Name: Chicklet Age: Adult Contact details: Plurk: ChickletLARP, or PM the journal. Other characters: Khary, Elfangor - both original universe.
Character Information
Name: Najaran Canon: Culdcept Canon Point: End of book 5, as they were surfacing before the shore of Shantenion. Before she sees the ruins or learns about the city's sad fate and hatred of Cepters. OU/AU/CRAU/OC: Orginal Age: unknown in canon. Teens at best get, probably about 16 from her art (though she acts MUCH younger at times. Also they talk about how long she was with Master Horowitz, but it seems inconsistiant with how old we see her still with her father... so... gonna guess at 15 or 16. Honestly she probably isn't sure herself.)
World Information:
"The first thing the Goddess Culdra created was a book. In the book she mapped out the size and shape of the universe, and from her design the universe grew forth. Culdra also described in it the vast array of Gods and living thingds to inhabit her newborn world. This is how the Goddess Culdra created life and the universe - through the magical words she wrote in her book, the Culdcept, the Book Of Creation."
These are the very first words of the manga series. Similar words start most if not all of the video games of the same series. The short version is that Culdra created multiple worlds, multiple realities. Everything that would ever exist was written in the Culdcept. (we get a lot of this information from Grubel, an ancient Cepter who looks in her prime who has learned to read the Culdcept in everything and thus knows how everything will end, and thus is utterly bored with the universe.) Culdra even created those who would, in time, shatter her book, her Culdcept.
When the book of creation was destroyed, the pieces fell to the various words, transforming - for the most part - into cards. There were some forms of life that are not cards, for some reason that is... unclear. Humans are not cards. Elves.... sort of are? Really the manga is very confusing about it. The general rule that the characters seem to accept is that if it has sentience, it isn't a card, despite the fact that they've had long conversations with the creatures summoned from cards. (anything summoned from a card is in essence a card still, and by returning to its card form can be healed or repaired. But cards need to draw their power from Cepters in order to come free of their cards, to heal, and even to survive.
A Cepter is someone with the power to sustain and control the cards from the book of Culdra, the Culdcept cards. Generally Cepters are solipsistic jerks who can't work together for long and only want to gain more cards. Some want to recreate the Culdcept itself by gaining ALL the cards. But again, this too is inconsistent. We are told this in book 1, to set up how rare and shocking it is that there is a group calling themselves the Black Cepters who seem to be working together for a common goal. Except Naja can work with nearly anyone. And Master Horowitz worked for years with two other Cepters. And then there is, oh yeah, a whole society of Cepters that lives together.
So the basic break down is that the world was created by the Goddess Culdra writing in her book, which got shattered and fell to the world in the form of cards that some living things can use the way Pokemon trainers use Pokemon, sort of. That part is pretty much not disputed.
Also in history there have been several wars, and most people don't trust Cepters as a result. This is not really disputed or refuted. (Though some people and even some towns are exceptions.)
There are whole areas where there used to be thriving civilizations and now is nothing because of Cepters. Which goes back to people not trusting or liking Cepters for the most part.
There is a group called the Black Cepters that are trying to gain all of the most powerful cards, presumably to recreate the world in their image.
I am sorry that the world of Rakan and the universe of Culdcept is so confusing.
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Date: 2020-03-21 11:45 am (UTC)Player Information
Name: Chicklet
Age: Adult
Contact details: Plurk: ChickletLARP, or PM the journal.
Other characters: Khary, Elfangor - both original universe.
Character Information
Name: Najaran
Canon: Culdcept
Canon Point: End of book 5, as they were surfacing before the shore of Shantenion. Before she sees the ruins or learns about the city's sad fate and hatred of
Cepters.
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: Orginal
Age: unknown in canon. Teens at best get, probably about 16 from her art (though she acts MUCH younger at times. Also they talk about how long she was with Master Horowitz, but it seems inconsistiant with how old we see her still with her father... so... gonna guess at 15 or 16. Honestly she probably isn't sure herself.)
World Information:
"The first thing the Goddess Culdra created was a book. In the book she mapped out the size and shape of the universe, and from her design the universe grew forth. Culdra also described in it the vast array of Gods and living thingds to inhabit her newborn world. This is how the Goddess Culdra created life and the universe - through the magical words she wrote in her book, the Culdcept, the Book Of Creation."
These are the very first words of the manga series. Similar words start most if not all of the video games of the same series. The short version is that Culdra created multiple worlds, multiple realities. Everything that would ever exist was written in the Culdcept. (we get a lot of this information from Grubel, an ancient Cepter who looks in her prime who has learned to read the Culdcept in everything and thus knows how everything will end, and thus is utterly bored with the universe.) Culdra even created those who would, in time, shatter her book, her Culdcept.
When the book of creation was destroyed, the pieces fell to the various words, transforming - for the most part - into cards. There were some forms of life that are not cards, for some reason that is... unclear. Humans are not cards. Elves.... sort of are? Really the manga is very confusing about it. The general rule that the characters seem to accept is that if it has sentience, it isn't a card, despite the fact that they've had long conversations with the creatures summoned from cards. (anything summoned from a card is in essence a card still, and by returning to its card form can be healed or repaired. But cards need to draw their power from Cepters in order to come free of their cards, to heal, and even to survive.
A Cepter is someone with the power to sustain and control the cards from the book of Culdra, the Culdcept cards. Generally Cepters are solipsistic jerks who can't work together for long and only want to gain more cards. Some want to recreate the Culdcept itself by gaining ALL the cards. But again, this too is inconsistent. We are told this in book 1, to set up how rare and shocking it is that there is a group calling themselves the Black Cepters who seem to be working together for a common goal. Except Naja can work with nearly anyone. And Master Horowitz worked for years with two other Cepters. And then there is, oh yeah, a whole society of Cepters that lives together.
So the basic break down is that the world was created by the Goddess Culdra writing in her book, which got shattered and fell to the world in the form of cards that some living things can use the way Pokemon trainers use Pokemon, sort of. That part is pretty much not disputed.
Also in history there have been several wars, and most people don't trust Cepters as a result. This is not really disputed or refuted. (Though some people and even some towns are exceptions.)
There are whole areas where there used to be thriving civilizations and now is nothing because of Cepters. Which goes back to people not trusting or liking Cepters for the most part.
There is a group called the Black Cepters that are trying to gain all of the most powerful cards, presumably to recreate the world in their image.
I am sorry that the world of Rakan and the universe of Culdcept is so confusing.