#lorebuilding

[thebreaddemon]

Do you guys think there’s milk on Vulcan or did someone hand Spock a glass during breakfast and he just kinda took it and started lapping it up

[beku-bekus]

I haven't actually played genshin in a while but I've been having the urge to plan out stuff from the old fic ideas I thought up ages ago

One of them was an entire Bloodborne AU I have a whole document with plot beats and dialogue snippets mixed in from when the game first came out lmao. I think it started from me giving Diluc the BP claymore that looks like bones?? Theres a bit in there about like Rosaria being descended from Cainhurst (vileblood girlies stay winning), Albedo befriending the Doll, and the ragbros using the Old Hunters Bell to talk to their dead dad

Another idea was essentially an Isekai where Rosaria gets dropped into Westeros. Everyone is terrified of this scandalously dressed Silent Sister who is deadly with a spear and may or may not be Directly Blessed By The Seven. With the added irony that she's the least devout nun in Mondstadt and is from a world with a different Seven gods. But now that I'm thinking about it there's a different humor of Albedo being there instead. Who's this weird blonde? He knows alchemy? He's so young to be a maester... (Albedo, who's only answer to the age thing in canon was essentially "younger than 500 lol")

Then the way less thorough idea of wacky vigilante hijinks with Diona becoming the Robin to Diluc's batman, with the added running gag of her Not Realizing that's who he is.

Diona: "I can't stand Diluc Ragnvindr."

Darknight hero, who has issues stacked higher than dragonspine is tall: "yeah fuck that guy"

All topped off with several time travel AU plot bunnies with varying premises such as "Xiao gets to relive his trauma and maybe save his old friends in the process! Ignore the new trauma of all your new friends not being alive yet, and maybe never being born due to the butterfly effect." "future!Diluc gets thrown back after The End Of The World™️ just in time to save Crepus from death by snatching the delusion and curbstomping Ursa the Drake. Somehow he gets reintegrated into his family as a mysterious estranged son because Parental Instincts. Added bonus delusion x2 combo!" and "Qiqi time travels. Does not notice. Comedy ensues."

[dogboyken]

Gonna write oc lore so please ask me stuff :3

[monorayjak]

Worldbuilding Nelvauris: Gods and Creation

Gods Gods in the universe Nelvauris resides in are complicated. This is because Gods were the very first entities created in Nelvauris (cosmologically speaking, not creatively or conceptually), and they created the universe Nelvauris resides in. But, those same Gods are also subject to the belief of the people(s) they created. A kind of consensus reality. Gods began as, for lack of a better…

[itashiro-writing-corner]

Another fun thing. Just tell me what you like/don't like about a muse of mine and what you'd like to see elaborated on. I want to build off of my characters a bit more and have them more fleshed out. Also let's you guys get a peek into their lives/psyche.

[ecosystem-administrator]

For my own reasons I've done some of this research before, so I can confidently say that the exodus was within a year or so of the twins' birth; it's unlikely they have any memories of it at all.

I had done the math on Thancred's age already as well, but I never actually correlated it to the exodus, and it makes things really interesting. He would have been 17 when he first went to Ul'dah, and although his short story doesn't make his age at the time clear, he seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of 12-15 when he meets Louisoix (if, in fact, he actually knows exactly how old he is at all, which frankly I find doubtful. Louisoix probably assigned him a best guess for paperwork reasons when bringing him into the country). He probably only actually spent a few years in Sharlayan getting his training, and if the numbers we have are correct, if he's 32 when the twins are 16 as per the Encyclopedia Eorzea, he would likely have been almost done with that training when the exodus happened.

Urianger became fascinated with prophecies very young, and he was involved when Louisoix began the Circle of Knowing ten years before the Calamity, right around the same time Thancred was sent to Ul'dah. At that point he would have been about 14, so they definitely met sometime before that, though it is not by any means clear when.

i need to iron out the timeline + details of the sharlayan exodus from dravania because most of the information about it is in the hvw patches which are less immediate in most people's minds (including mine). some thoughts and questions from my brain, many of which could probably be answering via googling/the wiki:

iirc the twins were born there, but the exodus happened when they were very young. do they remember the colony at all? are their earliest memories the big move?

yshtola spent most of her youth with matoya in her cave (seemingly as a primary caregiver), and then left with the exodus when she was a teenager. who made that decision? herself, her family (how traditional is the y tribe?), matoya? is her family from eorzea or sharlayan? how much did she lose when she moved to old sharlayan? is this move when she became louisoix's student instead of matoya's?

did louisoix yoink thancred from limsa before or after the exodus? how soon before or after? i have to assume fourchenault was strongly in favor of retreating from eorzea, and loiusoix was probably against - what did fourchenault think of the timing of thancred?

were thancred and yshtola struggling to settle into the foreign motherland at the same time?

