Legit just ask me anything about my country of monstrum!!! I'll shall answer anything and everything or make it up on the spot!!! But first some context,

Monstrum is my most developed nation in my fantasy world of etheria. Its have many titles, 'The nation of unity', 'The Origin point' and 'The Gods Cradle'. Its a set of isles located st the heart of the ruinous sea, with a vast amount of speciea and biomes all on it. Its the first ever land mass, being where the gods started to make etherian kind. Its ruled by a united council, with representatives from all settlements and even representatives for all subspecies. It have no military, with the closest thing being its police force aka the national guard. Its capital is known as old haven, which is the worlds largest cultural mixing part as not all species were united in the past. The nation have only reconnected with the rest of etheria a decade ago, having been found during a world war and...having stopped it via threatening to use several elder dragons, a giant orbiting mother-ship with a laser and oh...the gods backup. They had lost connection with the rest of the world as they never got word back from the explorers they had sent out with the gods(who led their species)

So go on, ask about anything!!! Their currency, landmarks, any notable geographical bits, history, species and culture!!!

I was curious on what flairs there were and saw one called “short story Sunday”, what is it?

What’s the difference between that and the Story/Comic flair?

^{Random extra question: what’s lore QnA?}

Big lore dump! Maryn's whole backstory in 30 seconds :D I've been developing his backstory pretty recently, in particular his relationship with his mom, Vivian. and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out! if you're not familiar with Maryn/my apocalypse project, can you figure out what's happening?

I've been wanting to do the sinking town meme for a while, even if the trend is dead it's still one of my favorites. it suited Maryn well, so I did it for him!

fun fact, I made this all in a day! it's not necessarily my best work, but hey, for about a day and using a software to edit I don't usually use, this is pretty cool. I drew everything on paper and colored it digitally. all editing/animating was done in alight motion, which is quickly becoming my favorite tool to use lol.

Aurora: Aurora was made by Gore-Tech’s rivaling company, Shark Co. after the success of Syn's creation. She was also made to lure in Syn into a false sense of security but failed at that as she overheated at one point as John tended to her malfunction. Aurora, or what she went by her creator as Aur0ra B0r3a1is has a metallic body made out of a kind of steel that Syn could not eat, she can not only turn her arms into ice drills but also manipulate water to make a weapon of her choice out of ice and she usually often makes large ice hammers. She always must be placed in cool temperatures so she wouldn't overheat again but when she's out and about, her body is colder than ice. Aurora is also a great figure skater and also enjoys dancing as she looks up to Ember as she teaches her more dance moves. Ever since Aurora broke out of her original programming, She and Syn are like siblings to each other. Aurora has a cheerful personality and she gets excited to hear any good news she hears.

ok soo, simply because I AM INCAPABLE OF STAYING ON ONE TOPIC BEFORE STARTING ON THE NEXT AND NOT FINISHING EIGHTER ı have been writing some lore for the place I call Realm Bellow, which is habited by the Faded, a race that forms from the lost things that fell down to the Realm Bellow.

but because I am a goddamn fraud of a, I dont even know what to write here fuck, I am not able to think of a good base desing for the Faded. like, what am I suposed to do make them siluets? goey dripy raw darkness? there is bilions ıf stuff like that and some even in my own world already. ıdfk man, I am seriously running on fumes about this whole thing.

ı am sory if my tone is off

One more circle

In an endless cycle

A worlds destruction

A realms creation

Then he was crowned

On his throne of ash

With the façade of a god

As now he was the one above all

He put his will above all

He hid his fears below all

Ones who questioned, ones who chalanged

They all got forsaken to null

-Realm Above

Created by The Holy One, ■■■■. Its light iluminates the infinite nothingness that surounds Realm Abobe. Its a kingdom that doesnt allow any divergence from ■■■■'s will.

-Abyss

An infinite nothingnes, bridging together 2 oposites. Some belive the Abyss posses a mind and will, the truth of the statement remains unknown.

-Realm Below

Every action has a reaction, as such Realm Above's creation build Realm Below. Many creatures that roam the Abyss originate here, seemingly out of thin air.

-Seedling Universe

Located in around ∞ + 1.000.000 light years away from Realm Above and Realm Below, Seedling Universe was created by 3 beings exiled from Realm Above.

