Fantasy 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓃𝒾𝒸𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓁𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒶 (Lore)

Nothingness · Dec 28, 2022

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚
The realm of Eldrida, a world full of life of all sorts, lush green fields and where civilization as thrived for centuries. Spanning across the entire globe are both large and small floating archipelagos. Some of which are large dense forests, others have small villages within them, and then many others have massive cities. The largest of these cities is the Capital city of Aradia where the wealthiest of nobles live as well as it being the location of where the Royal Family resides as well.

On the ground, life can be just as exciting as well as dangerous. Smaller villages, smaller cities, denser forests, more predators, more secrets. Those who live on the ground have chosen their lives there rather than to live in the skies as many of them believe that to live on the ground is to be more with the land of Eldrida than to be in the air.

The world of Eldrida thrives upon the use of magic and technology through the power of a magical crystal called Eternum that was first discovered nearly a century ago. The true power behind this crystal is still unknown but what is confirmed is that any person born into the world of Eldrida is born with unique abilities of their own, many have questioned how this is possible but with the Church of Eternity answering their questions as to it being possible due to the thanks of an all-powerful god, very few others have questioned it further.

At the center of the realm resides a massive tree that towers high above into the sky and even above every single island, far passed the clouds. The tree is also known amongst the populace as The World Tree and is protected by both the Church as well as the Royal Capital. Little is known about the tree other than a few rumors that Eternum originated from the roots of the tree as well as other legends saying that the tree is the life force of all living beings on the planet and if the tree should die, everyone would as well.
𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚
The largest known city throughout all of Eldrida, as well as the very first subject experiment to be tested upon to have Eternum lift into the skies. The Royal Capital of Aradia not only is the home of the Royal Family that governs the entire land of the realm, but it is also home to the wealthiest of citizens, nobles, politicians, CEOs, etc. The Capital city hovers high in the air with largest chunk of Eternum easily seen from the ground, sticking out from the bottom of the ginormous piece of land.
Aside from the Royal Family and the noblemen living in the Capital City, the largest cathedral of the Church of Eternity is also located at the heart of the city. The highest and eldest of the bishops resides within the cathedral at all times and only makes himself present during large festivals or events where he must speak or pray.

To gain access to the city can be a difficult task, unless a person is a nobleman, businessman, or part of the royal family, access to the Capital City is forbidden. The only time commoners are allowed into the city is if there is a large religious event that the main cathedral started and the main bishop has called for a gathering of all the people throughout the land.
𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝
The Royal Guard, the trusted guardians of the Royal Family of Aradia. Their skill in combat is second to none, the only other individuals that can match them in combat and intelligence are the special forces operatives of the military. The duty of the Royal Guard is as simple as can be, to protect the Royal Family from any and all possible dangers at all times. Their duties can expand beyond the Royal Family when needed such as when they are wandering the world, they have the authority to override any command that an ordinary police officer might be attempting to do; because of this, they have the right to kill if they deem an individual is a danger to the world or possible future danger to the Royal Family. Their reputation is led by the fact that their training is twice as intense as the special forces group, while in the special forces they are at times expected to work with their fellow soldiers, Royal Guards are to be able to do anything and everything an entire squad is capable of as a single person.

When a member of the Royal Guard commits treason, they are instantly marked down for death by the top General of the Guard. They are to be killed on sight by any member of the Royal Guard without exception, if found by the military or ordinary authorities, their last known location is to be reported and not to be taken action against. Hiding a fugitive is also considered treason causing whoever had hidden the traitor is to also be killed on sight as well.

To join the Royal Guard is near impossible. The easiest possible way to join is a person is born into Royalty, Nobility or high class in the Capital City. Being born into this state allows for their offspring to be already of high stature allowing them to join the Royal Guard with a slight bit more ease due to their high standing in society, this does not mean their training is any easier though. The second and most difficult way to join the Guard is to have a member of the Royal Guard notice the potential in an individual causing them to give offer to the individual to join the Guard, once again, this does not make their training any easier.

Once graduated from the Royal Guard's training, every member of the Guard is immediately given a brand mark burned onto their back similar to that of the Royal Family. [ref.] The brand mark, identical to the Royal Family has the same properties. To avoid false branding, if another member of the Royal Guard or the Royal Family is to touch the back of the Guard, the symbol will glow a blueish color to indicate that they are true members of the Guard, false branding will not glow and is considered a crime that can either be punished by imprisonment or even death.
Following graduation, members of the Royal Guard are all given a special halberd that is the same in appearance and design. They are told that this weapon is their symbol of justice to protect the Royal Family and the land. The blade is infused with Eternum allowing it so that it will not easily nick or be damaged during battle. [ref.]

𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
The public authorities or otherwise known as the 'police' of the land. These men and women are the general law enforcement throughout Eldrida, they uphold justice in every form throughout the land. Murder, drug dealing, speeding, etc. they do it all. Anyone can become part of the law enforcement, the only requirements are to complete a written test about the laws of the land, swear and oath to protect, go through boot camp and then graduate from it. After that, an individual is given a badge, uniform and sent on their way to protect the people.
Of course, there are plenty of corrupted individuals within the ranks who enjoy using their power of authority against those who are not guilty, although because of this, it is possible for any other member of the law enforcement to arrest another individual that is an officer as well. While their authority does not work against military personnel and obviously not against the Royal Guard, they are still required to speak up and attempt an arrest if they see something that is not just.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲
The Royal Family are the most powerful, wealthiest, and well-known people throughout the entire realm of Eldrida. They govern the entire land whether it be the skies, the ground, or even the seas. They create and remove the laws of the land, whether someone can steal what they need, where one can fly, where one can sail, where a person can go, and where they cannot. They can decide if a specific town should be demolished or even if the people there must all die. There is not a single person that can override the word of any member of the Royal Family other than from one another. The one person who's word cannot be overruled, even by another member of the Royal Family is the King himself, while he rules side by side with his wife, the Queen; his word is final and cannot be judged or else it would be considered treason.

For as long as time has passed, the Royal Family has been in rule over the land, far long before Eternum was first discovered. Through the multiple generations of one King and Queen after another, the rule of the family has constantly changed, one King treated the people throughout the land as equals and may have made life seem perfect, another wanted overwhelming amounts of power so any little action that he felt as though looked suspicious was immediately considered treason. With the rule of the current King, all seems at peace, however, rumors say that this King taxes the lower class far beyond what should be acceptable while treating the middle class as ordinary citizens and finally treating the upper class as seemingly gods and goddesses.

All members of the Royal family at birth are branded with an iron mark burned onto the flesh of their back. This mark is proof of their Royal Bloodline. To avoid false branding amongst the populace, the branding iron is infused with a small piece of Eternum, causing it so that when a member of the Royal Guard or another member of the Royal Family touches the back of another member of the family, the mark will give off a blue-ish glow. False brand marks will not glow. False branding will lead to imprisonment.
𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲: 𝐔𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬
One of the three social class throughout the realm, the upper classmen consist of wealthy businessmen and women, people of nobility and of course the Royal Family themselves. These individuals are normally either born into the life of luxury, if not, they are one of the many rare few who have been able to work themselves up from the ground to reach this point in their lives. They are normally able to obtain nearly anything they wish as long as they spill out enough money to whomever they can get their hands upon whatever they may be needing at the time.
Those in the upper class tend to work occupations such as politicians, CEOs, or they may not even need to work whatsoever due to their lineage having such a large sum of wealth that they can live the rest of their lives with a peace of mind knowing that they will never have to worry about finances ever again. Members of the upper class tend to view the Royal Family as forms of role models that they hope to one day be able to reach that form of wealth and power, hoping that there would possibly be one day that the King or any member of the Royal Family would hand them something of greater value.
𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲: 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬
The second of the three social class of Eldrida, the middle class is a large majority of the population throughout the land. These individuals range from ordinary civilians working days and returning to their families with enough money to put food on the table and still have some leftover for emergencies. These individuals can range in occupation from all forms such as police officers, nurses, doctors, desk workers, etc. While many of them might not be able to afford the most expensive of devices and objects, they can still afford to purchase decent things here and there and if needed, they can also put up for loans to purchase these things as well.
The people of the middle class tend to have a varying view of the Royal Family and upper class, some view them as snobby rich folk who would never understand hard work and that do not deserve their wealth. While other folk brush them off, believing moreover that as long as they do not change anything drastically in the world of laws and such and that as long as they can continue to put food on the table for their families, they do not care what the upper class does.
𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲: 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬
The third and final of the three social classes of Eldrida, the lower class holds a large number of citizens, more much than what any one person could ever estimate. Similar to the upper class, many citizens are either born into this life due to their families already in a bad position financially if not they are slowly put into this class after being in the middle class due to some form of act that caused them to lose nearly if not all their money. Those in this class tend to have either, no occupation if not are forced into manual labor jobs such as mining for Eternum for a company to profit off of it, while being paid barely minimum wage. It is not uncommon to find that many individuals in the lower class tend to be thieves that steal food and other belongings from one another if not from those of higher class.
Crime in the lower class is also not uncommon, murders and thieves tend to be listed in these classes and because of the massive population of them, authority figures at times are unable to catch every single last one of them.
Those in the lower class look upon those in the upper class as well as the Royal Family as the scum of Eldrida, knowing well enough that it was the decision of the Royal Family and the upper class in general that they would tax the lower class the highest possible amounts just so that they could siphon every last cent that they could from the people. Because of this, many of the citizens of the lower class have banded together and formed a Rebellion against those in power.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧
It started in the lower class and to this day, it has expanded beyond the reach of what anyone would have ever expected. The Rebellion is a large, organized group of citizens, a large majority of whom are members of the lower class and some of whom are even in the middle class as well. These individuals believe that those in the upper class as well as the Royal Family have far too much wealth and power and are abusing it, they believe in equality and feel as though those in the upper class should be distributing the large sums of money that they have amongst all of the populace rather than horde it all for themselves. They believe that the Royal Family should stop with overtaxing the lower class and give better care to them as well as how they treat the middle class and upper class.
Members of the Rebellion tend not to commit acts of violence during their protests and prefer to go forward with nonviolent methods. Although there are some who do not believe in the completely nonviolent acts and will take it upon themselves to take extreme actions such as burning down places of large businesses.
While they do not have a large arsenal of weaponry, many of them have make shifted weapons out of plywood and other handmade gear to protect themselves when authority figures come in to stop the protests that sometimes must result in force being used as well.
𝐄𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐮𝐦
The source of all known power throughout Eldrida. Little is known about the sparkling light blue crystal other than the fact that historians state that it was one day discovered during an excavation in one of the mines southwest of the royal city of Aradia. Aside from electricity, the power of the Eternum crystals power a majority if not all devices and structures throughout the land of Eldrida. While it appears as though when the crystal is installed into an object or device, as long as the device or object does not require full on contact at all times, the device or object can practically run for a large period of time before requiring replacement. Although it appears as though when the crystals were installed into direct land such as the floating islands, the crystals appear to never run out of energy causing the islands to never apparently fall.

