Otherworlds (Rabydosverse)

The "**Otherworlds**" are closely-related dimensions that are well-known to the peoples of Jerde.

## The "Good Worlds"

Five other planets that the Jerdiskar (especially the Bujanski) have good relations with are Ekkuldo, Gurulmik, Drunara, Sondoro, and Valtois; all of them have Earth-like conditions, but their geography and cultures are very different from the Earth-templates.

It was ultimately Valtois that encouraged diplomacy with the other four, which were recently discovered.

### Ekkuldo

A world where its superpowers' people rode on dragons, and live in mountain cities and castles. Best known for its proud, haughty knightly orders.

A popular haven among Bujanski, Irajonian, and Pinogunian tourists.

### Sondoro

A world resembling Terra, but has its own space fleet. It was named after the space fleet's founder, Dr. Sondoro, who became a worldwide hero for leading a defensive navy against the Church of Q's first interstellar invasion.

It was they who helped Bujan and Valtois understand more about the Maeranoi incursions, having already faced similar attacks long ago.

### Valtois

The last refuge of most un-Terrans who supported the locals. Many of them were those who chose not to convert or become atheists, making them unsuitable for citizenship.

This is a peaceful world of lush valleys, flowing rivers, and natural terraces of rice. Because these un-Terran humans learned much from the Bujanski, they formed several nations that formed a federation, the League of Valtois.

To this day, Valtois remains a loyal ally of Bujan, and a sworn enemy of the Wannaenids and all the Terrans who supported this arch-foe. It was they who helped Bujan and its world fend off the Abductors and the second Wannaenid invasion.

Three major religions exist in Valtois, the evolution of three faiths not permitted under Bujanski society: the Reformed Congregation, who resembles the "Orthodoxy" that the Tyrskans deviated from; the Faithful Way, who attempted to return to the "path of the cross" that the Maeranoi twisted for power, and the "Path of God", survivors of "ziraudist" tyrants who defected to Bujan. All three of them renounced militarism in favour of cooperation and diplomacy, as they are made of opponents of the Wannaenids' misrule.

## Alternate Earths

Many of the dimensions explored by Jerdiskar scouts appear to be similar to a planet known as "Terra".

### B284

* Kingdom of Opona - a magical monarchy with white cities.

### 56-9

* Perunic Tsardom - a large nation dedicated to Perun, to the west of the Khanate of Sakha that worships Ayaz Ata, the Lord of Snow. It was derived from an alternate timeline where a powerful pagan king defeated the Christian rulers.

### Scorpius' World

* Scorpius' Homeworld - a world similar to Earth, but magic has become a tool for its inhabitants like its modern technology.
* A victim of the Terran Empire's invasions, but its people drove out the Terrans.
* Its people speak English, and they are also worshippers of Odin.

## The "Dreaded Worlds"

### Earth/Terra

Earth - more precisely, various dimensions similar to Earth - are seen as unwelcome, alien invaders.

Fifty-six armies from various dystopian worlds were summoned to Jerde at World War III, at the latter part of the Sixteenth Age. Many of them appeared to come from various countries known as "Amerika", leading to a negative view of that dreaded civilisation as otherworldly invaders. The armies established cruel tyrannies that appalled the Jerdiskar, that it led to the Earthlings' defeat. Their survivors were incorporated into the enemies of the Denlotia, the World Alliance.

As a result, the peoples of Jerde made a rule that prohibited any Earthling from having any form of authority on Jerde. However, some imperialist states hired thousands of Terrans from various alternate universes to build cruel, merciless hordes to destroy their competitors and everything in their path.

### Oxöro

Osköro, Oxöro - a war-torn planet ruled by six hostile dystopias, its skies were filled with thunderstorms. Its emblem was the thunderstork.

The Osköroi invaded Heronoja at some time before the Jaupartūrnid era. Among their members were a theocracy, a racialist horde, nine brutal corporations, and an autocratic communist empire. Heronoja was the first nation to be invaded by the Osköroi because its enemies thought that the Heronoi looked puny and weak.

