Random trivia of my fantasy world.

⁃ The gods and demons of my fantasy setting are basically just God and Satan, plus the demons and angels, and also the pagan gods of real-world mythology. They just have different names.

⁃ My fantasy setting is on the cusp of the industrial revolution. They already have gunpowder, steam engines, black & white photographs, factories, and the printing press. But the reason why they had to go full industrial, is because the world is still largely reliant on slaves, and feudalism still dominates. Also, Dwarves keep their engineering secrets, and as mentioned, slavery and feudalism. Also, calamities that set back knowledge thousands of years.

⁃ In my fantasy setting, the cosmology is that the world is flat, surrounded by a mountainous wall at the edge of the world, and at the edge of the world, there's nothing beyond the void. Above, there's the firmament of the heavens, and down below is the Demons and their infernal realm of hell.

⁃ The origins of the Pagan gods in my fantasy setting is that after the Great Deceiver fell from Heaven after his rebellion, a minority of the fallen angels left because they didn't want to be with the Deceiver as they think they will have no power with him, and they became the Pagan gods. While the majority stayed becoming Demons.

⁃ A minority of fallen angels, after they fell alongside the Great Deceiver, as I mentioned, minority became Pagan gods, but also another minority became repented and begged for forgiveness to God. They were accepted, and one of them even became the creator of the Dwarves.

⁃ The creation of the Dwarves, who was a former fallen angel, was atonement for his rebellion.

⁃ The Deceiver was once the greatest among all angels, the brightest among them, and was closest to God. But, when God gave the angels a heads-up on the creation of Man, he told the angels that they will bow down towards this new creation. Then the Deceiver wondered, “Why do I have to bow down to these weak creatures as God commanded? Why do I have to obey them? Why do I have to serve them, I am more brighter and more perfect than these Men,” so that questioning eventually grew to envy/jealousy and then rebellion, as he slowly realized that humans are going to be God's most favorite creation, not him.

⁃ The creation of the Orcs happened after the Deceiver fell. There he saw and witnessed the creation of Man. He grew spiteful and jealous, so he stole the clay that made Man (& Elves) and formed his own children. He cobbled together some random fungus, some random stuff. There he made the first Orc.

⁃ My version of the Orcs takes heavy inspiration of Warhammer, hence why they're part fungus and love war. But the difference is, the Orcs race doesn't have any squigs, they only have Goblins. Also, they're quite intelligent, though Goblins are just smarter.

⁃ The Deceiver corrupted three races in different ways. First, he schismed the Elves into the Dark Elves. He gave Man original sin, while he give Dwarves greed.

⁃ The current status of the Deceiver is that he is chained up and bound to hell. The reason being is because after his fall from heaven alongside with his unholy fallen angels, he wandered the earth for seven days and seven nights. There, he corrupted the Elves, Dwarves, and Men. As a result, God had enough and God sent down an angel who banished him to hell and chained him up.

⁃ The difference between a Shroom-infected and a Zombie is that a zombie is actually undead while a Shroom-infected is still alive. Also the plague of causing their existence is different. Shrooms are caused by people inhaling too much Orc spores. Said spores become parasitic and hijack the body. While Zombies are from a prion created by Necromancers. While their behavior is the same, their appearance is entirely different. For one, Zombies look like they're rotting depending how long they have been a Zombie. Also, a Shroom-infected has literal mushrooms growing out of them.

⁃ Due to the Shroom infection coming from Orc spores, Shroom-infected people become, inadvertently, ways to gestate new Orcs. The sign of a new orc gestating in a Shroom infected is they got bigger, way heavier, they start vomiting, and then finally, they burst open with a new Orc born.

⁃ Orcs have the enough killing power and numbers to kill everyone in this fantasy setting, but they do not, as they're too distracted to fighting among themselves.

⁃ The end times prophecy of this world that states that one day the Deceiver will break from his chains that bound him to hell, and there he would unite his children, the Orcs, and other evils of this world. He would unite the armies of evil, he will march against the Creator's Holy Son, The Messiah.

