yun'ktal this thing beta version 1.0

overview: this place sucks. you die instantly. now lets see whats up!

ever wanted to mix marine bio with music theory? yeah you have come here sniff closer lets see what we can make.

the beta history

the main thing

so like there was this girl who came out of nowhere and said gods will rise up fromt he ocean!! and no one believed her lol. but anyways she gained a following and everyone was like: omg gods from the ocean!! so literally every world leader was like:: shut up theres no monster under the bed. anywaysthis gal lowk preached all these prophetic signs and said the gods had come to her in her dreams and forced her to share their message. she said they better be prepared to worship these bois because they were kinda evil and unappeasable or smth idk and u had to like sacrifice stuff and treat them like the gods they were. so like when she said that they would arrive (about like three years from her first appearance) she said it would happen after three 'end of the world' signs and when they did it would be hell so everyone had to be prepared to give up everything. anywyas her first sign never came when she said it would 2012 style so everyone hated her and killed her hoorraayy. but she was very amadant it would hapen. mark my words they will come!!

so anyways they came like a thousand years late lol. and it happened with all the signs she said they woudl so now everyones freaking the hell out. the moment they arrive all hell breaks loose and the gods start killing people looking for the leaders of each natiom!!!! so those leader fellow s are like: woahh buddy stop killing everyone,,,,, and they make a deal with the gods. the gods get stronger with more people killed in their name (especially if they fweaking drown lol bc the guys r in the ocean) and in turn hand some power to the person who killed the dude for them!! so every leader teams up with a god and they all declare war on each other yayyyy. literally EVRYONE is going to war atp evn=en little jimmy the 13 year old newsboy. warfare is obv mostly at sea bc how else r we gonna flush the enemies down the toilet if theyre not in the toilet !?!? so yayyy this is happening like 20-30 years prior to the present day and everyone is exploding and dying.

the submain thing

thats the main history plot!! there's obviously many things that happen inbetween. for example, after miss god preacher girl starts her preaching, two new 'races' idk species?? not really but different guys appear. also since every creator needs to have a 'furry' world this is mine and these two new dudes r not based off of any animal while everyone else is. this makes evryone think that they came from the depths of the sea and they look at these new guys with wonder and think they're either terrible luck (whatever francis is) or very good luck (whatever vera is) or whatever. also like after the first 10-ish years of the whole war wherever the hell rex is from actually gets sunk!! like whichever enemy it was i still havent cleared this up actually manages to sink their entire freaking city in the sea. so like now instead of 7 nations theres 6 and not too many fellows from that city remain (and everyone is racism towards each other but especially these guys bc of it)!!!!1,.

another thing..... immediately after the war people were like: why do we have to be used to fight for a nation that just wants power?? why don't we get powers ourselves!!?! so a lot of people just abandoned their armies, killing their generals and majors or whatever and then running wild and away. a lot of people are just explorers, loose, out there, killing people who want to kill them for survival,,, all that stuff! sure there are people still in their cities and nations, but a good chunk of people are running around to gain power and strengthen their techniques (magic oooo). also funny little addition i have already made a thing where in Mixol there were like 3 government buildings that held the legal documents and like idk birth certificates or whatevr certified people as being legally alive that got destroyed by some soldier dudes lol. they just raided them and destroyed every document so that they wouldnt be rounded up back into war or receive any consequence for leaving. like theres no papers on them anymore so yknow??? idk if thats how it works but im making it like that rest in pieces captain oleander's birth certificate.

historical figures!!!

there's that woman that just went: gods shes pretty important idk

if i think of other guys like masters of their craft (cough cough magic dudes) then i'll put em in here

i should probably talk about the nations, geography & flora/fauna now that we're on this topic but i kinda have nothing on it

nationz

who live there!?!

every nation has their own citizens wow. they're also all based off of musical modes (im kinda just swiping the name and going along with the music i can imagine from it) ( also they all sound so dissonant for some reason i might explode)!!! they also have animal people yay. i list each below.