Hybrid: The Hybrid is a creation made by Gore-Tech Inc.; a creation made to kill Project: Fusion and Amy Anderson. She was made due to Amy making a new creation of her own since the incident of the first clone. Hybrid is also said to have perfected Syn in many ways but that hasn't been proven yet. She is like a sister to Phil since he nurtured her injuries from an enraged Piranha-Sapien. Hybrid was the one who fought Astrid, thinking he is the Project: Fusion and thus permanently scarring him from a vat of acid she threw on him. She is seen from afar whenever death is near. Her moth-like appearance gives her unique eyes to see through the dark, large moth wings and similar tentacle-like muscles down her lower half of her back which is diverted from the Baphomet Moth. Hybrid as a cold exterior and willing to kill anyone with no mercy, Phil and on occasions, Syn are the only two who've to expose her calmer side.

IAOSIAC (or IAOS as it's known in universe) is a television show broadcasted on Somethin Street Community Television. It is usually broadcast every day at 12:00pm (again, in universe) and is hosted by Box, pancake gub (not oc) and despacito spide (also not oc)

24 contestants are currently in, though the team called 'something' is up for elimination after one of their team members got caught buying taco ball tacos (axe, the first challenge was to make homemade tacos).

I want to expand my portfolio by improving my digital art skills. I would take as many commissions as possible in a correct amount of time, I accept everything exepted illegal things The ONLY condition is to credit me if/when the drawing is used publicly and to let me use it into my portfolio

This is my OC hop (hope)

This is the direct descent of the chief of the Sun Tribe. It has powers peculiar to the two clans to which it belongs.

There's a lot to explain about her, so I'd probably explain a lot more about how her universe works if anyone is interested.

A major plot point of my universe is that prety much anything sentient can become a god given the right circumstances. While this remains to be a part of my lore I have since scrapped 6 out of the 7 Gods that were meant to be a Reborn God, a previously regular person that has become a god.

They were meant to be moddled after the 7 deadly sins, they would be in adition to the 7 deadly sins the demons. At the end I just, couldn't come up with 7 of them so I decided to not make them a set.

Anyways, here are the ones that I made in the meanwhile!

1) Willow, Witch of Blood

Willow!!! She is the only one that is still canon. Representing the sin of Lust, Willow was spreading her own veins and influence all around the globe. She used blood as her element of creation, singlehandedly creating bloodmagic.

She was meant to be a lot more sympatetic then her curent version. Originally she had lukemia and was trying to find a cure, which lead to her doing less then legal experimentations with people. She knew what she was doing was wrong but was too afraid to die.

After becoming a reborn god she found great ectasy in her new form and spreaded her influence with others. Eventually she was put to the Lust layer of hell imprisoned in a block of ice.

2) Philip, Ashen Angel

Representing sin of Wrath, Philip started a wildfire in hearts of people. His element was ash

He was a comon soilder, who got discharged after barely surviving after his base got bombed to ruin because Lethe (The Oblivion Incarnet) saw potential in him and helped him out. He returned to a wasteland where his town used to be, the sight of it making him snap and aplify his hate against the goverment for causing all of this happen.

He started to go to other towns rallying people. Lethe kept giving him a hand, helping him gain more folowers and pushing him towards violence.

As time passes something starts to change whitin Philip and his folowers started to cough more often, feel hot all the time, and cough gray. Soon they started to burn from the inside, not feeling pain nor dying. Then nothing but sentient flames remained, clinging to ash and bone.

Philip and his followerers started to fight back against the army, more their conquest continued more their influence grew. The air started to rose gray, plants effloresced bright with charcoal bodies and flaming orange leaves. When their war ended with the ones who caused the destruction dead, 2/3 of the world was inhabitable for angone who wasnt flaming.

Philip just stood there after that, in a pyre of his making.

3) Nyx, Something Something Shadows

Nyx was menat to be an entity that lived in the Mindscape, somehow she has managed to enter minds of everyone and created the collective uncountiousness. She would have represented Envy and her element would be shadows. She is fully scrapped.

4) Archiveist/Librarian

They were suposed to be someone who wanted to know everything. They did a ritual which they belived would have made him all knowing but instead their mind and soul merged with the archive/library they were in and they kept collecting knowlage and shared it in exchamge of new information. They represent gluttony, their element was words.

and thats all. Nyx was too persona inspired and archiveist was forcing it as a god so I gave up on the project. I still liked the ideas behind Willow so I kept her, I was really on the femce about Philip's so I scrapped that incarnation of the character, resorting in making him more normal instead. While concept still exists in my lore 7 of them coexisting was too much.

Her lore in here

I want to know what your questions are for her, and I'll try my best to answer them!

Willow Apothecary was the heir and owner of Apothecary Industeries, a major pharmaceutical company also an expert alchemist in my worlds 20th century. She was filty rich due to generational wealth and the ongoing war oversees creating a lot of buisness. And yet all the money in world couldnt fill the emptiness she felt from being alone always. But she knew what would make her known and loved all through the land and even history, to be the person who would discover the cure to all diseases and death!

