World info

## Basic info

The Mantelverse is a fictional world created by the creator known as Mantelyeet\_Writes on AO3.

## Species

There are 3 species: Humans, Hybrids and Nymphs (more might be added in the future)

### HUMANS

These are just regular humans, but with magical abilities. They can have up to 3 abilities, if someone has more than 3, they are expected to be related to a god.

### HYBRIDS

These are humans with animal features. There are different types of hybrids, called levels. Here is a list of all the levels:

Level 1: only has ears or tail from an animal, not more then one thing relating to the animal

Level 2: has ears or tail + a characteristic of the animal (enhanced hearing/speed, etc.)

Level 3: has ears and tail (and wings if the animal has those)

Level 4: has ears, tail, (wings), and a characteristic from the animal

Level 5: has ears, tail, (wings), and a characteristic from the animal and can shapeshift into the animal

Level 5 hybrids are rare. Hybrids can have up to 2 abilities, and it has never happened before that a hybrid was related to a god. Hybrids are heavily discriminated against, and even illegally hunted down by a company called: The Hybrid Hunters. These levels are not rankings, its just how many features of the animal you have.

### NYMPHS

These are humans with pointy ears and sometimes they have wings. Nymphs live in forests, they are rarely found in cities. They can have up to 3 abilities and no nymph has ever been related to a god before.

### MERMAIDS

Mermaids live in basically any sea in the Mantelverse (including near the harbor of Dasaki). They're people with fish tails. They live in underwater cities, usually in houses with their friends or family, just like humans. They are all xenogender (meaning their gender can be described by objects and concepts rather than by masculinity, femininity or genderneutrality) and most of them want to be described as people, but there are mermaids who want to be described as men or women. They can breathe in water and out of water, but they'll dry out if they're on land for too long in their mermaid form. They can however transform into humans, but this can only last for one hour. The abilities they can have are also limited. The abilities a mermaid can have are:

1. Hydrokinesis

2. Hypnosis

3. The ability to allow other people to be able to breathe underwater for limited time

4. Talking to animals

## Abilities

Everyone gets 1 or more abilities when they turn 13. This ability is given by a crystal. Your crystal does not determine which ability you have, it's completely random. If a person has more than 1 ability, they also have more than 1 crystal (1 crystal per ability). These are always the same crystals, it's not possible to have 2 different crystals. If your crystal gets stolen/you lose it, you lose the ability attached to it, but the person stealing the crystal will have to kill the previous owner to be able to use the ability. Some parents take away their kids' crystals, but it's not often done. Kids who are under 13 years old can gain abilities by stealing someone's crystal and killing the person, but they're kids so it's not likely. If you kill someone in self defence, this does count as killing them and you get the crystal.

## After death info

### GHOSTS

Ghosts are people (Not limited to species, any species can become a ghost) who died who decided to come back, usually this is because 1. they have someone who really needs them or 2. they still have a task to do. Ghosts are just like regular humans, they still need food and sleep to be able to stay in the living world. Ghosts can only be murdered if you use a specific crystal, which isn't obtainable as a crystal you get when you turn 13. You need bloodstone, and sharpen it until it's sharp enough to stab. Once you used it once, it loses it's powers and can no longer kill ghosts. If you die, and don't have a crystal, you will not be able to speak or touch anything as a ghost. Ghosts still age, and you can still die of old age.

### THE AFTERLIFE

There are 3 segments of the afterlife: Nubila (place where good people go), Medius (Place where people arrive after dying) and Nocens (bad people place). When entering the afterlife, you arrive in Medius and get greeted by Nizema, the deity of Medius. They'll explain everything to you, and give you the choice of becoming a ghost or not. If you chose to not become a ghost, Fynn (god of Nubila) and Lonan (god of Nocens) will arrive, and take you to the part of the afterlife where you have to go. Nubila is an exact copy of the normal living people world, where people can just live in their own house again. Nocens is the real world, but it looks like a ghost town. There is also an option to completely stop existing, but this is dangerous and not many people pick it. You can't change your mind ever again, you'll be gone, forever.

## Groups and orginasations

### THE EREV

The erev (short for Erevnites) is an organisation who helps the police fight dangerous criminals. There are different groups of the Erev, group 1 (age 18 to 30) and group 2 (30 and older). These people must all have at least 5 years of fight training and must be 18 or older (Youngest member ever was 17, but that was an exeption, this person was adviced to join by an official police officer).

### THE HYBRID HUNTERS

The Hybrid Hunters (Short: HH) is an illegal organisation led by Ardit Aurum, the father of the Aurum family. This organisation is known to have killed more than 100 hybrids by using malicious robots. They also have a "charity" where people can send them money so they can create the robots.

### INIMICOS

Inimicos is an illegal organisation created by Alice Lepus, aka Malice. Not much is known about this organisation

## Cities and towns

The main city is called Dasaki, which is a pretty big city known for its performance hall, harbor and mall. It's the biggest city in the surrounding area. The second biggest city is Limni, which is located on an island in the sea which is the purpose of the Dasaki Harbor. Limni is a quite old city and it's not as up to date with technology as Dasaki is. It's not that popular either. There's two towns close to Dasaki and Limni, which is Lofous and Ligos, but these are quite small and their living style is closer to that of Dasaki. There's a city which is bigger than Dasaki on an island quite far away. Its called Spasmenos and has been ruled over by the Pyram family for a long time. There has been a recent tragedy involving this family, more about that will be said about that on the page about the Pyram family.

## The school system

The schools in the Mantelverse have a special system. From age 5 until age 12 you're in primary school, and when you turn 13 and recieve your crystal, you go to middle school, you go to a school where, apart from the usual subjects, you also have ability training. You graduate this when you're around 17 or 18.

The system overall works like this:

Age 13/14 - First grade

Age 14/15 - Second grade

Age 15/16 - Third grade

Age 16/17 - Fourth grade

Age 17/18 - Fifth grade

The uniform is pretty genderneutral, because you can choose between pants and skirt when you join the school. The overal uniform is a white t-shirt, a jacket in the color of your crystal, black shoes with white socks and either a black skirt with a bow in the color of your crystal, or black pants (short in summer, long in winter) with a stripe the color of your crystal on the bottom.