wow greek stuff in a world with boats and 10000034897102 islands and gods? i swear.

anyways since this is beta version 1.0 expect these names to probably be altered (looking at you, mixolydian. i might change it to just mixol)!! yay!! but i probably won't swap the guys attached to each name so ya. i'll also swap them & make their 'nation names' right here and right now so that i can easily refer to them without going 'the changed name of whatever' or something and also so that i can have them.

ok they'll probably change a TONNN because they all are jsut. ia. only mixol sounds cool

you also MUST be wondering what kinds of animals each fellow is yeah!?!? ok i say it. we got guys based off of:

that list is not respective to the mentioned above nations (partly because im still working out the vibes i need) but I do know the snek dudes are mixolian fellows so YAY!

hello i am back to give some guys nation names.

nation history stuff

so i should probably establish things like government , how they settled where they did, architecture..... oh goodness i am reminded why i dont particularly like world building. because its tedious. and also when things naturally come to me i like.

for one i know that whatever the deer bois r they had a monarchy (and since the king lowk kinda died when crap sunk the duke fellow who survived was like: ok im going to be in charge for a while! so they got him kinda trying to govern what's left of the city) ... and uhhh theres other cool stuff for sure (i have no idea if a democracy fits the vibe. i can't imagine running for president in [INSERT WORLD NAME HERE(just made it hello yun'ktal)] going on tours across the territory or whatever posing with babies and feral creatures)

so anyways that means i'll get back to this one.

honestly i should get into infastructure and things that exist like means of energy (as you will spot in my later ramblings) but also i dunno if i'm gonna run out of h tags before that so im writing it all here lol!!!!!!

omg what kinda energy do they use!?

my later rambl says steam. idk i can just see them using steam or some energy form that doesnt exist on Earth. what is it with alternate worlds having things like energy forms being different? like of all the things you can worldbuild energy sources are usually the thing people worldbuild a lot. idk it feels odd but also understandable. anyways. techniques probably make the creation of steam as energy easier. i tried looking into how exactly steam powered things work but it's a little too freaking complicated for me HAHAHAH. in the first place i thought of steam power since Vera figured out how to make steam with his techniques (and also that it really hurts) so ya . there iz no water technique we only got ice. so fire and ice dudes work together to make steam n power crap but i imagin that gets tiresome. especially for da fire dudes since they gotta warm up the ice even mor...!!!!!!!!! but tbh they dont need massive energy outputs except if youre Mixol who figured out to make war machines :celebration: and most people just light a littol lantern to guide thier way. oil lamps maybe exist. street lamps are probably smth like that yes.

locationz and geographiez

terrestrial crap

this one is fun bc i wanna do a minecraft thing where we have very starkly contrasting environments and biomes somehow. this also means i MIGHT just make like an extremely rare mushroom island lol.

most of the locations here are literally clusters of islands archipelago style (hence why the ocean/sea is very important in that culture i'm totally gonna make very soon), and a lot of them are just extremely dangerous terrain that no one should have ever been able to conquer but hey people are insane. and that one guy has explosions for magic. did someoen say magic!?!? i wanna work on magic!!JBFhgvijfdkshgj!

we (probably will) got:

so yea i have lots of mountains cool ideas for stuff. also you think mixolian dudes would probably live in that gobi desert styled place yeah? no wrong lol guess who lives in ireland

basically it's mountains with different flavors. a lot of really dangerous places bc you could just fall. and DIE. which is always nice. of course, that;s like all terrestrial!! isn't that fun!? that's what 'pre-god' environment studies or whatever basically consisted of!! this ties in to the whole 'gods rise up from the ocean' and the whole uh religion or myth stuff i might add in later lol totally, because now people know there's something in the ocean. and we're gonna go snorkeling baybe time to introduce marine biology

wader.. ouhh yeahh

first i must open with a theory. there was this guy (honestly the internet says its multiple guys atp) who suggested a very interesting thing... that the earth was hollow, and that if you went to the poles there'd be holes in the poles that would transport you to the world inside of the earth! i thought this was cool and unique. i don't absorb tons of media (let alone media from the 18th to 19th century), so i didnt know it wasnt actually unique. crap, there goes my love for basing things off of theories and mythology!!!!!! anyways im keeping this anwyays because 1. im talking about it and 2. you probably know where this is going if you read the history crap above.

