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Is there any special requirements that lead to an Angelic making their presence known?

Do they have powers that can be shared with the human? (if you’ve already answered this I’m sorry, I’ve forgotten and I have bad wifi so can’t check :joy: :sweat_smile: )

Oh! Can someone who isn’t protected be aware of the presence of an Angelic around another human?

There are 4 Phoenixes at any given time, so that’s four separate people. Each of the four comes back as the same Phoenix in a different life. So they have different names, genders, ages, species, etc. depending on the life, but it’s the same soul each time. The four Phoenixes are Light, Dark, Time and Immortality.

Hathor is the Time Phoenix so whenever Time Phoenix shows up, it’s her soul. Her mum is the Photon Phoenix (Light). So each time that one pops up, it’s her mum’s soul. Same deal for the other two. The four can recognise each other as fellow Phoenixes once they’re aware they are one too.

I swear it makes a lot more sense in the actual stories :joy:

Yes and no. Technically, Hathy doesn’t need to because even if one of these things does kill her, she’ll automatically repair. However, she still does everything more out of habit than anything else. And because there’s only so long she can go without being caffeine deprived or wanting chocolate :eyes:

The soul. The souls of Phoenixes keep coming back in life after life after life until the end of Creation when they are reunited with the Beast (which is another long story in itself :face_holding_back_tears:).

Memory is . . . tricky. So they don’t remember their past lives in the conscious mind, but the memories are in there. Dreams and deja vu. The memories can return but it’s only happened a handful of times and usually ends with insanity until the next life when things reset. It’s like they’re aware the memories exist like they’re hiding behind a closed door, but can’t actually access them without opening the door but have a bad feeling about doing so, so don’t. Hoping that makes sense :sweat_smile:

Example: There were 2 cases with Amneris (Hathor’s mum in this life) did actually remember things. The first was when the Gods returned certain memories because end of Creation coming too soon reasons. They second was when she was outside Creation and started having major flashbacks.

So far, Hathy hasn’t. She’s met other Phoenixes (yes, including herself) in other lives through time travel, but no actual memories. Will this change? Who knows! I sure don’t :relieved_face: She’s aware she’s lived in the past and will live in the future again (believe me when I say that was a revelation because :sparkles: Immortality :sparkles:) but doesn’t consciously remember.

She’d still be recognised as a Phoenix and has been while time travelling by others either in the past or future. It’s lead to a few awkward encounters :joy:

Unless I randomly change my mind, there’s no rule. Can be instant, can be years, can be millennia. The longest there’s been between a gap so far is around the 10,000 year mark. Why? Honestly I got the math wrong and lost count so decided to just roll with it.

Does absolutely everything come back in his case or only select memories?
Why does it take until that age?

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I realized I just ended this with “because“ XD That was a mistake. Idk why they would make their name known. Maybe there isn’t a reason? Who knows :woman_shrugging:

I’m thinking it’s animal-like curiosity. They become very intrigued by their human and decide that maybe they want to be a little closer to them.

Yes, the same as demons share powers with humans. But unlike with demons, humans don’t get to choose which powers they get. I’m imagining the angellic has like their main power, sub power, and sub-sub power or something like that and just give half of whatever the first one happens to be.

The powers are similar to demons. Future seeing, time stopping, slow aging, and maybe teleportation…etc.

Nope :zany_face: Humans are super unaware of what’s around them (as usual). Especially with angellics. Angellics’ presence is hardly detectable anyway even by others who know they are protected themselves. Think of most angellics like clown fish that hide in sea anemones when the slightest hint of danger approaches.

Ahhh, I see! So those four are always existing at any given time? (I realize later that is not the case from your other answers :stuck_out_tongue: )

Ooooh, so her mom’s soul can be in a completely different body, even a male body, and Hathor could still recognize that random guy as her mom and the guy can recognize himself as being Hathor’s mom? XD I’m laughing as I type this imagining an awkward conversation.

If this is not the case, maybe it should happen XD

Very important stuff. Must. Have. Coffee!

