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Vichy France

**Vichy France** was a fascist regime that ruled over southern France from the city of Vichy from June 22, 1940 to 11 November 1942 during World War II. Premier Marshal Philippe Petain signed an armistice with Nazi Germany in 1940 shortly after the Wehrmacht invaded France, and the Germans proceeded to give Petain full powers on July 10, 1940 as a puppet dictator. The Germans controlled northern France, while southern France was ruled by the Vichy regime. France adopted the idea of "National Revolution", forcing women to focus on motherhood and not employment and empowering conservative Catholics. Paris was no longer a center of art and culture due to the decline in liberty under the Vichy regime, whose state-run media ran campaigns of anti-Semitism and anti-communism, deporting Jews, communists, and other "undesirables" to German concentration camps. On November 11, 1942, German troops occupied the rest of Vichy France after its admiral Francois Darlan negotiated an armistice with the Western Allies after Operation Torch, ending Vichy France's sovereignty. It continued to be a puppet regime until 1944, when the Allies invaded France and ended the Axis Powers' occupation.

## Gallery

The location of Vichy France (dark green), its protectorates (green), and the Wehrmacht-occupied zones (light green) in 1942
𝐓𝐖☾☽

## **IN PRACTICE *!!***

**pronouns:** he. him. it

**domain:** lying, deception, loss of self.

**location:** hotel cecil, but he’s a frequent customer among many a liminal space.

**brand:** viceroy butterflies. things in twos.

**temperament:** charming, chameleon-like.

**accessibility:** 3/10

**etc:** na.

## **INSIGHT *!!***

take a trip back to the glory days of old hollywood. the beauty spots, the red lipstick, the film noir lighting. walk down the concrete streets, watch how the light fans across the stone through art deco wire awnings. this is a time of legend; oh my, yes, one might even say a little too *much*.

los angeles has a ripe history of hotels and other in-between spaces. liminality is no stranger to the los angeles local; to the new either, for that matter. in those spaces, when the air is ripe with not-being there, two makes his home. banging his fist on old jukeboxes to hear his favorite strawberry tune, splitting down the center seam into two little girls at the end of the hotel hallways. stepping out of your skin, even. he mirrors you, like a viceroy. a shadow stitched to the base of your shoes.

hotel cecil is his homebase. the guns, the knives, the gritty fine print, the dead nobodies. he is a piece of all of that, a kaleidoscope of the era that continues to bewitch. two is always in twos. the coin with two sides you pocket, the set of earrings in that old antique store you pick up, the *moon*, even, that wanes and waxes with every passing night.

you’ll find him sipping whiskey while listening to the cabaret singer that wasn’t there a moment ago; you could have sworn this building was in ruin, grey and stained. and yet here you are, and there he is, and the ceilings are as gold as ever.

he's a fan of old hometown pride. two is the marriage of hands bound in deal— and it's those from the east and the west he barters best with. the southerners, well, watch your step; never did a man like two take kindly to those that carry mirrors.
𝐃𝐈𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐒𝐔𝐒

## **IN PRACTICE *!!***

**pronouns:** he. him. it

**domain:** consumption, luxury, rot, intoxication, toxin, heartbeat, greasefires.

**location:** junkyards, vineyards, open space festivals, cult gatherings.

**brand:** seed pods. plants that grow in cracks around the places where you live. perhaps even under your skin.

**temperament:** ~~diilf~~, charming, intimate, slow, intentional.

**accessibility:** 5/10

**etc:** often comes in last minute and steals kills, particularly from the sapphics.

## **INSIGHT *!!***

they found him on the edge of a die, good ol’ diionysus. back when he was hungrier than most and determined to prove something. when his hands were barely stained with the dirt he worked in. when the filth could still be scrubbed off, when he still watched it flow down the drain.

he’d had the watch then, and too much attention in his eyes; alert in ways he wasn’t supposed to be with his blue-collar still on.so it really shouldn’t have been a surprise when, one day, those rich strangers down the way cracked his mouth open and poured all that oil in. kept it open when they lit the match and threw that in too.

he never even had the chance to scream.

dii never did know how long he’d been gone, floating this way and that. all he remembered was rousing to those wild things, at the hands of a wild thing and the whisper of rupes nigra from disembodied lips. everything else was incomprehensible until a deer skull sat where his head used to be, with a mask to cover the rest.

it’s the live festivals, the palaces and junkyards, the mall fountains and endless vineyards that diionysus favors. the open air when it isn’t surrounded by ocean. the deserts and plains. you see, vegas is so close to la but that doesn’t stop the casinos from cropping up to tease.

so, sometimes he sits at the craps table looking more hungry than meek. no one can see him smile underneath the hazards stretched across his face, but he smiles still. between one blink and the next you might spot his antlers over your gin, but you’ve been drinking before the sun ever bothered to set so who really knows if what you’re seeing is real.

