Combined shard names.

[Firesong]

Invention:

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Astronomy:

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Main Planet

The main planet is known as Aramitaki. It is around 1 Cosmere standard in its true size, in both size and gravity. However, the exact measurements differ for one particular reason, the planet is an ecumenopolis covering the entire surface, 27182 layers of city upon city stretching towards the sky, and down into the depths of the planet. It is more city than planet. 

The City:

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This city is also known as Aramitaki, for the name refers moreso to the city that is a planet, than it is for the planet that is a city. The buildings in the city are very tightly packed in a complex series of labyrinthine alleyways. However, the higher levels, dedicated to far richer people. Lower levels, deeper into the city, get far more tightly packed, less managed in terms of cleanliness, and have much higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

The Golden Land:

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The highest twelve floors are known as the Golden Land, the Ugamitsukino, it is made up of the richest and most decadent people in the city, or even the entire cosmere. Streets are lined with pearls, gold, diamonds and emeralds, and everywhere you look is a resplendent mansion. These people are mostly the owners of megacorporations that act as a sort of corporatocratic government for the planet, having control of the people through being the only people they could rely on for food, light, heat, work, housing, and protection. In fact, basically every megacorporation has a major paramilitary branch that serves as a police force, and as a force to be sent after people they don't like.

They also enforce taxes on the people not just for the buildings own and loan out for living space in the lower levels (and of course for light, heating, water, etc in this homes), but also charge them for the paramilitary police force that none of them asked for, and which none of them trust due to them essentially just being puppets of their corporate overlords who don't truly have their safety at heart, and who will shoot them down if they were so demanded. 

They are a type of super-bourgeoisies that make the entire modern global economy seem like a pittance in comparison. The gluttonous excess they revel in in vomit-inducing.

While they profit off of the invention of those below them, and claim to be great inventors, they themselves never engage in the act of invention, only in the art of exploitation. 

The Hallowed Halls:

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The next 1000 floors are those that are rather wealthy, but not to the unspeakable degree of those in the Golden Land. These individuals tend to own major lesser corporations owned by the megacorps. They also essentially work on everyone below them being reliant upon them to survive. 

Cyberaddiction is very prevalent on this level, as they can afford countless extravagant purchases on augmentations. Around 98% of them have some sort of augmentation, and of that 98%, around 50% have more than what most doctors would recommend, and of those, around 12.5% would be classified as suffering from cyberaddiction. 

Large business owners that are not part of a megacorp are often still put under their thumb by being forced to rely upon their paramilitary forces for security, and are forced to pay large amounts for the security. In reality, while the "security" does actually secure the business, they are actually there to inform the owners of who truly owns them, and what will happen if they fail to pay them their weekly quota. It is a Mob-like form of extortion. 

???: (not sure of a name)

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Between these, there are the 10,000 floors which are poor (the idea of the middle-class, both in the marxist sense of small business owners and the casual sense of those that aren't upper or lower class, essentially ceased to exist with the rise of the megacorporations). This is where most of the population is focused. 

Here, in the higher levels of this grouping, around 90% are able to afford homes without much struggle. But as you go down the rate of unemployment, the homelessness rate, and other such rates, all increase. More and more people are found on the streets, and more and more people are barely living paycheck to paycheck, often having to go weeks without heating or lighting, and days without food. 

The higher levels tend to have relatively stable jobs as mechanics and inventors, put in relatively high-ranking creative positions in various corporations. Working to make new products or better old ones. Due to their importance, the paychecks they receive are far more generous, but still deeply unfair. 

It is a dream among many of this level that they would some day be able to make an invention that would change the world, and cause them to bring themselves and their family up the social ladder, to a place where they can live comfortably. But this is hard as, whenever someone truly makes something that would change the world, megacorporations seize them and claim it as their own invention. 

In these levels, black market Cyberdealers are common, these are criminals that steal augmentations from corporations focused on them, and bring them down to lower levels to sell at a marked down, but relatively still exorbitant price. They try to swindle people out of money by convincing them that they need the augmentations to live a more full life, taking advantage of their jealousy of the upper class, their desire to attain some sort of social mobility and climb upward, and their dissatisfaction with their own lives to swindle them out of their money. Application of augmentations in the black market is far more dangerous and less sanitary than more professional installers, but most popular black markets make sure to at least take basic sanitary precautions such as keeping their tools and tables sanitized and sterile. 

The Dreg Heap:

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The lowest 100 floors are known as The Dreg Heap to many in the higher floors. In this floors, unemployment reaches above 95%, the people here are seen as the dregs of society. They were tossed aside and neglected by the system, falling through the holes in the great sieve of society.  Deaths due to preventable diseases are also very common as many in the pits are unable to afford basic healthcare plans. Whenever somebody goes to the dregs, they are essentially consigning themselves to their fate, and accepting death. 

Power in this level is not as common as anywhere above it, as most of the power goes to various cooling systems, and towards systems that circulate air (thus keeping it breathable, albeit barely, many people living in the dregs develop damaged lungs or even lung cancer from the levels of CO2 and other pollutants in their air), leaving the rest of it to only occasionally go to lighting and other modern amenities. Even the cooling fails to cool it enough, leaving the dregs uncomfortably warm, but not lethally so.

The system that allows these layers and layers of the city from collapsing on each other is down to a very complex system of weight and force distribution on powerful and study cores and please stop thinking about this as I know it is nonsense : P.

It is the most technologically advanced planet in the cosmere, putting the Darkside of Taldain to shame. 

The day length of the planet is around 72 standard hours. But their sleep cycle does not match the day length itself. Much of the light in the city does not come through via the sun, but by various artificial electric lights and neon. 

Moon:

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It has one moon which goes through the sky, orbiting around e (2.7182...) times around the planet per day.  It is around the size and mass of Earth's moon. 

Technology:

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It has the most advanced technology in the entire cosmere.

Prosthetics:

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They have very complex magictech prosthetics with biometric feedback, integrating perfectly with the body and spirit of an individual. 

These make use of both technology, and God Metals and Investiture. It reacts to cognitive inputs by the user, to properly control fine movements in the limb. It can also send electric signals that allow one to feel what the arm feels. 

Cyberaddiction:

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Cyberaddiction is a recognized mental affliction wherein one becomes addicted to the purchase and installation of biomechanical augmentations. Many with this continue to get new augmentations not due to any physical need or belief that it would help better them, in fact, many cyberaddicted people buy countless redundant augmentations, or even replace unbroken augmentations with new ones that are not any better. 

It is typically motivated by some sort of dissatisfaction with life, that they feel they can fulfil with machinery, or simply due to a euphoria they feel at implementation that they keep chasing after. Whatever the reason, cyberaddiction can be a very dangerous condition, that can lead to irreparable changes to the body that one might regret later, or even led to death from an improperly done augmentation. 

 

Encephelo-jack:

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Also known as a Brain Jack or Nerve Jack, these are wires interwoven into the brain or nervous system (and thus into the brain), that one could place into various machines to various ends, such as identification, Deep Dives, or other things. Brain Jacks usually refer to those that are wired directly into the brain stem, one can pull the plug out and it is on an extension wire, that seems to expand as you pull on it, allowing you to plug into outlets. Nerve Jacks are usually on the ulnar side of the wrist, near the median nerve, and can be pulled out and plugged in in the same manner as the Brain Jack. 

These ultimately work into a piece of complex hardware which is wired throughout the brain, storing data from the brain, including more Spiritual ideas such as Identity, which it does not directly store, but rather takes a copy of, creating a incredibly complex code which cannot be copied through ordinary means, and which is completely unique to each individual. Therefore, it is an essentially perfect form of identification.  This can confirm you are who you are for privacy reasons, or in order to unlock ones personal bank account. This use of it to store identity as a long string of 2000 digits in hexadecimal (because 16), this would allow for 1.7376620319e+2408 unique combinations, and leave it extremely hard to find any single Identity Code even with top-of-the-line decrypters. This is stored in only 1 kilobyte of memory (1 kilobyte exactly, actually it is 2000 hexadecimal characters, each is 4 bits, 2 is a byte, thus 2000 is 1000 bytes, which is 1 kilobyte). 

More malicious actors can install viruses into the individual through the Encephelo-jack to steal precious data and read ones memories. They can also cause the hardware to overheat and cause extensive damage to the brain, often killing the victim. Therefore, one must be very careful when jacking into unfamiliar ports. 

Artifices:

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Artifices are complex artificial intelligences making use of magitech circuits, these allow it to not only be Invested and gain a degree of limited sentience from that, but it also uses that Investiture in complex Raysium circuits in order to enhance its sentience with lower levels of Investiture than would normally be required, it also allows them to have a high degree of control in the mechanical body that they are placed within. 

There are two main types of Artifice, the simpler type which are called Automatons. These are far more controlled by the programming of the circuits, which takes on a form similar to Commands, controlling what they are capable of doing, how they act, and how they respond to given stimuli. They do have some degree of sapience compared to ordinary artificial intelligence, having better problem solving, for example. 

There are another type called Intellegentia, these are far more sapient, and are essentially the same as an ordinary sophont. They are seen to have a cognitive and spiritual aspect comparable to that of humans, and have the same emotional complexity as humans. They also do their best to live the same lives as humans. Although they still fight for the same rights as humans, and are usually treated as being nothing more than Automatons. 

Some consider those who use too many bioaugmentations, to the point they replaced most of their body with machinery, to essentially be a form of Artifice. This is not accurate, as they still have an ordinary mind that operates off of nerves and electricity, rather than on Raysium Invested circuits. 

 

Shard:

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Invention encourages the act of inventing new and wonderous devices to further mankind's development and advancement. He feels that invention is the highest art that man can achieve.  

He mostly wandered around the world with Virtuosity, his lover, for most of his existence, until Virtuosity Splintered herself near UTol, which led him to fall into a deep depression. But, eventually, he came to feel that he could help himself recover by helping a new people develop advanced technology and enter into an Age of Invention.

To help kickstart a culture of Invention, he came to a random planet of people, in a dark age of enlightenment, and showed them science and technology that they could only dream of, starting their quick growth towards a highly advanced technological society. Within only a few years, they already hit the Industrial Revolution and began to expand even further. But eventually, this growth led to the development of corporations which began to exploit people and stifle invention for the sake of the betterment of mankind as it became a journey not of discovery, but of gaining more money. In this, you can see the groundwork of the society that Invention accidently created. 

Invention mourns the way that the people he guided forward had fallen, and how much they suffer, but he doesn't trust himself to interact with anyone again, feeling that his attempts to help would only hurt people. This was only worsened by the way in which he blamed himself for Virtuosity's suicide, and was still deeply wounded by what had happened. This is why when Sazed asked him to help, he simply refused and hid away, as to avoid further contact where he could accidently bring hurt to him and his people. 

God Metal

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The God Metal of Invention is piezoelectric, despite not being a crystal.  That is to say, when put under compressive stress, it exhibits a release of an electric charge. The electric charge it produces is proportional to the compressive force put onto it. It can be observed that this also releases small amounts of light and heat, and it is also observed that a very tiny portion of the mass is converted into electricity. This makes it a very effective source of power, acting as a very effective and long lasting battery, and also was used in massive generators. 

1 kg of this metal can produce around 2^11 joules of energy over its lifespan, assuming optimal conditions. Due to this, as said before, it is used in various major reactors throughout the planet to provide power to the city. 

Some extremely high-quality batteries use small silvers of this metal to power devices. But mostly the metal goes to more massive batteries made for much larger scale things, such as powerful sectors of the city; or they are used in large reactors for the same purposes. Batteries that use these have a system of pistons which are first powered by a secondary energy source which begins the compression and thus the production of energy, after this begins, it starts to use a sliver of this released energy in order to maintain the compression of the pistons. Thus, it serves as a self-sustaining reaction. These pistons are finely tuned to the device they are made for, as to not produce enough energy to cause damage to the device in question.

The low amount of energy required for these miniaturized pistons makes it relatively easily to make a self-sustaining reaction as the energy produced is, in fact, more than what is required to keep them compressing the metal. This is not a violation of physics, as it is not actually creating energy from nothing, it is simply that the metal reacts strangely to compression, and it begins to convert itself into electricity, proportional to the force of compression. 