Oh wow, that sounds like you’d have to write a thousand books

Makes sense! Not a good example, but it’s like when us real-life human beans have to block out things to save our mental health. But we know the memories are still there. We just can’t access them, and we don’t want to.

Like the one I mentioned above? :stuck_out_tongue: Or something better? *evil laugh*

I see, so there’s no negative affects on the world for not having all four Phoenixes?

let me get Richard in here because he wants to ans–

Richard: Every. Damn. Thing. Human. :expressionless_face: (but he does block a lot of it out because trauma, which he won’t admit to having)

So, puberty is considered a big major change in your life, right? You go through puberty and then after that, you kinda stabilize. I decided this major change triggers other major changes like getting all the memories back. And the stabilizing bit means that Richard is coming into his full self. He’s settling.

I use this puberty tactic for other stories as well. Puberty can be magick-awakening and being weak, after-puberty can be magick-settling and the user is able to access it more and then start leveling up. Or, puberty can mean the person’s magick is out of control, and after-puberty is when the person finally is able to control it more.

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The reason is because you said so :relieved_face:

Tbh that makes a lot of sense. And I gotta ask, are there ever times when an Angelic regrets picking the human they did? What happens?

Ooo that sounds super cool. Does the human ever complain about the powers they get since they can’t choose? :joy:

:rofl:

What would creatures like these see as “danger”? They sound pretty darn powererful

They can exist at any time all together or only some. Depends on what the soul decides to do (and by that I mean depends on when I get the math wrong)

This actually does happen in Book 1 of Hathor’s series :joy:

Amneris’ soul at that time is a dude called Fabian who just so happens to be best friends with the previous Vessel of Time who was Hathor’s adoptive grandmother Aiyana. There was quite a bit of second hand embarrassment and “omg kill me now pls” in that conversation.

Ahahaha dies looking at book list
The Beast storyline gets covered in one of the later books in Amneris’ series :joy:

That’s actually a much better explanation imma steal it :eyes: But yeah, in the case of Amneris remembering, she lowkey has a mental breakdown that almost ends all Creation so Hathor pretty much had to slap her and say “get it together dammit”. Only healthy family dynamics here

Like the one above, yes :joy: There are others tho. Meeting another version of yourself when you and the other version are completely aware is always awkward.

Ehhhhhhh I mean technically no but also yes. The Phoenixes are necessary for Creation to function and be protected against, uh, outsiders known as the Vetlun (also a long story) and for Creation itself to exist. So long as a Phoenix doesn’t leave Creation (which Hathor does sometimes because of the Vessel of Time thing, so does Amneris but that one wasn’t willingly) for too long, things are pretty chill. When they are gone for a while, things get a little crazy.

Geez buddy that must cause headaches to say the least

That makes a lot of sense. I use something similar tbh where my characters unlock their true power as part of puberty. It’s different for everyone obviously but it’s part of the changes and pressures that come with growing up.

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They don’t feel that far. I mean, they don’t have the brains for experiencing regret or any complex emotions.

But lets say regret does happen. Well, nothing can be done about that.

Yep. Richard’s complained that he can’t control when he gets visions, and he can’t control how much of a thing he gets to see. He only glimpses the future.

(What he doesn’t know is that his demon, Charcoal, picks and chooses what to share with him. Charcoal does this for his entertainment. Charcoal gets some visions out of his control, but he can also actively look into the future.)

Their demon counterparts. And possibly some kind of incident that might threaten the life of their human. They can sort of detect the danger way beforehand. I still haven’t figured out how that then translates into the human deciding, on a whim, to wear a bullet proof vest or to not board a certain train or whatever.

How does that work… no idea. Any ideas? :stuck_out_tongue:

Sounds about right XD

Omg, that’s awesome XD

Yes, please do! :grin:

Got me thinking, what would this actually be like? Have you ever imagined meeting a version of yourself from a parallel world but who is living a completely different life?

