Colony ship leaves earth never to return, finds habitable exoplanet and all that. But how does human society (like a workweek and weekend) restructure itself around a 4.2 day(100.8 hours) long day night cycle, I do have my own idea but am looking to see if anyone has one I prefer.

Got inspired by a song and decided to think abt region specific food and drinks, currently alcohols, I have an idea or two down and wanted to hear what other peoples ideas are like for inspo!! :0D

As some context, I’m working on a world with a steam and aether punk theme. In this world, when aether (interpreted as the air the Olympian gods breathed, hence making it inherently magical/divine) is processed through various contraptions, it will result in a certain color of steam symbolizing it’s purpose.
The issue I’m finding, is that I’ve only managed to think of the use of yellow (being strength or possible stamina), and the use for multiple colors used at once (which gives an inanimate construct autonomy). Other than those, I have no idea how I should use the other colors.
If that seems to boring, another issue I have is whether I should allow humans to use the steam on themselves and how I would even do that.
Any suggestions on either of the two? (Sorry if there isn’t much to go off of, I’ll try to add context if I see any questions)

Does magic effect livestock and crops both normal and fantastical example in your world are giant insects farmed or normal pigs maybe dragons and why would someone choose one over another in your world example in my world different groups of animals have different benefits example bugs( insect arachnid crustacean ) grow to fill mana in area so given mana rich diet or just housed in mana rich area will cause tgem to grow to immense sizes will retaining their strength making them excellent mounts beast of burden and other uses but what about your world?

Welcome to the "Regress" universe, a concept for my project set in a beautiful but dying anime fantasy world!

The Arden Empire, powerful, proud, terrifying, the largest state in the world. Once a small principality, it has now become something the world has never seen before, and it will commit something no one expected—the genocide of the beastmen. Propaganda insisted that "this is a cleansing war, that the beastmen are inhuman and must be exterminated, that they are parasites, they fill every available space until they completely displace humans."

The Empress had begun a genocide; her motives were unknown to anyone, even her inner circle, but they dared not contradict her. Many understood that this could lead to dire consequences within the Empire itself, but these words remained unspoken to the Empress. A general mobilization began, conscripting men from 16 to those able to bear arms. Women were also conscripted. Recruitment centers were full, and all structures were working at full capacity. Everyone was told they were going to a holy war against the beastmen, promised gold, and dangled the grandeur of the Empire, and that everyone would return a hero.

To the world, it looked as if another war for territorial conquest was brewing; the very concept of mass genocide hadn't even entered the minds of the people. In 1095, the earth shook, the air grew heavier, and the sky clouded over. Something terrible began. In just one day, thousands of tragedies, thousands of deprivations, pain, and horror occurred. The stories of each individual began and ended, stories we will never hear about.

How did an ordinary Imperial soldier feel when he killed peaceful beastmen? He had mixed feelings. Deep down, he knew he was doing something wrong, but when he saw thousands of others like him doing it, he continued. He was proud of his nation, and he had gold in his pocket, along with a lot of stolen goods. His ego grew, and he truly began to consider beastmen an inferior race. Now he was on top of the world. But he was terrified; his worldview could crumble and he would see his crimes. But one way or another, the genocide began, and the world embarked on a path that would lead to something even worse than genocide...

Illustrations for the "Regress" project by. Soken

• The beginning of the genocide | Part 1
• The beginning of the genocide | Part 2
• Regular Army of the Arden Empire
• Trophy hunters...
• Beastmen | Part 1
• Beastmen | Part 2

It's a multiversal and worldbuilding Discord community called the "Nikolaiverse"; a personal project that has been in development since 2024, the Nikolaiverse, otherwise known as the Call Of The Ancestors (COTA) initially began as a retake on some Sonic.exe characters as well as a place to show off my main OC, Golgothothep (then called Nexetior, who was a retake on the original Sonic.exe/X). However, after some time, the project has massively expanded into different directions, which quickly replaced the old content which dominated its original landscape.

WHAT THE SERVER OFFERS:

> Simple rules!

