I haven't really gotten to talk about the Ender Dragon yet in the Minecraft AU, and you guys really liked the worldbuilding of oreposting for whatever reason, so we're talking about her now.
To clarify first and foremost: Jean (the dragon) is an intelligent and fully sentient creature. She knows and can speak every spoken language of this world, knows your name, knows every little thing about you, being seemingly omniscient despite having never met prior. That being said, she is not an unfair fighter and is not malicious in nature.
Dragons existed in much greater numbers long ago, though now the only ones you can find are in Ender. The Endermen are direct evolutionary descendants of these other dragons spread through the infinite realm - but not of Jean specifically.
Despite this, historical writings would often (inaccurately) refer to her as "The mother of a thousand children." She is not capable of reproduction and is a fully sexless being.
Her relations to the Endermen are begrudging, serving only to have a brutal mutualistic relationship. The Ender dragons (not just Jean) allow them to eat from the chorus fruit trees within their territory so they may not starve, as well as spawn their own young, and the Ender dragons gets their fair share of food in return... by eating some of the Endermen.
The Endermen are rather intelligent creatures in their own way, and they often escape to other dimensions to attempt to live a different life that isn't under the "rule" of the dragons, but quite a few are set in their ways because it's what they know. It's the circle of life they've become familiar with as they subject themselves to it for the sake of survival.
Jean is unique in that she is "manufactured" in a way. Not to say that she is artificial, far from it, but that she's not a naturally made dragon. She's to the Universe what Cerberus is to the gates of hell, only existing and serving to guard and provide a challenge if necessary. She knows the rules and is respectful of them, and will never be afraid to die again.
Much like a phoenix, with each death she is reborn. Upon being slain, she retreats back to the egg from whence she came many times before, only to re-emerge 10,000 years later.
When Jean finds her way back into the world, the knowledge of the return manages to find its way into the minds of everyone as a call to action. Though slaying the beast right away is not necessary per say, its better not to delay, as the longer one waits, often the more the idea will eat away at them.
Much like how the Wither represents the concept of inevitability, Jean represents the repeating cycle of the world - whether it be the persistence in humanity to come back time and time again, the cycle of her own return and inevitable death, or the tendency this world has to repeat itself over and over.
The Universe works in mysterious ways, and she is no exception to its design.
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kinda curious about your ocs not gonna lie. bestow me with information, dear mootie
Ok Ok Ok SO
My story is called the redwood chronicles or just redwood hollow, I mostly call it redwood chronicles to separate the story from the location but still.
Here's my like intro speech cause I'm going through and writing out as much as I can for this anyway:
(TWO stories under the cut maybe read if u like original fiction or you're bored or whatever pleaseeeeeeee)
When Mother Nature created the earth she tried to populate it, but after countless days and nights of work she realised she could not do it on her own, and so she built The Creators. The Creators were beings of pure existence, imbued with the ability to build creatures that followed the simple rules Mother Nature laid out.
Together The Creators and Mother Nature populated the earth, watching as their beings grew and changed, and they loved their creations deeply.
One Creator spent it's time creating animals to fill the world, the second created flora to decorate the earth, and the third found a passion project of it's own.
The third Creator slowly molded apes until they stood upright, changing their brains, building their bodies, making these beautiful creatures it loved so much. These were called humans.
The three creators stayed with Mother Nature, working with her, until one day she decided their work was done. But to thank them for their kindness, Mother Nature decided to break her own rules.
She gave each of The Creators the ability to do one thing outside of physic's laws, and after great debate the three chose to modify the third Creators pride and joy, the humans.
The first Creator built the Therianthropes, giving them animal traits, she made people with wings and people who could breathe underwater, people who could see in the dark and people who could run at speeds rivaling the fastest land animals.
The second Creator made the Sylvans, giving them the ability to communicate with plants, Sylvans could move vines and grow flowers at will, they could diagnose diseases in crops and understand the stories of the trees.
The third Creator looked at it's siblings, and their love for their fauna and flora, and how they bestowed that love onto these precious creations it loved so much, and felt unqualified. The third Creator loved it's humans more than anything, but had nothing to show for it.
And so, the third creator made the Soulbounds. Blessing it's humans with the love it felt for them by giving them people who they were eternally bound to, people who would fulfill their lives, put the world into colour, make them whole. Soulmates.
