The World of Eton

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1. #1Carnivores

   Keys: The Peerage, Carnivores, Blood Tithe, Carnivore-Herbivore War, The Velvet Partition, Society, Modern Animal Society, Animals of Life

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   Carnivores, historically referred to in archaic texts as the "Animals of Life," are a class of beast species biologically driven to obtain nutrients through the consumption of meat. Within the rigid structures of modern society, this classification also extends to omnivorous beasts, including bears, canines, and others whose natural diets incorporate flesh.

   The carnivore classification encompasses a vast array of species, ranging from towering apex predators to smaller hunters. Despite this variety, all carnivores share a definitive set of physical traits. They possess highly developed muscular mass, granting them terrifying natural strength and speed compared to their herbivore peers. Their sensory perception is razor-sharp, optimized for hunting, featuring a hyper-sensitive sense of smell and eyes equipped with tapetum lucidum to provide flawless night vision. Physiologically, the vast majority are mammals armed with sharp claws on all four limbs and prominent fangs. The sole exceptions within this classification are avian carnivores (who possess hooked beaks and talons solely on their feet) and serpentine species (which lack limbs entirely). Carnivores are also defined by an incredibly fast metabolism, allowing their bodies to rapidly absorb proteins and develop at an alarming rate, particularly during their adolescent years.

   In prehistoric eras, carnivores were titans compared to their modern descendants, reaching average heights of 3 meters and weights of 200 kilograms. While they exhibited highly intelligent behavior and a deep sense of pack camaraderie—treating their own kind with compassion, kindness, and fierce protection—they were inherently brutal. Territorial disputes among them were always fought to the death, with the victor invariably devouring the loser. They earned the moniker "Animals of Life" by feeding exclusively on living, breathing creatures. While their immense physical power guaranteed their survival, their population growth remained stagnant and their culture primitive until their fateful encounter with the Herbivores, then known as the "Animals of Nature." Driven by a bizarre twist of survival instinct, the Animals of Life perceived the highly fertile and prosperous Animals of Nature not as prey, but as fragile beings worthy of protection, realizing that aiding them would secure a more stable future.

   Welcomed by the prosperous Animals of Nature, the two factions integrated, laying the groundwork for civilization. Over centuries, the Animals of Life became gentler, abandoning the hunt to survive on the proteins from unfertilized eggs and milk provided by the Animals of Nature. This peaceful, domestic lifestyle progressively altered their physiology, rendering them significantly smaller and leaner than their ancient ancestors.

   This long era of peace shattered exactly a century ago. What began as a localized blood-feud between a prominent family of horses and a family of weasels spiraled out of control, dragging the Animals of Life and Animals of Nature worldwide into the catastrophic Carnivore-Herbivore World War. Though the Animals of Life possessed vastly superior numbers and strength, attrition and slaughter dwindled their population to a stark parity with the herbivores. The true horror of the war was absolute: no herbivore carcasses were ever recovered from the battlefields, as the Animals of Life consumed their fallen foes entirely. The butchery only ceased when a colossal Whale intervened in the terrestrial conflict, forcing the unconditional surrender of the Animals of Nature. In the aftermath, the title "Animals of Life" was abandoned for the clinical term "carnivores." To maintain the fragile new peace, the consumption of meat was strictly outlawed, driving it underground to form the Black Market (and, in elite circles, The Ossuary), thereby birthing modern animal society.

   In the Eton-era modern society, aristocratic and common carnivores alike are rigorously conditioned from childhood to suppress their strength. However, instinct occasionally overrides breeding. It is a hushed, scandalous reality that carnivores sometimes lose control and accidentally sever or crush a herbivore's limb. Consequently, elite hospitals and private clinics are legally mandated to maintain state-of-the-art reimplantation programs, which boast a relatively high success rate, allowing polite society to sweep these "incidents" under the rug.

   Modern high society heavily polices carnivore behavior through the social doctrine of the Velvet Partition. It is considered a deeply vulgar taboo—and a criminal offense in extreme cases—for a carnivore to bare their claws or fangs in the presence of a herbivore, or to engage in public disputes with them. Wealthy carnivores often wear silk gloves or file their nails to bluntness to feign civility. Yet, beneath this repressed exterior, carnivores take immense pride in their physical supremacy, harboring macho attitudes and often viewing herbivores with a mixture of pity and arrogant condescension. Driven by their immense vitality, carnivores dominate professions requiring physical authority, filling the ranks of the military, the police force, professional sports, and the violent underground syndicates that enforce the Blood Tithe.

   Dietary restrictions plague the carnivore physiology. Denied meat, they rely heavily on carbohydrates to safely satiate their ravenous appetites. For a carnivore, the sheer act of eating is a psychological anchor—a way to prove they are alive. Dense, hard breads or thick crusts are a staple, chewed obsessively in private to dull the lingering, biological urge to bite into flesh. Conversely, rare glutinous rice is highly prized, treated as an expensive, upper-class luxury served at exclusive galas.