if you’re lucky, he’ll feed you a few seeds from his crystal jar.

if you’re unlucky… well, it isn’t *that* far down a well is it?
Compassfolk

* character concepts that suit the rupesverse but aren’t necessarily character material; ie. a concept, a storyline, legends, another character in your universe, a character you’re testing out to bring, etc. are free to be written! whether as a paperboat piece or in threads, the only requirement is that you tag the post with the #compassfolk tag. main characters can interact with compassfolk characters and vice versa!
* so, if you were to post a paperboat piece of your compassfolk character, it would be tagged with both #paperboat and #compassfolk
* compassfolk are all located on a second account; you bring in your compassfolk account alongside your first compassfolk character.
* you are eligible for a compassfolk account after one month of being at rupes nigra.
* the requirements to have a compassfolk character are simple;
* fill out the application linked in the comments of the pinned post of our musings’s group, similarly, after a conversation with n and their acceptance of your new account/new character, you will be required to introduce them in the musings group and add them to your bio as well. there are no fc or group restrictions with compassfolk.
* in context of your main muse, here is what this looks like in the rupes pipeline: new character > storyline written out in paperboat pieces > retired to a compassfolk, to allow threads to be continued as well as allow those muses to be interacted with by new rupes muses (handy if your muse owns a piece of the map) > bringing a new character in. members usually provide a division and then continue on the same account, for ease of access.
𝐖𝐢𝐋𝐃𝐄

## **IN PRACTICE *!!***

**pronouns:** she. her. it

**domain:** futility, inevitability, anarchy, discord, nihilism. rebirth from ash. smoke.

**location:** the sewers, alleyways.

**brand:** signs her name into skin. marking, signing, tattooing, scars. they do not heal, but spread like sickness; paint toxin, disease, electricity.

**temperament:** a touch insane, extremely rebellious.

**accessibility:** 5/10

**etc:** in love with pipe dream.

## **INSIGHT *!!***

wilde’s is found where the drainage and the waste lay to rest, in the dry brush on the mountains catching fire in the sun, or in the back of a church, where a priest sleeps with the devil on his shoulder. it is not a part of biology to be willing to die, but it comes nevertheless, and when wilde is done haunting you from the city billboards and painted-over brick, when you decide to end it all, wilde is there with a can of spray paint to mark your body for the place she calls home.

careful with your open wounds; careful with the way they feel, the way they won’t heal. like the sea slipping into the pores on rocks, slow poison in your veins will spread as she deposits a gift there. no matter how small it must be. a shard, simply, of ruin; paint or plastic, metal or flesh, wilde leaves her mark in the form of a tag, a branding of her territory.

she claims los angeles for the island from art piece to art piece, a ravaged creature magnetized together from the thickness of the fight, the charge in the air to bring down kingdoms. she is born from the thick black smoke of this city burning, and the electricity that keeps it running. held together with spidersilk like the moon, she thinks of one thing, and one thing only: the end of the world, and the better one that will come next.
Season 1

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The **first season** of *Wicked City* will premiere December 1, 2022 and end January 5, 2023. New episodes will be released Thursdays at 3 AM on Allblk. The season consists of six episodes.

## Summary

While living their best life in Atlanta, four young, chic, modern-day witches, Jordan Davis, Mona De La Cruz, Angela Harris, and Sherise Baker make the acquaintance of Camille, a naturally powerful witch who is oblivious to her gift.

Reluctantly, Camille joins the women for a spell, but things take a menacing turn resulting in an accidental death. The witches quickly perform a forbidden resurrection spell, however, it is too late, as a dark sinister being is brought back from the other side. Now, between their complicated personal lives, unearthed secrets of the past, and attempting to defeat a powerful wraith, this coven is in for the most dangerous ride of their lives.
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Alex DeBellis

Alex DeBellis is the starring actor of the show Alex and Friends, he portrays Alex, the main character. Alex is known for being particularly hostile to the press and paparazzi. Alex is one of the original 3 creators of the show, and the show itself was named after him.