* Roxonoi, Roxoria - a theocracy venerating a single war god
	+ Their colours were white and yellow.
	+ The Roxonoi were kind to those who willingly converted. But those who refused them were greeted with a brutal army of crusaders who slaughtered them and enslaved the survivors.
* Taxaroi, Taloksaar - a racialist army hell-bent on extermination of peoples they considered "inferior".
	+ It was either they who discovered Jerde and declared the pretty Heronoi (who looked like them) to be weaklings for rejecting their racist views, or it was an enemy of Heronoja who summoned them and got killed as a sacrifice to their Emperor.
	+ They were one of two civilisations that practiced cannibalism on that world, devouring and biting captives even as they were alive as though they were animals.
* Giraxoi, Giraa League - nine corporations that formed an alliance to build a space empire.
	+ The other civilisation of cannibals, the Giraxoi melted their prisoners into food to punish them. They also enjoyed drinking blood.
* Doraxoi, Doraan - a communist autocratic empire.
	+ To its founders, Solvarik and Klaguntik (who was later purged for his attempts to seize power), everyone must be forced into their revolution towards utopia, or be burned to the ground for their backwardsness.

This desert world was invaded by an alliance of empires led by Moqlovlooh, but after their defeat, the surviving remnants joined the other empires on the planet to avoid being killed or sacrificed.

### Enemies of Rukthan

"Moqlovlooh", "Iblun", "Aimalok", "Bluieos", and "Omtura", were listed as five of several civilisations from other dimensions that invaded Rukthan. They competed against the Terran Empire during its wars against the Barabyols and the Novantirnas, two other alien civilisations.

* Moqlovloh - a nation of sorcerers
* Iblun - a gun-obsessed nation obsessed with the colour blue
* Aimalok - the most barbaric and primitive of the civilisations
* Bluieos - a society that is too obsessed with symmetry
* Omtura - a heavily-regulated society that seemed like clockwork

These five tyrannies sent expeditionary forces to aid the Imperial Terrans in their galactic bloodbath, but with the expeditions' defeat and annihilation, they let the Terran Empire collapse without any further help. They formed an alliance to conquer Oxoero and attempted to enslave Aimalok for its poorer technology, but their ensuing wars led to the collapse of the five empires.

### Earth-96 (Earth QVOZ, Quozworld)

Earth-96 was a world ruined by a great war, torn between several empires. One of them was simply known as the Russian Empire, its rival being the American Empire in the west.

Many powerful civilisations there motivated ethnic minorities to serve their "ancestral homelands" to expand their empires - leading to even worse cases of racism and genocide all over that world. The empires of that world were very notorious for using whataboutism to turn everyone's attention towards themselves. They used Latin letters as their own symbols.