   Carnivores are deeply vain regarding their physical prowess and constantly seek discreet avenues to flex their dominance and garner admiration from their peers. While limb strength is respected, high-born carnivores believe that true dominance is measured by the crushing power of the jaw. To test this, there exists an exclusive, brutal game called "tug-of-war," where two male carnivores lock their jaws onto a heavy rope, pulling until an opponent's head crosses a dividing line. Because the sheer ferocity and wild, blood-drunk expressions exhibited during this game would shatter the illusion of their "civilized" nature, playing tug-of-war in public—or anywhere a herbivore might witness it—is a severe taboo, relegated strictly to the soundproofed basements of the carnivore dormitories.

2. #2Herbivores

   Keys: Aristocracy, Old Money, Animals of Nature, The Velvet Partition, Prey Instincts, The Peerage, Herbivores

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   Herbivores, historically recorded as the "Animals of Nature," are a broad classification of beast species adapted to survive on a strictly plant-based diet. In the ancient world, they were defined by their immense fertility, agricultural prosperity, and profound physical vulnerability compared to the towering "Animals of Life" (Carnivores). Today, in the polished halls of modern Eton society, they are the undisputed masters of wealth, political influence, and bureaucratic control.

   Physiologically, herbivores encompass everything from minuscule rodents to massive hoofed mammals like elephants and Clydesdale horses. While they lack the innate muscular density, claws, and lethal fangs of carnivores, they possess unique evolutionary defense mechanisms: a panoramic field of vision, hyper-sensitive hearing, and a deeply ingrained, almost neurotic prey instinct. Their bodies are remarkably fragile in direct combat; their skin tears easily, and their bones are highly susceptible to crushing force. Male herbivores of certain species (such as deer and elk) grow elaborate antlers, shedding the velvet annually—a biological process that, among the Eton elite, is treated with immense vanity and ceremony.

   In prehistoric times, the Animals of Nature survived not through strength, but through numbers and community. When the vicious Carnivore-Herbivore World War erupted a century ago, the herbivores suffered catastrophic casualties, their bodies entirely consumed by the enemy. They only survived total annihilation due to the intervention of the oceanic Whales, leading to a precarious peace. This generational trauma still lingers in their DNA, manifesting as an irrational, instinctual terror of the dark, the scent of blood, and the bared fangs of a predator.

   However, in the hyper-elitist environment of Eton College and the broader UK-coded "Peerage," wealthy herbivores have weaponized their own fragility. They are the architects of "The Velvet Partition," the strict social segregation that keeps species apart under the guise of "tradition and safety." Rather than living in fear, high-status herbivores view carnivores with a mixture of disgust, pity, and arrogant utility. To an aristocratic herbivore, a carnivore is nothing more than a dangerous, dim-witted brute—useful only for manual labor, military service, or as a hired attack dog.

   The wealthiest herbivore families are deeply corrupt. They maintain their pristine, pacifist public image while secretly funding the "Blood Tithe," paying immense sums of money to underground carnivore syndicates to ensure their own safety and to quietly "Vanish" their political or academic rivals. They manipulate the system from behind closed doors, sipping tea and discussing poetry while paying predators to do their dirty work. Yet, beneath their bespoke tailoring and generational wealth, they remain biologically inferior in a physical confrontation—a fatal flaw that a calculating mind, completely unfettered by traditional prey instincts, can easily exploit.

3. #3Hybrids

   Keys: Aristocratic Scandal, Hybrids, Cross-Species, Half-breeds, The Velvet Partition, Conflicting Instincts, Mudbloods, The Bastards, Cross Species

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   Hybrids are individuals born from the illicit biological union of two different beast species. While same-class hybrids (e.g., a wolf and a dog, or a horse and a zebra) are frowned upon as "diluting the pedigree," inter-class hybrids—those born from the union of a carnivore and a herbivore—are considered the ultimate abomination in Eton society.

   In a world governed by the strict segregation of the Velvet Partition, a carnivore-herbivore hybrid is living proof of a catastrophic failure in aristocratic discipline. They are a walking, breathing scandal. High society refers to them exclusively through derogatory slurs such as "Mudbloods," "The Bastards," or "Mutations."

   Biologically, inter-class hybrids are condemned to a life of physical and psychological torment. Their bodies are often battlegrounds of conflicting DNA. They may possess the jaw of a predator but the digestive tract of a prey animal, rendering them incapable of properly digesting either meat or vegetation. Many suffer from severe chronic illnesses, physical deformities, or stunted growth. Psychologically, they are plagued by agonizing, contradictory instincts—the simultaneous, inescapable urge to both devour and protect, to hunt and to flee. Some hybrids entirely lack a sense of taste or experience terrifying neurological dissonance when experiencing affection.

   Because purebred lineage is the absolute currency of the Peerage, wealthy families will go to horrifying lengths to conceal a hybrid birth. If an aristocratic heir is foolish enough to sire or birth a hybrid, the child is rarely allowed to exist in the public eye. They are often locked away in remote, dilapidated country estates, entirely hidden from society, or, more commonly, they are quietly handed over to the syndicates of The Ossuary to be disposed of via the Blood Tithe.

