General Worldbuilding

Hi everyone! As I’ve said before, Alaris is a fantasy-romance visual novel that I’m currently working on. It incorporates elements of both dragon and fairy lore. It takes place in a fantasy world after a huge war that occurred thousands of years ago. To help with worldbuilding, I wanted to give some information about some of the history of the world and what it’s like so you’re all familiar with the elements of Alaris and maybe some key terms that may come up when I talk about it! 

History

Fantasy/ magic is a well-known and established element of the game in current times. Dragons were once living creatures that did exist among humans thousands of years ago, but in order to better sustain their race, they imbued their energy into the earth, believing this would cause them to live on through nature and humans. Now, humans are able to tap into this dragon energy themselves. Because dragon energy was imbued into the Earth, it ended up being “absorbed” in a sense by humans. Most humans are born with some sense of dragon energy now and may have powers in accordance with that.

There is a sense of power-scaling in this world. Some people are stronger than others and this largely depends on how much dragon energy they have access to. Dragon energy is partially hereditary but how much you have may also depend on where you were born - some parts of the world are hot spots for dragon energy! For those with lots of dragon energy, there can sometimes be physical markers for this, whether it’s actual draconic features, magical tattoos, etc. 

Current Setting

In the current setting for the game, you will play as an MC living in a virtually utopian society. Once humans were able to access dragon energy, they shifted towards a more natural-style of living in order to better access dragon energy and use it. Now, everything is powered by dragon energy rather than maybe more “industrial” things that we are familiar with. For example, electricity is powered by those who have electric dragon power or electric dragon energy spots in the world. 

Because people can do different things based on their dragon energy, there are new jobs that have come up over the years as well. One of these is called “Drakes”, and these are people who are maybe most similar to what we would call heroes. They don’t exclusively “fight crime” but may moreso handle things that require physical altercations. One example is the “Overtaken crisis” that has been happening in the game, which is when people are overtaken by their dragon energy and enter a state of violence and mindlessness (reasons for this are currently unknown in the story!). 

Another job that has popped up are “Hydras”, and these people are similar to what we would consider healers or monks. They help with healing people through their dragon energy and can also help people get more aligned with their own energy. Both Drakes and Hydras work under an entity called “Central”, which is something similar to a governing/ administrative figure. While MC is a healer, they do not work under Central because they work as a freelance/ traveling healer. 

Hopefully this will help once I start posting things regarding the cast, setting, game, etc.! I know it’s a huge information dump, but since this is taking place in a world I’ve created and my own magical system, I want to give some information on it so people aren’t confused by all the different terms I write out. If you have any questions about the game, its premise, etc. I’d love to hear from you over at my Tumblr! Character profiles will be uploaded to the project page in the near future as well, so I hope you all look forward to that~