* Russian Empire - an autocratic regime that sought to unite everyone in the supercontinent under its strict rule. It was ruled by an emperor.
	+ Jerdiskar call it the Zetrosian Empire, after its new capital of Zetros.
	+ Z was a symbol used everywhere all over that Russia. Another symbol was the numeral 8 (voez), which refers to the Martyrs of Tyrska or the longevity of the empire (as an infinity symbol).
	+ The flag of Zetrosia is red and blue, with a Z and a circle of eight infinity loops. Or, it is a whirlwind surrounded by eight infinity loops: the whirlwind represents revenge against the whole world.
	+ In line with the theme of "endlessness", the Zetrosian Empire used portal systems to cross into other universes to escape the wartorn world, or seek new colonies to conquer. Many Zetrosians also became immortal, but were more prone to rage and anger; which may have been the source of the serum used by Wannaenids later.
* Church of Q, American Empire - an autocratic regime run by a paranoid aristocracy who were formerly contrarians and "dissident" nationalists.
	+ Q was a symbol used everywhere all over that America. Because of its war against America, the current global war destroying that world was known as the "Q-Z War".
	+ Much of Western Europe remained an autonomous league, independent from American authority. However, the Quevolles movement of militants sought to take over all the European autonomous governments to bring it in line with the American imperial rulers' form of religious nationalism. They denounced what they saw as "decadence" from the pop-culture fans and media staff fleeing to Europe after the collapse of America.
* Rooistan - a nation near Russia, firebombed to ash to punish everyone in the country for the bombardment of Tyrska.
	+ Tyrska - a town mostly inhabited by ethnic Russians. Its people's suffering for eight years became the very reason for the Russian bombardment of Rooistan and its neighbours. A monument was later set up to honour the victims, and in their name, the armies of the Russian Empire waged total war against every suspected "Russophobe" to build a more secure empire, even by burning the entire world.
	+ In honour of the "Martyrs of Tyrska", the number eight became a symbol of the Russian armies. They also used this as their battlecry, now mocked in one of their victims, Bujan: "Where have you been in the past *eight* years?!"
* Tamaron - it, Rooistan, and Ilgeria were firebombed to punish the countries for bombing Tyrska.
* Ilgeria
* Ukraine - a nation to the south of Rooistan and its neighbours. The destruction of those neighbours spurred armed bandits to wage war on Ukraine, seeking vengeance against alleged suppression of their culture by conquering Ukraine.
	+ Unlike the Ukraine in OTL, the Ukraine in Earth-96 only had several allies in Europe. It later became the punching bag of the Southern League because it stood in the way against the Russian Empire's attempted conquest of Europe, which it saw as a punishment to the Europeans for colonisation and the wars in the Middle East.
	+ Later on, the survivors joined the Neo-Europe Alliance, pushing back the Zetrosians and the Q Templars. Ukraine was the eastern frontier of Neo-Europe, with only a small silver of northeastern land behind a great wall being what remained of the Tyrskan conquests there. Eventually, that small remnant was driven out by more armed militants, who punished them for their purges.
* Arabian Empire - its symbol in response to Russia and America was S, for "safiyyah", or "clear" or "bright".
* Chinese Empire - the Chinese Empire used W, for "wenhua", or "civilised".
* Hindu Empire - the Empire of Hinduvarta used R for "rta" or "law"; or D for "dharma" or "justice".
* Amurian Empire
* Timurid Empire
* Southern League - an alliance of African and Middle Eastern nations, including members of the Arabian Empire, who sought vengeance against the American Empire for their wars. The reason why they supported Russia and China was to see them destroy the American Empire and allow them a chance to overthrow the two empires and rule the world. Their symbol was P, for "proletarian".

The planet was bombarded by the Wannaenid Empire. A few parts of Earth 96 survive by fortifying their lands or building underground fortresses. They include Zaporizhia, the Caucasus Federation, the Baltics, parts of eastern Russia, Oman, Egypt-Palestine, the northern half of South America, the West African Alliance, the Southeast Asian Union, and the Republic of Alberta.

### "American raiders"

There were several "American" armies that teleported to the seas south of what is now Bujan, raiding the region to build their own empires or slaughter for fun. These came from different worlds, leading to their immortalisation as caricatures in local folklore.

On Bujan and Jerde, they are known as "Maeranoi".

In Sondoro, a world similar to the Terra-like planets where they came from, the horrified locals also compared them to monsters and demons. In their records and legends the raiders are known as "Morlocks", "Antinomians", and "Cainites", the opposite of human ethics and civilisation.

