#enterra

[the-world-of-enterra]

I dunno if any if you actually remember the old version of this, but I redrew an old image with updated designs for Vherra and Hornet. Vherra is, as usual, being a sassy bitch. Hornet is not at all amused. Not at all. That half-spider boutta bite a bitch. xD

[the-moth-and-the-warden]

Brine and Jewealvyn (@asktheminecraftians) decided to take a walk into a nearby village, seeing many of its residents trading inside the small settlement. Brine could Jewealvyn was genuinely enjoying their conversation, not really getting out much afterall.

However, as the two talked, Jewel's eyes moved up to see a large moth-like creature? They walked on two legs, and they seemed to be trading with the villagers in front of them. Jewelavyn's eyes seemed to light up and she whispered to ask something of Brine. He nodded and she walked forward, being careful not to startle the moth.

When she reached the moth-like being, she clasped her hands and started with, "Excuse me? I did not mean to stare, but, you do not seem to be of this realm. I do not believe I have met someone like you before." Jewelavyn bowed her head. "I am Jewelavyn, I go by Jewel. May I ask your name or title?"

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[Hiiii, Artha, it's Helios! I wanted to send Jewel and Brine to meet Tiavel! No rush to answer! :D

The eery white eyes make every hair on Tiavel's body puff up to stand on end, thanks to a set of white eyes he'd seen from time to time, though he regains his composure very quickly. He has a rather odd scent about him, a scent that smells fungal, and dangerous. He finally figured out the reason for the warden gooping his mane. He managed to extract the scent, which he has in a little bottle in a necklace hidden beneath his mane. It makes him smell strange. At least it makes it so he doesn't have to wash the warden's goop out of his mane every time he visits. The little moth has a large basket full of bread. Far more than any person their size would eat. After greeting them back, he gives them a sheepish smile. "Sorry for my initial startled reaction." he says with a flick of his antennae. "Your white eyes gave me a bit of a spook." Though he has to laugh. Two fairly normal looking folks with white eyes gave him a spook, and yet he was about to go willingly visit the most dangerous creature known to this reality he'd landed in...

[the-border-outpost]

Thane isn't the only Warbred to have gotten a bit of bruising from that failed hunt! Poor Areto got kicked under the tail... which is the equivalent of a nutshot. Poor boy got kicked in the nards, has a bruise, and is very ouchy! His sister's trying to make him feel better, but she can't help but be a bit amused by his rather painful predicament. Look at that pout and those sad puppy eyes... poor Areto's gonna be sitting on an ice pack for a while!

[cryptid-artha]

Two Warbred are adopted by the Shadowed King, a manipulative tyrant named Zarkhan, to serve as his princes. Everything starts nice, but a Golden Child Abuse situation causes tension between them and they end up pitted against each other on two sides of a war they should have never had to take part in. The brothers blame eachother for what happened. Will they ever come back together, reconcile, and take down the true villain of their story? ================== Got a story started that I am posting on AO3! I’d love some support and comments and encouragement to keep my motivation coming! I am passionate about the characters and story. It’s just a prologue at the moment, but I have a lot of plans for these brothers and most of an outline written and am hoping to get new chapters out fairly regularly.

[fever-hood]

Storm-Sickness

Commonly just called Fever, this is a magical disease that the god Tempest brought to Enterra on the winds of a seemingly endless storm ending the Old Age. In the New Age, Fever typically spreads through the air like the flu, though it doesn't survive long outside of a body and can typically be avoided by limiting contact with any infected. Afflicted can also rarely spread the disease, typically through things like bites and contact with their bodily fluids. Most animals can catch and spread it as well.

There's a somewhat common belief that Feverhoods can also spread Fever, due to being "gifted" a dormant form of the disease, but no outbreak has ever been traced back to one and most reasonable people consider it baseless fearmongering. All New World species are completely immune to Fever.

Fever starts, expectedly, with a low fever that quickly ramps up to dangerous temperatures within a couple of days. Most also suffer from intense body pains, nausea, and dizziness, with later stages marked with delirium and hallucinations.

Due to the risk of infection for Old World species, most treatment facilities are manned by New World folk and Feverhoods. With proper care and purification techniques, many make full recovery from Fever, albeit with a greater risk of catching it again. Very late stage Fever is difficult to survive. Most either die or reach the final stage of the disease: Affliction.

Affliction causes the body to mutate rapidly, teeth and claws growing, limbs elongating far past their natural proportions, turning into something monstrous and aggressive. The Fever affects their brain to the point of madness, lashing out and attacking anyone in their sight. Affliction also affects magical ability in dangerous and unpredictable ways, making the Afflicted even greater of a threat. In rare cases, the mind can be healed back to some level of normal functionality, but Affliction is otherwise irreversible. In the New Age, the Afflicted are often an even greater threat than Fever itself.

