Let Us Make A Setting Cont

As a continuation from this thread: , lets continue fleshing this stuff out, Veeky Forums. But first, some rules:
1. Take concepts, characters, and locations from other posts and try to build them up and refine them
2. Expand specific parts of the world and their background, before moving on to others.
3. Don't go full wall of text. Keep it simple for the most part.
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And with all that said, let us continue. Allow me to star once more:
>Childer are highly emotionally-stunted, and thus it is difficult for them to connect well with most people, and socialization can be an incredibly annoying affair for them, especially when it takes time away from combating Disease.

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>In addition to the vampire strain a very common strain of the Disease is named "Shroud" which causes victim's biological matter to enter a gaseous state of black smog. While not all of the afflicts body is turned into this smog they are very light weight as a result and are commonly found attempting to sabotage the air filters at vaults as the disease is airborne.

>Fortunately for most, pure, untainted air is deadly to Shroud, and causes them to break apart and disperse should they be exposed to it. As such, methods have been developed in order to harness and refine said air as a means of combating this particular Strain.

>Due to a Shroud's tendency to completely dissipate upon death studying their biochemistry is incredibly difficult. Shrouds are hard to detect and most rely upon stealth and infiltration to spread Disease.
>This stealth and precaution is forgotten when Shroud gather in large numbers called a "Miasma" these large groups of Shroud will have members run ahead of the group to die and cover their victims vision with thick black smog acting as a cover for the remainder of the group to charge.

>Some Shrouds are capable of 'speech', but most of what they say usually revolves around the all-consuming nature of the Disease, and how "Mankind is doomed or a slow death amidst tainted stars".
>Nevertheless, some interesting information has been gleaned from the creatures, and many notes and research-files have been written following encounters with the more intelligent variants of this Strain.

>The Most intelligent of the shrouds is the one who vault militia men have taken to informally naming "Smokey".
>Smokey actually still wears human clothes and has been observed to be a respected individual of the Shrouds being capable of speaking lengths are far reaching as entire sentences.
>To the exorcist who train the Childer Smokey is to be exterminated with haste.

>The northern parts of the world are nearly completely inaccessible due to an immense black "Wall" that has almost completely overtaken most of the northern colonies. All contact with the Childer that were stationed there has been lost.

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>a heretical splinter of the Catholic Church believes that the world is undergoing the end-times and soon the blowing of the Seventh Trumpet, the War in Heaven and the rise of the Beast of the Sea will occur
>they have formed into a violent crusade who intend to force as much of humanity as they can lay their hands on to convert and repent before the Judgement

>Olympians will occasionally make exceptions to their murderous hatred for surfacers and take certain Operators and Childer under their wing, giving them valuable training and equipment
>some decyphered communications from the Olympian's channels shows them evaluating these charges for 'Ascendance Potential'
>those whose AP value falls below or above a certain threshold disappear and are never seen again

These "Fanatics" as they've been called, are despised by Exorcists, Operators and Childer alike, mostly because their insane actions usually make it easier for various Strains to spread freely.
>Despite this hate though, the Fanatics are also openly mocked by Childer and Operators, simply because of how foolish they are for trying to assault the last bastions of hope for all life.

>the Vault of Anchorage has abandoned the general horror of Childer due to its reliance on them to defend against the Afflicted of the Great Polar Zone
>every generation boys who fail to meet the eugenics quotas are deliberately infected with the Strain. Those who live become the first line of defense against the horrors outside the walls, those who die are honored as heroes who gave their life for the nation.
>it is a great honor to have a Childer in the family and they can assume positions of great power and influence despite the matriarchy due to the seniority their agelessness can give them

>the Fanatics return the hatred of Childer with even greater disgust, believing them to be nothing more than a demon-possessed corpse
>one of the most reliable ways to be elected to sainthood in the warhost is to personally slay a Childer

>a substrain of Childer have managed to internalize the gravity anomalies of these zones
>a generally restive and nomadic lot, they've developed a great deal of infamy for their disregard of the consequences of their actions and their quickness to steal from the settlements they encounter.

Don't we already have a mad cult dedicated to spreading the Disease? Let's not get it crowded also remember the Olympians already do the crusade thing.

