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[loominggaia]

¿Cuáles son las plantas y rocas nacionales de los reinos?

(Translated with Google Translator)

"What are the national plants and rocks of the kingdoms?"

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That's a very good question! I had to think about this one for a while. I don't know enough about geology to talk about national rocks, but I do know a little about plants.

Here are the most fitting plants I can think of for each kingdom...

Folkvar: Houseleek (thrives in cold, hard to kill)

Matuzu: Matuzan Lily (represents romance and fertility)

Lamai: Flytrap (unassuming yet dangerous)

Yerim-Mor: Optunia (symbolizes hope and endurance)

Zareen: Dandelion (symbolizes adaptability)

Evangeline: Wheat (staple crop, symbolizes Evangeline as the world's "breadbasket")

Mogdir: Candleroot (staple crop, symbolizes magic)

Etios: Grapevine (symbolizes satyr wine, a popular Etiosi export)

Damijana: Lotus (symbolizes intelligence and rising above poor conditions)

Seelie: Rose (beautiful yet thorny)

Unseelie: Bleeding Heart (symbolizes grief and gore)

Alliance: Kelp (staple crop, symbolizes rapid growth)

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@loominggaia OCs: Mr. Garnet's family

Like I said, Mr. Garnet has an ex-wife and two kids, so here’s some info about them. Also made these for something else

Vanella, Garnet’s ex-wife. She’s an elementary school teacher and pretty nice. Has a habit of using made-up words for things and always comes up with nicknames for people, which some people find annoying. She tries to be a fun mom and fun teacher and makes silly snacks on holidays and gives the kids funny activities. Is also a soft magie and interested in fae culture, which the kids think is a bit cringe. Kind of a hippie too. Seriously considering getting transmutated into an elf and moving to Mogdir once the kids move out.

Pakila: Their older daughter. Grumpy loner tween who finds most other kids lame and annoying. Wants to study hard and get a good scholarship, even though it stresses her out, but she doesn’t want to admit that because she doesn’t want to be seen as lazy. Is also interested in stage magic and does it on her free time. Takes it very seriously and gets pissed every time some popular kid wins the school talent show by singing some lame pop song. Also thinks that real magic is overrated.

She’s autistic, but was undiagnosed for a long time and had to go to a normal class and work herself harder than most kids, and now she doesn’t want to go on any special classes because she doesn't want people to think she’s lazy, even though it would be a lot easier on her.

Blera: Pakila’s 5 years younger sister. She’s also autistic, but was diagnosed a lot younger and goes to special class. Pakila is just a little jealous of that and is often telling her off for being lazy. But they do actually love each other, even if they’re not very friendly.

Blera likes botany and cartoons, and spends most of her time reading picture books about plants and watching cartoons. She’s happy that way and doesn’t care about her sister telling her that she’s wasting her time. But Blera is actually pretty lazy with anything she doesn’t find fun and doesn’t do well in school, so her parents are a bit concerned.

[darkwingphoenix]

Some of My Ideas for @loominggaia peoples

So, after seeing @kid-az post a thing about a new class of people, I decided to invent my OWN class of people for my AU, although this will NOT be happening in a WHILE.

Essentially, after I do the alt endings for my fic, I have a list of fics to post:

Unnamed fic about Saraia killing the Evangeline siege dragons with Skylie, and introduces the leviathans.

Ascendance: Fic where monsters in my AU gain souls and form a kingdom for themselves

Unnamed fic to help set up Ascendance and a couple other fics. Basically, Saraia and Skylie are vibing in Zareen when Project Starlight fails spectacularly, turning Damijana into the world's biggest creeper crater and forcing the two and King to survive the storm of ejecta in Zareen. Casualties are basically Damijana and like half of Zareen from the ejecta. Swiped this idea from kid-az's thing.

New fics introducing the new classes of people (Yes, multiple: Three, to be exact). Each fic is for each of the new classes encountering the Great Kingdoms (Including the Slegelse Damijani), in small multi chapter arcs. I'm talking like 2-4 chapters per Kingdom arc. Ascendance gets arcs too.

An unnamed Cobalt Evangeline X Sirene (I decided to ship Cobalt with a sirene lmao) where Cobalt, inspired by his big titty sirene GF (Yes, his GF WILL be a busty sirene, prolly with some nice hips too), tries to make slavery less legal in Evangeline. It helps he has trauma from Saraia attacking the Capital and realizing Skylie and Cyana are still alive (His parents said they died some time after they dipped). Skylie shows up to help him while in a disguise

Oneshot with Saraia attacking Evangeline Capital once she makes a mask for Cobalt.

Fic about Cyana and Angeline adopting and caring for a baby sirene

New Royal Gala oneshot set about 25 years after CAIL, with the new High Rulers (Winnie Mogdir, Cobalt Evangeline, Rustafi Fanaka (Yes, he gets to be king), Jaq Yerim-Mor, and whoever's first in line for Etios). May be during the time of the Cobalt fic.

Here's a link to a Google Docs about the species I added.

To add to the disaster that turned Damijana into Slegelse, it basically goes like this (And it gets called The Starblast):

Project Starlight fails so spectacularly Serafeen gets a stupid prize for her stupid game: Big ole fireworks, in the way of Damijana, and Iron Tower to be more precise, being turned into the world's first nuke since the Ancients made Gaia go Titanomachy.

Damijana, obviously, is no more after that, with Serafeen and the Council being right at Ground Zero and thus instantly vaporized, and almost all of Damijana was killed of or turned into ejecta that blasted much of the surrounding area, taking out Driza and Viersen and killing a LOT of people in Slegelse and areas beyond just Driza and Viersen.

Outside of an area like 30 miles away from Driza or Viersen, it didn't really do much beyond that (Saraia and Skylie would be about 15 miles away from Driza, likely going to deliver an environmentalist speech) when it goes off.