## Alex DeBellis

### Portrays

Alex

**Apperances**

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Paperboats

* this roleplay is focused on the timeline of your character and their progression through their personal vices; as such, we emphasize deep author exploration. all self paras are called paperboat pieces (with a minimum word count of 400w for required activity), but the term extends to include art pieces, trailers, interactive games, and any other form of media exploration of your character.
* these are all filed under the #paperboats tag on the timeline. if you have a #paperboats piece that includes triggers, you’re required to make a post on the timeline that includes its title, as well as which group the piece can be found in!
* ie. [ #paperboats ; tw°/r° ; title ]
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* **monthly portfolios—**proof of two forms of activity on your main account, one of which must be a paperboat piece. a bullet-pointed list of the replies, self paras and other associated actions you would like to receive points for, alongside where we can find each thread or screenshots of the activity. timestamps are not necessary unless you’re requesting points that factor consistency in! google drive links are welcome. calculate your total points and include that as well.
* failure to complete an activity check results in removal. we use discretion when making this decision, however.
𝐎𝐃𝐃(𝐈𝐓)𝐘

## **IN PRACTICE *!!***

**pronouns:** it.

**domain:** the ‘other’, peculiarity, performance, traps, memory, fixation, collection

**location:** luna park; ephemeral

**brand:** tickets to see his latest show, whatever it may be.

**temperament:** volatile

**accessibility:** 1/10

**etc:** di && dii (dee && die) are often found nearby. oddity is the one who reshaped diionysus into a marionette. the rest... tolerate him, as long as he doesn't interfere.

## **INSIGHT *!!***

beneath the gleeful claps on rides and bumbling tunes and customers who wish to follow little nemo into slumberland, there lays the body of a dead boy in the dirty alleyway behind the amusement park. the maintenance sighs. another one, wanting to fly. another one without any id. another one who the world had forgotten the second before they were born, just the same as the one before it, and the one before that. it is autumn in 1912, and the next day there is concrete poured over his body for a vaudeville theatre.

the island, kind as they come, offer his trapped soul a deal; and this forgotten child, no older than his early twenties, who was never told to read the fine print and can only feel the pain of his soul being crushed, says yes, emphatically, desperately. magnetic north smiles, and tears his soul out from the ground for themselves.

it is new magic. it is hungry, pirated want and nothing more, what rupes nigra does to it. ties it into itself, cuts out the parts that aren’t pain and remembering how different things end up dead, chains it inside of a steampunk contraption of limbs and organs, and hides it all under paint and tidy stitching. it is pretty, although its smile sometimes falls when the hooks slip from where they lay hooked behind its eyes. *what an oddity* the other monsters sneer, kicking its shoulder just to hear its mangled bones knock into each other like dominos.

today there is an amusement park, just the way it remembers, and it is the only one who gets to decide how they run. every step hurts, every wisp of breath hurts, so when the sun goes down it seals itself in the center of the carousel, and stays there until the nightmares of its creations build new ideas, new performances, new ways to marinate the souls in fear until they’re sweet enough for rupes nigra.
Activity Checks

* each month the admin account will make a new post, under which they will make individual comments tagging every member.
* during ‘on’ seasons, members will reply to their comment at the end of each week with their activity. timezones and dates will be specified on each post.
* one paperboat piece is required every month from your main character.
* you can use your compassfolk characters for activity once a month, but the rest of your activity should come from threads, self paras or paperboat pieces from your main character. additional activity from compassfolk characters will count towards general consistency points.
* contact lists are checked at the end of every season.
* activity strikes are reset at the end of each season.

**OFF SEASON**

**ON SEASON**

Acceptable Activity can count from both your Main Muse account and Compassfolk account.

* Paperboats
* Threads
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##### *WINTER && SUMMER ( ‘ON’ )*

* **weekly checks—** proof of one form of activity, whether a paperboat piece or a thread reply/starter. one main character paperboat piece/self para is required a month however, so budget wisely! each successful weekly check will be acknowledged by an emoji from the admin account.

* **monthly portfolios—**
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Donte Lee

## Donte Lee

### Season(s)

1

**Donte Lee** is an executive producer of *Wicked City*.

## Career

### Producer

* *Greenwood Avenue* (2022)
* *The Sound of Christmas* (2022)
* *Strange Love* (2022)
* *The Deadly Getaway* (2022)
* *Wicked City* (2022)
* *BET Her Presents: The Waiting Room* (2020-2022)
* *No Better Love* (2022)
* *Happy (BET Her)* (2022)
* *BET Her Presents: The Waiting Room* (2020-2022)
* *No Better Love* (2022)
* *Happy (BET Her)* (2022)
* *BET Her Presents: The Couch* (2020-2022)
* *Trophy Wife* (2022)
* *Dear Best Friend* (2021)
* *A Rich Christmas* (2021)
* *BET Her Presents: The Hotline* (2021)
* *Holiday Heartbreak* (2020)
* *The Available Wife* (2020)
* *All In* (2019)
* *Sinners Wanted* (2018)
* *Secrets* (2017)
Huguenots

The **Huguenots** were a Protestant religious group in France that followed Reformed Calvinism. The Huguenots were descended from northern French Protestants who were inspired by John Calvin, and they made up 10 percent of the population in 1572. From 1562 to 1598, the Huguenot nobility rose in rebellion against the royalist government and its Catholic feudal subjects in the "French Wars of Religion", as the Huguenots were concerned about religious persecution at the hands of the Catholics. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted autonomy to the Huguenots. During the 1620s, a series of Huguenot rebellions led to the abolition of their military and political privileges, and the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685 revoked the legal recognition of Protestantism in France and led to the Huguenot population decreasing from 900 thousands to 1,500 individuals, according to the (albeit biased) King Louis XIV of France. By 1774, French Calvinism was almost completely wiped out, and the bulk of Huguenots moved to Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Scandinavia, Switzerland, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, or overseas colonies.

