One Species in the World are the Walkers, Humanoid creatures capable of regenerating lost body parts. They travel the world, gathering Stories and weaving a tapestry of lies to surround themselves, to protect their existence from harmful storytelling. They always cover themselves in clothing from head to toe, and never reveal their true names. Their title, The Walkers, originates due to a lack of general knowledge on their society or any further details beyond their tendency to travel. Some call them the Secret keepers.
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While there are tales about the Llama, Platypus and Narwhal, these creatures simply do not exist.
But Unicorns, Chimeras and Griffons are entirely real.
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Cycle 1: Ultimate Truth1: Stories are real.
Cycle 2: Great Truths1."The size of the world at any given time is directly proportional to the amount of people who tell stories" Is the accepted truth but in fact the world has many sizes, and can be endless or have no size at all, depending for each person on the stories they know.
2. There are many species, each of whom have their own stories
3. Any story told even if its a lie might become reality.
4. Dreams count as stories, but it is the Id, the primal beast within all creatures, which shapes these, rather than one's conscious mind.
5. Different species prefer different tropes, and these tropes shape the land locally based on the amount of storytellers.
6. The most important species are immortal spiders, whose string shows each story, connecting all of them into a giant and always growing web. But the world was not created by a spider, but by a mysterious being known as the Author, the subject and teller of the first story.
7. Dreams count as stories and their effects are even more permanent and long lasting than normal stories.
8. Contradictory stories simply cancel each other out harmlessly.
9. Most creatures hurt their prey and competitors through slander.
10.The Nightmare is an aberration of corrupted dreams and lies, with it's only purpose being the corruption of all Dreams, and to scare other beings. This is the accepted truth, but it is actually a stabilizing force, absorbing the wildest dreams into itself in order to avoid the nocturnal havoc they would cause.
Cycle three: Truths about the nature of the world1. Thetas is a planet of mostly water, with ice at the surface to contain the water. The water contains various chemicals, which over time may form into self replicating structures.
2. Ruins from ancient civilizations that predate the creation of the world can occasionally be found; this is the accepted truth but they are remains of the worlds the Many who Sink have eaten.
3. The Many Who Sink are Tiny Minnows that sink through the Universe. These fish divide asexually and Live a very short time. They feed in great swarms, stripping worlds. They are not individually intelligent, but together they weave great stories made of the worlds they eat.
4. Although the most destructive dreams and lies are produced by sophisticated creatures, such beings cannot survive in close proximity to the Nightmare for long.
5. "Somewhere in the world, there is a moon that is actually made of cheese" is the accepted truth, but it is actually a star.
6. One cornerstone of reality is the Interior, a wild landscape of unimaginable size dreamed by the birds and beasts that inhabit it. The Interior is linked to countless other planes, as it is a product of the primal Id lurking within all creatures.
7. The spiders main food source is schools of The Many Who Sink.
8. "On Thetas there are creatures called Merfolk. They have a tail like a fish and the head of a vulture. They have two octopus tentacles one on the left and one at the right of their necks. They are sentient and sapient, and they hunt the many species of fish that inhabit Thetas." is the accepted truth but The Merfolk are actually a hive mind, that has its drones act like individuals in order to protect itself from hostile storytelling. And they actually prefer to eat crustaceans.
9. The biggest of this suspended continents is called Shamirah, and it is inhabited by a race of sentient birds, the Sherazade. They weave intricate, complex stories that are always sung, never told." is the accepted truth but the Sherazade are actually mammals with Short faces often mistaken for beaks
10. Significant amounts of the life on the Planet exists on a single huge continent sunken in the depths of the world and almost completely disconnected from the rest of the world. The Spiders interfere in the lives of these creatures constantly, puppeting them about with web to play out stories exactly as the spiders wish.
11. One of the Species in the World exists in the form of the Earthen, graceful and peaceful giants composed of Rock who record stories by creating images and words in crystal, which create moving pictures when caught by the light in the right way. These crystals can be as small as a pebble or large as a house, and are often sought after due to the Earthen’s tendency to record vast amounts of knowledge in these crystals. This is the accepted truth but...
12. In this world, there exists magical Walruses that can grant people wishes.
13. One of the rarer Species in the World are the Dirtlings; Short, red skinned Insects who live a cloistered lifestyle, hunting wild Animals during the fall, hiding away until they come out to wage war during the Winter. For the whole Winter, they raid settlements and attempt to censor or destroy any stories that do not relate to them. Dirtlings are rare and major Cities built by them are few in number.
14. The Audience is a being who constantly wanders around, never stopping, in an endless search to find a story that surpasses all others. It wears a shadowy hat and a cape that hides it, and holds a sword feather that serves to travel through dreams. The Audience despise those who tell lies, or create bad stories. It has to able to destroy the will to live of those who go against it.
15. One Species in the World are the Walkers, Humanoid creatures capable of regenerating lost body parts. They travel the world, gathering Stories and weaving a tapestry of lies to surround themselves, to protect their existence from harmful storytelling. They always cover themselves in clothing from head to toe, and never reveal their true names. Their title, The Walkers, originates due to a lack of general knowledge on their society or any further details beyond their tendency to travel. Some call them the Secret keepers.
16. While there are tales about the Llama, Platypus and Narwhal, these creatures simply do not exist. But Unicorns, Chimeras and Griffons are entirely real.
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