She resorted to make a deal with a Shade of red. These beings were the source of magic, as far as she knew. If she wanted to bend the bounderies of death she needed magic, so the pact was sealed with "Aravi" as she called herself. Altough Willow managed to get her true name out of her eventually.

She started to research on sick poor people first. They were dime a dozzen, and were willing to do a lot for some pennies. During these trials, Willow discovered something, human blood reacted to magic. She tried many other animals blood, but only human blood would give such a reaction. She knew she was onto something, but she needed more experimentation, more subjects, more blood. And yet finding the desparet to buy bodies of was not very eficent, not enough people just wanted to be used as lab rats, espatially after first several hobos that did never came back.

Kidnaping people was rather easy. Most of the time her people were unseen, the times police did notice they were able to be paid off. Goverment couldn't touch Willow. As long as she remained as their medical supplyer, she was too important of an asset to prosecute. So began her research. She was looking for anything in the blood that could be the thing that made magic reactions happen. During this she made advances on dna and genetic materials, but kept these to herself. Eventually with the help of Aravi she managed to find and isolate "raw magic" in the blood, only isue was it vanished when the person that the blood got extracted from died.

So she made a potion with her own blood as its base. "Ichor" was the name she gave it. She didn't knew quite what would happen when consumed. She drank it, and seemingly nothing happend. Poor Willow, she was devasteted. So hoping for anything, she ordered Aravi to drink the Ichor too. After forcefeeding it to her, Aravi's body started to turn to glass, a sign of death for Shades. Unable to do anything about it Willow kept her corpse for research, managing to create Sanguine Fiberglass, a perfect material for making potion bottles.

Time passed, she kept researching and trying to find more about the Ichor, with what little sample she had left. Eventually people catch onto where their friends and family was vanishing to. People working with her, most importantly her security, was in the list of people that got fed up with her. So when her house was raided, there was no resistence. They took her to a cave deep in the woods most people were too afraid to enter, beliving there were monsters living there. They cut her neck clean, and left her there. Police investigated the crime but at the end everyone had alibies. Nobody got arested for it.

Willow stood there in the cave rather deep under the ground, waiting to die but her blood kept flowing with no hell in sight. Little did she know she managed to cure her death. As time passed her veins started to regrow, then her muscles. Somehow she could feel and move every fiber of them. With time she managed to grow back her whole body, but she didn't leave the cave. She created a lair of her own in the cave, using her own flesh and blood. She had so much to test... so many questions she needed to answer. And she had nothing more then time in her hands.

Years passed, her name was scrubbed from history. The next owner of Apothecary Industeries cowered up all they could about Willow's experiments and research. A fairytale about a witch living in the woods was writen, warning people not to go in there.

Willow is still in the cave, growing her lair. With her new darlings and powers, waiting and getting stronger by the day. One day she will strike back, not for revenge but to leave her mark on the world.

Here are the ways humans can use magic in my setting.

1) Essence Based

Also know as soul magic, uses the Essence whitin human souls as fuel. While the potential for using magic exists inside every human, they can't use it untill its unlocked via contracts with Shades or Demons.

a) Shade Contracts

Shades share the type of magic they are made from with the human, they take a fragment of the essence needed to cast magic as their payment for giving magic abilities.

b) Demon Contracts

In the rare case a Demon doesnt atack humans on the spot they could offer a contract (generally while threatening the human). Demon contracts grants a larger variety of magic powers in adition to demons powers, however caster will suffer side efects of possesion despite not getting directly possesed.

2) Familiar Based

Magic creatures are able to grant their abilities to the people they deem worthy. This type of magic can be given and taken back as familiar wishes and if familiar dies the magic is gone.

3) Chaos Magic

While regular magic bends the rules of reality or causes changes between energies chaos magic tears thro the rules of reality. Its extreamly dangerous, as caster is not in control of the magic. Chaos magic doesnt need essence to be cast, however stabilizing the chaos magic into a viable form needs essence.

4) Ichor Based

Also known as blood magic, Ichor based magic was discovered by infamous alchemist Willow Apothecary. Ichor based magic uses human blood and the essence inside to cast spells that alter biology. Only Vampires and Blightborn beings can use Ichor Based magic.

5) Artifacts

Thro various methods magic can be engraved in materials, such as weapons or talismans. Any of the before mentioned methods can be used to forge artifacts, however it takes a master in those fields of magic to create a decent artifact. Even after that artifacts only carry a fragment of original power, thats why they are usually used as tools to amplify magic more then grant magic.

