So I’ve done this before. I had an old worldbuilding thread which I occasionally posted ramblings in right here:
The main issue with this is that:
- My world has changed significantly
- My characters have changed significantly
- My ideals/purpose/goals behind worldbuilding have changed significantly.
I don’t like my old world and 90% of that topic is no longer relevant, hence I’m making a new one to start afresh.
Why I Worldbuild
I worldbuild for many personal reasons. Mainly, because its fun, but also as a way to compile my life thoughts, feelings and opinions in an interesting way.
How I Worldbuild
I don’t have an end goal, and rarely actually can be motivated to put pen to paper and write, so I worldbuild whenever I feel like it. This means that most things are half written and unfinished ideas, which some people might not like but I’m fine with, since I’m not in a rush to have a ‘complete’ world.
I usually take inspiration from the people I’ve met, places I’ve been and media I have interacted with to form ideas.
Now this isn’t a great world, in more ways than one, but let us get into it.
The World
The Universe is Everything, Everything being part of three major concepts called Space (Where stuff happens), Time (When stuff happens), and Hierarchy (Why stuff happens).
This happens through three infinitely complex networks of strings permeating everything called the Sammith (Space), Saiis (Time) and Serreth (Hierarchy).
These three networks can interact with each other in limited ways, but remain independent.
Every living thing are creatures of Hierarchy, so from here on out, I’ll be only referring to how Everything began from the perspective of Hierarchy.
The Beginning
Through the Serreth, two similar but distinct things flow. These are energy, of which there is a more powerful denser form and a weaker less-dense form, although both serve as the medium in which Hierarchy happens.
At the very beginning, before everything started, for an instant where time didn’t flow and also equally for an infinite time, Serreth existed, and it began to coalesce into two masses.
Everything then began to happen, and where the Serreth formed into these two masses, two more things were made.
The first, the larger one, was the then singular Rift, a complex tangle of Serreth without reason or purpose. The second however, was conscious. Why it was conscious is not to be known, since consciousness is just a phenomenon which occurs when energy is at the right place at the right time and nothing more can be said from that. This second thing was Rethizal, Death, for at the beginning of the beginning only the end existed.
The Serreth continued to move, and more of the Rift began separating, forming immensely powerful conscious beings.
Gods
There are three tiers of Gods, one tier of Upper God and two of Lower Gods.
The Upper Gods are the Tarikis, Functions. Each represent a core concept of the universe. They are immense conscious creatures that exist of the denser type of energy separated from the Rifts at the very beginning.
Of the Functions, I have fifteen so far, although one of these was killed and reborn with a new consciousness during the events of my world. These are:
Rethizal, Death.
Belamuk, Chaos (The First)
Parzias, Chaos (The Second)
Det, Balance
Ceisa, Order
Leipsis, Absence
Fethesi, Fate
Xatrebes, Desire
Zerseris, Willpower
Ilut, Fear
Vathukart, Interaction
Hales, Motion
Ewesniada, Heat
Uyusic, Gravity
Oreros, Amber
The lower gods are the Arasirikis, Deities and the Miarikis, Divinities, of which there are potentially thousands. These for most of time, were the residents of the universe. Most of the Deities are significantly older, being formed back near the start of the universe out of the denser energy, while Divinities are formed of the less dense energy and many of them are very young compared to the universe.
The difference in power between the lower and upper gods is similar, if not greater, than the difference between mortals and the lower gods, with Rethizal the strongest by far amongst Functions.
The Celestial Game
Gods are naturally creatures of anger, creatures of jealously, greed, and war. They struggle to coexist, and therefore the Celestial Game is played.
Everything that happens in the universe is the moving of a piece in this game, each divine creature vying for the checkmate. The creation of planets, mortals, and many of those mortals’ wars are just moves in this game.
Domain
As powerful creatures of Hierarchy, Gods can manipulate some of the Serreth. The Serreth that any god manipulates is called their Domain.
There are a few rules for the manipulation of Domain:
- Pulling at the Serreth is an extremely arduous task. It takes much effort, willpower and energy to do so even for a Deity. It is easy for a Deity to accidentally die overexerting themselves in some great act.
- The strongest Gods touch the Serreth little. To preserve their power, Functions usually do not meddle in the Celestial Game for this reason.
- Mortals cannot touch Serreth, nor see it without help from a God. Usually this is in the form of Deities using the Serreth to bless their followers.
- Mostly, the purpose of a blessing from a Deity is decided by a Deity, but with practice mortals can slightly tug on the strings themselves to alter the blessing.
- There are devices and tools that can manipulate Serreth further, so while under a blessing Mortals can gain a much more solid access to a very small Domain.
- Some Mortals, such as those with Eternal Blessings of the Gift of Magic provided to the Royal Families have their own permanent domain, although weaker than that of Gods.
Ers Seret
The Ers Seret are a pantheon of sixty one deities who poisoned their Domain as a play in the Celestial Domain. This prevents other Gods or Mortals other than themselves from accessing the Serreth in this Domain completely.
The leader of the Ers Seret is a Arasirikis called Mathikia, known as Ers Magregix, the Queen of the Ers Seret.
Death
There are two ways you could define Death. One, is the end of a living things life. Its decay. It stopping working, beginning to break down and not regenerate. Two, is the destruction, for whatever reason, of the body a consciousness resides in.
In this second case, Rethizal comes in, who will take the now bodyless consciousnesses to rest in the Rifts. Notice here the Rifts plural, as since the beginning they have split into five distinct relatively stable bodies being the:
Greater Silver Rift
The largest of the five, a very large silver and black spherical structure positioned at the core of the Host Planet.
Lesser Silver Rift
A smaller silver and blacks structure which encircles the Greater Silver Rift as a ring.
Gold Rift
A golden spiralling and sharp edged structure which encases parts of the Greater Silver Rift.
Grey Rift
A set black and grey rings around the Lesser Silver Rift.
White Rift
The smallest rift, which both exists inside and outside the Greater Silver Rift. A white and black surface, with an extremely black core.
I’ll continue to post stuff here in a bit probably and try to keep this updated rather than letting it collapse into outdated stuff. Please ask questions as it really helps the thought process.
: )