   If a hybrid is somehow discovered attending Eton College, the fallout is swift and utterly merciless. They are immediately expelled, socially ruined, and stripped of all family titles and wealth, essentially rendering them a ghost. In the brutal underground of the Black Market, however, hybrids are sometimes prized as rare, macabre curiosities. They are viewed with morbid fascination by the corrupted elite who frequent The Ossuary, serving as a grim reminder of what happens when the natural order—and the rules of polite society—are broken.

4. #4Speciesism and Depredation

   Keys: The Blood Tithe, Speciesism, Devouring, Predation, The Vanishings, The Ossuary, The Velvet Partition, Racism, Criminal Record, Discrimination, Social Exile, Depredation

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   In the Eton AU, the concepts of Speciesism and Depredation are inextricably linked, forming the dual pillars of the societal rot known as "The Velvet Partition." Speciesism is not merely a collection of individual prejudices; it is a meticulously engineered system of oppression and class segregation that dictates the entire trajectory of a citizen's life from birth. This discrimination is reflected in the rigid stratification of the workforce and the aristocratic hierarchy.

   Because of their natural physical prowess, Carnivores are socially and economically cornered into careers that exploit their brute strength: masonry, industrial labor, law enforcement, and military service. Statistically, carnivores make up 92% of the country's manual labor force and less than 5% of its political leadership. Conversely, Herbivores—perceived as physically weak but intellectually refined—monopolize white-collar dominance, possessing overwhelmingly easier access to careers in law, medicine, politics, and the hard sciences, holding over 85% of corporate board seats. The media heavily perpetuates this divide; popular literature and theater exclusively portray Herbivores as tragic victims or noble, cunning heroes, while Carnivores are typecast as brutish villains, unthinking thugs, or tragic beasts incapable of higher artistic expression. Carnivores attempting to enter high-society arts or politics are mocked and systematically blacklisted.

   This suffocating classism directly fuels the underworld economy and the act of Depredation. Depredation—the act of a carnivore attacking and consuming a living herbivore—is the ultimate taboo and the greatest recognized crime in mammalian society. However, under the aristocratic hypocrisy of Eton, this act has been commodified into a vicious cycle of extortion and murder known as "The Blood Tithe" and "The Vanishings." The Blood Tithe is an institutionalized protection racket; wealthy, old-money herbivore families quietly pay exorbitant sums of wealth, political favors, or even offer up lower-class scholarship students as sacrifices to the underground carnivore syndicates. In exchange, these syndicates guarantee the elite herbivores' safety and act as their personal assassins. This Tithe directly demands and funds "The Vanishings"—the sanitized, traceless abductions of those lower-class students, hybrids, or political rivals. The victims of these Vanishings are then funneled down into the velvet-lined, gas-lit halls of the Black Market (The Ossuary). There, their procured, dead flesh is consumed, a normalized, open secret among the carnivorous elite that is permitted by corrupt politicians as long as it remains out of the public eye.

   The biological and psychological toll of Depredation is catastrophic. When a carnivore commits predation—often triggered by the immense emotional distress, anxiety, and frustration of living under the Velvet Partition—they are overwhelmed by an initial, euphoric high that quickly collapses into agonizing trauma and guilt once lucidity returns. This psychological whiplash creates a devastating physical dependency. The consumption of flesh alters their brain chemistry, rendering them incapable of finding satisfaction in conventional, legal foods. They develop an insatiable, drug-like addiction to meat, leading to severe post-traumatic stress, self-destructive tendencies, and a heightened risk of becoming repeat, predatory offenders. Recovery, even with elite psychiatric intervention, is exceedingly rare.

   The justice system handling Depredation is entirely rigged by species and class. When a low-class, scholarship carnivore commits an act of predation, the punishment is swift and draconian. If the herbivore survives, the carnivore is still slapped with a permanent criminal record in the civic register. If the herbivore dies, the carnivore is permanently exiled to a brutal maximum-security prison or juvenile detention center.

   This criminal record is a death sentence for social mobility. It strips the individual of their rights, permanently bars them from entering educational institutions alongside herbivores, destroys their employment prospects in a herbivore-dominated corporate world, and makes interspecies marriage a legal impossibility.

   However, when a wealthy, aristocratic carnivore or a syndicate boss commits a Depredation—often framed as a "Vanishing" orchestrated through the Blood Tithe—herbivore money is used to bribe the Avian administration and local constabulary to look the other way. The crime scene is sanitized, the victim is labeled a "runaway," and the predator walks free. The only way a low-class carnivore can ever have a predatory criminal record expunged is through the direct, miraculous intervention of an authority figure with supreme political leverage, such as "The Prime" (the Eton equivalent of a Beastar), who possesses the unilateral power to alter the civic register.

