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cobble-stone · 2 years

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Hello this is me asking about your fanmade empires. Do you have more than one and if so what’s your favorite

(I hope this ask gives you telemarketer vibes)

OOO yes anon i love you. if you are a telemarketer you have immediately sold me

my favorite. hmm.

i really like the most recent one i made, there’s no official name but it’s known as “The Kingdom of Light”

the premise is there’s two deities of sorts, Lumos and Nox. Lumos is one singular being, who controls the light, and Nox is like a hivemind of all the undead mobs created to balance Lumos. Too much Lumos causes the apocalypse, too much Nox also causes the apocalypse.

But that doesn’t mean the power doesn’t fluctuate, it’s a cycle based in every 1200 years. In order to keep the balance in this cycle, a prophet of Lumos is chosen when Nox is at it’s power, and a prophet of Nox is chosen when Lumos is at it’s strongest. This is chosen at birth, and sometimes people know they’re a prophet, other times they go their whole life not knowing, but being born with this instinct to bring light or protect the darkness.

My character would be from an ancient city, which are usually under the rule of Nox. However, he is a prophet of Lumos. He’s always felt some sort of connection to the light (one that many people from his home didn’t take to kindly) so once he learns, he leaves his home out of fear of rejection. He tried looking for a Lumonian city, but after failing, he created his own: the kingdom of light. (The export would be froglights, lanterns, candles, beacons, basically most of the common light sources in the game.)

However, his childhood of being raised in a Noxan city never quite left him, and while the empire is being constructed, a mysterious rift is found. My character would encounter this rift, and accidentally set a Noxan spell free, which essentially plunges the kingdom of light into an eternal darkness. And he can’t get rid of it, so instead he adapts to it, and he becomes the balance between Lumos and Nox.

and yeah! that’s the general concept, i feel like the kingdom itself would be in a dark oak biome to have contrast between the darker grass and the lighter color builds: the color palette would be sandstones, birches, whites, lots of bright colors and maybe accents of warped and sculk for contrast. kind of built in a victorian-fantasy style, likely (i’m predictable. it’s my favorite style to build in) and just kinda- there’d be this giant cloud of glass art, making the whole kingdom dark but it still glows with the light of things like floating lanterns, streetlights, candles everywhere, etc.

and just— i really like the concept, and how the whole theme is having to keep a balance instead of just your standard “light good dark bad,” and just having this character who gets thrown into this whole new world of realizing he’s a prophet of Lumos after living his whole life in a Noxan ancient city. (plus. i’m a sucker for characters who basically say “fuck you i’m following my heart,” even if it means leaving behind everything they once knew

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