## Gallery

Huguenots in France: dark purple areas were controlled by Huguenot nobility, light purple areas were contested between Huguenot and Catholic nobles, and blue areas were largely Lutheran.
Odin

**Odin**, also known as **Woden**, is the Norse pagan god of wisdom (having given his eye in exchange for it), healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. Odin was the great chieftain of Asgard, the son of Bestla and Borr, the husband of Frigg, and the father of several other Norse deities, including Thor, Loki, Tyr, Heimdall, and Baldr, and the one-eyed and long-bearded Odin was almost always accompanied by his spear Gungnir, his wolves Geri and Freki, the ravens Huginn and Muninn, and the eight-legged steed Sleipnir.

Odin was credited with creating the world by slaying the primordial being Ymir and fashioning the Earth from his flesh, the ocean from his blood, the mountains from his bones, the trees from his hair, the clouds from his brains, the heavens from his skull, and the human world (Midgard) from his eyebrows. He also gave the gift of life to the first two humans, Ask and Embla, and he oversaw Valhalla, where a half of Norse warriors went after dying in battle; the other half went to Freyja's Folkgvangr meadow. Odin is held to be the first legendary King of Sweden, with Njord succeeding him. Odin, constantly in search of wisdom, asked the embalmed head of Mimir for advice, and he was prophesied to be consumed by the monstrous wolf Fenrir during Ragnarok.
Monsters

Aside from being the common term for any kind of abomination just like in the real world, on Letina the word **monsters** is also a scientific description which refers to an order of over 100 identified closely related species of large bipedal reptiles found in all habitats on all continents. They are all strictly carnivorous except for the forester vegetarian. The largest known monster species, the forester metal-eater, is one of the largest land predators only behind some of the largest dragons. Most monster species display remarkable versatility as well as a higher level of Intelligence than most other animals. There are many species of monsters which are currently extinct and have lived in the Third or Fourth Era, some of which dwarf the forester metal-eater in comparison.

### Example species (pages to be written sometime in the future)

* Topog
* Mikongon
* Pasecelf
* Scrimceuson
* Betalic swimmer
* Mashan monster
* Mud monster
* Forester vegetarian
* Forester metal-eater
* Tofix
Sapient races of Letina

There are **eight sapient races** living on Letina in the present day. In the chronological order of when they first appeared those are:

* Orcs
* Goblins
* Elves
* Basuns
* Humans
* Dwarves
* Talking animals
* Machines

Two more sapient races have existed in the past, but since gone extinct:

* Uothians
* Pucuks
Central Ocean

The **Central Ocean** is one of the four named sections of the global ocean and Letina's biggest body of water, accounting for about one-quarter of the total surface area. As the name suggests, it is located in the center of the world. Pole, the Arc Islands and most of the Great Hole are located on this ocean. Each of the world's continents has at least one coastline with this ocean except for Landio Venera. Lying far from any of the edges of the world, the water in it is fairly cold at an average of 5-10 degrees Celsius on the surface. Masses of cold air which form over the ocean travel to far lands, making it a significant influence and molding force for Letina's global climate. The eastern section of the ocean is barely ever visited by any ships due to the near-lack of islands and the presence of one of the edges of the Great Hole. Communication between the eastern and western parts of Letina is thus usually made through the Ocean of the Forgotten or the Southern Ocean.
Empowerment

**Empowerment** is one of five schools of magic. It is the oldest form of active magic as it resembles passive magic the most and was the first school known by default to the first basuns and elves before the other four were created. It is the most "naturally good" school and thus the hardest to use as a means of dark magic. Primary abilities of empowerment mages include maintaining consistently good health, high resistance to injuries and fatigue, quick regeneration, slower aging and thus longevity, healing both the user and others as well as absorbing others' offensive magic and strengthening oneself's own power in the process. Empowerment is a relatively common school with about 35% of mages having it as their primary one.
Southern Animal Country

**Southern Animal Country (SAC)** is the biggest, most developed and most populated country of Amaruzja, included in the Developed East. It is inhabited and ruled by all existing species of talking animals and is the southern equivalent to Animal Country (formerly Plush Country). Its capital and most populated settlement is Common City in the Martonian Peninsula. It is a democracy and ruled by a President chosen via general voting each 5 years. The current President of SAC is the stork Flynna Kejens. The SAC boasts the world's most innovative and effective intelligence force, the Hadrion Order.
Lasagne