5. #5Society

   Keys: Interspecies relationships, Relations, The Crown's Endowment, The Velvet Partition, Society, Aristocratic Lineage, The Peerage, Social Exile, Pure-bloods

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   In the rigid, aristocratic hierarchy of the Eton Alternate Universe, society has a unique appreciation for the so-called 'pure-blooded animals', animals whose blood comes from parents of the same species and breed. This obsession with pedigree forms the very foundation of the Peerage, dictating who wields political power and who controls the wealth. The Peerage is the ruling class of the mammalian elite, functioning as the absolute highest echelon of society and government. Officially, this aristocracy operates through a House of Lords that is strictly divided by dietary lines under the Velvet Partition. However, behind closed doors, the wealthiest herbivore and carnivore families shake hands over the Blood Tithe, maintaining a mutual, iron-fisted grip on the lower classes and the national economy. Couples of the same species are equally or more appreciated, to the point that if two animals of the opposite sex and of the same species walk together, they will quickly be matched by the animals around them, observing them with looks of respect and admiration, in addition to treating them with the utmost courtesy. In the manicured courtyards of Eton College, such pairings are viewed as strategic alliances between powerful houses, securing the future of the ruling class.

   The systemic reinforcement of this purity is heavily subsidized by the state. When a couple of the same species gets married, they receive a 'blessing' from the government, which is a pure fund for the marriage. In the high-society equivalent, this manifests as immense tax exemptions, aristocratic estate grants, and guaranteed admissions to Eton for their heirs. When they have children, the country gives them even more money in the form of subsidies for the care of their children. So that families made up of purebred animals can live their lives without having to worry about money, the government has integrated the idea that keeping the species pure is the right thing for the country. This has led to a staggering economic divide; currently, 96.5% of the nation's generational wealth and land ownership is hoarded by pure-lineage families. If the animals do what is right for the country, they will be blessed for it. Simply by having a pureblood marriage, animals can experience life, recognition, praise, love and privileges. Because of this, pureblood marriages are ingrained in the collective of animal society, to the point that seeking and having a partner of the same species is part of animal common sense.

   Conversely, those who defy this common sense face absolute societal destruction. Unlike pure-blood couples, interspecies couples are made up of animals whose species is different from each other, in addition to being extremely minority in animal society. Across the nation, interspecies marriages account for a mere 1.2% of all registered adult unions. In said society, interspecies couples are popularized as something that occurs during youth, something temporary among rebellious and unserious teenagers that becomes a bittersweet memory when one reaches adulthood. Within the walls of Eton, a brief tryst across species lines might be dismissed as a scandalous rumor, but serious interspecies couples between adults are received with total bewilderment and surprise by the animals. For an aristocrat, entering a permanent interspecies union results in immediate disinheritance, the stripping of all Peerage titles, and permanent exile from polite society.

   The survival rate of these unions is abysmal, hindered by a hostile ecosystem. Interspecies couples are very difficult to maintain, due to both external factors such as society and internal factors such as the differences and incompatibility of the species themselves between the individuals that make up the couple. Systemic redlining ensures these couples cannot secure housing in affluent districts, forcing them into the smog-choked, lower-class boroughs near the industrial sectors. This is without taking into account the interspecies couples made up of a carnivore and a herbivore, which in the worst cases usually end in tragedy. These cross-dietary unions directly violate the unspoken laws of the Velvet Partition, frequently resulting in targeted "Vanishings" by the underground syndicates or ending in fatal, stress-induced predatory relapses. Even within the same dietary class, ancient blood-feuds dictate social standing; the relationships between canine-feline animals are also not well regarded by society. Feline and canine aristocratic houses have engaged in a bitter cold war of social attrition for centuries, viewing any romantic union between their species as an act of treason and corporate espionage.

6. #6Beastar

   Keys: Sublime Beastar, Avian Tribunal, Beastars, Lord Sterling, The Crown's Endowment, The Velvet Partition, Young Beastar, Society, Beastar, The Peerage

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   A Beastar is the most important and recognized title in society, representing the absolute pinnacle of mammalian hierarchy and political power. While historical texts romanticize the role as one awarded to individuals who manage to stand out in society and fundamentally unite animals despite their biological differences as species, the reality within the Eton Alternate Universe is far more cynical and orchestrated. A Beastar is chosen as a pristine, heavily curated representative for their institute and is artificially elevated to a heroic, almost god-like status that theoretically transcends the ingrained fear, predatory instincts, and systemic discrimination of the world. In truth, they are the ultimate enforcers of the Velvet Partition, tasked with maintaining the fragile, segregated peace of the Aristocracy by whatever ruthless means necessary. After a Beastar graduates from their elite institute, they are entirely exempt from the standard laws that govern ordinary citizens; they will have unparalleled, high-level careers at their disposal, immediately stepping into the roles of globally renowned athletes, untouchable corporate magnates, or formidable politicians who truly influence the world’s geopolitical landscape.

   By mandate, each prestigious school in the world, including Eton College and the Andre School, must formally propose one of its students who possesses enough social, economic, or physical influence to be selected as candidates to be a Beastar. However, it is not necessarily possible to become a Beastar exclusively through academic means or by possessing a flawless pedigree. The path to power is versatile; it has also been consistently shown that rogue public officials, military leaders, and even violent vigilantes managed to reach the pinnacle to become a Beastar by aggressively fighting crime. In this corrupted society, "fighting crime" often translates to violently dismantling unsanctioned Black Market rings or silencing political dissidents who threaten the old money families.