Do tell :smirking_face:

New name alert! So, what’s the story behind this name? What are the Vetlun and what do they look like? Where are they outside of?

You know what? Every time I imagine some place in your story, it’s floaty space XD Because, Creation just sounds like… idk, like, space and stars and planets and wormholes :zany_face:

Are there wormholes in your world?

Actually, he focuses on his mission and the present, and isn’t bothered by a lot of the past.

And he avoids certain triggers.

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Has there ever been a case of a human using Angelic powers to do bad things? If so, how are they stopped?
Also it’s pretty interesting that they don’t experience complex emotion. Is there a reason you decided to do that?

Dang Charcoal sounds like a bit of a pain in the butt :joy: Can the visions be enough to make Richard go a bit crazy? Does he ever figure out the demon is picking the visions he sees?

You could do the whole Spidey Sense thing. Aside from that, no idea :joy:

Okay because it’s a common take for obvious reasons I gotta ask: Did the demons use to be Angelic? Is there any relation there at all?

Pretty sure I’d annoy myself to the point one of us would punch the other :joy:

The entire list? Well, the Pillars of Creation start crumbling, the Walls start breaking, the Void starts consuming Creation, bad gets worse, good gets worse, basically everything gets flipped on its head more than usual :face_holding_back_tears: or as I like to call it, books 4, 5, and 6 thought funnily enough it had nothing to do with the lack of Phoenixes because they were all there

Vetlun loosely translates to “Old Gods”. It’s a mix of the Latin word “vetus” (old) and the word “Lunix” (Creator) which comes from the Age of the Gods. There’s other titles like “Those from Before”, “Creatures from Beyond”, “Great Old Ones”, “Ancient Gods”, “Elder Gods”, etc.

The Vetlun are creatures that come from outside Creation and the Void, and from before either existed (known as “Before” and “Beyond”). They represent the primal forces (eg creation, destruction, eternity, time, matter, balance, power, life, death, emotions, memory, shadow, entropy, negentropy, order, chaos, cosmos, name, soul, etc). So, while they exist outside Creation, the occasional one slips in. Some were also trapped in Creation near the Beginning. They claim to be acting under the orders of their mysterious creator but no one knows if this is true :eyes:

When the Vetlun come into Creation, things go nuts. They throw physics on top of its head, things are created and destroyed almost at random, people, creatures and places vanish, they struggle with the concepts of shape and being corporeal. Majority of them want to destroy Creation or turn it into their own kingdom. Others want to help. Some want to mess with things for fun. They’re not “evil” but they’re sure as hell not “good”.

As for what they look like, that’s a little difficult to explain :sweat_smile: So, they can mimic humanoid shapes to interact with people, but then they also have their true energy forms. Some are beautiful, some are terrifying, some drive people insane. Some have faces, some don’t. Some can be comprehended, others can’t. Some can speak through people and “possess” them.

They pop up mostly in Hathor’s series because it’s the job of the Vessel of Time to protect Creation from the Vetlun (though she doesn’t learn this until book 3).

There’s a lot of space, stars, planets and wormholes, yes :joy: There’s also black holes, living stars, broken worlds, forgetten realms, inter-planetary and inter-dimensional battles, and a lot more. It’s the “science” part of the “science fantasy” :relieved_face:

Dare I ask what the triggers are?

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How did Richard become immortal in the first place?

Where did the demons come from?

@TheTigerWriter

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I don’t know :woman_shrugging: lol

YES! This I have an answer.

I haven’t been watching a lot of movies recently, but, I typically watch a lot of horror movies and often the angels are like the good guys, the human-like guys, and they’re really smart and all-seeing or what have you. Demons are often like monsters.

I wanted to make demons more like humans in terms of how they think, and angellics as really really simple amoeba-like single-cell-like creatures. Humans in my world might think “oh, angellics are some higher being and human-like and smart and we should always listen to them“ but in reality, they’re not smart or anything. In fact, they don’t have a mind of their own for most of them. I liked that idea :stuck_out_tongue: Flips the old “angels wow“ idea on its head.

