World of Gaia

to put possibly, the most advanced point of time in this world is the Industrial Revolution. steam and coal are starting to make a rise to grant common folk power that magic gives the rest.

Also known as cave elves, cannibal elves and bone elves. Troglodytes are skull faced elves with no eyes or flesh over the face. the men have large horns and women grow antlers.

naturally blind, their senses have fused in bizarre ways, allowing them to smell touch, taste sound, and other strange combinations to make up for the lack of sight. They are the only creatures that can use voodoo magic, and tame the giant insect like reptilian race of monster called fiend crawlers.

Troglodytes worship a prophet called The Midnight King, a super powerful necromancer troglodyte prophesied to destroy the world. though most who aren't a troglodyte do not fear it.

all races in existence have horror stories of the nightmarish, unholy, cannibalistic, bloodthirsty troglodytes..... no one is above the fear.

they live deep underground not in cities but in hives. you know you might be near a hive of you see Glowing RedCap or Glowing greencap mushrooms, extremely poisonous but the only known food source for fiend crawlers.

fiend crawlers do not eat meat, instead they evicerate live prey and drag them to die in caves where the fungus may grow on the corpses

a Quetsoul is an avian type of dragonborn, resembling birds of many breed, and granted the wondrous storm breath power by Krim Roire, goddess of chaos.

quetsoul as a people worship the chaos mother and the empty Mother. two goddesses that created the quetsoul when Krim Roire was giving her friend Maline The Empty Mother the gift of children. Maline was an archdemon of envy turned dragon goddess, and became great friends with Krim. Quetsoul are the youngest race in the world, only existed for the past two hundred something years.

a Hollow is the pure condensed light of the hollow stars taken physical, visible form as a crystal orb of perfect geometry. Each hollow is considered a WMD for being able to grant ridiculous power to who uses them. but each hollow is also just as dangerous to the user. a hollow Star can only make one kind of hollow, but there can be many of that kind of hollow around.

Burning Star makes the Flame Hollow, granting dominion over fire that burns even the soul to nothing, but burns the user away if they aren't strong enough or wise enough to use it. user is given dominion over fire and rage.

Freezing Star creates the Stasis Hollow, which gives the user dominion over ice and grief, able to freeze even time but the user risks freezing their soul in that moment in time, and when the moment passes, the user is lost for eternity.

The diamond star gives the Storm Hollow, granting dominion over light and electricity. the hollow also gives user super natural speed but this comes at the cost of years of your life, the faster you run the more you age. if you run too fast at once, it's theorized you run straight into the outer dark, lost for eternity.

Shadow Star gives the Noir Hollow, which gives dominion over darkness and lets user become invisible. but if the user stays invisible for too long, the soul starts to erase and personality is lost until you become nothing but a shadow with no anchor and drift into obscurity, lost to even yourself.

Gaia Star gives a Force Hollow, which gives dominion over gravity and momentum. Over use of the power can result in turning your soul into a singularity from which you are condensed into a hollow yourself then explode with the force of volcanic eruption. The signs that this is approaching is noticing the laws of physics warp around you due to gravity.

the iron star gives the ferrous hollow, which nullified all energy. this hollow can even turn off the power of the other hollows, and command a soul to die. not be destroyed.

Grey skin elves with big ears that can be up to eight feel tall. they're built like brick houses and fight trolls for fun in the storm crown peaks. They built the city of GazaVerun in the frozen rocky peaks of storm crown. they've become legends for being the first elven race to tell the highborn order to shove it. the order attacked storm crown in attempt to eradicate the Dwarven race only to get pushed back by the mountain elves and the hero Nicolai Kalish, mountain elf naval admiral.

Dragonborn who stand in the same height and build as humans. instead of legendary dragon teeth and flame, Wyverian have very long tails, and venomous glands in their claws and beak. the venom lethality is under the control of the wyverian and can be made to be a harmless muscle relaxer to a deadly neurotoxin. Wyverian are known for having the most lethal monks and they live in the valleys storm crown peaks with the dwarves and mountain elves. tends to keep to themselves and claims to have no quarrel with anyone.

Dragonborn race that are from the Vorgaz Archipelago. they are mostly drifters and pirates, resembling bipedal western dragons the size of men. maybe bigger. they were born when the cosmic dragon of fire Vorgaz was killed on the volcano by the god Gruesome. the dragon blood and lava mixed making the first Voracore. voracore have firebreath that starts weak but can be trained.

living in frozen city Crystalvale, these elves have personalities not to different from high elves, but give very long ears and snow white skin. these elves aren't industrial but have the most talented mages of the entire order.

they are members of the Highborn order.

Dark Elves, once they looked the same as the high elves, but the ancient king of their clan, Miranda was his name, was betrayed by his two brother kings. they cursed him and his clan to look like monsters turning every elf in his clan into a race that wears his name proudly.

reluctant members of the Highborn Order Muran have skin colored jet black, eyes like rubies, teeth life sharp pearls, and hair of ebony and silver.

they follow a very religious government where they believe their Supreme leader, Priestess of the Void Sonria Marina Leziban Cortezia, is going to become the bride of the God of death and destroy the high elves and snow elves for the betrayal... they have the capital city Obsidianvale. each Muran wears a full body burka to hide their skin, only the most wealthy or wretched do not hide their skin.

