Magical Realm Cyoa/Hivus

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Complications Benevolent! [+25] Artifact! [+25] Nightmare! [+25] Partnership! [+25]

Demiplane Area Increase 5 [-9]

Planar Features Gateways 2 [-3] Portals [-4] Division [-2] Protection 2 [-6] Assimilation [-3]

Population Population Increase 6 [-12]

Inhabitants Culture & Customs [-2] Pretty Population [-2] Population Longevity [-3] Extrahuman Population [-4] Metahuman Population [-4]

Technology Technology Upgrade 3 [-3]

Magic Magical Upgrade 5 [-10]

Society Aesthetics [-2] Public Education [-1] University [-2] Wealthy [-2] Industrial [-3] Mystical [-4] Technomagic [-5] Infrastructure [-2] Sanitation [-1] Secure [-1] Healthy [-1]

Culture Occult Affinity [-1] Nature Affinity [-1] Intellectual Affinity [-1] Mechanical Affinity [-1] Sexual Affinity [-1] Warfare Affinity [-1]

Environment Cosmic Adjustment [-2] Landscape Adjustment [-3] Fertile [-1] Rich [-2] Magical Phenomena [-3] Fauna & Flora 3 [-5]

Adventure Dungeons 2 [-3] Spirits [-2] Malice [-1] Afterlife [-3] Theme [-4]

Capital Lifestyle Upgrade 2 [-3] Automatons 2 [-5] Influence 3 [-6] Equipment [-3]

Personal Immortality [-2] Spirit Walk [-3] Shape Shift 2 [-5] Memory [-2] Awareness [-2] Inspiration [-2] Peak Condition [-2] Superhuman Body [-3]

Powers Alchemy [-2] Healing [-2] Enchanting [-2] Conjuration [-2] Elementalism 3 [-3] Time Manipulation [-3] Scrying [-3] Biomancy [-3] Nullification [-3]

Companions Familiar [-3]

Ascendance Divine Spark [-10]

History

The first intelligent beings to exist in Hivus were the nature spirits of the Home World. The sprites lived peacefully in an ancient primordial paradise while the planet and the rest of the realm developed.

However, that peace was broken when the Darkust arrived. They came from the Dark World on a meteorite, and quickly began infesting the entire planet.

The nature spirits could do nothing but watch as their world was consumed by the parasites, they resigned themselves to their fate and slipped silently into the oblivion their world had become.

However, all was not lost, the nature spirits encountered a whole new species when they retreated deep below the planet's surface, the ancestral Changeling species. The nature spirits discovered the spark of sentience in these creatures, and realized that they had to try and take back the planet for it's future inheritors.

The spirits forged the automatons to defeat the Darkust, it was successful, but not completely, so the automatons built advanced technology to aid them in their war against the Darkust.

Eventually the automatons won by building starships and bombing the Darkust to dust. After defeating their parasitic enemy, the automatons sunk their starships into the Home World's oceans, hid all of their advanced cybernetic technology, and shut down so to await the day the Changelings discovered them.

When the Changelings finally did emerge from underground, they were still a small race of primitives, and they had no idea of the epic struggle that had ragged above them over the course of their development.

The discovery of the portals and the automatons led to the creation of the Changeling's “Elven” society, and the founding of the Home World capital.

Sometime after the construction of the capital city, the realm lord Divergus arrived in Hivus and was declared emperor.

Complications

Nightmare

Darkust parasites, tiny locust like creatures capable of flight, telepathy, and mutation. They dwell on the Dark world of Hivus and have completely infested the planet and every living creature on it. Non-infected organisms arriving on the Dark World will be assaulted with feelings of fear, and horrifying visions. These visions are designed to cripple victims so that the parasites can quickly infect them.

Darkust consume light and sound, as the number of Darkust parasites increases, the amount of light and sound in an area will decrease until eventually the area is completely dark and silent. Darkust reproduce by cocooning living organisms, then implanting larva inside their victims bodies. Aside from reproduction, Darkust can do several other things with their victims; they can take physical control over a victim's body, they can use telepathy to torture their victims or remove their powers, and they can mutate their victims into horrifying eldritch creatures.

The Parasites can infect any living thing and survive in any environment.

Benevolent

Divergus does everything he can to be a good leader, protect his people, make them happy, and make up for choosing “Nightmare” just so he could have personal power.

Artifact

"The celestial core", a metal sphere with an arcane star at the center, it's size can be altered at will by Divergus. The core is usually either worn by him as a necklace, or stored somewhere safe. It's enchanted to be impossible to lose.

Partnership

Divergus shares control over his realm with his familiar, she has all of his powers, abilities, and influence, but holds slightly more influence over the realm's governments and is a better leader