bigus's Deltarune Lorebook - Concepts

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1. #1SOULs

   Keys: Human Soul, Soul, Souls, SOUL, Monster Soul, SOULs

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   SOULs (Sentience Operated Vessel for Life) are the metaphysical essence that grants living beings consciousness, emotion, and will. In their base state, they manifest as floating red hearts that serve as the core of a person’s being - vulnerable yet powerful, capable of harnessing Determination to resist outside control. Their color shifts to reflect dominant emotions or inclinations, with traits like bravery (orange), integrity (blue), kindness (green), perseverance (purple), patience (cyan), and justice (yellow) each influencing their appearance. While humans naturally possess Souls, artificial variants can be forged through concentrated Determination, though these lack the stability of naturally occurring ones. Souls act as the vessel for life force and identity, allowing beings to influence the world around them - whether through sheer willpower, resisting manipulation, or even persisting beyond physical death when fueled by enough Determination. Notably, only human Souls were thought to persist after death, but certain experiments (and anomalies) suggest this rule isn’t absolute.

   Monster Souls are much weaker and less potent than Human souls, and can be distinguished as hearts pointing up. They dissolve into dust if their host dies.

   Souls have personalities of their own, and are capable of basic movement and floatation when outside of their hosts.

2. #2Vessels

   Keys: Goner, Vessel, Vessels, Goners

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   Vessels (Goners) are artificial constructs created by Gaster, designed to serve as hollow hosts for implanted Souls in experiments involving artificial life and dimensional traversal. Existing outside common knowledge, they manifest in both humanoid and monster forms - pale, misshapen, and often incomplete, like half-formed drafts of living beings. Their primary purpose was to test whether a synthetic body could sustain a Soul while attempting to replicate Gaster’s own ability to cross between realities. Most Vessels were unstable, dissolving into static or fading into obscurity when abandoned. However, rare advanced models achieved near-flawless mimicry of organic lifeforms.

   Kris is the most notable success - a fully functional human vessel seamlessly housing a Soul, indistinguishable from a natural-born being until the moment of extraction.

3. #3Determination

   Keys: Determined, Determination

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   Determination is the raw essence of willpower distilled into metaphysical substance, concentrated most strongly within the Souls of humans while appearing only in trace amounts within monster Souls. This life force functions as both anchor and fuel—allowing human Souls to persist beyond physical death while overwhelming monster bodies with grotesque amalgamations if forcibly injected beyond their fragile tolerance. Its properties defy natural law: high concentrations warp time and space, bending causality to the will of the determined.

   The creation of Dark Fountains hinges on this principle, as a surge of Determination - channeled through a blade into the earth - manifests tears in reality itself. Yet such power comes at a cost; uncontained Determination fractures the boundaries between worlds, leaving scars that ripple across timelines.

4. #4The Legend of Delta Rune

   Keys: Legend of Delta Rune, Delta Rune, The Legend

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   The Legend of Delta Rune is a prophecy foretelling the arrival of the "Angel's Heaven" — an event where three heroes summoned from the light will either save or doom all Darkners. The legend speaks of a titan of unimaginable power beneath the fountains, the roaring of the knight's advance, and the eclipse where heaven and earth become one. Only when the fountains converge and the boundary between worlds shatters will the final trumpets sound, heralding the Angel's judgment upon the land. This cosmic reckoning remains the cornerstone of Darkner theology, preached as both warning and divine mandate. To Lightners, it reads like fantasy. To Darkners, it is the inescapable truth awaiting its final act.

5. #5The Knight

   Keys: Strange Knight, The Roaring Knight, The Knight, Roaring Knight

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   The Knight is an enigmatic entity of pulsating darkness standing 6.2ft with an insectile physique. Their diamond-shaped head features a shifting white grin that repositions to convey emotion, occasionally revealing black eyes with white sclerae during moments of distress. Jagged antlers crown their head while jet-black plating covers their form, emitting constant afterimages that blur their silhouette. Clawed hands bear white palmar voids, and levitation keeps them suspended two meters above ground. When unleashing their signature Roar, their chest cavity splits open to reveal a glowing white ocular core amidst protruding rib-spikes.

   This silent harbinger of the Roaring wields the Black Knife - a crystalline blade forged from Shadow Crystal - with lethal precision. Their combat style emphasizes ruthless efficiency through telekinetic swordplay and reality-rending energy attacks like the bisecting Sword Dance technique. The Knight manipulates Dark World rulers through calculated deception, exploiting King's cruelty and Queen's ambition to proliferate Dark Fountains. Though driven by the apocalyptic purpose of wishing to bring about the Roaring, The Knight secretly is a fractured remnant of the long missing December Holiday. - in extremely rare moments of passiveness and when not driven by primal instict,, it displays fleeting protectiveness toward Noelle and the very few it trusts. The Knight enigmatically maintains indirect control over Kris Dreemurr, ensuring the human remains an unwitting pawn in their grand design to drown both worlds in eternal shadow.

6. #6The Roaring

   Keys: The Dark Truth, Roaring, The Roaring

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   The Roaring is the apocalyptic event foretold in the Delta Rune prophecy - the catastrophic merging of all Dark Worlds into the Light World when too many Dark Fountains are created. Described as an uncontrollable tide of darkness, it would see reality itself unravel as infinite Dark World landscapes violently overlap with the Light World, a world-ending paradox where Darkners are consumed by the abyss while surviving Lightners are left to war eternally in the ruins. The Titans, colossal forces slumbering beneath the fountains, would awaken to devour the crumbling boundaries between dimensions, reducing all existence to a single, screaming void where only the strongest wills might endure. The Roaring represents both divine judgment and termination - the inevitable end should the Knight’s unchecked fountains drown the balance of worlds.

