Verdera

Dear Diary of Worldbuilding...   Do you know how our world was created? (I bet you don't. You're just a bundle of yellowed paper after all...)   Then let me tell you a tale of powerful deities and their creations, of miracles and catastrophes, of friendships and betrayals. Our world wasn't built on a day (or seven), but over thousands of years of struggles, perseverance, and divine interventions.   Our world is ruled by six deities, each representing an element, and each responsible for creating and protecting one of the sentient races:   The Mother Deity of the Fairies represents Nature   The Creator Czerbelo of the Demons represents Magic   The Saint Napfény of the Angels represents Air   The Builder Rockwall of the Dwarves and Giants represents Earth   The Drifter Villi of the Merpeople represents Water   and the Starter Ka'oh of the Shape-shifters represents Fire   As far as we know, the deities wanted their special creations to be friends with each other and share the world they created with such love and hard work (one day I'll tell you all the myths and gossip about how well they all got on with each other. There's some really juicy stuff there). But unfortunately for them, the special creations weren't always interested in friendship.   (Particularly the demons. It's always the demons.)   Demons have a thing for kidnapping people from other races and putting them in their army to fight pointless wars for territory against other demons. They've been doing it for longer than anybody can remember and don't seem likely to stop anytime soon. We all hate them.   Dwarves and giants are the most anti-social creatures ever. They live their entire lives isolated in the mountains - the dwarves inside, spending their days is hand-dug caves, and the giants outside guarding the entrance to such caves. Nobody knows how they don't die of boredom.   Angels think they're more special than anybody else because they have floating cities in the sky and are the only beings demons still respect and are sort of afraid of. They're snob arseholes, but we tolerate them because they keep the demons in check (and because they rarely venture under the clouds anyway).   Merpeople built entire empires under the seas that nobody in the surface ever heard about. They have a rich history and culture, but it's kind of a waste on everybody else because it's not like we can go there to see it. I think nobody really cares about them?   Shape-shifters are dynamic inventors, quick-thinkers, advocates for chance. So much so they can't even keep the same appearance for more than five minutes. It's either disorienting or extremely irritating. Or both. Unless they dye their hair your favourite colour just to make you smile. Then it's kinda cute.   And then there are the fairies. We are here to love and protect nature and all those who are part of it. We're forbidden to kill any living being, it's our biggest sin.   I'm a fairy. I killed my step-father. This is my world, and this is my story.