#drehmal primordial

[gtetrahedron]

drehmal primordial shirts and posters are now available at our merch store! theres two t-shirts and four posters featuring the wonderful art of @circlejourneyart! you can check it out at https://drehmal.net/shop.

[hiscottibiscotti]

I'm tired of not being able to post anything I'm working on because it's all Drehmal spoilers or patreon posts so I doodled a quick Vehmil last night, please enjoy :)

[spectrearia]

SAVE THE BOY!!!

a silly little Roomba Rescue™ that happened during one of me and @cookieg122's Minecraft sessions! we found the poor lil robot trapped in some massive research facility, so we HAD to find a way to save him!! ;A;

(audio is kinda loud in places btw, we get really excited at the end and our voices reflect that so keep that in mind haha xD I'm still not sure how to properly EQ any of our recordings, but it is what it is lol)

[pekoeboo]

just a fun lil thing based on a situation that happened while @cookieg122 and I were playing Minecraft!! we found a Roomba-esque robot dude that was trapped in a big research facility, so we rescued it and decided to incorporate that concept into our characters' adventures as well :'D (got a video recording of the actual "rescue" itself over on my other blog: [link])

Aya is absolutely smitten with the robot and thinks its the cutest thing Ever, and at first Khalan wasn't really sure about bringing it home, but it quickly grew on him when he realized that it could help him keep the house clean, lol! seems like technology really IS useful, after all xD

Aya Armas belongs to @cookieg122. please do not remove caption or repost. also on deviantart

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OMG ITS HAPPENING

2 DAYS UNTIL APOTHEOSIS?!?! aaaaAAAAAAAAAA

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Virtuo; Goddess of Peace, prosperity, and legs

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mini-build! i built a little mushroom outpost so I’d have somewhere to chill in Merijool in my Drehmal: Primordial game! This map/modpack is insanely good, and really revitalized my love of Minecraft. It’s the first time in years I’ve played survival for more than a couple hours! Made in 1.14.2 (but it’s been updated to 1.16.2 since) with Sildur’s Vibrant Shaders.

[cass-histori]

anyway, heres fanart for the Minecraft map Drehmal: Primordial

the creators, balderich and keeko, have some fantastic lore in there

[hiscottibiscotti]

Virtuo and Mael unofficial redesigns

[spectrearia]

lol watched the first two episodes of that Frieren anime because my friend recommended it to me and i was already ugly crying on the first episode haha what the heckkkk

[pekoeboo]

- Story Tag Masterlist + Info -

For anyone who wants a brief overview of the most common tags, stories, and characters that I tend to post about, I've compiled a list to hopefully make it a bit easier to follow along! Keep in mind that a lot of the content posted about these stories is either outdated, or subject to change at any time.

Everything is below the cut, as it got rather long.

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- Home Is Where You Are -

A collaborative effort with my friend @cookieg122. HIWYA is a story that follows the journey of three OCs (Khalan, Aya, and Antony) as they discover who they are and what it means to be a family. Initially based on some stuff that happened in a few Minecraft servers, but over time has shifted into a fully original story. It's split into three acts, each focusing on a different part of the characters' journey:

Act I Originally based on the Drehmal: Primordial/Apotheosis Minecraft adventure map that my friends and I had played on some time ago, but now has been replaced with Atria; an original world that @cookieg122 and I are building together.

This current version of the story has Khalan and Aya getting whisked away from their home worlds into Atria by an unknown force. Act I focuses mostly on their growing relationship and their goal to try and return Aya back to her home world of Bocca. However, some of the gods of Atria are not pleased about Khalan and Aya's arrival, as their mere existence seems to defy the very nature of the world, so things get chaotic as the gods desperately try to set things right again.

Act II Aya and Khalan try to escape the wrath of the gods by utilizing a broken portal in an attempt to access Bocca, but are instead flung thousands of years into Atria's future; well after calamity had struck the land and the world began anew. The previous god of death makes a return as a power-hungry demon who consumes souls in an attempt to grow more powerful and regain his godhood. Unfortunately, he targets Khalan as his next victim due to Khalan's immortality being exploitable as an infinite source of energy.

This is also when Antony is introduced to the story and becomes a vital character; permanently weaving his way into Khalan and Aya's lives as he attempts to fight against the demon that is tormenting them. Khalan's Journal (abandoned and incredibly outdated fic) happens during this time.

Act III Aya finally manages to figure out a way to create a portal back to her home world of Bocca, though things aren't at all how she remembered it to be upon returning. Reformation is brewing within the Kingdom of Farfalla, and Aya, Khalan, and Antony get heavily involved in the efforts made to change the kingdom for the better; discovering themselves in the process, growing as a family, and taking some time to heal from the heavy trauma they've been shouldering up to that point.

