The Candleverse

The Candleverse is another universe in which there are infinite wax caverns filled with candles. These candles are  made by machines called 'Chandler boxes'. They shave wax off the cavern walls and floors, building the caverns. However, it is not understood how they make wicks. There are also generators that make electricity to power these chandler boxes. Other than that, there are some molecules and elements such as water, carbon dioxide, and the non-metals, with the occasional candler holder or even a chandelier. But the oddest thing about this universe is that all plants, animals, and fungi associated with the making of a candle or being burned by a candle on Earth-are teleported here, forced to survive. The time of this universe is much slower than our's. A hundred years there passes in a day here. Since candles have been around since about 3,000 B.C. starting in ancient egypt, that gives about 183 million years in the timeline of life here. The teleported lifeforms will have plenty of time to evolve...

## Candle Types

### Candle Species

**Pillar:** These are some of the most diverse and widespread candles throughout the universe. They are usually around 5 to 15 cm wide, but the absolute maximum and minimum sizes ever found are 0.8 cm and 1.4 m. They appear together in large groups called 'pillar seas', packed together like a honeycomb in waves of wax. There's much less limit on the height of these candles. Although the minimum height is a few cm, there's almost no limit on absolute height of these candles. They can make and have made mountains. One particular mountain actually started to liquefy at it's base from the pressure because of how proportionally thin it was.

**Tealight:** These appear in square pyramids from a foot high to the size of real pyramids. These are much rarer than most other candles, for the chandler boxes don't encounter metal that often. Remember those odd candle holders?

**Rolled:** Rolled candles are simply bendy sheets of wax wrapped around a candle wick. These appear in small groups called "Rolled Ranges".

**Specialty:** Remember that flower-shaped candle you once got? Or perhaps a moon-shaped candle, or even a block with colored wax on the side commemorating an event? These candles are like that, except in every 3-dimensional shape imaginable. They are the rarest of all candle species, for chandler boxes take forever to finish them. They are usually found in secluded areas.

**Floating:**

**Cube:**Appear in messed up in groups called "Cube-yards".

**Surface:** These candles are what happens when a chandler box unit gets tired of making normal candles and it doesn't want to devote the time to a specialty candle. It inserts wicks into the ground in mass proportions and lines them up to one wick. The result? Light the one wick, and you get a slow chain reaction, burning into the ground itself, creating a landscape like the Colorado Highland. It's almost like explosive mining, except much less destructive.

### Candle Materials

All of these materials come in either scented or unscented. What the scents are are up to chance. These materials are found in giant, undefined cubes throughout the universe, each about 10 miles wide. They each have at least one water cavity of a fair to massive size. Some take up the entire cube, a few expand beyond that 10 cubic miles.

## The First Ones

The first candles ever made were made of tarrow, a product of sheep and cattle. The wicks were made out of rolled papyrus. Our first plants and herbivores! Lit candles provide some light, but the initial die off is inevitable. Few papyrus reeds survive, and that means even fewer sheep and cows survive. The cows are too big to be sustained and become extinct. The smaller sheep however, manage to keep a small herd alive.

Papyrus grow next to water, but wax is a poor substitute for soil. A few waxes don't even support them, being artificial. That and candles being the only light means that the papyrus reeds with bigger fronds and more resilient roots are most likely to survive, and even then they're picky. For example, a cave with a deep water pit and few lit candles are rejected by papyrus. They naturally prefer shallow water. So, a place with shallow water and lots of lit candles is ideal for papyrus growth.

Surviving sheep became more sensitive to light and even more attracted to water. Their dew claws grew longer and more pointed for climbing the wax walls. In a hundred thousand years, sheep had become true spelunkers. They could lick the ground and determine if it could support papyrus or even them. They could detect water vapor in the air like a shark could taste blood in the water. Their eyes became massive, perfect for the low light. Evolution had started its race.