#sepherra

Following up from yesterday, I'm thinking the main conflict for the first season is a Tragdenese leader who wants the entire Central Island under Tragden control. A first step to completely ruling Sepherra.

Probably some form of dragon or magical artifact that manifests a dragon? Still just an idea.

I also finally named the central island and its colonies: Nicomo, the Riwea Colony Weaca, Shecret Colony Kohede, Lucendi colony of Lisulem, and Tragden colony of Dralem.

Goals:

Protagnoist(s): ✅

Cities: ✅

Conflict: ✅

Historic Locations: ✅

National Fruits: ✅

I'd consider my goals for Sepherra met! I don't think this is the last time I'll be working on this, and not the last time I post about it.

Today was a lot, I had to reschedule this show I was super excited to see that bummed me out half the day. So this is more of me sharing an idea.

What if I made Tragden the villains somehow? or at least someone in power there. I basically made a lot of of the short phrases relate to power and strength so maybe they're trying to gain more power?

Goals: Protagnoist(s): ✅

Cities: ✅

Conflict: An Idea

Historic Locations: ✅

National Fruits: ✅

So today was kind of slow on ideas, and this weekend will follow suit but I don't think I mind. The last thing I need to think of is the conflict of the story.

I started by considering the types of people found in the world, so far there are humans, tieflings, and mermaids. Maybe Satyrs.

Tieflings are the typical horn and tails, they are a minority and the way they're treated can vary from place to place. In Tragden they are highly respected, believed to be half dragon.

Mermaids can switch between living on the land and living in water, but I imagine Riwea shares legends about a time they lived entirely in the sea.

I added some more phrase meanings today too:

Ca - Passage

De - Stronghold/Place of strength and safety

Dra - Walls, fortress.

Hu - Water

Koh(e) - Darkened, hidden

Goals:

Protagnoist(s): ✅

Cities: ✅

Conflict:

Historic Locations: ✅

National Fruits: ✅

After a few days of thinking, I went to picrew and now I have a protagonist for Sepherra: Theano.

She's a Tiefling from the central island, specifically the Shecret Colony. She grew up hearing about the former empire of Lucendi and dreams of seeing the capital for herself.

Grand Dragon Palace

I promised a little Tragden lore, in the center of Tragden is Dragon's Eye Lake. Legend has it the founder slew a dragon in the pond, it's blood giving the water strange properties. A palace was built by the waters where the royal family still resides and where the dragon's skeleton has been displayed.

I still need to write Tragden more lol, and name the central island.

Prefixes & Suffixes

Since I started fusing words to make names I've started applying meaning to some of the small phrases that start coming up more. Here's the current list I have:

Ca - ?

De/Dre/Dra - ?

Hu - ?

Lem - River

Li - Light

Nor - North

Su - South

Wea - Way/Water Way/ way the water travels

Goals:

Protagnoist(s): ✅

Cities: 18 Cities, 4 capitals

Conflict:

Historic Locations: 2

National Fruits: ✅

I had a test today so I didn't get to focus on Sepherra as much, but I decided to still do a little something which branched out a bit. So here are the national foods of each country, along with some extra lore.

Lucendi - Star Fruit

Star fruit is grown on the southern coasts of Lucendi, it's star shape made it popular in the region. Lucendi's main religion focuses on celestial bodies like the stars, moon, and sun.

Tragden - Dragon Fruit

Tragden is "the dragon island" to me, thus dragon fruit. I might spend some time tomorrow fleshing it out more.

Shecret - Manchineel

Manchineel is a poisonous fruit that is easily mistakable for an apple. Its tradition to present guests with a bowl of apples and take a bite of one, the movement proves the apples are safe and that no one is being poisoned. It's a show of trust and care to take the first bite of someone else's food, but it's especially common with apples since they resemble manchineel.

Riwea - Onigiri

Kelp and rice are Riwea's main food source and export, of course its national food is the two combined. One thing I want to avoid with Sepherra is just handwaving it as "This world's version of Japan", a lot of the characters are literally Pokémon Conquest OCs being repurposed for an original story so there will be a lot of inspiration from Japanese culture but I'm primarily trying to create an original world.

Onigiri, along with most of the other foods is primarily placeholders, in the future I'll probably come up with food original to the world but for now Onigiri is here.

Goals

Protagnoist(s): Hometown

Cities: 18 Cities, 4 capitals

Conflict:

Historic Locations: 2

National Fruits: ✅

After I posted the map yesterday I immediately started changing and updating it and added a map of culture in the area and how it shifted. Haven't really thought of how other continents interact with it since it's literally the only one that exists RN lol.

I'm thinking the protagonist is from the central island. The central island was once ruled entirely by Lucendi but after the Sepherra war it was split up between the other countries and the culture have been kinda mixing in weird ways there. The protagonist has grown to hearing Legends about Lucendi and it's golden age and wants to see it's shining cities for themself.

As for what I've done today, I named all the states within each country. Center island still needs more lore.

Goals

Protagnoist(s): From central island and fascinated by Lucendi

Cities: 18 Cities, 4 capitals

Conflict:

Historic Locations: 2

National Food:

Riwea: Seaweed

So, I have a really bad procrastination and not wanting to work on stuff problem so I'm doing this thing where I devote one week to one of my creative projects and if I can reach a set of creative goals within that week I reward myself with merch or a snack.

This week I wanna work more on a fantasy world I'm developing called Sepherra. To start the project I decided to redraw the map and rework its borders.

Synopsis

Sepherra is somewhat basic for now and I'm in the process of dumping a bunch of reworked pokemon OCs in it. It's part of a larger world, but composed of Four main islands/countries:

Lucendi: A land of innovation and progress. Inspired by an industrial revolution, Lucendi works to be at the top of technological progress, often at the expense of its poorer citizens. The country is still redeveloping its government after a centuries old monarchy was overthrown.

Shecret: A powerful empire that mainly works in shadows and secrecy. Few know the true people in charge, the people who try to find out aren't seen again.

Riwea: A peaceful people who devote themselves to the water. They avoid conflict when possible and try to be as calm as the water.

Tragden: An power that has surpassed Lucendi as the most powerful country in Sepherra. A very conservative people who hold traditions in high esteem, theiir royal family rules alongside advisors and a parliament.

Island of Four Nations: A heavily disputed island in the center of Sepherra, there was a time when Lucendi ruled it completely, but after war and revolution it has been divided between the other major countries.

Goals

Protagonist(s):

Cities: 18 Locations, 4 capitals

Conflict:

Historic Locations: 2 Locations

National Food:

Riwea experiences a lot of seasonal flooding, their main food is rice and seaweed.