My answers will be funny b/c one of the primary families r The Dark, i.e. the Herrera family. I created Blue Horizon during peak emo era circa 2005.

The Herrera aren't personally afraid of the dark, but they do go thru it psychologically for generations.

They fight thru it! #SeptemberWorldbuilders

For sailors + fishers the Shrouded Seas can be like Ponyo.

Blue Horizon delves a lot into ocean-bearer families & how they ensure safety + thwart danger. (Tsunami, lighthouses, etc.)

(Or are scary.)

Thankfully in Blue Horizon's society the Chandrani fam are assumed weak. 😄 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

So I think of humans on planet Imion as humans. 100k years prior on Earth, Elementals were once known as superheroes...

Anyway, essentially these characters are like demigods, and the Chandrani are THE MAIN FAMILY. OCEAN FAMILY. Yeah. They throw ocean water around a lot. #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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In Re: Shattered Memories, there's the Omenthief of Khemer, who is the anti-god of darkness.

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They have irregular tides! On planet Imion the tides are unlike Earth's, since there are a rainbow of 6 moons around it--an ocean world ~2x the size of the Earth.

While it's majorly unexplored, the Chandrani get annoyed by questions re: the oceans bc to them it's regular. #SeptemberWorldbuilders

Blue Horizon has traditions up the wazoo near the Shrouded Seas. This is b/c the Psyche, monsters born of their otherworld called the Boundless, encroach when the fogs roll in.

Big tradition is "not let the Psyche get to land." The Chandrani live in a specific locale for it. #SeptemberWorldbuilders

This question is good for me bc Blue Horizon's cast lives 100k years in the future on a planet far away... It's called Imion.

And they have A Few weird things down there! They even have weird merfolk. Don't want to spoil too much. Have only created a few creatures at whim. #SeptemberWorldbuilders

Day 27. Myths/ legends about light/ darkness.

The the light to break the curse is an object.

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#SeptemberWorldbuilders Supervillains are forced to live inside bunkers so they can plan their nefarious schemes in peace while the city upstairs keeps getting destroyed, and as their profession wants, these places are very badly lightened.

It was only much later that Seladion became associated with the full moon and Amaurodios with the new moon. Again, the chief light/dark belief is that the moon is Argyros and its gates open and close with the phases. Darkness is an absence of the divine.

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Orthodoxy believes in The Pause, the silence between non-creation and the sound of creation.

Theologians try to argue that all 3 are possible at the same time, but the Ember Covenant and Temple of Ostuna cannot see eye-to-eye on it.

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Just a little one for today.

Some people in the 5GC make Neitche-inspired jokes about looking too long into the darkness.

They mean it to be a reference to sky-craving (wanderlust) but little kids don't know that and think it means there be monsters.

I'll let Loke and Blu explain the legend of Light and Dark spirits...

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Basically, the formation of the universe is:

-The Light
-The absence of Light acts like a 2nd force, Dark, and the two "fight"
-The resulting "clash" of Light+Dark gives rise to the foundational aspects of existence
-Those aspects + Light & Dark give rise to everything else

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Please do not ask anyone if the creation myth is about light and darkness because you will be there for hours and come out more confused.
There are also elemental gods or light and dark (shadow? Again don't ask if you don't want a debate).
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Torches, candles and oil lamps are common, but something more unique is the fairy lantern—a cruel device which uses the light of a living fairy 🧚‍♀️

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27: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), there is a strange overlap in the myths of the Valestrals and Hrothians that darkness was what existed before the emergency of the gods, both having a somewhat overlapping view that in the beginning, there was..

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Mairth doesn't actually have any creation myths to speak of. Due to their love of empirical science, it's widely accepted in most circles that the universe started the way that ours did - with a big bang. This is also 🧵

Archangel Uriel, Angel of Darkness, had to take on Light as well when Lucifer Fell. It’s a whole thing. He refers to Lucifer as “that absentee jerk”…which to me is very funny coming from the oldest of the angels, an unknowable force with nebula eyes.
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