Project Demon Friend flips lot of horror-movie things on its head

Yeah, sometimes :stuck_out_tongue: I mean, Charcoal is a demon and demons have eternal lives, and he’s now stuck with Richard, so he’s gonna make the most of it.

No. But at some point in the future, he will learn that Charcoal can actively look into the future, and he will ask Charcoal to tell him about the future. (I wrote a micro story about this as part of an IG writers challenge thing, so it might not be canon. I could decide this never happens.)

Actually maybe? People who have good intuition, you know, I had this idea that “good intuition“ is actually an angellic power. Now, whether or not that person decides to trust their good intuition and listen to it or not could be another story?

Does that make sense? Could that be a good explanation?

Some yeah. Angellics can become the fallen after becoming corrupted (but note, only the ones that have more brain and power than the average light amoeba)

I like the idea of corrupted angels anyway. I had to keep that bit in my lore XD

Chaos XD Does this happen to any of the characters in your story?

What happens when the Void consumes Creation in its entirety? What does that look like? Can anyone get Creation out of the Void, or is that it?

Sounds like the Vetlun are like, Eldritch creatures.

Are the Vetlun immortal and eternal creatures? Do they get old and die, can they get sick, poisoned, or killed? Do all Vetlun get along with each other? Is there any in-fighting going on amongst them when it comes to who gets to do what to Creation?

Have there ever been cases where the Vetlun comes into Creation and decides to hide their identity and stay there, only to then cause trouble many, many years later? Can people in Creation turn out to be the Vetlun?

What happens to the people possessed by the Vetlun? Do they live to tell the tale or no? I’ve got a few possessions in my story :smirking_face: One from a demon’s perspective and it’s funny

I like the combination of these words! Tell me about the weirdest forgotten realm you got.

Okay here are some:

  • his sister’s full name (Nickname, Ria, is relatively okay. But say, Ariella, and… She’s the only sibling that he has ever had in all his lives. The name itself triggers memories, and the memories…oh yeah, those really do it)

  • his first life’s full name (Not a big trigger, but it’ll make him angry if you mention it because it was when he was his weakest)

  • the name of a boy who was the leader of a bully gang during one of Richard’s lives (It makes him remember when he felt powerless and Richard hates that.)

  • mentioning to him the fact that he’s gay (In this world, being gay is kind of hush hush still, and times when people found out he was gay in past lives, well, it didn’t go well. Also, he’s got a weirdly complex relationship with love because as a psychopath, he has a hard time understanding it. He remembers loving his sister but doesn’t remember the feeling now which frustrates him.)

  • telling him that in all his lives before he remembered who he was, he was a lonely kid who craved companionship (and subsequently telling him he still IS lonely)

Charcoal does avoid these triggers, but if something comes up related to the triggers, he’ll mention them. Not because of any evil intent. He’s prepared to deal with triggered Richard and will even comfort him.

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Very good question!

So, back in life one, Richard wasn’t called Richard, he was a poor boy in a poor family who was always bullied and he was so weak. So, somehow he finds out a way to summon a demon, and that was Charcoal, and he wants to get revenge on all the terrible people around him.

Before he can, he dies. So, he gets reincarnated into a new life as his wish. He does this reincarnated schtick for a while, each time getting a new wish. But he never gets far enough to complete his goals. So then he decides to become immortal.

That way he’ll be young for long enough to see his plans through. And by this time, he’s gotten better at using all his powers.

Either they were fallen Angellics, or they were just born in the land of the dead.

So, if you could go anywhere in your story, where would you like to visit? Assuming, you could go anywhere because you’re the author, and you won’t die.

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Ooh! There are many places!

The Empire of Jaeblia because it is pretty much a Venice, Italy if it was a more magical place. The Kingdom of Khollothage because the country has a gated community of castles (the only gated community) and a large shopping district. Then finally The Queendom of Pannotia which is a desert nation that has a huge and beautiful oasis which is a national park.

