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WOAH HOLY HELL

Firstly the idea of a thinning veil between "reality" and "dreams" is very interesting, and provides the opportunity for some cool Armageddon things if the worlds collide!

Secondly, I like the implications of lore with Night and Day: Night seems like the "manager" of order or time/space with the way you've described them, and I'm interested in seeing what Night's reaction to Ash keeping her memories and Day's allowing her to keep her memories is like (if that makes any sense at all). I'm curious if there's a dawn, dusk, sun, moon, stars ect when it comes to the deities, or any other deities for that matter.

Third, Ash desperately trying to claw her way back into the dream world is very cool and unique set up for a doomed narrative or an isekai-type story in general! In most stories where a hero is transported to another world, they want to leave; but Ash desperately wants to go back. I'm curious about Ash's reasons for wanting to go back so much, and I'm curious about Day's reason for allowing her to keep her memories (aside from the impulsive nature stuff)!

Fourth, I love the implications of half the people in the dream land originating from the real world: it implies that the veil is already thinning, Ash returning to the real world is unusual amoungst those who've come from the real world, and opens up some really cool and tragic possibilities for the characters if they haven't kept their memories from the real world!

Sorry for rambling and speculating a bunch, but this concept is all around really cool!!! I'd love to hear more about the characters and see any designs if you have them drawn!!!

Fuck it, my half baked cartoon doesn't have a lot of lore but here's what I do have:

A young woman named Ash stumbles upon a magical world of dreams (Yes I know it's been done a thousand times, shut up and let me lack original ideas) kinda like Alice in Wonderland but calmer and darker. Also like half the people there came from the "real world" Anyways, she like many before her stumbles upon this fantasy world, meeting a number of bizarre people along the way, Including but limited to, A mysterious grinning creature at a play pretend tea party inside a broken home made of cardboard(Smiley), a lovely lady who knows everyone and her pet snake Noodles(Camilla), and an antisocial eccentric toymaker with a habit of giving his creations life only to take it away.(Clover). On the particular day she stumbles upon this world, Day, an impulsive deity, decides to let her keep her memory of this place. Once Ash falls out of this place, she desperately tries anything and everything to claw her way back in. Little does she or Day know that her moving between worlds is shaking the thin veil that separates the codependent worlds or dreams and reality. Now the two worlds are entangled in a web of madness that Night herself cannot untangle.

I have some individual character lore lying about, but mostly only for the origins of Smiley, and I'm not sure if i can keep that lore the way it is cause it's kinda fucked up. (Tell me if you want to see that part.)

So in that regard, people going back and forth between the worlds is what keeps them intertwined and therefore existant? That's such a unique concept for an "otherworld"! "Fluidity" rather than a rigid defining line is hardly ever seen when it comes to multiple dimensions or realms!!!

If Day is the one who specifically erases memories of the dreamworld (leaving nothing more than pleasant feelings in their place), does he get to keep those memories? Also, would he get bored of doing this memory business for however long he's been doing it for (and that's why he let Ash keep her memories)?

I like the implication that abandoned or old things are more likely to be gateways between the worlds! And "the house that parallels the cardboard house" implies that the two worlds mirror eachother in some regard (or at the very least certain things bleed through and exist in both worlds)!

Does the process of assimilating to the dreamworld entail loosing your memories of the realworld? Similarly, do they undergo any form of physical or mental transformation to more closely resemble the residents of the world that were born there? Also, "Ash is becoming more split" provides the implication that Ash is existing in both worlds (possibly accidentally creating a dreamworld doppelganger of herself) or even that Ash is literally breaking into pieces (with different versions of her pysche existing, and the Ash we follow not being the complete or true one anymore)!

This whole thing is creative and fun to read about!!! I really hope you continue posting lore for it!!!

More lore regarding the veil and shit.

So the "real world" and the dream world do NOT exist outside eachother, they are deeply intwined, and cannot exist without eachother. As a result the veil is relatively thin, people stumble through all the time and it is ESSENTIAL that they do. However only children are allowed to remember their time there, children is a loose term, just those whose memories aren't solid enough for them to recollect it as reality. Adults (Or anyone who would remember) are allowed nothing more than the fleeting feeling of a pleasant dream. Day makes sure of this. That's basically his whole job.

Getting to the dream world is always accidental (Except in Ash's case the second time) but the lines between real and not blur around those areas. The areas where you can enter are fluid, they aren't always in the same place the same way. It's impossible to know. Only a few solid points exist, (one is the house that parallels the cardboard house, and that's because it's been abandoned so long it has allowed itself to become a more solid gateway.) but even those are fluid and unpredictable.

When people decide to become a part of the dream world they start to assimilate to it. That's why they can't leave. Ash however doesn't really know this, so she starts to become more rooted in the dream world and less in the real world, but because she keeps going back and forth she's becoming more split, and also weakening the veil.

Another thing is that not everyone stays for the same amount of time. The longer you stay, the more rooted you become in this world, most only stay a few days. A month at most. Ash however only got a brief glimpse at this place, a few minutes before she fell back out. This is a big part of why she tried so hard to get back, because curiosity.

But the whole point is that the idea of reality has to remain fluid, but not fully mixed together. So the dream world will always bleed into the real world and occasionally vice versa.

I love the concept of "weaving themselves into new worlds", and I presume the two dreamers are Day and Night.

LORE: How the “real” world and the otherworld came to be.

Before the sun, the sky, the stars and the moon, there was emptiness. The universe was a glittering blank canvas, stars littered across the black landscape of nothingness, free to exist as they pleased. And so they did. The universe was amused, finding these creatures it had created endearing.

Most of the stars were content in this existence, floating through the void happy as can be.

A few however, were dreamers. They came up with the idea for life. They created marvellous creatures and beings.

However these beings were uncontained, like everything else in the universe, they were free and not bound to anything. Yet they were real, fully fledged creatures, unlike the stars, which were mere concepts.

The beings went on a rampage, destroying aimlessly, souls torn apart by the lack of solidity in the universe.

Eventually, the universe died.

However, two of the dreamers survived. Broken and destroyed, they tried again to create something anything.

Without their companions, fellow dreamers, or even other stars, they created our reality. It was solid and dull and lifeless. Nothing thrived. So they poured a bit of their old world into this one, creating the land of dreams. Immediately, life started to form (it was over several million years but like theyre stars, whats a couple million years?) and the warning signs from their old world returned. They each took a side, one took the solid of the real world, and the other took the fluid chaos of the otherworld. They wove a veil between the two, leaving just enough open for the two to influence each other. The beings were forver separated, fading from consciousness to becoming their worlds.

Based on ancient greek creation myths, ancient norse ragnarok myths and myths of the angel lucifer.

I’ll update this in a coherent way later.

Envy’s Anger, Prologue. Summoning.

so this is less of an actual chapter and more of a “soon to come” thing. Because i hate this, so I’m going to take some time, learn how to draw side profile, ect ecct.