⁃ The majority of Men in my fantasy setting, their religion has the scripture as long and as complicated as the Old Testament Bible, has Christian aesthetics & worship, but has the morality and honor code of Greco-Roman morality. The religion is concentrated to an organized religion that is equivalent to the Catholic Church, and they also have schisms which is analogous to the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox churches, and as of recently in this fantasy setting, their own version of the Protestants. Elves believe in a sister faith, but it's radically different. Some Beastmen did convert to the religion of Men.

⁃ Their equivalent of Jesus in this fantasy setting hasn't came yet. So Men are anticipating for the coming of the Holy Messiah who will come to redeem them all.

⁃ The clergy of the Mannish religion, is like that of the Levites. You have to be born in a family to become a priest, and it's traced from the father, not the mother. If a woman wants to join, she must also be part of the same family as the priest. She can only become a nun.

⁃ The religions of Men and Elves share common roots, but they diverge significantly. Dwarves also believe in the exact same creator in this fantasy setting, but they don't have an organized clergy or religion. It's analogous to Islam in terms how it is organized. while the Beastmen tribes are amnestic pagan or, for the Niblings (the Ratmen) they worship great Demon, the Rat King. Minority of Men are pagans though, but they are mostly prominent in isolated, independent, small village tribes.

⁃ The origins of the Beastmen races is that after this world's equivalent of the Great Flood, after all the animals were released from the Ark, there was some remaining divine floodwater. Many of those animals drank it, they became sapient, and became anthropomorphic, thus giving the rise of these races. They were created by accident, but they were allowed to live.

⁃ Unlike the other Beastmen races, the Niblings (Ratmen) didn't drink from the divine floodwater. Instead, a great Demon, which will eventually be known as their god, the Rat King, basically thought it was fun to experiment.

⁃ Most schools of magic are restricted to men and do not allow any women. This is why witches are rare.

⁃ Orcs don't actually need gestate from Shroom-infected people. That's just uncommon. Usually, they just burst out from the ground. To know if an Orc is growing underneath the ground, it is always accompanied by a green stocky mushroom.

⁃ When an Orc is born, they're technically “adults” in a Mannish sense. They don't have infancy, they don't have a childhood, they just grow underground and burst from their gestation pod. All Orc, when they're born, they have basic knowledge of killing, fighting, and looting, and already know how to speak. There, after they are born, orcs will try to find the nearest Orc warband to join. There, they would be accepted through a trial of combat. But if multiple Orcs are born around the same area at around the same time, they will form their own warband. They would fight each other to see who's the strongest, so they could determine who's the leader.

⁃ Dwarves make the best ale/beer, Elves make the best wine, while Men make the best vodka.

⁃ Dwarven mining operations have been in the Candy Plains, but due to overexposure to sugar, it gives them diabetes.

⁃ The formation of the Cursed Lands is directly after The Deceiver's fall from heaven.

⁃ Due to the existence of the printing press and black & white photography in the universe, the world has modern-day newspapers, fictional novels, and other related items.

⁃ In my fantasy setting, Alchemy doesn't use the traditional 4 elements. Instead, they use the elements of the periodic table, and they only can get the elements that a fantasy world can get. Also, the Niblings have discovered plutonium.

⁃ To prevent my version of Alchemy just to become chemistry but with a different name. Like traditional alchemy, you have to make weird deals with gods, gain secret knowledge, and potentially lose your mind.

⁃ Every single civilized race in my setting is, in some form or another, racist and xenophobic and very wary of outsiders. Elves especially.

⁃ The reason why Dwarven mining operations and other such operations exist in the Candy Plains is because despite the danger of the Candylings and also the risk of diabetes, the sugars there are quite rare and are refined into rare candies which are used as desserts and sweet treats by nobility.

⁃ Interracial marriage is generally frowned upon, but Men and Elven interracial marriages are semi-tolerated by both races and somewhat accepting to the half-bred offspring of these marriages due to Men and Elves being sister races.