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Fair :joy:

Nice :joy: That’s a cool way to go about it!
Do the humans ever figure out the Angelic are single cells in terms of thought?
How human-like is Demon thought? Are they superior intelligence or the same?
What other horror movie things do you flip around?

Can’t argue with that logic :joy:

Ooooo sounds like fun.
Do Charcoal and Richard often communicate in that kind of way?

I recon it would be pretty good as a way to explain it, especially since Humans are kinda known for not trusting their instincts or common sense and doing the exact opposite of the good choice. It would be interesting to see in the context of an actual power.

I’ve also got Fallen Angels heehee but they’re not like your single cell Angellics :joy:
What causes an Angellic to be corrupt? Asking cause like you said, they’re not exactly smart and don’t seem to have a wide range of thought / emotion.

Actually yes :joy: In Amenris’ series, she meets a version of herself who she does, in fact, punch because, and I quote, “what a bitch”. Gotta love evil alternates :relieved_face:

It’s never actually happened that the whole if Creation is consumed. You gotta remember Creation is effing huge :joy: The theories are based around cases of words being lost to the Void and that one incident where Creation almost did fall into the Void :face_without_mouth:

The Void is an antimatter realm. Creation is like our universe, so matter. In this particular case, the creatures of the Void (aka Void Beasts) feed on matter. So when worlds do fall into the Void, they’re quite literally eaten, it just takes a long time depending on the size due to the matter/antimatter thing. Where normally they cancel each other out, because the amount of antimatter is so overwhelming, sooner or later there’s nothing left. There are ruins in the Void of lost realms, fallen civilizations, and more than a few bodies, but they’re just the things that hold out longer.

If Creation did fall completely into the Void, it would be gone. It would take a very long time (relatively speaking since Time doesn’t exist in the Void) for it be completely consumed, but because there’s a hell of a lot more Void than Creation, poof. There are cases where Creation can be pulled from the Void (yes, I do cover this in a book but it’s one of Amneris’ books, not Hathor’s :joy:) so long as the Pillars of Creation can be salvaged. Once those a gone, you’re pretty screwed.

That’s the word I was looking for :joy: Yes, they are.

Eternal creatures. Can’t be killed but can be banished. They don’t age, they don’t get sick, they can’t be killed. They just exist, even without physical forms. They definitely do not all get along with each other and there’s a lot of in-fighting :joy: A lot of Vetlun are literal opposites to each other (think life vs. death) so all have their own idea of what they want to do and, naturally, their plan is the only correct one. Except the ones who just don’t care enough to do anything and look at the creatures in Creation like “oh right you exist okay I’m bored now bye”

Yes. This one does happen :joy: There’s a handful in Creation that are “dormant”. Some are hiding in other creatures, some are just there.

The main example of this is the Beast. It’s dormant but when it wakes up, that’s literally the end of Creation. Its existence has been confirmed and everyone knows where it is, but what they don’t know is the Beast’s “soul” is reborn in another creature. The Beast is dreaming of the life/lives it’s having as that person. When that person actually figures out they’re the Beast, let’s just say there’s a bit of a mental breakdown.

Depends on the person tbh. In most cases, the person is destroyed because they’re physically, mentally and spiritually incapable of holding a Vetlun’s essence. In a few cases, the person goes crazy. In some very very VERY rare cases, the person gets out just fine.

Already sounds funny and I don’t even know the context :joy:

I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “weird” tbh :thinking: There’s so many realms so I’ll just give a few examples.

Keh - Amneris' Series

The main realm mentioned / seen in Amneris’ series is Keh. That’s because she was there for a while (looooooooong story). I actually based it off The Empty from Supernatural.

“Keh” literally translates to “Nothing”. The realm is nothing. No light, no dark, no time, no space. Just endless nothing. Keh is where souls that are “damaged” or deemed “too dangerous” end up from the God Worlds (with some exceptions, of course). Think of it as a giant prison where you sleep forever. It’s guarded by a Vetlun known simply as the Keh Guardian. A few not-Veltun can access Keh (eg the Primordial Deity Iniq (death) and a handful of her Deathwalkers) but that’s only like 5 people at most. So yeah, it’s just nothing. Forever. That’s it.