Despite that millenia-long storm of the Last Age being over, Fever-weather still plagues Enterra on occasion, set apart from regular weather by the oily, purple-green sheen of its precipitation (in all forms).

[useless-catalanfacts]

Procession of the Holy Burial (Processó del Sant Enterrament in Catalan). It's celebrated annually on Holy Friday in the city of Tarragona, Catalonia. Over 4,000 people take part of this procession. The oldest written document that talk about this procession being done in this part of the city dates from 1550.

Photos from Tarragona Turisme.

[diabolus1exmachina]

Enterra Vipre

The Enterra Vipre was developed in the mid-1980s by a group of waiters at the Keg Restaurant on Vancouver’s Granville Island. Somehow they managed to secure a grant from the Canadian Scientific Research Council for $10 million CAD, and perhaps not surprisingly it all went wrong shortly after.

Whoever these waiters were they were astonishingly adept salesmen. Not only did they talk their way into that $10 million CAD government grant, but they also talked General Motors into selling their cars in the USA right out of Pontiac dealerships – with a full manufacturer’s warranty no less.

Exactly how a group of waiters came up with the idea of starting their own car company may be lost to history, but we do know that in the early-to-mid 1980s the waitstaff at the Keg Restaurant on Vancouver’s Granville Island hatched a plan to launch their own custom car brand and call it Cymbria.

Rather than building a car from scratch as Bricklin has done a decade earlier before collapsing into bankruptcy the team at Cymbria decided too instead base their car on a preexisting production sports car to save time and money.

The car they chose was arguably the hottest American sports car of the time, the Pontiac Fiero, an affordable mid-engined car with a lightweight fiberglass body. Cymbria developed their own custom bolt-on fiberglass body for the car, then they developed a more luxurious interior, they doubled the sticker price, and put their car on the market.

By the time the initial problems with the body moulds and ill-fitting panels had been rectified it was 1986 and the company had changed its name to Enterra, possibly as a way to leave some space between themselves and the negative press that the earlier 1984 Cymbria prototype had attracted.

The styling of the Enterra Vipre was perhaps a little misleading. It looked like a mid-engined supercar that was doing 200 mph even standing still. In reality it was powered by the standard 2.8 liter Pontiac V6 making just 140 bhp and 170 lb ft of torque.

When the Fiero was still new and exciting back in 1983 and 1984 many kit car and low-volume automakers hailed it as their savior. Its steel spaceframe chassis, mid-engined layout, and easy-to-remove fiberglass outer body panels made it ideally suited to modification. Countless Ferrari replica kit cars were based on the Fiero, there were also Lamborghini kits, and kits replicating other models. Interestingly one of those Ferrari replica designs was the Pontiac Mera – it had a bodykit designed to emulate the Ferrari 308 GTS which was being used in the popular Magnum P.I. TV series in the 1980s. 159 of them were made and sold through Pontiac dealers in the USA before the Ferrari lawyers got involved and shut the operation down. The Canadian answer to this Fiero phenomenon was the Enterra Vipre. Its design was clearly influenced by the Ferraris of the time including the F40, though it was carefully designed so as not to be a replica of any single model – therefore resistant to the famously litigious Ferrari legal representatives in the United States.

The first prototype was built in 1984 as the Cymbria Vipre, however the poor fitment of the fiberglass body panels and overall build quality left a lot to be desired. The moulds had to be completely redone, by the time they were ready it was 1986. The car was relaunched, now as the Enterra Vipre, with a price of over $30,000 USD – the equivalent to $71,277 USD in 2023 and roughly double the cost of a standard V6 Fiero.

Despite the fact that the car was being sold through selected Pontiac dealerships in the USA it was a complete flop. The lack of brandname awareness for Enterra coupled with the high price and the fact that the car had slightly worse performance than the stock V6 Fiero (due to to the larger/heavier body) resulted in dismal sales.

[mysterypuppy]

tomorrow i will call the gastroenterologist

[anditwentlikethis]

"está a trabalhar há 3 semanas" lmfao ok ouviram besties se quiserem ir à seleção é começarem a mexer o rabo 3 semanas antes da convocatória. Os outros 10 meses da época são irrelevantes, desde que 3 semanas antes consigam correr têm hipóteses (condições limitadas dependendo do empresário)

[selfsabvtage]

𝐒𝐄 𝐄𝐔 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐑 𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑹𝑨 𝐌𝐄𝐔 𝐒𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐎!

ei, aquele ali é NICO HIRAGA?     não, é só ALEXANDRE “XANDE”, um personagem CANON de ORDEM PARANORMAL: SINAIS DO OUTRO LADO.     ouvi dizer que ELE tem VINTE E DOIS ANOS, mora em aspen cove há UM ANO E MEIO e é um ENTREGADOR DE PIZZA em CAFÉ’S PIZZARIA.     ele NÃO TEM suas memórias, o que pode justificar o fato dele ser um pouco ALTRUÍSTA e AVOADO sempre que o vejo andando pela cidade. 

poderes:

[the-world-of-enterra]

Anshiga also has been through some design updates as well... Posting this here with the flurry of updated character references! xD

[do-kontsa]

Comms. (′ꈍωꈍ‵)

@the-world-of-enterra

[the-border-outpost]

Any luck with food or new updates?

