#outerbounds stuff..

''OVERSEER / OVERSEERS''

Descendants of Mantras and Ludens.

Overseers are a humanoid race in Aethenon. Overseers have eyes on their hands, halos and sometimes with horns, or no horns at all. They often will have 4/or 5, maybe more eyes on their face. In rare occasions they may be born without eyes on their face or a singular eye. (Result of a mutation that happened sometime as a result of Mantra and Luden offspring.) Sometimes they adorn themselves with holographic wings. 

Overseers are protectors for their universe in particular and are a higher race guarding their universe from threats that may be bigger than themselves alone and dealing with cosmic entities, that universe being Aethenon. (A sci-fi focused universe, separated from my first universe Quidvispirat)

The Order is not only a organization but a society of Overseers, they do not live on any planets though. In fact, they live and reside on a massive spaceship which meets their needs. (Housing, food, water, anything else that is mostly logical/able to be produced even if artificially on a massive spacecraft.) The ship is known as The Sentinel, which drifts through space.

The Order is composed of The Founder (The Vessel), a council of higher Overseers under The Founder, agents, citizens, scientists, engineers, medical staff (nurses, doctors, etc), administrators, security officers, educators, and support staff plus some misc roles.    

HISTORY  

The Overseers are the descendants of Mantras and Ludens that branched off and formed their own society, becoming highly populated and a more common species/race in Aethenon.

With their rise in population and society Overseers would become known, they'd form a society known as The Order under the reign of a few Overseers, with the founder being a dictator. Overseers would initially be known for the colonization of planets and other species, getting into wars and treating other species as lesser. This would be before the birth of The Vessel, the later future leader of The Order.  Before The Vessel was Tunnelvision, the initial founder for The Order and Overseer society as a whole. This would go on for a couple of decades before The Vessel was born, the first Overseer to challenge Tunnelvision and go against him. The Vessel saw Tunnelvision for what he truly was, a dictator. Not just some grand leader or founder, but a dictator that was causing harm to other societies. The Vessel would eventually challenge Tunnelvision when the young Overseer reached adulthood, and the two would have a battle witnessed by multiple. In the end, Tunnelvision would be slain and The Vessel would become the new founder of The Order.

Some Overseers refused to change, while others reformed under The Vessel's leadership. With Overseers that didn't choose to change being casted out as rogue Overseers and would abandon The (new) Order. 

idk im lowk hyped. once i get the money (hopefully) i should be able to get a animation app and a better art program!! (though i'd have to learn both.. which will be a journey for me surely, I've been drawing on ibis paint for like 4 yrs on my phone ever since i lost my art tablet in 2023)

I've been wanting/trying to learn animation since I was a child so this is just, idk hype for me. I'll have to practice alot though before I go being more ambitious. I'll need alot of patience since animation can be tedious and stuff but I am hopeful. Maybe because I've been drawing since I was like 5-6 yrs old even though animation takes more skill than just art. (Idk?? maybe im just idealistic haha) idk feels good to at least be confident?

With animation I think I can learn better consistency with my art and style, so I'm looking forward to it tbh. I think it can teach me alot about how things should look and flow as I gain more experience? Like I could notice when things may look off the more I practice. I can get better at my anatomy and visualizing how to fix mistakes. Maybe I'm expecting too much out of this i'm unsure but I am hyped to see if my pipe dream becomes a reality finally !!

Won't be putting everything here, though I might share the lore/and or ideas as I have been doing. (I have no one to directly ramble to about Metamorphosis's story..) but been adding on to Valdis.

I have given the Nedrian people blood magic which I'll have to develop further. And the other protagonists though normal people do have important roles (i think) on Nedrian. (They just ain't the core of the story, Cerebrum and Valdis are.) One protagonist is the prince to the kingdom of Nedrian, the other is an astronomer (linking them to research of the void/The Aetherfold from afar) and the last protagonist is a apprentice still learning the culture and power of blood magic.

Spoilers: Valdis meets the prince first, than the others who are connected to the prince. I still got to develop and name the other protagonists themselves and Nedrian so it ain't just some random world that's going to die.

and uh!! i need to figure out how i'd even include rune in the story again, I may have to scrap Rune's character returning and Cerebrum feeling unexplained guilt/unease around him.. This is simply because Rune ain't from Nedrian. (The world the main story takes focus on due to Valdis running away and finding themself on Nedrian) It sucks that I'll probably have to scrap the idea of Cerebrum and Rune meeting again but yeah uh.. Trying to place Rune in Nedrian would not work because Rune's world was getting consumed by The Aetherfold and attacked by Cerebrum.

ok so, since Kieran is based off a butterfly (simply no particular butterfly though) and the universe the story I've been working on ideas + lore for is called Metamorphosis (fancy word for change, ig? since the whole story with cerebrum + valdis and others is all about inevitable change + reincarnation and consumption idk) i was thinking i could also base the rest of metamorphosis's gods after insects?? with wings in particular maybe. but idk how many insects exist with wings and it'd be cool if the insects go through the lil butterfly thing where they go through metamorphosis.. but im uneducated and assume only moths and butterflies go through that

also i have the idea that Kieran's personality was much more positive until they unintentionally created The Aetherfold and got abandoned and outcasted by the other gods. However Kieran's original personality is fractured when they where prematurely reincarnated and became Cerebrum and Valdis. Bc Kieran mostly had good traits (i do wanna try giving them flaws bc i struggle with giving ocs with mostly good traits flaws..) Kieran was basically well-liked amongst the other gods till they ''ruined'' everything.

I say ruined in quotes because none of the gods, including Kieran knew The Aetherfold after consuming (and recycling) Metamorphosis would lead to basically a infinite life cycle. pretty much.. Also, Kieran didn't know their abilities (havent developed why they wouldnt, but i have a thought that the gods took turns creating a world and people to inhabit it. simply it wasnt Kieran's turn yet so Kieran did not use their powers.)

Kieran unknowingly ig is also the god of death and rebirth?? Since all the other gods only created, Metamorphosis needed a god of death basically for the most part. Something to destroy life but give way to new life technically? idk, the explanation may be a lil weird because The Aetherfold doesn't create new life, it recycles old life and gives it new bodies. (People particularly) and it's imperfect too, the past is not suddenly erased during the universe's ''rebirths'' so ruins still exist. Just no ''new''/reincarnated people will remember what in the world they meant due to being stripped of memory.

uhh, brain's going blank again.. OH WAIT i forgot to mention.

The other gods never get rebirthed because like in my other universe (Quidvispirat, completely unrelated to Metamorphosis but same rule applies in Metamorphosis pretty much) when gods die they have no ''afterlives''. Kieran's reincarnations technically not even a afterlife, just a result of letting themself get consumed and die by The Aetherfold then end up getting prematurely recycled due to The Aether.. Also it's still not developed yet, but the other gods died basicaly bc they ended up fighting eachother. (I tbh think that Kieran probably was the one that kept everyone together ironically?? bc Kieran was observant of the others emotions/things in general, a playful and confident person -maybe even charmastic unintentionally bc of it??- and empathetic) i havent developed why they basically went to war though soo.. But they don't exist anymore bc they didn't die in the manner Kieran did..

AHEM. yknow who atp i keep drawing him and barely anybody else.. But maybe i'll learn the power of consistency if I draw him a million times (ok maybe not that many times, i will certainly not enjoy drawing him if i drew him a million times)