Hathor’s series covers a few more realms because, again, it’s her job as the Vessel of Time to keep the Vetlun away.

Tower of Time

The main one she goes to is the Tower of Time which is in the Temporal Realm of the Infinite Ocean / Time Sea. It’s a single island with a massive tower completely surrounded by endless ocean. This is where all Vessels of Time go and because Time doesn’t function there as we understand it, it’s not uncommon to run into long dead Vessels or Vessels who haven’t been born yet. It’s also where the Primordial Ixasis (Time) resides with their main workers the Ævum.

Iakhaemathra

One of Hathor’s books is set on Iakhaemathra, a lost realm which just fell out of Creation so now exists in Beyond. It’s a small single-empire planet that vanished in the very early days of Creation thought to be home to some of the First People who were the ones that initially banished the Vetlun. There’s 0 record of what it was like and why it vanished, but the leading theory is it just got caught up in the Banishment by accident or as a sacrifice. No one knows, not even me because I’m still figuring it out :joy:

Other Interesting Realms
  • Derakai’s Dwelling is home to the Primordial Derakai (Space, twin of Ixasis/Time) and their followers, the Iocus. It’s an endless underground realm made of caves and passages.
  • The Realm of Shadows is a realm, you guessed it, made of shadows. One of my main villains in Amneris’ series was trapped there for a while.
  • The Hall of the Vetlun is a ruined world where the Vetlun are thought to have been first created. Think of it as a a very long hallway with a pedestal and throne at one end. That’s all it is.
  • The Shadow World (not to be confused with the Realm of Shadows) is the literal “shadow” of Creation. It’s home of a particularly nasty Vetlun named Gissu. It’s home to shadow people, shadow empires, shadow lives, shadow wars, etc. Like how we have a shadow, so does Creation.
  • The Forest of Infinity is an endless forest that’s said to hold lost secrets and forgotten whispers from Creation and Beyond. It’s also home to the Lake of Celestia where you can see your true self if you look in its reflection. The few that have now wander the Forest endlessly because they lost their minds

Sounds like a lot of the triggers are trauma related. Are there any that aren’t? What made you go with those ones?

Sounds like these two have an interesting relationship.

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Wow, those all sound like such wonderful places to visit! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

What are some items you can buy at a fantasy shopping district? That sounds like fun

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Well, if you consider Richard a human, than, yes, he knows angellics aren’t much of anything unless they are Charcoal’s counterpart (the thing is, neither of them know who the counterpart is, but they know it will be one of the high ranks and really strong).

You know, it depends on the demon. There are stupid humans and stupid demons :stuck_out_tongue: There’s sophisticated demons who are very smart and learned just like there are humans like that. Demons don’t find humans stupid though. They find them entertaining.

Charcoal can have a philosophical conversation with you about what it means to live, to love, to be human or demon, and to believe in a higher power and what that means for humans because he has observed them for a long time. He understands the complexities of human relationships, and can compare them to the complexities of demon relationships.

But then there’s mid-tier demons like Glasya (who appeared once to possess someone), and he likes to crack stupid jokes, and get into a little bit of trouble just to get some attention, and he’s kind of impulsive and regrets his bad decisions. He won’t be able to talk about philosophy. He doesn’t even know what “a philosophy“ is.

Hope that answered your question :stuck_out_tongue:

What horror movie things I flipped

Demons possessing humans is often from the human’s perspective, right, or not even shown? Well, I wrote one from the demon’s perspective with humor. Even explained why humans do the spider walk when possessed.

Demons fearing the cross or churches? Nope. In fact, Charcoal finds it funny that humans think that can do anything.

The reason demons possess humans is either explained in horror movies as because demons are just evil, or they want the human’s soul, or it’s not even explained at all. Well, demons in my world live in the human’s shadow if they’ve contracted with the human. They don’t live inside the human. They can try, but it’s physically demanding. Imagine trying to fit inside a tiny suit.