As for how it sets up Ascendance, the event is so full of magical energy it gives all monsters souls as Gaia needs to burn off the magic by making new souls. But not enough babies can be born to burn it off fast enough, so she emergency gives all monsters souls for Christmas. And now all monsters get souls now.

The monster soul thingy becomes known as Ascendance.

The portals to summon the new peoples becomes known as the Aftershocks, as many, especially in the World Athenaeum, think it was a sort of recursive ripple after the Starblast happened.

Overall, the whole disaster becomes known as the Ascendant Starblast

[loominggaia]

Been rereading a bunch of your Looming Gaia nation cuisine articles lately (I love how much thought you've put into what is usually such as underutilized worldbuilding topic in other settings), which made me wonder: if you could travel to Looming Gaia and had the opportunity to sample the cuisine, which dish from each nation would you most like to have? Let's assume for the sake of this ask that price and availability aren't an issue.

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying them! I enjoy making them because they tell a lot about a culture, its people, and the region they live in. Cuisine is a very effective aspect of worldbuilding, but I agree with you, I think it's underutilized.

Assuming I had infinite funds and none of my shitty digestive issues...

Folkvar: The fudge. I freaking love fudge, all flavors. I imagine Folkvaran fudge is uniquely rich and salty.

Matuzu: Rodangi burger (oops, my American is showing...)

Lamai: Zest roll, because zestberries don't exist IRL and I'd like to know how they taste.

Yerim-Mor: Candy pears. I've never had them. And thanks to my stupid bowel issues, I never will. :(

Zareen: Sweetpork burger (My American ass can't stop lmao)

Evangeline: I would crash a bus full of orphans for a caramel butter bar right now ngl

Mogdir: The honey wine. I'm drinking this strictly to experience the glow-in-the-dark piss later.

Etios: Fuck me up with that lamsaka!

Seelie: This might be messed up, but I gotta know what those monster-bonemeal cookies taste like...

Unseelie: Cheesy rockyams. Another thing that doesn't exist in the real world, so of course I have to try it.

Damijana: If I could tolerate it, I would want to know what gosopli tastes like. I'm assuming it's godawful, but the satisfaction comes from finding out.

Bormek: I will do it. I will consume the dragon balls. (Maybe I'll go super saiyan?)

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Question Time! Are there any extinct animals from the past still alive in Looming Gaia? Like, say, trilobites, ammonites, Ice Age megafauna, or pterosaurs? Just askin'.

There are wooly mammoths still hanging out in the Shrieking Mountains, but not as many as there were in prehistoric times (in this case meaning before the 1st Age). Folkvarans herd them across the tundra like cattle. It's dangerous work, but every dead mammoth provides a huge amount of resources, and the cold climate makes it easy to transport the meat long distances before it goes bad.

There are plenty of megafaunas like sharks, squids, giant sloths, and giant insects. (Most of the giant bugs are in Umory-Ond and eastern Evik. They used to be plentiful in western Evik too, until Zareen Empire killed them all with pesticides.)

Mr. Ocean and Solveig had a pet giant ground sloth called King Kaiva. He was supposedly the last of his kind on Redwood Island.

There are gigantic isopods in Mogdir Kingdom which are used as busses. They have not evolved in millions of years.

There are straight-up velociraptors in Lorrowey.

Most of Looming Gaia's dragons are "dinosaurs" that have not changed much from their ancient forms, especially the Evangelite and Matuzan war dragons, and the Redwings. They're basically perfect predators as-is.

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@loominggaia ocs (kinda)

I have some Looming Gaia OCs, though I should note that most of these are actually old characters created for other stuff that I just started imagining in the LG universe. I don’t have much of a story for them, they’re just a couple families living in Drifter’s Hollow.

Firstly the Vrinsa family, a blended roshava-elf family.

Molsa Vrinsa, roshava woman whose family moved here from Serkel. She’s smart and pretty serious and doesn’t like nonsense, and not as athletic as roshava usually are. She has twin kids, Noros and Satara, a little younger than Isaac appears to be. She’s divorced from their dad because they just didn’t get along.

Noros, Molsa’s son. He’s kind of a dumbass and is willing to do pretty much anything you dare him to do, to the point that Satara jokes that he’s a goblin whose true name is “I dare you”. He’s got a few scars and injuries from doing stupid things, like when a girl he had a crush on told him to kiss a wild raccoon (or something similar they have in the area, not sure) or when Satara dared him to hold the knife towards himself while whittling (very serious issue) and when he meets someone new, he always tries to impress them by talking about how he got in a knife fight with evil bandits or something. Which is hard because the whole village knows what a dumbass he is and are likely to correct him. Is trying hard to be less stupid now.

Satara, Noros’ twin sister. She’s pretty grumpy and cynical and not very sociable. Most of the time she just helps Valma and Lijen’s family with farming, reads the like 3 books they have at home for the gillionth time, or watches her brother’s shenanigans. But she’s a pretty good singer and sometimes sings in Lahja’s band (see below), though not much because she doesn’t like being around a lot of people. One time the audience started clapping to the song and she got angry and stopped singing to tell them to stop, so now they have to make posters (drawn by Noros, who’s pretty good at drawing actually) with DON’T CLAP DURING PERFORMANCE in big letters

Cresti, Molsa’s new elven husband. He’s from Mogdir, his wife died from illness when Valeria was little, but he’s gotten over it pretty well and is happy with Molsa. He’s almost annoyingly friendly and cheerful. Likes painting and painted big flowers and stuff on Molsa’s house. Noros and Satara at first were annoyed by him, but now they like him more since they realized that he’s a lot nicer than their bio dad.