Like a spring, when it stops being compressed, it tries to move back to its original position. But if compressed too much, it can get damaged and changed into a new base position. 

You can force a lot more energy out by doing an explosive compression, like with nuclear bombs. Such an explosive compression would be able to release very large amounts of heat, light, and electricity. In smaller masses, this would act more like an extremely powerful EMP and explosive, but at higher amounts, it can absolutely devastated large stretches of land. (they tested on other planets in the system)

 

Inspirations:

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I was largely inspired by the Cyberpunk genre, with things such as the Cyberpunk TTRP and Video game and anime, Stray, Signialis, and Blade Runner. I was also inspired by Coruscant in Star Wars, Hive Cities from Warhammer 40K, and the Kowloon Walled City from British Hong Kong. 

I was also inspired by Disco Elysium in the way that the police are viewed with distrust and hatred for they are moreso someone from outside forcing a foreign will upon them, rather than it being governance by their own people. Which I felt mixed well with the idea of the police force as a paramilitary branch of megacorporations. In a sense, the higher and lower levels might as well be completely different nations that never directly interact, and both feel a hatred for one another, so it is essentially a foreign power trying to enforce its will upon them, the same thing as in DE. 

Sorry for the far more politically charged world, I just felt it worked really well with Cyberpunk, which is a very politically charged genre. 

 

I feel that is all I can get down tonight. You can only do so much when you give yourself a deadline of a few hours. This one was 2 hours, if the time the forum says is right.  Not the most proud of it, but hope yous enjoy. 

Edited July 30, 2023 by Firesong

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9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Honestly, breathtaking. The Threnodite System-esque naming of the astronomical bodies, the disturbing, voodoo-like, parasitic magic system, and the ritual sacrifice to appease the dead, it's all a masterpiece. It was a lovely world-building choice to create idioms and linguistic phrases inspired by the names, and the result is fittingly dramatic. The whole Murks to Memories thing was very fleshed out as well, I liked it a lot. The concept is very intriguing. I also love the motif of not quite 13s, even before you mentioned it in your post. Very good backstory lore. Don't worry about the ecology and the culture, unless it was part of your original idea, it's not necessary to include it. There's no fixed template, so you can write whatever you came up with without having to also come up with other, extra things.

Thanks

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• Is it plausibly sustainable for every medium-sized (at minimum) city to be sacrificing potentially hundreds of people every four days?

You really made me look at this? Looking at the statistics of deaths in the city of Kraków and surrounding area in 2021 (pop ~800000) there were around 200 deaths weekly. Suffering's week is almost ours 2 weeks, that 400 deaths weekly. And Suffering is in the past (I'm not sure if in the middle ages or maybe something more like Aztec/Maya Empire), there would be many more deaths caused by having no advanced practice of medicine - those ill people would be sacrificed. While I intended for dozens to be in a middle sized city and hundreds in a bigger city, where several amphitheaters are built, math checks out. Kind of. Close enough.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• Any ideas on Mercy's God Metal?

No. It isn't used and it isn't discovered.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• Could someone from off-world perform Blood-Healing with the right knowledge?

I was thinking about it and I'm conflicted.Ultimately I think that connection to Mercy is required. 

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Could a Memory divest itself of Investiture to heal someone via Blood Healing? What would be the effect of that? As they're more Invested, and have instinctive knowledge of BH, does that mean they can perform more dramatic Healings?

Good question. I didn't think of it. Their soul is made out of 52 souls, which are more invested than what's just in innate investiture, so I think they could do it, it would fragment their soul and take one of it out to heal (no spiritual healing still, I want this to be achievable only with liquid Dor and stuff like that). If a Memory is fresh and has exactly 52 souls, and wasn't invested more, then performing a Blood Healing would degrade him into a Murk. If he was fed with Innate investiture from Blood Healing, this would be used as fuel (or if a Memory wants he can force one of his souls to fuel it). But healing with innate investiture would be as good as normal Blood Healing, but a Memory is instinctively better at it, he can draw more precise symbols and just do more with it because of that.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• • If so, do wealthy/influential/powerful people create and maintain Memories in case they need emergency healing, like how some cultures on Nalthis buy fresh corpses in a bid to get a Returned, who they can keep as an emergency cure-all?

Possible. 

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• What would happen if you bond a Murk?

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• • Is it possible to bond a Memory, if they remain in Murk form instead of possessing a body? Is it possible to bond one while they are possessing a body?

What happens if you bond a Herald? Or Fused? Or Returned? Or Kelsier? Or Shade? It's possible in theory but it has never happened. Ask me again when it happens in books. 

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

What would happen if a Murk was sufficiently Invested to become a Memory, but had no body to possess, or chose not to?

A Murk is mindless, he doesn't choose anything (except for the victim but that's because of Mercy's investiture). Because he gains investiture by consuming body, he will always have a body when invested enough. Almost - they can feed on someone who's in CR. But I think they can still take over that body, but doing so will make them stuck in CR unable to feed. 

If for some reason there was really no body there, they would probably become a sentient Murk.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Since Sufferers (is that what the people native to Suffering are called?)

Oh, I was struggling with coming up with that name but that's it. Thanks.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• Since Sufferers (is that what the people native to Suffering are called?) can slowly regenerate innate Investiture, could they very slowly heal spiritual wounds on their own (outside of Blood Healing), provided they don't accept and view the wound as part of themselves?

I don't want them to. It's innate investiture, not kinetic, it doesn't heal, it's more like Breaths and Drabs. 

I was thinking of making the source of investiture be on Hope, just shining a little on Suffering investing people, so this might be canon, or not. It fits with the name.

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Also, I'm happy to note that while your world was very detailed and amazing, the Mercy Shardworld I'm making is distinctly different, enough for it to still be worth posting, which I'll be doing sometime tomorrow, if I have the time.

Even if it was somehow similar I would still want to read it! Can't wait for it.

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It's a bit scary though, because I also came up with an idea for the natives regenerating their own Investiture, though mine was faster. Coincidence?

Great minds thinks alike  

9 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Also, just something I wanted to bring up in my reply to @Firesong's post but forgot to, should we maybe separate all the heavy mathematical calculations and in-depth scientific workings in a spoiler tag at the end? I've realized that when we go deep into the scientific specifications, it may not be accessible for everyone and stop them from also enjoying the worlds we're creating here. What do you say, @Lightweaver2? It might just be me being overly concerned, but I remember someone mentioned it on a different thread, so I thought I should bring it up, just in case it's stopping other people from joining in on the fun too by intimidating them with fancy calculations.

Tbf I like checking if your worlds are correct  But sure, we can put it in a spoiler tag. I try to avoid going into too much detail, because here I have even orbits of all planets in the system, Hill spheres and stuff like that. I was trying to even calculate the temperature of the gas giant, but I thought I'm going too far.

 

 

6 hours ago, Firesong said:

However, the exact measurements differ for one particular reason, the planet is an ecumenopolis covering the entire surface, 27182 layers of city upon city stretching towards the sky, and down into the depths of the planet. It is more city than planet. 

How is it still standing? Burj Khalifa is 830m tall with 163 floors, yours would be 130 km tall. Part of it would be underground, but the deepest hole humans managed to dig was 12 km deep, where the temperature reached 180 C (but in Germany a 9 km deep hole reached 260 C). Why is it still standing? That's basically a space elevator, not a city (I love space elevators are they in use in your city?)   

But you later count 11112 floors, that's still 57,5 km high, no longer a space elevator (  ) but still impossible.

6 hours ago, Firesong said:

The system that allows these layers and layers of the city from collapsing on each other is down to a very complex system of weight and force distribution on powerful and study cores and please stop thinking about this as I know it is nonsense : P.

Oh, ok ok, that fixes it. Yes, that makes sense, that's a very smart solution

6 hours ago, Firesong said:

It has one moon which goes through the sky, orbiting around e (2.7182...) times around the planet per day.  It is around the size and mass of Earth's moon. 

Moon's angular size = 4,3 degrees, 8x larger than Earth's moon. Orbit works. I had too 

7 hours ago, Firesong said:

This use of it to store identity as a long string of 2000 digits in hexadecimal (because 16), this would allow for 1.7376620319e+2408 unique combinations, and leave it extremely hard to find any single Identity Code even with top-of-the-line decrypters.

Awakened quantum computers with access to Fortune and Spiritual Realm say hello.

7 hours ago, Firesong said:

I feel that is all I can get down tonight. You can only do so much when you give yourself a deadline of a few hours. This one was 2 hours, if the time the forum says is right.  Not the most proud of it, but hope yous enjoy. 

Not proud? Only 2 hours to make and write all of this? Madness. It's brilliant as always. A combination of cyberpunk with investiture and god metals is very interesting. I think it's good to see developed politics, every world in Cosmere is full of it, just like our world. It's just another important detail to implement. 

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

9 hours ago, Firesong said:

Invention:

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Astronomy:

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Main Planet

The main planet is known as Aramitaki. It is around 1 Cosmere standard in its true size, in both size and gravity. However, the exact measurements differ for one particular reason, the planet is an ecumenopolis covering the entire surface, 27182 layers of city upon city stretching towards the sky, and down into the depths of the planet. It is more city than planet. 

The City:

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This city is also known as Aramitaki, for the name refers moreso to the city that is a planet, than it is for the planet that is a city. The buildings in the city are very tightly packed in a complex series of labyrinthine alleyways. However, the higher levels, dedicated to far richer people. Lower levels, deeper into the city, get far more tightly packed, less managed in terms of cleanliness, and have much higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

The Golden Land:

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The highest twelve floors are known as the Golden Land, the Ugamitsukino, it is made up of the richest and most decadent people in the city, or even the entire cosmere. Streets are lined with pearls, gold, diamonds and emeralds, and everywhere you look is a resplendent mansion. These people are mostly the owners of megacorporations that act as a sort of corporatocratic government for the planet, having control of the people through being the only people they could rely on for food, light, heat, work, housing, and protection. In fact, basically every megacorporation has a major paramilitary branch that serves as a police force, and as a force to be sent after people they don't like.

They also enforce taxes on the people not just for the buildings own and loan out for living space in the lower levels (and of course for light, heating, water, etc in this homes), but also charge them for the paramilitary police force that none of them asked for, and which none of them trust due to them essentially just being puppets of their corporate overlords who don't truly have their safety at heart, and who will shoot them down if they were so demanded. 

They are a type of super-bourgeoisies that make the entire modern global economy seem like a pittance in comparison. The gluttonous excess they revel in in vomit-inducing.

While they profit off of the invention of those below them, and claim to be great inventors, they themselves never engage in the act of invention, only in the art of exploitation. 

The Hallowed Halls:

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The next 1000 floors are those that are rather wealthy, but not to the unspeakable degree of those in the Golden Land. These individuals tend to own major lesser corporations owned by the megacorps. They also essentially work on everyone below them being reliant upon them to survive. 

Cyberaddiction is very prevalent on this level, as they can afford countless extravagant purchases on augmentations. Around 98% of them have some sort of augmentation, and of that 98%, around 50% have more than what most doctors would recommend, and of those, around 12.5% would be classified as suffering from cyberaddiction. 

Large business owners that are not part of a megacorp are often still put under their thumb by being forced to rely upon their paramilitary forces for security, and are forced to pay large amounts for the security. In reality, while the "security" does actually secure the business, they are actually there to inform the owners of who truly owns them, and what will happen if they fail to pay them their weekly quota. It is a Mob-like form of extortion. 

???: (not sure of a name)

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Between these, there are the 10,000 floors which are poor (the idea of the middle-class, both in the marxist sense of small business owners and the casual sense of those that aren't upper or lower class, essentially ceased to exist with the rise of the megacorporations). This is where most of the population is focused. 

Here, in the higher levels of this grouping, around 90% are able to afford homes without much struggle. But as you go down the rate of unemployment, the homelessness rate, and other such rates, all increase. More and more people are found on the streets, and more and more people are barely living paycheck to paycheck, often having to go weeks without heating or lighting, and days without food. 

