A Loli's ENF Adventure/The World of Luminia
Luminia, The Land of Light
Overview
Luminia, meaning the Land of Light in the oldest remaining spoken tongues, is the center stage of a fantastical universe where monsters lurk in the dark, magic dances off your fingertips, and gods look down upon the world from above. A vast land, Luminia stretches far and wide in every direction, from the insurmountable mountain ranges of the east, to the endless frozen wastes of the north, to the vast ocean waters of the south and west, with plains, forests, valleys, deserts, and more in between.
Three mighty rivers span the lands, two, the Florins and Langis, beginning in the frozen Northern Wastes and emptying into the west and southwestern coasts respectively, while the third, the Priah, begins in the Eastern Ranges and merges into the Langis later on. To the southeast lies the Internal Sea, a massive landlocked lake fed by a series of small rivers from the Eastern Ranges that's connected to the ocean via a thin river that was turned into a busy canal several centuries ago by an army of Dwarves over the course of a generation. The largest, most populated cities lie upon either these waterways or along the coasts.
Pantheon
Many Gods and Goddesses preside over Luminia, chiefest among them being Luminae, the Goddess of Light, the Pathfinder, accredited with discovering the uninhabited world by shining her light upon it and for whom the land was named after. Other deities watch over the world, governing aspects such as Fate, Luck, Animals, Plants, Health, Commerce, Love and War, and more. The gods are born sporadically from the Aether fully formed, so the visage and mentality they get is the visage and mentality they're stuck with.
The only god equal to Luminae in status is Mortuus, the God of Mortals, mortals being an ancient word for Children of Mortuus as ii's from Mortuus that all souls are created. Loving his children yet unable to help them all, Mortuus created a race of beings greater than mortals but below the gods in order to guide and protect the mortals in both life and death. This race, whose name is long forgotten, would later split off into two races, the angels and the demons, thus granting Mortuus his other titles: The Father of Angels and The Father of Demons.
The original race was created to help the mortals, but a disagreement on how to do so split them down the middle and led them to change their appearance to reflect their viewpoints. The side that would later become the Angels believe they should protect the mortals, be their silent guardians who aid them in times of need, while the side that would become the Demons believe they should challenge the mortals, throw difficulties their way so they might grow and overcome them. Unable to find compromise, the two sides eventually came to blows and fought on and off for millennia, and only recently stopped with the "birth" of Aria and Tamara, the firstborn child-like angel and demon since the fighting began.
However, these aren't the only inhabitants of the greater cosmos. Long, long ago, there were another kind of being far more ancient than the gods of today, and far more alien in concept than what mortals could possibly conceive, known only as the Forgotten Ones. These beings fought in a violent war with another, even more horrific race at the dawn of time, their clash reshaping the cosmos into its current shape throughout the universe. The Forgotten Ones eventually slew their enemies so completely not even their names remained, and thus the tale of them only refers to them as the Nameless Ones.
Yet the war took a heavy toll on the few remaining survivors. Fading in power and prominence they took their servants, the Gods and Goddesses of today, and set them free upon the universe. Now nothing more than a shadow of their former glory, the Forgotten Ones are content to stay in the background and observe the universe as the Pantheon governs it.