Myths and legends say that Eternum comes from the World Tree itself and that under the roots of the tree itself are giant pockets of the crystal and that the tree absorbs nutrients from the ground to constantly create more of it. Meanwhile, the Church of Eternity believes that the tree is a god that looks over the people of Eldrida and that Eternum is a gift from god for their constant prayers towards it and believe that if they do not continue to pray to this god tree, then one day the crystals will all cease to function, and the world would end.

While information regarding the dangers of overly long exposure to raw Eternum(ranging from consistent exposure to it for 5+years) is not openly stated to the public due to availability of being exposed to the raw crystal for extended periods of time being near impossible as the land surrounding large deposits of Eternum is normally wild lands and usually dangerous places to live.
There are myths stating that deep within the depths of the main cathedral in the Capital City, there are records of the those who had been exposed to raw crystals for untold periods of time and have been mutated by having their skin, and eyes change color, either more limbs grown, new limbs growing in, or other possibilities. The Church considers these individuals as the 'tainted ones'. Although once again, these are only myths amongst a small portion of the population
𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
For as long as the Royal Family has been around, The Church of Eternity has been around just as long, if not even longer than them. The Church of Eternity has always viewed the World Tree as a god to Eldrida. They have always believed that the tree would provide for them at all times as long as they prayed to it and gave it all of their faith. Without any answers, the populace soon followed the church closely as they were the only people who had actual answers to any question that anyone might've had.
When the Eternum was first discovered and the population began to gain abilities, the church immediately took it as a sign that it was a gift from the World Tree god, believing that after all the praying and faith they have given towards the tree, it had gifted upon the land and its people this magical energy crystal that now powered the rest of the land and its devices and such.

While the church does not have the ability to overrule any of the word of that of the Royal Capital, even the Royal Family tends to listen to the words of the head bishop of the church if he should ever openly speak to the public stating that he would tell the King to do something. Because practically the entire population follows the church, even the King will submit to the words of the bishop at times to avoid having the possibility of the populace go against him.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞
Located at the very center of Eldrida, The World Tree is surrounded by massive floating islands in the air as well as even larger islands on the sea. These islands are filled with massive dense forests and predators of all shapes and sizes. Sailing or flying a ship through the massive islands would take an ace pilot/helmsman to avoid crashing into one of the many roots of the islands in the air or to even avoid a large predator attacking the ship on its way towards the tree.

Even if an individual or crew of people were to be able to miraculously maneuver through all the islands and predators, once they reach the large surrounding space around The World Tree, those who had flown through the skies will suddenly find themselves plummeting downwards at massive speeds due to any and all Eternum crystal devices practically becoming inactive for a set period of time. Below is an endless pit of a waterfall that leads into nothing but completely dark and seemingly endless pit that could be assumed to reach to the center of the world itself.

For those who had been able to maneuver through the islands via water will find a similar fate, once they move passed the islands, they will find that they will come face-to-face with how The World Tree is surrounded in a large circular gap of an enormous waterfall. Even if the individual or crew is to attempt and start up a flight, they will find that their Eternum crystal is not functioning for a set period of time and during this period, will plummet directly into the darkness.

None have been able to reach The World Tree let alone been able to lay hands on the bark of the tree itself. It is believed that the tree's roots bury themselves far into the center of the planet and from its roots is where the crystals of Eternum are made from and at the roots, there will be massive pockets of the crystals that the tree continues to make more of by using the planet's energy as nutrients.
𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦
Located in the second largest city throughout Eldrida, the city of Celestia. This city is open to the public of all social classes, it is located on the ground rather than another floating city due to its massive size. There are plans to eventually lift this city into the sky as well, however, the mining process to gather enough Eternum has been a project that has been going on for years. The city is home to all three social classes, anything you can think of is present in this city, a red-light district, a business district, market, suburbs, slums, black market, church, etc.

Although the biggest and most well-known thing about this city is the fact that the Academy of Eternal Wisdom is located here in this city. This academy is considered mandatory of all civilians of Eldrida. Here, the people of the realm learn about their ability that they had gained from birth, learn to control and understand it, they learn the history of the land, about the Royal Family, the Capital City, where Eternum came from, etc. There is no cost to joining the academy, only that once you graduate, you are not allowed to come back for more knowledge as the academy does not go into deep details about the land, its people, the Royal Family and such, only the basic and need to know information only. Further knowledge requires individuals to go to different academies scattered throughout the realm and pay to further their education, or at least pay for what the Church and Capital City has not already paid for.
The S.S. Infinity, a massive ship that was built by hand by Captain Edward Ishikawa, it had taken a large portion of his life to build the ship by himself but with his very own hands building it, he knew that he could create it in the image he truly wanted it to be. Putting his sweat, blood and tears into making the ship, Captain Edward believes the ship itself is alive and has a soul of its own. Powered by either the large sails by the masts of the ship when on water, or by the large propulsion engines powered by a massive chunk of Eternum near the back of the ship where the engine room resides. The ship itself has about seven different decks to it, there is the main deck, sleeping quarters, dining, lounge, storage, engine/tech, gym/training.
On both sides of the ship, there are a number of broadside cannons, while on the rear of the ship there also is a large Eternum powered energy turret that must be manually fired. However, when using the turret, it comes with the risk of overheating the gun and causing the Eternum Crystals that power the ship to temporarily run out of energy causing the ship to either stall in the skies/sea or even fall out of the sky for several moments while the Crystals recharge on their own.
The ship also has a built-in barrier that uses the power of the Crystals as well, although unlike with the overwhelming power of the turret, the ship can move at full speed even with the barrier up. Although after enough damage the barrier will eventually drop and require recharge before it can be brought back up again.

There are rumors and stories that Captain Edward has told that cause suspicion on the idea that the S.S. Infinity actually has a will of its own as well. He has stated that the ship has moved on its own on multiple occasions where it had saved his life from an incoming danger that could've killed him and saved his life in the end. Whether these rumors and stories are true has yet to be confirmed.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐦
With how widespread the Church of Eternity's grasp is throughout the realm, it is expected that even the Royal Guards cannot always be present at all times at each and every Church across the land, on top of that with how renown the Arch Bishop is, there are always criminals who wish nothing but the death or general fall of the most powerful individual across Eldrida, next to the Royal Family of course. If the Arch Bishop is killed, chaos would ensue and a massive manhunt would spread absolutely everywhere, without him, it is believed that the words of the World Tree would be lost forever as a new one was not able to be blessed upon by the previous before passing on.
To avoid this possible disaster, a group was formed around the time when the religion was founded; The Order of the Eternal Arboretum. The order consists of both human and nonhumans and each one of them are considered 'Paladins'. The exact number of paladins within the order is unknown but it believed that they range in the thousands. The order's objective is to withhold peace throughout the land and to spread the belief of the order across Eldrida. Their highest priority objective is the protection of the Arch Bishop and the defense of the Grand Cathedral.

Because of their numbers and their objective, it is common to see paladins standing guard at the entrance to practically every Church. Because of this, they are known well across Eldrida as the 'Branches' of the World Tree.

While not as powerful as those of the Royal Guard, paladins should not be underestimated, even if their identity is hidden while on duty and may appear to be over glorified with some of them having overly shining armor, they are deadly and highly trained warriors. While there are no actual 'ranking' titles within the Order, strangely enough, the Head of the Order is able to identify out the strengths and weaknesses of each paladin and designate where each paladin should and would be stationed at the time. The absolute highest honor goes to two individuals aside from the Head of the Order themselves; to be the personal guards for the Arch Bishop.

