Origin Story

Beginnings

In the beginning there was nothing

But then Time itself got bored.

By slowing down and speeding up, Time could create bursts of energy, creating and effecting materia. This is how the Yori portal was created, ripping space apart in a singularity.

From the portal many things was born.

As the Yalaxy formed, Time was content for a while.

As the eons passed, it wanted the Yori to make more and more exciting things, eventually directing its energy bursts at her to incentivise her creation.

The Yori was not happy being controlled by Time as everything she created drained her of life force.

She started to produce Yorms in her frustration. With a mouth shaped like a teardrop and large red eyes making them see the world in shadow. The Yorms were born of Rage and ascended on many planets, occupying forests or caves. Some traveling space, swimming like fish through the cosmos. They would get drawn to angry energy and team up with evil across the Yalaxy. A darker age had begun.

Yorms fight in packs and are very simple minded, they communicate as one and rarely have any demands for their masters. They are also unreliable as their attention span is short and they are somewhat cowardly. Even so, the yalaxy began to feel the fury of the evil that had been nesting in deep space.

Eventually Time pushed the Yori so hard that she birthed the Yachtipuss Queen. A fierce and powerful being filled with rage. The Yachtipuss started consuming the planets Yori had birthed with love and when she saw the monster she had created in retaliation she birthed the God of Rage to control the beasts.

Huge and powerful the Yachtipuss Queen is the mother of all the Yachtipuss tormenting the Yalaxy. With a mouth in the shape of a teardrop it eats the face of its prey and then absorbs its body into one of its tentacles. When the tentacles become too many she rips them off herself, throwing them into the void of the Yalaxy to grow a new head and become a new Yachtipuss. The Yachtipuss Queen can communicate with her ofspring through vibrations but they often stay far away as she tends to consume them.

Eventually Time coalesced into Yomni, who is an eternal being who was therefore actually before Time but also created it.

The Yomni is in its physical form a giant, looking very similar to the jelly based life-forms of yonians, often sitting amongst the planets, the Yomni cannot interfere directly with mortals.

Yomni is not an all controlling being but rather roaming around being unsure of its purpose, sometimes feeling used as all of the Yalaxy comes from it yet it cannot take part or interact, only observe and be experienced but too large for mortals to grasp.

The Yomni, being of a high vibrational state with the capability of slowing to focus can be everywhere at once or, when slowed / focused on a particular part of the Yalaxy it will cause a state in mortals called Ymsig. Its physical form is not hindering life to pass around it and pass through it. Although inside of the concentrated Yomni, mortals get filled with energy and kind of high which is a phenomenon they can’t explain. Ymsig is the state that every being enters when they passes through Yomni. As Yomni moves through the Yalaxy in its giant material but yet translucent form, materia passes through.

As the Yomni saw what the Yori had created it wanted to take part but merely felt like a visitor in the world, even though it had all originated from its own being. One night watching the Yachtipuss Queen up close with fascination the Yomni wanted to touch her.

With all of its longing and willpower it reached out and through an energy burst the Cryonis beasts was born. It had long feathers, resembling what yonians would later call a Blue Henix. As the largest of the giant space birds it had three beaks and is what is known in the ancient scrolls as the Yarghazar.

The Yomni was however not made for birthing beings and the Yarghazar was born in tremendous pain, its chest having a gaping hole and its eyes bursting with fury. Its wings vibrating with energy being an extremely powerful being made from a shard of Time itself.

As the Yachtipuss Queen and the Yarghazar saw each other they charged at one another as the Queen saw he was a rival to her supremacy and when their enormous energies collided the burst got inverted and they fused with each other causing a blackhole that swallowed all of space and time. But as the Yomni was eternal the cycle started again, it would seem the yalaxy was caught in a time loop. With only small variations in species the outcome would be the same.

In the middle of the doughnut of time loops there was a place called Yowland island. This is a place where Yomni is not present. If he goes there the energies of the time loops will implode and he will die.