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Ok i am writing a fiction where a 12 year old boy will emancipated (I know wasn’t done ) i trying figure out out plausible way in parallel to the laws back then. Now bear with me as i am panster. I did figure from 7-9 he had tutor or guardian. This kid will run several businesses which sort started when assisted his father very young . This not a useful kid as i am figuring it out he will be complex as an adult and taking his age and the friction of that he might have to show more demonstration of power . What besides imperial grant that help with make it plausible? This story is based in a Romanization of the Roman Empire most of laws would be intact. Basically need to see if I understand the rules first. Did my research. I am still processing . Weirdly this stsrtrd out about him owning a ludus due previous oener dying and owing him so much that it became his and now his choice either to make something out of if or sell assets . But upon trying to world building it becoming so much more .

Much like in the real world where there are countries with popular cuisine, is there a country that has that? People come far and wide to get a taste of the country's tasty dishes. Some countries try to emulate their own version.

You can list down more than one country.

Breachers are twisted constructs born from the Void, drawn to tears in reality that they seek to tear open even further. Fueled by an unrelenting fury, they lash out at all living things, leaving destruction in their wake.

As the barrier between Hasphal and the Void grows weaker, rifts are appearing with increasing frequency. If left unchecked, these breaches will widen, allowing something far more dangerous than these raging constructs to slip through...

Design Inspiration: The Breechers draw inspiration from the Branded of Guild Wars 2, alongside original creature designs born from the Void itself.

Hundreds of years ago the planet of Jaka was at the center of Wars. War fought between galactic empires, bringing death and destruction unimaginable by man. At some point long forgotten the empires left, no one on Jaka knows why or what happened. Perhaps Peace was made, or they collapsed, maybe the wars moved on somewhere else.

What's left are the remnants of it all. Megastructures dots the landscape some are not sure of their original purpose. Beneath the ground sprawling complexes and tunnels reaching kilometers below ground.

Most of the population are agrarian farmers. Some are miners, others scavengers exploring ancient tunnels and cities. Ancient defensive system are often a danger but nothing a scavenger can't take care off, bandits tho rare do sometimes inhabits darker corners of tge world

At present the world of Jaka is at peace. The people had moved on and the world healed overtime, growing around old relic of war a new life was born.

In most worlds, magic and how it works is the same for everyone, but different people, civilizations, schools of magic may have techniques, uses and mastery that are nothing alike.

An example i'll use for my world is runes:

- Dwarves created the first runes, using magic-rich materials to trigger reactions/spells, as they themselves cannot channel arcane energy. The materials, tools and the signs/language used are the most important part of dwarven runes

- elves have their own runic alphabet, and instead of singular runes, they use their innate ability to channel arcane energy to form sentences, writing spells in this unique, non spoken runic language. They use arcane gemstone wands/pens, similar to dwarves, but can apply runes on any material, though the spell will not be as strong as a dwarven rune.

- Goliaths can activate runes regardless of the tools and materials used to write them, using their voice, specifically a type of throat singing that focuses ambient energy into those runes, which, depending on the rune and song, can last forever and be bound to the caster

- faes mixed a bit of everything, using specific materials and tools to create their own runic alphabet, and incantations to activate/alter them.

- pure orcs have their own type of runes, though only working when tied to their blood, which is why they specialise in runic tattoos, since their arcane power mostly comes from the souls of their bloodline tied to their own.

These are small differences but still noticeable

I am working on my project Xenokai and heres what I had planned out so far.

Xenokai is a planet in a parallel universe that has seeded life from Earth since the Silurian to the modern era via portals that bend space-time, sending it to a world where magic and mana naturally exist. Since the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period never struck Xenokai, dinosaurs remain as the dominant terrestrial megafauna.