Olympians don't really crusade, they just throw bombs at you or gas your vault if you look like a potential threat

>This however has not stopped the United Ascendancy from attempting to break through this wall.
>They have blamed the exorcist, Olympians, and even some of their own who they brand traitors for the existence of this great wall.
>The Ascendancy believes whatever controls the Disease must be behind the wall and as such it must be destroyed
>The Bastion of forces stationed at a safe distance from this wall is the 2nd most defended location in their "Empire" topped only by New York itself.

Okay how about we blend the Church of the Grim father and this splinter sect of Catholicism and just say this splinter group sees the disease as the personification of God's Grace and accepting the Disease is the path to heaven although the process may be quite Grim it is done so the true believers may join the Father hence the name.

>one of the most controversial genres of romance literature post-Outbreak is Childer Love
>written for the consumption of women CL fetishizes homosexual relationships between two or more Childer, commonly a younger recently turned Childer and an older mentor turned lover
>CL has been banned by many settlements under obscenity laws and are a common target of Fanatic invective in their sermons, despite this a thriving underground smuggles these works around through samizdat
>Childer are often baffled by it, many being so emotionally deadened by their nature that love or lust is beyond them

I don't think Fanatics do spread the Disease, I think they just beat people up in the name of Jesus Christ.

>tfw there's already Childer smut being made, despite the nature of the Childer themselves
Godfucking dammit. What next? Childer tentacle-porn involving the Childer creating actual tentacles from their flesh?

That's what I'm saying combine the Grim Father with the fanatics adding some origin to the Church besides that it's patriarchs created a completely new strain of the disease.

On the Topic of Childer what is their power level comparable to?
Thinking Tenno from Warframe they seem pretty similar so far.

>the population of New York lives in a warren of tunnels carved out from the old subway systems
>the skycrapers are used for vertical hydroponic farms and as watchtowers from which to cull the Afflicted population that throngs the streets below
>no one drives in New York, it's too crowded
Have you ever met a fujo? The nature of Childer is a draw, not a turn-off

>As the Disease does not seem to affected Plant based life most citizens of New York live a vegetarian life style with uncontaminated meat being a very rare commodity
>While the united ascendancy looks down upon the usage of Childer this does not stop them from accepting their assistance in purging quarantined areas of the city.
>While highly militaristic the government of the United Ascendancy is undeniably a Republic.

I imagine that it's somewhere between the starship-devastating Tenno, and the hilariously ridiculous, auto-reviving bullshit that are Destiny's Guardians.

>denying the United Ascendancy is a republic has been declared a felony
>that all the candidates come from a small number of families who dominate the officer corp does not compromise the democratic nature of the UA and it is a treacherous assault on national morale to say otherwise

I see the operators as being like Guardians minus the magic (not direct super soldiers but still damn good at what they do) while Childers are Tenno. Warrior immortal """"children"""" with abilities comparable to supernatural beings who the majority of simply follow the commands and assignments of the Exorcist.

>rumor abound of collaborations between the Gravitic Chider and NASA
>UA Intelligence has been able to confirm that these Childer often wander in cycles that lead back to the NASA base at the ruins of Houston but has not been able to determine for what purpose

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>a UA walking wall, these heavily armor mechsuits are primarily used against Horde-type strains and if necessary, riot suppression.

>Colonel Patricia Newman in one of the few 1st generation VETERAN cybernetic bodies
>conceived of as a way to give heavily wounded soldiers a second shot at life, the VETERAN bodies came to be repurposed as a way to make soldiers who had as little to fear from infection as the Childer do
>the brain and much of the spinal cord is removed from the original body and transferred into a hermetically sealed life support system inside the robotic chasis, nutrients are carried in battery-like packs and inserted into a clever little system that allows only the nutrient solution in the battery in, nothing from the outside
>later generations of VETERAN would abandon the humanoid face as an unnecessary expenditure, though such are available as pricey modifications

>Another Strain of Disease known as Blanks is a condition that slowly turns the victim's features including personality, beliefs, and physical capabilities to be in line with one specific person the very first to be infected with this Strain
>Victims suffering under this condition are prone to mood swings, split personalities and other disorders relating to individual personality
>Once fully converted Blanks slowly move across the dead lands occasionally resting while tears sprout from their closed eyes.