⁃ Unlike in other fantasy settings, the females of these Beastmen races in this universe have multiple sets of breasts depending on what species they are. The Crocmen have no breasts at all, for they have no use for them, as they are reptilians, not mammalians.

⁃ The Lemon Islands are so isolated from the rest of the world. They are at the very edge of the world, almost near to the mountainous ice wall. Nobody even knows that this islands exists. Furthermore, the reason why nobody even has discovered the Lemon Islands is because, why would anybody try to explore the edge of the world? It's just a great mountain that surrounds the entire world.

⁃ Vulpine banking families are so powerful that they can basically influence wars and politics just with their money.

⁃ The world is about 10,000 years old, and the reason why they don't have super-advanced technology and still are proto-industrialists or largely medieval feudalists is because for every time the Deceiver breaks his chains that bound him onto hell, a great catastrophe strikes, and this always correlates with more monster attacks, pandemics, Orc populations blooming, and as a result more Orc raids which result in a millennia worth of knowledge and social progress disappearing.

⁃ Though Dwarves are resistant to magic, this doesn't automatically mean they are immune, just resistant. They can easily be affected by high level spells.

⁃ The practice of magic of any of the schools of magic in my fantasy setting will inevitably cause you to lose your sanity as they play with the remaining leftover materials that was left over from creation.

⁃ Though the religion of Man commonly restricts magic, they are quite tolerant in some forms, especially magic that deals with healing and casts away Demons. Or stage magic.

⁃ The reason why the Protestant Reformation of this world happened in the first place is because since all priests are all technically cousins for the priesthood of this world is like that of the Levitical priesthood of the Bible, one of them got really pissed off because his cousin got the promotion to become a bishop.

⁃ The Church has its own Holy Inquisition, commonly hunting down heretics, Demonic cults, Nibling colonies, etc.

⁃ Dragons are one of the reasons of economic collapse in this world. Due to their hoarding of treasure, it causes deinflation.

⁃ The current state of the world is basically at that part of history where nothing really happens.

⁃ Size of an average Dragon egg it’s about a small house.

⁃ Dwarven greed is also one of the main reasons of economic collapse. Due to overmining for fine metal, they turn said metal into money, and too much of it may cause inflation.

⁃ Gigas can appear randomly, from peasant's house, the middle of the field, a battlefield, the air, the sea, everywhere. Everybody finds them weird.

⁃ My fantasy setting has in-universe drugs. You have your real-world drugs like opium, weed, and others, but they have their own weird versions of their own, such as crushed fairy bones being their equivalent of crack cocaine, and Orc mushroom caps.

⁃ The geography of the world is similar to that of the real world, but weird and different.

⁃ Ents, despite their hive mind collective, have some degree of autonomous individuality. Every Ent has some distinct pseudo-personality.

⁃ The origins of the Centaurs were a result of a mortal Man who raped a goddess.

⁃ Most of the neutral, supernatural creatures from the Trolls, Sphinxes, and others were created by Pagan gods. The Ents, in particular, were created by a Pagan goddess of nature and gardening.

⁃ The Zombies in my fantasy world are a mix of traditional voodoo Zombies and cannibalistic undead Zombies.

⁃ The behavior of a Zombie depends where they would act like traditional voodoo Zombies with their Necromantic masters, while those who are not under the control of Necromancers act like your typical shambling cannibalistic undead creature.

⁃ The Elves and their subraces are considered the most attractive both in males and females. High Eves have the classic aristocratic beauty, Dark Elves too. Meanwhile, the Wood Elves, their men look very masculine and have very attractive masculine features, unlike the other two which have more feminine features.

⁃ Unlike the other Elves, Wood Elves, their males can grow beards and have body hair.

⁃ Elves are naturally in tune to magic. Therefore, they are immune to the insanity of magic.

⁃ The original Pagan gods that left the Deceiver to carve their own domain eventually died out or faded into obscurity. One of the primary reasons is that their children overthrew them or killed them, imprisoned them, taking their place.

