Glowdrop (A Premise)

[Inky]

This is a summary of the basic premise of the world for my current project, Glowdrop. 

Highmount is a city that pierces the sky. This city, isolated on the small continent of Vibrolan, is built completely around a massive volcano called the Glowmount. However, this is no ordinary volcano. The Glowmount fires a strange substance called Glowdrops into the atmosphere before night falls every night, to keep the darkness of the Night away. The people of Highmount worship the Glowmount and what it does almost like a deity, and shun darkness. All who possess qualities of darkness, from hair to skin color, are subjugated as "darkshades". Darkshades are fed endless propaganda and are forced to live at the very bottom of Highmount, barely able to see the sky. All the while, brightshades, with hair and skin from blonde to blue, revel endlessly under the light of day.

On the topic of Glowdrops, not all of them make it to the atmosphere. Some wayward glowdrops return to earth, and some even crystallize into a stone known as Tearstone. On its own, Tearstone is a particularly ordinary stone, but some of the inhabitants of Highmount have the ability to use Color Weeping, an ability that allows them to create a physical representation of their emotion, a technicolor substance called Emotion. Using Emotion, they can bond it to an object made of Tearstone and give it a special power depending on its structure. For example, a Tearstone Sword, given enough Emotion, can become up to four times as powerful as an ordinary sword. 

There are six levels of Emotion production that are categorized at the amount of Emotion released every ten seconds. At maximum Emotional Level, a special power is reached that depends on the emotion used

• Sadness creates the Blue Dampening, a blue aura that decreases the effect of Emotion on Tearstone
• Happiness creates the Red Awakening, a red aura that increases the effect of Emotion on Tearstone
• Love creates the Green Dispersion, beams of green light that give some of the user's Emotion to whoever they touch.
• Hate creates the Yellow Redirection, beams of yellow light that take people's Emotional storage and give it to the user when they touch someone.
• Other Emotional Powers are rumored to exist, but none have been officially documented. 

 

And that's the basic world premise for Glowdrop! Feel free to ask me any questions. 

[Kidpen]

What's your opinion on hilarious scenes in which people constantly misinterpret people saying Emotion instead of emotion or vice versa? Cause I'm already imagining all the hilarious misunderstandings. Also, are blue and red exponential or consistent in their affect?

[Inky]

39 minutes ago, Kidpen said:

What's your opinion on hilarious scenes in which people constantly misinterpret people saying Emotion instead of emotion or vice versa? Cause I'm already imagining all the hilarious misunderstandings. Also, are blue and red exponential or consistent in their affect?

1. I didn't really think about that! Would probably be a good scene as the protagonist tries to understand what the hell all these new terms mean
2. They are consistent 

[Apollyon]

One question comes to mind. Why does the Glowmount fire the glowdrops in the first place? How are they made?

Otherwise, It's a very interesting premise.

[Inky]

5 hours ago, Apollyon said:

One question comes to mind. Why does the Glowmount fire the glowdrops in the first place? How are they made?

Otherwise, It's a very interesting premise.

Nobody knows, although it's said that their god, the Knight Above, sacrificed himself to save humanity from the Darknight, which may or may not be how it was created. This theory makes the claim that Glowdrops are the Knight Above's soul. 

Edited September 18, 2018 by QueenOfInk
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