Because a majority of the public look up upon the paladins as holy warriors of the World Tree, it is a common dream for many children and even some adults to wish to join the Order. Unlike with the Royal Guard, the Order is much easier to join, by speaking to the priest of any Church and requesting permission to join the Order, if the priest agrees, they will relay the message to the Arch Bishop and from there, if they are accepted, the Arch Bishop as well as his bodyguards will arrival at the doorstep of the individual's home to take them off to the Grand Cathedral for training. Once one signs up to become a paladin, they are branded with a specific mark on their body, similar to the Royal Guard, this mark can glow to identify if a person is a paladin or not, but only by the hands of a priest will it glow.

The training differs with each paladin, some that are physically fit and intelligent can end up graduating from their training in months while other may take multiple years to eventually graduate. Upon graduation, a large ceremony is held on the first day of Spring as it is considered a day of rebirth when World Tree is at its peak of regrowth of its leaves. The ceremony always consists of multiple paladins graduating. During the graduation, the Arch Bishop blesses upon each paladin a Confirmation or Saints Name. This name is an alias that they are to go by while on duty and addressed by other priests and commoners, this is to keep their identity hidden from underneath their helmet while on guard.

Of course, even the Order is not perfect however, there have been times when paladins stray from their oath and betray the Church. When joining the order, each paladin must take an oath that they will never marry, have intercourse or form romantic connections with anyone, this is to keep the purity of the paladin as though they were at peace and one with the tree as they are with themselves. Betraying the Order has multiple possible offenses, when breaking the oath and forming romantic relationships or getting married, the punishment can simply be removal from the Order as well as a forcible removal of the brand. However, if one is to leave the Order and possibly present some form of danger to the Church in anyway whatsoever, the punishment is immediately death; while not under orders directly from the Arch Bishop, the order comes from the Head of the Order and only another Paladin is sent to kill the traitor.
𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬
While the priests preach amongst the public about the great beauty that is the World Tree and the paladins enforce this belief throughout the public's eye, there are of course those that are nonbelievers and will do whatever they can in their power to speak negatively about the Church and its religion all while going around in search of evidence that what they believed in was a false religion. Because the religion preaches for peace and equality amongst the people of Eldrida, the paladins nor the priests will do any harm to these nonbelievers other than simply to talk them down or physically subdue them if they become dangerous. However, even once these dangerous individuals are left alone, they will continue their negative campaigns against the Church and of course, something must be done about it.

This is when the Dark Root Assassins are called, the assassins are a mysterious group of individuals that are shrouded in more questions and myths than any solid facts. The assassins work directly underneath the Church's demands and are called forth to do the 'dirty' work of the Church while keeping the hands of the priests clean, avoiding any suspicions directly connected back to the Church. While their existence is practically unknown to the rest of Eldrida other than by specific members of the clergy, even their numbers tend to be kept secret amongst each of the priests. Although it is rumored amongst those of the Church that the numbers are at a high range.

As stated, the assassin's are tasked with the 'dirty' work of the Church and as the title suggests, they tend to be sent out to silence specific individuals that pose a significant threat to the Church. The assassins do not have any specific type of targets that are considered 'safe' from the eyes of the Church, their targets can range from anything such as a peasant in the Slums to a CEO of a well-respected organization. Their methods of dealing with targets vary amongst each assassin and their mission can be anything from silencing the individual through death or sending a message in a threatening manner to let the target know that whatever they had done that appeared to be disrespecting the Church, should be stopped immediately or worse punishments would follow.

To keep the secrecy of the assassins, it is to be expected that the recruitment process to obtain new subjects is also highly discreet. Normally, a priest will tend to visit an orphanage or even a homeless shelter and begin to walk amongst those present there, putting on a facade that they are there to help the weak and unfortunate by giving them the blessings of the World Tree. While they do take this task seriously, the secondary task behind these visits is to select certain individuals who might not have any connections to loved ones or others in general that might question their disappearance. Another specification that is searched for in individuals is whether or not the power they were granted by the World Tree would help them in the field of an assassin, something along the lines of being able to cloak oneself, pass through objects, or even have talents such as having a persuading tongue. Finally, the last specification that is looked into is whether or not the individual can be easily manipulated and convinced to believe certain lies that the Church may tell them in order for them to commit to their actions without possible moral contradiction thoughts getting in the way.

Once a subject is has been selected, the individual is convinced by the Church that they had been chosen by the World Tree and that they would be taken into the welcoming hands of the Church if they so wished. By taking in the individual, they are brought to the Church where they are immediately bound and training is started to brainwash them into becoming emotionless, senseless murderers that are tasked with nothing more than to be the dark hands of the clergy.
Throughout training, many of the recruits that have been taken in tend to find that their physical or even mental states cannot handle the intensity that they are put through and will either be killed throughout training once their bodies have reached their limitations or they will be released back into the public with broken minds and wills to the point that they can no longer think or even act for themselves.

Those who succeed through their training however are congratulated and upon their completion of their training, they are forced to have a specific brand marking placed upon their tongue. These brands unlike with the Royal Guard or even the Paladins are much more dangerous to the assassin moreover than anyone else. While the brand would mean nothing to an outsider if they were to see it, each assassin is well aware of its properties; if an assassin were to ever speak specific words in a certain combination together that would reveal the secrets of the Dark Root Assassins or that the Church has a dark secret in anyway whatsoever, instantly the assassin's mouth would begin to foam over as the branding mark will give off a bright greenish glow only to have their tongue be destroyed as though it had been melted away. On top of this, immediately after, their location will be relayed back to the Grand Cathedral where a specific individual will be aware of the betrayal of said assassin, from there, every assassin in the field is informed about this specific individual and given the order to kill on sight.

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𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲
It doesn't take a genius to know that all technology within the world of Eldrida runs off of Eternum. Depending on how large the piece of technology is, the larger the piece of Eternum that is installed into the device. Because Eternum is still a mystery to the people of Eldrida not much is known about the crystals other than the fact that they are practically infinite in power and energy to a degree. The only sense of how the crystal is limited in power is the fact of how it can overheat and once it reaches a specific temperature, it can no longer produce stable energy, however, it appears that the larger the crystal that is installed within a device the longer it takes for the crystal to overheat as well as if there is a sufficient source of another element that could possibly help with the cooling process, the longer the crystal will also take to overheat. Because of this, many warships have a massive crystal installed within them to allow for their cannons to fire as well as to maneuver in quick succession, on top of the large crystal, warships tend to have the crystal hooked up to tubing that constantly vents in liquid nitrogen, ice, and high-pressure water to keep the crystal from overheating.

When it comes to everyday life, 'phones' or otherwise known in Eldrida as scrolls are powered by a very small piece of Eternum that only functions as a catalyst of sorts that only activates to generate electricity throughout the scroll that allows the user to create the holographic screen when they open the device. These scrolls allow for the user to get in contact with others with scrolls as well as long as both individuals have the scroll ID# of one another. These scrolls can either emit a video conversation with the opposite individual on the other end or simply have a vocal conversation only. An option on the scroll also can allow the users to toss their open scroll on the ground if both parties agree to a full hologram chat that will project a blue/green hologram of the individual on both sides of the conversation.

When it comes to transportation, aside from ship travel, those that prefer not to use the overly large ships that are normally meant for long-distance travel, tend to use a variety of different transportation methods such as what many would call 'flying cars' and 'hoverbikes'. These forms of transportation all have a variety of different sizes Eternum crystals installed within them by the manufacturers and each one of them has different methods of cooling down the crystal to avoid overheating.

In a worst-case scenario, when an Eternum crystal is abused and continuously used even when it is overheating, the crystal would normally no longer emit any energy from it. However, it is possible to force the crystal to exert more power by different methods such as electrifying it or heating it up passed it overheated state. This is not recommended due to forcing an Eternum crystal to emit more power than it can handle means that any power that it releases in this state is no longer stable; meaning that the power that releases from the crystal at this stage can will fluctuate between having an overabundance of power or little to none. After a certain point, if the crystal is still continued to push passed its overheated state, it will eventually begin to form cracks all over the crystal before finally exploding in which it will disintegrate absolutely everything within a specific radius depending on how large the crystal was to begin with.

Nothingness · Dec 29, 2022

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐍𝐏𝐂𝐒

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𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐰𝐚 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Born into a simple life on a farm on the ground, Edward Ishikawa spent his days working the fields with his father while his mother tended to the animals and prepared dinner for her husband and child. Each day, he'd return home after a long day of work just to sit down and have dinner with his family. As he grew older and his parents had also grown in age, eventually his mother and father had become ill causing him to be the only one capable of working both the fields and caring for the animals while also helping out his family however and whenever he could. Growing up in a loving family, he never minded the hardships of work and did whatever he could to extend the life his parents as long as he possibly could.

Luckily with the power of the Eternum crystal, Edward's abilities revolved around his strength, durability, endurance and stamina. Another one of his abilities allowed him to harden parts of his body and practically turn it to solid steel allowing him to do more damage with his bare hands as well as take more punishment as well. The after-effects of using this ability however meant that any pain that would generally be felt when not using the hardened skin would immediately punish him right after causing him to go into severe amounts of pain.