⁃ Wood Elves, unlike their High Elven brethren, they are henotheistic, meaning they worship one God, but they acknowledge the existence of others due to a contact to outsiders like the Pagan Beastmen and their close allies, the Ents being literally made by Pagan goddess.

⁃ Vulpines are often expelled from many kingdoms, villages, and republics due to the fact that their practices of banking lead to economic collapse. As a result, the Vulpines are one of the most persecuted Beastmen. Though they always come back.

⁃ Dwarves have a strong cultural taboo against disloyalty and lying.

⁃ Beastmen often venerate their non-sapient counterparts as revered ancestors or reincarnated spirits of their deceased. They also have strong taboos against killing or harming their non-sapient counterparts.

⁃ The reason why dodos are not extinct in the first place is because in my fantasy world, the sailors who discovered them thought it was a good idea to farm them instead of hunting them into extinction. So dodos are domesticated.

⁃ The physical appearance of Orcs in my fantasy setting is a mix of a pig and a gorilla. They have the body and the strength of gorillas, but in the face of a pig, they still look recognizable as Orcs. I.e the tusk, green skin, and strength, but they are hairless and lack grasping gorilla feet. Goblins lean into their more pig side.

⁃ The world, despite being 10,000 years old, people can only know about the last 2,000 years as all records have been lost due to previous calamities caused by the Deceiver breaking his chains.

⁃ In-universe, they don't call the Creator the Creator. Typically, they just call him God, or the Lord Most High, the One Above All, etc.

⁃ Vulpines have strong in-group loyalty. When a Vulpine wants to negotiate with another Vulpine banker, the banker will not scam him. Instead, he will give more favorable interest compared to non-Vulpines.

⁃ Vulpines have a resentment towards all the other races. Vulpines once had their own homeland, but it was destroyed, and now they are a scattered people. They've been enslaved, discriminated, and hated. The only jobs that they were ever allowed were banking and finance.

⁃ The size of a Dragon can range from a large football stadium to an entire small mountain.

⁃ The appearance of a Vampire in the fantasy setting. Think of taller, skinnier, with saber-toothed fangs and bat-like features.

⁃ Dwarves have a more stony and very petrified look, but the inside, they still have blood and organs. Their skin acts like natural armor. Think of it as like the Thing from Marvel Comics.

⁃ There were 18 chains that bound the Deceiver to hell, but so far he has broke 16 out of all 18. There are only 2 left.

⁃ The reason why Wood Elves exist in the first place is because, about three millennia ago in-universe, their founder was literally just Ted Kaczynski. He was a High Elf who went on a schizo rant and wrote a bunch of scrolls and got a bunch of Elves on his side. There, they became the original Wood Elves.

⁃ Originally, around the beginning, there were only 4 Elves, 6 Dwarves, and 2 Men.

⁃ The reason why the High Elves are so racist and xenophobic and very isolationist in the first place is because the Deceiver only corrupted the other couple of Elves and he didn't get to corrupt the other two when he was chained up in hell, so instead the Demons corrupted the rest subtly, instead of turning them all into Dark Elves, they just made the Elves isolationist and xenophobic by infiltrating Elven politics and culture.

⁃ Another reason why High Elves are so racist is because they are literally superior than everybody. They have better magic, better civilization, and also better technology. And also their long lifespans kind of distorted their perception.

⁃ Some Necromancers are powerful enough that they could use the ashes of a cremated person and resurrect them.

⁃ The reason why there's a wall around the Cursed Lands, because as I mentioned, the Cursed Lands is a literal scar on the Mortal Plane and the exact point where the Deceiver landed on the Mortal Plane right after his rebellion. They built the wall because it was beginning to spread its corruption and cursed the land. They contained it through a magic holy wall.

⁃ There are numerous amounts of Mannish Principalities, Kingdoms, Micro-Empires, Empires, Kingdoms, Tribes, City-States, and more that dot throughout the map.