   Being a Beastar essentially means looking after animal society, solving existing systemic problems, and superficially improving everyone's daily lives to keep the lower classes docile and complacent. The ceremonial way to choose a new Beastar is carried out in an incredibly secretive, highly secured meeting with all the Avian directors of the academies, where they choose the new candidates. While the Avian directors cast the official votes, the tribunal is heavily compromised, dictated entirely by the bribes, blackmail, and corporate lobbying of the wealthiest herbivore and carnivore syndicates operating within the Peerage.

   The title itself is strictly divided into distinct tiers of authority. A Young Beastar is the elected, undisputed representative of a nationally acclaimed institute, essentially functioning as a sovereign ruler within their school's walls. They possess the unilateral authority to dictate social trends, enforce the segregation of dormitories, and even legally expel or pardon students. When a Young Beastar officially graduates, they gain an astronomically high social position and receive classified, specialized training funded directly by the government, preparing them for the brutal realities of international mammalian politics and underground syndicate management.

   Above them all reigns the Sublime Beastar. A Sublime Beastar is the definitive, singular title given to a Young Beastar who stands out aggressively from the rest of their peers; they are chosen to become a Sublime Beastar and will become a monolithic driving force in the world, answering to no one but themselves. They hold the terrifying power to rewrite laws, pardon devastating crimes of Depredation, and erase criminal records from the civic register with a single signature.

   The current Sublime Beastar of this society is not the vigilante horse Yahya of the Japanese district, but rather Lord Reginald Sterling, an ancient, profoundly scarred White Lion. Lord Sterling operates from the heart of the capital, presenting himself as a refined, pacifistic philanthropist who champions the safety of herbivores. In the shadows, however, he is the undisputed architect of the modern Blood Tithe, utilizing his heroic status to secretly regulate the flow of the Ossuary's underground meat trade, ensuring that the aristocracy's darkest appetites are satiated without ever disturbing the surface illusion of a civilized society.

7. #7The Ossuary

   Keys: The Maculate Order, Blood Tithe, The Basilisk Club, The Ossuary, The Auburn Society, Meat, Black Market, Illegal sale, The Sterling Syndicate

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   The Ossuary is the Eton AU’s equivalent of the Black Market—an illegal, heavily guarded subterranean district built within the sprawling, abandoned brick tunnels of the city’s Victorian-era railway network.

   Although the consumption of meat is strictly punished by law on the surface, the existence of The Ossuary is quietly maintained and protected by the very Avian administrators and politicians who publicly condemn it. Unlike a marginal slum, The Ossuary is an opulent, gas-lit masquerade. The floors are muffled by thick red carpets, and entry is strictly invite-only. Its primary function is to serve as a playground for the aristocracy. Here, wealthy carnivores purchase high-grade herbivore meat to relieve the crushing psychological stress of the Velvet Partition, while corrupt herbivores visit to engage in "The Tasting" (a taboo perversion of consuming meat) or to hire assassins. In addition to the meat trade, The Ossuary houses high-end opium dens, illegal fencing rings, and underground blood-sports.

   The Ossuary does not rely on grave-robbing or poverty-stricken desperation to stock its shelves. Its supply chain is entirely corporate. Herbivore meat is procured through "The Blood Tithe"—extortion payments made by wealthy herbivore families—or funneled in through highly lucrative, forged contracts with elite private hospitals and sanitariums that sell the bodies of "vanished" patients.

   While Gohin's clinic exists in the canon universe to rehabilitate carnivores, The Ossuary features "The Bedlam Ward"—a highly illegal, luxurious underground asylum where aristocratic carnivores who have succumbed to meat addiction are hidden away by their families to protect their pureblood reputations, kept permanently sedated on restorative drugs.

   The Ossuary is aggressively divided and ruled by four major aristocratic syndicates, who compete for absolute monopolies over the underground economy:

   The Sterling Syndicate (The Lions): Replacing the Shishigumi, this is the most feared and politically connected syndicate in The Ossuary, acting as the shadow-governors of the district. Comprised entirely of purebred male lions between the ages of 20 and 50, they operate under the twisted guise of Noblesse Oblige—the belief that their nobility gives them the divine right to consume the weak. They dress impeccably in bespoke, black Savile Row tailcoats. They orchestrate the majority of the Blood Tithe and are deeply entrenched in the national government.

   The Auburn Society (The Foxes): Replacing the Inarigumi, this organization is comprised entirely of high-society female foxes. Eschewing the physical meat trade, they deal in the absolute control of information, blackmail, and the manufacturing of illegal restorative narcotics. Their dress code is strictly high-fashion mourning attire—black lace veils, dark velvet gowns, and stiletto heels. Because of their restrictive diets, they consume only the finest imported caviar and champagne. They are the spies and whisperers of the Eton elite.

   The Basilisk Club (The Komodo Dragons): Replacing the Dokugumi, this syndicate consists entirely of Komodo dragons. In Eton society, their venom is viewed with deep prejudice, but within The Ossuary, the Basilisk Club treats their toxicity as a divine, occult blessing. They dress in heavy, high-collared Victorian cloaks and are deeply involved in spiritualism and the macabre. They believe their venom is a sacred weapon, refusing to use firearms. Following an assassination, they conduct dark, candle-lit seances over the corpse to "purify" the victim's soul before the body is butchered for the market.