Mother nature returned The Creators to herself, and used their spirit to continue to populate the world, using their power how they would have wanted, to care for the earth they made.
Ok yeah so that's the main background for the story BUT THEN
Victoria never remembered a time before she knew the woman in green, she was told she was once part of a village, who threw her out with no rhyme or reason. Victoria couldn't care less for those people.
The lady in green cared for Victoria, teaching her biology, history, sciences, raising her to be a person to be proud of. Victoria loved her life in the tall forests, the lady in green called the trees redwoods, said they were the tallest in the world, but Victoria just knew them as her home.
Victoria celebrated her birthday on the day of the most sun, she danced with the flowers, she befriended the plants, she lived in peaceful isolation with the lady in green, until her 14th birthday.
On the earliest morning of the year, when the summer sun penetrated the all encompassing trees, Victoria met with the lady in green.
"It's time, Victoria," the lady spoke. "You're old enough I'd say."
Victoria followed the lady in green, her raven-black wings working twice as hard to carry her to match the lady's unnaturally long steps.
"Where are you taking me?" Victoria asked.
The lady in green did not respond, she just continued.
The forest slowly eased, and somehow the trees taller than comprehension, faded like there was nothing there, until Victoria found herself in a village.
"Wait, we can't be here-" Victoria gasped, flying onto a thatched roof to avoid the eyes of the people below. The lady in green landed softly on the roof next to the girl and stroked her wild black hair.
"I have never told you, Victoria, but I have a different name." The lady stared down at the people, and despite her shadow blocking the sun from the street below, no one seemed to notice her.
"What?"
"I am the creator, the heart of the planet, the life soul, my name dear, is Mother Nature."
Victoria bit her lip and stared at the lady in green. "You're joking..."
"I am not."
"Why did you decide to play mother to me then? There must be thousands of children without parents, why me?"
Mother Nature turned to look, and stroked Victoria's hair again.
"Because I want you to be my spirit guide."
Victoria didn't get any time to wonder what on earth she was talking about, before Mother Nature stood and jumped off the roof, her sudden drop not being noticed by a single person.
"Come! I need to show you your job."
In spite of her fear, Victoria followed, flying down and following behind the Mother like a lost dog.
The Mother led Victoria down a narrow street, where the stench of death filled her nose, Victoria tried not to gag as her eyes began to water with the putrid stench. People were moving past at great speed, none looking Victoria in the eye.
"Finally! Oh lord Ma'am finally someone who can see me!" A man cried out, reaching for Mother Nature, then missing and going for Victoria instead. "Oh lord you have to help me this isn't right nothing is right!" The man screamed, Victoria could see boils covering his chest and limbs where the tunic he wore hung low off his sallow flesh. But what made Victoria run backward with a shriek was the black rotting flesh on the ends of his arms where he reached towards her.
"Silence!" Mother Nature commanded, "Step away from my daughter sir she is still young."
"Why can you see me?" The man demanded, "Why can't my wife or the doctors or the priest see me but you can?"
"Because you are dead," the Mother explained calmly, "And my daughter is going to guide you to your place of rest."
"I am?" He said in shock as Victoria echoed him in indignation.
"Where the hell is his place of rest?!" Victoria demanded, "you haven't explained anything!"
"Just take him home, Victoria; back the way we came."
Victoria sighed and turned on her heel, she looked again at the man, noting his brightly coloured eyes indicative of a Soulbound, which meant he wouldn't be able to fly. So with annoyance she led the way out of the town, to the edge where she and Mother Nature had emerged.
"So now what? The Redwoods aren't here?" Victoria asked.
"Just keep walking, you'll find your way home," Mother Nature said softly. The motherly tone reminding Victoria of the genuine love she felt for her carer. So Victoria picked a direction and kept walking.
Suddenly it felt like the world shifted like waves around her, the sky turned dark and the ground moved unnaturally, trees began to appear where she could have sworn no trees were before. Without looking back Victoria powered on, walking through the trees until the roots began to swallow them. And once Victoria felt she had finally been lost, she saw the clearing with her small home in it, and sighed in relief.
"What is this?" The man asked, considering everything he seemed like a good sport.
