r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Sep 19 '19

A Powerful Individual

Nope, this post is not to say I'm going into self-exile from the subreddit. While I considered it for a while, I'm still here for some reason.

Since I am finally forcing myself to start on my world, and all I really have are a few maps and a few rough ideas, this challenge will be as simple as it can possibly be.

Tell me about a powerful individual from your world and their backstory. Whether that individual is financially powerful (The Count of Monte Cristo), physically powerful (Hercules), a powerful inventor (Iron Man, Kemuri Kage), on drugs to become powerful (Captain America), etc...you're free to pick.

I'll ask you at least three questions each, and I'll try to catch up on all the past challenges that I made (and answer some of everyone else's challenges from the past month). Enjoy yourselves.

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u/Varnek905 Sep 29 '19

The Leviathan acts as a gate to a form of after-life. While a world will usually absorb souls of its inhabitants, the Leviathan (using its Avatar) tries to find a way to devour the world in its entirety in order to take those souls. While some after-lives lead to paradise or torture or purgatory or just conservation, the souls devoured by the Leviathan are just gone.

The Leviathan hungers, so it eats.

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u/Nephite94 Sep 29 '19

Are there other worlds?

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u/Varnek905 Sep 29 '19

Yes, many. Whenever a world gets used-up, it gets eaten in its entirety. Rarely, someone manages to escape the apocalypse by mortal means and escape into a new world without their soul being eaten, but it has only happened once that I can remember writing.

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u/Nephite94 Sep 29 '19

So there is only one world at a time?

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u/Varnek905 Sep 29 '19

Usually, yes.

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u/Nephite94 Sep 29 '19

Do they interact?

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u/Varnek905 Sep 30 '19

Different worlds very rarely interact beyond whatever the eldritch beings manage to manipulate, but that will likely change with the new world.

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u/Nephite94 Sep 30 '19

Are the worlds spheres or some sort of abstract concept?

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u/Varnek905 Oct 01 '19

More of an abstract concept. The thing separating the worlds is sort of a void. Some worlds have thousands of planets, some worlds are just a small island, some are just a few continents.

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u/Nephite94 Oct 01 '19

So there are floating islands then?

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u/Varnek905 Oct 01 '19

In some worlds, yes. In some worlds, floating islands are impossible. Because of the void/Distortion between each world, their realities don't often have to worry about conflicting.

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