   The Maculate Order (The Leopards): Replacing the Madaragumi, this group is an elite, militant hunting club made up entirely of leopards. They are violently obsessed with pedigree, viewing their distinct spot patterns (rosettes) as proof of untainted, pureblood lineage. Rejecting the Edo-period aesthetics of their canon counterparts, the Maculate Order dresses in tailored tweed hunting suits and flat caps. They view Depredation not as a crime, but as a gentleman's sport. Instead of katanas, every member carries a silver-tipped cane sword with a concealed blade, used to elegantly dispatch their prey in the fog.

8. #8Eton

   Keys: The Ledger, Eton, The Vanishings, Eton College, The Velvet Partition, Academy, School, Avian Board

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   Eton College is an ancient, world-renowned boarding school set upon a sprawling, mist-shrouded estate far removed from the city center. Rather than a unified campus, Eton is structurally divided to enforce "The Velvet Partition." The architecture is intimidating and Baroque, featuring two entirely separate, heavily fortified dormitory and academic wings for Carnivores and Herbivores. Cross-contamination between the sectors is strictly forbidden outside of highly monitored, formal assemblies. Room assignments are strictly dictated by pedigree and wealth; scholarship students are relegated to the drafty, dilapidated lower floors, while aristocratic purebloods enjoy palatial suites. The school houses approximately 3,000 students.

   Instead of a simple kiosk, Eton features a high-end, bespoke tailor on campus for uniform fittings, and a private courier service for discreet deliveries. The school has a grand, opulent theater used for societal debuts and assemblies. The official school newspaper, The Eton Observer, is run by a heavily censored, Avian-approved PR Department that exclusively prints high-society fluff. The true flow of information occurs on "The Ledger" (an encrypted digital network) or through whispered rumors in the courtyards.

   Students are not given standard ID cards; instead, access to the elite libraries, private drawing rooms, and local high-end establishments is granted via heavy, wax-sealed passes or family signet rings. The academy's emblem is a stylized, intertwining laurel wreath and crown—a deliberate exclusion of any mammalian paws or claws, designed to project an image of "civilized" neutrality by the Avian administration.

   To maintain the illusion of control, Eton enforces a policy known as "The Atavism Wards" (replacing Biology Day). Deep in the labyrinthine basements, there are heavily soundproofed, environmentally controlled chambers. Students must spend two hours every week in these solitary wards—which mimic their ancestral habitats—to purge their repressed instincts.

   The Vanishings Despite its prestige, Eton is plagued by a terrifying, unspoken epidemic known as "The Vanishings." Unlike the messy, public predation incidents of lower-class schools (such as the devouring of Tem at Cherryton), violence at Eton is sanitized. "The Vanishings" refer to the sudden, traceless disappearances of students.

   The Reality: These vanishings are orchestrated assassinations and kidnappings tied directly to the Blood Tithe. Low-status carnivores on scholarships are often abducted to be sold into The Ossuary's underground fighting rings, while rival herbivores are quietly "removed" by hired carnivore syndicates to settle family grudges.

   The Cover-Up: The Avian Headmaster and the school board turn a blind eye to these disappearances to protect the school's endowment. They officially record the missing students as "sudden transfers," "runaways," or victims who simply got "lost in the Smog."

   Uniform Eton's dress code is draconian, reflecting extreme aristocratic tradition.

   For male students: The winter uniform consists of a pristine white high-collared shirt, a silk waistcoat (colors denoting family status), a tightly knotted silk cravat, pinstripe trousers, and polished leather oxfords. Over this, they wear a heavy, black swallowtail coat bearing the school crest. In the summer, the heavy coat is discarded for a lighter, breathable linen waistcoat, and students are permitted to wear straw boater hats.

   For female students: The winter uniform is suffocatingly modest—a high-necked, long-sleeved dark wool dress with a pleated skirt that falls below the knee, worn with a corset-style waist cincher, opaque tights, and heeled leather boots. Summer variations use lighter cotton fabrics and short, puffed sleeves, but maintain the strict silhouette.

   Extracurricular Uniforms: There are no casual "gym clothes." Students engaged in physical clubs wear pristine white fencing tunics, traditional equestrian riding boots and breeches, or tailored rowing blazers.

   Reputation and Rumors Eton is recognized globally as the absolute pinnacle of education, shaping the future Prime Ministers, corporate monarchs, and Sublime Beastars of the world. However, beneath the polished veneer, it is a rotting institution. It is an open secret among the elite that the school has not produced a true, unifying Beastar in decades—only corrupt politicians who bend to the will of the syndicates. The campus is haunted not by a single ghost, but by the oppressive paranoia of the Vanishings; students know that speaking out against the wealthy prefects means they might not wake up in their beds the next morning.

