‘Ember’s World’ is a figment of my imagination that I wish to be a reality some day— it’s what goes on in my mind when I’m upset, the characters being different embodiments of myself or my emotions.

The Wherm-Hole concept being part of the unknown feeling adds to my chosen atmosphere of the book/comic series.

it is my way to get out of reality and bend my writing abilities to their fullest.

animations/edits: -

• https://gamejolt.com/p/did-another-thing-im-really-proud-of-that-took-back-breaking-work-bnxh9uxg

• https://gamejolt.com/p/arcade-capcut-animation-really-really-super-duper-proud-of-t-tn8jzz73

• https://gamejolt.com/p/erm-animation-i-made-a-while-back-it-isn-t-the-smoothest-of-my-a-5p9t5mtd

• https://gamejolt.com/p/she-likes-a-boy-aquila-x-zye-finally-got-this-thing-down-l-swfyqivf

• https://gamejolt.com/p/bahaah-im-not-ok-ocs-featured-aoife-corrain-fanmade-oc-lye-uheaytbr

story:

Lyev was like.. 8 or 12 when his dad died I can’t remember

But it was broadcasted and he saw it on video

Then

When he was sent on the train he vowed that he’d protect his mother even if he wasn’t there

But when she got killed looking for him

It send him to rock bottom and he went crazy

He couldn’t control his fire and he went insane

Elves have an earring on their ear that binds them to the forest (the elves’ territory)

Derek takes it off when he leaves the forest cause he hates the government (you can have a death penalty if you take the earring off)

Lyev happens to meet him when his wings rip (the wings are what let them enter the kingdom) Lyev helps him him repair his wings and Derek leads him to Herr Klüm knowing the area from his numerous escapades.

—Elves have a harsh government (quite like North Korea) killing and slaughtering people who so much as stepped a tow out of line, examples of this would include: in pure elf blood, disobeying the government / hierarchy, removing the earrings etc.

Zye’s experience was a good example of this, her mother being human and her father being pure elf, the elf government tracked down the birth records for her and her siblings and killed her mother and two younger brothers. Her father hid her from the government in a treehouse being tutored by a witch called Crystal who was also banished from her realm (the human realm to be more specific, she was a healer in Zimbabwe and they feared her even though she just wanted to help and she got banished. She boarded the Wherm-Express in a call for refuge but found herself in Ember’s World located in Ethlaßidoria.)

—Lyev as we know is sent off during a war to live with ‘Herr Klüm’ somewhere off in Germany, he wishes to not leave his mother behind but his mother persists he goes— this makes Lyev worry further about his mother sending him into a spiralling anxiety on the Wherm-Express. When he meets Corráin he feels he has someone who at least understands him slightly.

Aoife not so much, as they both begin crushing on Corráin during the journey, he also distrusts her because of her unhuman like behaviour.

—Zye is raised in hiding most of her life, running from the HelmOlk (the elven government). Her mother believes she has hidden them but the HelmOlk check birth records in Ethlaßadoria and find that there are ‘mongrels’ hiding in their very own forest outskirts. They send one of their trusted assassins out and eradicate Julia and the two boys. 

Zye runs for her life and eventually finds herself father and he puts her into hiding with Crystal.

—Jay grew up in an abusive human household with his sister in America, they were horrified with the two children thinking that they had been cursed with quite “retarded children” that “must be exorcised”. Finally they dumped the two, at the ages of 8 and 10.

Just left in the street they began to slowly starve until one day Jay is searching for food and stumbled into Hanashima, a demon ‘hunter’ who rescues mistreated demons. Hanashima was on a business trip allied with the mafia for a short while so she could have better access to weapons and Nanah (one of her pets (demons)) willingly helped her.

She rescued the two, adopted them, and brought them to Japan.

Eventually Jay and Balina ended up on the Wherm-Express.

Wherm Holes are almost like a glitch in time and space, Elaßadoria being a glitched result of an alternate universe leaking into the current one, the war is an infinite loop cause by this leaking alternate universe beginning at WW1 without anyone even realising. They all just believed WW3 was happening with no end. In reality people from all over time since 1914.

—After Balina went with Jay on the Wherm-Express, she became more outgoing, talking to people and being kind. Once she attended the school in the area she defended Daisy from Zal’s bullying and put a strong name to herself using her demonic abilities for good.

—Alex always felt out of place, he felt that he shouldn’t be a girl or even a freid, even trying to sever his tail and ears off.

He didn’t like being a girl at all, he would often cry in his room alone after his parents would ridicule him for “wanting to be a boy” and would also physically abuse him to the point of bleeding. He knew his parents were bad but at this point he didn’t care. After being rejected by his crush (a straight girl) he couldn’t take it anymore and spent most of his time in the woods wanting to make his parents believe that he was missing or something.when he was a young adult he got involved in some… illegal groups for money— but he didn’t feel in place there anymore just feeling like he was being used by chasers for pleasure.

—Aquila was a shy dragon from the start usually refining to herself but staying friendly with people. When she was 13-14 she was diagnosed with a brain disorder that affected dragons from the water tribe, an anger disorder causing violent outbursts if provoked, this lead her to take medications— they did work.. if she used them, because of the medications her body was used to the relaxed state but if she forgot them… it’d get dangerous.

