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Okay starting off with oc lore part one:

The WORLD BUILDING because the story part is still in the works and building worlds is pretty awesome

So the universe started out with this one all powerful being named Tamashii. Tamashii could control space and time and loved creating worlds and planets. But even more than that, they discovered life. They created light, Fukuro, and darkness, Raiko. The little baby godlike beings who then, they taught them to create too. Then Tamashii created the elements, earth, Batu, water, Kauhoe, air, Maluhia, and fire, Hekili

Together they created a planet with complex life, lots of creatures, all living together.

On that planet were little bitty humans who would thank the gods with offerings, sacrifices(not human ones) and fancy stuff. The gods thought that was pretty neat and decided to gives them gifts, inspiration for new technology, keep them safe, and the humans built a cool society. The gods gave who they deemed fit a fraction of their power to control.

Nice, so that explains the creation and why humans have powers.

But the humans have their own separate civilizations.

The air people live in the floating islands, a mountainous region. They travel on flying boats and ships, some large flying animals. They’re architecture i imagine to be more like Bhutan with how they have cool monasteries in the mountains and stuff.

Water people are split with people living in tropical regions, and people living in cold, icy climates.

The tropical areas are more jungley and chaotic architecture, like Mumbai, but packed like Kowloon city.

But the more icy regions are more like European baroque architecture, lots of pillars and arches made out of marble.

The earth region is underground in multiple places. Under a huge dessert, inside a mountain area, and in more meadowy, forest areas. The underground areas have a huge emphasis on interior design with a more art deco style. Outside forest areas have a more rustic feel

The fire region is in nice warm regions around the equator, the middle of everything. They have more East Asian ancient architecture.

The light/dark people live together in the same region. They live next to the fire region, with a more Rome/ Greece style plus a little bit of everything else.

To be given the gift of an element, you have to pass a series of test that show strength, logic, compassion, bravery, etc.

Then you get to have a ceremony, where there are special temples for this in each country, but one of the rooms inside there is a giant pool of water, and all around you are towering statues of the gods. You get into the water, dunk yourself, then the water glows. You look up and one of the gods is glowing

That god chose you and you now have the element.

You get the element your family and people get, it’s kind of passed on.

There are tons of cool animals in the regions:

Flying whales and jellyfish, basically a ton of normal sea creatures but they fly instead of swimming.

Underwater creatures are huge and more weird looking, lots of them glow.

In the forest, trees are as tall as the ocean isl deep. In those forests, there are huge deer that people can live on the antlers of so they travel around on them. There are huge bears, their are mimic deer that are carnivorous and eat people. Lots of huge animals.

Since humans can think, they create their own concepts like love, hate, greed, etc, it creates a new being, called a false god.

Lucero, the manifestation of obsession or anything taken to extremes. Love becomes unhealthy lust and obsession, wanting to be like someone becomes envy, greed, gluttony, narcissism, abuse, wrath, etc.

Lucero wasn’t really a big deal at first, but the gods could tell he would threaten them if he could and kept a close eye on him.

Anyway in the human realm, tensions between people is brewing. The fire nation was being hostile and closed off to other countries. Accusing the light/darkness nation of controlling some land the fire nation should have.

The northern water nation wants some valuable resources in the light/darkness nation. They are afraid to try and take it because they know they are strong, but then a captain came up with a plan that made the emperor want to talk to him immediately, the captain said if they cornered all the civilians during this one special holiday of theirs where all the people would gather together in their capital, they could corner them together. Then they wouldn’t have to fight them. And he said they should use armor and tactics from the fire nation to frame them.

He was promoted to general, and he lead the army to attack.

It was a complete genocide.

The people were celebrating, with their loved ones, nothing they could do to save them. They were kind people and were strong, but they weren’t ready. They tried to hide in their buildings, but were stuck inside as it all burned. Their shelters had become their tombs.

The water nation staged it to look like they sent their soldiers to help, but the fire nation had destroyed them.

This enraged the other nations and together, water, earth, and air overthrew the fire nation throne and divided the land. The capital city became a city were people of every nation could live.

The city uniting the world sped up progress, and around a hundred years later is when the story begins.

(I might edit some details in the future like some names I don’t feel quite fit yet, so we’ll see)

#my ocs #worldbuilding #atla #magic #story #original character #original story #creature #creative writing

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