Years passed and eventually both his parents had died. He buried them behind their home and continued to work the farm for years to come. Eventually, he was absolutely sick of it. Even after years had passed, his memories of his family never left him and he continued to grieve, why did the Upper Class have so much wealth and not share any of it to help others, why didn't the Eternum Crystals save his family from their illness like the church constantly preached. Having all this faith and nothing ever seemed to come good of it. He wanted answers, going in search of it, everywhere he went, he ended up in dead ends.
Soon enough, he decided that if the church would not help him, no books had any answers, any no one else had any clue, he would go in search of the answers himself. Spendings months to years, he built up a massive ship through whatever metal he could find and smelt down, followed by chopping down trees and fine tuning the wood. He mined for his own large chunks of Eternum to install and finally, after years of work, he created his own ship, naming it the S.S. Infinity.

Setting sail for the seas and skies, he went in search of answers. Along his way, he recruited more and more members to join his crew. Offering them help and that they would all complete their goals together if they had decided to join him. Edward treated his crew like family, he would scold them if needed, treat them like grandchildren by telling them stories of the old times, making them tea, cooking them breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even if his own parents were gone, he wanted to make sure his crew felt like they were more than just partners but rather as entire family.
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Born and raised into the upper class, rather than being raised into a family of businessmen or even nobility, Ironwood was born into a militaristic family. His father at the time was the General of the current military force of Eldrida and his mother was Second-In-Command of the Royal Guards. Being raised with high expectations and standards forced upon him, Ironwood was expected to study and train every hour of the day, he was expected to be the smartest and fastest of all his peers, and he was.

Graduating from the Academy of Eternal Wisdom far ahead of the rest of his colleagues even while he was still a child, and even graduating from private schooling academies within half the usual amount of time it would take.
From there, he was given a choice by his family to either join the military force and work side-by-side with his father or join the Royal Guards and protect the Capital, as well as the Royal Family. Deciding to join the Royal Guards, he worked underneath his mother who treated him like she did every other Guard, even if he was her own son and was merely a teenager.

With his ability of being able to aim down any ranged weapon and fire it with practically perfect accuracy every time as well as being able to throw any melee weapon with high precision, combining this with his physical training with melee combat as well, he was able to outmatch many of his fellow Guards in sparring competitions with ease.

Years went by as he spent his days simply protecting the Capital and Royal Family just as every other member of the Royal Guard did. Of course, it was only a matter of time that his family retired and passed on; although before his mother passed away, she decided to give the position of General over the Royal Guards to her son as she had reached that very position by this point as well.
To this day, Ironwood holds his position with honor as the General over the Royal Guards, making sure that he completed his duties to the best of his ability to honor the death of his family.

General Ironwood is a strict man, he expects people to follow the law and orders to the letter and believes that there are no such things as exceptions. While he does not believe it is impossible to make mistakes, he expects that the same mistake should and will never be repeated, especially in the Royal Guard.
𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Just like the rest of his family tree, King Galadriel was born into the Royal Family. Of course, this made him a prince the moment he was born, so he was able to get anything he wanted if he so much as spoke up about it. Of course, being a prince meant that he had no right to be able to make any laws or openly tell the populace what to do as his father and mother, the current King and Queen were the ones in charge of this. While his parents had spent their days with the public at times and treating everyone in the realm and all the social classes with respect, Galadriel was expected to study with his private tutors and to prepare for his one day rise to the throne.

Being impatient and hating to be told what to do, Galadriel would constantly disagree with his tutors. Eventually, his father forced him to study and listen causing him to learn one way or another. Years passed and eventually the discovery of Eternum was found. Being there for the first day when the Capital City rose into the air, simply being able to see as the ground became smaller with every second and the populace becoming the size of ants to his eyes only fed his thoughts for power.

By the time people had begun to gain abilities due to the power of Eternum, Galadriel was given yet another private tutor, this one to teach him about and how to control his power. It had just so happened that his ability was that of gravity. Being able to increased or decrease gravity in small to larger sections as he mastered his power overtime. Although, because he was not a fighter, his physical body was unable to use the ability for extended periods of time without feeling drained of his own energy and be at a loss of breath. Learning from his tutor, he trained his body to last longer overtime but once again, refused to learn any combat as he believed that he would never need to when he had the Royal Guard defending him and his family at all times.

Time passed and soon enough his mother and father had passed away, taking up the throne almost immediately with his wife at the time, Queen Erevan. Having taking his seat on the throne for the first time, Galadriel began to take the time to make sure that the public would not dislike him since the populace had loved his mother and father; so to keep the reputation, he kept up the facade for the time being. However, since he knew the lower class would have no ability to do any significant protest against him, he decided that he'd take his power hunger upon them and tax them drastically to gain more wealth from them instead of the middle and upper class.
𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Unlike with her husband, King Galadriel, Queen Erevan was not born into the Royal Family but rather she was born into nobility. Similar to the Royal Family, she was born into a life of practically getting anything she wanted to a certain degree as long as she asked for it. Her family were all as wealthy as they could be, both her mother and father owned multiple businesses, so they had income coming in at practically all times. Because of this, she was also given tutors at a young age to study and learn rather than have to go to any academy and present herself amongst the public. Erevan was very much into education and learning new things of all sorts, rather than go into the business industry with her mother and father, she wanted to go into the scientific field and be able to learn more about the world.

Because of this, Queen Erevan was one of the many researchers when the discovery of Eternum was first found. Studying it with many of the other scientists and such, she was one of those who had helped cause the Capital City to rise into the skies. When civilians had began to gain strange abilities, hers came to her only to find that she had a control of technology as long as there was an active crystal of Eternum installed within the device or object. This allowed her to control large vehicles to move in different directions if wished for it and held out her hand to move it in the direction for it to go. She was capable of even crushing objects and devices if she put enough force onto it. The problem with this ability was that the larger the object or more complicated the device, the more difficult it was for her to take control of as the mental strain that it put upon her was so immense that it led severe migraines and even her passing out other times.

When the day the current King and Queen had passed away, she found herself rising to the position of the new Queen due to her lover at the time being the Prince and heir to the throne. Even after taking the throne, she had informed her husband that she would still continue her research and her love for science as much as she would focus on her duties as Queen when needed.
𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐞 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
For as long as he can remember back, Aurelius was born and raised into the life of the church. Never truly knowing who his birth father nor mother was, being raised by the nuns of and at the time the head bishop of the church, he was taught that while they had raised him, his mother and father would be the holy World Tree that they prayed to. As he grew up, he was taught through both the Academy of Eternal Wisdom just as all citizens of Eldrida were expected to, after which his continued education was taught at the church itself. Unlike any other place of education, Aurelius was not taught about further information such as the business or the Royal Family or any of that but rather he was taught more of the history of the realm through religious means and about the World Tree as well as how Eternum was a blessing from the tree itself.

By the time he had become a full-fledged priest as an adult, he was taught the dark secrets about the Eternum crystal and about the 'tainted ones'. Of course, since he was raised by the church throughout the entirety of his life, he had no reason to suspect lies or suspicions of the church and took the new knowledge to heart. Being sure that he would never spread the dark secrets of the church out to the public, he continued his role as a priest to be sure that the people of Eldrida had someone to go to about their sins and if they were ever unsure about their beliefs.

Time passed and eventually the head bishop would pass away from his old age, although before passing away, he appointed Aurelius as the new head bishop of the Church of Eternity. Taking up the role, there was an entire ceremony for Aurelius' rise to the new position, he swore and oath on that very day in front of all the populace of the land that he would make sure that his duties would mirror that of his passing superior. After about a year had passed, Aurelius appeared to hold to his word of his oath as he has been known amongst the public to this day from every social class as the kindest and most caring bishop that had ever lived. He has rarely shown any form of negative emotion, no matter who approached him to attempt to atone for whatever sin they may have committed, no matter how much they may have rejected the religion to his face, he has shown everyone the same amount of kindness in the end.

While Aurelius was not born with any offensive abilities, he instead was granted a healing ability to heal most injuries and sicknesses as long as he is capable of touching the individual. By placing a hand over the individual's head and spending several moments, he is capable of healing most if not all wounds and illnesses, however, he is unable to regenerate lost limbs and emotional/mental damages through his power. Although, even without any offensive protection, he should not be underestimated, during his time studying at the church, he was also taught how to defend himself with his staff when needed.
𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Very few people know about Godrick's life growing up and personally, that is how he prefers to keep it. The last thing he needs amongst his Paladins is any form of sympathy from any of them nor does he need any of them to be distracted when needing to commit to a task that might've been similar to his own life growing up.
Born to a human mother and an elf father, Godrick was born with both the fact that he aged much slower just as all elves did but yet with the mindset of a human to adapt to the world as though his mortality depended on it.

While being half elf, many would assume that Godrick had a decent life growing up due to how many elves are known for their nobility and riches, the truth however was that his father was not around throughout Godrick's childhood nor throughout his life. It is unknown as to what happened to his father as each time the question was brought up to his mother, he would be either slapped or told to be silent regarding his father's whereabouts. Raised in one of the possibly worse parts of the Slums, Godrick's mother had been an alcoholic and heavy gambler who spent whatever money she could muster up during her daytime job in the Eternum mines, aside from betting away her money she would only pay for the minimum amount of food possible, and the rest was on alcohol. The home they lived in was practically always a mess with Godrick being the only one attempting to keep it as clean as he possibly could with what little he had for cleaning supplies.