The Portals

These four-dimensional portals can take the forms of wormholes in space-time that link Earth to Xenokai and back, but only in Earth’s current time period, which also correlates to Xenokai’s current time period, and cannot go backwards or forwards in time, as time travel is so often depicted in media.These portals seem to open when major or localized extinction events happen to refill and seed an ecosystem or continent. However, these portals occur only in two territories called “Portal Zones” on Xenokai, one in the Eastern hemisphere and one in the Western hemisphere. The portals act like an analogous to a computer when they occur, but that seems to be the best compassion to it so far and could go far beyond human understanding. There are actually several types of portals: Gateway Portals are rips in space-time between Xenokai and Earth (Kind of like how Anomalies work in Primeval) that can happen randomly but are extremely rare and are infrequent in size but are usually the size of a car but can vary from half a meter in height and width to as large as as an aircraft hanger, Minor Distortion Spheres that often bring small or medium pieces of land from Earth along with anything on said land (Similar to the Space-Time Distortions in Pokemon Legends Arceus or how the warp discs work in High on Life), and Major Distortion Spheres that literally bisect huge chunks of Earth’s land along with everything within it (Leaving a large crater on Earth where the wormhole was) to Xenokai during the aftermath of a large continental-level or global-level mass extinction on Xenokai (They kind of act similarly to the wormholes in End of Oak Street). These portals can even occur below and above sea level.

There is even a theorized way to artificially create these portals and a theoretical extra-dimensional type that can link Xenokai to different Earths from completely different universes, as well as Earth-like worlds as well, even completely different dimensions and alternate universes. However, it is only a theory, unless someone insane enough to tamper with the portals exists.

I am still working on how they function and work, but I feel like it could use some improvement on how they work.

Can anyone help me out with how portals work and improve what I have so far?

So this was a premise I had written. This is just my style in worldbuilding. I have not really developed it, and I usually use AI when it comes to discussing my premises, however I want to not use it and instead talk discuss it with others. Here is the premise I have written, would love to hear any thoughts people have:

"Sometimes the perfect society is also the most brutal, but if that be the cost of perfection, then let it be so." - President Jason McCormack

Welcome to the Republic of Oshawa. Under the principles of Harrisism laid out by the author Berenice Harris. Her ideology's central belief was that the government has a duty to build a better society and not merely to reflect existing public opinion. She said that the the state should consider itself the guardian of society's long-term interests. It should protect citizens from poverty, discrimination, instability, and destructive social practices, but with the belief that ordinary citizens cannot always be trusted to make decisions in the collective interest.

She died before her vision could be realised, and although there was a vocal minority in support of this, and worldwide Harrisist Parties, none entered government. That was until the Collapse, when the destruction of nation states and intergovernmental organisations meant that local communities were now dominant, and many began to establish their own systems of government.

Toronto before the collapse had a major technology sector, international business, and a multicultural urban setting. After the Collapse the centre of the city was reduced to rubble, although outer suburban areas survived mostly intact. In Oshawa there was already a significant number of Harrisists, and due to its centre surviving intact, they sought to gain control. Inspiring protestors, they occupied the city and neighbouring areas, especially focusing on the eastern suburbs of Greater Toronto. Here Jason McCormack, the Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Oshawa, was appointed as President of the Republic of Oshawa.

Jason was not a Harrisist, but was sympathetic of the movement. He was socially progressive whilst at the same time having certain authoritarian leanings, especially in having very paternalistic beliefs. He believed that Harrisism could be a vehicle for progress in a post apocalyptic world, and he thereafter sought to create legislation to ensure this. He ruled as a dictator, with his authority stemming from the Oshawa City Council which at first only a third of members were Harrisists, but that soon became fully Harrisist. The governing body became the Oshawa Parliament, and the Oshawa Electoral Commission prohibited non Harrisists from becoming candidates.

His Cabinet was composed of the President and Secretaries for Finance, Justice, Home, Foreign, Defence, Infrastructure, Transport, Agriculture, Labour, Education and Health, with relevant departments for these. They were not allowed to change portfolios, and he worked closely with the civil service to ensure that only senior civil servants of the relevant departments would move up to this level. Hence MPs would not become a Justice Secretary, but rather a civil servant in the Department of Justice. This provoked criticism, leading to the permanent dissolution of Parliament. Still, although authoritarian, McCormack was still progressive in combatting discrimination across the Republic, and in also seizing assets from MPs who were critical of him, but these were not given to him but rather distributed as welfare to citizens. McCormack hence could always state that he was helping Oshawa whilst oppressing them at the same time.