⁃ Unlike the other Elven races, Dark Elves are basically Satanists. They do in fact know that God is the Lord Most High, but they chose not to worship Him and instead rebel against Him.

⁃ High Elves are so racist that they barely interact with anybody or do anything outside of their own affairs.

⁃ The High Elves are so racist and xenophobic that they just domesticated fairies just so they couldn't have slaves. Because it means bringing non-Elves to their realm.

⁃ Nobody has seen Dwarven females. Nobody ever saw one, and if ever, no records of Dwarven females in history. That's because Dwarves keep their females in secret. Many other races, such as Men, think Dwarven females are just a myth and Dwarves just bud from rocks.

⁃ Dwarven females rarely go outside of the hollow mountain halls of the Dwarven realms, and if they go out, they often disguise themselves as males.

⁃ The reason why Vulpines practice usury in the first place is because due to Dwarves overmining causing inflation, they invented fiat money and also usury just to compensate.

⁃ You could follow the trails of Orcish warbands by simply following the mushrooms that grew from their spores. Everywhere an Orc goes they leave behind spores, which will just grow into new Orcs.

⁃ To become a wizard in this world of any of the school's magic, or even practice magic at all, you have to be a male and be 30 and never had sex.

⁃ The reason why females cannot practice magic is because the metaphysical nature of females being life-nurturing and general associations with life makes them fundamentally incompatible. Elven females are an exception, though their magic is limited.

⁃ Nothing literally happens in the Halfling Village. The most interesting that ever happened there is that the mayor changed the color of his hat from a slightly different shade of black, or the neighbor burning his toast.

⁃ The Gigas speak in a nonsensical language, which is a strange mix of African-American English and made-up words that vaguely sound like actual words. Examples include words like, nobaldi, everybaldi, nophono, and everyboldy. In-universe, they call the Giga language as Gigababble, or Giganese.

⁃ Here's an example of a Giga sentence; “Wi es, Nophono is giggle chat cares fan abot yov”, or “Dat skit nophono care about”.

⁃ The Cursed Lands are so infused with the Deceiver's hate and malice that it survived the Great Flood despite its divine floodwaters. It was able to resist it.

⁃ Gigas always talk about how more like them will come from humanoid frogs and creatures known as “Nusois” or “Soyteens”.

⁃ In-universe, the material known as Mithril, commonly mined by Dwarves, is classified as a noble metal in their version of the periodic table.

⁃ Though there's an industrial revolution, it is insanely limited. Only in independent city-states, constitutional monarchies, or nations with higher degrees of secularism or rationalism. Everybody else is still very feudal and relies on a slave economy or a feudal economy.

⁃ Sometimes the Deceiver's chains break at the same time, and these calamities are way worse than the usual singular chain being broken.

⁃ In the distant past, around their equivalent of the Great Flood, God also instructed the noble Elves and Dwarves to also construct Great Arks and house more animals other than Men.

⁃ The Cursed Lands, its appearance is that it's purple, very purple, dark purple. Dead trees everywhere, the bones of travelers, and the place is dotted with the fortresses and settlements of Dark Elves.

⁃ Though much of the divine floodwater of the Great Flood is long gone, some of it is hidden as fountains of youth or supernatural springs.

⁃ Though usually an unbelieving soul goes straight to hell, the Pagan gods, prevent this by, after their followers die, they immediately send their psychopomp to receive their soul to go to their afterlife.

⁃ Many Mannish kingdoms incorporate many conquered Beastmen tribes or villages or small city-states, though they are more treated like second-class citizens, but sometimes they could rise to the ranks of government.

⁃ The malevolent and monstrous races survived the Great Flood by building boats of their own such as the Orcs and Dark Elves or some taking refuge in hell.

⁃ Creatures like Dragons, Giants, and other such monstrous and malevolent forces were birthed from Demonic creations or Demons sleeping with Men and Elves.

