Welcome to Gaia! ::

____Say you saw a patch of the world that didn't fit? A piece of dusky sky in the morning? A strange clay roof top in a metal city? A gray dirt road
by a highway? Oddly colored grass in the field? What would you do? Convince yourself that you are hallucinating and then force yourself not to look
twice... or a third time..?
...or might you investigate it while you have the chance?

____Welcome to Melfania.
Don't mind that sting in your throat, or the briefly warm, stretching feeling in your chest and belly as you enter- it is simply the change of the world
molding you to allow your existence. You see, your kind are not native and may not be able to exist here normally. Consider it a courtesy of the Core,
keeping you breathing and such while you find yourself a new life.

____Er, you are just visiting? How then do you plan to get home? The portal you just came through? What do you mean?

____There is only air behind you.


[ Pending... these things :: ]
World Map (needs re-drawing/updating w/regional markers)
---- General descriptions of main regions.
---- Special descriptions of special places.

- They are the most abundant sentient surface-dwelling species currently in Melfania. The Aelphkan are originally from space, having
come to Melfania to harvest resources centuries ago. The creation of the moons destroyed their orbiting stations, sending many of the
Aelphkan to their deaths while stranding the survivors on Melfania's surface, forcing them to begin a new, humbling life at a loss of most
of their technology. Presently they live mostly at peace.
- Standard life span is approx. 89 years (* Earth time (when I find the notes with the ratio, I'll update this with Melfanian years as well)).
- They are a mostly humanoid-looking species. Little differences set them apart, though, such as::
- - - Long, pointed "elf" ears that curve back rather than stick out.
- - - Long eyes. Always. Typically an Aelphkan's eyes are 1.5 times the length of an Earthling's. Also, the dominant eye color trait for the
Aelphkan is green, in case ye're curious.
- - - Thumbs have an extra digit length. ( If you hold your hand up, flat, with your thumb pulled in against the side of your palm, you may
notice that the length of your thumb reaches about to the base of your index finger. An Aelphkan thumb would reach the line of the next
digit up. If that makes sense. (I'll try to sketch up a reference for this if it confuses too many people))
- Aelphkan live in towns just about everywhere in the world except Agnorine, the isle of Sou, and the northern borders of Nahteil. They
are most common in Bergiigia (central and northern) for its ideal farm lands and abundant wildlife.


[ pending more info... ]

- A dying species of humanoid cat-people (mostly wildcat -like, not so much domestic). They are a nearly completely feral people and are often dangerous
to encounter in the wild. Especially their women. They are predatory creatures with heightened senses of sight and smell, and a penchant for basking in
sunlight and being overly active at night. They are largely independent, and happy that way, but a few families (known as 'clans') have managed to claim &
carefully control (through long patrols) certain nomadic routes within which the females roam and hunt while the males give them space, intervening if/when
two should meet during the wrong time of their season. The Myezun have been hunted in the past for their claws and tails as trophies. This is outlawed now,
but poachers are persistent.
- Standard life span is approx. 50-60 (* Earth years).
- As cat-people, they have certain cat-like distinguishing traits, such as::
- - - Cat ears, tail, eyes, and small, retractable claws in both hands and feet.
- - - Some may grow a fur coat (aside from mane/tail that is), but it is always a light coat. The skin/coat of a Myezun is usually a solid color (rarely it
may be patterned after leopards or tigers, with the rarest pattern being calico patches), most commonly darker browns to black. Light colored skin/coats
(gray, white, blonde) are uncommon.
- - - Short whiskers are a possible but uncommon trait as well. More often for males than females. And that's cat whiskers, not human "whiskers" (aka,
a beard).
- A female Myezun can mate with multiple males to produce mixed offspring that share traits from each "father." Generally a litter will produce 1 to 3 kits.
- A female Myezun cannot become pregnant out of season (there are two such seasons per year). When a female Myezun is in heat, she will become very
aggressively territorial and will not tolerate the presence of another female (of any species) nearby, including her own kits (male Myezun often raise their
young to prevent the mother killing them).
- Myezun do not engage in sex for pleasure- it is strictly serious business.
- To show friendly affections, Myezun will often give gifts of meaning or rub against/cuddle with their loved ones and purr. Yes. They can purr.
- The Myezun revere their 'Mother,' Tizkaha, of many tails. Little is known for certain of her now, any truth that was once in her stories having been lost
over the years in oral tradition and embellishment.
- The Myezun are nomadic and move when the weather changes or the lands around them have too little to live on for long. They can make camps, but when
traveling solo or in twos, will often forego this and sleep outdoors (sometimes up in trees). They can make themselves comfortable almost anywhere (except
Agnorine), but are hard to find if you're looking for them due to their near-extinction. Maybe that's a good thing, though.


[ pending more info..? ]

+ Dominant Species 5 / 8 : "Gaerkjal"


[ pending content ]

+ Dominant Species 7 / 8 : "The Ve agnon"


A strangely mirage or spirit -like people that don't actually have a name. "Ve agnon" means "moon dweller" in the Ulfken tongue,
and is a name given them because they live exclusively in the "desert of moons," Agnorine, where they play with and seem to prey
on the memories of those that become lost there. And nearly everyone that enters Agnorine is lost.

Nothing is known about their culture (if it exists), exact means of sustenance (if they even subsist on anything tangible), or habits.

+ Events of Low World (a.k.a. Melfania's Past)


[ pending content - chronological order ]

-- Creation of the world cores
-- ? ? ?
-- Destruction of the first moon and resulting effects / "The Wild Mourning"
-- Coming of the Aelphkan colonies
-- Wolves in Space! (*cough* they stole some spacecrafts, lol) / War with the colonies / Nerrick "wakes"
-- 1st sighting of the Red / Discovering the existence of the world cores / Nerrick's obsession
-- 2nd sighting of the Red / Mateus "wakes" / Stealing the "Heart" & Birth of the new moons / Wolves return
-- Tentative truce
-- 3rd sighting of the Red / Discovering the significance of the world cores / Nerrick's madness / Etcha's birth & confinement
-- 4th (final?) sighting of the Red / Linnet's secret / Birth of the twins & Etcha's death / Mateus' exile, Linnet's disappearance
-- Peace... for now.
-- Initial appearance of the rifts (which at this time are small & small creatures occasionally pass into/out of the world)
-- Greater appearance of rifts / Melissa & Tessa come to the world (not first 'people' to enter, but other stories are not yet written)

(( will adjust ))

+ Misc. 2 / 2 : Interesting Flora/Fauna


[ pending content ]