Valeria, Cresti’s daughter, around the same age as Azadora. Besties with Aino (see below), and similarly annoyingly friendly as her dad. She loves animals but not the “gross” or “mean” ones like rats or snakes, and since her dad is Mogdiri, he tells her that bugs aren’t animals, and she doesn’t like those either. Satara sometimes tells her gross animal facts to freak her out, but she gets along well enough with her new siblings.

There’s also a family of centaurs. I don’t have accurate drawings for them yet and it might take a while, but here’s some info:

Valma and Lijen, a centaur couple living in the hollow. They’re vegetable farmers and have a bunch of chickens too, and a lot of kids. They’ve lived in the Hollow for quite long, before most of the others moved in.

Valma is magical and knows curative and botanical magic, she’s kinda inspired by Easter witches that are a thing in some countries. She’s albino but wears colorful clothing to compensate. She hates violence and kinda wishes the FGG would move out because they keep attracting enemies.

Lijen also dislikes unnecessary violence, but is willing to rough someone up if he needs to, and often goes hunting too.

They have seven kids:

Taru, their oldest daughter. She brews mild alcoholic drinks and sells them, and is kinda passive-aggressive towards Itchy’s whiskey, like “our drinks are totally legal and won’t kill you unlike some people’s drinks!!” She also likes sports and often plays with others.

Emilia, second daughter. She’s helping her parents with farming and is good with textile work. She’s a bit harder to adapt to new concepts than most of the family, like the foreigner's clothes or Jeimos’ gender identity, but is trying to get better with that.

Lahja, around the same age as Noros and Satara. She likes fishing, and has a girlfriend named Vidia in Woodborne, they have sort of a band along with Satara. Thinks Satara is cool and had a crush on her at one point, but gave up when Satara made it clear she doesn’t want a relationship.

Veeti, around Frederick’s age. When he was younger, he thought Freddie was a cool kid and tried to bully the other kids too, but couldn’t bring himself to get nearly as bad as him and eventually gave up on that. He likes baking and runs a mini bakery.

Miska, around Tomato’s age. He’s albino like his mom, and also hates violence, but he’s more of a scaredy-cat. He doesn’t do well with new people and finds the mercenaries a bit scary, but is better with younger kids and animals. Frederick bullied him a lot so he’s not good with older kids either.

Aino, second youngest daughter. She’s a girly girl and having a princess phase. She hangs out with Valeria a lot, and likes music and often hangs around the musical FGGs (Alaine, Glenvar, Jeimos, and Mr. Ocean) hoping they’ll teach her to play something.

Marja, their youngest daughter. She’s a cheery kid and thinks vampires are cool. Stalks Zeffer a little because she suspects he’s still a vampire, but her family tries to keep her away from him.

Bonus facts about Dr. Awesomeness (A bit sillier and not that “realistic” OC but I still like her)

-She was born from a rock concert in an unusually iron-free area in Zareen. She had her amphora turned into a sick guitar too instead of lyre

-She’s around 6’11” ft tall, shorter than normal minervae, and is self-conscious about it. Not that anybody else cares because she’s probably never met a “real” minervae in person and she’s taller than most people anyway. Also she’s pretty young, only around 100 years old

-She doesn’t have a Tome of Infinity, and just writes stuff down in a bunch of notebooks she has laying around. It makes her harder to kill tho.

-She’s alloaro (feels sexual attraction but not romantic). It doesn’t have anything to do with the fact she’s evil, she's perfectly capable of being a loving (platonic) partner to somebody, as long as they don’t worry about the Zareenite prisoners that she keeps in the basement for testing chemical weapons on.

The goggles stay on during sex

[loominggaia]

What would the great leaders do if they had illegitimate children

Some of them actually do!

Hethor Etios secretly sent her illegitimate son to Folkvar Kingdom and told everyone he died at birth. He is being raised by her friend and doesn't know he's technically royalty...but I think one day his caregiver or perhaps his real father (Hethor's brother-in-law) will spill the beans.

Morgause of the Unseelie ignores all her kids, legitimate or not. Sometimes she kills them out of paranoia, fearing they will try to usurp her throne one day. They're scared shitless of her and try to stay out of her way.

Oberon Mogdir has had a few "oops babies" in his time, but he has both the child and mother assassinated by the mafia to protect his image.

Gultopp Folkvar's daughter Sygbarne is not exactly "illegitimate", but she is not eligible for the throne and he doesn't want his people to know about her, so he locked her away in a tower for the rest of her life.

Roz Yerim-Mor would love all of his children, regardless of their circumstances.

Serafeen of Damijana secretly aborted an illegitimate baby.

Chua Lamai is supposed to be celibate, so they'd pull a Hethor and send their kid away to a foreign land. Indiga Evangeline would do the same.

Marghan Matuzu completely ignores his bastard kids and denies fatherhood to them.

Qara Zareen would also send hers away, not to save face but because she doesn't want to deal with them. One kid is already too much responsibility for her.

Sovereign of Aquaria banishes his "defective" children from his kingdom, and most of them go live in a special colony populated by their unwanted siblings.

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Some New @loominggaia AU Lore

Mostly focusing on new topics referenced in this post I made:

Evangeline Reformation

The Evangeline Reformation was a period in time between 6042-6052 (Only 2 years after the GGW, and 3 months after the Reformists' Rebellion finally succeeded in Evangeline), heavily characterized by the following:

The near collapse of the House of Humanity after the return of Barus Lyndia, Lindism's original founder

The abolition of slavery

The loosening of a lot of social norms, including the end of mustaches and scarves for married couples.

This Reformation was somewhat happening long before the GGW and Reformists' Rebellion, having roots in "heretical" Lindist scripture dated to 6012. It slowly grew over time, eventually boiling over into civil war, and then the GGW, in 6036. After the war ended in 6040, the civil war continued sans much aid, although the Modernists were failing due to supply shortages and defectors. The House of Humanity clung on in Kelvingyard and a few frontier cities (Including Clydera, which was signed to be in Evangeline territory permanently, which the Modernists took over just before the war ended).