Luckily the one place he found some form of peace in the corrupted streets of the Slums was the fact that the Church that resided there was kept untouched due to the paladins that stood guard outside of it at all times. Godrick had always looked up upon the paladins as 'heroes' of sorts since even with the horrid acts that the criminals throughout the Slums would commit, even they would not dare attempt to rob her deface the Church. Because of this, there have been times when Godrick had spent his days helping around the Church by either sweeping, handing out flyers, or generally anything the priest of the Church required assistance with.
Eventually, by the time he had reached his late childhood years and his mother by this point had become terminally ill due to a tumor growing within her gut from all the drinking she had done, Godrick pleaded with the priest of the Church to recommend Godrick to become part of the order of the paladins. With the determination in his eyes, the priest agreed and not long after a knock on Godrick's home was heard.

The knock was the arrival of none other than the Arch Bishop himself, being granted approval to become one of the paladins of the Church, he was taken in. Even with his mother in the condition she had been in, she was also taken into the care of the Church as well. Although after becoming part of the order, Godrick had practically never seen his mother again. Being sent to training, Godrick was quick to ace through every written exam and even score perfectly through the physical ones as well compared to his fellow trainees. Because of this, rather than wait until the day of the ceremony to graduate from training, Godrick became the first youngest paladin within the order.

Because of the promise that he showed and the clear strong devotion he had to the Church, his first stationed post was already that of guarding the Grand Cathedral alongside many other veteran paladins. Although, even veterans were not perfect, his older superiors at times had even skipped upon their duties to go drinking, even attempting to invite Godrick who declined the offer each and everytime, stating that their duty to protect the Cathedral far outweighed that of relaxing even if nothing appeared to be happening. While many believed that Godrick's mind was far too set upon the idea of duty first and foremost compared to enjoying his life and that he would not get anywhere with his attitude, they were not aware nor was he, that his actions and attitude was tracked closely.

Within a matter of decades, Godrick rose through the ranks, eventually becoming one of the two bodyguards that protected the Arch Bishop and finally even given the honor of becoming the new leader of the order after the previous one had passed away from age. Once taking up the position as head of the paladins, regulations amongst the paladins had become much more strict, while many of those who normally lazed around saw this as a pain due to them having to actually work more often and pay mind to their actions, the public and others who had been veterans of the order found this as an improvement to this day.

Godrick's ability is known quite well amongst the order and even those who are close fans of him. His ability is known as Radiance, by calling upon the will of the World Tree, he is enveloped in a large ray of light. After a few moments, his body and armor will have a thin layer of this yellowish light over him in which he can use in a large number of ways. Some of these ways can be either to strike his weapon into the ground causing a large wave of light to spread in a large circular space, any paladin or ally in general the light touches immediately bolsters their strength and durability dramatically. Another use of the light is that he can form large construct weapons out of the light such as a hammer, sword, shield, javelin, arrows, etc.
As powerful as his devotion is to the World Tree and his ability might be however, he can only call upon the power of his Radiance about three times per battle and each time he uses the light, it is drained from his body/armor. The larger the weapon or the larger the wave he emits the more it drains him, after the three times have been used up, he will be highly exhausted and must find time to regain his physical strength before being able to use the ability once more. Another downside to his ability is the darker the area, the more difficult it is to call upon his ability, while during the evenings it is not impossible, his power is at its peak during the day.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬 - 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞

Aside from General Ironwood being the highest-ranking Royal Guard throughout the kingdom and aside from him and the Royal Family themselves being allowed to issue orders to lower-ranking Royal Guards, the next highest-ranking individuals within the Royal Guards are the Admirals; four individuals personally selected by the General himself as considered the best amongst the other Guards. These four individuals have proven themselves time and time again in battle and/or when it comes to political matters that they are reliable when they are needed. To this day, the current four Admirals have been in charge for almost as long as the General has had his title. When an ordinary guard is selected to become an admiral, they are then put through grueling trials of endurance, strength, speed, agility, and mentality to see if they can survive and truly fit the role of admiral.
Normally when there is an attempt of attacking the Royal Palace, if the attacker is to defeat the ordinary Royal Guards, the kingdom's next line of defense are the admirals then the General himself before reaching the Royal Family directly.

𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧 [𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫]

Isabella Thornton was born into the middle class, although, unlike many other families who lived a rather simple and ordinary life, Isabella and her family had been on the verge of collapse and were teetering on the edge between being forced into the slums to become one of the lower class and keeping their home in the middle class. Her father had worked as a doctor in a family ran business, because of this, he did not receive many clients due to how many citizens preferred to have their doctors have much more larger offices or even possibly working in hospitals instead. Her mother on the other hand worked as a pub's bartender and served drinks to citizens every day, whether it was during the day or even at night. During ordinary days business was extremely slow but luckily during the weekends, she would be able to rack in much more money through tips.

During this time while Isabella's parents had worked, Isabella attended public school and was constantly bullied about the power she was born with since it seemed practically useless. Isabella was born with the ability to control water in every sense, whether it was the flow of it, the intensity of it, or to manipulate it however she wished. The problem was that because she was such a shy individual, she was never able to expand her knowledge about her power and this caused her to be unable to use it to its fullest potential other than just make small sprays of water to be shot at bullies from her hands.
As she grew older, Isabella went through friendships, gaining some and losing others constantly. Although luckily with the times she did have friends, she was able to expand her ability to the point that she had soon started to become more proficient at the use of her powers, almost to the point that she became dangerously powerful with them, unfortunately, she still did not have full control over her power.

This unfortunate fact of her inability to control her power was soon revealed when one day an old bully had approached her and began to push her around as though she were the same weak little child from when they were kids. With him being in control of his powers by this point as well, he treated her as though she were scum and this had caused Isabella to remember her fears of this boy causing her to back away in fear of him. When he had continued to pressure her further with the consistent bullying even further, Isabella ended up reaching a breaking point before she ended up losing control over her power and finally blacking out. By the time she had awoken, she found herself in front of the corpse of her bully, severed in pieces.
Standing over the corpse was two Royal Guards who ended up taking her back to the palace. Believing she would be executed for the murder of another student, instead, she would find herself face to face with the current General of the Royal Guards at the time and was given the opportunity to join the Royal Guards where she could learn to control her power and protect the ones she loved from there. She was quick to accept the position. For years, she trained under the best mentors the Royal Palace could offer and eventually when she had proved herself multiple times over that she was greater than most of her peers, she was soon given the chance to become an admiral where she had also accepted.

𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 [𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞]

For as long as he could remember, Viktor Ravenhart was born into the church, he was left at the doorstep of the Grand Cathedral as a baby where he was taken in by the Grand Bishop who raised him as though he were his own child. Growing up, Viktor was practically forced to learn everything there was to about the church and the World Tree that was taught to the Grand Bishop himself. Even once Viktor's powers had been awakened only to learn that it was based around the control over fire which was a large danger to the World Tree itself, Viktor showed his faith by holding back his power and coming to the decision that he would never use his power no matter what it meant. Unfortunately, the Grand Bishop had found this to be a waste of Viktor's potential and had told him to practice and embrace the gift the World Tree had given him, even if it was fire.
Being told this by the man he had considered a father his entire life growing up, Viktor found himself gaining enough confidence that he would begin to practice his ability over fire behind the Grand Cathedral each and every day till he could master it, even so far as to make a promise that when he grew old enough that he would join the Paladins to protect the church and his father.

Time went by and soon enough the other priests had begun to learn about Viktor and his power, their concern for his power and what the church stood for had them approach the Grand Bishop in private to attempt and talk their superior into removing Viktor from the church or else there could be consequences one day that Viktor might end up losing control and possibly burning down the Grand Cathedral, even if it was by mistake. Unfortunately, Viktor had overheard this conversation and when he approached the Grand Bishop about the issue to tell him that he would leave the church for the safety for the Bishop but as well as for the entirety of the church, instead of trying to stop Viktor, the Grand Bishop guided him to another direction, that was to join the Royal Guards.
Luckily with the voice of the Grand Bishop, the Royal Guards took Viktor in and began to train him. With his loyalty to the Royal Guards thanks to the Grand Bishop being as supportive as he was, Viktor quickly rose up in the ranks till he was even given an opportunity to become one of the admirals, where he is seated to this day.

𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 [𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡]

Born and forced to fend for herself for as long as she can recall, Amelia Hawthorne was born an orphan, however, rather than stay at the orphanage for a good majority of her life, by the time she was old enough, he left the orphanage willingly and began to run her life the way she wanted to. She stole food and money wherever she could and as much as she wanted even if she did not need it. Because of this, there have been a numerous amount of times that she had been seen and forced to run away from the authorities and due to her experience to understand her surroundings, she had never been caught.
While during the day she committed simple crimes such as petty theft, during the late evenings, she would spend her time in the fight pits where she would battle against older orphans who had also run away from their orphanages to live on their own. In the fight pits, anyone who entered was forced to put down a 'bet' that if they were to lose in the fight, they would take the loser's betting prize and by the end of the evening, a large pot of money would tend to be gathered where the final one standing would be awarded the money. Amelia always won, every single time.Because of her determination and will to survive no matter the cost, Amelia was able to develop and nearly master her ability to control earth with relative ease compared to any other orphan which some had difficulty trying to still learn what ability they were born with.

As time went on and Amelia had continued her petty theft crimes as well as he consistent wins in the fighting pits, it was only a matter of time that a plan was set against Amelia. Some of the orphans were given bribes to find and capture her and unfortunately for her at the time, many of these orphans agreed to the bribe.
The trap was set to be at the fighting pits, the day when Amelia went to the fighting pits expecting it to be an ordinary day, she found herself surrounded by the people she had stolen from. Immediately from there, they began to beat her into the ground and planned to kill her on the spot for her crimes, however, rather than allow it to continue she nearly exploded and destroyed the fighting pits with her power which had caught the attention of the Royal Guards that same night.