⁃ The Rat King, the Dark God of the Niblings, also known as the Ratmen, commands his followers to sacrifice themselves. There, he will collect their souls to make them go to hell, to the deepest part where they will gnaw at the chains of the Deceiver.

⁃ The Rat King and the Deceiver are actually quite good friends when they used to be angelic beings before their fall.

⁃ Orcs can practice magic, though it's kinda really shitty and not refined unlike Elven or Mannish magic.

⁃ Curing a Zombie is possible but requires high level magic and a Wizard that already gone insane. It does work but it doesn't fix the mind or soul. As when a person dies under the hands of the Zombie, prey on plague, and reanimates as an undead, their soul is literally gone and has moved on. The only thing that the wizard is doing is just reforming the body but the soul is not there anymore. Essentially a cured Zombie is just a vegetable.

⁃ Orcs and Goblins can be temporarily pacified from their malevolent evil nature by damaging their brain. This usually makes them more calmer and passive, though this part of the brain could heal and their malevolent nature will return.

⁃ Demons possess a person in several stages. First one is Invitation, then Manipulation, Suppression/Oppression, and finally Control.

⁃ The Necronomicon is canon, and it was written by a powerful legendary Necromancer, and it's the most prized unholy book of Necromancers.

⁃ Halfling villagers are very high trust that you could just leave your stuff lying around in the main street of the village and nobody will take it. If somebody does take it, usually they would put it in the lost and found in town hall.

⁃ The only encounters of outsiders that Halflings ever have is with traveling people with their company who are seeking rest, or Ovidians who just happened to be nearby.

⁃ Gigas are not actually native to this reality at all. The Creator did not make them. No Pagan god made them. No demonic interference. No, they come from outside. But nobody knows this in-universe.

⁃ The reason why everybody is race to each other in the first place is because due to constant wars and betrayal in political alliances, all that stuff kind of made everybody distrust each other. But alliance is still to form but it's mostly pragmatic.

⁃ The origins of the Candy Plains and the Candylings are that their biome, the entire landscape of the Candy Plains, is just spillover from the guts and entrails of a long-dead Demon of gluttony. This Demon was killed by a heroic Man during a previous calamity.

⁃ Due to women having to rebel their natural role to practice magic, only evil schools of magic accept them.

⁃ Depending on which school of magic and what type of magic the guy practiced, it will, the insanity will come later. But evil, darker magic can make a guy practicing insane within a few years while other schools take entire decades and lifetimes.

⁃ Symptoms of the Zombie plague include fever-like symptoms, memory loss, dizziness, vomiting, light necrosis, aggression, foaming at the mouth, and then finally, death, and then reanimation.

⁃ The demons are smart. They know that their forms are ugly, so they transform to their older, angelic forms, but there's something off, like how they don't really shine brighter, they get really, really shaky and sweaty around holy icons, unlike normal angels.

⁃ Though every race is some form racist or xenophobic, it's more like how ancient or medieval peoples are racist. They called other peoples barbarians or uncivilized in a way, but they still do make alliances, and it's mostly just pragmatic.

⁃ The origins of the Flesh Mounds is that they are creations of Demons or experiments on life, which were later passed down to Dark Wizards.

⁃ The reason why High Elves are so racist and xenophobic in the first place is because due to the very nature of Elves being nearly perfect beings, as a result, they get their superiority over their head. But another reason is demonic influence. Demons have infiltrated their courts disguising themselves or whispering in the ears of High Elf Lords saying that they are superior, and this will inevitably be led to their downfall.

⁃ The colorful sheep of the Shrooms biome are a result from feral sheep herds wandering to the biome, though some were killed by Orcs or were infected by infectious Orc spores, some survive and through natural selection they eventually gain immunity and have a diet exclusively of mushrooms. Their colorful wool is just a side effect of constantly eating mushrooms.

⁃ Though Gigas are absolutely nonsensical creatures, mad wizards always speak how their friends from the other side are real, and they are coming to kill them all, including the Deceiver himself, and possibly God.