Demons revealing their name being like a big no no and the climax of the movie because now you can say its name and condemn it to hell. Well, knowing a demon’s name in my world doesn’t do anything. If you know their full name, it sends a little electric shock into their bodies, but that’s all.

What kind of way? I’m confused :sweat_smile: Richard doesn’t typically ask Charcoal for help like that. He has too much pride. There’s soooo much banter it’s fun

It would be… No idea what that would look like :sweat_smile: There will be a scene where Mallord is shown to have come with a bullet proof vest even though no one had any warning the criminals had guns. But it ultimately saved his life. And so, that’s the power of the angellic.

I’m imagining they’ve got something to do with tampering with Creation in a bad way?

I thought you might ask. So, the higher ranked ones who have more thought, self-awareness, and intelligence are the ones that can become corrupt. If you go to the original post, you can check “the disgraced“ for something a little unusual related to this :smirking_face:

I don’t expect any less from Amneris XD And I just realized I spelled your character right and you didn’t XD She’s coming for you :smirking_face:

Someone’s been in and come out alive to report this? Or, is this something only you, the author, knows about?

Okay :face_with_raised_eyebrow: After hearing about your world so much, by this time, you know, I’m not going to question why you can say it would take a long time if time doesn’t exist, because my brain would be turned around XD If you say so, it must be so :stuck_out_tongue:

So, Vetlun. I have more questions.

How many are there?

How are they born/come into existence?

Do THEY call themselves Vetlun? Or another word? Do they even have words as you said some don’t speak?

You made it sound like the Vetlun can essentially do things like the crazy time-bending stuff happening in Dr. Strange or Inception. What are their powers? Do all Vetlun have the same powers or does it differ between them?

Sounds terrifying. Since you said Amneris was there for a while, I guess you can somehow get out of it?

If it’s a place where souls go, I guess you don’t get hungry there or anything?

Who made the realm? And who decided to use it as a prison?

Hold on, wait, if it’s nothing, how can you be in it? :smirking_face: What does “nothing“ feel and look like?

Ooooh, not even the all-knowing creator of all Creation, Beyond, and Before? (or was it Behind? sorry, I can’t remember) knows the secrets of this lost realm with a name I can’t exactly pronounce, but looks like a cool name.

You think there’s still people living on it?

and the Tower of Time is making me think of that book, Piranesi. Have you read it?

The biggest trauma is with his sister, the second is the bully’s name, and the rest are kind of minor.

I didn’t choose them, they just happened XD Actually, the fact that Richard is on his seventh life wasn’t discovered until later, so then I realized that hmm, maybe he remembers some things. And then, hm, maybe he remembers all things because that’s more interesting and gives this villain some points to relate to.

Yes, and it’s fun :grin:

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Magical items, clothing, electronics, food, books, and apparel.

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This month I took off of writing to start getting backgrounds ready for quotes.

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Edited a skull onto the woman because I’m avoiding faces.

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Leaves on his face, to square it out, because I think it’s silly.

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Lengthening of the beard to hide the rest.

But otherwise they’re pretty much full on squares because Instagram has a format that annoys me.

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What kind of books can be found in this world?

Are there fantasy books and if so, what do you think fantasy would look like to people in this world?

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The rectangles? I’ve embraced them :stuck_out_tongue: But you can still post in squares. It just gets a little cut off on the main feed

Looks cool though. What’s the era of inspiration?

btw, I can’t remember, we’re following each other on IG, right? :thinking:

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There are two versions of this.

Tomes are magical books that a person can use for summoning rituals, creating potions, and building magical items.

Books are just either a form of entertainment or learning.

There are fantasy books in my world, but they work on the vein of fairy tales. That’s something I have not fully fleshed out in my world-building.

Sorry.

