Welcome to Subsonus
A Small Introduction
The Story behind Subsonus
Subsonus is the brainchild of several worldbuilders active here on WorldAnvil:
The world itself is made through a late-night game of World Genesis, made by Qurillion themselves. During phase 1 we each gave a sentence to build upon our world, while in phase 2 we thought of some articles you might find on this world nowadays.
Original Conditions- (Stormbril) "Music is incredibly important to sentient life"
- (A Lambent Eye) "Due to the unusual geological formations and meteology on this world, the very lands themselves create intricate patterns of vibrations, the so-called "Great Rhythm"."
- "All gods in the setting are, in fact, AI's"
- "In this world, there is no plant life"
- (Nahlon4) "There will be no elves."
- (Endrise) "Every human being is born with a birthmark in the shape of a QR code"
- (Stormbril) "there are machines that produce a 'local song' by scanning all nearby citizen's QR codes"
- (A Lambent Eye) "Open fire is no longer common, since it was far too risky to use in daily life."
- "Discordant tones/chords are natural disasters in this world, spawned by clashes in the natural vibrations of the great rhythm"
- "Written language is uncommon, instead many record information into grooves which can be played with a special machine akin to a record player"
- (Nahlon4) "An average living being can survive no longer than an hour without exposure to music."
- (Stormbril) "Photosynthesis evolved to take place in humans, but instead of light it uses sound waves. Audiosynthesis"
- "Magic and technology is all based on creating and moving along with beats."
- "Metal is seldom used as armor-- as it often vibrates with the world's music."
- (Nahlon4) "Most modern civilizations exist underground, along the veins of Auder - a metal which seems to constantly emit music."
- (Endrise) "They fear the Noise. A screeching sound, a horrifying screaming entity of sound."
- (Stormbril) "soft, synthetic fibers and materials are used in special construction, to help isolate certain vibrations and songs"
- (A Lambent Eye) "The deliberate concentration of the ambient vibrations can be used as a highly effective weapon, going so far as to even be used in mining."
- "Human ethnicities are based on genres or types of music"
- "Many use carved concave bowls of stone for defense, either to turn away attacks or dampen natural disasters."
- (Nahlon4) "All auditory technologies are far ahead of those IRL, but everything else is on par with WW1 era."
- (Endrise) "One of its rulers is hard-hearing, only able to hear with his hearing aid"
- (Stormbril) "The AI gods were born from the desire to create the perfect drum machine"
- (A Lambent Eye) "There was once a meteoric impact that caused such a large shockwave that all life above ground was deafened, and only subterranean and submarine species survived"
- "Humanity's origin lies in ancient cloning vats, still hidden in forbidden regions of the world - humanity were made and created, as clones."
- "While in these vats, different music was played to different groups-- giving rise to the distinct races seen today."
- (Nahlon4) "The AI gods that have created mankind have ran out of power and died roughly a millennium ago."
- (Endrise) "When the meteor struck, something with no physical form escaped the rock's inerts, now roaming the surface world"
What is Subsonus?
Subsonus is a post-apocalyptic setting set generations after the surface world fell after the "Beat Drop". Almost everything in this world lives of sound and music, being the lifeblood of most things found here. With the surface world being home to horrors adapted to the noisy winds, the underground world instead has become the last place where mankind has found a tress hold to endure and strive.
Now, society lives amongst the caverns in a world themed after the many genres of music that exist, salvaging the technology of the world before the apocalypse and trying to worshiping the AI-gods of the past.
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