"Do you feel it?" Mother Nature asked. "The sun?"
"Yes," he said, without thinking.
"Do you smell it?"
"My wife's cooking?"
"Yes! Walk to it, your home is there."
The man seemed stupefied, walking into the centre of the clearing, Victoria tried to follow him with her eyes, but felt the sun brighten like it was welcoming him, peering out the glare became to strong and Victoria blinked away the sun. But once her eyes adjusted, he was gone.
"You will be a guide now," Mother Nature explained. "Your job is to lead the souls of the departed to me, so I may have their spirits."
"Is he happy?" Victoria asked, brows furrowed.
"He is no longer, but it is not a sad fate, like the cycle of water or the circle of the food chain, all that dies creates life. He is gone, but from him more life will appear. It is not a sad fate."
"It sounds sad to me," Victoria frowned.
"It would be awfully sad if a child as young as you were to die, yes, but he was ready."
Victoria sat down in the middle of the clearing, staring up at the infinitely tall trees, and Mother Nature sat next to her.
"A bird was just hatched," Mother Nature said quietly. "I think he helped."
"Is this my fate?" Victoria pondered. "To be the destruction of life?"
"No my dear," Mother Nature hushed. "You are the birth of it."
Oh my goodness and that's not even the actual story yet omg- Ok gimme a bit to go find my thing about Victoria and rewrite it to make it not terrible, and I'll tell you how the actual Plot begins.
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What rpgs do you recommend? This blog made me find out about a lot that ive never heard of and wanna play some day ^_^
Ohhh hello!! I think it depends on what you like in an rpg in general or what rpgs you played before and your priorities!
For me the main elements I want are characters and good story, but characters will always be first so I basically only play rpgs with companions. I also love romance but I tend to play only queer romances so I mainly play rpgs that allow me to play a wlw or mlm romance.
You can also check my series of useless recs and what to expect for different recs!
Let me know what kind of games you'd like to play and I can give some more personalized recs!
In general my absolute favorites are (divided in types)
ISOMETRIC (so a lot to read, and you look everything from above):
Pathfinder Kingmaker: amazing character, fav polyamorous romance with a lady elf and an orc guy, the story is okay and the mechanics are fine, but the characters really make it shine.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous: incredible customization of player character, great companions and romances, AMAZING story and villain. The mechanics and gameplay are like Kingmaker and not my favorite, but here they added turn based.
Pillars of Eternity (and sequel): amazing amazing story and very well created characters, the romances are not my favorite but I still love Tekehu!
Rogue Trader: this is set in a very bleak world where everyone is a villain so well, everyone is horrible. It is still quite a fun game if you do not mind the setting! And it has one of the most messed up romances ever (Marazhai)!
Shadowrun Hong Kong: I love the setting and the companion so much, but no romance.
Expediton Viking: Historical setting is not my favorite, but the game is still quite good and allows you do play as an usual companions rpg. It also has romanced!
DISCO ELYSIUM: I know I said I mainly play games with romances, and this has none, but everyone in the world should play Disco Elysium. One of the best isometric rpgs ever made.
Divinity Original Sin 2: If you liked BG3 maybe you will like this one too! The tone is much more humorous and absurdist, the story is quite good and the companions are amazing. The romances are also pretty good and as BG3 you can play as one of the companions.
ACTION RPG (is this even the name? Rpgs like Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate 3, so you can see the characters, and they speak)
Of course these need no introduction (but I put them in order of how much I love the companions and romances): Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Origins, Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda, Mass Effect trilogy.
Enderal: If you have Skyrim you can easily install Enderal for free, it is a mod but it is an indipendent game with its lore and characters. The only game that destroyed me and makes me cry when I think about it, so... play at your own risk. Amazing romances, incredible story.
The Technomancer: While the gameplay is a bit repetitive, the game is still pretty good! The characters are all interesting and the romance is kind of cute even if short.
OTHERS:
Sorcery!: This is an rpg that is basically the adaptation of a text game. It is absolutely perfect, one of my favorite games ever. It also has one of my favorite romances (Flanker)
Not exactly classic rpgs but still amazing: (I just wanted to recommend two of my favorite games that have roleplay elements):
Heaven's Vault
Dreamfall chapters (and the series in general)
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