**Lasagne** is a talking seal and a minor background character of several stories set in Common City. She has been the girlfriend of Yoghurt Fysheng since late 22 021 PCE. Although she is a simple-minded person and her head is not big enough to comprehend most of Yoghurt's scientific ramblings and intricacies when he creates new inventions, she loves him for his happy-go-lucky spontaneity, bravery and stupid jokes.
Kazurro

**Kazurro,** real name **Myglashik,** also recognised by any of his other numerous nicknames (born 21 835 PCE in Dolphinero) is a dolphinian soldier, time traveler, talented mage and a temporal warrior. He is the main antagonist of many stories set in Common City, serving as the arch-nemesis of Nelson Polycarp and especially Milkella Fysheng.
White Moon

**White Moon** was one of four natural satellites of Letina, destroyed at the beginning of the Fifth Era. The Good Hat threw it into the surface of the world in order to purge monsters, creating a crater spanning around one-sixth of the world's surface called the Great Hole. The moon's existence and color were discovered by modern-age Developed East scientists after "cosmic rock debris" was found on Leroy Island. The white color is attributed to large concentrations of rubidium and oxydized calcium.
Pentoy

**Pentoy** is the northernmost of Letina's seven continents. It is also the continent that lays the furthest from any other continent, separated from Northern Shantox and Wagara by stretches of the Central Ocean and the Ocean of the Forgotten. Adding to it that Northern Shantox's civilizations are significantly less developed, this makes Pentoy's nations quite isolationist, only maintaining loose trade and diplomatic contact with the Fistr Dominion and its satellite republics and by extension the Developed East.

### Basic characteristics

Pentoy is a land of mountains and rugged landscapes, split by multiple green valleys of differing depths and widths. Located in the northern part of Letina within range of the air currents catalyzed by the cold winds from Pole, Pentoy features the regular four seasons. It is the continent with the most prevalent volcanic activity. The crust to the north of Pentoy under the shelf of the Ocean of the Forgotten is quite thin and of low density, so the sun warms and melts portions of it when passing near, directing the magma to the surface. The continent is most known as the land of the dragons. It is the only place where dragons breed and nest. Any individuals spotted elsewhere in the world are lone, traveling specimens.

The civilizations of Pentoy, composed of humans and orcs with admixtures of goblins and dwarves, have long since adapted to the ever-presence of the magnificent beasts. Many cities and smaller settlements are located at least partially underground or in cave systems. Others are squeezed into tight labyrinths of valleys, which are of no interest to dragons. The most bold cities, those built out in the open, always have some sort of magical protection. There are roughly 20-25 or so states on Pentoy, with the largest and most dominant being Navidia, Myshuik, Ahko-Teh and Lycarynthia, all of which in a medieval-ish stage of development similar to that prevalent on Southern Shantox and Hatridis. Some of these countries have parts of their territories also on Arc Islands, a vast archipelago off the south coast.
Yoko

**Yoko** is the most popular martial art among the citizens of the Animal Country and the Southern Animal Country, focused on using a four-limbed body to its full potential and achieving instant superiority over bipedal opponents. It was created around the same time the Common City and SAC were founded by mixing the most effective elements from several martial arts developed by specific animal species in the centuries of isolation prior. There are many variants of yoko depending on what type of limbs a given animal has to work with. There are also more advanced variants dedicated to fighting off other animals, so likewise four-limbed opponents. Professional yoko fighters are able to attract significant audience and revenue in many events organised throughout the year where they fight for set trophies, mainly in SAC.
Flapspeeder Derby Classic

The **Flapspeeder Derby Classic** is an annual series of flapspeeder races organized by the Motorboat Racing Federation (MRF) on custom off-road tracks located next to most of the major cities in Whelandia, held across the second half of March and the first half of April. These races are the only flapspeeder competition available to amateur pilots (entry allowed at age 14 and above), but still considered very dangerous due to the lack of safety equipment in some places on the tracks. Some professional pilots also choose to compete in the series to train their reflexes and keep themselves fresh, but they are ineligible to be awarded a victory or receive the hefty cash prize given to the podium finishers in each race. Professional team members are often present at the sites of the FDC races, scouting the fields for promising young pilots who can possibly be approached regarding a professional career in the sport starting from the Junior Flapspeeder Championship, the lowest professional level. Actually, the three most impressive FDC race winners in a given year - as voted by the MRF council - are by default granted a spot on the entry list of the Miron's Relay, the flagship event of JFC, where they get another chance to impress in the rare case they are not on some team's radar by that point already.
Good Hat