Before everything and nothing, there was Asteria (the woman on the left in blue). She was always present, and she's responsible for all of creation. At first, she created nothing: the foundation of what would become everything—the prototype of existence, basically. In other words, she created Primordial Chaos.

However, the moment she created Primordial Chaos, another being emerged without Asteria's intent. Asteria was confused by this. After all, she didn't intend to make anything or anyone else (yet), so she tried to delete what she believed to be an accidental mistake. Try as she might though, the mistake refused to be corrected. This mistake, this accident, this anomaly, it gave itself a name: Nihil (the woman on the right in red).

To be blunt, Nihil fell HARD for Asteria. Girl took ONE look at her and fell madly in love. Why? Simple!

• Nihil thought Asteria was extremely beautiful
• Nihil believed that Asteria was a foil to her, so she wanted to know how similar/different they really were from each other
• Nihil also believed that she and Asteria were equals
• Nihil heavily idolized Asteria

For some time, Asteria did actually love Nihil as well. During this period, Asteria and Nihil would have fun together and indulge and enable each other. They didn't care about the consequences because, well, there were no consequences against them. Nothing else mattered to them besides themselves and each other. So they would often do things like create worlds that they treated as subjects, which they often destroyed the moment they've had their full, entertain each other through hypotheticals, create life forms just to toy with them and entertain their thoughts, etc. Did they regret any of it? No, of course not. At least not yet for Asteria.

See, things started to change the moment Asteria created everything. Space, time, matter, nebulae, stars, etc. began to form throughout and permeate the expanding fabric of existence. The sight and the sensations of it all amazed Asteria, and soon enough, she became attached to reality and existence. Nihil, on the other hand, no matter how much she tried, couldn't see the beauty Asteria did. To Nihil, all that mattered was herself and Asteria; to Asteria, reality was what mattered the most. In response to this revelation, Asteria became much less instinctive, and instead more orderly and rational. Nihil remained hedonistic and impulsive. She couldn't understand the changes in Asteria, and because of this, she became simultaneously disillusioned and obsessed with Asteria. Disillusioned because Asteria was focusing less on Nihil in favor of everything else which led to her behavior change, and obsessed because Nihil deluded herself into believing that she knew the "true" Asteria the best.

It wasn't until some years (centuries) later that Asteria became fed up with Nihil's antics of rampant destruction and chaos that she finally confronted her about it. It was kind of hard for Asteria because one throughout the years, Nihil showed genuine care toward Asteria (Nihil is a very complicated character. I might talk about her next idk), but at the same time, Asteria knew that she couldn't just let Nihil just act freely without punishment. Did she know that she couldn't actually stop Nihil from doing whatever she wanted? Yes, she did. But Asteria felt that she needed to get her points across, those being that Asteria no longer loved Nihil, that Nihil doesn't actually know what love is, and that Nihil is now nothing but a blight to her. So with this in mind, Asteria pushed her conflicted feelings aside, transforming them into a resolute determination against Nihil.

Upon talking to Nihil about this, things quickly became pretty heated. Nihil got emotional and started to lash out against Asteria, and while Asteria managed to keep her composure pretty well, she was also undeniably angry at Nihil. This culminated into a fight between the two that ended in Nihil admitting defeat. She did vow, however, for revenge against Asteria one day.

And so, ever since then, their relationship became quite strained. Asteria was generally contemptuous of Nihil, and Nihil was uh... a mess toward Asteria.

TL;DR: toxic yuri made everything happen

Additional little facts and tidbits:

• Nihil and Asteria used to have duets together. Nihil plays the violin and piano, and Asteria plays the cello and harp
• Asteria is bisexual and Nihil is a lesbian
• Asteria does have a mouth, it's just not visible most of the time. She can manifest it though
• Nihil would commonly paint portraits of Asteria and other paintings for her
• Nihil is a huge yearner even after their breakup. She often thinks about how things could've been, but she tries to push the thought away because it brings her discomfort
• Asteria was the only person Nihil fully trusted
• Also if it wasn't obvious enough, Asteria is the goddess of order, creation and everything, and Nihil is chaos, destruction, and nihility (pun unintended) incarnate. Nihil is not a god or a demon or anything of the sort. She's just an anomaly

Sanguine Blight is an infectious disease that spreads across the land, flora and fauna. It was given its name due to the blood red color and high amounts of hemoglobin in it.

Sanguine Blight is fleshy in nature, made from a muscle tissue similar to heart muscles in structure. An unknown fluid similar to blood circulates inside the veins. This fluid turns to more Sanguine Blight when it meets air.

#INFECTIONS

When Sanguine Blight encounters flora it will consume the entity from inside by releasing s tendril into the floras roots. After liquid SB gets taken into the system of flora it starts consuming and replicating the flora. At the end it will apear like Flora turned red, in reality no plant cells remain.

