A community-driven sci-fi universe
The ark is a giant experiment in how various introduced species can adapt and integrate into existing ecosystems. One highly successful example of this species’ naturalization is an ankylosaurus-analog commonly found inhabiting the various subtropical floodplains. Originally named Iratotherium Pertinax (Stubborn Wrathful Beast) by the scientists that discovered the animal, the modern-day natives refer to […]
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As humanity advanced further in genetic engineering, they could come to have ‘designer’ pet animals. Some of these, of course, escaped into the wilderness and established themselves within the local ecosystem in niches previously held by long-extinct animals, just like what happened long before with the introduction of horses in North America. The Tigerhawk is […]
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Lifeforged are relics of a distant past. Sentient automatons of a bygone age, they find employ in various settings across the civilized world: as mercenaries, curators, and guardians of holy relics. How lifeforged are viewed and treated differs from society to society. Among the Alfar, there is a general distrust of their kind, while the […]
Continue ReadingThe ark, Infinity Horizon, is home to many diverse ecosystems accommodating various alien life, some of which can reach truly gargantuan proportions. The Tytge Sea LeviathansĀ The Tytge Sea is a relatively shallow, cold water ecosystem, allowing it to be rich in plankton and by extension sustaining massive filter feeders. Pictured here are two 80 […]
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The Thyrs [monsters] are another derivative of humans. Bigger, stronger, and hardier than the base humans, the Thyrs were created first during the YeXXx rebellion as standard infantry to be used against the Beaāviskar Empire. With the passage of time, the Thyrs, like the other races inhabiting the ark, have forgotten about their origins. Presently, […]
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From time unknown since being sealed off, countless civilizations have risen, prospered, fallen, and turned to ashes on this space ark only for the pattern to repeat again. Roughly every 10 thousand years, the star heats up, scorching the surface and undoing any progress that sentient life managed on the surface. As the star cools […]
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To most inhibiting the ark, werewolves are the stuff of folklore mothers tell their children before bedtime. However, werewolves are real and they stalk the dark hours just outside the boundaries of the civilized world ever in search of warm flesh to feast on. Werewolves are the descendants of human settlers of Baraf Vani. Colonized […]
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Perhaps the only beings to remember the time before the fall, the harbingers are incredibly ancient and by the present have dwindled to only a few dozen. Yet each harbinger, immense and otherworldly, is a dreadful adversary to any who oppose it, capable of destroying entire armies of even the most powerful of terrestrial kingdoms. […]
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To survive the Cycles, many humans took refuge in vast underground caverns. Some chose to remain and, over time, developed a distinct society of their own. Physiologically, the Dvergr are a squattier yet more robust form of humans. They dwell in vast underground cities adorned with gold, diamonds, and all the vestiges of opulence imaginable. […]
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In a land long forsaken, Amidst the ruins of the forgotten age,Lies the abode of the legendary drakons,Terrifying beasts that no one dares to engage. Their scales are black as the abyss,Their eyes red as the burning coal,Their roars shake the earth and sky,And their fire melts even the hardest stone. No knight or […]
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