there's holes in not just the poles but EVERYWHERE in the open sea. thats right! whirlpools that can send you to this 'world inside', which i have cleverly named the Middle Ground. It's a marine environment you can live in somehow (breathing underwater? call it magic of the gods) and its the 'contact point' so to say between the gods and people. its the middle of both worlds, because there is something even deeper below it. more worlds thats right its not a primordial sea production if it doesnt have multiple worlds, water and or music!!!!

literally i just realized this might sound like the nether minecraf but the Middle Ground has many a biome. god can minecraft introduce the nether biomes update after i worldbuild? thanks. anyways

i'm gonna be so real the internet only thinks that coral reefs exist as a marine biome where r the kelp forests. but that just means i have more creative freedom to do whatever since no one knows whats up with our own oceans!!

this is me basing the 'biomes' off of like 3 things:

ok thats kinda it but like i said theres things below the below!! lol!!

might be verdant mooning too hard but think of a world full of ash and dust. dead stuff lol. anyways since this place is very close to the gods theres cool artifacts and powerful itemce you can collect but also many a danger :((!!!

this is an interesting thing because the below-the-below is actually another 'hollow earth'. ya thats right the holes in the poles lead you to a world where theres holes in the poles that lead you into a world that has holes inthepolesthatleadyouintoaworldthathasholesinthep

will the center be the dream-like afterlife!!?! idk i feel like that center would prolly just have nothing or be where the gods chill out idk.

plant an amineal

monstors and ginat lizerd and lots of mushrooms that r poison or not!

magic

magic is referred to as 'techniques'!! before we get into it let's list all the magic types neyuheuhe

pretty solid techniques huh!? i still need official names for em . anyways those are like the base magickz, because there's definitely more ^V^ ofc theres gods from the ocean who want to give you all the power in the world if you kill all the guys in the world. cool yayy.

fun factz! someone can have multiple techniques (for example vera got the fire and ice one at the same time!!). people aer born in their technique(s), it just takes some time for them to appear & be given to the person!!!!! as with everything, theres practice..... and with more practice, techniques increase their tones! what is that you may ask!? just think about it like levels!! every technique starts as a 'one-tone technique' and the last 'level' is a twelve-tone technique. yay music theory.

there aren't any spells you can learn. you just kinda have a thing and you use it (now that i think about it its avatar style lol). like fire? yeah if you wanted to make a blade of fire you could just do it. wanna create a step of wind you can use to propel yourself in the air!? sure dude!! so ya kinda malleable or whatever

techniques r just a way of life tbh people kinda just use em and everyones looking to master theirs. big honor in that or whatevs.

as people 'gain more tones', their magic just kinda. makes music. idk its like an odd harmony. it makes me wonder how cool that would be!!! someone's fighting style just makes their own kind of music!? now it makes me think of 'music of the universe' and now i might add to the religion part. what if i told you that you could smell when Crazy Thomas was coming because you could hear his loud, dissonant slashes a thousand miles away. what if. i would actually start running idk about you id be packing my bags and ordering a ticket to the middle of the ocean. because crazy thomas cant swim.

culturez

customs and stuff

i don't really know if this could be considered a custom but theres an interesting thing i made and its called 19 year olds are minors. basically adulthood is kinda considered to start at 20 years old so liek the 18 year olds and the 19 year olds r still minors. they get more time to be babies isnt that nice,

yeah spitting on people is apparently nice. dont ask.