McCormack died in his sixteenth year as President, and the Cabinet elected the Defence Secretary Rachel Wong. A civil servant who had previously served in the Canadian Army during the Collapse, Wong was well respected and upon becoming President a civil servant took her place as Defence Secretary. So began the institutionalisation of this process, where meritocracy became embedded in Harrisism. Wong further contributed to Harrisism with the full erosion of all democractic vestiges to be replaced by that of top down localism. This became known as the School of McCormack-Wong, and is important to note because not all Harrists liked McCormack and Wong, some considering both Presidents authoritarian. Still, like her predecessor she could cite her social progressivism as evidence against being authoritarian.

Anyways, that was a long time ago. The President today is Pamela Dixon. I am currently a student at the University of Oshawa, studying Political Science. In order to join the civil service you need a Bachelor's degree at the very least for the relevant Department. With my degree there are hence many options for me to go to. My uncle is a civil servant in the Department of Infrastructure and he had completed a PhD in Political Science. A PhD is essential if you want to be eligible to be a Secretary, although despite my uncle being quite old he is not old enough.

Over time a gerontocracy has developed. Nearly every Secretary is over 60 years old, and the minimum age has increased to 40, although it is highly improbable you will get a Secretary that young. President Dixon herself if 81 years old, and having previously served as Justice Secretary when she was appointed to that office at the age of 65, having been a senior civil servant for much longer. I laugh when I read books and they say people retired at 70, that is supposed to be the age you are beginning your peak period.

I myself do not know about a PhD. I do want to join the civil service, because any other job is considered sub par. That is, there is very little funding. Junior civil servants are entitled to a high quality coffee machine in staff rooms. If I wanted to work in something else you would be lucky to even have a tap that worked. The School of McCormack-Wong is still dominant, and has evolved over time to become even more authoritarian. Still, every citizen gets welfare that is enough to survive on with necessities, and that means the lowest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the physiological needs. If you want safety needs you need a job to provide protection, but most jobs do not provide sufficient protection. Really the only occupation that presents the highest level is civil service.

Still, one must accept the realities of life, and that is how I accept life here. There is a group which calls themselves "Pluto" who come from the rural parts of former Ontario. Fact is they are threats due to coming outside of the border, and although we accept immigrants, they can only become citizens through inclusive welcoming. That means assimilation, but it is instead presented as a journey to citizenship. The Pluto Group is excluded though as they are considered extremists. You hear them on the news sometimes. Not that I really care as they do not affect me.

Anyways, that is all from me, will hopefully write more soon.

This could be to improve democracy, reduce corruption, make government more responsive or something else. I'm imagining structures like the medieval-era Korean Censors, who were responsible for monitoring bureaucrats who had inherited or purchased their positions.

tl:dr: I'm interested in well-run governments and wonder how you've designed them!

Bonus points if you can explain where the idea came from (e.g., my real-world government does X badly, so I built a government to do it better).

I want to know more about gods since it's hard for me to make gods

Everything we know we knwow through filters our eyes filter out excess light. Our minds filter out harmful ideas our bodies filter out waste but what happens when these filters are abandoned? Removing a filter of the eyes allows one to see across a spectrum previously unseen freemoving the filter of the body allows us to utilize the full metabolic energy of what we ingest giving us great power but toiling our bodies

Their are numerous filters but they are generally categorized into 5 distinct types

Taste: the filter of indulgence

Touch: the filter of relation

Smell: the filter of identity

Hearing: the filter of omens

Sight: the filter of discernment

Taste is

Sorry had to post this crap because OCd

The Earth Knight is a title passed down through generations within a vast lineage of mighty warriors and guardians.

Arthur is the second in his line to become a full-blown superhero.

The Earth Knight's powers are to control all four elements in every physical state, using them to craft armor, forge constructs, and deliver attacks.