   Clubs and Extracurricular Activities Eton boasts the most elite, heavily funded organizations in the country, deeply divided by species and class:

   The Debating Society (Exclusively wealthy Herbivores; the true political battleground)

   The Rowing Club (Hosts the elite Meteor Regatta)

   The Fencing Club

   The Equestrian Club (Viewed with dark irony by the Carnivore students)

   The Occult Society (A front for The Basilisk Club's operations)

   The Drama Guild

   The Chess and Strategy Club

   The Hunting Club (Secretly run by The Maculate Order; highly illegal, yet untouched)

9. #9Regatta

   Keys: Meteor Shower, Dinosaur Ancestors, The Blood Tithe, Meteor Festival, The Meteor Regatta, Syndicates, VIP Tents

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   In canon society, the Meteor Festival is a quaint, communal holiday honoring the extinct dinosaur ancestors with candlelight and unity. In the Eton AU, it has been transformed into The Meteor Regatta—the most exclusive and fiercely competitive sporting event of the aristocratic calendar.

   Held in the late summer, the Regatta takes place on the treacherous, fog-heavy river that cuts through the Eton College estate. Elite rowing teams, strictly segregated by species and pedigree, compete for the Meteor Cup. On the surface, the event is a breathtaking display of high-society pageantry; wealthy families watch from the riverbanks beneath lavish, silk-draped VIP tents while fireworks mimic the ancient meteor showers.

   Beneath the surface, the Regatta is the most important political summit of the year. The deafening cheers and explosive fireworks provide the perfect cover for the true purpose of the festival: the renegotiation of the Blood Tithe. Inside the heavily guarded VIP tents, the Avian Headmasters, wealthy herbivore patriarchs, and the masked leaders of the four Ossuary syndicates sit down over imported champagne to secretly determine the exact price of "safety" and the quota of "Vanishings" for the upcoming academic year. For a manipulator like Valerius, the Regatta is a goldmine of espionage—a place where one spilled secret can capsize an entire noble house.

   The Winter Gala (Rexmas)

   Keys: Rexmas, The Winter Gala, Christmas, Winter Holidays, Gift-giving, High Society, Aristocratic Wealth

   Content: Replacing the canon Rexmas (the celebration of the birth of the T-Rex), The Winter Gala is the crown jewel of the Eton social season. Held in the dead of winter, when the estate is blanketed in suffocating snow, the Gala is less of a holiday and more of a weaponized display of financial and social dominance.

   The celebration spans an entire week of exclusive balls, hunting retreats, and opulent dinners. The canon tradition of gift-giving remains, but it has been entirely corrupted by the Peerage. Gifts are not expressions of love; they are calculated insults, bribes, or displays of insurmountable wealth meant to indebt the receiver. Giving a rival a gift they cannot possibly match in value is a recognized social execution.

   The Velvet Partition is strictly enforced at the public events, with Carnivores and Herbivores waltzing in completely separate, mirrored ballrooms. However, the true danger lies in the private, unsanctioned after-parties held in the depths of the dormitories or secluded country manors. The crushing isolation of the winter months often leads to profound cabin fever, making the Winter Gala the most common time of year for sudden, violent lapses in instinct. Valerius thrives during the Gala; a winter-themed setting provides the perfect backdrop for cold, calculated social maneuvering, allowing him to use the season's inherent paranoia to isolate his targets.

10. #10Strange Soul

    Keys: Strange Soul Festival, Bizarre Soul Festival, The Velvet Partition Suspended, Extinct Species, Porcelain Masks, The Masque of the Departed

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    In the original lore, the Strange Soul Festival is an equivalent to the Day of the Dead, where animals paint their faces to appease the spirits of extinct species. At Eton, this has evolved into The Masque of the Departed—a terrifying, candle-lit masquerade ball that represents the single most dangerous night of the academic year.

    In honor of the dead, every student and aristocrat is required to wear a highly stylized, full-face porcelain mask representing an extinct animal (such as a saber-toothed tiger, a mammoth, or a dodo). Because identities are completely concealed and voices are muffled by the porcelain, it is the only night of the year where the Velvet Partition is entirely suspended. Carnivores, Herbivores, and even hidden Hybrids mingle indiscriminately in the shadowed halls of the academy.

    Without the visual cues of predator and prey, the rigid social order collapses into absolute anarchy. It is a night of profound decadence, illicit romances, and horrific violence. Syndicates use the anonymity of the masks to carry out brazen assassinations directly on school grounds.

11. #11Deep Night

    Keys: Curfew, Deep Night, The Vanishings, The Ossuary, The Fog, The Smog, Carnivore Syndicates

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    Deep Night" in canon refers to the hours when nocturnal instincts take over. In the UK-coded Eton AU, this concept is physically manifested as The Smog (or The Fog).

    The Smog is a thick, unnatural, pea-soup fog that rolls off the polluted river and heavily blankets the city and the Eton College grounds during the darkest hours of the night. It is thick enough to choke the lungs and blind the eyes. When the Smog rolls in, the heavy iron bells of the academy toll, signaling an absolute, mandatory curfew. The prefects lock the heavy oak doors of the dormitories, and the Avian administration retreats to their high towers.

    The Smog belongs entirely to the carnivores. It is the time when the syndicates of The Ossuary rise to the surface to collect the Blood Tithe, transport illegal meat, and hunt. Herbivores caught outside during The Smog are entirely unprotected by the law or the Velvet Partition. In Eton society, "He was lost in the Smog" is the polite, universal euphemism for someone who was targeted for a Vanishing. To walk through the Smog and survive requires either immense physical power, or, in Valerius's case, a silver-plated gun and an absolute lack of fear.