To sum up the United Ascendancy is
>the largest state in the world
>composed of remnants of the members of the United Nations Security Council
>nominally a democracy, in reality a military oligarchy dominated by high-ranking families in the military
>has the most advanced military in the world with mechsuits and cyborgs forming a major part of their armed forces
>much of their military is tied up defending against the Great Polar Zone and their Headquarters in New York
>tolerates Childer as long as they are useful, but is known to purge both Childers and Operators in the name of saving humanity
>is hostile to the point of paranoia towards the Exorcists, Olympians and other factions
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Well summed up user I say we flesh out what civilian life is like in the UA and we're good.

>At the age of 12 both men and women receive mandatory military training and each specialize in one specialist category (demolitions, medical training, ordnance management)
>Training ends at age 15 after which Civilians are allowed to return to their families or stay in the military .

Men getting military training? Does the UA in its germaphobia manage to keep their civilian population from getting exposed to the Childer strain? If so do they have more normal gender roles than everyone else does?
Also considering how much robotics we've got here a fair bit of automation of labor should be going on. Either we have the high-ranking families dominating manufacturing and thus the economy or we've got a rising star of plebian families/companies whose wealth challeneges the political power of the miitary class.

>as the United States government began to collapse the hierarchy of the Mormon church organized a great exodus of the faithful to Utah and its surrounding territories
>there they declared their independence from the USA and the formation of the nation of Deseret
>with the societal changes caused by the outbreak of the Childer strain they have re-instituted polygamy and put such an increased emphasis on God's Celestial Wives that more orthodox Christian have accused them of becoming out and out polytheists
>the militia of Deseret primarily works to keep the lines of travel and pilgrimage open, though there is talk of the President of the church planning to declare a crusade to retake the Holy Land of Independence, Missouri

There are males that are neither Childers nor Operators though they only make up maybe 15% of the population with the rest being Female. Not everyone is a childer some are unaffected because of evolution.

>Blanks are not usually actively aggressive, instead opting to passively spread their Strain through their senseless wanderings.
>Should an Operator, or even worse, a Childer, enter their awareness however, they will enter a rage state and proceed to scream loud enough to attract other Blanks in the vicinity (as well as other things), and will then proceed to furiously assault the Operator/Childer in question until either they kill said individual, or they are destroyed.

To do a little more summing up, the Olympians
>live in a flying city built before the Outbreak with a population of a couple hundred
>completely cover themselves in clothing for unclear reasons, the explanations they've given in the past being clearly lies
>descend from, or may themselves be geniuses and wealthy individuals from before the Outbreak
>viciously bigoted against anyone from the surface, are known to organize "Culling Crusades" that do not distinguish between Afflicted and human
>they also have destroyed settlements that look like they might become a threat in the future, their sabotaging the ventilation system of Vault Cisterna with white phosphorous being the most famous example
>Usually kills Childer and Operators on sight. Occasionally makes exceptions for individuals who have a good 'Ascendance Potential' value who they will give training and supplies until their AP goes too high or low, at which point they are snatched away.
>terrible relations with the United Ascendancy but they don't have good relations with anyone.

>a possible relative of the Vampire strain, the Bodyjacker takes the form of a thin, worm-like creature nearly glassy from its translucency
>Bodyjackers can enter states of dormancy for years until they are awakened by the breath of a living creature.
>Once awakened bodyjackers will attempt to enter an animal or preferentially humans through the nostril and penetrate into the brain, there they develop long filaments that they will spread throughout the frontal lobes to hijack the mind to the purpose of spreading the Disease
>Fortunately Bodyjackers have poor control over their hosts and the erratic movement, mood swings and obvious mental disorders can make it easy to detect and purge
>left to their own devices however Bodyjackers will mutate their host as it succumbs to the Disease and what it can longer accomplish with subterfuge it will take by force.

As this is a disease and not some new species of parasite lets say the specific strain emerges from rats infected by the Disease.

