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TanteRegenbogen

The Person formerly known as Anii ⚧
Plot

After the continent of Luya was almost destroyed by a rogue AI decades ago, any advanced AI have been forbidden. So many in the land have magic-mechanical enhancements to make up for the lack of advanced AI. A popular delivery service in the land is by runner, which can bypass traffic and can safely deliver physical items. They might be a little more expensive but if something needs to be delivered on time, a runner is perfect for the job. They have even become so popular that there are regular runner races and an annual runner championship.

Runners are pretty much always enhanced as the speed, endurance and strain would be impossible to handle by an organic body. There are also runner that are only partially enhanced, but their compabilities are far more limited and prove more useful on jobs with more corners and curves. There are however laws regarding the mechanical bodies, such as that the body needs a soul ( via a soul crystal) or a brain to which the brain still needs to be intact enough to fulfill important functions. Anything less could count as advanced AI and would be illegal and therefore must be destroyed.

Runners due to their enhancements can usually run up to ten times faster than normal humans or elves and may even have boosters in their feet to help them overcome obstacles. Usually in the races, they can use boosters but not to fly. Runners also rely on magic and martial arts for self defense as hidden weapons are illegal for runners. All with magic-mechanical bodies have glowing eyes.

Enhanced bodies and magic-mechanical bodies however have some weaknesses. They are magic sensitive and can malfunction or overload if given to much mana or are in high mana areas (such as mana crystal fields). So many of more advanced ones have mana release mechanisms to release excess mana. Malfunctions are scary experiences whereas overloads can often be fatal, even if the victim has a soul crystal.

In Luya, there a number of fanatical groups around enhanced beings with the most prominent being a terrorist group that is out to get rid of all enhanced humans and elves as they view banning advanced AI isn't going far enough to prevent another catastrophe. The anti-enhanced group calls itself the Naturalist League. The Naturalist League is split into two subgroups with the larger one based around just technoscepticism while the other is more religious fanaticism believed that not only magic-mechanical bodies, but also soul crystals are an abomination against the goddess of order, Neiva.

There is another prominent, yet lesser known group called Arvus' Army. It is a militant enhanced faction that believes the enhanced are in fact blessed by the god of the arcane arts Arvus. They have been known to do attacks on technosceptics and against temples of deities whose followers have a tendency to be more naturalist. Their actions however tend to be less extreme than those of the Naturalist League. Some more extreme cells have abducted and enhanced people against their wills though.

The runners have been targeted by both groups as one want to eliminate them and the other wants to recruit them.

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Credit to Jean Popo on Pixiv (ジャン・ポポ)

Info

Soul crystals:
Soul crystals are octahedron (double pyramid) shaped crystals that possess souls. Usually they are used to prevent the death of a consciousness. Soul crystals possess color based on the nature of the soul. Red being belligerent/evil and blue being benevolent/good. White or transparent soul crystals are empty. Yellow means impartial. Purple means neutral while pink may mean mischievous.

Sapient species: Humans and elves. Maybe even dwarves. (If dwarves, then they will be uncommon.)

World: Due to the almost apocalypse decades ago, only a quarter of the former population remains. Therefore many towns are small towns or villages. The largest town is the capital and has a population of 50,000. Luya is a very forested continent with only a small region southeast of the capital being a rocky desert. Most of the elevated areas are midsized mountains. Luya is neighbored by two continents. It is unknown if any civilizations survived the catastrophe on the other continents.

Lingo/Slang: There are some words describing the enhanced based on appearance. Clankers for more mechanical, robotic appearances. Chromers for shiny bodies. Dolls for enhanced whose bodies possess a matte surface, yet look more humanoid and being kind of uncanny.

Images:

Examples of clankers:
Less robotic
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More robotic
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Credit to Koutetu Yarou on Pixiv (koutetu yarou)

Chromers:
Note shiny metal and artificially shiny skin
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Credits to Todou on Pixiv (とどお) caution, some of their pics are for 18+

Dolls:
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Credit to Rodr on Pixiv (Rodr)
 
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