lazy lizard

The main religion on the fracture is unnamed, just like the Witch it pays honor to. She is not considered a god, but rather more akin to a prophet. She held fast and allowed the fracture to survive, and then taught the kats how to thrive. There are shrines for the Witch all over Fracture City, the largest being the one at the base of her tree. People will leave offerings for her and come to speak with her pretty regularly. It is not uncommon to find people meditating at her shrines so she may help guide them through whatever it is that troubles them.

There is an annual five-day-long festival dedicated to the Witch. Everyone on fracture ramps up for it weeks in advance, those who are currently off fracture come back, and even more people just come for the glorious Fracture Witch Festival.

Fracture City is a small fragment of a once-large planet. There was a magical explosion that erupted from the core of the planet and shattered everything outwards approximately two and a half millennia ago. There is currently little known about what caused the explosion, though there are a number of theories, but none have sufficient evidence to be confirmed. It is known that the fracturing did not happen early in that planet’s history, at least, since all of the separate fractures’ peoples have similar feature sets close to what the original inhabitants have been speculated to look like. Each fracture’s people have creation stories of their fracture that all starts with the same explosion. This magical anomaly has brought many fractures together over the past few centuries to attempt to uncover what happened, but there is still much that they are unable to piece together.  

The lore from Fracture City states that, as the explosion happened, the Witch - who is never named - magically stabilized the small piece of land her home was on. She lived in a single enormous tree set in a large grassy field with her many, many cats. Her magic was so great that she was able to hold onto as much land as she could see from the top of her tree. As her home piece was sent flying out of the orbit of her original sun, it was her quick wit that lead her to reach out to another passing star and enter into its orbit. She used much of her power to move the fracture to rest in the asteroid belt that circled the star. After the fracture had settled into place, she set up the basic system of fracture maintenance to prevent it from dying. She knew that she would not be able to take care of this land alone for much longer, and enchanted all of her cats so that they would have the ability to do so - the start of the kats as a species. With her final moments, she left her vast wealth of knowledge embedded in the tree that was her home. The kats would forever have her memories and wisdom to reference and use to guide them forward. These events are still held dear by the kats and there is a festival dedicated to celebrating the Witch.

Ever since those early days, the kats have slowly built up their society; though with little resources it was a slow process for them. They largely focused on conserving resources so they would (hopefully) never run out. They took inspiration from the Witch and started growing trees to use for living houses, allowing both for the tree to bear fruit as well as providing shelter from the sun when needed. They were very successful in maintaining themselves even in their closed off environment.  There were some occasions where there were brief famines and lack of resources, though thankfully these were generally short-lived, and kats were able to look at what went wrong and improve the situation for the next time. Although it was slow, the kats were able to take the time to invest in art, technological advancements, and environmental research; based around what plants they had access to at the time, as plant life was their main resource. Despite this, during those 2,000 years they were able to build up their now-renowned repertoire of information that is highly respected and sought out today.

Approximately 500 years before the current day, the kats’ society was suddenly changed by the arrival of a sarlem ship. The sarlems were both shocked and curious about how a piece of a planet could exist in the first place, and, secondly, how it was able to survive in an asteroid belt, leading to their investigation. Kats were pleasantly surprised to have visitors from off-planet and welcomed these new people into their homes. They had not interacted with another species in two millennia, and they were very interested to learn about their visitors. They quickly started asking questions: how were the sarlems able to travel through space? How did they manage their food? What kinds of materials did they use for their tools? - questions about nearly everything. Their desire to learn and know as much as they could about these new people was thrilling to the sarlems; always happy to talk about themselves. Some of the sarlems came up with the name ‘Fracture City’ and it has stuck ever since.

Fracture City was quickly realized as a convenient location for travel and trading. Located neatly between a handful of populated areas, Fracture was an ideal location for both a rest-stop and trading port. Kats took to this very happily, and built a whole new facet into their home to function for this cause. This was a beneficial event for them as well, since it meant that they would gain more access to resources, which they realized they would need if they wanted to participate in this new space era. They were able to get more information, too; they could use the things that they learned and apply it back to things they knew and make improvements. Fracture became one of the fastest-growing places during this time. This did cause its own set of problems, of course, but they now had the capabilities and resources to manage the issues as they arose.

Home to many varieties of peoples, Fracture City is a former planet fragment that has become a happy little trading city. Having helped to develop some of the best translators in all of the galaxy, Fracture City is also a hub for the sharing of culture and knowledge. As a trading city and college town, it is also home to the renowned Aster Academy for Magic.

Brilliant, driven, and unique: these are the traits that are exemplified in the students at Aster Academy for Magic. Coming from all over the galaxy to attend this prestigious school, these students learn to harness elements such as nature, air, fire, ground, water, and energy. However, what these students really take away is a greater understanding of empathy and problem solving.

I finished This Oneeee I don't think i've ever posted him here so excuse me while i copy/pasta his rant from elsewhere.

He is kind of a rebel. He separated from his species' hivemind when he accidentally came into contact with a teleportation spell and was sent completely out of reception range. The hive tried to take him back, but he kept malfunctioning due to sudden sense of self. He refers to himself as This One, because his species does not really have individual names. The "Bar-Japhet" refers to the hivemind. A japhet is an individual organism, however. The tassles on the ears work as antennae to communicate to the hivemind. Japhets have one pupil that moves between the "eyes."  They have false eyelids that create the outer shape of two eyes, but they really have only one eye, somehow. Japhets do not blink much, but their eyelids actually close from the sides. Single eyelids close sideways over each false individual eye to close the true single eye underneath the bridge of their nose. The symbols around the false eye holes mark a japhet's status. Most have plain black rings, but This One's are different: the slashes under the eyes mean "outcast" and the cross above them means "betrayer." The jacket is traditional japhet garb; though usually the japhet will have its hands held in front of it inside the sleeves like a monk. It is clear that japhets have particularly different inside anatomy to humans. They have incredibly skinny waists, no apparent stomach organ (despite eating twice as much as the average human), and have two hearts, one on either side of their chests, among other anatomical anomalies that i never bothered to come up with.