One time she went a whole week without the medications and her mother was panicking trying to find a witch who’d sell them. Her rage towards everything slowly grew and finally when her boyfriend, Seiua,  made a joke that slightly hurt her she snapped- transformed into her full form and murdered him. She went to psychiatric help and went mute for a whole year. 

That was until she met Zye, Zye helped her get out of her ‘funk’ (as Zye called it) and made her happier again. They later started dating.

Ethlaßadoria (or the Ethlaßidorian Empire) was an empire that fell a little before WW1, this caused the Wherm in time mixing the two realities where it never existed and where it did. The Wherm-Express appeared (you could almost call it a creepy pasta, the driver doesn’t sleep or eat and probably believes that this is just a short train trip that had gone on for OVER A HUNDRED YEARS) into the fabric of reality said to take children away from the war to an assigned country,

Instead they’d just be brought to Ethlaßadoria- almost as if it’s trying to rise to power there. The first person recorded to stay there without dying is Herr Klüm 

The school on the outskirts of the HelmOlk is a large school where most species can attend, it accommodates for all kinds of abilites and has the strict rules (placed by the HelmOlk for elves; these rules could include no dating between humans (or any species really) and elves and a few other strict rules).

The school trains students to do magic and to train in their assigned abilites at birth. (It’s usually fought against for witches to study there but it’s not illegal.)

Harpies: are like humans but they have feathered wolf ears in their place of ears instead. They have feathered wings sprouting from their shoulder-blades and they have hollow bones to help them fly. They have bird tails also.

Vampires / goblins: (a defect of a vampire, they are shorter and hunt in packs feeding on human flesh) are how you would depict them pale, they have bat wings sprouting out of their back all the time and can transform fully into bats. They do drink blood, but unlike in the mediaeval times they ethically source it.

Freids: are like humans with cat ear and a tail. 

 Unicorns and nightmares: are horses that both species are deadly in different ways, unicorns are all white and hunt to kill. They stab you with their horn if you threaten them. Nightmares  are black horses without an horn, they appear in your nightmares and they haunt you with horse related things and drive you to the point of insanity.

Angels: are biblically accurate and are considered the guardians of this unknown world.

Demons: aren’t what you think they’d be, they are basically human with maybe different coloured skin or something. They have ears quite like a goats just without the fur and horns. They have underwater type tails with fins.

Witches: are like healers, they have natural power that comes out of their fingertips unlike wizards who use a staff and incantations alongside potions. Witches heal and tend to people, they are protectors of nature and curse those who destroy nature.

Elves: are like humans, they can be over six feet tall when fully matured, they have long pointy ears and insect type wings that vary in type. Elves have this disease, where their body contorts and becomes shrivelled and black, their limps become long and their neck becomes contractable, they lose their hair and ears. They look half starved and their eyes glow white. The creature they become is a Tree-stalker.

Tree stalkers: are gangly and disturbing creatures - created from a disease inflicted on elves - that stalk you if you’re in the forest alone, they attack from above using their contractable necks to kill you, their legs act as stilts and they crawl on all fours like a spider. If you look up in the forest and see one of them that’ll be the last thing you ever see. Elves though, if they’re attacked by one, they themselves gain the disease.

Dwarves: are natural miners, they work in the mines non stop. They are shorter than any regular human reaching about 4’5 - 5 feet. They are built with powerful frames. Their mouths are stitched for unknown reasons, making them incapable of speech.

Werewolves: are like humans but with wolf ears and tails, they transform painful transformations every blood moon.

Styres: kind creatures of the forest originating from Greek mythology, they protect all animals and plant life in their area. 

Dragons: are like humans but with horns, ears, wings and dragon tails. They can willingly transform into their full form, they reach to a staggering height of ten feet when a full dragon. There are 30 variants of dragons; sun/sunset, moon/night/stars, fresh-water/ocean, fire/smoke, nature/beast/insect, earth/sand/rock, lava/hell, wind/air, shadow/void, light/angelic, storm/lightning, snow/frost/ice and rain/hail. Dragons have their own island off of the world’s mainland where they have their separate kingdoms.

Faries: are like they are depicted in Irish mythology, they do not have wings they’re quite frankly just small men and women, leprechauns are a type of fairy. They are shoemakers and they play music, they curse those who see them or destine their land or sacred items.

The “Arcade” edit I made is about how Lyev reacted enitially to his fathers death as a little kid- not fully understanding it but after he swore he would keep his mothers wellbeing in tact even when he was away from home, he snapped when his mother was murdered right infront of him, he spiralled and lost control of his power.

The edit “you dont understand my anger” takes place a week after Aquila murders Seuia, Zye is trying to make mher feel better trying to reassure her that she understands. Aquila basically snaps at her because she was a quote “coward” and she would’ve killed herself if she wasn’t scared. She states that her anger isbeyond anything and if Zye truely understood she would be brave enough to kill herself.

The edit “one, Two, Three..” explains Lyev’s relationship with his parents and the order of which they died expressing the emotions of the family in quick images. Agin it shows Lyev snapping at the end.