campfires are also just really epic to people. campfires r symbols of community in Our World, and it's kinda like that for these losers in yun'ktal too. campfires are just a place to relax and rest, and only the most scummiest of scum (Crazy Thomas) will attack someone resting at a campfire (but you never know when someone will(CRAZYTHOMAS)!) fires also just have healing qualities (ooh fire technique lore) and can cook ur Food and keep you Warm so ya. people just leave campfires lying around too (obviously put out) bc theyre just. little respites. nice places. somewhere to tell stories. to rest. a campfire is a friend.

another thing only the scummiest of scum will do is steal a boat. since Yun'Ktal is just Archipelgo+, people own boats like they own cars (in the early 1920s). the Boat is the best friend. takes you where you need to go. hella expensive, but once you got one, you are introduced into an integral part of life. fishing, transportation, even a tiny living space below deck!! you get to understand what the hell a map is, navigate the stars, whatever. maybe go watch a drive-in movie. so if you dock your ship at your friendly neighborhood shore / dock and someone steals it then it is HELL FOR THEM. no one but the LOSERS steal other peoples boats. its absurd. now i get to talk about the REVENGE.

revenge and vengeance is so common. its just way of life. if someone hits you at your campfire, beat them to a pulp. if someone steals your boat, steal theirs, then spike their cousin's newborn on the ground. and then kill them. since death just does not Matter and everyone just Dies, who cares if you kill the guy who took your boat!?!?!? however. there is an acception. example. you try to harm someone at a campfire and they start running (because like half the time people would rather run than fight). if they come across your dingy boat, they can take it and you just HAVE TO BE MAD. like duh what'd you think was gonnna happen whats wrong with you leave people alone.

foodz

burgers exist.

i want to leave it at that but also i should add more about burgers or whatever,

like mushrooms are probably in every dish ever. Theres so many mushrooms. like a ton of em are poisonous or indigestable. a lot of people actually WANT to eat these stupid mushrooms since it apparently builds some kinda resistance (this is like body builders only eating protein thinking it automatically builds muscle lol) to SOMETHING god knows what but it surely is other mushrooms. theres probably like 3 out of a million safe to eat mushrooms (welcome QD's favorite food) tho!! also kinda cool maybe if the guys had like mushroom eating contests see who dies or throws up first. ya.

at the same time literally anything is edible (welcome Vera's favorite food). like whatever meat is edible. idk debating on making giant lizards (not treshers btw) edible but i know giant lizards are iconic lol!!! also theres prolly a bajillion sea critters that are maybe edible but i'd think most people eat fish. like you could eat that Lobter but no one's done it and until Vance Veshi (not to be confused with Lance Leshi) introduces both the burger and the Lobter to the world. regardless everything is edible anyways laeaoelaeoale. You could also eat like sea urchins, coral (??) and sea jelliez, but that's for losers who managed to get into the middle ground for some forsaken reason. there's also no food in the Middle Ground besides that!! i swear to god people also eat rocks there too ._. Middle Ground not fun. that being said i could make a whole section on just the Middle Ground so i might do that bc we'regetting away from the food topic.

most cuisine is probably not too far from your backyard tbh. as is probably uncommonly known, Vera usually made his own food when QD wasn't there to feel sorry for him and do it instead. of course it tasted like crap Vera is an awful cook but also the ingredients were things from Yun'Ktal where the safest mushrooms in your immediate 'i can only stay in this area and if i move anywhere else i will waste my energy and die' location were the ones growing on the dead man that you stabbed in the stomach like 8 times because he wanted to kill you too. like you can use some sweet sap to make a honey bun (which i need to make real and i will because i can). it's like a cinnamon roll but with honey and idk it tastes good if qd makes it ok???

theres also the obvious easy 100 ways to make an egg, bread, and like cake idk i like cake. most foods r also things like soup n stew. and that Steak,. i'm also pondering doing a banana leaf situation with things idk anything about food tho. ya but warm food. probably lots of comfort foods too because these people Need Comfort. and it might not be nutrientmaxxing but its also not foodpoisoningmaxxing. its just sorta healthy food.