The higher levels tend to have relatively stable jobs as mechanics and inventors, put in relatively high-ranking creative positions in various corporations. Working to make new products or better old ones. Due to their importance, the paychecks they receive are far more generous, but still deeply unfair. 

It is a dream among many of this level that they would some day be able to make an invention that would change the world, and cause them to bring themselves and their family up the social ladder, to a place where they can live comfortably. But this is hard as, whenever someone truly makes something that would change the world, megacorporations seize them and claim it as their own invention. 

In these levels, black market Cyberdealers are common, these are criminals that steal augmentations from corporations focused on them, and bring them down to lower levels to sell at a marked down, but relatively still exorbitant price. They try to swindle people out of money by convincing them that they need the augmentations to live a more full life, taking advantage of their jealousy of the upper class, their desire to attain some sort of social mobility and climb upward, and their dissatisfaction with their own lives to swindle them out of their money. Application of augmentations in the black market is far more dangerous and less sanitary than more professional installers, but most popular black markets make sure to at least take basic sanitary precautions such as keeping their tools and tables sanitized and sterile. 

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The lowest 100 floors are known as The Dreg Heap to many in the higher floors. In this floors, unemployment reaches above 95%, the people here are seen as the dregs of society. They were tossed aside and neglected by the system, falling through the holes in the great sieve of society.  Deaths due to preventable diseases are also very common as many in the pits are unable to afford basic healthcare plans. Whenever somebody goes to the dregs, they are essentially consigning themselves to their fate, and accepting death. 

Power in this level is not as common as anywhere above it, as most of the power goes to various cooling systems, and towards systems that circulate air (thus keeping it breathable, albeit barely, many people living in the dregs develop damaged lungs or even lung cancer from the levels of CO2 and other pollutants in their air), leaving the rest of it to only occasionally go to lighting and other modern amenities. Even the cooling fails to cool it enough, leaving the dregs uncomfortably warm, but not lethally so.

The system that allows these layers and layers of the city from collapsing on each other is down to a very complex system of weight and force distribution on powerful and study cores and please stop thinking about this as I know it is nonsense : P.

It is the most technologically advanced planet in the cosmere, putting the Darkside of Taldain to shame. 

The day length of the planet is around 72 standard hours. But their sleep cycle does not match the day length itself. Much of the light in the city does not come through via the sun, but by various artificial electric lights and neon. 

Moon:

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It has one moon which goes through the sky, orbiting around e (2.7182...) times around the planet per day.  It is around the size and mass of Earth's moon. 

Technology:

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It has the most advanced technology in the entire cosmere.

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They have very complex magictech prosthetics with biometric feedback, integrating perfectly with the body and spirit of an individual. 

These make use of both technology, and God Metals and Investiture. It reacts to cognitive inputs by the user, to properly control fine movements in the limb. It can also send electric signals that allow one to feel what the arm feels. 

Cyberaddiction:

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Cyberaddiction is a recognized mental affliction wherein one becomes addicted to the purchase and installation of biomechanical augmentations. Many with this continue to get new augmentations not due to any physical need or belief that it would help better them, in fact, many cyberaddicted people buy countless redundant augmentations, or even replace unbroken augmentations with new ones that are not any better. 

It is typically motivated by some sort of dissatisfaction with life, that they feel they can fulfil with machinery, or simply due to a euphoria they feel at implementation that they keep chasing after. Whatever the reason, cyberaddiction can be a very dangerous condition, that can lead to irreparable changes to the body that one might regret later, or even led to death from an improperly done augmentation. 

 

Encephelo-jack:

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Also known as a Brain Jack or Nerve Jack, these are wires interwoven into the brain or nervous system (and thus into the brain), that one could place into various machines to various ends, such as identification, Deep Dives, or other things. Brain Jacks usually refer to those that are wired directly into the brain stem, one can pull the plug out and it is on an extension wire, that seems to expand as you pull on it, allowing you to plug into outlets. Nerve Jacks are usually on the ulnar side of the wrist, near the median nerve, and can be pulled out and plugged in in the same manner as the Brain Jack. 

These ultimately work into a piece of complex hardware which is wired throughout the brain, storing data from the brain, including more Spiritual ideas such as Identity, which it does not directly store, but rather takes a copy of, creating a incredibly complex code which cannot be copied through ordinary means, and which is completely unique to each individual. Therefore, it is an essentially perfect form of identification.  This can confirm you are who you are for privacy reasons, or in order to unlock ones personal bank account. This use of it to store identity as a long string of 2000 digits in hexadecimal (because 16), this would allow for 1.7376620319e+2408 unique combinations, and leave it extremely hard to find any single Identity Code even with top-of-the-line decrypters. This is stored in only 1 kilobyte of memory (1 kilobyte exactly, actually it is 2000 hexadecimal characters, each is 4 bits, 2 is a byte, thus 2000 is 1000 bytes, which is 1 kilobyte). 

More malicious actors can install viruses into the individual through the Encephelo-jack to steal precious data and read ones memories. They can also cause the hardware to overheat and cause extensive damage to the brain, often killing the victim. Therefore, one must be very careful when jacking into unfamiliar ports. 

Artifices:

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Artifices are complex artificial intelligences making use of magitech circuits, these allow it to not only be Invested and gain a degree of limited sentience from that, but it also uses that Investiture in complex Raysium circuits in order to enhance its sentience with lower levels of Investiture than would normally be required, it also allows them to have a high degree of control in the mechanical body that they are placed within. 

There are two main types of Artifice, the simpler type which are called Automatons. These are far more controlled by the programming of the circuits, which takes on a form similar to Commands, controlling what they are capable of doing, how they act, and how they respond to given stimuli. They do have some degree of sapience compared to ordinary artificial intelligence, having better problem solving, for example. 

There are another type called Intellegentia, these are far more sapient, and are essentially the same as an ordinary sophont. They are seen to have a cognitive and spiritual aspect comparable to that of humans, and have the same emotional complexity as humans. They also do their best to live the same lives as humans. Although they still fight for the same rights as humans, and are usually treated as being nothing more than Automatons. 

Some consider those who use too many bioaugmentations, to the point they replaced most of their body with machinery, to essentially be a form of Artifice. This is not accurate, as they still have an ordinary mind that operates off of nerves and electricity, rather than on Raysium Invested circuits. 

 

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Invention encourages the act of inventing new and wonderous devices to further mankind's development and advancement. He feels that invention is the highest art that man can achieve.  

He mostly wandered around the world with Virtuosity, his lover, for most of his existence, until Virtuosity Splintered herself near UTol, which led him to fall into a deep depression. But, eventually, he came to feel that he could help himself recover by helping a new people develop advanced technology and enter into an Age of Invention.

To help kickstart a culture of Invention, he came to a random planet of people, in a dark age of enlightenment, and showed them science and technology that they could only dream of, starting their quick growth towards a highly advanced technological society. Within only a few years, they already hit the Industrial Revolution and began to expand even further. But eventually, this growth led to the development of corporations which began to exploit people and stifle invention for the sake of the betterment of mankind as it became a journey not of discovery, but of gaining more money. In this, you can see the groundwork of the society that Invention accidently created. 

Invention mourns the way that the people he guided forward had fallen, and how much they suffer, but he doesn't trust himself to interact with anyone again, feeling that his attempts to help would only hurt people. This was only worsened by the way in which he blamed himself for Virtuosity's suicide, and was still deeply wounded by what had happened. This is why when Sazed asked him to help, he simply refused and hid away, as to avoid further contact where he could accidently bring hurt to him and his people. 

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The God Metal of Invention is piezoelectric, despite not being a crystal.  That is to say, when put under compressive stress, it exhibits a release of an electric charge. The electric charge it produces is proportional to the compressive force put onto it. It can be observed that this also releases small amounts of light and heat, and it is also observed that a very tiny portion of the mass is converted into electricity. This makes it a very effective source of power, acting as a very effective and long lasting battery, and also was used in massive generators. 

1 kg of this metal can produce around 2^11 joules of energy over its lifespan, assuming optimal conditions. Due to this, as said before, it is used in various major reactors throughout the planet to provide power to the city. 

Some extremely high-quality batteries use small silvers of this metal to power devices. But mostly the metal goes to more massive batteries made for much larger scale things, such as powerful sectors of the city; or they are used in large reactors for the same purposes. Batteries that use these have a system of pistons which are first powered by a secondary energy source which begins the compression and thus the production of energy, after this begins, it starts to use a sliver of this released energy in order to maintain the compression of the pistons. Thus, it serves as a self-sustaining reaction. These pistons are finely tuned to the device they are made for, as to not produce enough energy to cause damage to the device in question.

The low amount of energy required for these miniaturized pistons makes it relatively easily to make a self-sustaining reaction as the energy produced is, in fact, more than what is required to keep them compressing the metal. This is not a violation of physics, as it is not actually creating energy from nothing, it is simply that the metal reacts strangely to compression, and it begins to convert itself into electricity, proportional to the force of compression. 

Like a spring, when it stops being compressed, it tries to move back to its original position. But if compressed too much, it can get damaged and changed into a new base position. 

You can force a lot more energy out by doing an explosive compression, like with nuclear bombs. Such an explosive compression would be able to release very large amounts of heat, light, and electricity. In smaller masses, this would act more like an extremely powerful EMP and explosive, but at higher amounts, it can absolutely devastated large stretches of land. (they tested on other planets in the system)

 

Inspirations:

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I was largely inspired by the Cyberpunk genre, with things such as the Cyberpunk TTRP and Video game and anime, Stray, Signialis, and Blade Runner. I was also inspired by Coruscant in Star Wars, Hive Cities from Warhammer 40K, and the Kowloon Walled City from British Hong Kong. 

I was also inspired by Disco Elysium in the way that the police are viewed with distrust and hatred for they are moreso someone from outside forcing a foreign will upon them, rather than it being governance by their own people. Which I felt mixed well with the idea of the police force as a paramilitary branch of megacorporations. In a sense, the higher and lower levels might as well be completely different nations that never directly interact, and both feel a hatred for one another, so it is essentially a foreign power trying to enforce its will upon them, the same thing as in DE. 

Sorry for the far more politically charged world, I just felt it worked really well with Cyberpunk, which is a very politically charged genre. 

 

I feel that is all I can get down tonight. You can only do so much when you give yourself a deadline of a few hours. This one was 2 hours, if the time the forum says is right.  Not the most proud of it, but hope yous enjoy. 

That's incredible for just two hours of work, I love it. Very sci-fi and cyberpunky, I think this is the first truly mechanically advanced planet we've seen thus far. I like how you humanized Invention with him having followed Virtuosity around, turning to the cultivation of a planet to find solace after she killed herself, then withdrawing entirely when even that failed. It makes sense that Invention's world would be the most scientifically advanced. Coincidentally, I just learned about the Kowloon Walled City yesterday, when I saw a video about it on YouTube. But I have some questions:

• Why haven't they developed Space-faring technology yet? They know of other planets, and have technology enough to create or transport Bombs made of Invention's God Metal on other planets.
  • If they do have Space-faring technology, why haven't they traveled and made themselves known to other planets? Have they just not yet been able to find the other Shardworlds?
• How do they get Invention's God Metal?
• How do they have so much Raysium?
• Is there an actually fleshed-out system behind the magic parts of the prosthetics, like Fabrial Science?
• What's the Perpendicularity like on Aramitaki?
  • Do the rich control it? Do they heavily regulate who can and cannot come or go through it, which is why the advanced technology hasn't spread from Aramitaki to the other Shardworlds?
    • What's the reputation of Aramitaki with Worldhoppers?
    • Are Aramitakians Cosmere-Aware?
    • They appear to understand Realmatic Theory. Do they?
• Are they the Ones Above from SotD?
• How much do the other Shards know about Aramitaki?
  • Autonomy in particular would have sent Avatars upon Avatars to the planet in order to conquer them, destroy them, or hinder them from any further progress due to their technological development.
    • Has she? Is the Avatar that she's sent to Amaraki the cause of the excess of the richest Aramitakians, perhaps the beginnings of a long-term plan to take down Aramitakian society as a whole?
• What is the water cycle like on Aramitaki? How do they sustain themselves?