Ascendance's Army

The army of Ascendance wasn't much until the Great Gaian War, when it had managed to pull itself together from a ragtag army of homeland defenders into a real fighting force, utilizing monsters, magic and iron all together. Its forces are split into branches based on their primary force:

The Kori: Infantry/Main Army

The Kori are the primary army of Ascendance, and the primary destination for wartime draftees. The Kori mostly use melee weapons and iron armor, although magic-using species do not go into the Kori: Rather, they're placed into the Dori.

The general of the Kori is Mezzano, a male human from Mogdir.

The Dori: Magic Corps

The Dori are the magical counterparts of the Kori, and the primary draftee destination for fae, faeries and other magic users. This force fights right alongside the Kori much of the time, offering healing and combat assistance. Due to necromancy being legal in Ascendance, drau can raise the fallen to fight with Ascendance.

The general of the Dori is a medusa named Kama.

Sons of Calydon: Cavalry Corps

The Sons of Calydon are the primary cavalry force of Ascendance. They fight on the backs of Pawns, Chess Egg Saraians that can transform into a motorcycle form to become faster.

The general of the Sons of Calydon, or simply Calydon, is Caesar, a female human native to Ascendance.

The Jade Palazzi: Flying Corps

The Jade Palazzi are the flying army of Ascendance, using Pawns (Which can fly) to fly over their enemies. The Pawns have far lighter armor than their cousins in the Sons of Calydon. The Jade Palazzi are primarily trained in the Jade Palace, a floating palace and military base north of Damiscend.

Ascendant Armada: Navy

The Ascendant Armada is Ascendance's own naval force. It saw significant action during the GGW, when it was utilized to combat the Aquarian Alliance the send troops to Noalen, and also saw much combat with the Folkvaran and Etiosi navies, succeeding due to the leviathans and mermaids in the forces.

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Short explanation of my @loominggaia AU nation Damiscend elects leaders

So, Damiscend/Ascendance (Officially Ascendance, unofficially everyone knows that if someone says Damiscend they mean Ascendance), has a monarch, but also a democratically-elected Parliament/Senate (Both, it's bicameral). Sorta like a nation's name/the primary cultural term

The monarch is voted in every 3 generations or when a monarch dies heirless (Like Mogdir), and the Parliament and Senate are voted in every 4 years, and also if the monarch dies.

Essentially, the Damiscendii political parties all get voted in based on their votes. 100% of the seats are filled, which could be 25% one party, 40% another, another 15%, and the remaining 15% is split between 3 parties unevenly.

These parties form coalitions to get the majority, as it's rare for one party to get majority this way. These coalitions are formed/renewed each voting season (So every 4 years), and the leading coalition selects the monarch when applicable. The monarch works with the Parliament and Senate to pass laws and work things out abroad.

Skylie, Saraia, Darshaan and Vex all chip into discussions and foreign policy, but rarely intervene beyond that, plus often they won't even bother at all, but it's a possibility that looms over every monarch, senator, and praline's head (Praline is the word for a Parliament rep).

The parties in a coalition will essentially vote amongst themselves about new policies, and then the people who agree with the coalition's stance (There's almost always dissidents who'll vote against the coalition stance) vote for that stance.

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Hello, @loominggaia Fans!

You guys coming into The Ole Meme Bakery Today

I won't throw ya out tho, you're always welcome!

Darshaan when Columbina goes trick-or-treating as him (She's going all in on the costume, bare titties and all)

Skylie to Saraia (She's a straight 10 (To Saraia) with a high libido)

Saraia when she gives Skylie a shark onesie:

Gultopp using the Evangeline Civil War to start shit up (Damiscend, The Unseelie, Mogdir, and The Seelie Court gang up on him)

Clarity trying to convince Cobalt to let her date/marry Lumine (She's flopping around the floor, and Lumine's EATING IT UP)

Cobalt when Sai and Justinia have body esteem issues (Skylie's his backup gal)

Going to Zareen Capital Be Like

Cobalt And The Evangeline Royal Sisters Smiling VS Saraia, Justinia, Sai, and Angie smiling (Very flirtatious, very we wanna top in the bedroom like)

Skylie when Saraia helps her with a tech thingy

Skylie and Cyana, having left Evangeline after suppressing themselves for years (Skylie's still messed up after being burned on the face with red hot iron rods, Cyana's totally recovered from it all)

Marine's husband when Lumine turns on him when Signora and Columbina are trying to assassinate him (She actually stabbed him in the back, trying to take his focus on her sisters to kill him quickly)

Skylie coming home to Sygbarne and the younger divines she adopts:

A random hilichurl

A party-loving minotaur be like

The Harbingers on a calm afternoon

A Random Monster Skylie Makes

Lumine when Signora and Columbina are taking too long to stab their father

A random human rapper and Amber doing a rap battle (She completely wrecks him and then steals his hoes)

Bishop Be Like

Random Monster Skylie Makes Be Like:

Marine's husband's champion after leaving to duel Lumine personally (She used her Vision and Paimon to kill him easier)

Dorzlaf inspecting a new goblin slave of his

Skylie memorizing her songs by funny mislyrics

Skylie when drunk

A music instrument snob being snooty and Skylie clowning on them

Cyana being supportive of Signora and Columbina, and Rodrig trying to shut her down

What Skylie imagined her crowd was before she got enough confidence without it (Her adoring nieces, nephews, and kiddos)

Citrine throwing out her Sticks and Bones (Skeleton/plant fusions)

Skylie to any of her younger kids/nieces and nephews

Skylie on Valentine's Day/Looming Gaia's version to Saraia

Saraia and Darshaan serving

Saraia as a little kid

Rook to people who tell Skylie she's such a powerful male

Skylie making a cutie anime figure for Reformed Lindism

Now, Cyana pretending to be straight:

Saraia trying to make a non-murder monster with Skylie, Vex and Darshaan tryna help out

The first minotaur to win a skateboard competition

Citrine, Amber, and Kitsu practicing necromancy at 3 AM(Citrine picked it up instinctively and taught her sisters)

A Demon tryna get food at 3 AM

Cyana to suitors vs Angie

If someone did the crime of Hurting Collei (AKA, she tripped while they had the misfortune of being within 3 meters of her)

Jeimos Be Like

Sprights and Pixies Be Like

Lumine's Fave Color being Purple after Clarity guessed it (She didn't have a fave until Clarity said Purple)

The Fanaka Triplets and Cyangeline Kids when Rustafi makes his first law as High King (They're completely clowning)

Skylie adopting random orphans be like

Morgause ripping her shirt off, Skylie showing kink-concern, Saraia kink-observing, Darshaan kink-questioning and Vex making a kink-hypothesis using the kink-scientific theory

Ei and Makoto Be Like

Saraia and Skylie Being a Spy Pair

Skylie when someone fetishizes her kids/nieces/nephews (She's stabbing them with Celestial Blade)

Skylie and Saraia half the time

Citrine and Amber at an early seance (Citrine's tryna be professional, Amber's just clowning the hell out)

Cobalt having his kids come with him to Damiscend (And Maia/Dottore/Indigo/Capitano's reactions, Collei/Lumine/Clarity's reactions, and Rosaria's reaction)

Cobalt and Justinia reacting to Ei and Makoto saying they're the twins' parents (They look like a human with sirene traits, like Tolsa of Gawe but with a sirene base)

Capitano when Sandrone caved an ogre slaver's ribs in, killing him on the spot (She broke her wrist and arm and dislocated her shoulder)

Mr. Ocean during that one Zareenite interview

Amber and Maui surfing during a tropical storm

Amber and Cyana in this situation (Amber reads some FUCKED UP smut)

Maia running on water using galemancy

Random day in Ascendance Be Like:

Cobalt and Skylie dueling (Ajaw served as the tumble weed)

Cute Saibalt Moments with their kids as babies (And also Justinia and Sai's twins, all the same age)

A Domestic Monster Skylie Made (It can't survive at all in the wild)

Bunch of Skylie's kids as 4-6 year olds

Skylie exposing Evangeline's nobility with a banger

Lumine during a self-imposed trip her dad approved of so she'd be free for a few years (She decides to come back to take out her dad personally, as she decided he was a POS)(Capitano heard her walking past him and went to hug her, as only she and their dad knew of her adventuring)(This is sorta meant to copy Genshin Impact in a way)

Columbina threatening her grandfather with fake Khaenri'ah Rot (An affliction Skylie made that makes those afflicted essentially have a pro-equality, pro-magic and anti-slavery symbiote like from Venom that becomes a massive problem in Evangeline)

Skylie, Cyana, Lumine, Signora and Columbina to their family at the High Royal Gala

LG Monsters when asked this

Lumine to a Neuvillette impersonator at a convention

Lumine to Clarity vs to her adventuring buds

My headcanon voices for: Columbina, Amber, Citrine, Alani, Saraia, Skylie (As a teen), Indigo, Darshaan, Dottore, Cobalt, Capitano, and Tyger Fanaka

Sai trying to use her kids' slang

Skylie using pyromancy with Celestial Blade:

The Divine Quartet (Skylie, Saraia, Darshaan, and Vex) bein badasses

Cobalt and Darshaan with their female friends/relatives (Almost all of whom are some sorta gay):

Gay facts, with Cyana:

This has been Gay Facts with Cyana

Cobalt to Collei:

Saraia to Skylie trying out a new outfit:

Paimon, Lumine's right hand gal, standing at attention:

Whole Buncha Gayness from Looming Gaia

Marine to Columbina

Capitano and his Khaenri'ah Rot going into Kelvingyard by themselves

Cecaelia to Kobolds Be Like

Lumina having identity issues grappling with her gender and being able to outright shapeshift into people she knows well

Skylie thinking of Saraia

[darkwingphoenix]

More @loominggaia Headcanons, because I'm Bored

Every species of people has their own group name, similar to a murder of crows and pod of whales:

A group of goblins is a gobble

Sirene groups are either a pod or a chorus, depends on who you ask. Most Athenaeum researchers will say the official term is pod, but people outside of scholars will say either one

A group of cecaelia is a tangle, although a cecaelia group without adult scyllo (So adult scylla, hatchlings, fries, bubblers, and kiddos of either gender) is called a nursery so long as no adult scyllo are with them (Even 1 adult scyllo makes the group a tangle)

A group of gnomes is a crawl

An elf group is a knife

Ogre groups are called bands

Troll groups are called stanks (And they live up to it)

Roshava groups are called twisters

Human groups are called troops

Dworf groups are called halls

Faun groups are herds or antlers

Satyr groups are herds or revels. Most people mean a group of adult satyrs without offspring when they say revels, most use herd

Minotaur groups are herds or batteries

Centaur groups are called herds or cavalries

Gorgon groups are rhumba or quiver

These terms are rarely used unless the person using them is trying to dehumanize the group, often in areas where they aren't accepted. Fae group terms are used a lot in Etios, Zareen and Evangeline, while commoner group terms are more frequent in Umory-Ond or Mogdir. Gaian group terms, excluding specifically herd or revel (For satyrs), are used in Evangeline primarily. Pod and chorus for sirene is still accepted as Not Speciesist, as is nursery for cecaelia moms with their squiddos.

Sirene also have a specifically-baby group term, two actually! They're the words shimmer and scoot. They're often used most commonly in areas where the singular term is more common, so shimmer is more common where people call sirene babies shimmerlings, while scoot is more common where they're called scooters. The correct term according to the Athenaeum is shimmerling and shimmer, but those who use scooter and scoot don't give a fuck.