will large food industries exist? no prolly not maybe theyre developing due to War but you can just fish in da sea because of the way the sea Is and also ig governents could just. load food onto their warships. idk not trying to make Yun'Ktal Kroger each bite of your prepackaged red fish tastes oddly like a weird tough, squishy, translucent chunk of Something is in the guy. these people have suffered enough.

restaurants exist though i need to develop Lance Leshi Gordon Ramsay. this kid'll be like every current fast food chain's beginnings. just a dude flipping patties until everyone found out his patties were good. and hes a bum. lol!!

fr considering making food just the big comfort thing, but I'm not totally sure if it matches a certain vibe I've got envisioned for this place rnnnnnnnnn!!!!! whatever i know that warm things are things that are necessarily comforting to these fellows. like food that warms you up. a nice place to chill and get out of the cold rain. this place is cold. theres mountains. campfires are friends. yk. you get it fr?!? whatevre!!!!! warm foods for da comfortsation. lots of homemades. could also be like 'mom just added this much!' sorta thing (me when i didnt know that you used measurements for cooking)

as for dinky dinks. i once had a friend who brought warm water to school with a fruit in it and i lowk forgot what it was called but upon a quick search i think the thing inside was goji berry. idk whatever that is??? ig kinda like tea but not necessarily tea. and it wouldnt be anything too sweet ever!! probably the closest thing to sweet you'll get is that sap?? i swear when these guys discover cane sugar it's over (qd doesnt care and vera also doesnt care). mm now im thinking about sugar but its kinda lookin like stardust with speck of ourple and blu... and it looks magical.. their drugs is just straight cane sugar lol. but . dink. probably every drink ever is warm unless you're out venturing and the local stream looks tasty!! the water would probably at most be unclean due to sediment, i don't imagine pollutants to be in it... unless it's a puddle of water from rain in your village that ran off of the dirty asf roof! i might add a whole energy section too, but for the most part yun'ktal gets their energy from steam. yay steam power!! maybe electricity later on too (like a war-time invention lol).... since they do have techniques, they could make those energies pretty easy. we are deviating.

a lot of things could be turned edible by the 'ok but is it good warm' thing. like how did humans learn to scramble eggs? idk but in yun'ktal they said: i want it WARM and thats how!! honestly tho who said cook wheat mixed with water and this tiny grain thing and made bread. i got my answer for yun'ktal tho lol!!

the heaviest foods would probably be the stews and meat. sorry i need to put potatoes here ok theyre here now. hoyl crap yun'ktal version of warm, soft garlic bread needs to be a thing. ok thats there.

i'm thinking about side dishes, but also debating on whether they would be real?? bc no one has time to prepare 30 side dishes when the giant lizard and the dorian god is knocking at your door asking to kindly swallow your sons. but also since everything wants to kill you and maybe people are starving or guilt got your appetite down or another disease is plaguing the kingdom and you need some food that would like. entice any appetite. or be easy to eat. or since people are starving maybe you wanna give a family member who's been out 'venturing all day a big meal with all their favorite foods,,,, idk. i'd say moderate side dishes, and they're all small or super light!!

seaoning. everything is just super savory. really evident in both vera and qd in some of their food interactions throughout the stories (i sure mention them a lot huh hehe), but they both like savory things. like the boldest flavors. nothing that feels like watery or spicy. lowk if you look at heavily seasoned cooked chicken skin and imagine what it tastes like. then x100. and you get it. i also might be projecting here, but whenever someone says 'this food is so food!!' and its some fancy thing and i try it i just. i mean it has flavor but not enough. and trust me i've been to dinner parties where this happens all the time. so like extremely strong flavors here fellas. after a quick search, people say fermented stuff is super strong in flavors... but thats not enough. THATS NOT ENOUGH. i swear i might be reaching for an impossible but i just want everything to have a thousands seasonings and the most intense flavor lol!! i also imagine something like soy sauce with smth like m u s h r o o m in it as a thing to dip whatever you want in lol!!