Time stands still here and nothing grows. The lake in the doughnut hole is a mass of watery clouds being held in the middle by gravity. The island itself is frozen in ice, in the shape of an oval surfacing on both sides of the lake. The absence of time creates a forcefield around it where it is protected from the weight of the limeloops and yalaxy. It is said that those who go there does not age.



Yonians and the timeloops

In one of the loops the God of Rage wrote the scrolls of the Ancient Ledger describing how Yoris energy had created 8 teardrop crystals along with the yalaxy, these could be mended into a heart and placed inside of the Yarghazar to prevent the Yachtipuss attack and the fusion. To prevent the scrolls from being destroyed in the fusion she coated them in a substance she extracted from Yomni when it had been focused long enough. Space became heavily and densely concentrated by Ysmig and Yectoplasm started forming materially. This was hard to do as she was very affected by Ymsig and kept dropping her spoons.

Every cycle in the loop was a little bit different and in the current cycle after the Yomni had created the stars some of the leftovers from the ectoplasmic yello fell from the sky into a mud pool creating what would eventually be the Yonians. Yonians are made of Yello which has special properties giving them abilities like regeneration, absorption & conversion of matter.

Yonians don’t have mouths but they absorb their nutrients straight into their bodies. What the Yonian absorbs changes their color and appearance. If they would absorb monster parts for example they would mutate. They grow slowly over time and can reproduce by splitting itself in half a maximum of four times. They do this by spiting out a nimrod that lay in an orb to grow into a new Yonian. After the last split they will turn to orange dust.

Nimrods are pure energy and yello which makes them desirable for other yonians to absorb for filling up their energy reserves. Other species would also try to catch them and put them in containers hindering their development and using them in their space ship engines

Yonians keep track of time differently to a conventional way with calendars and clocks. In each community, Yonians have a seer. Most other species also have seers, or multiple depending on village or city size. These seers share the same bond across the yalaxy. They know things the common Yonian don't, seers examine and interpret the yalaxy and can lend insight into the future as they observe the skies above. They keep the calendar of the stars and let their communities know about important events.

To preserve their observations, they create a "yalactic passage" which is inscribed on a large canvas made from Yatadon skin. Rather than solely observing the revolution of the sun as a means of timekeeping, seers look deep into the cosmos and record the movements of the entire yalaxy which they inscribe on these skins. Seers are able to enter ymsig intentionally as opposed to being randomly subjected to it by the movement of Yomni. In a sense connecting their minds to it. Most don't know how to actually access Ymsig, they are limited by their senses and only feel drunk, therefore the Yoniverse puts its trust in the seers.



The squiggly line represents the high frequency “spirit” of Yomni. Yomni being both outside of spacetime and within it, but split into constituent parts: Ymisg, eternity spun inside the doughnut of loops and Yomnis own spirit/consciousness. In this representation, Yomni is outside of time, but creates time and space (The yalaxy) and puts itself inside of it into four parts: the Yachtipuss created through Yori, the Yori, the Yarghazar and the consciousness of Yomni.

The teardrop crystals

Lake Yonia is a space lake. Like a rift in space filled with a gas similar to mist and filled with long lost sunken planets where the inhabitants bodies have all been mummified and are now worn of creatures living in the lake roaming under the surface.

One of the planets houses Castle Yonia. The planet is so large that it’s gravity has caused neighboring planetoids to be sucked into its gravity well. They smashed into the planet’s surface, creating so many craters that it now appears a mountain range has formed around what is now called the sea of Yox, where the planet’s remnants have been drawn, as close to the core as possible.

The immense amount of molten ferrous ore that creates the gravity well will only cool when the slowly increasing elliptical of the planet’s orbit slingshots it away from the enormous star that it circles and into deep space. The sea would be boiling until the planet’s death.

It is said that the planet Yon was one of the victims of lake Yonia, and that it may hold the key to overcoming the Yachtipusses. The planet Yon was the home of the undertree which is a tree growing hollow in the ground creating tunnels with their vast roots.

