Enter Ayonerra
What is Ayonerra?
Ayonerra is the last surviving planet birthed by the Sun / Shemokmedi. Its planetary task is yet to be fulfilled.What is Shemokmedi?
The Sun / Shemokmedi is a gveleshapi. It turned into a star as protection against the pursuing Sheutsnobeli.Shemokmedi formed planets around itself and assigned each one a unique task. A native who fulfilled the challenge attained godhood and became Shemokmedi’s guardian, while their planet was destroyed.
The Sun’s only driving force is self-preservation. Shemokmedi punishes disobedient inhabitants by sending its children - Amaars.
What are Gveleshapni?
Gveleshapni are enormous creatures wandering through the cosmos. For self-defence, a gveleshapi turns into a star.Stars are sources of magic for several races (dunyars, menes'has and bahhrayms).
Amaars - Children of Gveleshapni. Living beings exposed to Amaar breath become terrifying chirakis. There are three distinct Amaar types:
s Core Amaars – The dormant cores of the planets.
s Land Amaars – Smaller variants, acting as the star’s messengers and punishers. The light cast by their wings can engulf entire towns.
s Cosmic Amaars – The largest Amaars, birthed by dying stars. Only they can become Gveleshapni.
Who is Med’Hea?
Med'Hea is the survivor of the now-destroyed planet Sept’Ambra. She seeks revenge against Shemokmedi, keeping it dormant and ensuring it never regains freedom.She has imprisoned Sheutsnobeli inside her son Mye'Norr's body.
Med’Hea monitors Ayonerra with her order – the Saammai.
She opposes anything that could tamper with her idea of balance.
Which races live on Ayonerra?
Hskaner - Ayonerra’s native race. Giant lights wearing armour.
Dunyars - people linked to different stars, giving them various abilities unique to an individual.
Menes'has – horned and winged people with body control magic.
Bahhrayms - white-haired and eyed people. Tsukaites/Tonemaqi are blessed women who telepathically move the weapons they forge themselves and use star's magic that gets reflected off them.
Dharaats - metallic people with enhanced resilience. Dharaats gain magic after praying inside Goddess Apor’s six temples. Their bodies harden as solid metal after death.
Stagyars - elemental people. Can turn into an elemental form untouchable by basic weapons.
Bound Ones - Stagyars' elemental animal siblings. Have intelligence of a 14-year-old human.
Aakhirs – bird-like people with incredible eyesight and illusion magic.
K'nksh - mysterious four-armed and metallic-skinned humans, lacking noses and mouths.
Nikophsis – a mixed race of stagyars, dharaats and dunyars. They possess metallic hair and nails, dark brown skin and elemental magic.
Where next?
As the legendary chiraki hunter, Xander would say, “Go to depths!”Explore celestial beings and characters, major events like calendar-splitting Rain of Amaars / Deaf Fall, lost civilisations and more!
This is a great introduction to the world; I’ve read some other articles in this setting, and this clarifies things I hadn’t quite put into their context yet. Is there a pronunciation guide somewhere? I’m pretty sure that my initial guesses for how to pronounce some of these is way off base.
That's great to hear! I plan on learning IPA soon and writing the pronunciations in the articles!
That’s fantastic! I’ve been learning IPA for the same reason; being able to put IPA words into http://ipa-reader.xyz/ and hear them spoken helped a lot.