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Y&Y Worldbuilding—The Wilk

Y&Y is my original work that I’ve been working on for decades. Yes, you read that right: decades. It’s finally at a place where I know I can make the story bible(which has been started) and start on scripts. I’d love to hear from any of you concerning this!

These are some worldbuilding points for The Wilk, a race of beings more central to the story than some others.

Basic background of the story to understand the rest

Y&Y is a low-fantasy story that takes place in an alternate reality of Earth. In this world, there are beings called Q’dai: powerful, sentient monsters that are “forced” into a human form when they enter the Blessed Realm, our Universe. These beings range in power and size, but are often relatable to myths and legends from human cultures.

The story revolves around the re-emergence of a powerful God called Yogg, the God of Death. The unwilling, powerful protagonist, Ember, is tasked with finding the Guardians, souls imbued by the good deity, Yggdrah’s, power in the hope that bringing them together will call the absent Yggdrah back to fight off Yogg.

The story deals with Ember’s reconciliation with her mission and her wants, culminating in grand reveals that explore mental illness, destiny, parent-children relationships, past versus present, and the blurring of lines between heroes and villains.

-This is a low-fantasy story. This means that it takes place in a world similar to ours but with fantastical elements.

-Two gods are central to the story and is where the work gets its name. They are Yggdrah, the Life God, and Yogg, the Death God. Right after they came into existence, the rest of reality took form.

-Monstrous beings called Q’dai exist on our world and outside of it. They come in various sizes, strengths, and powers. Many resemble legendary and mythical monsters in human history.

-Q’dai are forced by a strange power to take on human forms, referred to as Masks, when on our world.

-Outside of our world, their’s are called Realms and each Realm is inhabited by Q’dai that match its Nature, which are types of power. I.e. fire, water, mind(psychic), and etc.

-The oldest known Q’dai are called Ancients. Each Ancient represents a type of Nature and they are singular beings incapable of reproduction.

-The Ancients, then the other Q’dai, were the first sentient creations of the Life God, Yggdrah. Before her disappearance, she created The Blessed Realm, our universe.

-The terrible event that led to Yggdrah’s disappearance is called The Calamity. It was when Yogg broke through the Veil between the Kingdoms of Life and Death to attack Yggdrah for an unknown reason. In his path of destruction, he devoured multiple Ancients with only the few that took shelter at Yggdrah’s citadel surviving.

Okay, that should be good enough to understand the rest. I’ll insert a Read More as this is pretty long.

The Wilk

Q’dai Species Information

The Wilk are a species of Mind Nature Q’dai. They are the first species to be introduced in Y&Y and important to the overall story.

Species: Wilk

Nature: Mind

Family: Canid Q’Dai

Genus: Dire Wolf

Realm: Psyche

Ancient: Var

The Wilk are one of the youngest species of Q’dai that showed up not long after the creation of the Mind Nature and Psyche Realm. Their Realm is smaller than most, only comprised of a handful of inhabited planets, resulting in a small pool of Mind Nature Q’dai.

Their species are psychic dire wolves and closely resemble their honored Ancient, Var. They are incredibly adept at using their Mind based powers which allows them to use objects otherwise too difficult to master with their paws. This includes writing implements, architecture, food preparation, and other society improving skills. This has allowed the Wilk to keep detailed notes concerning their history dating back to the creation of their Realm.

The Wilk are a matriarchal society with their Head Bitch having final say on most of their society’s decisions as well as approval of hunts. Packs are important to the Wilk and there are four Skill Packs in total, each representing a different Mind Nature discipline an individual Wilk can concentrate on, but typically already born into. These are Shield, Brawl, Ranged, and Direct. Only a Wilk that has mastered all of the Mind Nature Skills is crowned the Main Pack Leader. The Main Pack comprises the entire species and this Wilk has the power to delegate the other Packs. Smaller Hunting Packs can be approved by the Main Pack Leader after communing with the Head Bitch. Hunting Packs can have a total of 7 Wilk: that pack’s leader and any combination of Skilled Wilk.

The Mind Nature Skills are:

Shield: able to project psychic shields and quickly suture injuries.

Brawl: use their mind power to strengthen them physically for close combat.

