world introduction: Ookraia
Posted: 25 Jan 2018 22:57
i'm a bit nervous with this one but i'm going to share it anyway. note: most of the pictures are done by me.
What is Ookraia
Ookraia is the main setting of kaiego and where most of the series takes place. Things to keep in mind about this setting is: It’s a hidden world that overlaps with earth. The inhabitants are known as Bugfolk, humanoid invertebrate people. It’s more of a collective term than a race name. The people in this world are much smaller, being their appropriate size of the species they’re based on. Although there’s a myriad of races, we have narrowed it down to 9 races to assure not too scare away to many people. The tech level is low level with the occasional advanced tech that's similar to steampunk and magitek.
Origins
The world first began as normal. Trilobites were about to enter land but were guided by ancient gods that helped them in times of need. During this era, a energy called ego pre-existed and was never tamed. It flowed everything, even the trill themselves. they however, didn’t know how to harness this energy. One of their kind had finally found a way to harness it’s essence. He used objects to bind the ego into small towers called Runepillars. Each pillar had aligned themselves to a different direction, dictating the properties of that rune.
In the dawn of time, there five named directions of nature. The ocean, the flame, the grass, and the sky. The center being the soul. These directions comprise the sections of the great yonder, or the spirit world. Methods of using these directions were rendered impossible as ego was hard to contain. Eventually, a new craft called weaving was made.
Lexicon
What is Ookraia
Ookraia is the main setting of kaiego and where most of the series takes place. Things to keep in mind about this setting is: It’s a hidden world that overlaps with earth. The inhabitants are known as Bugfolk, humanoid invertebrate people. It’s more of a collective term than a race name. The people in this world are much smaller, being their appropriate size of the species they’re based on. Although there’s a myriad of races, we have narrowed it down to 9 races to assure not too scare away to many people. The tech level is low level with the occasional advanced tech that's similar to steampunk and magitek.
Origins
The world first began as normal. Trilobites were about to enter land but were guided by ancient gods that helped them in times of need. During this era, a energy called ego pre-existed and was never tamed. It flowed everything, even the trill themselves. they however, didn’t know how to harness this energy. One of their kind had finally found a way to harness it’s essence. He used objects to bind the ego into small towers called Runepillars. Each pillar had aligned themselves to a different direction, dictating the properties of that rune.
In the dawn of time, there five named directions of nature. The ocean, the flame, the grass, and the sky. The center being the soul. These directions comprise the sections of the great yonder, or the spirit world. Methods of using these directions were rendered impossible as ego was hard to contain. Eventually, a new craft called weaving was made.
Lexicon
- Hoppers - slang for hopaki.
- Gone with the spirits/ became one with the Yonder/ passed to the yonder - slang for passing away or died.
- Shaman - the wizards or mages of this setting. They uses objects or their selves to merge with spirits in order to use magic.
- Dung - curse word for crap.
- dunghead/beetlebrain - dumb
- Ego - energy that flows through everything
- Mana - aura that indicates arthourity.
- Cleric - a type of shaman that binds with a healing spirit in order to heal others.
- Weavecraft - a type of magic that weaves a certain type of ego to do magic.
- The five directions of nature - the directions of ego that dictates what a shaman casts. The west is the ocean, the east is the flame, the north is the sky, and the south is the grass or ground.
- Giants - humans in this setting. They got the name for being many times larger than the average resident of Ookraia. Many Bugfolk see them as immortal.
- Draku - reptiles, mammals, or birds. Many like to eat the Bugfolk.
- Pit ball - a game commonly played by many tribes. Two teams compete to see who scores the most balls in other teams hole in the wall. The team that gets most wins the game