The **Good Hat** is a common name for the higher being which created the realm of Letina and over the following millions of years modified it multiple times along with its evil twin Bad Hat. Both of the beings are spoken of as having a form resembling giant purple-and-dark hats floating in space, hence their names, though their exact size, shape and other parameters have not been confirmed in any modern sources. The Hats are very powerful beings able to create matter out of nothing and shift themselves across dimensions, but they are not by any means almighty, omniscient or all-seeing. In fact, they even appear to be mortal, though they do not age naturally and it would take near-infinite amounts of energy to successfully kill them. The Good Hat has visited Letina three times since its creation: at the beginning of the Third, Fifth and Seventh Eras.
Prancer

**Prancer** is a tertiary character from stories about Common City. He is a talking dog, a dalmatian to be exact, who is the leader of the "extreme scientists" civilian quick reaction group Blue Noses which is a subsidiary of the Oceanographic Society. This makes him the direct boss of Nelson Polycarp, formerly of Cream Fysheng and of course the other members of the group. He has been the leader since Commander Goose first formed the unit in 22 010 PCE and is now also the only remaining original member. His unassuming and harmless appearance is not to fool anyone. While he does not know much about science, he is always perfectly prepared for combat of any kind owing to many years spent in the military and police force, and is a master strategist and tactician. His great charisma allows him to efficiently discipline his crew, divide tasks between them and coordinate every mission. He also hosts quarterly obstacle courses for the crew in the Society's main base in order to keep up their stamina, orientation and reflexes. The cherry on top after finishing the course is a one-on-one fight against him in a ring. Despite of this having been run by him for over nine years and some of the members having been participating for that long as well, no one has yet managed to last more than half a minute against him.
Anastasius "Float" Fulkon

**Anastasius "Float" Fulkon** (born 21 983 PCE in Managard) is a talking manatee residing in Southern Animal Country, who works as a Category 1 secret agent for the Hadrion Order. Cat 1 is reserved for just the absolute elite of the most capable, experienced, accomplished and loyal agents of the organization, who are deployed to the most critical, intricate and dangerous missions available, usually solo. Fulkon is one of only about 100-150 agents designed such, making him invaluable for his employers. As are all Cat 1 agents, he is very versatile and skilled in many fields, but his absolute specialty is direct hand-to-hand combat - bare-handed and with bladed weapons alike. He has been the main character of several stories set in SAC, most notably an arc of several confrontations with his nemesis Hałusek of Darkness, who he eventually managed to defeat. Anastasius' best friend is a Category 2 agent Claudia "Scuba" Sardyne. When off duty, Fulkon and Sardyne live in unassuming two-story houses on opposite sides of the small town of Maladink.
Kelson Polycarp

**Kelson Polycarp** (born October 12, 22 016 PCE in Common City) is a secondary character from stories about Common City and the only son of Nelson Polycarp and Angelika Kryson. His mom is a pureblood narwhal, but his dad is a 6,25% seal, which makes Kelson a 3.125% seal. On orders of the family court, Kelson is in Nelson's custody and lives with him in a small apartment, but he also spends a lot of time at his mother's as the ex-couple shares parenting duties. He also spends some of his free time at his uncle Relson's skyscraper Narwhal Horn, where he runs around in empty rooms at the highest levels. Kelson usually does not cause problems and is a healthy and well-behaved kid, only rarely is he convinced to be mischievous by his cousin Ciupciulinka.
Yoghurt Fysheng

**Yoghurt Fysheng** (born 21 987 PCE in Common City) is a secondary character from a set of stories set in the Common City, older brother to Milkella Fysheng and the third-oldest of the seven Fysheng siblings. He is an engineer and an inventor. Despite his mechanical and mathematical prowess and knowledge, he is quite unreasonable and over-eager to experience new things and partake in risky adventures. He creates most of his inventions in a huge laboratory/workshop in the basement of the Fysheng siblings' house, where he lives together with his older sister Hela, his younger siblings Pierozek and Milkella, and his sisters' kids. Initially he was forced to take out many loans on his siblings to fund his inventions, but after a few of them went viral - the most famous being mealn machines - he was able to secure several full-time sponsors to pay off his debts as well as fund both his living and his next endeavors. He has a girlfriend named Lasagne.
IFTSMALADI

**IFTSMALADI (Institute For Temporal, Scientific, Magical, Apocalyptic, Logistic And Demographic Issues)** is a non-profit top secret international organization based out of Wagara and presumably operating everywhere in the world through their vast intelligence network. The organization is highly cryptic and aims to limit the knowledge about its existence to as few outsiders as possible. They operate using hundreds of underground bases, which are all connected through a network of massive teleporters. Most members of IFTSMALADI never see the outside world as they both live and work in the facilities. Anyone wishing to quit or retire has their memory about working there wiped with a precise memodestructor and is then dumped in the middle of nowhere in a field or woods, or provided with a whole engineered "new life" if they're lucky.

