#yeah yeah tech vs magic is overdone but this is MY house and I'm the giant wolfspider that makes all of the rules here

[wolfspiders-web]

What fresh hell is this?

I need a place to put my weird furries for their enrichment or else they breach containment and I have to corral them! It gets old! So I'm deciding to put together my notes on a personal headworld project.

This is where I put all my non-fandom OCs and the stories related to them, because they've all been tossed into multiple different locations/drives on my computer and I'm tired of playing data GeoGuessr when I need to consult my notes or add to them. :Y

Basically, this is the universe where my characters like Lupa, Claude, and Chasseur live.

Long write-up after the break!

Setting Overview

The overall vibe is science fantasy in a post-post-apocalyptic setting, hundreds of years after a "Great War" decimated the planet with lingering scars and barely explored wilds being some of the only reminders of the past. The two major sophont groups are humans* and a race of multi-limbed furfolk known as anthropods, with the population centers of both concentrated into about a dozen or so megacities.

Outside of the major cities there exist ruins of the Old World hidden amongst the landscape, long overgrown and the safer ones turned into tourist destinations and family camping spots. Due to the existence of pockets of reality-warping magic, atomic radiation, or still-active and dangerous technology outside of civilization, intelligent organic life outside of these safe zones is few and far between. This area, taking up most of the real estate on the planet, is called the Verdant.

Magic and technology are two sides of the same coin and are inseparably linked, with furfolk leaning towards high magic/low tech and humans leaning towards high tech/low magic. Technology is well understood, highly advanced, and most knowledge is Pre-War that's slowly being re-discovered; examples range anywhere from holograms, to spaceflight, and giant robotic exosuits. Meanwhile magic is newer, somewhat crude in its use, and came about directly as a result of the War tearing apart the known laws of physics itself. It was revealed that certain branches of science actually have a tangible "magic" at their very core, which can be manipulated in various ways.

Magic generally falls into the categories of energy (light, electricity, thermal, sound, kinetic, radiation, etc.) manipulation, enchantments (the manifestation of "will" on physical objects), blessings and curses (buffs vs debuffs), alchemy and apothecary (new branches of chemistry), and other disciplines not listed here. [aka "add more when I think of them", lol]

*"humans" in this setting aren't exactly like you or me, more on that later