Aisurcine/Lore

events and lore in the world of Aisurcine, from ancient tales and legends to more recent events... but they're all cool so you should read them >:)

* The Planet
* Colin and Emmet
* Respect all people or die a gruesome death
* ...

There have been tales that the planet used to be whole, but it was fractured by a supernova’s blast, the broken pieces floating up to form the cloud islands. That the heart of the planet is a giant orb of black ice, illuminating the night with an eerie bluish glow. Another tale is one of an overlord beyond imagination that pulls the strings of fate from somewhere beyond, making a living puppet to guard the secrets that hide in plain sight. The most told tales, the most feared ones, are nothing close to that. And they happen practically every day. It is said that strange, deadly creatures are born in the depths of the heart, some kind of magic pulling them out to terrorize the beings who live higher up. Terrifying, cold-hearted monsters with a thirst for blood, relentlessly attacking innocent people until there is nothing left but ruins. There were wars because of this- hundreds of deaths over and over and over again. Nothing was safe. Then a band of seven heroes known as the Gates set off on a quest to journey to the heart of the planet to destroy the place the beasts emerged from. They left behind their friends and loved ones, prepared their weapons… and never came back. But hey, there’s less monsters roaming around, so at least that’s an improvement. Writings from the ones who met them speak of them going through dark forests, fighting horrifying… things that lurked in the shadows, and ruined temples. Temples with writings scrawled over the walls, temples with drawings of happiness and joy. From these second-hand accounts, it has been assumed that at one time, long ago, the planet used to be peaceful. That at one time, the monsters didn’t exist. It is thought that they were people too at some point- but there was a fight, and they were cursed to the heart of the planet. That’s all anyone can tell, at least for now.

Colin and Emmet - two heroes from a legend, before ‘cursed’ was the word used for the, well, cursed (which they both were in particularly large amounts). They met after Emmet, who was, like, 12, found Colin trapped in a pantry of an airship after the abuseful airship captain they worked for first tied them up, then abandoned them, then ran as far away as possible in hopes the police would come around and take them away for being a weird 18-year old with a cat face always in a red sweater who stuttered a lot because they sometimes meowed instead of talked, and normal people don’t do that. Yeah. Emmet and Colin bonded as they both kind of went on a quest to complete their goals together- Emmet, who had been cursed randomly by a mean warlock passing by, wanting to destroy the world because well, he was evil now anyways so why not; and Colin, wanting to find their captain and ask why the heck did he tie them up and shove them in a pantry. Colin has very simple goals, as you can tell, unlike his companion.
They ended up finding that not only did Colin have some terrifying supernatural powers, (which frequently got them in prisons all over Aisurcine) that their captain WAS that random warlock.
Also that his name was Mike.
Warlock Mike informed both of them that they were monsters and they were not fit for living, so they beat him up, right inside of Warlock Mike’s own tower. In the tower they found… well, we don’t know what they found. But they decided they were going down to Icosis.
Instead of traveling through cities they scored everywhere for anything cold-resistant. (Because a magic cat thing cat wearing sweater and a boy with lion paws for hands wearing a tank top isn’t going to do very well in temperatures of near-absolute zero.) They met the people being terrorized by the hate of ‘cursed’ and helped them, and fought a few core beasts along the way. When they finally got down to the plains of Icosis, it is said they found ruins of some sort. A temple at the very center- with… something inside of it? We have no idea, honestly. Many would love to know, but Colin and Emmet would talk nothing about it… when they came back three years later, having defeated… some kind of thing? Honestly, we would LOVE to share more with you. But… as we said, they didn’t talk about it at any point in their life after that. We know that they were REALLY important, broke some kind of horrible tension in Aisurcine, but that’s most of it.
(We also heard a rumor that Colin was a shapeshifting core beast that forced themselves to forget being one so that they could live the life of a person. But they didn’t do it too well and kinda messed up on looking human.
…That was private information- oops. Forget you heard that.)

This legend has been made into many plays ever since it became a legend, and was and has been since one of the most popular tales in all of Aisurcine.

So so so around the same time as Colin and Emmet’s adventure, Roy was trapped in this void place because the other gods got real angry he was murdering random people on Aisurcine because he could. The gods kind of told the people of Aisurcine that they were free from his terrorisim, and everyone would be safe from him now. Almost IMMEDIATELY, a massive amount of really stupid (and, being completely honest, racist) humans on Aisurcine formed a cult to try and take Roy out, hoping that if they did, he would owe them a favor and go slaughter all of the cursed and core beasts on Aisurcine. They wore one-eyed mask and made coats with nails all over them (probably trying to mimic Roy’s poky fur) and sat in ritual circles, praying, all of that stuff, for their wishes. The gods got really angry, and instead of releasing Roy to probably just sit there then get angry when they demanded favors, they sent out Eep, who would slaughter them all. Because not only had it been called ‘cursed’ before, it was also a kind of mutated core beast. Why would it destroy its own kind when it could just destroy them?

So Eep appeared out of the darkness at one of the rituals, and the cultists started cheering- until they realized they had angered the gods and were being punished, and then they all died. All Aisurcinians know this tale very well, and they teach it to their children (who are usually mortified by the end and refuse to sleep because parents in Aisurcine very much enjoy their gory stories) so they know the moral of life: respect all people or die a gruesome death. Unless the people are unable to be respected at all, in which then it is your duty to give them the gruesome death they deserve.
more coming soon uwu