IFTSMALADI is not affiliated with any country government, but maintain links with most governments. For the most part the intentions of the organization are good, they pull all the strings necessary to ensure that the sapient races develop properly without severely harming themselves or one another, and that the Prime Directive is not breached. However, there is a dark side to the organization. They have departments which for "the good of science and the sapient kind" experiment with topics like cloning, genetic modifications and general experiments on both animals and sapients, pushing the limits of dark magic, communicating with and opening portals to other dimensions, time travel, and others.
The Hadrion Order

**The Hadrion Order** is the official federal intelligence agency of the Southern Animal Country. It operates both in its home country as well as outside of the border. In foreign countries, the actions of the Hadrion Order agents are rather on the peaceful side, such as long-term undercover observations of specific areas in an economic and military aspect or protecting embassies, and sometimes searching for long-lost artifacts in less developed areas. In the SAC itself, the actions of the Order are e.g. infiltration and extermination of organized criminal groups and drug cartels, efficient assassinations of leaders of such groups and anti-terrorist operations. Recruits of the Order undergo an intensive and rigoristic training schedule for 5 to 6 years where they are taught in many fields, including martial arts, weapons, maths, economics, strategy, war planning and several others. They are not officially accepted into the Order until they have completed their first assigned real mission successfully, usually with several other recruits and supervised by at least one of the trainers. Most of the stories featuring the Order mainly focus on the adventures of two agents, Anastasius "Float" Fulkon and Claudia "Scuba" Sardyne.
Machines

**Machines** are one of the eight sapient races currently living on Letina. Machines are mechanical beings designed by Uothians over 850 thousand years ago, but built by Ogiranians only just several hundred years ago. There are three sub-races: wheelers, railers and fliers. Each of the sub-races is centered in their own, accordingly named countries: Whelandia, Railawna and Flierstate respectively. Through their link with the field of magic, they have most things that any other sapient race has: a soul, dreams, fears, emotions, thirst, hunger, the process of aging and so on. Their equivalent of a brain is called a memory. They are without a doubt the fastest-thinking and most versatile race, but often the versatility comes back to bite them when they struggle with mastering one, specific subject.
Science DaRaman High School

**Science DaRaman High School** is a prestigious and esteemed high school located in Common City. It was founded by Symon DaRaman in 21 903 PCE and received his name following his death in 21 934. Nelson Polycarp went here along with his friends Blubber Stern, Delfinka Makino and Cream and Milkella Fysheng.
Bombadira

**Bombadira** is the capital and second-most populated city of the Animal Country. For hundreds of years it was the largest and most-populated settlement on Wagara until surpassed by Whelano and eventually by other cities, including Plusakis in the same country. However, it still remains the region's and in fact Developed East's cultural, academic, scientific, business, engineering, trade and stock market center. It is the place of residence of the Animal Country Chancellor Milly Beacon and the location of the biennial Summit of the High Council.
SAMV Agamoat

**SAMV Agamoat** was a scientific ship owned and registered under a Southern Animal Country flag by the Oceanographic Society, which was used as the base of operations for Blue Noses from the group's foundation in 22 010 PCE until sunk in July 22 016 due to colliding with an underwater rock shelf. The whole crew made it out alive, but spent a month stranded and malnourished on a chain of tiny desolate islands before being rescued by a passing cargo ship. The lost vessel was later replaced with SAMV Sugarcoat.
Mealn machine

**Mealn machines** are a brand of heavily sophisticated and capable robots currently fast growing in popularity in the Southern Animal Country, the prototypes of which were designed, built and activated by the inventor Yoghurt Fysheng in Common City in 22 017 PCE. The original mealn machine was immobile, permanently attached to the ground on a partially-grounded metal platform. It was tasked with asking any person attempting to enter Yoghurt's laboratory for the code to access. In case of the code being wrong or the person trying to force an entry, the machine would scare them off with a flash of bright light or physically drive them away using its arm-like structure. Since then, over 110 different and continually advancing subtypes of the mealn machine have been released and sold across the SAC population, most now featuring autonomous mobility and still being manufactured by Fysheng in his laboratory. Most of the mealn machines are constructed from aluminum composites and their outer armor is painted in white and bright pink. Some mages have prophesied them to go rogue in the far future and serve the forces of the dark in the Battle of Letina.
Land Bridge

The **Land Bridge** was a land formation which used to directly connect Wagara and Amaruzja, allowing some talking animals to migrate to the south in the early days of the Ninth Era following the defeat of the Chaos King. The formation was destroyed by combined vanishing spells of many mages during the War of the Split around 1800 PCE, effectively separating the two continents and their cultural development.
Alapago Islands