maybe one of those side dishes is just. mushrooms. cooked in some way, but with very little flavor (surprisingly). maybe to mix and match with other things on the table? like other sides lol. as a picky eater that couldn't mix anything but a salad together on my plate, having something like what i imagine that this Personalized Mushroom is would be kinda fun. rather than a 'mix eveerything ever togeteht!!!' thing its like a 'mix whatcha want' and its like picky eater buffet. idk.

religion

ok so people arent really religious. see there are gods but theyre jsut like divine give me power hungry dudes to the people of Yun'Ktal (i can use the name now yay). if someone REALLY wanted to be all religion they'd probably be as crazy as that preacher 'the gods are coming' gal, extremely devout or whatever, doting on the gods and being all like: 'they control EVREYTHING. PRAISE BE'. people actually hate the gods a lot! but no one's gonna get out of an opprotunity to get more power in a world that's constantly CONSTANTLY trying to kill you. the relationship seems more transactional and not based on a whismical belief that there's a god that will give you peace and love. for one, this god is killing everyone and eating them. and also theyre real yeah we can see them theres no need to try to believe. so theyre just some fellows yknow!? sure shrines might be built but probably as a way to transfer power easier. like mr. god doesn't have to be in the shop for you to buy his wares. its amazon fresh or go or whicheveroneitis here. you walk in and the cams scan your credit card and you don't even need to talk to boss man to pay. you just used paypal to get yourself a new neck slicer. isnt that great?

thats kinda it. also because there really werent any gods (ive been thinking about a moon goddess because moon goddesses everywhere but shes not a moon goddess it just feels right to describe her like that being there pre preach gal that people knew was around but didnt go like crazy crazy over. like shes an integral part but there werent like shrines or big prayer things. maybe just a cute little shard in everyone's homes as a good luck thing!? im thinking about the herrscher of rebirth from honkai 3rd. thats her vibe yknow. shes just a mystical there person who is kind and forgiving in the afterlife (IF THERE IS ONE??? honestly not sure if they'd believe in something like that)) before (wow what an end to a long parenthesis chain), i dont think anyone knows how to handle a scary eldtrich horror going FEED ME every like twenty seconds. like ok man chill out damn i hate you. its been 30 years since these guys appeared. no one knows anything about them. they just suck. therefore they just see them as the incompetent roommate crashing with you who doesnt know how to cook spaghetti. FREAKING SPAGHETTI.

because of this i kinda get the idea that all these nations either want power to survive over all the others (rip deerlandia) or are secretly working together to kill these gods, while their citizens dying is just a necessary sacrifice because i swear people drop like flies here all the time. i should make a thing about how people FEEL yknow. what pyschological HORRORS do people feel?? im staring at Vera so hard right now hes so messed up. anyways. also reminds me of the god that paired up with deerlandia. are they dead? probably not, because i just think all the gods are buddies together and are just doing this for fun. now it makes me think that its all a bet. 'who picked the best Mortals to go out into Kombat?' imagine theyre just playing clash of clans with people goodness gracious im making that people tab rn

hello im back. i would like to just slide in on here on the topic of the gods (since this is religion lol) that the gods regularly go into human-ish forms. obv no one here is human ur like dorian or smth but they do that. they have their huge normal eldtritch horrors, then a slightly less of that version, and their personas, which is the human equivalent of a fursonaaa. :)))))))))))))). sarcasm for all you unable to detect sarcasm folks . lov u btw! anywa. they usually have their super recognizable ones and then disguise ones. i know theres a god that's all about beauty or being the best looking and she has a really stylish persona lol!! so ya!!

also side note since i think it might be brought up: this world is supposed to have like. a lot of weirdly varying names. like we get extremely greek name and then next thing ya know we get extremely mayan name. idk i feel like theres a vibe where its just a bunch of different names with a specific ring to them, no matter what they're based off of, that'll be here. i understand 'dorian' (made an example of a lot huh) is pretty greek sounding, and it barely matches 'yun'ktal'. but thats kinda how i want it to be. i shall do whatever i want!! muwahahahah!!!