Capital city of Shimnervale is the largest elf city. The High elves are Caucasian colored elves with dainty pointed ears. they find themselves significantly more superior to every other race. they are the first descendants of the ancient elves called the Fae. they founded the Highborn Order. they also like dwarves learned to weaponize coal power and steam for engines of war. they have the single most powerful ground military.

they hate everyone, but tolerate elves. they call anything not elf Dustborn

About seven- eight feet tall, very ugly green skin that's leathery with slightly scale like texture. Barbaric warriors without honor that relish in slaughter and fighting. not afraid to cheat. and worship the War God, Gruesome.

born in the bowl, where the red orcs were born from the blood of Gruesome, Fel orcs were born of his defecation.

Any that didn't gain freedom and escape the bowl are now slaves.

All orcs, even Red Orcs, live in one of four blood lines

Iron Claw: Known for the most viscous and animalistic raiders and berserker. front line fighters known for not knowing fear

Warden: orcs that act as builders and guardians. heavily armored, very intelligent, and often stays behind to defend cities and homes. builders of cities and homes as well.

Huntsman: Orcs that with in stealth and/or from afar with a bow. crafty, clever, and lethal with arrows or knives. Known for getting the best kill for the great feasts.

Mystic: strange, unnaturally smart orcs that use magic or alchemy to the edge. healers, curse makers, witches, and shaman.

Robust, honorable, warrior race of orcs. the women are as normal looking as elves but with red skin and yellow eyes. but the men are slightly bigger than humans, with sharp canine teeth and dog like features such as hanging lips, black noses, sometimes ears, and only slightly harrier than humans.

The originate from The Bowl, a continent formed by the super massive crater of a meteor. They exist there along side the Fel Orcs.

Red Orcs used to be enslaved by the Fel, but long sense turned that around

they only hate fel orcs and highborn order elves.

red orcs are honor based warriors and respect strength of the fight. They do not like magic and discovered oil in their homeland that made them a powerful trade economy with other continents. the oil was the weapon they used to gain freedom from the fel orcs.

borne in the Storm Crown Peaks, the massive continent of mountain ranges that hold the tallest mountain in the world. they share this continent with Mountain elves and Wyverian. Dwarves have two races, Baragore Dwarves live inside the deep stone of the mountains making mechanical marvels of steam and black powder. Burbarok dwarves are coastal Raiders and boat builders, living a life of raid and pillage. All dwarves are naturally crafty and carry an inherent ability to bend rock like magic when they train.

the dwarves are incredibly loyal friends to mountain elves when the mountain elves saved them from extermination at the hands of the Highborn Order. Dwarves respect wyverian monks as fighters and scholars.

they have no single origin point and we're seeded in the world by a collection of gods. Humans are the multi tool race, not incredible at anything as a whole, but pretty great at everything. though humans are full of wild cards and can produce legends both great and terrible.

they have souls made of both dark and bright light.

The largest human city is the Capital City of Seaport, justly named for having the largest harbor of any city and the most diverse trade.

The human queen Julia once had an affair with the renowned pirate king, Captain Dagon Dragmouth, a huge Voracore Dragonborn of bronze scales. Dagon is friend to humans but hates elves, especially the elven Highborn Order.

Humans are a less populated race than most but are very resilient and can breed with nearly all mammal type races

The nine rings of the infernium are pocket dimensions in the infernium plane. each represent a cardinal sin that damns souls.

Rings of infernium

Limbo: The Ivory Halls of Razraelius Wrath: Wretchipemdium, Gruesome's Colosseum City Greed: Black Sea Pride: The city of Maledicta Envy: The Empty Wastes Lust: Fredrique's Palace Gluttony: Anhelia the breathing city Sloth: Iron Necropolis Treachery: Gate to Helheim

infernium is populated mostly by the souls of sinners who've not gotten lost in the outer dark, and the demonic race called Oni.

Created by a god of creation and death, seeded with life by gods and cosmic forces. One of many hundreds of trillions of worlds in this cosmos with life. each with their own gods, but all share connection to the Hollow Stars. Gaia is named after the Gaia Star, as life in Gaia does not know about the other worlds in space yet.

Gaia exists in the mortal plane of the cosmos, and gently overlaps with the Infernium Plane.

The cosmic dragons are massive, planet sized beings in the far reaches of space beyond our cosmos known as the Outer Dark. nothing is known about them beyond that to mortals, but the cosmic dragons represent the laws of physics in reality as well as all matter.

The Hollow Stars are 8 gods of absolute omnipotent power. its widely believed these gods aren't sentient but the light they give off is the source of all things in reality.

It's also widely believed the hollow Star light is what the cosmic dragons fly through in space, the resulting wake in the light caused by the dragon wings bends light into physical form, creating all reality.

the 8 hollow stars are divided into bright light and dark light but none are considered inherently good or evil.

Bright light stars: Burning Star, Gaia Star, and Diamond Star

Dark Light Stars: Freezing Star, Iron Star, and Shadow Star.

Burning Star: source of fire magic, fire, regular Celestial stars, love, hate, rage, wrath, passion, honor, justice, and war

Freezing Star: source of cold magic, the cold, the freezing of space, grief, sorrow, depression, revenge, justice, and sacrifice.

Gaia Star: Source of the physical life, plants, gravity, nature, druid and shaman magics, hope, solidarity, joy, and courage.

Iron Star: source of death, necromancy, finality, meaning behind death, meaning to life, hopelessness, emptiness, and nihilism.

Diamond Star: source of the soul, visible light, healing magic, light magic, righteousness, heavens, sky, and sovereignty.

Shadow Star: source of darkness, dark matter, Dark magic, vampires, patron of thieves, lies schemes, plots, selfishness, and isolation.

the stars exist in a realm beyond mortal comprehension and no mortal has seen a cosmic dragon