Groups of young goblins are called tastings (As in wine tasting, as they're called goblits, this was Mostly A Joke)

Faery groups are called courts, even if none of the members of the group are aligned with either Great Kingdom called Court. This group term actually also includes mixed-fae groups. A group of fae, faeries, and even fauns is a court as well!

A mixed group of gaians, excluding gorgons specifically, is called a herd. Makes sense, as all of those species use herd as a group term

There's no one group term for a mixed-commoner group, it depends on locality.

A group of only kobolds is called a stupid

A group of pixies is a silly

A group of drau is called a seance

A group of adhene is called a stuck-up

A group of divines (Any species, just divines) is called an intervention (Yes, I did this because Divine Intervention is a term that exists and I wanna make that everyone's problem)

A group of skorpius is called a massacre

A group of agony cradles is an agony nursery

A group of floeback whales is called a titanic

A group of dragons is a Hellfire

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What are the grossest or most controversial dishes each of the Great Kingdoms has?

This is difficult to answer because there are usually many different cultures operating within each Great Kingdom, and each culture has different cuisine. Also, many of these dishes are shared between multiple kingdoms and cultures.

For example, the nasty troll cuisine I talked about in another post is not specific to any one kingdom, but can be found in several of them.

That said, I can talk about some controversial foods that are most commonly eaten in different kingdoms (though they may not be exclusive to them or even originate from them).

Folkvar: Brodfesk - also called "cheese 'n chovies", it's raw fish slathered in blue cheese on a piece of bread. Many Folkvarans also eat raw blubber, especially from marine animals.

Matuzu: Sugar-coated locusts and other insects. Setsiki brain soup. Matuzans eat a lot of animal brains and livers in general, sometimes raw. In some Matuzan cultures, men eat the genitals of powerful animals because they believe it increases their sexual prowess.

Lamai: Gruju - a drink made from blended maggots. The Lamaish eat a lot of reptiles and amphibians, such as snakes, turtles, lizards, and frogs. They also eat a lot of wild fungus, some of which has psychedelic effects.

Yerim-Mor: There aren't many offensive dishes in Morite culture. The nasty part is how they're prepared. Because this kingdom is so poor, sanitation usually takes a back seat, so food is washed in unclean water, left unrefrigerated, and cut with dirty utensils. Most Morites have adapted to all this bacteria, but it makes foreigners sick.

Zareen: Just about everything on the traditional Zareenite menu is loaded with questionable chemicals, harmful fillers, heavy metals, and god-knows-what-else. While everything is prepared in sanitized factory settings, the ingredients are so over-processed that you're basically eating plastic. There are Zareenite dishes that cannot legally be called "food", and are instead labeled "edible products".

Evangeline: Bloodbread - This dish originated from underfed slaves in Kelvingyard. These slaves make a crude flour from dried weeds, dirt, and blood, which they baked into a bread-like biscuit in the sun. The blood was usually from vermin like rats or insect, but sometimes it is harvested from their fellow slaves who were too weak to defend themselves. Needless to say, this stuff is hella nasty and only eaten in life-or-death scenarios.

Mogdir: If eating bugs and bug byproducts sounds gross to you, you will not like Mogdiri cuisine because it's very bug-based. One of the most popular foods is a cheese made from fermented caterpillar silk. They also eat raw grubs and giant roasted caterpillars.

Etios: Minotaur breast milk is a popular beverage for all ages in Etios Nation. Many Etiosi also eat animal marrow straight from the bone, then dry the bones in the sun for a few weeks before grinding it into bonemeal. This bonemeal is used in cooking other things.

Seelie: Speaking of bonemeal, the ancient Seelie were known to grind up the bones of their enemies and use that bonemeal to bake cookies. Cannibalism in general was pretty hot in this kingdom for a very long time. It's illegal today, but it's still happening in some dark pockets of Seelie society.

Unseelie: Where to start? Basically everything on the Unseelie menu is weird and nasty. Stray dog meat, roasted vermin, blood wine, pickled squid...just take your pick.

Damijana: Has the same problem as Zareenite cuisine, where most food available is overly-processed into what is basically plastic with vitamins sprayed onto it after the fact. By far the nastiest thing though, is a dish called "gutter roast". The poorest Damijani catch wild rats in the city and roast them. Though this is one of the least-processed dishes in Damijana, these rats are often riddled with disease, their guts are full of trash, and there is weird chemicals in their blood from the polluted environment.

Aquaria: Aquarians will see the grossest, slimiest, most alien-looking marine critter wriggling across the sea floor and think to themselves, "Mmm, looks like dinner! :D"

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Poll: Vacation

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What fancy and decadent dishes do the Great Kingdom leaders and their families love to eat? Do they secretly eat food that’s more “plebeian” as they might say?

Good question! I think it would be tedious to go through every single character's tastes, so I'll just talk about the most notable ones.

FOLKVAR: Juvella loves traditional Folkvaran fudge bars. It's her biggest weakness. This woman tries so hard to stay in shape, attending aerobics classes every day, turning down so many junk foods at the royal feasts, keeping track of everything she eats to stay healthy...then every night, she hides in a closet while she secretly scarfs down a plate of these damn fudge bars. She's deeply ashamed and hides this behavior from Gultopp, believing he would think her weak for having so little self-control. In reality, he'd just be like "o shit u got fudge?? pass me some of those! :D"

MATUZU: Marghan has a taste for exotic cuisine, and it must be authentic! He has every meal imported from faraway lands, and he does so in the most impractical, expensive way possible. Of course he's not using his own allowance money for this, oh no...he's using Matuzan tax dollars for his cross-continental DoorDash orders, the little prick.