### Earth 27

* Koivarin - a republic similar to Ukraine, that was the target of the Velkerian armies, after their nation was taken over by an imperialistic leader. It became the new base of operations for the Jerde Alliance after it relocated from Velkeria and evacuated its allies.
	+ It was that world's first modern neopagan republic.
* Velkeria and the Three Vostoii Kingdoms - four powerful nations east of Koivarin at war with each other, each claiming itself as the rightful heir of the bygone Russia. One of them, the western part, was briefly an ally of Bujan, before it broke its alliance by its new leader attempting to annex Koivarin and its neighbours.
* Alastaria - formerly a war-torn republic far south, it was governed by a reformist faction aided by the Jerde Alliance until it became a well-shielded protectorate. The reformists of Alastaria kept to their word for their new alliance with the Bujanski by keeping their nation a modernist state, risking more futile attacks from angered theocrats and war hawks.
	+ Koivarin and Alastaria were armed with Bujanski technology, allowing them to disrupt an attempted Wannaenid invasion of the planet.
* Imblunna - three powerful nations located in the west, governed by corporate emperors who squabbled over "whatever was left of the American wasteland". Their leaders were massacred by the Jerde Alliance's agents, plunging the region into chaos.
	+ The presence of the Wannaenids, though quickly annihilated by the Jerde Alliance and friendly states, was the main reason why the invasion of Earth 27 became controversial in modern Jerde. Another was a fear that the proposed campaign of exterminating Terrans would corrupt the Jerdiskar and turn them into monsters, being more evil than the Terrans.

### Oblongistan

Oblongistan was the homeworld of the Zeljonid House, a noble house of warlords. Under the orders of Emperor Smelja Zaljanov, they once invaded Bujan in 8200 BT and were expelled.

## The Fifty-Six Tyrants

See also: Fifty-Six Tyrants

Fifty-six armies invaded Jerde during World War III, in 3991-4001 16A, summoned by evil warlords who sought to mobilise massive, expensable murderers to dominate the world.

Among the member states of the Earthling invaders were from various countries called "A-me-ri-ka", possibly dystopian and apocalyptic versions of a rich and corrupt empire from a world called "Terra". Twenty-eight of those invading armies were from "A-me-ri-kas".

Each of the Fifty-Six Tyrants represented a kind of keyboard warrior, historical tyrant, or Internet subculture from Earth or its variants, twisted by hardship and war into a more extreme form of what it stood for. Except for a few, such as the Saffron Front, the Liberators, and the Vetarbroitar, most of their names were given by the Jerdiskar who fought against their aggression. This also led to a distorted view of those Earths, Internet memes, and the American cultures of those different, dystopian worlds.

However, five of those invaders were tolerated because they were not as cruel, brutal, or oppressive as the rest. Nonetheless, they were eventually shunned as the Jerdiskar were unable to accept certain views from them that were considered too extreme or ridiculous.

### Adharmaloka

Adharmaloka, the "World of Injustice", is a world torn by war and tyrannies. It consists of one main continent divided into two halves, a round western half and a scattered eastern half.

At the centre of the eastern half is an arid plain, the former domain of the Bhumian Empire. Its collapse led to foreign invaders from the west and north to invade and enslave Bhumian realms. Formerly, the Bhumian Empire battled against the Kuruvid barbarians in the north, until they were brutally subsumed under the Davjanid Empire, which dominated almost the entire continent. The Bhumian civilisation was ruled by a thousand chakravartins, the last being beheaded by the third Davjanid emperor, Aarolam Afrindashan.

