World energy, the energy that once filled the earth and allowed miracles and access to the world to gods and demons, is once again flooding the earth. Due to the attempts of scientists to use this energy as a clean source of energy for the modern worlds electronics, they used a particle collider to create more of this energy. The scientists then lose control of the collider, causing an explosion that releases vast amounts of world energy to fill the world. The ground zero of the collider then sinks, continuously releasing world energy while moving to the earths core. The gods find the way open to earth again, but the world energy compressing in the earth would very quickly lead to its demise. In order to save humanity, whose worship they need to live, the gods take inspiration from modern entertainment and create a system, much like a video game, that allows the earth, and its people and nature, to absorb more of the world energy and stablize the earth. When this is ultimately not enough, they also increase the worlds size, adding new landmarks and area for dungeons and myths, both modern and old, to take form.
World energy is further broken down to make it easier for organisms and dungeons to absorb. It is broken down into two tiers:
lower tiered energy:
ki: the energy of the body. empowers the body and physical things touching the origin of the energy.
psi: the energy of the mind. empowers thoughts and thinking capacity, and allows the thoughts to effect the world.
mana: the energy of the soul. empowers emotion and beliefs, and allows them to have influence on the world.
Higher tiered energy:
Aether: the higher form of mana, this is the pure energy of the unexplained, of emotion and belief.
Nether: the higher form of ki, this is the pure energy of the physical, of the body and instincts.
Ether: The higher form of psi, this is the pure energy of nature’s laws, of physics, philosophy, and psychology, the energy of thought.
Karma: the pure energy of morals, ethics, and bonds. Those that do good acts accrue positive karma, while evil and amoral acts accrue negative karma. Good or bad acts done to or for specific people can create karmic bonds that can draw people together. Karma and karmic bonds will sometimes attract people of the opposite alignment when good or bad deeds are being done. For instance, if a person with bad karma is going to do, or has done, a bad deed, a person with good karma will be attracted to the area, knowingly or not, to balance the deed. In this way, karma works in a love hate relationship with fate.
Fate: the pure energy of continuity. Fate is what preserves past, present and future events. Large events are almost impossible to change because of the amount of fate energy involved.
Order: the pure energy of the lawful, of rules and patterns.
Chaos: the pure energy of the random, of disorder and entropy.