Mondas

Located in the Black Eye Galaxy, Mondas is the home of the Mondasians. Mondas is the twin planet of the Milky Way Galaxy's Earth, coincidentally having similar geography, species, and cultures. Mondas is the only planet in the Black Eye Galaxy known to have life.

## **Universe 1**

Mondas was created by Durga as a practical joke against Rudra. She made it alike in the image of Earth and destined it to develop similarly. Despite its divine creation, Mondas went unmonitored by the gods for eons.

### **Humanity's Fall**

After Durga's chosen hero to save Earth, Raji, failed and humanity fell to Mahabalasura, Durga returned to Mondas. She took solace in discovering that at least her human look-alikes were safe, and devoted herself to protecting the Mondasians in place of humanity.

### **Alice in Wonderworld**

10 years after she began protecting Mondas, Durga noticed one of her people was missing from Mondas' London. 7-year-old Alice was taken to the Balan Theater and kidnapped by Balan, whisked away to Wonderworld. Angered by the slight, she created Lance and the Negati, sending them to Wonderworld to fight Balan and return Alice to Mondas. After Alice returned to Mondas on her own unharmed, Durga realized it was a misunderstanding and called off her assault on Wonderworld.

#### **Aftermath**

The night after Alice returned to Mondas, her parents and their mansion were caught in a fire. Alice survived and was institutionalized. Because of Alice's actions in Wonderworld, however, Wonderworld gradually became twisted to reflect the torture she was going through. Balan stopped coming to Mondas, and his theater went abandoned.

### **Shadow Children**

A sorceress discovered the magical Balan Theater and took up residence inside. Within its walls, she practiced the latent magic it possessed--rearranging its non-Euclidean interior, transmuting the world to black and white and creating portals--and honed some magic of her own. She discovered the Shadow Realm and a hooded girl inside it, immediately becoming obsessed with entering it. She began creating effigies to cast children's shadows, creating the Tome of Shadows to try and enter, and practicing spells to possess the dolls.

One night, she was successful. Experimenting on a cat, she successfully sent it into the Shadow Realm, but she still couldn't enter; she could only send others. The sorceress then lured local children into her theater and captured them inside the effigies, ordering them to find and capture the hooded girl. The shadow children, upset by being kidnapped, didn't obey the sorceress. So she locked them up inside a crystal ball and started work on a new plan: Iris.

#### **Iris**

Instead of using real children to do her bidding, the sorceress set to work giving life to one of her dolls, which she named Iris. Iris came to life and was granted the appearance of a normal Mondasian child, as well as a normal life. The sorceress placed her inside a house in London, letting her get accustomed to living on Mondas and worldly experience, until one night, the sorceress projected visions of the theater and the Shadow Realm into her dreams. Iris returned to the theater and entered the Shadow Realm, all according to her creator's plans. When she found the hooded girl, however, the girl led her to the kidnapped children and together they freed them all. Iris and the girl then tore apart the Tome of Shadows, sealing off the Shadow Realm and collapsing the theater on top of the sorceress. With the sorceress dead and both hers and the theater's magic gone, Iris too reverted to being just a doll. Balan later returned to the theater and strung Iris up as a marionette to be used in his shows.