Shishibukian Consecution
Shishibukian Consecution is a collection of four sagas, each containing three books, which details post-war Numea as it begins to rebuild itself.
The first saga; Suima contains The Tiger, The Lion, and The Dragon, which follow the lives of The Lanai Initiates as they become Shishibuki, a mercenary group who look to use their unique magic to heal the land and bring civilization back to it's former glory.
The second saga; Aizo contains His Wake, His Repose, and His Soverignty. Focusing on the life of Wakio Ebon as he builds up a new world for his followers and destroys his opponents.
The third saga; Orensakino contains _, _, and _, which shows life inside the society Wakio Ebon created during the Aizo series.
The fourth and final saga; Gisetno, contains _, _, and _, which shows the fall of the society created by Wakio Ebon.
INTRODUCTIONS
External Lore of Harthorn'S Universe
Gyro-Varse and the Libramenescence Theories
Gyro-Varse Theory; Archeologist and astronomer Dr.Sam Grant published his theory of the Gyro-Varse in 1989, which theorized that the universe is broken into four distinct parts, something like a machine, and further explained these parts as similar to that of a Gyroscope, giving his theory it’s name. When explaining his theory, he stated that there is no greater or further universe which holds a collection of smaller universes, but instead a singular universe that held an uncountable number of what he’d call Varses, with each differing either slightly or greatly from one another. In the center of the universe, rests a ball, which he dubbed the Prime. It’s considered the heart of the Universe, which holds the most stable reality, which he believed was too pure to be the world he had grown up in, and felt it’d be too egotistical to consider his Varse the center of the universe, instead he believed that his Varse was one of the various rings that surround the Prime. This thought however was argued by many and was ultimately discarded when people wrote about his theory in the years to come, with several people even thinking that he believed the opposite due to the writings of adversaries and cynics.
Past the Prime was three sets of Rings, ever rotating and spinning around the ball, these were dubbed the Inner, Mid and Outer rings, with each set holding a different level of attachment. The inner rings were so small that sixty to ninety percent of their body would be attached to the ball at all times, while the mid rings were slightly larger, holding an attachment of thirty to sixty percent of their body. The third and final set, the Outer Ringers, were by far the largest and would hold an attachment percentage of zero to thirty percent to the prime. These varying degrees of touch would affect the rings in significant ways, including changing their laws of nature, or in the case of the inner rings, the various divergent histories from the Prime.
For the sake of those less understanding, one of his assistants helped explain the rings as the ‘Parallel, Alternate, and Other’. The Inner Rings would represent the Parallel, containing similar, almost identical settings with slight differences, which could range from divergent historical events to not so notable changes in a single person’s actions. The Mid Rings, representing the Alternate, contain similar but notably different settings, with major differences ranging from major historical events to entire changes in the natural laws of the Varse. Finally, the Other, represented by the Outer Rings, was by far the most different, with nearly nothing recognizable to the Prime, and including mostly different natural laws of the Varse.
Grant would include one of his assistant’s theories of a wall that separated the various Varses, making sure they weren’t constantly colliding and allowing them to slide past and through each other, which he would, an avid fan of boating and the seas, name the Bulwark. He would later include in his theory that there were possible events that could occur, tears in the Bulwark that would allow the Rings to meet and interact. These events would be called Fetterings. Fetterings would be the collision of rings.
Universal Properties or Libramenescence Theory; In 1997, Astrophysicist and fantasy writer, Dr.Baldur Fleischhacker published an extension on Grant’s Gyro-Varse theory, which he titled the Universal Properties theory. This introduced that each Varse holds layers which make up it’s spine, Dimensions and Planes which hold numerous laws and realities. Apart from this, he proposed that a Varse was made up of an unknown amount of planes, which he dubbed existences, and that these planes were only created through the collection of realms, dubbed realities. A realm, or reality, was what he considered to be the collective consciousness of an entity, which he and his team generally agreed to be life, in other words stating that reality is the willed creation of life. This theory, as well as Grant’s Gyro-Varse theory, however didn’t gain any form of public attention until 2006, when it found a revival and cult-following. Fleischhacker scholars would later retitle his ideas the Libramenescense Theory as the term Universal Properties would more appropriately apply to other theories.
The notion of the Bulwark and it’s tears were further expanded upon in the mid 2010s, after an event known as ‘Prin-ess Rosim | BLACK’. It is now an accepted theory that the Bulwark not only separates the Varses, but the different Dimensions and Planes in each Varse as well. Sometimes the Bulwark can tear open, allowing rings to collide; these collisions have multiple names, with each being used to define a different level of tear. The various levels have been described as such:
Grapnel: the mixing of two Planes, also referred to as Broad Grapnel when it’s more than two.
Anchor; the mixing of two Dimensions, also referred to as a Broad Anchor when it’s more than two Dimensions, a High Anchor when it’s two Dimensions and a Grapnel, and a High Broad Anchor when it’s more than two Dimensions and a Broad Grapnel.
Berth; the mixing of two or more Varses, also referred to as a Wide Berth when more than two Varses of the same ring set, and a Broad Berth when more than two Varses of different ring sets. Broad Wide Berth if it consists of two of the same set rings, and one of another.
Ring Fettering: Is when two or more rings weld together, causing a normally temporary collision to become permanent.