**Alapago Islands** are a chain of islands located in the Dragon Head Bay between the Northern and Southern Shantox, but the nations located on them are traditionally included as a part of the Southern Shantox because of their culture and stage of development. The archipelago consists of four main islands of similar size and many dozens of smaller ones gathered around and in between them.
Developed East

**Developed East** is a general term for a group of countries located in the western part of Wagara and the northern part of Amaruzja, which have the most developed cultures and societies in the world. They are at least several hundreds and more commonly thousands years of development ahead of any other civilization. The societies of the Developed East countries are mostly formed of humans, talking animals and machines. The core countries of this group are Ogirania, Animal Country, Whelandia, Railawna, Flierstate and Southern Animal Country. The reason for the abnormally fast development traces back to the beginning of the Ninth Era with the defeat of the Chaos King, when the first recorded use of the Balance Jewels resulted in a phenomenon known in modern sources as the IG radiation. This radiation significantly boosted the intelligence of most humans in the areas closest to the location of the defeat as well as gave a basic level of sapience to many of the animals living in those areas as well. The resulting mischief was managed by the Great Ancients, the twelve elves responsible for the defeat of the Chaos King, who taught the humans and talking animals how to create more modern and better organized societies. In 21 756 PCE, the Prime Directive was first introduced, an international law limiting interactions with the less developed parts of the world to a bare minimum to avoid interference with their ongoing independent development (with technology sharing strictly banned).
Battle of Letina

The **Battle of Letina** is a prophesied possible worldwide military engagement far in the future, which would be to effectively result in the end of the world. It has been predicted and thoroughly described by Makrin in his Fourth Prophecy. The battle is prophesied to happen due to the Good Hat and the Bad Hat making a visit to Letina at the same time, resulting in a divine cosmic duel between the two arch-beings for control of the world. This then is supposed to lead to heavy fights across the world between the supporters of each Hat, with the Bad Hat's supporters being led by the reborn Chaos King along with his "son" Chaos Prince and their main servants being millions of sophisticated mealn machines.
Kurumakonis

**Kurumakonis** is the biggest freshwater fish species of Letina and also the largest predator of the Ancient Forest. It is not encountered outside of that area. Thought the largest, it usually loses out in direct confrontation with the semi-aquatic forester metal-eater, so it does not pick fights with it.

### Characteristics

Kurumakonises specialize in grabbing their prey from the land when it lowers itself to the water to drink. However, they do not stray away from any food they can possibly find in the water. They live in Ancient Forest's rivers, lakes, backwater and swamps - any body of water wide enough to swim without problems, deep enough to hide in preparation for attack and with enough oxygen to easily breathe. Kurumakonis is a huge beast with a lengthy, snake-like body shape. The length of its body can reach 16 meters, making it larger than some cetaceans. Its jaws are filled with long, narrow teeth. Five gills are located beside its head. Its body is covered in grey-silver scales, darker on top and brighter on the bottom. Kurumakonis has a neck-like part of the body, allowing it to turn its head to the sides. To move it uses two potent pectoral fins and its reptilian tail. Kurumakonis was not scientifically documented by the Developed East civilization until as late as the 21 750s, and encounters remain largely rare, so not a lot is known about this species. The lack of large areas of adequate living space for them means their population naturally remains very small at all times, with there being plenty of intra-species competition to the death.

### Reproduction and hunting

Females give birth to living, fully developed young - between 10 and 15 in one go. They are already 1.5 meters in length at birth and quickly become independent. Already at this age they are very dangerous to the environment around them. Kurumakonises are difficult to capture, transport and maintain, but several aquariums and zoos in Developed East have managed to catch them into their collection. Kurumakonis usually feeds on large prey on watering place lines. They either make one quick strike with their teeth and wait out for the animal to bleed out or pull the target underwater and pin it to the bottom to drown. The most common victims of kurumakonis are various species of deer, but it has been observed to successfully hunt hybaks, malutons and even monsters (other than the forester metal-forester). Sporadically, a kurumakonis will emerge up to 50% of its body from water to quickly grab and swallow a flying-by unsuspecting bird, pulpwood, brelka or hipikapus. Kurumakonis also actively hunts animals inhabiting the water it lives in such as other fish and seals, but they can easily escape out of the predator's sight or into shallow water using their greater aquatic speed and agility, so the effectiveness of this is limited.
Elves

**Elves** are one of eight intelligent races of Letina. They are sleek humanoids with pointed ears, about 2.2-2.6 meters in height on average. A vast majority of their population exhibit a natural talent to control the magic of empowerment, leading to a deep feeling of connection with nature, ever strong health, longevity and innate self-confidence. Most of them are currently stuck on the cursed continent Landio Venera, while those found elsewhere are usually eccentric guardians of nature and/or mediators for peace.