Important extra content regarding basic character overviews/explanations can be found here and here, for anyone interested... and the (admittedly very small) collection of fics pertaining to this story can be found here on AO3 as well.

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- Ravenwood RP -

Written roleplay universe that my friend @baskervilleshound and I have been working on for some time, though we tend to keep the actual written story part of it to ourselves.

Ravenwood is a mysterious, creepy town nestled in the middle of a forest that doesn't exist on any map. Time appears to be stuck in the early 90s, monsters are known to roam the woods at night, and once you've entered Ravenwood, there's no way to leave. This RP is mostly filled with the sporadic ideas that my friend and I have come up with regarding our characters being placed in such an interesting setting. It's kind of all over the place, but we're just having fun with it.

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- Codename: IRIS -

Another story that @cookieg122 and I are working on. Although the characters from HIWYA are used in this story as well, it exists within its own alternate universe.

Codename: IRIS is an story in which a young boy (Khalan) befriends a sentient AI (Aya) within a virtual reality world; using gaming as a form of escape from his abusive home situation and the stress of moving to a new country. Things get out of control as another AI entity known as IRIS v.1 threatens to destroy and corrupt Aya's virtual home, eventually bringing that threat into the real world as well. Both Khalan and Aya, along with the help of their online friend Antony, work together to try and stop v.1's destructive rampage and attempt to also restore Aya's corrupted code and fragmented memories in the process.

Haven't posted much about this one yet, as there's still a lot to it that needs fine-tuning, but here's to hoping that I can share more as time goes on.

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So those are the main stories I'm currently working on. I figured I'd keep it limited to just these three for now, though. If you have any questions about them, or other stories I may have posted about as well, feel free to send an ask! I'm always open to sharing more info or clearing up any confusion if possible!

[pekoeboo]

some thoughts.

been thinking about actually giving the Primordial SMP a real story title after all this time, since it's not really an SMP anymore. it used to be based on actual Minecraft gameplay, but Cookie and I have just come up with so much original content over time that it's kind of its own thing now, to some extent??

only thing I'm really unsure of is whether or not I should continue to tag it with the Minecraft tag, since like. part of it still very heavily references things that have actually happened while playing MC, including direct relation to a legit adventure map that doesn't belong to us (as well as some gameplay mechanics that are relevant for certain parts of the story). but also the story is filled with a LOT of original content that we just came up with ourselves, like the characters and their backstories, so I don't know.

I do know I'll likely be splitting everything into three distinct Acts, with both Act I and Act II of the story taking place within Drehmal and Atria, respectively (two worlds based on actual Minecraft worlds that we've played in)... so maybe just those two could be tagged as Minecraft? not sure. Act III takes place within Aya's home world though, which is a fully original concept that's separate from any Minecraft mechanics or ideas, so I don't need to worry about that.

either way, all of this is still just kinda rotating around in my head for now. haven't decided on a story title yet, but if I do, I'll be sure to let y'all know how I'm planning on organizing it from that point on :'0

[pekoeboo]

been thinking about some aspects of Khalan's backstory again lately and I kinda felt like updating this post a bit with some new information and a few changed details, even though I said in the original post that I wasn't planning on changing much haha. but it is what it is, I suppose.

another trigger warning for under the cut just in case, since there's still some brief mention of child abuse and whatnot (because Khalan's dad was a terrible person).

new edit [as of 01-07-24]: as I said in the original version of this post, a lot of this is outdated information already... but since this is a reblog, any edit to my original post won't show up, so I had to mention it here as well. Sorry, I just haven't figured out how I want to explain all the newer changes yet ><;;

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new info:

I feel like Jal's treatment of Khalan was likely a bit more physically abusive than I initially considered. for a while, I tried to distance from that concept a bit and mostly only deal with the psychological side of things... since the angry, violent father trope is just really common for OCs, I think.

but after analyzing Khalan's character a lot more, and how he tends to withstand quite a hefty amount of physical damage before cracking, it made sense that he would've developed some tough skin through years of putting up with his dad's violent tendencies. however, Jal was very good at covering up his actions and managed to also keep Khalan from telling anyone in the village about how he was being treated - since Khalan still loved his dad and didn't want to be separated from him if anyone found out.

this treatment also spilled over into Khalan's immense fear of fighting back, and why it's such a big deal for him that he overcomes that fear and learns self-defense within the Drehmal/Atria timeline (what I consider to be his canon timeline). he's so afraid of becoming anything like his father that he refuses to hurt anyone, even if his life is in danger... though this obviously changes over time when he finally makes meaningful connections with others, as he develops an intrinsic desire to protect the people he loves.

