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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7262604" data-attributes="member: 6816692">Not really a game world, but I did one adventure in this cosmos. Originally, it was meant to be a semi sci-fi/fantasy crossover which is based somewhat on reality and mid you, it is something I came up with as a 16 year old:When the universe started, matter and space and energy as we know them came into being. But the universe itself also bore a consciousness. And while it was powerful, it was neither omniscient, nor omnipotent, but it was curious. It drifted through the stars for millions of years until it saw, it felt that there was something else. Or rather someone else. There was life. And these living beings also had consciousness. So it studied life. And as living beings started to give themselves names, so the consciousness gave itself a name: Gaia. Time passed by and Gaia started to understand what it was. Who it was. And that it was very different from these beings who lived on several planets. It realized that it was unique. And also alone. As Gaia started to understand, to feel like these "mortals" felt, it fell into despair. For it could never be like them. Then something more vicious started growing inside it: Jealousy. Greed. And finally, hate. At the brink of giving into these dark thoughts, Gaia finally understood that it had become a threat to these beings it envied and secretly loved.So it took its aspects, its powers that it had obtained at the beginning of time and space and tore everything from its own existence. And from itself came five beings which represented different thoughts, virtues, abilities and powers. Power over liquids, solids, gases, and energy. Or, as mortals would call them, water, earth, air, fire and light. But the dark thoughts that nearly consumed Gaia were completely torn asunder, seemingly destroyed forever. And when the five came into existence, they realized who created them and they took all their powers to save their creator from annihilation. They took Gaia, now free of painful memories, created a corporeal vessel and took "her" to a reclusive world where she could live among mortals. The Five, or Elements, as they gradually started to use mortal words, were bound to matter and could form bodies of their own. They, like their creator, spend time among mortals, but they could interact with them. They lived and loved and still held contact with one another. But then one day, something was amiss. Space was deforming. As if something wanted to erupt into the universe. The Elements gathered at the site of the anomaly, when suddenly something tore itself through space and time like a chick hatching from an egg. And there it was: Gaia's dark thoughts, manifested in a sixth Element, dedicated to end all life, all existence. It was Light, or Luxa, who felt that it was the polar opposite of the Sixth. Energy and Dark Energy. Light and Dark Light. The two started a fight for life and death immediately and neither of the two was victorious for both were to be destroyed in the process. The other four feared that the resulting explosion, a violent surge of chaotic energy could destroy this section of the universe and so they combined their power to contain it. And so they sealed away the power of they lost two as they mourned the death of their sibling. The seals were placed and the energy was funneled into a strong, living, still evolving world called Terra. Being a container for so much power didn't harm the planet, though. It seemed as if it fueled it. Life grew strong on Terra for many years. That was, until a stray asteroid crashed into it. Usually, this would have obliterated the planet and ended all life. But not Terra. The seals prevented the planet from being smashed to pieces, but it broke into five parts that drifted away all but one. The seals encased them in a protective ward until they were reformed, and "found" new stars to orbit. And the new shards were known as Unica, Thunderion, Elysia, Anoah, and Earth. Now the setting's prime places would be Unica (containing the seal of Light) and, to a lesser degree, Earth (containing the seal of, err... Earth). Unica itself has a good deal of history itself, dealing with the events of ~10.000 years from quasi-medieval/tribal times to a technologically advanced planet which is part of an interplanetary union. It has a guardian spirit due to the seal which manifests very rarely and only when <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> is about to hit the fan. The spirit has a mortal "chosen" proxy whose job it is to keep the people of the planet safe, which means keeping them from killing each other as well as fighting alien invaders.</blockquote>

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