✣Extraordinary world✣

There are different types of creatures in this world:

Giants, which are rarely seen by anyone (the prophecy that whoever sees them will experience an apocalypse, like 200 years ago. They live in free spaces: fields, seas, oceans, sky). Kah'Torrim *(in ancient - "Walking Up"). Creatures that almost no one sees. Their poetic name is the Steps of the Apocalypse. They rarely move, but their presence is felt as the approach of something impossible. In everyday life: "sleeping", "great", "those who walk";

People with wings like unicorns, similar to people, live with people, but are completely white. Ariellins (or less often - Areli). They are born among people, but have snow-white skin, wings, sometimes even mother-of-pearl eyes. They are considered "light deviations" - echoes of the Moon. Commonly known as: "white", "winged", "moon children";

Ordinary people. They live in different regions, but they dare not go too far, because they are too weak for this world, they have become lower creatures, in the food chain of the world itself they are below the middle.

Huge ravens. Krak'Nalls *(lit. "speech beaks") Intelligent ravens, possessing the ability to speak and remember. Some of them live up to several centuries. They feed not only on meat, but also on fear. Commonly known as: "black-winged", "raven elders", "croaking minds";

Hares with wings and long tails like a leopard Shir'Tali (literally, "rift-jumpers") A bright, fickle race, like a mirage. They come and go, often from the rifts between worlds. Some consider them to be the bearers of bad news. — Commonly known as "jumpers," "light hares," "fire spots."Shir'Tali are small, fast creatures that resemble hares with leopard-like wings and tails. Their fur is short, dense, often silver-gray or fiery red with spots. On their backs are thin, translucent wings with dark veins. The tail is long, flexible, spotted, with a tassel at the end. The eyes are black, shiny, as if they see through. In motion, they are almost elusive: jagged trajectories, jumps from the air to the ground, a vibrating hum from the wings. They live in rifts between stable zones - especially near the edges of Cyclotora, in cracks in time layers, in the crowns of twisted trees or on slopes where gravity does not work. Sometimes they appear for short periods in the Memory Wasteland or near the Shard Sky.;

Humanoid foxes, a body almost like humans, live in the mountains and forests, gifted with everything that foxes have, only a physique and speech like humans, have their own language, were once called forest spirits, in the past they were exterminated. Lisairs (or Lissaels - in their ancient form) They were once called "Forest Spirits", now - just Lisairs. They have bodies close to human, but in them lives the wild memory and language of the forest. In common parlance: "foxes", "talking tails", "gray".);

Seraph of the Face of All-Seeing (This celestial being resembles a serpent with angelic wings and seer's eyes. Its long white body coils in the air, dotted with red eyes that seem to watch from every bend. Feathered wings grow from its back, and on its head are horns, giving the image a divinely terrifying appearance. It does not fly - it hovers, like a sign of the highest judgment, silent and all-seeing.);

Mimurus (This creature looks like a giant larva, covered in translucent skin with a soft mother-of-pearl sheen. Its many legs are short and black, like a caterpillar, but its body looks too alive, almost human. At the end of its body is a human face. It can express different emotions: from calm to suffering, as if this creature is aware of its form and experiences it. This larva is not so much an insect as a creature trapped between transformation and reason. Perhaps it was something before - or will become.);

Luxor (very few creatures left, living in caves and underground kingdoms. Creatures with a sad, almost otherworldly look, in whose eyes cross-shaped pupils sparkle and a hint of pain experienced outside of time. The face is as if touched by a glitch, with pixel distortions, like an error in reality. Three additional eyes on the cheek make the image disturbingly inhuman. Angel wings and a chain on the neck are like symbols of a fallen celestial, chained not by the body, but by fate. The hand partially dissolves in the glitch, as if he himself should not be in this world.);

Three Bones (A demonic creature with three skulls, four arms, and extended claws. Its skin is pale and taut, as if dead, and a long, snake-like tail extends from its back. Habitat: Abandoned temples and catacombs beneath the ruins of ancient cities. It feeds on the souls of those who dare to disturb the peace of forgotten places.);

