relatively safe. Those routes are surrounded by a certain kind of vegetation causing wild beasts to stay away, the stronger the beast the stronger it is "pushed" away from the flowers, naturally not in a physical but purely psychological way (Demi-Immortal realm humans encounter the same phenomena and have trouble finding these routes). These flowers have evolved over time to emit a certain spore that affects strong beings with minor intelligence, though they can also affect beings with high intelligence when their strength is high enough, the best example would be demi-immortals.

The spores of the flower appear as beautiful glowing dots flying and hovering in the air, sometimes carried over hundreds of >kilometers< (Maybe make up a unit for this world), resulting in breathtakingly beautiful phenomena glowing in different shades of blue, violet, and purple.

The heavens illuminate the plains.

-The Heaven's result from Genus' Soul

| Origin Story (finished v.2.2)

Human

Transmigrator

Name: Genus

>Titles?: Boundless? Unfathomable? or smth else? if at all?<

After waking up, Genus found himself in a small universe, filled with even smaller worlds. Every world was a paradise, he explored (Here will be an in-Novel book that talks about Genus' legends) every corner of this universe, having strange encounters, almost dying a few times, and eventually leaving his inheritance behind.

But after eons in this universe, he had seen everything, talked to everyone and only had the desire to meet someone like him. His heart went cold, the flame of hope that once burned so fiercely now long gone and only the cold loneliness remains. "I just want to sleep, forever", he thought and so, lay down, with the cold from his heart spreading into his veins, slowly freezing his blood, he started his hibernation.

After another millennium his blood shattered into small Core-like crystals. His body formed into a single gargantuan plane with mountains, rivers, deserts, and so on. His soul formed the two heavens and stars in the night heavens are the luster of his soul, the sun burning in the day-heaven is the tiny sliver of his once majestic flame of hope. The Cores eventually landed on the plane and found "fertile soil", an environment where they could thrive. After almost a teraannum (one trillion years) something changed, a few of the cores that had been living on the plains started to evolve into something higher, it is not known what caused the development but it is theorized that a very specific mixture of the different QIs, that the cores "fed" upon, slowly changed the inner architecture of the cores and enabled them to grow a substance called cells around themselves.

Thus a variety of more and less intelligent life formed, trees, flowers, grasslands, animals, Species B, and finally Humans. Cores are the fundamentals of life and even are alive, therefore all life in this world is Genus' blood, Genus' daughters, sons, and kids.

Except for Species A, they originated from outside the world, Genus' body, they once invaded this world with a few other peculiar lifeforms and materials. Though it is fairly common knowledge that they were exterminated by the natives.

| Realms of Cultivation (not finished v.2)

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| Ability- & Power Cores (not finished v.2)

...are small crystals that are brittle and can shatter quite easily if too much force is applied, though they are surprisingly shock-resistant, so it's a quite uncommon situation for a crystal to be destroyed by accident.

In general, both types of Cores have to be refined to be used, refining is a broad term meaning a myriad of techniques with one common endpoint, acquiring a Power or Ability Core that is possessed- and can be used by the refining Cultivator.

+ Differences

… between both types of Cores.

+- Ability Cores:

Are not unique, i.e. can exist multiple times in the universe

+- Power Cores:

Are unique, i.e. they can only exist once at a time in the universe

In general, have stronger more heaven-defying effects

| Cultivators (not finished v.2)

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World inside their Human-Core is called Domain

+ Innate Cores:

Some may notice after their awakening that they already have an Ability- or very rarely Power Core swimming in their Aratra pool. These cores are called Innate- Ability or Power Core, they are inseparable from their possessor until either the Cultivator dies or the Core shatters

+ Potential:

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| Human Cores (not finished v.2)

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| Species A Cores (not finished v.2)

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| Species B Cores (not finished v.2)

Can't cultivate so they supposedly died out >But in truth are truly immortal, eternal life just for the cost of not being able to cultivate. they can only die when they choose to do so. they were hunted by humans and tortured into "extinction". But there are still a lot in hiding<

| Qi -the Different Qis- (not finished v.2)

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| Intelligent Races (not finished v.2)

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+ Humans:

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Traditions:

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+ Species A:

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Traditions:

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+ Species B:

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Traditions:

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| Factions (not finished v.2)

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| Mythical-Places (not finished v.2)

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| Temp-Notes (not finished v.2)

a guy who split Genus' body and soul into 5 (10 for the heavens) and formed it into a pentahedron, the square-pyramid.

The Human-Cores power is to "tame"/"enslave" other cores.

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