Ariki caught something! Though it's small. But it's something! Unfortunately, they still haven't received any word from the Capitol, but a few small catches by Ariki has helped a bit. In fact, the others have managed to make small catches too. Focusing on lots of small catches has been more successful than trying to hunt down larger beasts.

[negreabsolut]

La tomba de l'heroi atlanteu.

[fever-hood]

Peoples of Enterra

This is just a brief rundown of the sapient species making up Enterra. Each one will link to more detailed posts as I make them. They can be broken up into two main categories: Old World peoples, those who have existed pre-Fever, and New World peoples, those who magically evolved from those pre-existing species and are naturally immune to Fever as a result.

Old World Species

Humans: Pretty much identical to Earth humans. Typically have little inherent magical ability compared to other Enterrans but do just fine with learned magic. Tend to be a little more resilient to Fever than other Old World species, but at the cost of being one of the species most likely to become Afflicted instead of dying to the disease

Sylvans: A small, humanoid species with bug-like features. Are the most inherently magical of all Enterrans and their appearances vary greatly depending on what types of magic come naturally to them. A little on the delicate side, but Fever is rarely fatal to them and they can usually recover if infection is caught early enough.

Mer: Actually a catch all term for any sapient aquatic or semi-aquatic species, there are even more species of mer than there are terrestrial Enterrans, but many coexist in a way that community is far more important than individual species. Regardless, all mer are so vulnerable to Fever that it is nearly always fatal to them, with very few accounts of Afflicted mer ever being recorded.

Avians: Resembling tall humans but winged and covered with feathers. Their natural magic ability leaves much to be desired, but have a variety of other abilities at their disposal to make up for it. Their senses of sight and hearing are unmatched by other Enterrans. They are natural mimics, able to copy sounds and voices they've heard with eerie accuracy. And of course, most are capable of flight. Fever tends to be fatal to them.

Sphynxen: Very large, primarily quadrupedal felines with disproportionally long necks and torsos compared to the rest of their bodies. Despite their feral appearance, they tend to be gentle giants. Their size belies their frailty, often clumsy and prone to injury as well as illnesses even beyond Fever. Like humans, though, they are more likely to become Afflicted than die to the disease. Their inherent magical ability is second only to sylvans.

Dragons: Thought to have long since been extinct before their reemergence at the end of the Lost Age, much is still unknown about them due to their small population (less than 100), sprawling territories, and a pervasive superiority complex among most members of the species. They are immensely powerful, both physically and magically, but are just as susceptible to Fever as any other Old World species.

New World Species

Taurics: Developing from Afflicted humans, Taurics are a six-limbed (four legs, two arms) species resembling a combination of humans and various other mammals, most commonly ungulates. Like their parent species, they lack any significant amount of inherent magic. They are strong and hardy, able to live comfortably in climates other species may struggle in.

Fauns: Hooved humanoids that are nearly unrecognizable from their parent species, the sylvans. Instead of insectoid antennae and wings, they have developed fur and horns, and they almost completely lack any inherent magic compared to any other Enterran species. They share a lot in common with taurics, being durable and resourceful, which allows them to thrive nearly anywhere in the world.

Harpies: The larger, feral-looking New World descendants of Avians. They have a more bird-like body plan, with toothy beaks and a lack of arms beyond their wings. They are not particularly magically gifted compared to most other New World species. They're often found building communities with avians in places hard to reach for other Enterrans, like cliff faces and jungle canopies.

Manticores: Their relationship to sphynxen is undeniable, being large felines with an impressive amount of inherent magic. However, they lack many of a sphynxen's typical shortcomings. They are strong and vicious, known to be cannibals and maneaters among the other peoples of Enterra. All manticores have spines and an intimidating sting at the end of their tails, but only some are venomous.

Feluxe: Horned, cat-like humanoids that also developed from Afflicted sphynxen. Unlike manticores, they're not physically very strong, but are similarly gifted with magic moreso than most other sapient species. Known for their tendency to hoard sentimental objects. Have a not entirely unwarranted reputation for being troublemakers.