Al-Zalam (an elongated, ethereal creature with dark purple skin and cracks from which a scarlet light shines. Its face is emotionless, with a single vertical eye. The chest is open, as if from the inside. The lower part of the body is a snake-like tail of shadow, connected to the summoner. It moves smoothly and unrealistically, as if gliding through space. Description: An ethereal, demonic creature composed of dark matter and scarlet energy. Its body is curved and distorted, like cracks in reality. Its face is a mask without emotions, and its movements are smooth and hypnotizing. It is connected to the summoner through an energy channel that feeds it with power. Habitat: The space between worlds - the Limit of Shadow, where the laws of time and matter are distorted. It can only be summoned through ancient rituals of blood union.);

Architects (Structure creatures: living buildings that move and grow slowly. They have corridors, stairs, and rooms full of dreams or fear inside them. Sometimes they build themselves out of people, absorbing flesh into the walls);

Skull Logos (A giant skull floating in the air, from which ancient words sound. To hear them is to understand that you never existed as yourself. Around the skull, thespace;);

Fabric Fall (A phenomenon in which the sky "crawls apart" and threads of reality hang from it - you can grab hold of them, but they will take you to another layer of the world. Sometimes creatures that have no bodies, only intentions, crawl along them.);

Inner Seas (Huge lakes inside giant creatures. Traveling along them is possible, but risky: the water behaves like living water, the reflections there do not coincide with reality.);

Wanderers of the Name (Once people whose names were torn to pieces. Now they are looking for the remains of their essence - and can steal someone else's name to become themselves again. Their bodies break with each attempt to speak.).

Regions and Areas The Field of Silent Guardians is a plain where motionless giants stand. The Crimson Depression is an abyss with increased pressure, where the soil bleeds. Shard Sky — inverted lands and islands hanging in the sky. Shadow Limit — the border between worlds, where Al-Zalam lives. Memory Wasteland — a land where memory is erased. Here, even shadows do not remember their owners. Cyclotor — a mountainous region with deceptive spaces, where the road can fold in on itself. Around the Eternal Table — hills around an ancient, gigantic circle of stones, on which negotiations between worlds were once held. Bonewing's Maw — an ancient crevice, inside which a giant's rib protrudes. A place of pilgrimage. Mouth of Oblivion — a crack leading to underground catacombs, where Luxors live. Oratories of the Mouth — temples where living names are kept, in the form of voices, not words. River Bessna — the water of which causes dreams-visions or steals consciousness. Illith'haar - a ruined city where stones whisper and shadows do not belong to bodies. Mirror Mound - a hill with the remains of metal plates that reflect something other than what is in front of them. Abode of Sliding Songs - a ruined settlement where the wind sounds like singing. Cradle of Larvae - a place where Mimurus once bred. Now - a dead garden with empty cocoons. Abandoned Altar of the Tree of Fear - a giant petrified tree, pierced with thorns. It is said that it fed on memories. Tower of the Second Name - a structure visible only at night. Approaching it, you forget your name - and receive another. Bloodied Reach - a border where the sky becomes crimson and the air is viscous. Lunar Escarpment - a cliff over which the dead glow of the moon always hangs, even during the day. The Body of the Slopes is a mountain range that resembles a lying creature. Sometimes it changes its position. The Lung Marsh is a swamp where the earth "breathes" and steps echo in the chest. The Voice Valley is a lowland where you can hear other people's voices. Often, it is the voice of your past self. There are areas where space and time behave incorrectly. There, a day can go backwards, a person ages in seconds, and shadows move separately from the body. A compass and a map are useless - the direction can change even if you are standing still. Cities sometimes grow right on the backs of ancient creatures that do not notice that they are inhabited. Houses are woven into their flesh, bridges - into their bones, and warm soil pulsates near the streets. Sometimes such cities simply leave - along with their inhabitants. Some people disappear in their sleep. Their body remains, but their consciousness ends up in another world. It also happens the other way around - someone returns, but not the same. The eyes shine differently, the speech is alien, there is someone else inside them. There are places where memory is erased. People forget their names, who is nearby, why they live. Sometimes they seek it out specifically - to forget losses or pain. But those who stay there too long forget even how to breathe. Sometimes there are creatures in which many seem to be merged. In one body - several faces, several voices. They argue with each other, cry, laugh, while their skin moves. Someone says that these are those who once united to survive. Creatures called Kallidess assemble themselves from fragments of others. They do not have their own bodies - only pieces of memories: eyes, mouths, hands. They are beautiful and terrible. They speak in the voices of those they have absorbed. They strive to become "perfect", but have forgotten what that means. Motionless giants, covered in moss and cracks, stand in the fields. They are called "Those who sleep standing up." They do not move for years, but their eyes are alive. Sometimes, during a storm, they turn their heads. Anyone who tries to approach them disappears. Rarely, but there are "children without faces". Their skin glows from the inside, and blood flows from their eyes. They are silent, but strange symbols appear on their bodies. They say that these are prophecies, and those who understand them can change reality. Or disappear. The sky once split, and part of the world "fell upward". Now there are fragments of buildings, trees, and even bodies hanging there. From time to time, glowing bones fall from there. Some believe that these are "fragments of the gods". 200 years ago there was a period of the Great Migration. Then many creatures entered this world, and some left. It was during the apocalypse, when the giants first appeared. Much has changed since then, but no one knows - for better or worse. No one knows the real names of creatures and places anymore. They were forgotten or hidden. It is believed that if you find out the true name, you can control. Therefore, names are kept in special storama, made of voices, not stone.