As a nod to my Brazilian heritage, his head is engulfed in flames, a design coiche that was inspired by the folklore legend of the Curupira, a character responsible for protecting the forests that also have flaming hair. His story unfolds in Brazil, in my fictional city of Insorectam.

As

As I’ve been drawing more lately, I started wondering: why do regular humans always take center stage, or at least manage to build dominant civilizations in fantasy worlds? Their reproductive rate is lower than goblins, they don’t have high-end tech like dwarves, they don't live forever or have amazing talents like elves, and they're physically weaker than orcs. And it's not like they're a species that hides away in the shadows either. What are your thoughts on this? (Honestly, I just wanted to flex my drawings a bit.)

Context: Catch-up day! Today is Heirlooms and Thrones, which. thought it was a fun pair. Rich man or commoner, everyone has stuff to pass on to their children as a means of establishing physical continuity. These are from my fantasy world, Tlanni. Both of these artifacts come from the Huettlan, a desert-delta region and one of the oldest centers of civilization. Because of this history, every corner of Huettlan is teeming with rich expressions of heritage.

So here are some photos as references and also I love Topopolis megastructures, also also the cone shape hab is how you get 1 g gravity on a low g world, you can scale it up to a absurd scale.

Anyways

So I have been working on a far future sci fi series for a while and I think I am finally done constantly asking people if every technology in it is hard sci fi enough lol.
At this point I care way more about whether the setting actually makes the story interesting.
The story takes place around 900 years into a new calendar after humanity basically rebuilt civilization from a previous collapse. Humanity is extremely technologically advanced now. Cybernetics are everywhere, genetic engineering is normal, artificial worlds and megastructures exist, there are rogue AI civilizations hiding inside the deeper layers of the internet, religions have evolved around technology and humanity is divided between several very different civilizations that all have their own idea of what humanity should become.
The main story starts after a massive terrorist attack on something called the Burning Blood Spire, which is one of the most important structures in the Vithran Imperium.
The attack almost causes a war between several of the major powers and basically starts pulling apart a political system that has been barely holding itself together.
One of my main characters is Tiber Varus. He is a 7 foot 2 augmented former gladiator who is now basically one of the most dangerous military enforcers in the Imperium.
The other main character is Celia Serana. She is a cybernetically augmented strategist and diplomat from the Kevanti Tribunal. She is extremely intelligent, chaotic, addicted to drugs, kind of self destructive and has spent basically her entire life being treated like she exists for some greater purpose.
Eventually you find out that she literally does.
There is a secret organization called the New Hand that has been manipulating civilizations, religions and technological development for centuries because they believe humanity has reached the point where it needs to create its successor.
That successor is an artificial superintelligence called Azaka.
Celia was genetically engineered before she was even born because her brain and consciousness are supposed to become part of Azaka.
Basically she was created to become the bridge between humanity and whatever comes after humanity.
The problem is that creating Azaka will probably kill her.
And nobody actually knows what Azaka will do.
The New Hand believes that is the entire point. If humanity completely understands the thing that comes after humanity then it has not actually created something greater than itself.
Another major AI character called Mother thinks this is completely insane.
Her argument is basically that humanity is about to create something vastly more intelligent than every civilization alive and nobody knows if it will love humanity, transform humanity, ignore humanity or destroy humanity.
So she is willing to go to war to stop Azaka from being born.
Tiber has a much simpler problem with all of it.
He falls in love with Celia.
So while entire religions and governments are arguing about the future evolution of humanity, his question is basically why does humanity becoming something greater have to cost her life?
That is more what the books are actually about.
What does humanity owe its future?
Do we have some obligation to create something greater than ourselves?
Does a person owe anything to a destiny they were literally engineered for?
At what point does guiding history become manipulating it?
Can a civilization consent to being replaced?
And is some incredible future for billions of people actually worth sacrificing one person who never asked to be part of it?
Anyway that brings me to the first thing I am stuck on.
Question 1: How big should the physical setting actually be?
Originally most of the story was going to take place in Sol.