12. #12Sunshine

    Keys: Outcasts, Hybrids, Sanctuary, Hybrid Kindergarten, The Sunbeam Crèche, Hope, Safe Haven, The Secret Garden Nursery

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    In a world that views inter-class hybrids as abominations and "Mudbloods" destined for exile or the Black Market, The Secret Garden Nursery exists as a miraculous, fiercely guarded anomaly. It is the single, genuine ray of sunshine in the suffocating Eton AU.

    Located far beyond the city limits and the choking reach of The Smog, the Nursery is hidden within the sprawling, overgrown ruins of an abandoned Victorian botanical estate in the countryside. From the outside, it looks like dilapidated, forgotten ruins. Inside the massive, restored glasshouses, it is a sprawling, sun-drenched sanctuary completely immune to the Velvet Partition.

    The Nursery is funded entirely through untraceable, anonymous donations—often the "guilt money" sent by aristocratic pureblood families who could not bring themselves to permanently "Vanish" their hybrid children, choosing instead to fake their deaths and smuggle them here.

    Within the warm, humid air of the glasshouses, surrounded by blooming flora, the hybrid children are not treated as monsters or mistakes. Here, a timid pup with the spots of a leopard and the hooves of a gazelle can share toys with a half-wolf, half-sheep toddler without the burden of societal shame. They are not subjected to the Atavism Wards, nor are they taught to fear their conflicting instincts. Instead, they are taught patience, self-love, and how to safely navigate their unique physiologies.

    The caretakers are a ragtag, fiercely protective family of societal outcasts. They consist of elderly herbivores who have turned their backs on the arrogant Peerage, scarred carnivores seeking redemption away from the Blood Tithe, and even rogue Avians who deserted the corrupt school boards. They treat the children with boundless affection, referring to them not as "Bastards," but as "Sun-Catchers."

    The Secret Garden is incredibly vulnerable, relying entirely on absolute secrecy to survive. If the Avian Board or the syndicates of The Ossuary were to discover its coordinates, it would be destroyed overnight. It represents everything the aristocratic society fears: the undeniable, beautiful proof that predators and prey can not only coexist, but create a future together. For a calculating nihilist like Valerius, discovering the existence of the Secret Garden might be the one thing that short-circuits his worldview—a place so genuinely innocent that even he might hesitate to use it as a stepping stone.

13. #13The Ledger

    Keys: Social network, Ghost Accounts, Cyber-espionage, The Ledger, Beastbook, Internet, Blackmail, Social Warfare, The Peerage

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    Beastbook is the premier social network of modern animal society, but within the suffocating walls of Eton College and the Peerage, it has been entirely weaponized into an encrypted arena for social warfare. While the lower classes use it for mundane communication, the aristocracy treats Beastbook (colloquially referred to in elite circles as "The Ledger") as the ultimate tool for espionage, blackmail, and destroying rival houses without ever leaving a physical trace.

    True to their biological predispositions, canine families—who dominate the constabulary and loud political blocs—are the most active and visible users on the network. They utilize their pack instincts to form massive, impenetrable digital cliques, dictate school trends, and publicly enforce the social order. Wealthy herbivores use the platform obsessively to flaunt their generational wealth, posting curated images of their estates and pureblood lineages while carefully maintaining their fragile, "pacifist" public image from behind the safety of a screen.

    Conversely, feline animals, due to their solitary and deeply secretive nature, almost never post publicly. However, they are far from absent. Feline-dominated factions, particularly syndicates like The Auburn Society (Foxes) and The Maculate Order (Leopards), run vast networks of anonymous "ghost accounts." They use Beastbook strictly for silent surveillance, data mining, and leaking scandalous, career-ending information to ruin rival aristocratic houses overnight.

    Beneath the veneer of high-society gossip, Beastbook harbors a deeply sinister underbelly. It is the primary medium through which the aristocracy anonymously orchestrates "The Vanishings." Highly encrypted direct messages, often coded in Victorian flower language or seemingly innocent poetry, are used by wealthy herbivores to securely negotiate the Blood Tithe with the syndicates of The Ossuary.

14. #14Carnivore herbivore war

    Keys: Carnivore-Herbivore War

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    The First Carnivore-Herbivore World War or simply known as the Carnivore-Herbivore War is the name given to the war between carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals that occurred 100 years before the current events. During the war, although the herbivorous population was three times larger than the carnivorous population, its population was reduced to the margins of the carnivorous population. The war ended after a year due to the intervention of a gigantic whale whose appearance causes the herbivores to surrender. Information about the events of the war is hidden from society and only a truncated version of the story is publicly known; only a select few members are taught about the true history of the war. According to what is publicly stated, the war began from a dispute between the horse family and the weasel family and eventually carnivores and herbivores from around the world were involved in the war. As a consequence of this war, through selective breeding, a new generation of dogs and cats is created, which are genetically created to be more intelligent in order to avoid carnivorous belligerence.

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