* Pale Liberators - west
	+ The Pale Liberators were ruled by an anti-religious government. They broke away from Davjanid viceroys to create a brutal world centred on Darwinism: the first state to become independent.
* Holy Davjanid Empire (Pompadours) - east
	+ The Holy Davjanid Empire was the previous superpower of the continent, having enslaved and oppressed the locals to build extravagant monuments for its emperors.
	+ The Davjanid religion, Farasfi, is a monotheistic religion that hates polytheism and older art. Although it was supposed to support progress, the Davjanids' corrupt rule instead manipulated the practice of Farasfi into stagnancy and autocracy.
	+ Ilumshair was the 555th emperor of the Davjanid Empire. His brutal revivalism and purism, and his spartan lifestyle, was celebrated in later times as making him a pure Servant of God. His dynasty, the Arangumbazids, continued his forceful policies and fed the very subculture of radicals who became the Black Pillars.
	+ Modern Davjanids became more hateful against any form of polytheism, as their people were persecuted in the independent realms as revenge for their ancestors' persecutions.
* Black Pillars - centre
	+ Although they also practiced the same monotheistic religion of the Davjanids, the Black Pillars denounced the Davjanid emperors as corrupt heretics who deserve to be brutally exterminated. As their realm of Gorumbaz was attacked by the Pale Liberators, they became so obsessed with their warrior culture, that they strictly followed the Seven Scriptures to wage a campaign of genocide against all non-believers.
	+ They were inspired by the five hundred fifty-fifth emperor of the Davjanids, Ilumshair the Illuminated, who used very brutal policies to slaughter thousands of heretics and nonbelievers and frighten them into obedience.
* The Enlightened Party - centre-east
	+ The Enlightened Party was the second state to break away from 700 years of Davjanid oppression. However, its founders believed that they must impose their atheistic beliefs on the rest of the world as the "pinnacle of evolution".
	+ They also denounced the Pale Liberators' lack of "modernity", making them bitter and brutal enemies of the latter. Wars were frequent between the indoctrinated fanatics of both western empires.
	+ Their realm was the northern part of Saharesha, a more-urbanised region and the former capital of the Davjanid elites.
* The Exiles - far east
	+ Banished by the Enlightened Party for being too liberal.
	+ In addition to their radical, extreme atheism, they also hate fireworks.
* Saffron Front - south
	+ The Saffron Front are the locals of Saharesha, the southern part of the continent. They once revolted against the corrupt Bhumian chakravartins, and having seen the brutality of their Davjanid tyrants, they sought to break away and form a theocratic state to preserve their own culture, however brutally it was done.
* The Decadent - centre-east
	+ The Decadent were the former zamindri of Saharesha, corrupt noblemen who bribed their way to autonomy during the Davjanids' era.
* Kuruvids - north
	+ The Kuruvid civilisation was founded by former nomads who were influenced by the Bhumians. During the arrival of the Davjanids and their collapse, the Kuruvids rode south to expand their domain under their Qoghan emperor.

### Doloria

Doloria, the "World of Pain", was a world ruled by an empire similar to America.

The Pale Horrors were the superpower of that world, ruling the eastern coast of its continent. The Grabgoss Theocracy rebelled against the Pale Horrors when it declined and collapsed, and the Wild Children emerged during the revolt from its outcasts.

* Pale Horrors
* Wild Children
* Grabgoss Theocracy
* Scarletists

### Grittis

* Securists, Secure Orthodoxy
* Devil's Children

### Madorin

* Dartorii
* Kultorii
* Meitorii
* Zartorii
* Klosarii

### Vlodorra

Vlodorra, the "Bloody World", was named as such due to a worldwide extermination that led to the dominance of the empire of Arischania. But due to another leader becoming more fanatical than the next Arischanian emperor, that world was later thrown into war again.

The superpower and only nation in that world was Arischania, which followed a very militant, racist form of mysticism. It worships three gods: the Race Spirit, the Emperor, and its mystic principles. Its people were blonde and blue eyed, but regarded other similar races (like the Heronoi later on) as inferior slaves.

After the death of its first Emperor, Grossweissreich split from the White Imperium, and the Butcher Lords emerged to began their slaughters in the northwest.

* Butcher Lords
* Grossweissreich
* Arischania White Imperium (The Pure Sons)
	+ Arischania was an empire located on the eastern half of its homeland. After slaughtering the other peoples of the world, their harsh civilisation thrived for ninety years before the death of its Emperor led to its western territories seceding into a more militant regime.
	+ It is at war with Grossweissreich to the west.

## See also

* Galactic Empires
* Derjonverse
* Hell
* Demons