Eventually the roots had taken over the entire planet and Yon was no more than a undertree shell. Before the final pieces of the core was absorbed as a nutrient to the planetary parasite that is the undertree it released a burst of energy creating one of the 8 teardrop crystals needed for mending the heart of the Yarghazar.

The yonian explorer Dr. Wise's crew is on a quest to find these crystals, along with pages of the ancient Ledger.

One of the continents on the planet Yonius looks exactly like a teardrop and the theory is that the whole planet is one of the crystals. Some think that one will need to break it to collect the crystal. On a yalactic scale, there’s no reason why this couldn’t be the case. The crystals could be in a variety of forms or sizes.

Some think the continent needs to come off. But how would you rip an entire continent from a planet? Maybe one could just stand on it to channel the energy from the continental crystal. Collecting the other 7 crystals and taking them to the continent. Hauling a continent-sized crystal around the Yalaxy might be a bit dangerous. Especially in hyperspace. But it all depends on how you trigger the crystals and how they would assemble. This is not certain as infomation about the crystals have been passed down through generations and the scrolls are needed for further understanding. The legend says you need 8 things to trigger the crystals after binding them together by touching the same yello. So a yonian could put them inside of itself or touch them and then you would need something to trigger. The stories say it has to be an act of true love, a birth, rage, sacrifice, time and forgiveness.

8 yonians are needed. Each absorbing a crystal and meeting in the same spot to perform the triggers to activate the crystals. The God of Rage learned and transcribed the method of repairing Yarghazar’s heart, and left it for future loops to find one day in The Ancient Ledger.

Yornholm

In Yornholm there is a hub for the fish transporter, allowing for fast transport through the yalaxy in giant space fish where you enter through their mouth resembling a staircase. There is also a university. Yonians are native but yunnys and yulf are commonly coming here to work and go to school.

The Yornholm university is the most regarded university in the nebulonic territory and many come there to seek the advice of scholars such as Dr.Wise or adventurers as Yaslax Yumpluffer the third. It is said that the Yornholm university also holds the most research material on the Ancient ledger as well as one of the mysterious teardrop crystals.

Many come to Yornholm to do business and set up their shops in the glass quarters. A spectacular part of the city center that is filled with luxury and offices. Several species from across the yalaxy use Yornholm as a hub of sorts as the planet is very well positioned in the middle of where the eastern quadrant meets the lakelands of Tangera.

North of the glass quarters lay New Fomo, prestigious art and culture blocks where many art DAOs have their head quarters and parties lasts for days. It is also a place to get the best street food such as chocolate covered Yorries, Fishshake or Yamanama pie.

To the west a more polished version of the Blackrack market houses stalls of merchants and resellers beside and in the canals of the city. There is said to be an underground market as well where the real wares being shipped in from the far of Blackrock market are actually sold.

In the east there are a few luxury houses with gardens, a zoo, a pet-store, some cafes and a sports arena where there are sometimes concerts. Incredible artists come to perform here, live or through augmented avatars. There are also a few areas for recreation such as bowling, paintball, golf, parkour and go-kart.

In the south there are residential areas where the melting-pot of people living on Yonius have their own land plots to build what they wish. As the land is rich with materials inhabitants often have a mine on their land collecting its resources to sell them to shopkeepers, lend them for interest or forging them into items.

Buildings are affected by the red dust floating around on Yonius. The dust covers most of the land on the planet and can cluster in the atmosphere to form islands in the sky. The waters are turquoise and the sand is a darker red.

The great wall is built in red blocks made of dust, it is in a remote location and is a remnant from the time before the Yoniphant war so it predates Yonians

Buildings in Yornholms are mainly made from metal sheets. This makes the city shimmer when you look at it from a far. The sands are petrified yello from dead yonians and it gets invasive if brought to new places.

There is an electromagnetic field around Yornholm trying to keep some of the sand out, though not very effectful.