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Last updated 24 May, 2025
The hole left in society by the loss of Anthem's song, a longing which persists even to those who never heard it in the first place.
The Homeworld of Humanity
The Sophont are the major species of Ethnis recognized to have sufficient self-awareness and command of the Meta.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 14 Dec, 2024
A Valdutani Traditional Dance and Duel
Controllable extensions of the Soul which Humans alone can create and control.
Flowers native to the western shores of the main continent of Jhoutai. They are coveted for their medicinal and recreational effects, and are as much the subject of local myths and tales as the cause of them.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 30 Jul, 2024
An onomatopoetic language of mimicry created by the Hiserabi to confuse predators and prey; the basis of Sazasharanare and the root language of the Sazashi Revolution
Also known colloquially as Furries, Anthros are Transmogs who identify with creatures real or fictional.
With pricing, rules, and examples
Also known as Organic Augments, Wetware refers to any Augments made of living tissue.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
The Keys to the WayPoints
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Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
Wetware drivers are synapse clusters added to a Transmog brain in order to afford control over Wetware.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
Rukta is the common currency of Ethnis, at least conceptually. While most locations have a local currency to help offset economic fluctuations of the larger universe, all units are converted to the rukta standard.
Music preservation technology
Building the Climate System one Storm at a Time
When the Sazashi mind is pushed too far
A metavirus which targets those who feel love
A solidified mass of Meta
The physical manifestation of corrupted meta
The practice of etching your bones with metals and minerals to increase your capacity for meta and hide enchantments within yourself.
One bad idea over the line
An experience-enhancing drug which heightens the intensity of the consumers senses, often making them more aware of the less traditional senses such as time, proprioception, equilibrioception, and magnetoception.
Gravity blades are ValuSelu Pact specialty weapons which can trigger localized fluctuations in gravity. They require immense power to maintain, and are entrusted only to veteran Monoliths in the military.
PsyOps (profession)
Influencing Minds; Winning Hearts; Invoking Terror
Long-haul truckers running the Wayhall lines
A Myth of a Horrifying Hunter
A list of terminology of the rights available to someone in Ethnis
Yantra are complex patterns packed full of information about the bearers identity. They draw from a fairly standardized common text of symbols and figures for their symbolism.
Lume Holographic tattoos are common glowing skin decorations. Lambent bacteria is injected into the dermis—it glows in low or blacklights, and comes in the full spectrum of colors.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
A Tribe of Hedonites which fully embrace the sensation-seeking nature of Hedon
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Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
The Guide, The Mentor, The Speaker
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Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
The Driving Force
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Ademal
Last updated 4 Jun, 2024
A Flood of Weaponized Bones
Pack predators with an alarming amount of teeth
Genesculpted Companions with a Canine Foundation
A 250-year intergalactic dark-age which began with the closure of the WayHall and ended with the economic recovery of the Banners and the beginning of the Reclamation era.
Members of the Apple of Purity are a quasi-ascetic subgroup of Hedonites which focus more of nourishment of the mind and the pursuit of freedom rather than overindulgence. They focus on mental pleasure over physical.
Hand of Fate is a tarot-based storytelling game for any number of players. It doesn't have a goal, but the common reward for having a good turn is for someone to buy you a drink. The game ends when people turn in or someone gets alcohol poisoning.
Garb (technology)
Garb is a general term for clothing, armor, and Raiments. There are many logistic concerns around garb, especially concerning retrofitting garb between Sophonts.
A battery of meta and memories which all Sophont have. It appears somewhere during puberty, triggered by some junction between self-awareness and interacting with other Sophont with Souls.
The history of the formation of the Banners
The mother of the House of Sorrows, the martyr of its being, the queen whose throne is a grave. Her ghost haunts the stars.
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Akshaya Mahima is the Queen of Distra. She rules the Undaunted and heads the infantry of The Federation of Free Planets, as much an inspiration to it as a leader.
Sleepy Abigail was an agoraphobic Lifestreamer whose channel focused on her resting, relaxing, and otherwise doing activities best summarized as "comfy" or "cozy" by her audience. (Warning, contains themes of cyberbulling, exploitation, and suicide)
A species of horned, graceful Sophont with expressive eyes and an ancient, storied culture. They are very skilled with the Meta
A Psioware Driver is a type of implant which allows a Transmog to access inhuman Qualia to more instinctively use implanted Orga Augments.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 11 Dec, 2023
Cap Leather is harvested from the rind of fruiting Leathercaps and is primarily used in textiles and masonry.
Soluma (technology)
A Soluma is a simulated Echo constructed from Qualia extracted either from a Sophont's Echo, or from an Auric Impression molded from a non-Sophontic entity.
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 30 Jul, 2023
A superstition regarding the possible number of sovereign
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 13 Jul, 2023
Causes of Terminal Failure within infomorphic entities such as robots, Icons, Engines, and so forth, and how to prevent it. The ghost in the machine is not immortal.
Distra (settlement)
Distra is the capital of the world of the same name. It is the central point of the Undaunted government and is host to the ziggurat from which Akshaya Mahima rules.
Knowledge is Power; Caution is Survival
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 17 Jun, 2023
The core worlds of the Banners and the worlds and WayPoints which interlink them
"Alexandria Safe" (often shortened to AlexSafe or AlSa) is a term applied to data which is backed up in enough formats that it is considered to be safe from loss by deletion, deterioration, or destruction. As opposed to Ephemeral Data (Ephem).
Written by
Ademal
Last updated 26 Sep, 2022
Written by
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Last updated 21 Sep, 2022
A Character's Tribes are the subgroups they belong to. They are ethnic groupings drawn along lines of Provenance, Kind, and Banner, as well as many other circumstances. A Character belongs to many Tribes.
The Sommelier of Sorrow. The Angel of Angst. The answer to all your joys. | Gabriel was an Angel stationed at The Crucible before he was excommunicated from Somnacy for consorting with Sorrows to obtain Glisterwax for use in torture.
We hit our writing goals for Summer Camp and then some! The Ethnis Lite server is live, games are running, and development is rolling right along! July was a helluva month, but we are proud of our progress!
The Outer Worlds are the worlds beyond The Hub. Most worlds are those which were lost when the WayHall closed, but some are entirely new and unexplored worlds.
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Commander Nashu
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Edited by Hiive to fit the description of the Parisan and character.
Lithressia the Comm Officer
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Squazzi the Skedaddler
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Ramshanti
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Updated by Hiive to fix the ears and markings and to add more chromatic aberration.
Gage
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Edited by Hiive to fit the description of the Gearheart and character.
Uk'kera the Starer
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Arcology BG
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The Dragonback Cantina
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Hiserabi art by Spacetrash
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Verin Heads Busts
PsyOps cover
Jun. 2019 cover
Mataglap Ferality cover
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The fangs of a Sazakraht crossed by the two arrows which slew it in the legend of Ozahn as told in [urlhttps://www.worldanvil.com/w/ethnis-ademal/a/the-circle-of-ozahn-article]the Circle of Ozahn.
The Hierophant cover
Nege Blight Biome cover
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Onleon Sporophyte composited from various open-source unsplash images by Ademal.