LAMAI: Chua hates gruju, but pretends to love it because it's synonymous with Lamaish culture. They force themselves to chug that crap at every gala to keep up appearances. Every one of their conjoined siblings has their own likes and dislikes, which makes dinner time a complicated ordeal. One sibling has an addiction to xamali and sneaks this alcoholic beverage whenever Chua isn't looking. Of course, Chua suffers the consequences of whatever their siblings consume...on more than one occasion, Chua has found themselves randomly drunk or on the verge of shitting themself because of things their siblings ate.

YERIM-MOR: Roz brews his own kombucha, believing it has all kinds of crazy health benefits. He drinks this stuff all day long and encourages his son Jaq to drink it too, but Jaq thinks it's gross and his dad is weird. Roz is also a fan of yogurt, cheese, and all things probiotic. This is a guy who tries to nurture life wherever he goes, but that's hard to do when his kingdom is such a pit of death. If he can't breathe life back into his kingdom, at least he can nurture microbial life.

ZAREEN: Qara and her husband are junk food junkies, but Qara is particularly fond of sweetpork burgers. In fact, her love of these burgers is so well known that she endorsed a Zareenite burger chain, appearing in their ads for many years. This chain quickly became the most popular fast food joint in the empire. Some would say it's unprofessional and uncouth--perhaps even unethical--for an empress to advertise such unhealthy slop to her people. But this deal scored Qara a lifetime supply of free burgers, and she regrets nothing. Her endorsement of such plebian cuisine won her points with blue collar Zareenites, convincing them that she was ~*~relatable~*~. Other people think her tastes are just as trashy as she is.

EVANGELINE: Indiga strikes me as the type of woman who eats the exact same things every day. A traditional blue breakfast, meat pie for lunch, blue dinner, and a couple cookies for dessert. Every day. For decades. She's so xenophobic, she doesn't trust any sort of foreign cuisine.

MOGDIR: Oberon has a thing for mushrooms, especially truffles. He demands only the finest specimens, no matter their cost. After snorting a long line of pink sugar off a hooker's ass, he washes it down with some silk milk tea, his favorite drink. His daughter, Winnie, is a bugs rights activist who refuses to eat any bug-based dishes. This is hard to do in a place like Mogdir Kingdom, as its traditional cuisine is based almost entirely around bugs. That's because in this culture, farming animals for meat is forbidden, but bugs are not considered animals here. Winnie is like a Mogdiri super-vegan who subsists on scrap rice and carrot mash. She won't even consume bug byproducts such as honey or silk milk.

ETIOS: Hethor loves to eat grass. She's a typical Etiosi grass snob who insists that different types of grass have completely different tastes. Other than that, she enjoys quite a bit of Folkvaran cuisine, which is shipped to her regularly by her pal Gultopp as an act of good diplomacy.

DAMIJANA: Serafeen regularly visits different Damijani restaurants and eats their food as a PR stunt. In reality, she can't stand her empire's native cuisine and much prefers Mogdiri food. Of course she can't possibly let her people know this, and they would flip their lids if they saw their god-like leader put a bug in her mouth. Most foreign cuisine is viewed as "dirty" and "uncivilized" in Damijana. Serafeen must endorse only the sterile, hyper-processed cuisine of her native land.

SEELIE: There is a cup of chocolate coffee within arm's reach of Titania at all times. It's one of the few little joys she has left in her grueling, never-ending life. She has grown sick of all flavors, having tasted them all too many times...but there's something about that chocolately coffee that never gets old to her.

UNSEELIE: Morgause enjoys pickled squid. She'll sit on her throne and eat it straight from the jar with her fingers, she doesn't give a shit. She seems to have a taste for bitter, vinegary things in general.

AQUARIA: Sovereign is infamous for eating live baby dolphins, considering them a delicacy. He insists they must be alive until the moment he bites into them for peak freshness. This makes him sound like a picky guy, but in reality he's a total glutton who will eat damn near anything you put in front of him. He'll even eat stuff he hates as long as it's convenient. Bro has a pretty bad eating disorder, to be honest...It's less about enjoying food and more about the act of consumption for him, which fits his greedy nature.

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Some Ascendance lore for my @loominggaia AU: Extended Lore (And some minor spoilers, especially Great Rulers)

Context: Ascendance is a Kingdom founded by monsters after an event known as Project Starblast, where Serafeen of Damijana turned it into a nuke attempting to leave Gaia. This event gave monsters souls and drew them to the ruins of the city.

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After getting off the ground economically, in 6069 (Nice) they challenged Zareen Empire, which was extremely weakened by continued Industrialist terms and wound up attempting to fight the new Kingdom, but wound up getting its ass whupped by healthier and overall better equipped soldiers (In that their gear wasn't prone to breaking after 3 seconds of use/needs electricity to function/Both of those) with higher morale (Many Zareenites were going into the military for the free education).

Skylie planned the invasion for 6040. Until then, the Ascendance army was able to slowly grow and gain alliances with Folkvar (A deal made by Saraia for the kingdom), the Unseelie Court (Something done proactively by Morgause, as she was essentially betting on Ascendance's success to prove monsters had souls for the world via a unique culture), the Aquarian Alliance (Mostly as a desperate way to stop leviathan/koholasaur feeding frenzies on globeholders by having Saraia teach mages in the Kingdom her leviathan repellant spell, and Skylie explained they were gonna target Zareen anyway), and Evangeline Kingdom (Being wracked by a rebellion/civil war by the adherents to the House of Humanity and those loyal to Indiga as well as Kelvingyard's military, Skylie wanted to help the Kingdom for her nieces and nephews). Most of these were mere economic alliances with defense pacts, however.