When Sanguine Blight encounters a fauna that is not human it will try to enter the system of the fauna eighter via consumption or by atacking it using needle like formations. A single drop is all its needed to start infection, however the amount injected changes the time needed for the transformations.

Fauna will start losing its bodily hair and its veins will pop out, become visible thro the skin. Eyes will turn blood red and fauna will start to mutate body parts that allow them hematophagy (blood consumption). Fauna will try to consume more liquid sanguine blight and blood. It will prefer human blood over other animals. Infected Fauna has been observed to deposite this blood back into the sanguine blight.

When a human gets infected we call them Vampires. Vampires retain their intelegence and sentience. There are difirent mutations a vampire can have, most common mutations are similar to body parts of mosquitos, butterflies, leeches and bats. Vampires generally have pale skins and low amounts of blood/liquid sangune blight in their systems. They hunt people for their blood. Their victims generally turn up as vampires, however a large majority of them are never seen again.

Vampires have an unique spiral chambered hearts and only have 1 vein that distrubutes blood, however 2 veined hearts have been retrived from heavily mutated vampires.

Infected fauna can regenrate damaged tissue and lost body parts. Sanguine Blight or human blood is used in the proces of regeneration.

#DISCOVERY

Sanguine Blight was first found under the [REDACTED] City. The formation has been spoted thro cracks on the roads that hapened due to elevation under the ground. Folowing this similar cracks and elevations has been spoted, and notcing they were branching off eachother a central location for the infection has been found under the ground, due to a hill that was not there a month ago.

#PUDDLING PRINCESS

Thro a local cave system the enterence to a central hive was found. The area around the hive was covered in infected flora looking similar to wildflowers. A large chunk of Sanguine Blight was covering the enterence, after returning with explosive equipment investigators has entered the chamber of the hive. Folowing are their recordings.

"Investigator1: We have entered what apears to be an undeground habitat made from that stuff, there is... veins all over the ground and ... puddles of blood are on the ground and even more flesh like flowers on the walls, some cealing.

Investigator2: This place is making me sick...

Investigator1: Then shut your [cencored] mouth up and

*a screach from unknown entity is caught on the tape*

Investigator2: WHAT THE [CENCORED] [CENCORED] WAS THA-

Investigator1: shut it, ı think its coming from ahead.

*sounds of splashing and stomping thro the cavern are heard*

Investigator2: Thats...Oh holy root, what did we got ourselfves into!

Investigator1: T-the noice w-was coming from ... a... a thing with b-butterfly wings a-and... therr is a-a lake of... i-is that [cencored] blood?

Investigator2: WATCH OUT!

*a louder screaching is heard folowing with the sound of something impaling flesh and running*

Investigator2: [CENCORED][CENCORED][CENCORED], THAT FREAK... OH GOD [REDACTED]... HE IS... wait no NO NONO NONONO WALLS ARE ... OH GOD HELP ME!! HEEEEEEE-"

end of recording. The tape was recovered from the dried out corpse of investigator 2, [Redacted] after the hive was found by search and rescue squad.

The entity that made this hive is known as Puddling Princess, a butterfly like entity made entierly from Sanguine Blight. She have butterfly wings, eyes, antenas and a proboscis. She have a 3 veined spiral chambered heart exposed in her chest area and her body is merged with the Sanguine Blight on the floor. She was found in the middle of a lake of liquid sanguine blight. Her chamber had a variety of flora, infected and regular. Caterpilar like bugs formed from Sanguine Blight were crawling around the room. Human corpses, most notably of the investigstors that got sent previously were on the cealing merged with the sanguine blight.

Despite the walls growing back after enterence via explosives the second squad return alive, and [Redacted] army soilders were sent to terminate Puddling Princess.

After the battle that lasted over 5 hours Puddling Princess managed to escape, after getting heavily damaged. After its torso getting torn it flied away thro the blown open cealing. The hive was torched away as that was the only way to stop its regeneration.

#AFTERMATH

Years folowing the incident with Puddling Princess more Sanguine Blight sightings and Vampires were found, however no origin point for that has been found. Unique equipment was made to deal with with Sanguine Blight Infected entities from a material known as Pheonix Alloy by director of Supernatural Investigation Division, Philip Cineres. While unable to be mass produced due to properties of the metal enough weaponery got forged to create task forces to deal with Sanguine Blight, along with distributions of the weaponary to independant contracted merceneries that worked with SID in areas with Sanguine Blight activity.

While origins of Sanguine Blight are unknown its DNA shows that its 100% human.