 

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You really made me look at this? Looking at the statistics of deaths in the city of Kraków and surrounding area in 2021 (pop ~800000) there were around 200 deaths weekly. Suffering's week is almost ours 2 weeks, that 400 deaths weekly. And Suffering is in the past (I'm not sure if in the middle ages or maybe something more like Aztec/Maya Empire), there would be many more deaths caused by having no advanced practice of medicine - those ill people would be sacrificed. While I intended for dozens to be in a middle sized city and hundreds in a bigger city, where several amphitheaters are built, math checks out. Kind of. Close enough.

It works out, then.

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A Murk is mindless, he doesn't choose anything (except for the victim but that's because of Mercy's investiture). Because he gains investiture by consuming body, he will always have a body when invested enough. Almost - they can feed on someone who's in CR. But I think they can still take over that body, but doing so will make them stuck in CR unable to feed

What do they look like in the CR?

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If for some reason there was really no body there, they would probably become a sentient Murk.

Could they pass through walls and such?

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Oh, I was struggling with coming up with that name but that's it. Thanks.

Oh, nice  

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I was thinking of making the source of investiture be on Hope, just shining a little on Suffering investing people, so this might be canon, or not. It fits with the name.

Very thematic, I like it.

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Tbf I like checking if your worlds are correct  But sure, we can put it in a spoiler tag. I try to avoid going into too much detail, because here I have even orbits of all planets in the system, Hill spheres and stuff like that. I was trying to even calculate the temperature of the gas giant, but I thought I'm going too far.

You can still fact-check them and everything, just keep it separate and labeled from any of the other questions/nitpicks. It's not as big of a deal when you're asking about other worlds than when it's embedded in the post you're introducing your world in.

Edited July 30, 2023 by Underwater_Worldhopper

[alder24]

1 hour ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

• • If they do have Space-faring technology, why haven't they traveled and made themselves known to other planets? Have they just not yet been able to find the other Shardworlds?

If they don't have FTL, which in Cosmere seems to be achievable only with invested arts (time bubbles are involved), they have no way to travel between stars.

1 hour ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

What do they look like in the CR?

White humanoid shape with no eyes, dark holes where their eyes should be.

1 hour ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Could they pass through walls and such?

Yes. But it slows them down a bit, it puts a pressure on them. Something smaller than what Kel felt when passing through walls of the Ire fortress (because regular walls aren't that invested).

[Firesong]

3 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

That's incredible for just two hours of work, I love it. Very sci-fi and cyberpunky, I think this is the first truly mechanically advanced planet we've seen thus far. I like how you humanized Invention with him having followed Virtuosity around, turning to the cultivation of a planet to find solace after she killed herself, then withdrawing entirely when even that failed. It makes sense that Invention's world would be the most scientifically advanced. Coincidentally, I just learned about the Kowloon Walled City yesterday, when I saw a video about it on YouTube. But I have some questions:

• Why haven't they developed Space-faring technology yet? They know of other planets, and have technology enough to create or transport Bombs made of Invention's God Metal on other planets.
  • If they do have Space-faring technology, why haven't they traveled and made themselves known to other planets? Have they just not yet been able to find the other Shardworlds?
• How do they get Invention's God Metal?
• How do they have so much Raysium?
• Is there an actually fleshed-out system behind the magic parts of the prosthetics, like Fabrial Science?
• What's the Perpendicularity like on Aramitaki?
  • Do the rich control it? Do they heavily regulate who can and cannot come or go through it, which is why the advanced technology hasn't spread from Aramitaki to the other Shardworlds?
    • What's the reputation of Aramitaki with Worldhoppers?
    • Are Aramitakians Cosmere-Aware?
    • They appear to understand Realmatic Theory. Do they?
• Are they the Ones Above from SotD?
• How much do the other Shards know about Aramitaki?
  • Autonomy in particular would have sent Avatars upon Avatars to the planet in order to conquer them, destroy them, or hinder them from any further progress due to their technological development.
    • Has she? Is the Avatar that she's sent to Amaraki the cause of the excess of the richest Aramitakians, perhaps the beginnings of a long-term plan to take down Aramitakian society as a whole?
• What is the water cycle like on Aramitaki? How do they sustain themselves?

 

It works out, then.

What do they look like in the CR?

Could they pass through walls and such?

Oh, nice  

Very thematic, I like it.

You can still fact-check them and everything, just keep it separate and labeled from any of the other questions/nitpicks. It's not as big of a deal when you're asking about other worlds than when it's embedded in the post you're introducing your world in.

They do have space-faring tech, but usually just use it for resources from other planets and for experimentation and vacations. It is way too expensive for those that actually need it to afford it. Raysium comes from this very thing, they just collect stuff from other planets. On Invention's metal, he just provided very large amounts of it before he hid away. 

Yes there is a very fleshed out science behind the prosthetics, no, I haven't really thought it all out yet. 

On Autonomy, didn't really think about all of that. 

Water cycle is another thing you have to ignore. 

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

2 hours ago, Firesong said:

They do have space-faring tech, but usually just use it for resources from other planets and for experimentation and vacations. It is way too expensive for those that actually need it to afford it.

Are other planets in the system habitable? Why don't they expand onto them?

2 hours ago, Firesong said:

Raysium comes from this very thing, they just collect stuff from other planets. On Invention's metal, he just provided very large amounts of it before he hid away.

I get Invention's metal, but how is there Raysium on other planets in the system?

2 hours ago, Firesong said:

Yes there is a very fleshed out science behind the prosthetics, no, I haven't really thought it all out yet.

Well, I'm excited to read it when you finish!

[Firesong]

1 minute ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Are other planets in the system habitable? Why don't they expand onto them?

I get Invention's metal, but how is there Raysium on other planets in the system?

Well, I'm excited to read it when you finish!

Raysium is also them going to other planets to collect things, just assume that like, Odium starts making a lot of Raysium across Roshar and they begin to collect it. Fuses with the Highstorm and falls with tthe crem, I dunno. 

On habitability, I only really thought of the one planet, I would say I don't think the others are all too habitable. 

[alder24]

1 minute ago, Firesong said:

On habitability, I only really thought of the one planet, I would say I don't think the others are all too habitable. 

They're space-faring, they can make habitats on non-habitable worlds, colonies and bases all around your solar system and even beyond if you want them to. 

[Firesong]

2 minutes ago, alder24 said:

They're space-faring, they can make habitats on non-habitable worlds, colonies and bases all around your solar system and even beyond if you want them to. 

True, I could. That would actually make a lot of sense for them to do so. 

I actually planned for the core to be some massive Elsecalling Supercomputer that can teleport them through the Spiritual Realm to different places in the cosmere. But I felt that kind of pushed suspension of disbelief a bit too far, that would require so much Investiture as to make it basically impossible without literally being a Shard. And while it could have a purpose if it was cheap, the amount of energy required would make it not worth it. 

Edited July 30, 2023 by Firesong

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

36 minutes ago, Firesong said:

Raysium is also them going to other planets to collect things, just assume that like, Odium starts making a lot of Raysium across Roshar and they begin to collect it. Fuses with the Highstorm and falls with tthe crem, I dunno.

Right, but they collected it through Worldhopping or are they capable of covert FTL travel? Speaking of Worldhopping, you didn't answer my questions about Invention's Perpendicularity.

 

[Firesong]

1 minute ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Right, but they collected it through Worldhopping or are they capable of covert FTL travel? Speaking of Worldhopping, you didn't answer my questions about Invention's Perpendicularity.

 

They do understand Realmatic Theory, and I guess that Invention's Perpendicularity would be near the surface in a pretty defended room. Most people would not know about it. 

And I actually like the idea of Autonomy trying to bring down their society through trying to exacerbate the greed and oppression to try and bring forth a complete societal collapse over time, and prevent the amount of advancement they could be making if they were more focused on advancement and discovery than profit. I feel that makes sense. But don't mistake that as her being the sole cause, as it still was there without her, she just exacerbated it. Like what the Thrill does, it doesn't introduce emotions, it takes what you already feel and amplifies it. 

[Firesong]

Alternate Autonomy:

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Astronomy:

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Jungudalu:

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The primary (and only, as a reflection of Autonomy) planet in the system, and a particularly notable planet. 

Physical Characteristics:

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It has a size of around ~1.21653026274* cosmere standard. But the actual habitable area is below the cosmere standard. 

However, it has a surprisingly low gravity due to the fact that it does not have a complete crust. But the gravity is not as low as one would expect, due to what crust it does have, and the  inner core is relatively dense. But the Outer Core is also less dense than average, enough that the landmasses can rise and fall to degree.**** This makes the gravity come to around 0.6532** cosmere standard. Thus it has a mass of 0.96532 cosmere standard. 

There are 196*** days in a year. However, they have relatively long days, around 34 standard hours. Which is 43 of their standard hours. Each is made up of 112 minutes. (I tried my hardest to find a point where the number of minutes in a day is a digital root of 7, and the amount of minutes in an hour is also a digital root of 7, but it seems that it is literally impossible, looking at a calculator for the functions, it is always 0.07 off. So just decided to do it so that we had minutes be a multiple of 7 and have a digital root of 7) . 

Thus, it is 0.760730593606 Earth years (the 34 standard hours is just a very close approximation). This comes to a digital root of 7, as well.  Day length is around 1.416666... the average day length. I will mention, my calculator puts it to 1.41666666667..., which comes to a digital root of 7 as well. 

Due to the orbit of the moon, they divide the year into 28 groupings of 7 days, which they call Septs (translated, of course). This is further broken down into 4 groupings of 7 Septs. Each grouping is related to a specific Dawnshard (but they don't fully understand the origin of these ideas). One is the Month of Change. 

 

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*(If you want to know, I got it by taking the average arc length of a sine wave at value X, divided by the length of a straight line to x. Basically, the ArcLength of Sine(x), divided by x.)

** I did this as the digital root is 7, the sacred number of Autonomy. The approximate mass also has a digital root of 7. This is all assuming that you can do the digital root of numbers under 1 by adding together the numbers after the decimal point. I wanted to make the radius a digital root of 7, but it comes to 3. I could add a 4 after the end, but I simply don't know what number comes next and I don't want to make it up to make it fit the pattern. But it can be 1.216530262744 in your heart. 

*** as with the others, this is a digital root, it adds up to 16, then comes down to 7. It is also a multiple of 7 (7*7*4). 6 - 9 - 1 is also equal to 4, like the Dawnshards. 

**** This rise and fall is consistent and sinusoidal, but the interval length and amplitude differ from landmass to landmass. 

 

On the Geology:

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Its crust is broken up all the way down to the outer core, which is made up of just molten stone and metal. This leaves massive separate chunks of land moving across the planet, with no connection to other segments. There are 736* of these plates, and they vary greatly in size, the largest is around the area of Australia (it is called 'Asu Tapanga), the smallest is around the size of Portugal. These are kept in motion, and kept from falling over or crashing into one another by the interference of the shard. 

This movement is actually extremely regular, with each nation having a set path that it goes through, and one can predict the approximate location of every land at any given moment in time. 

Due to this, the different plates essentially act as completely autonomous and independent worlds, themselves covered in many different countries which attempt to remain as independent as possible, relying as little as they can on other nations. 

* This adds to a digital root of 7, and also is 16 on the first addition, only going to 7 on the second. 

 Moon:

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It has one moon which orbits the planet once every seven rotations of the planet. It is not tidally locked to the planet, and thus you can see both sides of the moon (at different times, obviously).

It has a diametre of 1158.33333333 km. 

There are 7 large, deep, and irregularly shaped pits across the moon. They can be seen from the surface. A massive burst of light comes from these pits at seemingly random intervals. (It is predictable via a complex formula mixing together digital roots and multiples of 7 and sine functions and everything. I haven't planned it out, but I thought to mention it exists.) Thus burst also releases Investiture that charges the Invested Arts of the people on the planet. 