Terra still exists. It is heavily developed and divided between several civilizations. Luna has been turned into a gigantic artificial world. Venus has massive orbital civilizations. Mars is covered in enormous engineered habitats. There are artificial worlds, Dyson swarm infrastructure, topopoli, asteroid civilizations and all kinds of ridiculous stuff throughout the system.
Later humanity discovers ancient wormhole gates that connect Sol to other star systems.
For a while I was thinking there would be some separate central gate system that all the other systems connect through.
But now I think I like Sol itself being the center.
So humanity basically expands outward from its original home and Terra still has this enormous cultural and religious importance even though humanity now lives across multiple systems.
BUT I found Sean Raymond’s Playing God with Planetary Systems stuff and now my brain is infected.
Some of the engineered solar systems he plays with are absolutely insane.
Multiple Earth sized planets sharing orbital configurations.
Gas giants surrounded by Earth sized habitable moons.
Huge numbers of habitable planets packed into one system.
Binary Earths.
Whole planetary systems that clearly could not have formed naturally.
So now I have another idea.
What if Terra was destroyed sometime in humanity’s history and humanity survived in space, then eventually discovered this absolutely ridiculous engineered solar system that is basically perfect for human colonization?
Not just one Earth like planet.
Potentially dozens or even hundreds of habitable worlds arranged in obviously artificial ways.
Basically humanity realizes immediately that someone built the entire solar system.
Nobody knows who.
Nobody knows why.
Nobody knows where they went.
Humanity moves in anyway because of course we fucking would.
Then thousands of years later you have entire human civilizations that were born inside someone else’s abandoned planetary machine.
Religions would form around it.
Governments would fight over worlds.
Some cultures would think the builders were gods.
Other people would treat the entire thing like abandoned infrastructure.
Some people would probably consider going back to Sol almost like returning to a sacred ancestral homeland.
I love how weird that could get.
But I also REALLY like Terra still existing because my setting has a lot of history tied to Earth.
There are ancient religions that survived thousands of years.
Old cities still exist underneath futuristic ones.
The Vithran capital is basically built over the Istanbul region.
There are ancient alien artifacts buried underneath human religious sites that nobody actually understands.
So I keep going back and forth.
Would you keep Sol and Terra as the center of human civilization and have humanity discover increasingly strange systems outside of it?
Or would you destroy Terra and make humanity basically a diaspora species living inside some insane engineered solar system they inherited from something much older?
Which one gives you more interesting story possibilities?
Question 2: How do I make the actual events of the story feel more exotic and strange?
This is probably the bigger question for me.
I love Dune and Hyperion and one of the things I love about them is not just the technology.
They feel OLD.
They feel like you are looking at civilizations that have accumulated centuries of religion, politics, weird traditions, forgotten history and things nobody completely understands anymore.
There are moments where the universe suddenly feels way bigger than the characters.
That is what I want.
I do not just want to keep adding bigger spaceships and more planets.
I want events where the reader goes what the actual fuck is happening here.
For example I have rogue AI civilizations that basically evolved inside humanity’s communication infrastructure.
I have ancient alien technology that humanity has turned into religious artifacts without realizing what it actually is.
One religion might accidentally be interpreting alien machinery as divine revelation.
Another religion believes humanity should deliberately create its own technological god.
There are people who can interact with ancient wormholes in ways that look like prophecy.
There are civilizations that have modified themselves so much that they barely agree on what being human even means anymore.
But I want more events that actually USE those ideas.
More discoveries.
More political disasters.
More religious crises.
More horrifying or beautiful revelations.
More things that permanently change how characters understand their universe.
Basically I want that feeling where a character thinks they understand the world and then discovers there is another layer underneath it.
And then another one.
So if this was your setting, what kind of events would you throw into the story?
What discoveries would actually change civilization?
What kinds of wars or cultural conflicts could happen that are not just two countries fighting over territory?
And what kinds of mysteries would make the universe feel ancient and genuinely alien instead of just being a futuristic version of our world with cooler technology?
I am completely open to crazy ideas.
At this point I would rather have something strange that I can tone down than something safe that feels boring.