When they arrived at the scene, it had been a bloodbath and in the center of the giant earth spikes was Amelia who had been beaten to a pulp and in tears. The Royal Guards extended a hand out to her and offered her help her control her power as well as use it for good and that it would be a place where she could be accepted as who she was. Of course, she accepted and from there, she immediately begun training day in and day out. Her determination eventually proved to be greater than any other Royal Guard to the point that soon enough she was yet another individual who was given the chance to become an admiral where she had also accepted the title as well.

𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 [𝐀𝐢𝐫]

Unlike the other admirals, Maximilian was not offered a position in the Royal Guards but rather he had joined out of revenge. Maximilian or otherwise known simply as 'Max', was born into the upper class as a nobleman. His mother had been a well-respected surgeon at one of the most well-known hospitals in the Capital City while his father was a Royal Guard. The plan for Max was that one day his studies would lead him to a future of his own where he would prosper just as his parents did but simply in his own way instead of following in either one of their footsteps. The years passed rapidly and when he had reached his late teenage years it appeared as though he was going to become a scientist who was going to invent a new device. Unexpectedly, however, during his last year in college, a call for Max and his mother was given. They were to meet a Royal Guard at their home, and from there they were informed by the Guard that Max's father and his mother's husband, was killed in battle by pirates.

With this knowledge and the only thing being returned to them was the cape that the Royal Guards wore that belonged to Max's father being the last item they had to remember him by. Even with the grieving process going on for days, by the time Max had finished grieving and his mother had continued, rather than stand aside and do nothing, Max took it upon himself to take his father's cape and head to the Royal Palace where he practically demanded to become a member of the Royal Guard. The demand was firm as he stated that it was the least that could be done since his father had passed away and that he wanted to become the new sword for his family, to protect its name and his mother no matter what the cost might be.

Of course, the training was difficult and there were numerous times when he wanted to give up his goal due to how gruesome the training was to become a Royal Guard, Max would constantly tell himself that this was what his father went through for his family and that if his father were able to do it, then so would he. Finally, as the years passed, Max proved himself to become truly one of the best of the best of the Royal Guards. In the end, he was the final person to be given the chance to become the last of the four admirals.
𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐈𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Daughter to Josiah Ironwood or otherwise known as the General of the Royal Knights, Luciana Ironwood was raised by her father as her mother was never in the picture, nor did her father ever talk about her. Her life growing up as the daughter to the head of the Royal Knights was full of practically impossible expectations, even though she was his daughter, he treated her as though she was just another cadet in his army. Even at a young age, everything she did, she was expected to be done perfectly as anything less was considered a failure. Considered one of the youngest cadets in the Royal Knight army even if she was not assigned any missions or posts like her fellow cadets, she was still trained just as hard.
With her life revolving only around being within the walls of the palace or within the walls of the academy, as she grew up she yearned for the outside world, watching children run and play from her window as though she were a trapped damsel.

By the time she had reached her early teenage years and with plenty of experience under her belt, Luciana began sneaking out in the dead of night to explore the town during the evening. Although she didn't have many children to play with, she would constantly peek into the windows of homes to see how a loving family acted. Unfortunately for her, being in the Capital City meant that many of the homes she did spy on, she found that her life wasn't too far off from other children her age that was in nobility, many other children all seemed to have been either studying or practicing some sort of instrument and it appeared as though none of them were any happier than she was.

Just as she was about to lose hope, her consistent exploring eventually led her into the slums of the city where the atmosphere was clearly much different. The streets weren't as clean and the smell of sewage ran through every alleyway. Even so, the next few homes she spied on, however, she found something that she never expected in such a place. Some families made do with what they had and yet they all seemed happy with one another. Their dinners consisted of food that was barely enough to feed a single person and yet they all appeared to be completely fine with sharing what little they had with each other. The sight of this made Luciana question as to why the kingdom did not support these people, why did they had to suffer in such places while the nobles and royals could stuff their faces with more food than they could ever handle. She needed answers.

When she returned to the palace, rather than stay silent, she questioned her father regarding the state of the people who lived in the slums. When she was questioned as to how she knew about the slums only to have the truth come out about her sneaking out each night, she was immediately punished, locked in her room with constant supervision, the only time she was ever allowed to leave was when she was expected to train. In the end, she was never explained other than the fact that the people in the slums are considered 'trash' and they were born and would die as 'slaves' to the Royal Family. In the end, she was even told that the only reason she was not treated like them was simply because she was his daughter and if she were anyone else, he would've punished her with the death sentence for acting on her own without specific orders to go to the slums.

Years continued to pass and by the time she was a full-grown adult, her thought process never changed, the only difference was as she grew older, she witnessed the full cruelty of what the Royal Family as well as what the Royal Knights would do to anyone who so much as spoke badly about the kingdom. She watched as people from the lower class were beaten nearly to an inch of their lives in the middle of the day in public by the very same guards that were sworn to protect the people. She had seen how different the guards treated those in the different social classes and how easily it was to bribe her fellow guards.

Eventually, enough was enough, during one evening, she decided to leave the place she had known as home for good. Escaping the palace, she went into hiding under the city. Even with her disappearance though, it was almost as though her lack of presence had barely been noticed by her own father as he continued his daily training of the new cadets and he took his job as seriously as ever. The sight of how her own father barely cared for her made her decide that she would make her father and the entirety of the kingdom pay for everything they had done to the people below them. Since then, she started to form a rebellion, training and recruiting others to her cause. Unlike her father though, she never hid the truth about her past from her fellow rebels, telling them that if they did not feel comfortable following orders from someone who once was in the shoes of the people they were fighting against, they were allowed to leave whenever they wished.

Ever since birth, Luciana powers were strange. Rather than being able to control any element or have any specific attribute enhancing power, her power had to do with being able to communicate with serpents. Snakes would naturally come to her and listen to her every whim, she can order them to sneak into places to gather information, poison an enemy unsuspectedly, or even retrieve something for her. As she grew older and her mastery of her communication with serpents grew, eventually her pupils turned into slits that were similar to that of a serpent's. To this day, she has learned to even be able to grow scales on her body that are considered to be as hard as steel and even able to spit poison from long distances. Her most dangerous ability however is the power to create a massive serpent out of pure energy, the serpent is completely solid and anything that the energy serpent touches is melted away as though it were made of acid.

Nothingness · Jan 5, 2023

𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬
The following races and wildlife are all original ideas. If you have any plans to make up a race or come up with a wildlife that you'd like to add, please be sure to message me directly regarding this and we will be able to work together on creating it. Aside from these, others that are not listed are not needed due to their general knowledge already existing. The ones listed would be races such as 'elves, dwarves, mermen, etc.' and when coming to wildlife would be things such as 'minotaurs, giant sharks, unicorns, etc.'.

𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
Once known across the realm by the simplistic name of 'dragons', Cyber Serpents, just as many other mythological creatures throughout the land are a direct result of the discovery of Eternum. Prior to the discovery of Eternum, Cyber Serpents were nothing more than ordinary dragons that soared through the skies like the free beasts they were always known to be. As long as they were usually left alone, they were of no threat to anyone and while there were always some of which were more territorial than others, the amount of danger they possessed was nothing to be overly concerned about. Whether it was good fortune or not, when Eternum was discovered, along with a large number of other ordinary animals changing in some form or another, many of the dragons began to have their internal organs become metallic and almost mechanical to a sense, these organs consisted of their bones, veins, hearts, and even their intestines. Retaining their scales and capable of still eating their usual diets, they soon found that they were no longer able to move their bowels.

Following the internal change, many of Cyber Serpent's found that their power had doubled and near tripled compared to what they had been used to. The reason behind this was that on top of their internals changing, the newer born Cyber Serpents were apparently born with Eternum Crystals installed within their hearts. This was discovered by an infamous hunter who enjoyed killing unique beasts before gutting and stuffing them to preserve their bodies before displaying their corpses like trophies. After successfully killing one of the first Cyber Serpents and gutting the creature, he found that the dragon had Eternum Crystals residing within its heart. Since then, bounty hunters were dispatched repeatedly, hunting and killing off the Cyber Serpents for their rare mechanical internals, body parts, and especially the raw Eternum Crystal within them. These hunts continued for years until the number of Cyber Serpents began to dwindle down to a near extinction rate. Rather than allow themselves to be hunted to extinction however, the remaining Cyber Serpents scattered throughout the globe, heading to the highest, hottest, coldest, and most secluded places throughout the realm.

Escaping and hiding from civilization, they have refused to show themselves for decades and even now they are only known moreover as myths, legends that are told around a campfire or even simply to children as fantasy stories.

Due to the lack of knowledge about them, not much is known about Cyber Serpent aside from the stories from elderly folk and the stories that are within children's books. However, it is thought to believe that if a person is to find the remains of a Cyber Serpent, if nature had not already caused the creature's corpse to completely decompose and turn to ash, if a person is to install a refined Eternum Crystal into the creature, it would be revived and come back to life. Supposedly, it is also stated that if a person is to save a Cyber Serpent, they would vow loyalty to the individual and a magical bond would be shared immediately between the two. As a result of this bond, the individual's abilities would be enhanced, and it is stated that they would be able to perform new techniques with their own abilities. However, with this bond, also comes the drawback of the fact that if the Cyber Serpent or the individual were to be inflicted with a wound or any form of pain, whether it be emotional, physical or even mental, then their partner would feel the same results of it.

𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬

𝐀𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
The Aquatic Cyber Serpents, preferring to live near lakes or generally any large body of water that is not the sea, similar to many of their other brethren, after the power of the Eternum Crystals had changed all the dragons, the Aquatic Cyber Serpents were given the capability to be able to breathe underwater for extended periods of time. Rather than spewing fire from their mouths, they are capable of releasing large amounts of high pressurized water that can slice through most materials with ease or simply spew out large volumes of water capable of causing floods.
These Cyber Serpents do not get generally oversized but do have a tendency to reach a somewhat decent size enough that they can be climbed onto and would still be easily spotted from a distance. Their diet consists of marine animals and vegetation. Unlike many other types, these types tend to be generally friendly with humans and can be overly curious when they see something that catches their interest.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
Smaller than their distant cousin, the Aquatic Cyber Serpents; the Frost Cyber Serpents prefer to keep more to themselves compared to the rest of their fellow types. Residing mostly in the tundra/snowy regions of the realm, due to their smaller size, they are able to retain a large portion of their heat within their bodies to avoid being frozen over. Unlike many of the other types of Cyber Serpents, Frost ones are able to fly through the skies for days on end due to their smaller size and much more powerful wing strength from the harsh weather conditions of where they reside. While not sheer strength is not the strongest feat, they are the absolute most agile out of all the different types and can easily outmaneuver any ship or predator that may attempt to attack them.

Just like the Aquatic type; Frost types do not breathe fire but rather they are able to release bone chilling cold winds from their mouths that can nearly freeze over anything within a matter of moments. Legends say that if they are within their own natural habitat or if the weather is even cold enough, a single Frost Cyber Serpent is able to form blizzards by flapping its wings alone. Many stories say that while Frost Cyber Serpents prefer to remain much more secluded, it is said that if an individual is able to gain the trust of one, the loyalty of them are nearly unmatched.

𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
The largest amongst all of the types of Cyber Serpents as well as the fiercest and brutal of them all. These Bull Cyber Serpents tend to stick to the high mountain terrains where caves litter the mountains all around. While they lack in speed and agility, these types make it up for in sheer physical strength. Being one of the only two types that can breathe fire, while their elemental breath might not be as powerful as their volcanic cousins, their power should not be underestimated whatsoever. With their enormous size, a single flap of their wings alone is able to easily knock even the burliest of individuals onto the ground. With enough force, the wind that they can generate alone with their wings could even topple down buildings if underestimated. A single swipe from one of their claws can mean instant death if not properly dodged or parried.
Because of their fierce nature, books and stories state that Bull Cyber Serpents are either impossible to ever tame or the absolute most difficult of them all to tame due to their stubborn nature and seemingly strong dislike for humans or any other race for that matter. Their diet consists mainly of only raw meat.

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
The most powerful fire user of all the types of Cyber Serpents; the Volcanic Cyber Serpents spend a majority of their time around volcanoes, whether active or inactive. They are also considered to be the most intelligent amongst all the types. They prefer medium to high temperature climates and absolutely hate cold temperatures. Due to their diverse personalities ranging from some being overly friendly with other races, others being more violent and some overly curious; their diets are also wildly varied, they enjoy raw meats, fish, vegetables, fruits and many other foods.
Because of the climate they live in, it is expected that their ability revolves around flames, while many the stories state about how powerful Volcanic Cyber Serpent flames can be, none of them can do the beasts justice. While Bull Cyber Serpents are also able to spew fire, Volcanic types' flames are levels far beyond them, their fire alone can melt even the strongest steel on a war ship from the Royal Capital with ease. They are even able to control the heat of their flames when needed, increasing the temperature to almost near ridiculous amounts.

𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐡𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐝
During the time when humans had first discovered Eternum and the capability of raising islands into the skies was now possible, the next step was to create vessels that could fly through the sky to reach one island after another. Unfortunately, even with all the research the scientists from the Royal Family had done, it was unclear what the results were going to be like once Eternum would be installed into machinery rather than a naturally made structure like islands and such. Of course, rather than risk the livelihood of a member of the Royal Family once the first ship was constructed with a decent-sized Eternum crystal installed, citizens from both the lower class as well as the middle class 'volunteered' to be the first subjects to test out the large ship and see how it would function. At first, on take off the ship flew beautifully throughout the sky for a set period of time, however, without proper testing, the crystal quickly overheated and became unstable within the ship and soon enough the ship ran out of energy completely before it began to descend from the sky only to crashland onto what had appeared to be a deserted island.

With their ship in a wrecked state and with no knowledge as to how to repair the ship, the survivors were stranded on the island without any signs of a rescue team of any sort coming for them any time soon. So from there, it was decided upon by three members of the crew that the three would take charge and scouting teams were sent out to explore the island. From there, the sounds of creatures roaring in the distance were heard only for some of the scouting teams to go silent from communication after a while. It was believed that whatever the sounds of the creatures were made had killed the scouting team.

It was eventually discovered that the source of the sounds were dragons or otherwise known today as Cyber Seperents. These large creatures appeared as predators but the truth was that they were just as afraid of the humans as the humans were of them. Soon enough, once the humans had proved to these dragons that they were of no threat to them, after some time had passed both the humans and dragons began to develop a companionship that they began to work together. Although rather than focus on the advancements in technology, these humans instead decided to return to the basics and preferred much more primitive tools after their experience with the use of technology and Eternum crystals that caused them to be stranded here to begin with. Using basic tools consisted of using hammers, compasses, nails, and the simple use of only relying on one's own two hands.

Soon enough, colonies and villages were made on the many different islands surrounding the one where the ship had crash-landed on. These homes were all made from the natural elements found on the islands such as wood, stone, and at times even obsidian. With the help from the dragons, the humans thrived and eventually, they began to call themselves 'Suihgind' rather than continue to consider themselves similar to the humans outside of their new home. Generations passed and as time went on, the Suihgind began to develop their own education and even religion, teaching their new generation about new gods such as Cyclly which had been considered the god of the sun and the moon and the god of dragons and their riders known as Vuqir, unlike any other religion though, the Suihgind do not have churches or temples to worship their gods and instead have stone carvings that tell the ancient stories about their gods. Because of this, the new generation tends to not learn much or nothing about the World Tree, and any of those that question the Tree are told that the Tree is considered similar to that of a false prophet of sorts.

Of course, as the new generations rise, it was expected that newer and younger Suihginds tend to become curious about the outside world. Those that are curious tend to question their elders about the outside world only to be told about how the world outside of their colonies and villages on the island was a cruel and unforgiving place and that they should never leave the safety of the island when everything was considered perfectly peaceful where they currently lived. As expected, many of the younger generations did not listen to their elders and ventured forth anyway with their dragons to explore the world, many of these individuals were never heard from again, suspected to have been killed with their dragons or captured only to be either killed or experimented on and having a fate even worse than death. Because of the unknown fates of so many younger generations, it was only a matter of time before the curiosity of many of the newer generations would dwindle down to nothing.

Time passed and one day news from one of the dragon rider scouts reached the ears of the leaders of the Suihgind. Ships, lots of them, and search parties were roaming the skies, it had appeared that the people they once served had perfected the ability of flight with the machines and were now roaming the skies to colonize and search one island after another for materials. Because of the risk that the Suihgind served to possibly reveal the location of the dragons, they allowed themselves to be found and returned to the civilized world as a sacrifice to protect the location of where the dragons resided to this day.

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Note:
What made these people special was the fact that many of the humans who were considered 'riders' held a special bond with a specific dragon. These bonds are formed when a dragon has decided to select a human and become similar to what is considered a 'partner' of sorts with the human. When the human and dragon have formed a bond together, a number of things could possibly happen and some of which are guaranteed to happen as well. It is without a doubt that once a bond is made between a human and a dragon, the stronger the bond, when either the human or dragon is injured it is possible for the opposite partner to end up 'feeling' this wound, while it does not mean that it will kill the opposite partner if one is to die, the pain will be unimaginable similar to death.
Another possible outcome is that the stronger the bond becomes with the partner of the dragon, the more possible it is that eventually the human will begin to show traits to that of the dragon they are bonded with, these traits can range from anything such as growing wings or even scales, or claws.

Credit goes to JJae and Guppy Franz
𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬
Even before Eternum was discovered and magical 'powers' had become common throughout the realm, there lived a mythical race known as Florians. Little is known about these people even when they had once lived side by side with humanity in harmony, all that was known was that they were a race of plant-like humanoids and that they were highly intellectuals that knew practically every last plant that grew through Eldrida. It was common knowledge that they possessed abilities even before the discovery of Eternum, however, it appeared as though every Florian had the same power that was to control and manipulate the earth itself beneath them, whether it was to move, levitate, or even shift the ground itself to a degree or it was to even grow flowers and other plants with ease, even in the worse possible conditions. The true history behind the Florians is that long ago, the World Tree itself had ended given rise to a race that was similar to that of humans but instead were of plant, rather than have humans that could feast upon the flesh of any other being, the World Tree had decided to make a creature similar but would prefer nothing more than simply fruits, vegetables, water and sunlight.