Anyway, when Ascendance finally invaded, Zareen was fucked. They were still trying to contain the plague, the solar flares ruined their infrastructure, and their people were fleeing to Mogdir or Matuzu as they had no way to feed themselves. The Ascendance Army smacked the shit out of the few Zareen soldiers at their border, and Zareen had to raise an army fast. This... Did not happen fast enough, and by the time the Zareenite military managed to get its pants on most of Zareen was captured and under Ascendii rule (Ascendii is the word for a citizen of Ascendance/The national adjective).

Qara, who was still ruling thanks to the Kuzapa rigging the votes in her favor, was attempting to convince the Kuzapa to let her surrender and cut a peace deal, but the Kuzapa refused... Until a retired member called Bob Nick destroyed the entire upper command of the Kuzapa a week before the Ascendii army pulled up to Zareen Capital's gates to destroy Zareen and eat pancakes, and they ate the last of their pancakes the day before (They ate sausages and oatmeal for breakfast the day of the actual attack, thus why Skylie said to record the final day of Zareen as them doing that)

The army was told to raze the city once Qara surrendered, and Skylie tied up Qara and her husband, poisoned them with the venom of a monster she made that slowly killed its recipient over hours, and played the saxophone to them for their final moments, tied up and dying from a excruciatingly painful venom as they watched the capital burn and listened to Skylie's saxophone playing (Like that Squirtle saxophone meme)

After Skylie and the army returned to Ascendance Capital, Skylie got to work making a million monsters that could breed with themselves and made a buncha monsters to help purify the land and keep it so, as well as getting a million and 12 saraians ported in from Folkvar and Evangeline Kingdom to help rebuild the ecosystem/Economy.

Thanks to the hard work of the Ascendii people (And them porting literally all industrial work to Yerim-Mor), on the eve of 6100, the first wild nymphs since the rise of Zareen were born.

It helped the land was almost hard reset to no life more advanced than grass and bugs and no pollution in 6036 when Project Starblast happened and scoured the land, so the land only underwent 4 years of pollution.

RELATIONS (Nuanced)

Ascendance's first and closest ally is the Unseelie Court, for pretty obvious reasons. Their relations are hella friendly and buddy buddy, and Morgause often refers to Skylie as her bestie.

The Aquarian Alliance is... Fairly friendly with Ascendance, as they took down Zareen and were built on Damijana's ashes. They aren't fighting Ascendance, especially once Sovereign fucking explodes (More on that later).

Beyond this, Ascendance is friendly with Folkvar, Evangeline, Matuzu, and Yerim-Mor. Everyone else is neutral or unfriendly.

Religion

The Order of Love and Light is a pretty big thing here as it's heavily subsidized by the government, which gives the Order a ton of money (But still less than needed to get their Zareenite territories back up to prime productivity after disease and technological/ecological destruction) and allowing them to work their peaceful welfare stuff as the Kingdom focuses on other stuff.

The Cult isn't around anymore after Mankind's Disgrace was destroyed. In fact, their leader dying killed the entire cult in only a few decades, as the masks and armor of the higher ups started failing, resulting in mass deaths. Yerim-Mor, under High King Jaq after Ascendance destroys Zareen in 6041, was also able to get back up after Ascendance started putting their dirty work there, and his reign saw the last Crescent Cultist killed in 6075. It was basically like 12 people and a dog with a golden mask on to serve as Mankind's Disgrace. The dog was put into shelter and eventually adopted by Jaq himself.

The Communion is a somewhat rare but still extant religion in Damijana-controlled regions, although it's slowly dwindling. Its conversion rate is low, and people are leaving the cult about as fast if a bit faster.

Verminism isn't as common, but it's around.

One of the biggest religions in Ascendance is actually Arjukam. It really rings out to the various peoples of the land.

There's also... a lot of divine cult presence in the kingdom, from Allmother and Reaper to smaller/lesser known divines, as well as a very strong cult dedicated to Skylie herself. Saraia's cult is also pretty strong as well.

Cool Shit

Ascendance has not signed the Nymph Pact, but carefully dances around it by shoving their dirty industry to Yerim-Mor for them to do, and have essentially restored nature. Many nymphs from other regions respect Ascendance for this, and allow some dirty industry, although the Ascendii people do this for on reason only: Entertainment.

Their welfare basically run by the Order of Love and Light (And Karenza lives in Ascendance as well now, having anchored the Ethereal City permanently south of Ascendance Capital above the sea), Ascendii people often have plenty of leisure time due to their Kingdom's wealth. Some researchers picked up notes on clean energy, radio, TV, and even early schematics for video gaming consoles from Damijana ruins, Slegelse, and Zareen labs and cities, and succeeded in making a small console similar to the Atari in 6048. Skylie saw huge potential in them and had the High Ruler dump cash on it, resulting in the first game like the original Mario showing up in 6060.

Clean energy, meanwhile, took the form of almost solely solar panels. Many gaming systems wound up getting solar panels tacked on for easy energy, while making them also mostly compliant with the Nymph Pact (Enough to where most nymphs don't care so long as you don't throw it out).

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Could you rank kingdoms from least to most homophobic?

I can certainly try! Though like I always say, most Great Kingdoms are split up into many little territories, and some of those territories may be more homophobic than others. This makes them a bit hard to rank.

Matuzu Capital City, for instance, is very LGBT-friendly. But the small Matuzan town of Rodanga has a less friendly culture towards same-sex couples and the concept of gender identity. So, there are cases where a kingdom might rank low on this list, but it doesn't necessarily mean all of that kingdom's cultures are homophobic. It's just an "overall" score. With that said, here's how I'd rank them...

Matuzu Kingdom

Unseelie Court

Mogdir Kingdom

Zareen Empire

Seelie Court

Folkvar Kingdom

Etios Nation

Lamai Nation

Aquarian Alliance

Yerim-Mor Kingdom

Evangeline Kingdom

Empire of Damijana

1-5: Largely LGBT-friendly, no worries here!

6-9: Some areas are sketchy, some are okay.

10-12: Largely unsafe for LGBT people.

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