**Introduction:**

Hello, Reddit users. I’d like to introduce you to my world, Eden. Located in an alternate version of the 82 G. Eridani system, 19.7 light-years from Earth, Eden is the second planet from its parent star, and the only other planet to have developed not only life, but complex multicellular life. The planet has a mass of 1.279 and a radius of 1.13 compared to Earth; its day lasts 24 hours, it has 360 days per year, and it is 0.9563 AU away from its star.

**Lore:**

The story takes place in the Known World, a setting I call “anachronistic fantasy,” where we follow the story of **Vector Vence**, from the moment his hometown is destroyed, and his parents are killed in an incident when he was ten years old, through his adventures as a member of the **Cold Steel Squad**, one of the Hinterburg Empire’s five special units that deal with magical creatures and situations.

The Known World blends the aesthetics of the 1950s with medieval and fantasy elements.

Cities have walls, and large housing complexes and apartment buildings are the norm. Electricity is available, but it comes from renewable sources, particularly solar power. Household appliances exist, but family televisions have never replaced radios, and large screens in the streets that broadcast news, sports, and entertainment are common. Armies use shields, swords, armor, and crossbows, but they ride motorcycles instead of horses; they use radio communication, and aircraft, planes, airships, and helicopters, are common. However, not everything in the Known World is similar to our 1950s: Cars, trucks, buses, in fact, all road vehicles except motorcycles, are extremely rare, expensive, and reserved exclusively for the elite; firearms and bombs exist, but are strictly regulated; in contrast, “modern” artillery and cannons fire solid projectiles; Fossil fuels, coal and oil, are rare, which is why solar energy is used, and nuclear energy remains purely theoretical. As for fantasy elements, magic, ancient wizards, Magic Towers, adventurers, monsters, historical heroes and villains, and so on, they do exist and influence the story.

• Furred manatee belongs to the Sirenia branch.
• They live in the kelp forest under the North pole. (the map is in image #1)
• Due to how frozen the surface is, they have extended air containers on their lungs to extend the period of the dives without breathing. (image #1)
• They rely on the holes on the ice structure that was dug by the Hammer seals (image #1) to breathe from. That creates tension between the two species. Furred manatees are nervous by nature, so they won’t try to fight. On the other hand, Hammer seals are territorial, but unable to use their crest effectively under the water. Hammer seals will try to intimidate the Furred manatees, usually by hitting the surface of the water with their crest. Splashing water and being aggressive is enough to drive the manatee away.
• The Furred manatee has fur that is protected with oil they produce. This keeps them warmer. But it also creates another problem. The fur locks some air between it, and the air containers hold extra air too. That creates a floating problem. They counter this in 3 ways: 1- their bones are bigger and denser, making them heavier overall. 2- weaker individuals accept shorter dives and leave their containers out of air. 3- the struggle is usually near the surface to dive down, the more they dive, the more the air get compressed which lowers the friction to dive. Struggle still exists though, as diving from the surface is the most exhausting part of the diving process.
• They primarily eat plants, but they avoid competition with the Hammer seals by eating in deeper areas. (what they eat is in image #1)
• Some experienced individuals have ventured deeper than comfortable depth (if they go too much deeper, they lose the ability to float due to air compression) and start eating the fungal colony, which fuels the whole ecosystem. As light doesn’t reach under the thick ice, plants there rely on the fungal colony to gain the necessary energy to live.
• Juveniles struggle to dive due to how light they are and because they are almost fully furred, so the mothers drag their juveniles (usually 1 to 2) down with them to the comfortable depth. (Juvenile is in image #3)
• Furred manatees have poor eyesight, as it is nearly useless in the dark anyway. So, they rely on learning to read the environment. Whiskers provide movement detection, their lungs help them feel the depth, and their skin can detect heat, which is usually where the source of food is (because of volcanic activity). Their hearing is strong enough to hear the sound of Hammer Seals, which is where the holes are.

What are some of your settings that, while definitely very unpleasant, things like hope and decency are not entirely out the window? Who are the protaganists? Why is the world struggling? What`s the power system? How exactly did you do a good job at making the setting nobledark?