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updated timeline stuff:

[Update 1]

for one thing, the time frame in which Jal turns into a zombie has been altered a bit. Instead of that happening when Khalan is 21 or 22 years old, I decided that it happens a few years earlier, when he's 19. So it's only about one year after he moves out.

this is also around when he gets pulled into Drehmal, not too long after the zombie incident... meaning that he meets Aya and the others for the first time when he's only 19 (putting him at 21 in Atria).

it's not a huge difference, but it still felt like it made more sense for his character to be a bit younger and a lot more naïve in his experience by the time he shows up in Drehmal. This also means that, because he and Aya are nine years apart in age, she would've been only 11 years old when the two of them met.

[Update 2]

The other concept that I decided to change up was how Samara and Khalan met. since I've made the choice to turn the Primordial SMP timeline into Khalan's canon story, that means that he and Samara wouldn't have had much time to get to know each other before Khalan gets whisked away to Drehmal. and that just didn't feel Right so I figured I'd change it a bit.

so as a result, Samara now meets Khalan when he's around 13 years old, right after his grandfather passes away (yes, I changed that too). she's still a spirit hiding within the body of a cat (that much doesn't change), but her initial interactions with Khalan were simple - where he found her taking a nap under the awning of the tool shed one day while he was working in the field. since he loves cats, he immediately began to take care of her by offering her food and cozy places to sleep and lots and LOTS of head pats.

Samara, being someone who absolutely loves affection, instantly warmed up to him and stuck around because she liked the attention, but slowly began to learn more about Khalan and his terrible home life over time. being rightfully upset over what she saw, she initiated that two-way friendship between them; trying her best to be a source of comfort for the kid whenever she could (though Jal didn't allow her inside the house).

so she ended up becoming very protective of Khalan from that point on, and stayed by his side when he eventually chose to leave home - because she knew that he wasn't prepared for the outside world and needed someone to keep him safe.

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anyway yeah, those were just a few edits I thought of earlier and figured I should share, so this post remains relevant. considering the fact that I initially thought I wasn't gonna change anything before, but still ended up doing just that, I have to make a small disclaimer that these ideas probably aren't set in stone and may or may not be changed at any point. but for right now, this is pretty much what I consider to be canon ;o;

Character backstory time!

with Khalan's birthday coming up (Oct. 29th), I figured I might as well do something kind of Special and share his whole backstory with y'all since I've never explained everything in full :0 he's really the only character so far who has a backstory that's stayed consistent pretty much since his creation, so I feel comfortable sharing it as there's not much that I'm planning on changing about it. this got extremely long tho so it's going under a cut. I hope that's okay.

NOTE: TW for some mentions of parental abuse (psychological and emotional, specifically) and death of family members.

Khalan's story starts off in the secluded desert village of Malja: a shining oasis in the middle of the harsh, arid climate. his parents (Jal and Cleo) ran a farm along the irrigation canals by the water's edge, and the two of them had plans of continuing with that profession for the rest of their lives.

what they didn't plan, however, was a baby - Jal never wanted kids to begin with, so he and his wife were careful not to conceive for that reason. but of course Cleo ended up getting pregnant, which Jal saw as a terrible stroke of bad luck.

pregnancy was kinda rough, things usually didn't go great, but that was mostly due to Cleo's family line being cursed with a tangible bad luck that had stretched on through her family for generations. she knew that Jal didn't want kids, but she tried her best to placate that by telling him that she'd be the one to raise their kid so he didn't have to cut back on his work.

unfortunately, Cleo died not too long after Khalan was born, so the responsibility was placed squarely on Jal's shoulders to raise the kid he never wanted. However, for the first year or so, Khalan was actually given to another family who had just had a child - so that mother could keep him fed until he was old enough to eat solid food. in that time, Jal fell into a terrible state of depression over the loss of his wife, and he never quite learned how to move on from that bad mental state once Khalan was placed into his possession again.

that emotional distress carried over into his treatment of Khalan, to which he ended up being emotionally neglectful and quite harsh over the years. Jal had no frame of reference for what a good father was supposed to be, as his own dad was abusive (and was actually banished from the village because he got caught) and his mother was negligent, so that kind of behavior is all Jal knew how to replicate.

as a result, Khalan grew up in a household where everything he did was scrutinized and he was never "good enough" for Jal no matter how hard he tried. expressing his frustration or discontent over this treatment usually only led to strict punishment (such as being forced to work in the field for much longer than he was physically capable of, or even being denied food), so Khalan eventually learned to rarely speak his mind in order to avoid making his father angry with him.