 

 

Culture:

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They deeply value individuality, to an unhealthy extent. They feel that one should never rely on anyone else, even when you do truly need help. 

This also extends to a larger political level, with nations not wanting to communicate with one another or rely on one another through trade. Due to this, none of them expanded much beyond a collection of city-states. 

Despite being individual and separated, they all worship the same pantheon of 7 deities. These deities are actually used for the names of the days of the Sept, and each day is associated with that given god. People are said to be born under the "Sign of the ()", referring to the god of the day they were born, they can also say something like "Sign of the Sixth". This is seen as a sort of patron deity that watches over you especially closely, and to which you should dedicate yourself. 

Many cultures have a gematria-esque system of taking out numerical values from letters in sacred writings, in order to try to ascertain more meaning from them. This system, unlike what they use normally, makes use of a Base-7 system, which they call sacred numerology. Each number in this system is named after one of their 7 gods, and has ideas attributed to it that are associated with the god in question. The way this works is they have 49 letters in their alphabet, which are divided into 7 groups of 7 letters. This system either takes the column and has them all be a certain number (like the 5 column, where all letters are equal to 5), or takes them as representative of dual divine unions, like 6-7 or 3-4. Dual unions that combine into 7 are thought as being especially special. 

As you can assume from this organization, their script is actually featural, with these separations (both rows and columns) being based upon different features in the script. 

 

They actually have this system that is a 7-way venn diagram (look it up and you can find one on Reddit), which shows the attributes of the intersections of the gods. This makes for 128 intersections (they include the 1 null set, as a sort of "that which has no attributes of the gods", some debate it is a state of complete and utter non-existence on a conceptual level). Each has their own attributes and associations and name. These intersections are not truly seen as seperate gods, but unions of them, like Harihara or Ardhanarishvara or Vaikuntha-Kamalaja. These are known as Syzygies, or Unions, or Intersections. 

 

Parents tend to leave their children early, expecting them to start fending for themselves at the age of 13, sending them out into the world and thinking "well, if they die, that is on them for not being ready for the world". While raising them, they also tend to try not to be overly coddling, and always try to push them towards doing things on their own and fending for themselves, it wasn't really proper childcare. 

Many city-states near the borders of landmasses would execute people by just, chucking them off the side and into the outer core. Where they die from the heat while falling, then have their body crushed by the impact and further burned by the heat of the core. Nobody can survive it. 

Shard:

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The Shard is Autonomy, albeit under a less sociopathic Vessel. Her nature is in many ways similar to the Autonomy that we see in the books, albeit less malicious, but still very misguided.

She lived her life as a human hating how much so many people relied on others for their own safety and to do things for themselves. This clashed with her ideas of self-actualization and fulfilling your own destiny, not relying on anyone. But this was taken to the extreme once she took up the Shard, with her belief in self-reliance becoming an absolute law that overwhelmed everything, and came to apply to every part of society. 

God Metal:

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The God Metal constantly releases two fields, one that pushes away any form of Investiture outside of other Autonomous Investiture, and one that pushes away any magnetic object regardless of the field (think like, some sort of third type of charge which repels both positive and negative. This is very spiritually-influenced rather than being a new type of field, though. Like how Windrunners don't create a source of gravity, they just make their body think there is another gravitational force), it also attracts any other Autonomy God Metal in its vicinity. Thus when you find it, you are typically going to find large collections of it. 

When burned Allomantically, it has several effects. 

1. It immediately expels any Investiture that isn't its own. Sort of like Aluminum. 
2. It creates a field which also repels any Investiture or influence by Investiture (so, it would, for example, not let you be influenced by Emotional Allomancy. It would also, if you move into a time bubble, create an area within the bubble that is not effected by the changed time, this can start to mess with the system that stops redshift and blueshift and irradiation from occurring, and thus can cause all three to happen)
3. It creates a field which pushes away any nearby metals. 

The field it creates does not have an explicit boundary, but it just gradually gets weaker as you move away from it. Like the sun, it technically influences the entire universe, there is no strict boundary, it just keeps exponentially weaker as per the inverse-square law, until it is basically not even there. The same applies to this metal. This also means it gets stronger as you get closer, until you get to the burner themselves, in which it becomes like trying to enter a white-hole. 

Flaring the metal or burning it with Duralumin causes the strength of resistance to increase, and thus it also increases the volume of non-negligible resistance. 

 

Feruchemically, I dunno, something to do with Identity and Connection. Those are pretty closely related to the idea of Selfhood and Autonomy.  But I can't think of anything that isn't just a combination of aluminum and duralumin. 

 

Inspiration:

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The idea of multiple isolated continents of sorts floating through the outer core actually came from Sonic Unleashed, where the planet was broken apart into several different "continents" of sort, and they were all just floating around. It was also based around the idea of continental drift in general, but if it was applied to things more similar to large islands. 

The use of digital roots came from how digital roots essentially are taking a multiplicity and turning it into a singularity. I felt it would have some connection with Autonomy and the idea of Individuality, on a metaphorical level. I also got it due to the fact 7, the number of Autonomy, is the digital root of 16, which has obvious importance. I also wanted to include it in everything in sort of like the way you see a lot of conspiracy theorists point things out, where everything has to be connected. 

 

 

Another one done in a few hours, not the most pleased with this one. I like all the ways I worked in 7. But I feel that the culture isn't as developed as I want it to be. But I also feel I have some interesting ideas in here. (for honesty, I did edit this a few times after posting, to add more to it)

It is most definitely one of my more scientifically infeasible planets. But I tried to find all the excuses I could to make some level of sense. But most of it is just, a wizard did it. 

Hope you all like it and give good feedback. 

@alder24@Underwater_Worldhopper

How do you two feel about it?

Edited August 4, 2023 by Firesong

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

21 hours ago, Firesong said:

Alternate Autonomy:

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Astronomy:

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Jungudalu:

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The primary (and only, as a reflection of Autonomy) planet in the system, and a particularly notable planet. 

Physical Characteristics:

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It has a size of around ~1.21653026274* cosmere standard. But the actual habitable area is below the cosmere standard. 

However, it has a surprisingly low gravity due to the fact that it does not have a complete crust. But the gravity is not as low as one would expect, due to what crust it does have, and the  inner core is relatively dense. But the Outer Core is also less dense than average, enough that the landmasses can rise and fall to degree.**** This makes the gravity come to around 0.6532** cosmere standard. Thus it has a mass of 0.96532 cosmere standard. 

There are 196*** days in a year. However, they have relatively long days, around 34 standard hours. Which is 43 of their standard hours. Each is made up of 112 minutes. (I tried my hardest to find a point where the number of minutes in a day is a digital root of 7, and the amount of minutes in an hour is also a digital root of 7, but it seems that it is literally impossible, looking at a calculator for the functions, it is always 0.07 off. So just decided to do it so that we had minutes be a multiple of 7 and have a digital root of 7) . 

Thus, it is 0.760730593606 Earth years (the 34 standard hours is just a very close approximation). This comes to a digital root of 7, as well.  Day length is around 1.416666... the average day length. I will mention, my calculator puts it to 1.41666666667..., which comes to a digital root of 7 as well. 

Due to the orbit of the moon, they divide the year into 28 groupings of 7 days, which they call Septs (translated, of course). This is further broken down into 4 groupings of 7 Septs. Each grouping is related to a specific Dawnshard (but they don't fully understand the origin of these ideas). One is the Month of Change. 

 

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*(If you want to know, I got it by taking the average arc length of a sine wave at value X, divided by the length of a straight line to x. Basically, the ArcLength of Sine(x), divided by x.)

** I did this as the digital root is 7, the sacred number of Autonomy. The approximate mass also has a digital root of 7. This is all assuming that you can do the digital root of numbers under 1 by adding together the numbers after the decimal point. I wanted to make the radius a digital root of 7, but it comes to 3. I could add a 4 after the end, but I simply don't know what number comes next and I don't want to make it up to make it fit the pattern. But it can be 1.216530262744 in your heart. 

*** as with the others, this is a digital root, it adds up to 16, then comes down to 7. It is also a multiple of 7 (7*7*4). 6 - 9 - 1 is also equal to 4, like the Dawnshards. 

**** This rise and fall is consistent and sinusoidal, but the interval length and amplitude differ from landmass to landmass. 

 

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Its crust is broken up all the way down to the outer core, which is made up of just molten stone and metal. This leaves massive separate chunks of land moving across the planet, with no connection to other segments. There are 736* of these plates, and they vary greatly in size, the largest is around the area of Australia (it is called 'Asu Tapanga), the smallest is around the size of Portugal. These are kept in motion, and kept from falling over or crashing into one another by the interference of the shard. 

This movement is actually extremely regular, with each nation having a set path that it goes through, and one can predict the approximate location of every land at any given moment in time. 

Due to this, the different plates essentially act as completely autonomous and independent worlds, themselves covered in many different countries which attempt to remain as independent as possible, relying as little as they can on other nations. 

* This adds to a digital root of 7, and also is 16 on the first addition, only going to 7 on the second. 

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It has one moon which orbits the planet once every seven rotations of the planet. It is not tidally locked to the planet, and thus you can see both sides of the moon (at different times, obviously).

It has a diametre of 1158.33333333 km. 

There are 7 large, deep, and irregularly shaped pits across the moon. They can be seen from the surface. A massive burst of light comes from these pits at seemingly random intervals. (It is predictable via a complex formula mixing together digital roots and multiples of 7 and sine functions and everything. I haven't planned it out, but I thought to mention it exists.) Thus burst also releases Investiture that charges the Invested Arts of the people on the planet. 

 

 

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They deeply value individuality, to an unhealthy extent. They feel that one should never rely on anyone else, even when you do truly need help. 

This also extends to a larger political level, with nations not wanting to communicate with one another or rely on one another through trade. Due to this, none of them expanded much beyond a collection of city-states. 

Despite being individual and separated, they all worship the same pantheon of 7 deities. These deities are actually used for the names of the days of the Sept, and each day is associated with that given god. People are said to be born under the "Sign of the ()", referring to the god of the day they were born, they can also say something like "Sign of the Sixth". This is seen as a sort of patron deity that watches over you especially closely, and to which you should dedicate yourself. 

Many cultures have a gematria-esque system of taking out numerical values from letters in sacred writings, in order to try to ascertain more meaning from them. This system, unlike what they use normally, makes use of a Base-7 system, which they call sacred numerology. Each number in this system is named after one of their 7 gods, and has ideas attributed to it that are associated with the god in question. The way this works is they have 49 letters in their alphabet, which are divided into 7 groups of 7 letters. This system either takes the column and has them all be a certain number (like the 5 column, where all letters are equal to 5), or takes them as representative of dual divine unions, like 6-7 or 3-4. Dual unions that combine into 7 are thought as being especially special. 

As you can assume from this organization, their script is actually featural, with these separations (both rows and columns) being based upon different features in the script. 

 

They actually have this system that is a 7-way venn diagram (look it up and you can find one on Reddit), which shows the attributes of the intersections of the gods. This makes for 128 intersections (they include the 1 null set, as a sort of "that which has no attributes of the gods", some debate it is a state of complete and utter non-existence on a conceptual level). Each has their own attributes and associations and name. These intersections are not truly seen as seperate gods, but unions of them, like Harihara or Ardhanarishvara or Vaikuntha-Kamalaja. These are known as Syzygies, or Unions, or Intersections. 

 

Parents tend to leave their children early, expecting them to start fending for themselves at the age of 13, sending them out into the world and thinking "well, if they die, that is on them for not being ready for the world". While raising them, they also tend to try not to be overly coddling, and always try to push them towards doing things on their own and fending for themselves, it wasn't really proper childcare. 

Many city-states near the borders of landmasses would execute people by just, chucking them off the side and into the outer core. Where they die from the heat while falling, then have their body crushed by the impact and further burned by the heat of the core. Nobody can survive it. 

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The Shard is Autonomy, albeit under a less sociopathic Vessel. Her nature is in many ways similar to the Autonomy that we see in the books, albeit less malicious, but still very misguided.