where did moenbryda & urianger grow up? when did they become louisoix's students? they both studied at the studium, unlike yshtola & thancred. it's easier to guess when they met thancred, but when how long have they known yshtola?

did yda & lyse spend any time in the colony, or did they go directly to the mainland? i don't remember a lot of the details of this tbh. when did the other scions meet yda's little sister?

we know papalymo is from a sharlayan family (his dad is mentioned in the recent short story as a friend of louisoix's) - how did he meet the hexts? through louisoix? at what age for both of them did papalymo become louisoix's pupil?

krile states that she and minfilia are friends (when she's grilling thancred on the nature of their relationship). when did minfilia visit sharlayan? or did krile visit ul'dah? galuf baldesion and his students seem focused on international travel - how much has krile traveled throughout her life? she's a handful of years older than the twins - what age was she when she was adopted?

every day of my life i make up backstory headcanons based on my swiss cheese memory of earlier scions lore.

[heynhay]

in Vega, a librarian undergoes two years of intensive training to be able to safely handle and dissect literature. Ayana insisted on participating in the full apprenticeship, even though as princess she was entitled to the accreditation by default.

She does not make waste of the title, and in fact has garnered a reputation for being quite skilled at extracting the deepest material of published books.

[empiireans]

very slight redesign of one of my babies

and me realizing something cursed during the lineart phase

[dwtdog]

Can’t believe we got season 2 of the DSMP 😭😭 C!Sapnap survived and went far away

stoppp bc i was thinking of that 😭 especially since they just added a limbo mob like COME ON

[tinkertechy]

Playing with a FFXIV Lore idea

spoilers for ShB-EW below the cut; this is a Lore idea that isn't even fully canon to my WoL, it's mostly just a fun premise but is ultimately too OP/Gamey to be taken seriously as lore. Mostly.

So after the final fight with Hades, and he commissions the WoL to 'Remember that we once lived', the spirit of Azem basically wakes up and says 'bet'. In doing so they grant the WoL an upgraded version of the Echo, with a new power; Echoing.

Echoing allows the WoL to enter an enhanced state of being, taking on elements based on whatever soul/entity/concept they are 'Echoing.' Wings are common, but not required. The body practically glows with Aether, And their voice reverberates with a thousand others. music can even be heard, for those with good hearing. It's an extremely powerful but extremely taxing form, and as such the WoL only uses it in fights they can't afford to lose. (Sorry, Bakool Ja Ja, you live this time.)

However, Echoing is not without cost; not only is Tinka extremely drained after each use, but the full weight of whatever burden her Echo was carrying falls upon her soul during the Echoing. She is the living Echo of those who have come before, and even those who may come after.

She has four forms total, and an astute observer or Scion may notice that there is a common thread:

Hades: The Voice of Death

Elidibus: The Voice of Hope

Zodiark: The Voice of Desperation

Hyadelyn: The Voice of the Star

The Voice of Desperation is the riskiest to use, and the Voice of the Star the most powerful. However, Tinka's sorrow/melancholy is the greatest after using it. The Scions have learned how to look after her until she can mentally recover.

Now, you may have noticed a parallel between the Echoing and KHII's Drive forms. It's a fun parallel that works really well! And to continue that parallel, there's a secret 5th form that's unlocked in a 'AU' Expac that would actually allow me to do a timeskip. The Voice of the Traveler is Azem's love of adventure and the distilled spirit of Tinka's own travels, spreading both peace and 'don't make me come over there' in equal measure. Because it mostly draws from Tinka's own memories and will it is far less taxing for her to use, but because it also draws from Azem... mental stability may vary.

[sovawife]

sorry i litearlly never post lore posts on this blog anymore i save that for my funny servers with friends i just talk about how much me and sasha need to make out on this website instead

[yourlocalabstraction]

Honestly im tempted to make a google doc of tap canon cccc lore once i figure out a steadier grip of the timeline. Would yall be interested in that

[monorayjak]

Worldbuilding Nelvaurnis: Cosmology and Exploration

A minor mention before I dive in. For anyone reading through these pieces, if there are any, it should be somewhat apparent I’m developing this world as I go, so sometimes newer additions may add contradictions to older posts. In that case, the newer post will typically take priority. I mention this because now we’re beginning to cross that threshold, where contradictions will most likely start…

[l-la]

Sometime when I am feeling unhinged I will drop the lore document I wrote about Weirdwood.

[boneheadboner]

Me: I love Baggs so fucking much, he is a soft squish who has captured my heart. Also Me: Goddamn this man is going to brush death and severely traumatic bullshit SO MANY TIMES in this story I'm planning. The floodgates were already open with angst there. I'M JUST ADDING MORE. ALSO Me: God damn it I want him to have a cute cuddly soft and sweet and also hot af and sexiful relationship with Sonia and Red?? (They're his good pets but also wonderful relationship partners)