also this mightve partially unconsciously formed due to it but rn my brain says 'the gods were like: oh yeah your world is called yun'ktal now' and everyone was like: what but anyways they didnt really have a name so, idk.,

just another reason everyone REALLY hates the gods. like really lol!1

and since i'm here i gotta address a thing. yknow how you basically drown people to get a bajilliom magickz from godz and if you drown you go to the Middle Ground and can possible escape, you can just come back to life??? whadafweak does this mean if you decide to drown yourself, you'll die but also get magic? and can you repeat that process again and again to just get magic easier and quicker??? well brother how do you think Crazy Thomas lost it????? howd you think he lost his marbles? had a screw loosened? went bonkers? became.... crazy1!??????>Dsm??

art

not a lot of people have time for being artists! sure there are scholars who make advancements and write literature, but things like paintings and music just don't kinda exist. i mean if you don't count the music made from techniques as art then theres probably none but it kinda violent oh wait i have idea.

cool idea: since techniques have been a thing since forever, why WOULDNT they be art???

yea you read the title. dude techniques are malleable people could just MAKE MUSIC OUT OF THAT. imagine having a dude gently flowing wind between his fingers and jsut. making music. thats cool. i think there would be little motion involved in actually purposefully making music like that since it should be precise and sound nice (also because instead of clashing with another sound & making it work you're attempting to emulate that feeling)........ also with more refined tones you could just make fuller and better music. i guess it could be a way to practice your techniques and make them more specific. ya why wouldnt music world make music??? anyways.

other art forms

so just like sitting there making art is something you dont have much time for. cities are just dangerous enough, you probably have a job, and Crazy Thomas is rapidly approaching your location. you dont have time to make a vent art. but there is cartography!!!! time to bring my green boy REX into this but he learns cartography from oleander and cartography is just really freaking useful. so, instead of trying to find time to do art, you MAKe time to do art. because having a map is important. at the same time, Rex is still allowed to actually be an artist because the silly guys are constantly out at sea so they are BORED ASF, and Crazy Thomas can't swim (or sink their ship as effectively as the Authority uhm some faction can.) no matter how crazy he is.

theres the scholar crap too. y'know. lots of people just write books or make technique 'spells', which are probably just forms that help people hone their crafts. theres also just people doing Science and Writing because people like to be knowledgable and smart.

clothing

pop culture idols!!!

this is actually probably consistent of 'masters of their craft' awesome fire dude. like people who write books or Lance Leshi the guy who invented the burger. probably historical figures fit into here too which is why i debated splitting that off but its fine. once i work out more stuff this list is definitely gonna grow lol

ok seeing how many times i mention Crazy Thomas he should probably be here. hes one of those infamous bounty hunters but hes like actually clinically honest to gods inSANE!! he just killed hella people, got TONS of god magickz, and now he just kills everyone ON SIGHT. HOW HAS HE NOT DIED YET??? he's CRAZY!!! everyone knows him. everyone runs away from him. no one is willing to tango with crazy thomas.

I feel bad for everyone who lives here

the HorrosTM

people just DIE without warning. im turning this into the culture section as i type actually i think death would be an important part. ok done anyways. because Trauma Makes Culture, this must be done. so everyone in yun'ktal is just conditioned to fight. ngl someone like ekko probably came out of the womb scratching screetching kicking and ready to kill a man. ESPECIALLY because he was born during this gods induced war. adrenaline is NOTHING to these guys. sure like QD would be nervous about a class presentation but she'd be used to being terrified and trying to fight for her life that it would feel like nothing. people just overcome the adrenaline and it aids them as it should! theyre able to actually think clearly, the adrenaline just shuts down all their Pain, senses are heightened,,, like walking to school everyday is basically getting ready to die and everyones just used to it by now. even before the gods there were Crazy Lizards and Extremely Violent Mody Dick just chilling. now theres a war! if a gang looking to Kill and Maim approached literal Francis at 2am she would not feel a thing, and she is was 13 years old and not the best at fighting. so like pain everyday. so many things are trying to kill you. actual BURNING ACID RAIN is a COMMON WEATHER PHENOMENON. you'll find captain oleander just chilling in the acid rain because mixolans are adapted to just not get hurt by it because no one gives a flying freak about everything killing them anymore. and people just live like this because its normal!?!??!!!!!! somehow this affects culture and i'll get into that bc its at the tip of my tongue lol........... anyways life is irreplacable but dispensable. ok maybe it is replacable lets dive into that.