>In fact of all the strains of the Disease Blanks seem to be the easiest to study due to their passive nature and of all the strains is the most well documented.
>Such research is conducted by the Exorcist and strict regulations are in place to prevent any childer from entering a site containing Blanks.
>Entire Conversations have been held with captive Blanks and although testing have reveled many strange quirks of the Blanks most intriguing of all is that all captive blanks believe they were captured in the exact same way.

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I will just leave this here. The Eternity Sword series is one of the best magic and sword fantasy setting with unlimited potential for adventures, philosophy exploration, and imaginative story creation I've ever seen from any anime or VN. It rarely gets mentioned here and I think that's unfortunate. Note that this rulebook is a RP one, but the person who made it mirrored it to the canon setting quite well.

>The UA honor those that add cybernetic parts to their body not just out of a "the flesh is weak" mentality but because when a man replaces his heart with a mechanical one that is one less part of him that the Disease can use to turn him against his people.
>Becoming a cyborg is seen more as if it was about fighting The Disease over upgrading from Flesh.
>The UA act as if they are forced to become cyborgs and use this as propaganda to make their populace hate the Disease even more claiming that it is because of the Disease that they must undergo the painful process of becoming a Cyborg

>All Olympians refer to one another as family and although not directly blood related how you are related to one another determines your relationship with that other Olympians with the family relation being a prefix of someone's name when addressing them
>Lowest of these is Cousin which is the word you would use when addressing a stranger or someone not favored by the individual
>Brother and Sister are for friends and actual siblings within the same age group as the individual
>Aunt and Uncle are for Friends and Actual Siblings within an older age Group
>Mother and Father are for members of high standing even those you do not personally know well
>Highest above all is The Patriarch, or Matriarch given to the oldest in the family.

> Olympian Patriarchs and Matriarchs are rarely seen, with only the most skilled Operators and Childer having been able to encounter them and live to tell their fellows
>Most of the Operators who have encountered a Patriarch/Matriarch are usually found to be irreversibly insane and tend to end up being found infested with at least ten different Strains Of Disease
>Childer who have encountered said entities are known to end up being covered in wounds and scars that do not heal, and most tend to not speak of their encounters.

Just came back from a shower just realized I should add one last thing to avoid weird situations
>The only Members of the family you are permitted to simply call by their name is your Husband/Wife

>This is especially distressing considering Childer have been recorded being able to heal the damage of being ripped in half by an Ogre.
>UA officers actively deny the actual existence of the Matriarchs/Patriarchs as mention of them tends to cause hysteria
>Some even believe the Matriarchs are proof that the Olympians are simply infected by a highly intelligent strain of Disease explaining their supposed immunity to any form or strain.

>Because of the unnatural existences that are the Olympians higher-ups, The Exorcists have taken to trying to recover and analyze any and all information that they can on the Olympians and their operations.

>The Silicon Commonwealth is a government that resides over the silicon valley (Their headquarters) and most of the California coastline.
>They are the remnants of the major tech companies before the disaster struck, forming themselves into one massive corporation.

>Due to their history as corporations the government of the Commonwealth is an aristocracy with several houses constantly plotting for power among themselves. Each House bears the name of one of the original companies that merged to form this Government leading to confusing names such as "Turbo Robotics".
>This political intrigue has led to hostilities between houses taking many forms everything from each house hosting parties to out due each other through extravagant parties to outright violent power coups.
>This all happens at the core of the city while the rest of the population suffers for the blind eye it's government turns to it's people

>The city is powered by high levels of the Living Petroleum recovered by Childer looking to make a easy buck or receive advanced equipment supplied by the Commonwealth.
>The Commonwealth uses it's old factories and warehouses to create some of the most advanced weaponry and sells it off to the UA (who they maintain a peaceful if distrustful relationship with) and Childer bringing in Supplies of Living Petroleum.

the Commonwealth's greatest achievements have been their pursuit of AI and robotic technologies.
>This leads to their military forces has mostly military robots and drones.

>Unfortunately this legion of automatons are more commonly used to keep the local population under control and to manage their factories. Though if the Commonwealth wished to and dedicated their robotic legions to a singular goal there is little they could not accomplish.

>The Commonwealth's less commonly known achivement is the development of synthetics.
>These synthetics are incredibly close to a live human being and is generally used in diplomacy with more volatile factions (Olympians) or used for wetwork purposes.

