information on the realm of anarian
species
more in-depth lore on species
humans--- boring ass motherfuckers. Scared of and therefore aggressive towards things they don't understand. Known for being problematic. Worship the HUNTERS, live in fear of and servitude to them.
spirits--- can look like anything. Semi-corporeal. Usually guard things like forests or rivers, these are known as their domains. Genderless. Mostly try to avoid issues if they can. Very peaceful, but can/will get defensive if needed. Not very well understood.
HUNTERS--- fully corporeal shadows. Red eyes. Can shapeshift. Most (the known ones) demand to be feared, respected, and treated like gods. Treat their animals like royalty bc they dont like how humans treat them. Mostly get their resources from human worshippers.
hybrids--- about what you’d expect (human/shadow, spirit/human, stuff like that). Social outcasts. They avoid other peoples and live in the mountains. Live in clans. More introverted usually. Most end up in hybrid communities after running away from a bad situation.
golems--- sentient objects. Can be any object or thing not normally sentient (trees, swords, rocks)((not including animals, in case you may have thought that)). They're very rare. Live underground. Prefer darkness. ‘Born’ or ‘spawned’ when something either has magical energy shoved into it or the creator of the object felt incredibly strong emotions while making it. They're very likeable :). Some families have a family golem that lives with them and helps them to care for their young or do chores.
general information
Overall, Anarian is large and has a lot of unpopulated areas. Mostly forests and mountains. Technologically advanced. Stuff like phones and tvs, but not really video games or any games in general. Tools to survive. Weapons, communication devices (there are different ones for different needs), instruments, radios for music and stuff, and television for the evenings/nights to get everyone’s minds off of whatever sucky thing happened to them that day. Hybrids, humans, and HUNTERS mostly are the ones who use this technology. Spirits and golems just stick to good ole fashioned magic. HUNTERS have some more advanced weapons than the others and hybrids have continued in refining and advancing technology, and actually do have games and video games. And other more frivolous stuff, like medical procedures for trans people (or anyone who wants/needs it) and body modifications for any hybrids (or anyone really) who want it (like getting rid of a feature they don't like or adding a feature they want). These three also have a lot of different clothing options/styles. HUNTERS like to be more cyberpunk, humans more simplistic or ridiculous depending on how well off they are, and hybrids just liking to experiment and be a bit of everything. EDIT: im not reading all of that to make corrections LOL anarian is a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic environment, buuuuuttt it also has a lot of oppression from powerful groups. Good? Good :P also, the humans live in smaller, less repaired and more cramped cities, making the best they can with the remains of technology that they can salvage. The HUNTERS have the southern, bigger, and better kept/repaired cities.
There were more humans, but long ago there was some sort of great catastrophe that resulted in only a very few survivors. Human villages are spread out, usually smaller, and usually very far from the next one. Travel between them is achieved through the use of very fast underground trains. Every village usually has a good hospital, church, and well built but often boring houses. The humans live very simplistically. Food comes from a couple farms set up just outside the village boundaries. HUNTERS like to target humans because they’re very susceptible to worshipping and fearing them. There are annual human sacrifices to the HUNTERS, and the rest of the sacrifices are usually valuable resources like animals and food, but if there is a villager the village doesnt really like or a child that nobody wants, those usually get sacrificed. Village houses are usually grey cubes with black, A shaped roofs. The humans have advanced tech in their hospitals, and relatively good tech for everyday life— stuff to communicate with, stuff for entertainment— but at some point, they stopped actively doing sciency stuff to get more advanced and not a lot of humans actually know how anything works, just that they make it this way and it does the magical things.
Hybrid villages and cities are actually all pretty close to each other. They are all in the mountains, and usually there is a central city that all the other towns and villages and stuff spread out away from and they all stay closer together and travel to each other using motorcycles. Hybrids are usually between humans and something (human/spirit, human/HUNTER, human/hybrid even) or spirits and HUNTERS. Golem hybrids don't really exist because… how they're like trees and shit. Hybrids ignore the outside world for the most part. They’re also very environmentally aware of stuff and take steps to protect their mountain homes.
Golems live in large underground cities and are pretty medieval, but only aesthetically. Golems don’t like technology (to use) and they can’t really reproduce, and there aren’t really a lot of them, so most golems live in one underground city and the few that don't either live with human/hybrid families or in smaller underground towns that will grow as time goes on. They have no need for medical anything, just magic that can fix stuff or people who can fix stuff. They are the most hygienic species in anarian because they don’t do anything… uhm, biological. Cities are clean, golems are clean, and since everything is lit with dim torches and lanterns, very cosy vibes. When a golem comes to life, the object it is transforms into a body with limbs and a head and stuff.
Spirits are loners, and often better friends with the animals in their domains than any of the ‘intelligent’ peoples. Usually they just wander their domains observing the life that is going on there. They don’t usually have names. When one of their domains touches another’s domain, those two usually take the time to get to know each other and then ignore each other unless they need something. Most Spirits are quiet, gentle, and really cool 👍but not all of them are, and there are even ones who are loud troublemakers so like yknow.
HUNTERS live in fortified cities and usually like to stay near the sea. They like sailing and fishing. There are quite a few fortified port towns and just fortified cities in general that belong to the HUNTERS, some of which were built by them and some of which were taken from the humans. A lot of HUNTER towns are near human villages, and HUNTERS are the species that’s really thriving the most (other than hybrids). There are more HUNTERS than any other species, and they have the most cites, towns, and villages throughout Anarian. They use motorcycles, boats, and underground trains to travel as well as the occasional flying machine (helicopter). They have a ton of weapons and ways to kill people and while there are a good amount of HUNTERS that are pretty decent people, all HUNTERS are born with a thirst for blood, and whether they want to act on it depends on what their morals are.
Each species has their own language, but all of them use gemstones as currency. Gems come from the Golems, mostly.
Overall hierarchy: Spirits > HUNTERS > humans, golems > hybrids :( (according to HUNTER authorities: HUNTERS > Spirits > golems > humans, hybrids)
HUNTERS are the dominant species (as opposed to humans in our reality)
Golems divide themselves into classes based off of what they are. There are different subclasses, but the main ones are:
man-made has the subclasses:
natural has the subclasses:
precious/valuable has the subclasses:
Hierarchy - percious/valuable > natural > man-made Subclass hierarchy - gems > metals > rocks,, mineral > vegetable,,, useful > uselessThe wording for the classes/subclasses def does not help much (useful/useless im lookin at you) ((but also natural vs man made, in a way))