so drowning (or like getting thrown into the water after you die (which people do a ton lemme mark this with an asterisk and come back BOOP *) actually takes you to the Middle Ground where you become a little mouse in a cat's game!! the gods realized maybe killing a ton of people means less Future People, especially because that couple over there would rather not bring their child into this hellish world. so if you ever fall into the Middle Ground, your life still is taken and consumed... but you can also just face a trial in front of the gods to be given a chance at a second life (so you can get consumed again LOL!!!). this actually works really well because people kinda wanna live (even though the world is hell it's normal for them, and people just want to get rid of these gods or enjoy life), and the gods allow infinite chances (so long as you don't die in the Middle Ground!)!! so yeah the first few tries are usually easy because its just the gods trying to tempt people to think that its actually not that bad (and maybe be a little less cautious~!) yay drowning. feed the divine machines rawr

* coming back to this BOOP! so bounty hunters are a thing that happen a lot!! in the history portion i mentioned people just running wild and going off to kill people themselves, especially as bounty hunters. lots of nations just hang up bounties for people who lowkey kill a lot, or just other enemy bounty hunters. ofc bounty hunting is a way to make a profit, in this world where murdering, something that just happens, is totally capitalized on as frequently as the internet is, is a solid means of payment. try getting that out of 15 year old vera's head (and qd's hand out of his). the thing is,, in the first place, people fought for POWER. because why fight so your nation gets god power when YOU as an individual could get it instead!? it made bounty hunting that much more appealing (side note, vera is probably the number one god hater so he frequently hunted other hunters to get them to 'stop being pieces of shit and sucking up to the water gods') but like the only way to get that god power is if people drowned their kills (yay ocean warfare). so idk you casually just see people dragging dead bodies into the ocean, or like 15 people being dumped in the middle of the sea from a boat with a murdering friend group that is planning on infighting and murdering. i dont know about you but thats really scary and violent. rex racism goes hard now doesnt it. this is like if the school bully shoved your face in the toilet to actually murder you (because thats exactly what it is!) drowning is violent and extremely painful!! it also feels like knowing extremely good players in a game that actively has like 200 people playing it everyday. if you see that legendary player (infamous bounty hunter) on that leaderboard (bounty board), its just like. oh i know that guy. he killed my cousin. he's actually insane i hope we never cross paths. so lots of infamous people arise (i'm looking at you, Crazy Thomas. he should probably be like a mini celebrity this guy is actually clinically insane and all of his kills are dumped in the ocean (let me clear up rn that not everyone bounty hunting is going for god power-- at times, having two much of it drives you crazy, and its kinda just seen as inhonorable. the bounty hunting community is actually just mercenaries. oh yes thats what they are this is great i like this.) crazy thomas will run at you like a streamlined bull sensing the tiniest bit of motion, brain on 'DROWN' and 'racism' mode all at once) also bounty hunter championships when??

no one is undamaged

everyone is just constantly feeling awful. theyre all looking for the slightest bit of joy to get them through the day. there are like 10,000 versions of oleander's lost little children because every child is now lost. the world has no place for them. vera EATS PEOPLE because theres literally no food. violent unkind world. least crazy person from yun'ktal is QD and you KNOW that something's going on deep inside of her. like i can't begin to describe the Awful. since we're on the topic of Children, people just casually abandon their kids if they think they're not good enough to survive no matter their age (see: blue, ace, francis.....) there is no hope to look to. the world sucks. and yet everyone persists because the herrscher of rebirth says there will be another day. how cool! the suffering just makes people who they are but literally half of it doesnt need to even happen!! its just PAIN!!