She lived her life as a human hating how much so many people relied on others for their own safety and to do things for themselves. This clashed with her ideas of self-actualization and fulfilling your own destiny, not relying on anyone. But this was taken to the extreme once she took up the Shard, with her belief in self-reliance becoming an absolute law that overwhelmed everything, and came to apply to every part of society. 

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The God Metal constantly releases two fields, one that pushes away any form of Investiture outside of other Autonomous Investiture, and one that pushes away any magnetic object regardless of the field (think like, some sort of third type of charge which repels both positive and negative. This is very spiritually-influenced rather than being a new type of field, though. Like how Windrunners don't create a source of gravity, they just make their body think there is another gravitational force), it also attracts any other Autonomy God Metal in its vicinity. Thus when you find it, you are typically going to find large collections of it. 

When burned Allomantically, it has several effects. 

1. It immediately expels any Investiture that isn't its own. Sort of like Aluminum. 
2. It creates a field which also repels any Investiture or influence by Investiture (so, it would, for example, not let you be influenced by Emotional Allomancy. It would also, if you move into a time bubble, create an area within the bubble that is not effected by the changed time, this can start to mess with the system that stops redshift and blueshift and irradiation from occurring, and thus can cause all three to happen)
3. It creates a field which pushes away any nearby metals. 

The field it creates does not have an explicit boundary, but it just gradually gets weaker as you move away from it. Like the sun, it technically influences the entire universe, there is no strict boundary, it just keeps exponentially weaker as per the inverse-square law, until it is basically not even there. The same applies to this metal. This also means it gets stronger as you get closer, until you get to the burner themselves, in which it becomes like trying to enter a white-hole. 

Flaring the metal or burning it with Duralumin causes the strength of resistance to increase, and thus it also increases the volume of non-negligible resistance. 

 

Feruchemically, I dunno, something to do with Identity and Connection. Those are pretty closely related to the idea of Selfhood and Autonomy.  But I can't think of anything that isn't just a combination of aluminum and duralumin. 

 

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The idea of multiple isolated continents of sorts floating through the outer core actually came from Sonic Unleashed, where the planet was broken apart into several different "continents" of sort, and they were all just floating around. It was also based around the idea of continental drift in general, but if it was applied to things more similar to large islands. 

The use of digital roots came from how digital roots essentially are taking a multiplicity and turning it into a singularity. I felt it would have some connection with Autonomy and the idea of Individuality, on a metaphorical level. I also got it due to the fact 7, the number of Autonomy, is the digital root of 16, which has obvious importance. I also wanted to include it in everything in sort of like the way you see a lot of conspiracy theorists point things out, where everything has to be connected. 

 

 

Another one done in a few hours, not the most pleased with this one. I like all the ways I worked in 7. But I feel that the culture isn't as developed as I want it to be. But I also feel I have some interesting ideas in here. (for honesty, I did edit this a few times after posting, to add more to it)

It is most definitely one of my more scientifically infeasible planets. But I tried to find all the excuses I could to make some level of sense. But most of it is just, a wizard did it. 

Hope you all like it and give good feedback. 

@alder24@Underwater_Worldhopper

How do you two feel about it?

I really like it, the worldbuilding is insane and I love the reinterpretation of the Intent of Autonomy. I've just been working out the kinks in my Mercy world (called Uttara) over the past few days (Almost a week now, I think O.o) and I've been busy irl so it's coming along far slower than I expected, and that's why I didn't reply to your post as soon as I saw it. I'm only typing up this post (opened in a separate tab that I'm hoping won't glitch out the Uttara post that I'm still writing down) now to reassure you that the world you've made really is amazing and as a request for just a little more patience as I unimaginably slowly finish that Mercy world. I'll have a proper breakdown as well as feedback and questions on your Autonomy world by then!

[Firesong]

14 minutes ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

I really like it, the worldbuilding is insane and I love the reinterpretation of the Intent of Autonomy. I've just been working out the kinks in my Mercy world (called Uttara) over the past few days (Almost a week now, I think O.o) and I've been busy irl so it's coming along far slower than I expected, and that's why I didn't reply to your post as soon as I saw it. I'm only typing up this post (opened in a separate tab that I'm hoping won't glitch out the Uttara post that I'm still writing down) now to reassure you that the world you've made really is amazing and as a request for just a little more patience as I unimaginably slowly finish that Mercy world. I'll have a proper breakdown as well as feedback and questions on your Autonomy world by then!

Totally understandable, sometimes we are just busy. 

[alder24]

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

@alder24@Underwater_Worldhopper

How do you two feel about it?

I had little time yesterday as I've just received my fresh and beautiful copy of Yumi so I was busy sniffing it being excited over it.

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

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It has a size of around ~1.21653026274* cosmere standard. But the actual habitable area is below the cosmere standard. 

However, it has a surprisingly low gravity due to the fact that it does not have a complete crust. But the gravity is not as low as one would expect, due to what crust it does have, and the  inner core is relatively dense. But the Outer Core is also less dense than average, enough that the landmasses can rise and fall to degree.**** This makes the gravity come to around 0.6532** cosmere standard. Thus it has a mass of 0.96532 cosmere standard. 

There are 196*** days in a year. However, they have relatively long days, around 34 standard hours. Which is 43 of their standard hours. Each is made up of 112 minutes. (I tried my hardest to find a point where the number of minutes in a day is a digital root of 7, and the amount of minutes in an hour is also a digital root of 7, but it seems that it is literally impossible, looking at a calculator for the functions, it is always 0.07 off. So just decided to do it so that we had minutes be a multiple of 7 and have a digital root of 7) . 

Thus, it is 0.760730593606 Earth years (the 34 standard hours is just a very close approximation). This comes to a digital root of 7, as well.  Day length is around 1.416666... the average day length. I will mention, my calculator puts it to 1.41666666667..., which comes to a digital root of 7 as well. 

Due to the orbit of the moon, they divide the year into 28 groupings of 7 days, which they call Septs (translated, of course). This is further broken down into 4 groupings of 7 Septs. Each grouping is related to a specific Dawnshard (but they don't fully understand the origin of these ideas). One is the Month of Change. 

 

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*(If you want to know, I got it by taking the average arc length of a sine wave at value X, divided by the length of a straight line to x. Basically, the ArcLength of Sine(x), divided by x.)

** I did this as the digital root is 7, the sacred number of Autonomy. The approximate mass also has a digital root of 7. This is all assuming that you can do the digital root of numbers under 1 by adding together the numbers after the decimal point. I wanted to make the radius a digital root of 7, but it comes to 3. I could add a 4 after the end, but I simply don't know what number comes next and I don't want to make it up to make it fit the pattern. But it can be 1.216530262744 in your heart. 

*** as with the others, this is a digital root, it adds up to 16, then comes down to 7. It is also a multiple of 7 (7*7*4). 6 - 9 - 1 is also equal to 4, like the Dawnshards. 

**** This rise and fall is consistent and sinusoidal, but the interval length and amplitude differ from landmass to landmass. 

 

I've checked your math and your mass is off by 0.006 - outrageous!  Just kidding.  But your planet's mean density is very low, lower than the Moon's density. But you've explained why this is the case so no problems here.

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

Its crust is broken up all the way down to the outer core

That's a very, very, very thick crust. Impossibly large. What about the mantle? Where is it? Why does it go straight down to the core?? What happened there?  

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

Its crust is broken up all the way down to the outer core, which is made up of just molten stone and metal. This leaves massive separate chunks of land moving across the planet, with no connection to other segments. There are 736* of these plates, and they vary greatly in size, the largest is around the area of Australia (it is called 'Asu Tapanga), the smallest is around the size of Portugal. These are kept in motion, and kept from falling over or crashing into one another by the interference of the shard. 

This movement is actually extremely regular, with each nation having a set path that it goes through, and one can predict the approximate location of every land at any given moment in time. 

Due to this, the different plates essentially act as completely autonomous and independent worlds, themselves covered in many different countries which attempt to remain as independent as possible, relying as little as they can on other nations. 

I admit, the setting sounds cool. It definitely would work as well with just tectonic plates floating on the liquid mantle or something less dramatic. But:

• How deep do they sink?
• What about water and oceans? Does water drop down from the plate's edge into the core? 
• How much tidal forces affect the rising and falling of plates?
• Does the core glow from in between plates?
• What about air currents in cracks? Shouldn't the air keep rising heated up by the core so you could just glide from plate to plate like Link? 

Living near the edge of one plate would be cool.

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

It has one moon which orbits the planet once every seven rotations of the planet. It is not tidally locked to the planet, and thus you can see both sides of the moon (at different times, obviously).

I have problems with this. Rant incoming:

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Your moon has a period equal to 7 local days, which is almost 10 Standard days. Our moon's period is 28 days and it's tidally locked. Your moon has to be even closer to the planet then the Moon is and it would certainly be tidally locked. No questions about it. I will do math for that in a moment, but you can't have a close moon without it being tidally locked.

Doing math on the orbital radius, your moon orbits the planet around 134500,9 km away from it. Too close for it to not be tidally locked (3x closer than the Moon). Its size on the sky is twice as big as our Moon's.

Just nitpicking  

Useless math and more ranting:

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I can't. I'm crazy. I have to know. If you give me your moon's rotational period I might be able to calculate how long it would take for it to get tidally locked. If it rotates every 12 h then it will be tidally locked in just 119 226,37 years. Because there are two ways of calculating it, the second way. which makes more assumptions to reduce inaccuracy or something. give me the result of 19 300,87 years (which still fits with first result and its inaccuracy factor which is that large - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Timescale).

Your moon has to be either recently formed or recently captured (it couldn't form with the planet from the star's accretion disk). But as you mentioned, this system has only one planet so it's highly unlikely for this moon to be captured as it would most likely have to be a rogue planet which is just astronomically unlikely (unless there is a nearby asteroid belt with dwarf planets in it). Your weird crust might support hypothesis of an recent impact event (in that case your planet doesn't have that much time to become habitable (but tbf is is habitable at all?)), which should be even less likely than capture, as it still requires a rogue planet to have a collision with it (or a local dwarf planet which is more likely but still very unlikely).

Of course this is all irrelevant if Autonomy directly created this system, which is 99.99% the case (who would have thought with those weird plates floating directly on the core and all of this digital root is 7 reappearing), and I've just spend a lot of time doing useless math  And I've literally spent an hour wondering why I got 43 mil years from the first method, while the second method gave me 19k years before realizing that I've forgotten to include "a year" in my transition from seconds to years and the 43 mil was the value in days not years... Just me things.

 

 

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

Feruchemically, I dunno, something to do with Identity and Connection. Those are pretty closely related to the idea of Selfhood and Autonomy.  But I can't think of anything that isn't just a combination of aluminum and duralumin. 

Maybe it cleanses your soul from connections to different Shards? It stores them just like copper/aluminum does.

On 4.08.2023 at 2:38 AM, Firesong said:

It is most definitely one of my more scientifically infeasible planets. But I tried to find all the excuses I could to make some level of sense. But most of it is just, a wizard did it. 

Right, that makes sense. This explains a lot  

 

Overall this is a very fun place to live. I wonder how this rising and falling of plates would have felt like. I like it. Especially dropping criminals into the core. That sounds fun. Culture is interesting and the use of god metal has some very interesting applications. Very fun indeed. I wonder what invested art could arise on such a planet.

Edited August 5, 2023 by alder24

[Firesong]

13 minutes ago, alder24 said:

I had little time yesterday as I've just received my fresh and beautiful copy of Yumi so I was busy sniffing it being excited over it.

I've checked your math and your mass is off by 0.006 - outrageous!  Just kidding.  But your planet's mean density is very low, lower than the Moon's density. But you've explained why this is the case so no problems here.

That's a very, very, very thick crust. Impossibly large. What about the mantle? Where is it? Why does it go straight down to the core?? What happened there?  

I admit, the setting sounds cool. It definitely would work as well with just tectonic plates floating on the liquid mantle or something less dramatic. But:

• How deep do they sink?
• What about water and oceans? Does water drop down from the plate's edge into the core? 
• How much tidal forces affect the rising and falling of plates?
• Does the core glow from in between plates?
• What about air currents in cracks? Shouldn't the air keep rising heated up by the core so you could just glide from plate to plate like Link? 