On the flipside, though, his relationship with his grandfather (Cleo's dad) was wonderful. Although things were tense between his grandfather and Jal (as the latter refused to acknowledge Cleo's existence, and the former was very open about talking about her), Khalan would always sneak away to the library to spend time with his grandfather even when he was supposed to be working at the farm. Jal explicitly told Khalan not to do that because of his own personal issues and grudges, but the loving relationship that Khalan and his grandfather had was enough for the boy to push his boundaries and disobey Jal's orders just so that he could hang out with the librarian.

a lot of Khalan's kind and caring nature comes from this bond. his grandfather was a gentle but humorous man, who loved to tell stories and crack jokes and share details about his daughter's life with Khalan - so he could appreciate who his mother was even though he never really got to know her.

sadly, his grandfather got sick and ultimately passed away when Khalan was around 16, but before he passed, he was the one who brought up the concept of travel and cartography. Cleo always wanted to travel outside of the village, but she willingly put that dream of hers aside once she married Jal. Khalan, on the other hand, became enthralled with the idea of taking up his mother's dream as his own and doing the very thing that she couldn't do.

the only issue? Jal didn't want him going anywhere. though he clearly didn't really show much respect for Khalan as a person, something that he DID hold onto was the fact that Khalan had the strange ability to see things beyond what he knew via his dreams. Jal knew this was useful, and he became reliant on Khalan as a sort of "prophet" to warn him of dangers to their property before they happened.

of course, Khalan's visions didn't always work that way, and he hated sharing his personal dreams with his father (most of which usually revealed the fear he had of his dad), but Jal would force him to relay whatever dreams he had just in case one of them was important and useful.

but overall, that was a big driving factor behind why Jal had Khalan in such a tight hold. he never wanted a child in the first place, but this one happened to have a gift that could be utilized in a way to help Jal. on top of that, Khalan had always worked hard to make things a bit easier on his dad - so he was a source of free labor that was easy for Jal to take advantage of. he saw his son as nothing more than a tool, really.

when Khalan finally became of age to officially choose his own profession (18), he settled on cartography, having put in some practice with art and map-making in secret over the years. because of this choice, however, he also had to make the difficult decision to put his foot down and stand up to his dad in the process - making it clear that he was tired of being treated like an object and simply wanted to be his own person. moving away from home was the only thing Khalan could think to do in order to break himself out of the abusive hold that Jal had over him his entire life, and he was at a point where he was just tired of putting up with it.

this whole conversation didn't go over very well. the two got in a terrible fight over it, but in the end there wasn't much Jal could do to stop Khalan from leaving home. (he did instill a LOT of guilt tho that Khalan holds onto for a long time.)

so Khalan left the village to start charting the world around him. being completely unprepared for the dangers outside of the village, though, he was almost immediately ambushed by a Creeper the moment he stepped outside of the safety of the village walls.

enter Samara! that's when the two initially met, as she was the one to protect Khalan from danger ;o; since then, she stuck by his side in order to keep him safe on his travels, and obviously the two became really close friends.

from that point on tho, things only got worse between Khalan and Jal when he eventually did return home to clean up and finish the maps he started. he didn't exactly have anywhere else to go, so he showed up at the farm once he was finished traveling for a time... but Jal still held a bad grudge and ended up completely disowning Khalan after that encounter.

fortunately, the village cleric/leader ended up taking Khalan in for a time, and helped to get him a place of his own on the outskirts of the village where he could always return to after his travels.

so with that, Khalan now had his own house and was finally settling into the life he wanted, even though the sting of what happened with his father still deeply hurt him. but at least! he was finally his own person and could make his own choices, which was really all he had hoped for.

it was the next time he returned to the village after an expedition that he learned that something terrible had happened to Jal, and that whole zombie encounter took place. by this point, Khalan had only been living on his own for a few years (he was like 20 or 21 when this happened), so because of how recent his moving away was, he feels like his dad's death was a form of divine punishment for being "selfish" and leaving. this event really pushes Khalan into a bad mental state for some time, but with both Samara's comforting presence and the cleric's help, he eventually is able to pull himself out of it and move on.

that's roughly around the time when he meets the others in Drehmal tbh :0 it's not all that long after the zombie incident happened, which is why it's something that he still struggles with every so often in that story.

however, as far as the Jimmy Neutron AU is concerned, that takes place quite some time after all of this; when Khalan is around 28 years old. so he's had time to settle into the life he chose for himself before Jimmy shows up and completely pulls him out of his comfort zone (and changes his life entirely lol).

so yeah. that's about it. I've explained some of this before within his journal entries and some past art (which is where the links throughout this explanation lead to), but I figured it was probably time to actually share more about him with y'all ;o;

kudos to you if you managed to read all of this haha. hopefully you found it interesting even if it's pretty depressing ><;; my boy has had a rough life but he's still doing his best despite that :'0

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and this is why i dont play horror games lol

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There is so much shit I havent posted. Enjoy some Drehmal content lmao

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My player character for Drehmal Primordial Real proud of her hehe :)