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WORLD INFO:
- The world is 100% ocean. There is no land. Perhaps there is an ocean floor but no one knows for sure, because...
- The entire ocean is ridiculously infused with magic, falling into it is like jumping into the water at a nuclear plant, except a billion times worse. Raw magic power essentially forms its own currents, and where they meet, magic crystals may form.
- Said ocean is also populated by massive sea monsters, most of whom have adapted to the magic in the water to be totally fucking immune to magic.
- So all intelligent life lives in floating cities made of steel, flying miles above the ocean, powered by special crystals several stories tall, known as the Source Crystals.
- There are four races! There are your basic humans, the Bast (humans with cat features), Long (humans with draconic features) and Angha (humans with bird features.) (Figure out what I'm basing this shit off and win a cookie (spoilers: cookie does not actually exist))
- There are four cities (well, they're more like small countries, but they're just called cities), one for each race, though intermingling does obviously happen. Still, each race is best known in its own country.
- Powerful sea monsters can fly or otherwise reach up to these cities, so orders of knights or military types exist in each city to go beat them up and save the people.
TRAITS OF BAST:
- MOST OBVIOUSLY: A feline tail that provides a counterweight for better balance, and large feline ears provide far better hearing.
- Dense bones and muscles. Make them rather strong and heavy despite looking thinner, and they manage to be quite agile despite it. Also renders them on the whole completely unable to swim.
- A nocturnal race on the whole, from a planet without a moon. Their eyes are evolved to make due with very, very little light. This means of course that they can be stunned with bright light, or distracted by something shiny. (Neferti has gone against most of her race and taken to a diurnal schedule, assisted by only having one real eye, but the weakness to bright light still applies.)
- While their physical skills exceed a human's easily, their race's patron is the goddess of law and order, and as a result, their magical abilities, especially magic resistance, suffer for it. (Neferti is above the average human by a fair margin, but that's simply because most humans don't bother to exercise their magical talents to any significant degree. A human who put the same time and effort into magic as Neferti would be far above her.)
TRAITS SPECIFIC TO NEFERTI:
- Her left eye (the blue one) is false. It is a tool that grants magic detection. Basically can be used to see expended magic power/trails of active magic, or like a DBZ scouter of magic sensing power. Her right eye is a perfectly normal eye with very good vision.
-- She was born with a bad left eye. "Bad" in this case meant 'necrotizing in her skull and kept in bay because she would apply healing magic to it relatively often as a child.'
- Her magic resistance is average at best at the best of times.
- The world is 100% ocean. There is no land. Perhaps there is an ocean floor but no one knows for sure, because...
- The entire ocean is ridiculously infused with magic, falling into it is like jumping into the water at a nuclear plant, except a billion times worse. Raw magic power essentially forms its own currents, and where they meet, magic crystals may form.
- Said ocean is also populated by massive sea monsters, most of whom have adapted to the magic in the water to be totally fucking immune to magic.
- So all intelligent life lives in floating cities made of steel, flying miles above the ocean, powered by special crystals several stories tall, known as the Source Crystals.
- There are four races! There are your basic humans, the Bast (humans with cat features), Long (humans with draconic features) and Angha (humans with bird features.) (Figure out what I'm basing this shit off and win a cookie (spoilers: cookie does not actually exist))
- There are four cities (well, they're more like small countries, but they're just called cities), one for each race, though intermingling does obviously happen. Still, each race is best known in its own country.
- Powerful sea monsters can fly or otherwise reach up to these cities, so orders of knights or military types exist in each city to go beat them up and save the people.
TRAITS OF BAST:
- MOST OBVIOUSLY: A feline tail that provides a counterweight for better balance, and large feline ears provide far better hearing.
- Dense bones and muscles. Make them rather strong and heavy despite looking thinner, and they manage to be quite agile despite it. Also renders them on the whole completely unable to swim.
- A nocturnal race on the whole, from a planet without a moon. Their eyes are evolved to make due with very, very little light. This means of course that they can be stunned with bright light, or distracted by something shiny. (Neferti has gone against most of her race and taken to a diurnal schedule, assisted by only having one real eye, but the weakness to bright light still applies.)
- While their physical skills exceed a human's easily, their race's patron is the goddess of law and order, and as a result, their magical abilities, especially magic resistance, suffer for it. (Neferti is above the average human by a fair margin, but that's simply because most humans don't bother to exercise their magical talents to any significant degree. A human who put the same time and effort into magic as Neferti would be far above her.)
TRAITS SPECIFIC TO NEFERTI:
- Her left eye (the blue one) is false. It is a tool that grants magic detection. Basically can be used to see expended magic power/trails of active magic, or like a DBZ scouter of magic sensing power. Her right eye is a perfectly normal eye with very good vision.
-- She was born with a bad left eye. "Bad" in this case meant 'necrotizing in her skull and kept in bay because she would apply healing magic to it relatively often as a child.'
- Her magic resistance is average at best at the best of times.