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   The Inpherno is a planet residing in the Inphinity. The Inpherno is where Crossroads is located, and is where the game PHIGHTING! takes place. It is mostly inhabited by inphernals and is split into four major regions.

   The Inpherno is characterised by being split into four regions, each with their own unique attributes and residents. Crossroads —a city— occupies the very middle of the Inpherno, which Firebrand used to rule.

   Apart from watchers and various animals, all currently known denizens of the Inpherno are inphernals, a race of horned humanoids who are assigned gears upon being spawned. Residents of the Inpherno live rather similar lives to humans in the real world; they can have jobs, live in apartments and partake in various past-times.

   Biology: Inphernals are intelligent, bipedal creatures, not unlike humans of the real world. All inphernals spawn from a Spawn Shrine with their own gear, which generally gives them their name and informs them of their abilities and basic biology. Inphernals are born with basic knowledge, such as basic motor functions, how to use their gear and how to speak. Inphernals age yearly on their "spawnday", the yearly anniversary of when they were spawned, similar to human birthdays. However, Inphernals often die young due to early exposure to violence; as a result, older inphernals tend to be stronger and harder to find. Unlike humans, they are completely hairless, except for those with animal gears, who can possess tails and other such features related to their respective gear. Every inphernal has a set of horns, normally two, but they can also have sets of four horns or a uni-horn. Inphernals can also have abnormal horn traits in the form of mutations, such as Firebrand, who has a single pronged horn that covers his eye, or Void Star, who has two large horns that cover both of her eyes and many smaller horns around her.

   Inphernals do not have a biological sex, and instead are born from a Spawnpoint. Normally, inphernals are born at random without parents from a respective Spawnpoint, but two inphernals can sacrifice part of their gear's power in order to produce a biological child. There is no particular rhyme or reason to what gear an inphernal is spawned with, even when spawned by their parents. However, it is rarer for an inphernal to spawn with a support-class gear, and even more uncommon for it to possess healing abilities. Only one of a specific gear can exist in the Inpherno at any one time, and once an inphernal dies, their gear becomes available for spawning once again. An inphernal's gear is spiritually a part of them, allowing them to summon and de-summon it at will.

   Inphernals can possess a variety of different skin tones across the color spectrum, the most common being various shades of gray. They can also have vitiligo, such as in the case of Sparkles.

   Sociology: Inphernals are a relatively violent race; their population is split up into four major regions, which are ruled over by various factions that are constantly at odds with each other. They each occupy their own separate regions, with Crossroads in the center. Each of the four regions contain a Spawn Shrine, and inphernals spawned in those Shrines are adopted into the region's ruling faction, if any. It is frowned upon to change or defect from your faction later on. Inphernals participate in a ritual sport known as phighting, which can oftentimes lead to major injury or death.

   Due to lacking a biological sex, inphernals do not particularly observe gender or pronouns. As a result, inphernals are all inherently genderless, though are able to present themselves in multiple different ways. Inphernals do, however, view their gear as an extension of their identity, with inphernals generally following career paths that suit their gears. Some inphernals may be unhappy with their spawn gear and seek to replace it, with inphernals like Zuka selling artificial gears for inphernals to adopt in place of their original gear. However, unlike the gear an inphernal is spawned with, artificial gears cannot be summoned or desummoned. Gears can also be modified, oftentimes to augment the gear in some way or to give it additional modes.

   Inphernals celebrate their spawndays, much like humans do with their birthdays, with a variety of different customs, such as: throwing parties, spending time with friends and family, being excused from their public executions and spending lots of bux. Some inphernals, such as Katana and Zuka, find spawnday celebrations to be frivolous, or even downright annoying.

   Inphernals cannot be spawned without a gear, despite what certain individuals may claim. Similarly, inphernals cannot spawn with two or more gears. However, they may appear to have gear with two or more modes if their gear has been modified, such as in the case of Scythe and Coil.

   Inphernals are genderless and use any pronouns - these are just the ones used in text for this particular inphernal.

   Spawnpoints, also known as Spawn Shrines or Spawns, are sacred locations in the Inpherno from where inphernals are spawned. There are five total Spawnpoints in the Inpherno: one in each of the regions, and an additional one in The Heights. pawnpoints are an integral part of the Inpherno, being the sole place where inphernals are born, or "spawned", from. The Spawnpoints are large beacons of light, sometimes referred to as "fountains", located in structures known as Spawn Shrines. In-universe, not much is known about Spawnpoints, but they apparently are linked to the Swords[1], a group of deities within the Inpherno.

   There is one Spawnpoint in each of the four regions; Blackrock, Lost Temple, Playground, and Thieves' Den. Each of the four regions' ruling factions handle their Spawnpoint in their own way, but Spawnpoints are typically considered sacred ground, and few inphernals would ever tamper with them. There is an additional Spawnpoint on The Heights, which is the spawnplace of the Swords and their offspring.

   Most of the time, Spawnpoints produce inphernals at complete random; referred to as "natural" spawning. However, spawning can be forced by two inphernals sacrificing part of their gear's power to the fountain, or by a Sword manipulating the Spawnpoint in some way; referred to in both cases as "unnatural" spawning. Regardless of the method used to spawn an inphernal, they will bear little to no resemblance to their parents, if any, and will be spawned with a random gear. Some types of gears, such as support and healing gears, are rare occurrences when spawning, as are various "curses" which can be inflicted on an inphernal upon spawn.

   the present year of inpherno is 3099AR.

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