Living near the edge of one plate would be cool.

I have problems with this. Rant incoming:

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Your moon has a period equal to 7 local days, which is almost 10 Standard days. Our moon's period is 28 days and it's tidally locked. Your moon has to be even closer to the planet then the Moon is and it would certainly be tidally locked. No questions about it. I will do math for that in a moment, but you can't have a close moon without it being tidally locked.

Doing math on the orbital radius, your moon orbits the planet around 134500,9 km away from it. Too close for it to not be tidally locked (3x closer than the Moon). Its size on the sky is twice as big as our Moon's.

Just nitpicking  

Useless math and more ranting:

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I can't. I'm crazy. I have to know. If you give me your moon's rotational period I might be able to calculate how long it would take for it to get tidally locked. If it rotates every 12 h then it will be tidally locked in just 119 226,37 years. Because there are two ways of calculating it, the second way. which makes more assumptions to reduce inaccuracy or something. give me the result of 19 300,87 years (which still fits with first result and its inaccuracy factor which is that large - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking#Timescale).

Your moon has to be either recently formed or recently captured (it couldn't form with the planet from the star's accretion disk). But as you mentioned, this system has only one planet so it's highly unlikely for this moon to be captured as it would most likely have to be a rogue planet which is just astronomically unlikely (unless there is a nearby asteroid belt with dwarf planets in it). Your weird crust might support hypothesis of an recent impact event (in that case your planet doesn't have that much time to become habitable (but tbf is is habitable at all?)), which should be even less likely than capture, as it still requires a rogue planet to have a collision with it (or a local dwarf planet which is more likely but still very unlikely).

Of course this is all irrelevant if Autonomy directly created this system, which is 99.99% the case (who would have thought with those weird plates floating directly on the core and all of this digital root is 7 reappearing), and I've just spend a lot of time doing useless math  And I've literally spent an hour wondering why I got 43 mil years from the first method, while the second method gave me 19k years before realizing that I've forgotten to include "a year" in my transition from seconds to years and the 43 mil was the value in days not years... Just me things.

 

 

Maybe it cleanses your soul from connections to different Shards? It stores them just like copper/aluminum does.

Right, that makes sense. This explains a lot  

 

Overall this is a very fun place to live. I wonder how this rising and falling of plates would have felt like. I like it. Especially dropping criminals into the core. That sounds fun. Culture is interesting and the use of god metal has some very interesting applications. Very fun indeed. I wonder what invested art could arise on such a planet.

By crust I included the Mantle and all of that. I wasn't using a strictly scientific terminology there. Just saying crust is easier than Crust, Lithosphere, and Mantle. My bad for not clarifying better. 

There would be various lakes and rivers across the plates, and some would definitely empty out into the core, yeah. But it isn't as common as you think. This can be explained through a little addition (that I came up with right now) that the edges typically have an upward ridge that, while not too hard to go over, does prevent rivers from flowing up them. Thus a river can only empty out in areas where this ridge does not exist. 

In rising and falling, maybe like, around a hundred kilometres, maybe two or more. This, however, moves very slowly. You would be able to feel a difference between rising and falling periods, but it is not that extreme and most people there have adapted to it to the extent that they don't notice it that much. The most noticeable part is when a plate moves next to another plate (or even within a pretty wide radius), where one can appear noticeably tall or short depending on the difference in elevation. 

Yes, there is an updraft and you can see the glow between plates. But I don't think the updraft would be strong enough to carry a human body.

To be honest, I didn't even consider tidal forces, but I guess that they would pull on them a bit, maybe this makes the rising speed a bit faster than the falling speed as you simultaneously have the core pushing up on it and the moon pulling on it. And also, yeah, large moons tend to become tidally locked, I just really like the idea of a moon that looks drastically different from each angle, and also does actually rotate in comparison to Earth. It seems like it would make a cool effect. 

 

On your idea for Feruchemy, yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. Taking that. 

 

And also, yeah, the system is relatively new (older than the Shattering in main canon, but just assume the Shattering happened more like 50,000 years ago in this canon) and made by Autonomy, this would not be able to naturally occur. Due to how planets tend to form from matter condensed into a sphere, so having one have so little actually area in the outer layers makes no scientific sense unless some entity caused it to happen. 

 

Anyway, thanks for the compliments, I am glad you enjoyed. 

[bmcclure7]

On 7/8/2023 at 2:15 PM, Lightweaver2 said:

What if more shards combined? We know Ruin and Preservation make Harmony, but what about others? What name would they have? Here are some ideas I had.

 Ruin + Odium = Malice

Preservation + Honor = Stability

Whimsy + Ruin = Chaos

 

 Any other ideas?

 

Edit: this thread has become a place for fan made shard magic systems/shardworlds. It can be as specific as you want but if you include advanced calculations or science, please place it in a spoiler box at the end of your post and label it as such.

Domination +devotion =authority 

Honor +cultivation =civilization 

Odium +cultivation = freedom 

 

[Firesong]

I have a few basic ideas:

Alternate Odium (Passion. As my interpretation of Odium is that it is about all emotions, but the hatred was just so overwhelming, as hatred tends to consume all other emotions. This mixed with Rayse being an awful person I feel is what led to Odium becoming overpowered by the hatred aspect. As like, we do see Dalinar seeing the Shard itself, and it did include far more than just hatred), maybe make it Whimsy + Passion

Dominion + Honor  or Dominion + Honor + Ambition or even Dominion + Honor + Ambition + Passion (all three work with what I have planned, I feel the third works the best for my idea.)

 

Which one do you think I should do first?

I do actually have ideas for magic systems for these. And I will be doing both, just asking to see which one I should do first. 

 

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

On 8/6/2023 at 5:54 PM, Firesong said:

I have a few basic ideas:

Alternate Odium (Passion. As my interpretation of Odium is that it is about all emotions, but the hatred was just so overwhelming, as hatred tends to consume all other emotions. This mixed with Rayse being an awful person I feel is what led to Odium becoming overpowered by the hatred aspect. As like, we do see Dalinar seeing the Shard itself, and it did include far more than just hatred), maybe make it Whimsy + Passion

Dominion + Honor  or Dominion + Honor + Ambition or even Dominion + Honor + Ambition + Passion (all three work with what I have planned, I feel the third works the best for my idea.)

 

Which one do you think I should do first?

I do actually have ideas for magic systems for these. And I will be doing both, just asking to see which one I should do first. 

 

Whimsy and Passion sounds like a really good one to explore, I'd love to see that one.

And for anyone who cares, the Mercy Shardworld I've been working on for several hours every day for a week just got the vast majority of it erased because my laptop died. I'm sure it'll come out in the next several hundred years or so (╥﹏╥)

[Firesong]

34 minutes ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

Whimsy and Passion sounds like a really good one to explore, I'd love to see that one.

And for anyone who cares, the Mercy Shardworld I've been working on for several hours every day for a week just got the vast majority of it erased because my laptop died. I'm sure it'll come out in the next several hundred years or so (╥﹏╥)

Oh dear, I am very sorry you lost all of that. 

[Underwater_Worldhopper]

Just now, Firesong said:

Oh dear, I am very sorry you lost all of that. 

Thanks, but if anything, I'm stubborn as hell. I'll rewrite everything, even if it's missing a lot of details from the original that I can't recall anymore. Hopefully, it'll go faster this time around, since I have a fixed plan instead of making it up as I go along and adding whatever catches my fancy.

[alder24]

13 hours ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

And for anyone who cares, the Mercy Shardworld I've been working on for several hours every day for a week just got the vast majority of it erased because my laptop died. I'm sure it'll come out in the next several hundred years or so (╥﹏╥)

R.I.P. Mercy world  So sorry to hear that. 

[Firesong]

Passion + Whimsy

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Planet:

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Physical Characteristics:

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The planet is around 1.09118032453* cosmere standard size, with gravity of around 1.05.

All land of the planet is essentially contiguous, but it isn't some very thick supercontinent, but rather a large amount of long and (relatively) thin tendrils with curve about and splint and turn into spirals. These are, on average, around 200-300km thick.  A bunch of these have smaller tendrils which break off, and are themselves around 100km, which also have (fewer) splits into around 50km thick tendrils. There are several islands out in the ocean disconnected from these, and made primarily by underwater volcanic activity.

These land tendrils are most dense around 23.5°N and 23.5°S, so the tropics. But they reach up to the poles, gradually getting less densely packed and having less land the further they get from the equator. 

 

The ultimate ratio of land to sea is around 75% sea and 25% land, so more sea to land than Earth. 

The day length is around 1.023345 standard days, organized into 9 days weeks. Months are based on the orbit of the moon, 

Footnote:

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Got this from the Binet sequence's answer for the value of the Fibonacci value of the golden ratio, which was complex (to be exact, it is approximately 0.899844226223244+0.191336098306779i), thus I took the real and imaginary parts, cut off the i, and added both parts as if it was simple addition, 

 

 

Moon:

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It has a moon very close to the size of our own moon. It has a very unique appearance, with metallic lunar dust of different chemical properties, and thus different colors, which are separated into a 9-Section Hosohedron. They do mix into each other around the edges, but this mixing is not visible with the naked eye from the surface of the planet. 

It takes around 20.707215309 days to orbit the planet. (was previously at 24.397215309, but I like moons that appear massive in the sky so I reduced it, especially to make the pattern on the moon more visible)

It notably has a much smaller moon of its own, which is 20-27km in radius. It orbits the moon around 9 times per orbit of the moon around the planet. This is kept stable by the Shard herself. As it would not be able to remain stable without Shardic interference. This secondary moon actually was rouge and passed by the system and was caught by the moon by coincidence. The Shard just thought it was pretty and didn't want to lose it, so she uses her powers to keep the system stable. 

 

 

Culture:

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Emotions:

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They talk about fully embracing ones emotions and feelings without any care in the world. Always pursuing what makes you happy, almost having an objectivist approach to happiness and morality. Although they also do look down upon actions that hurt others, so their society doesn't go full-Ayn Rand. 

They see all emotions as having inherent value, both good and bad emotions being deep and meaningful. Thus they are not exactly a toxically positive culture, but this idea that both ends are important is something they tend to only apply to others, not themselves, thus they do feel toxic positivity in regards to their own life and mind. 

They are rather open about sexuality, and polyamory is rather common. As they believe one can truly and deeply love more than one person at a time, without it meaning that their other relationships are any less true or meaningful. They also are accepting of relationships regardless of gender, as they feel that love transcends gender. 

Extending from this, they are also rather accepting of the transgender community, as they see it as a pursuit of happiness and self-expression that falls very much in line with their ideals. 

Skin Paint:

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They use body-paint in countless vibrant colors and complex patterns, which covers large amounts of their body. These are manifestations of artistic expression and self-expression, and in many cases actually are patterns and styles passed down through their family for generations. Making them deeply valuable to a person. 

Clothing:

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They do not believe that one needs to wear a shirt in public, not thinking that one has to cover their top. But they do have clothing that covers it if anyone wants to wear it. So this comes down to personal preference of the individual. 

However, they do say that you have to cover your bottom with a skirt or pants. Not doing so would have you looked down on by society. 

Many women have this like, crop-top like top (but a bit fancier than a crop top) to reveal their stomach if they feel especially proud of their appearance, or of their body paint, but don't feel comfortable without a cover. 

Government:

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Due to the influence of Whimsy, they do not have any organized governments, instead being communes led by the collective will of the people, and it is still rather peaceful and organized. Laws are mostly dictated by public morality than any formal written system. 

People:

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They are noticeably shorter than the average inhabitant of the cosmere, despite the slightly higher gravity. 

They are Invested with a surprisingly large amount of Investiture from Passion. More than Nalthians, and this causes a big increase in how intensely they experience emotions. It also gives them a special trait, where their body and mind are actually warped if an emotion or ideal becomes strong enough. This means if you fall too deeply into an abyss of a certain emotion, it can completely consume your body and mind. 