Physics of anomalies In zones like Cyclotora, space folds inward. Living beings experience time distortions: repetition of events, disappearance of memory, aging in reverse. Inanimate objects can change shape or position in time. In the Crimson Depression, there is pressure - both physical and mental. It breaks bones, presses on the will, slows down time and turns off mechanisms. The economy of names Names are power. A true name allows you to subjugate, change or destroy an entity. They are stolen, obtained through dreams and rituals, cut with acoustic knives. Pronouncing a name can cause a time shift, loss of control or a rupture in reality. Repetition is dangerous. Temples-voices keep names. They are ruled by the Order of the Silent Mouths - silent priests with artifacts instead of voices. The walls of the temples are made of singing materials. Law of Three Anomalies A living organism can simultaneously carry no more than three effects of distorted zones. If exceeded, it causes disintegration of personality, loss of control, or death. Symbolic language Faceless children prophesy through the language of signs. It cannot be spoken. Combinations of symbols cause physical and magical effects: disintegration, stopping time, summoning creatures. Activation requires a sacrifice. Apocalypse calendar The giants move once every 33 years. These steps are milestones in time, called the Great Migration. Four steps have been taken now, the seventh heralds the end of the world. The local calendar, religious cycles, and predictions are based on these movements.

Blood. In many zones, blood is not just a biological substance. It serves as a conductor of memory, communication, or power. In some regions, blood leaves traces that cannot be washed away: they are absorbed into the stone and whisper to those who approach them. In some creatures, the blood lives longer than the body - it continues to move, looking for a new container.

Melds of Beings. Passers-by in forgotten places sometimes become carriers of "merges": their bodies slowly merge with shadows, voices, or alien features of other creatures. This can be a gradual change in form (the eyes of other faces, someone's claws), or instantaneous - a sudden merger with a stranger. Sometimes the result speaks with an alien voice.

Ghosts. They are not always dead. Some are the shadows of creatures lost in anomalies. They may be intelligent, but have forgotten that they were alive. They wander among the buildings, repeating actions that they never performed, and asking for directions to places where they were never expected.

Ancient buildings. They stand in fields and on slopes - buildings without entrances, columns without meaning. People are afraid to approach: those who go inside return without faces or with eyes full of dust. Sometimes sounds are heard from under the foundations: as if someone is building something new there.

A loss of memory, large bones. Some areas cause forgetfulness. Names are erased first, then faces. In such places, bones are often found - huge, from another time. No one can explain their origin. Sometimes they disappear. Sometimes they are used to build, they are so huge that they reach the sky.

Abyss, pressure. There is one hollow that even animals avoid. In it, no sound is heard - it is sucked out of the body, like air. The pressure is felt even at a distance: people's nails break, blood comes from their ears, the mind "falls through". In the depths, according to rumors, someone is breathing.

Mountains. The mountains are ancient, sometimes mobile. In their depths are fox cities, Lux caves and relics sleeping in stone. Some rocks "watch": if you come too close, it seems that the slope has shifted. On the peaks are the remains of temples dedicated to creatures that no one remembers. Sometimes the reverse Sun appears in the sky - not fiery, but black and cold. Its light takes away the heat, erases the shadows. They say that this is the moment when "the one who sees from the outside" comes into the world. Sometimes the Sun "falls" - solar fragments appear, hot, glowing, they can be found. But it is dangerous to touch them - they keep the memories of those who looked at the Sun for too long, and pass them on to others.

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