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  1. I’m almost never on it, so I forget if we are.
  2. Oh, that’s not the shape it was fighting me on some 2-3 years back…
    This is what I’m thinking of:
    Instagram posts can be square, landscape, or vertical. All images will be cropped to a square in the feed.
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Any aside from Richard?

Tbf humans are stupidly entertaining :joy:

It does. And it’s pretty cool that you’ve given them their own personalities instead of the typical “let’s destroy the world MWAHAHAHAHA” that demons are usually given

Okay I gotta ask why :eyes:

How does demon contracting work in your world?

Why does it cause that response?

In-depth instead of just taking the piss and cracking jokes. The banter sounds pretty funny :joy:

Ayyy that’s a good way to do it :joy: It would be cool to have more cases like that, especially if it comes across as completely random and out of character as a thing to do.

Actually, no, I was leaning more towards the God is a dick theory.

I’d need my internet to go back to the top of the post without going “AHHHHHHHHHHH NOPE” tbh :joy: Also how are much more awareness are we talking since they don’t really seem to have any in the first place?

New computer, new keyboard :joy: And that isn’t even her actual name so I don’t think she’d care that much :joy:

Only one person is known to have come out, and that was just pure luck. She happened to find the right place to get out - which ends up being the path the characters follow when it happens to my characters - and report back. Only because it happened so long ago, it’s considered a mythological tale, not fact. Until it’s confirmed, of course.

Time is relative :relieved_face: It’s merely a way our brains process the idea of moving forward in life and looking back. The only reason we see time is because of the concept of life, death and change. But then we’re getting even more into quantum mechanics which I hear does peoples’ heads in a bit :joy: Honestly the only explanation I can give is that the Void exists outside Time. Theoretically, you could watch the birth, death and rebirth of Creation from outside while never aging (as is the case with the Vetlun).

Currently? (checks file) 48

No one knows :eyes: Very few actually know they exist so there’s barely any record of their existence outside the Tower of Time and a handful of mythological tales. The Vetlun claim to have been created from thoughts, emotions, discoveries, behaviour and Lunix but there’s no way to prove or disprove this.

They sometimes refer to themselves as Vetlun because that’s what they’re called by others. Generally speaking, they don’t have a name for creatures like themselves. They have their name and the names of other Vetlun, not an actual term to describe the group as a whole.

Pretty much nailed it with Dr. Strange and Inception :joy:

Vetlun all have different powers relating to the force they represent (eg the Beast represents energy, Khalid represents fear, Trillion represents time, Ania represents truth, Ararae represents infinity, etc.). They have power over that particular force and everything that falls under its definition, so some Vetlun powers do overlap but it’s overall different. They also have different levels of power depending on when they were “born” (the oldest are the most powerful, the youngest are the least but still pretty powerful).

Very very VERY rarely. The only reason Amneris got out is because Iniq (Death) quite literally yanked her out.

Nope. No hunger, thirst, time. The souls are dormant. They exist, but that’s it. They don’t do anything.

Now there’s the question :joy: No one knows. All anyone knows is it’s home to the Keh Guardian but no one knows where that came from, why some souls are directed to Keh or why/how it even exists in the first place. Not even the Primordials or First Beings (aka original Deities in Creation) know anything other than it exists and has something to do with a “Higher Authority”. Iniq and her Deathwalkers have very limited influence over it. They have no control over who actually ends up there.

Now you’re just going into philosophy :joy: I very intentionally DON’T answer those questions because it would ruin the mystery also I have no idea but people don’t need to know that part teeheehee. We, as humans and living creatures, just can’t comprehend the idea of nothing. We’re not programmed to get it which is why I chose it.

Oh yah there’s people in Beyond. Beyond contains alternate versions of Creation (in the same way to multiverse contains alternate universes) but also worlds that slipped through the occasional crack in the Walls. So it only makes sense there might people people there.

Afraid not. Haven’t heart of it.

Fair :joy:

Ooo that definitely makes the villain sound interesting too :eyes:

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Heeey, no need to apologize.

I don’t even know what my characters read for fun apart from this one single book that appears as like an Easter Egg situation XD

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