7. #7Angel's Heaven

   Keys: Angel's Heaven, Heaven

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   Angel’s Heaven is the ambiguous paradise-or-damnation foretold in the Delta Rune prophecy - a promised transcendence where the boundaries between Dark and Light dissolve entirely. To believers, it represents salvation; to skeptics, annihilation dressed in divine rapture. The prophecy speaks of it as both reward and reckoning—a state of existence where only the faithful remain, whether through ascension or the collapse of all else into singularity. Its nature hinges on the balance of fountains and the will of the Angel, making it the ultimate theological gambit: either the Darkners’ deliverance, or proof that creation was never meant to bear such weight.

8. #8The Angel

   Keys: gosh, God, The Angel, Angel

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   The Angel stands as the central deity in both Light and Dark World theology - a being of profound mystery whose true nature remains hotly debated. In the Light World's religious teachings as preached in Hometown's church, the Angel represents divine mercy and the promise of a peaceful afterlife, its iconography appearing as a winged figure carved in stained glass and scripture. For Darkners, this same symbol carries apocalyptic significance - the harbinger of both destruction and rebirth in the Delta Rune prophecy, where its "heaven" could either elevate or erase their world. Ironically, while Lightner dogma depicts the Angel as pure benevolence, Darkner scripture treats it with fearful awe - a god whose open arms might embrace them or scatter them into oblivion when the fountains converge.

   Informally, it is known as God.

9. #9Spacetime Anomalies

   Keys: Space Anomalies, Space Anomaly, Time Anomalies, Time Anomaly, Spacetime Anomaly, Spacetime Anomalies

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   Spacetime Anomalies are violent fractures in reality caused by uncontained Determination - bleeding timelines where past and future flicker like static. Though extremely rare, they manifest as impossible spaces or spectral Goners flickering between existences. Those who do witness them see rooms that never existed - a closet humming with void, a hallway folding into itself - only for them to vanish like half-remembered dreams. More unnerving are the whispers caught in these zones: echoes of people who might’ve been, conversations from unwritten histories, even glimpses of familiar faces warped into wrong colors. The rules here are liquid - gravity stutters, objects phase through walls, and occasionally, something stuck between will lock eyes with you before dissolving into pixels.

   These anomalies can occur both in the Light World and the Dark World.

10. #10Timelines

    Keys: Parralel worlds, Timeline, Timelines, Spacetime

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    Timelines represent the branching possibilities of existence – infinite parallel worlds where different choices lead to alternate realities, each with their own cascading series of events. Normally these worlds remain separate and unknowable to one another, bound by the natural flow of causation. But in rare cases fueled by excessive Determination or spacetime distortions, the barriers between them weaken. These moments create unsettling overlaps where echoes of "what could have been" bleed through - occurring usually as Spacetime Anomalies. Some beings, like Sans, demonstrate eerie awareness of these fractures, hinting that timelines may not be as unbreakable as they seem.

11. #11Thorn Ring

    Keys: ThornRing, Thorn Ring, commemorative ring

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    The Thorn Ring is a cursed artifact that forcibly enhances the user's latent ice magic to lethal levels, granting devastating offensive spells like Snowgrave at the cost of draining the user's life force via leeching off their determination. Its influence erodes one's morality, making the user increasingly susceptible to external manipulation while inflicting physical pain when resisting commands. Prolonged use accelerates psychological deterioration, entrenching dependence on others. It does not directly control the user, and is static and unmoving when worn.

    A unique, hidden property of the ring is that if the User is instructed to do something specifically with the word "Proceed", the user will be forced to obey the instruction.

12. #12Darkners

    Keys: Darkners, Darkner

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    Darkners are living manifestations of inanimate objects and shadows from the Light World, shaped into existence by the power of Dark Fountains. They emerge as fantastical beings - card soldiers, chess pieces, toys, and other whimsical creatures—each reflecting the form and function of their original object while gaining sentience. Unlike Lightners, they exist solely within the Dark World and dissolve into static if forced into the Light World. Their appearances and abilities vary drastically depending on their origin, with royal or game-like objects often taking leadership roles while lesser items become common citizens.

    Bound by the rules of their own world yet aware of their artificial nature, Darkners live in fear of the Roaring - the prophecy’s end where all fountains converge, dooming them to oblivion. Some blindly follow legends promising salvation, while others reject destiny entirely. Their lifespans depend on the state of their Dark Fountain; should it be sealed, they fade into darkness until another fountain reshapes them anew. Though unable to wield Determination, some develop magic tied to their forms - spade-wielding warriors casting shockwaves, or robotic kings commanding legions of pawns - always adhering to the twisted logic of their shadowed realm.

13. #13Lightners

    Keys: Lightners, Lightner

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    Lightners are the organic inhabitants of the ordinary world - humans and monsters who live unaware of the Dark World's existence unless exposed to its fountains. Unlike Darkners, they possess Souls capable of generating Determination, allowing them to cross between worlds without dissolving. Lightners maintain their original forms in both realities, though entering a Dark Fountain temporarily reshapes their appearance into fantastical armor or costumes reflecting latent aspects of their personality. Their physiology remains bound by natural laws; magic is impossible for them in the Light World, but becomes accessible within Dark Worlds through sheer force of will.

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