For example, one obsessed with their own appearance in a narcissistic manner: if they feel this narcissism intensely enough, it would begin feeding into itself, causing it to grow more and more intense, and the Investiture would start to cause changes to the body that make one look more and more attractive to fit the way they see themselves, which feeds into it more. To the extent they would wind up unable to look away from the mirror (like Narcissus himself) and eventually starve to death. 

Luckily, these instances are rather rare, as they only happen when one feels emotions so intensely and in such an all-consuming way, that it is extreme even compared to their already extreme emotional average. 

 

Shard:

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Passion is an alternate manifestation of Odium, wherein the other aspects of passion and emotion overwhelmed the hatred, and made it into a Shard of emotion and passion instead of one of hatred. This was helped by fusing with Whimsy. 

Passion is able to split herself into many different beings (not Splinters, more like what Preservation does in SH, more like a splitting of awareness), and creates bodies in the Physical Realm which she uses to interact with people. She doesn't do this to be worshipped, and actually dislikes being  worshipped (and actually gets angry when worshipped, and will punish you if you keep doing it when she tries nicely to get you to stop), and wants to be seen as an equal. She is not your god, but your best friend. Thus she just talks with people in these bodies and interacts with them. Becoming their friends or lovers. 

The people themselves have a strange view of her, they see her as omnipresent and eternal, but at the same time do see her like just another one of them, an equal, and somebody that they can talk with on equal ground with or become friends with. 

Appearance:

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Her physical appearance (her more anthropomorphic one, like what Odium showed up to Dalinar as, not her god-like one like we see Sazed in) takes the form of a beautiful young woman that looks to be around 25-27, with like, medium-dark/somewhat tan skin and waist-length hair with long and large curls. The colour of her hair is rainbow, and constantly shifting, and here eyes are blue and green (complete heterochromia), and she is around 5'6.

Her clothing differs depending on how she feels on any day, and often all of here manifestations are wearing something different, or using a different hair-style. 

God Metal:

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The metal has colours akin to Bismuth, being all the colours of the rainbow. It also reflects light in a very beautiful manner. It is also very geometric like Bismuth. But the geometry is far more three-dimensional than actual bismuth. 

It has a Mohs Hardness of around 9, and it is around the density of Erbium.

The metal feels warm to the touch, as it isn't completely stable and converts a very small amount of itself into heat and light. This is so little that the half-life is in the trillions of years, and it is found to not give off any ionizing radiation. The heat is not enough that it hurts to touch, the heat is actually rather nice and comfortable. 

Allomancy:

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It is basically an internal form of zinc, it strongly inflames ones own emotions. Making them far stronger. This only effects one's self. Savants in the metal would be able to finely control what emotions they want to enhance. 

It also strengthens Connection with other people. If burned with Duralumin, this can strengthen Connection to such a degree that it briefly becomes visible in the Physical Realm. 

Due to the euphoria that it can bring, it is a rather addicting metal to burn, as people want to feel the intense emotions that it gives, and can become obsessed. Which makes Savanthood rather common amongst those with a supply of the metal, as they constantly flare it. 

Feruchemy:

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You are able to store ones own emotions into the metal, leaving one numb to emotions, like what Odium does to his followers. When one taps into it, they can briefly feel a burst of much more intense emotion. 

Just like the Allomantic form, it also deals with Connection. Thus it lessens how close you feel with people around you as it stores your Connection with them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonus World:

Adonalsium 2:

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I am a stick:

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I am a stick:

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[Underwater_Worldhopper]

2 hours ago, Firesong said:

Passion + Whimsy

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Planet:

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Physical Characteristics:

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The planet is around 1.09118032453* cosmere standard size, with gravity of around 1.05.

All land of the planet is essentially contiguous, but it isn't some very thick supercontinent, but rather a large amount of long and (relatively) thin tendrils with curve about and splint and turn into spirals. These are, on average, around 200-300km thick.  A bunch of these have smaller tendrils which break off, and are themselves around 100km, which also have (fewer) splits into around 50km thick tendrils. There are several islands out in the ocean disconnected from these, and made primarily by underwater volcanic activity.

These land tendrils are most dense around 23.5°N and 23.5°S, so the tropics. But they reach up to the poles, gradually getting less densely packed and having less land the further they get from the equator. 

 

The ultimate ratio of land to sea is around 75% sea and 25% land, so more sea to land than Earth. 

The day length is around 1.023345 standard days, organized into 9 days weeks. Months are based on the orbit of the moon, 

Footnote:

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Got this from the Binet sequence's answer for the value of the Fibonacci value of the golden ratio, which was complex (to be exact, it is approximately 0.899844226223244+0.191336098306779i), thus I took the real and imaginary parts, cut off the i, and added both parts as if it was simple addition, 

 

 

Moon:

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It has a moon very close to the size of our own moon. It has a very unique appearance, with metallic lunar dust of different chemical properties, and thus different colors, which are separated into a 9-Section Hosohedron. They do mix into each other around the edges, but this mixing is not visible with the naked eye from the surface of the planet. 

It takes around 20.707215309 days to orbit the planet. (was previously at 24.397215309, but I like moons that appear massive in the sky so I reduced it, especially to make the pattern on the moon more visible)

It notably has a much smaller moon of its own, which is 20-27km in radius. It orbits the moon around 9 times per orbit of the moon around the planet. This is kept stable by the Shard herself. As it would not be able to remain stable without Shardic interference. This secondary moon actually was rouge and passed by the system and was caught by the moon by coincidence. The Shard just thought it was pretty and didn't want to lose it, so she uses her powers to keep the system stable. 

 

 

Culture:

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Emotions:

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They talk about fully embracing ones emotions and feelings without any care in the world. Always pursuing what makes you happy, almost having an objectivist approach to happiness and morality. Although they also do look down upon actions that hurt others, so their society doesn't go full-Ayn Rand. 

They see all emotions as having inherent value, both good and bad emotions being deep and meaningful. Thus they are not exactly a toxically positive culture, but this idea that both ends are important is something they tend to only apply to others, not themselves, thus they do feel toxic positivity in regards to their own life and mind. 

They are rather open about sexuality, and polyamory is rather common. As they believe one can truly and deeply love more than one person at a time, without it meaning that their other relationships are any less true or meaningful. They also are accepting of relationships regardless of gender, as they feel that love transcends gender. 

Extending from this, they are also rather accepting of the transgender community, as they see it as a pursuit of happiness and self-expression that falls very much in line with their ideals. 

Skin Paint:

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They use body-paint in countless vibrant colors and complex patterns, which covers large amounts of their body. These are manifestations of artistic expression and self-expression, and in many cases actually are patterns and styles passed down through their family for generations. Making them deeply valuable to a person. 

Clothing:

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They do not believe that one needs to wear a shirt in public, not thinking that one has to cover their top. But they do have clothing that covers it if anyone wants to wear it. So this comes down to personal preference of the individual. 

However, they do say that you have to cover your bottom with a skirt or pants. Not doing so would have you looked down on by society. 

Many women have this like, crop-top like top (but a bit fancier than a crop top) to reveal their stomach if they feel especially proud of their appearance, or of their body paint, but don't feel comfortable without a cover. 

Government:

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Due to the influence of Whimsy, they do not have any organized governments, instead being communes led by the collective will of the people, and it is still rather peaceful and organized. Laws are mostly dictated by public morality than any formal written system. 

People:

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They are noticeably shorter than the average inhabitant of the cosmere, despite the slightly higher gravity. 

They are Invested with a surprisingly large amount of Investiture from Passion. More than Nalthians, and this causes a big increase in how intensely they experience emotions. It also gives them a special trait, where their body and mind are actually warped if an emotion or ideal becomes strong enough. This means if you fall too deeply into an abyss of a certain emotion, it can completely consume your body and mind. 

For example, one obsessed with their own appearance in a narcissistic manner: if they feel this narcissism intensely enough, it would begin feeding into itself, causing it to grow more and more intense, and the Investiture would start to cause changes to the body that make one look more and more attractive to fit the way they see themselves, which feeds into it more. To the extent they would wind up unable to look away from the mirror (like Narcissus himself) and eventually starve to death. 

Luckily, these instances are rather rare, as they only happen when one feels emotions so intensely and in such an all-consuming way, that it is extreme even compared to their already extreme emotional average. 

 

Shard:

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Passion is an alternate manifestation of Odium, wherein the other aspects of passion and emotion overwhelmed the hatred, and made it into a Shard of emotion and passion instead of one of hatred. This was helped by fusing with Whimsy. 

Passion is able to split herself into many different beings (not Splinters, more like what Preservation does in SH, more like a splitting of awareness), and creates bodies in the Physical Realm which she uses to interact with people. She doesn't do this to be worshipped, and actually dislikes being  worshipped (and actually gets angry when worshipped, and will punish you if you keep doing it when she tries nicely to get you to stop), and wants to be seen as an equal. She is not your god, but your best friend. Thus she just talks with people in these bodies and interacts with them. Becoming their friends or lovers. 

The people themselves have a strange view of her, they see her as omnipresent and eternal, but at the same time do see her like just another one of them, an equal, and somebody that they can talk with on equal ground with or become friends with. 

Appearance:

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Her physical appearance (her more anthropomorphic one, like what Odium showed up to Dalinar as, not her god-like one like we see Sazed in) takes the form of a beautiful young woman that looks to be around 25-27, with like, medium-dark/somewhat tan skin and waist-length hair with long and large curls. The colour of her hair is rainbow, and constantly shifting, and here eyes are blue and green (complete heterochromia), and she is around 5'6.

Her clothing differs depending on how she feels on any day, and often all of here manifestations are wearing something different, or using a different hair-style. 

God Metal:

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Appearance:

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The metal has colours akin to Bismuth, being all the colours of the rainbow. It also reflects light in a very beautiful manner. It is also very geometric like Bismuth. But the geometry is far more three-dimensional than actual bismuth. 

It has a Mohs Hardness of around 9, and it is around the density of Erbium.

The metal feels warm to the touch, as it isn't completely stable and converts a very small amount of itself into heat and light. This is so little that the half-life is in the trillions of years, and it is found to not give off any ionizing radiation. The heat is not enough that it hurts to touch, the heat is actually rather nice and comfortable. 

Allomancy:

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It is basically an internal form of zinc, it strongly inflames ones own emotions. Making them far stronger. This only effects one's self. Savants in the metal would be able to finely control what emotions they want to enhance. 

It also strengthens Connection with other people. If burned with Duralumin, this can strengthen Connection to such a degree that it briefly becomes visible in the Physical Realm. 

Due to the euphoria that it can bring, it is a rather addicting metal to burn, as people want to feel the intense emotions that it gives, and can become obsessed. Which makes Savanthood rather common amongst those with a supply of the metal, as they constantly flare it. 

Feruchemy:

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You are able to store ones own emotions into the metal, leaving one numb to emotions, like what Odium does to his followers. When one taps into it, they can briefly feel a burst of much more intense emotion. 

Just like the Allomantic form, it also deals with Connection. Thus it lessens how close you feel with people around you as it stores your Connection with them. 

 

 

 

This is such a great concept, I love it a lot. No questions or nitpicks this time, it's just a really cool world  

Didn't you say there was gonna be a magic system?

Also, would it be accurate to your vision for this world if Passion + Whimsy = Hedonism?

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Adonalsium 2:

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This one was particularly creative and honestly, I don't see how no one else has thought of this before. Absolutely amazing, unquestionably flawless worldbuilding and logic, I liked the culture and uniqueness of it especially. To be frank, I think we've peaked with this one. You just can't do better than this. Take my rep, you've genuinely earned it.

Edited August 9, 2023 by Underwater_Worldhopper

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4 minutes ago, Underwater_Worldhopper said:

This one was particularly creative and honestly, I don't see how no one else has thought of this before. Absolutely amazing, unquestionably flawless worldbuilding and logic, I liked the culture and uniqueness of it especially. To be frank, I think we've peaked with this one. You just can't do better than this. Take my rep, you've genuinely earned it.

There should be a way to “second” a post. Because this is exactly right.