Before we go any further how supernatural do we want The Olympians being? I have an idea

>The Sky City of Olympus is actually kept afloat above the ground by harnessing the unnatural energies that come originate from the core of the ship, the very first of the moon shards that crashed one earth
>Technically this makes all of Olympus a "Zone" however the extent of it's effects seem to be a gravity warping field

UA already have cyborgs lets try not to make it a huge theme with the CW.

What exactly do these settings get used for?

I think you're on the wrong board

>Although this is currently a rumour and thus very hard to prove, like many things with the Olympians.

>In places where the Disease claims dominion, it is quite common to find dark, crystalline structures dotting the land
>Nobody know the true nature of these structures, or their actual purpose, but what has been discovered is that they seem to regularly attract various Strains to them.

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>This creates a very specific strand of Disease that forms up around these crystalline structures
>Code-Named "Trolls" by Exorcist these creatures never seem to ever leave the structures of which they guard.
>If a "Troll" moves outside the 50m red zone of the structure they will becoming increasingly distressed feeling the urge to return and at immense distances the increase of anxiety and stress will actually cause organ failure.

>Despite the rather 'sad' circumstances of most Trolls, they can (and will) attack and devour any non-infected entity that comes near them or the crystals they guard. For at the end of the day, they are still a Strain of The Disease.

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Hm that art gives me an idea that all Childer should have a signature weapon like how the words jedi and lightsaber are so synonymous.

>Every financial quarter, the stocks of the various houses/corporation, with the leading top three houses becoming the board of directors for the commonwealth.

>Amongst some of the more devastating Disease Strains, are the dreaded Archons Of Decay
>Horrendous, titanic masses of rotting flesh and metal, wherever the Archons tread, only dust is left in their terrible wake. All organic and inorganic material in in their path absorbed into the sea of Disease.

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>Kraken strains are the largest threat to shipping lanes, generally requiring UA fleets to go on Kraken hunts.

>the Theocracy of Deseret and the Commonwealth are nominally at peace, however this is only maintained by there being a broad no-mans land of the LA zone between their borders

>the Exorcists make their bases in subterranean complexes with shockingly advanced technology to maintain artificial biospheres
>people who have had a chance to compare the mechanisms that went into their construction note that they seem to be of a similar make to the life support systems of the Vaults

>There have been sightings of what is thought of as a "childer Enclave" within the zones. Though When the Operators or exorcists investigate these "Enclaves" there is often nothing there.
>There is one exception one group of operators went looking for an "enclave" They interrogated a few childer until one gave a curious answer "big brother said not to tell anyone about the house" after that the Childer refused to answer anymore questions.

>It is unknown how many Childer live within these "Enclaves" or how many even know about them at all, but it is suspected that a good deal of the of the Childer working with the various organizations of the world have 'loyalties' elsewhere.

I know this should be a non-issue, but let's just make sure we keep certain elements out of this nice setting

>Childers, due to being perpetual (and more or less undead) children , are impotent and intrinsically asexual

Also, did we ever establish why they are ostracized? I was thinking
>It is a common belief among the general populace that the Childers are carriers to the blight that kills young men, as well as that physical contact with one will lead to death
>Truth is, there are very high amounts of arsenic in their bodies, which is vented both through their sweat and breathing, thus prolonged contact with Childer gradually induces acute arsenic poisoning

>The Commonwealth may have been the closest when they managed to record the exterior of what may have been a childer enclave before the drone was smashed to bits.

I mean, the whole trying to sex Childer thing was already a non-issue, since Childer are so detached that they just can't fully understand things like "love" or the like. Doesn't stop people from writing smut fics about them though.

Also, Bump.

Childer are unemotional and/or sociopathic muties who are at best mercenaries and at worst bandits and may or may not be carriers of the Disease. That they seem sympathetic is only because animu has rotted your brain.

>the largest of the Cult of the Grim Fathers temples is the former NORAD base in Cheyenne Mountain
>at the equinoxes and solstices the Cult's priests will travel at great personal risk to attend a mysterious ritual cycle at the nearby Shrine of the Sun

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