Yumihari
弓張 ・ Yumihari ・ The Crescent World
"Yumihari is the Crescent World, the Goddess told me, because it will bend like a bow and fire twelve thousand arrows before it threatens to snap. But now its twelve-thousandth year is upon us, as are its final arrows."
~ Seina Katanbe, year Mizunoto-i of the 200th cycle.
Yumihari is a massive world and the battlefield between the Supreme Divines. Shirashi, the Dragon Goddess, and her brother, Ozeki, the Wyvern God, have warred over this world since the dawn of their creation, their power and influence waning and waxing through the centuries.
This world, comprised of ten continents and island chains, is home to a diverse canvas of humanoid and sentient races, cultures, magic, and belief systems, most of which link to the God and Goddess through threads spread through the world. Much of it is inspired by various Asian mythologies and folklores.
The Yumihari Compendium
Within the Yumihari Compendium exists all known and recorded information about Yumihari and its inhabitants. As it is discovered, written down, or recorded in memory, it appears within the Compendium and its archive. Though the Compendium has its origins within the world itself, who made it?
The author, for now, indicates that they will remain anonymous until the time is right. Yet how does one reverse anonymity for a book which is already written and spread across the world? The Compendium itself dates it twenty years after the conclusion of the near-decade-long Wyvern Wars. Wars that have yet to happen.
A Living World
The first copies of the Yumihari Compendium appeared within various temples and shrines across Yumihari where, the day prior, they had not existed. Yet any added entry is reflected upon every book an instant after completion. Who will wield this power to reshape the world?
A millennia ago, Yumihari was moulded by the Dragon Goddess, Shirashi, and the Wyvern God, Ozeki.
Now, the world is shaped by you.
Who are you?
What is your role in this world?
How will you shape its history, legends, myths?
Will you stand by while it falls to chaos and ruins?