Because the Florians have always been a people that are almost seemingly more plant than human with how each Florian is born with either a single flower or multiple flowers on their head, it was always a question as to how they reproduced. It was eventually taught amongst the people of Eldrida that Florian reproduction started with a female was always born with an extra petal upon one of her flowers, every month or so that passed, that single petal would eventually fall off. From there, if desired, the female would hand this petal to that of her male partner who would "fertilize" the petal in the palms of his hands before it is planted. From there, overtime, a large flower if not multiple large flowers would growl on the ground, little by little a child would be born within the center of the large flower.

It wasn't until an emergency crisis had occurred that one of the most unforgettable secrets about the Florians was discovered. At the time, the current Arch Bishop had become terminally ill and at the time there was only a small number of medical advances that humans had invented. It was thought that the Arch Bishop would pass away before his time had come. Luckily, because of how well known the Arch Bishop at the time was and the caring heart the elderly man had amongst the people of Eldrida, the Florians had decided that their secret could be given out if it meant the survival of the man. By removing one of the petals from the head of a Florian and mixing it with a number of different plants, they made the sick Arch Bishop to drink the liquid. Within a matter of a single day, the elderly man was back up on his feet and moving with more strength than he had even before becoming ill.

Immediately after understanding the power that resided within the petals of the Florians, it started to become a regular occurrence that people will sick family members of nearly every caliber would approach a Florian to ask for their petals for help. It wasn't until the requests that were once out of the attempts of kindness out of the heart of humans became violent and aggressive demands for it. Of course, during both times every single Florian refused to hand over one of their most vital parts of their bodies so easily. This soon began to annoy the Florian people before they had decided to return to their own home island. After helping the Arch Bishop survive his illness, it was told to the humans of Eldrida that the petals upon each Florian's head was not of anything that could simply be ripped off without consequence, but rather the petals upon each Florian was their life force; if every single petal was to ever completely be removed, then that Florian would immediately die. It was also explained that as the years passed, the older they became the more petals would eventually wilt off of them. Even with all that was told to humans, they were still begged and demanded for their petals.

Even after returning to their home island and practically refusing direct contacts with humans any longer, it wasn't long before bounty hunters were sent after any Florian that had left the island, trapping and forcibly removing the petals, even if it meant the death of a Florian in the process. At first, since it was coordinated attacks and it was mostly kidnaps of their own kind, Florians had brushed it off that those who hadn't returned were either lost or their trips were tied up into other businesses. Although it wasn't long before the knowledge of what was happening began to rise amongst their people, they were being hunted. Immediately since then, the Florians left their home island and ended up populating another island, one that was much larger in size but was completely uncharted territory.
Ever since then, the Florians had lived there in peace. Although when the day had come for their eldest and wisest of elders had come, she had made her way towards the center of their massive village. Slowly, the elder ended up finally passing away but not before forming into an enormous tree that nearly blanketed over the village itself, on that same day, a massive barrier had formed over the entirety of the island to protect it not only from sight but at the same time from any and all possible outside damage.
Credit goes to animegirl20

Nothingness · Feb 3, 2023

𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓝𝓟𝓒𝓢 𝓕𝓸𝓻

Nothingness

𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐬 - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Born into the middle class with a mostly ordinary life, Silas just as many of the other elderly priests; was born and raised into a life that was before the discovery of Eternum. Aside from his family being overly religious and going to Church every other day rather than a single day a week, he had a mostly normal life. Silas' education consisted mainly of that at the Church rather than the usual public schooling system, because of this, his mind was flooded with information that everything revolved around the World Tree. Since his family was in full belief of the Church's wisdom and each day was spent with those who believed the same, it wasn't long before Silas' own views also became the same as everyone else as well.
With the eventual discovery and understanding of Eternum, unlike with many of the other priests and those who had followed the Church's teachings, Silas' own views, ambitions and dedication to the religion had nearly become twisted in a sense. By the time he had gained his power from Eternum and grew to control it, his goals began to take priority over everything else in his life. With his ability to be able to see through a person's skin and see their muscles, bones, veins, blood vessels, he started to find humans and other organics as perfect subjects for improvements through the use of Eternum.
First, it started with rats and other small creatures; however, with such small bodies and inability to withstand the energy of the crystals, he soon moved onto to larger creatures such as dogs, cats, horses, and cows. While they lasted longer throughout the testing, their bodies also ended up deteriorating over time before either becoming ash, shutting down all functioning of the body or even turning the body completely into crystal. After multiple failures one after another, Silas conclusion came to the fact that even these larger creatures were incapable hosts of the crystals.

From there, he soon moved onto using his own family as his next subjects. To his surprise, he found that his theory had been correct that humanoid beings were much more compatible with the crystals due to their complex internal structure. Unfortunately, since by this point in time, Silas' family had already been elderly, their internal organs had already been deteriorating from old age, so they were also incapable of handling the pain and power that the crystal was forced into them.
Luckily, it wasn't long until a new subject had been found, a family who seemed to also had been dedicated to the Church had been willing to hand their son over to the Church in hopes that they could 'cure' him of his illness. The boy's name was Jin Aethor. With such a young body, he was able to withstand the power of the crystal when it was surgically implanted into his heart. Unlike with all other subjects, he did not break apart instantly and yet, also unlike others, he did not show any signs of change even after constant levels of testing was performed on him.
The day before Silas was ready to confirm that Jin was another failure, the sudden chaos that had occurred causing the escape of their subject had brought anger and frustration to Silas. He immediately called for bounty hunters to go in search of Jin and return him to the Church without any explanation other than he had been an important member of the Church and that he held important information about the archbishop.

During this time while he waited for the return of their main subject, Silas returned to the family only to request the 'help' from the family's other two members, Jin's sisters. Since then, no word has been spoken about the location, or status of the two females, only that they were still alive and doing 'well'.
𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 (𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝) - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Born into as the second child after Jin, Elara is generally very quiet unless she is helping out others. She tends to always put other's well being before her own and would gladly give up her own food no matter how hungry she might be to help out another person. Because of this nature, she can be considered overly gullible and would most likely fall for any kind of trap with ease if the enemy were to make up some sort of sob story. While growing up with her older brother and younger sister, her attitude gave off a sort of 'motherly' vibe, which in turn also carried forward when she would openly volunteer at the soup kitchens as well as at the local Church to help the priests pray for those looking for some form of salvation in their trying times. Even with her kind heart, she also has a more sinister side to her as well, if someone were to harm her loved ones or lie to her, her demeanor can quickly turn from 'motherly' to something similar to that of a devil. While she may not commit to it, the aura that her presence may give off would be that of her murdering the culprit. This same darker attitude of hers tends to also peak out from time to time when she may be trying to tell someone to do something that she might be attempting to get the person to do even as they refuse. An example of this would be something like her trying to tell a person to take their medication and they refuse to do, if she must, she will force the medication down said person's throat and make them drink it.

Born with the ability of material alchemy, as long as Elara is able to picture the item in her head, has seen it in person, had laid hands on the object and has enough material to create it, she can generally turn anything into said object. For example, if she were to place her hands onto a giant stone wall, she can end up pulling out a cooking pot from the wall and the pot would actually be made of the stone material she had just pulled it from. Although, because Elara despises violence, she has never held a weapon in her life, meaning she is incapable of creating any kind of weapon from any material and even then, she would not be sure if it would be helpful. If she were to end up creating any kind of weapon such as a gun of sorts, the weapon itself would be near useless as without an energy source, it has no capability of actually firing as she does not understand the internal works of machinery to create the internal parts of such. She also has not tried but even if she were, Elara is unable to create anything out of Eternum crystals, even if she were to have her hands on it.
𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 (𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝) - 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Being born as the third and final child in the Aethor family, Aurora had always been known amongst the family as a rather overly active child that continued on as she grew up. Some would call her a 'problem child' or a 'troublemaker' since she loved to play games whether it was video games, board games, or just playing pranks on other people. However, even with her rather hyperactive personality, she knows when to calm herself down and take a situation seriously; such as that about her older brother Jin when he had gotten sick. Along with helping her older sister; Elara take care of their brother, since their family did not have that much income to afford high grade medicine or food, Aurora would resort to stealing even if her elder sister had scolded her multiple times over for it. Knowing well enough that due to her smaller stature, she could easily outrun and outmaneuver nearly anyone by slipping into spots that ordinary people would be unable to.

Unlike her sister, Aurora is not as gullible however, she does not openly show this. Rather, she tends to lead people on to believe that she might be, just so that she can end up understanding a person's motives. After which, if she believes that they are as bad as they are, she will either inform them of the truth that she had been suspicious of them or will pull pranks upon them if she finds them truly untrustworthy. Because of this, Aurora may not be used to using any kind of weapons, she is a very crafty individual who can end up taking nearly anything apart by just looking at it and having her hands touch it. Unlike her sister being able to create things by just touching it, Aurora has the ability to hold onto any object and practically begin understanding the inner most workings of the object almost immediately. The larger the object, the more time she needs to hold onto it and stare at it. Once has taken the full understanding of the object in her hand, she can take it apart as though it were a child's toy by pulling, pressing, squeezing, or even twisting parts that she knows are weaker than the rest of the object. Of course, this ability is only capable of working on inanimate objects, meaning she is unable to do this to actual living beings.

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