Ranged: can use their mind power to attack from afar and see farther into the battlefield.

Direct: can directly affect the enemy’s physical form and mind with their power. The skill also makes the user capable of teleportation and opening temporary psychic links to other areas.

Each Skill Pack has their own Pack Leader that represents them when meeting with the Main Pack Leader and Head Bitch in the Council. The Wilk inhabit 4 regions on their planet, each region composed of a Skill Pack. The main region, which houses the Head Bitch, trade hubs, and delegations, is the Shield Pack.

The Wilk may be capable of further technological advancements with the use of their Mind powers, but instead prefer to live humble lives honoring their Ancient, Var.

Their culture upholds honor and protection of both their Packs and other Q’dai. This has also extended to the Blessed Realm, where humans reside. They have been known to send Masked Hunt Packs to the Blessed Realm when other species of Q’dai have tried to take control over various human cultures throughout mankind’s existence.

Their almost zealot-like belief in Var and his heroic sacrifice during the Calamity, keeps them from using their incredible powers for conquering and controlling other Q’dai. They also acknowledge the importance of all other Ancients, but see Var as the most powerful and greatest of them all. Due to their written history, the Wilk know the Tongue of the Ancients and often sing songs to embolden their packs before a hunt and during to give glory to Var. (Songs by Heilung closely resemble what the Wilk’s songs sound like.)

Most Q’dai institutions acknowledge the Wilk's devastating power as the Mind Nature is considered one of the most powerful and dangerous of all the Q’dai Natures. Some theorize that, if it wasn’t for their obsession with emulating Var, they could conquer most of the Q’dai Realms by themselves.

A Mind attack only the most powerful Wilk can wield was made illegal to use by the Federation of Realms and the Safety for Realms Organization. This is due to its terrifying ability to enter the mind of a combatant and fighting them in their thoughts which results in physical damage. Most victims of this power do not realize that they are no longer fighting physically until it is too late. Only the Wilk have been known to use this attack and it is most often only capable of being wielded by the Main Pack Leader.

Interesting notes about the Wilk: every Wilk’s fur is some variation of purple/pink and all Wilk names contain 3 letters in honor of Var.

The two most prominent Wilk characters are Psy and Tas. Psy is the deuteragonist of Y&Y and Tas is his Uncle.

I have info for both Tas and Psy typed up if anyone is interested in learning more about these two Wilk.

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My right hand isn’t as strong as it used to be so I’ve been having to take a lot of breaks more frequently lately so my comic making process is a lot slower 😞

Please take this little drawing of Bruce and Talia as I rest my hand. They were at a dinner party.

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Illustration by Karl Alexander Wilke for Die Muskete

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Jon: What happened in 1812?

Damian: The War of 1812.

Jon: When was it?

Colin: 1812.

Jon: What happened then?

Billy: War.

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Damian's love language and i have proof

alright let's start off simple:

Damian + colin

Damian giving colin a motorcycle after colin helped Damian in a childrens fighting tournament with zsasz

Damian trying to help colin find his mother on mother's day, eventually settling for giving Colin the flowers he was planning to give to colins mother

Damian + bruce

Damian giving bruce Marthas pearls that he dug out of the sewers, the ones Damian searched for in said sewers for hours

damian travelling to multiple places in the world, finding old memorabilia of martha and thomas wayne to give bruce in a scavenger hunt

Damian + Jon

Damian giving jon an extremely rare console that even clark couldn't find so him n jon can play games together

Damian + Dick

Damian finding an old piece of memorabilia from one of the first villains dick fought, just cause he told him the story of when they fought

there's also too bits with maps that i can't include due to image limit

1. Damian giving maps a batarang after finding out she was a batman fan

2. Damian giving maps a mystery hunt as Robin, letting her find a first edition handbook of serpents and spells (DC version of D&D) and calling maps (who, again, is a known batman fan) his friend in his robin identity to make her happy

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Trans Horror Books

Looking for some trans horror books to read for Halloween? Here you go:

Book titles:

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Bound In Flesh by Lor Gislason

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KATHY BATES as Annie Wilkes & JAMES CAAN as Paul Sheldon in Misery (1990) (dir. Rob Reiner)

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