r/Lumeria_World

I've collected some of my worldbuilding into a little zine, covering the creatures, places, history and such - a free readable version online for anyone who's interested: lumeria_zine_readable_online and a free printable one: print and fold zine

Also, I've made a field journal, but it's too much content for a post, so I'm limiting myself to some pages from it,

Here is a chronology of my world

The Crash

• A colony ship from Earth is brought down by the Broken Moon, a large body the planet captured.
• The survivors settle isolated pockets along the Strip, the narrow habitable band between the Freezing Hell and the Scorching Hell.
• The first colonists create the Harvesters to make use of the scarce resources. They carry Earth technology built to resist contamination. The technology becomes what is known as glyphs

The Parasite Wars

• Native parasites hijack soldiers' minds, and whole settlements are razed. Guns and explosives are buried or destroyed, and melee weapons and glyph-seeds replace them.
• Survivors inject their children with mutagens. Only the mutated survive.
• The first mages appear: people bonded to parasite colonies, raised in isolated enclaves.

The Crusade

• Catholic members of the crew decide they are in Purgatory and go mad.
• They build the Archangels and the Cherubs, and grow clone-angels in vats near the Pillars of Vaerys.
• They begin to conquer and unify the settlements along the Strip.

The Fall

• After a short, bloody campaign, native parasites colonize the creations. The Mulcs bring down the giants one leg at a time, and the Archangels decay into Walkers.
• Parasites in the pillar network enter the cloning vats, and the clones become the Angloos.
• The Crusade fails and its descendants scatter: the warriors join the Hunters as Crusader clans, the priests join the mages' Triads as Healers, and others become Secret-Keepers. The colonists vanish.
• A powerful mage makes his last stand against the Walkers. His dies, but his host parasite keeps growing, giving birth to Thorns Field
• Apphia, a hero claimed by both - human and mages- leads the last stand against one of the final invasions, while travel between the pockets is still possible.

The Forever Migration

• Every few generations the Strip shifts. Cities freeze or melt and civilization starts over.
• Frozen giants emerge from the retreating ice, and cities are built around their bones.
• Sheppards learn to command the Walkers, and each city's Heart is moved by Walker teams when the city moves.

Now

• Hunters hunt for relics and glyphs, Screamers for their thermal skin and Angloos for their fluids.
• Humans keep Embers near their camps.
• Mages live in enclaves and are grouped in "Triads", based on their parasitic companion reproduction cycle and feed the Angloos' fluid to their parasites.
• Civilisation develops in walled cities, cave cities and on their outskirts. Cities are dominated by Glyph Lords, individuals that carry mutations (aka powers) from one generation to its descendants.
• Parties of hunters and mages travel between the livable pockets and on the outskirts, facing great challenges and using the walkers as provision tanks. Walkers are led by Sheppards.
• There are conflicts between the noble houses, but the leading is ensured by the Council of Wise and its laws have a federal nature..
• There is a thin thread of commerce between the pockets, Lumeria being the Catholic one, but the travel is perilous and always a gamble.
• The Church plots its moves as always, being the only secretive institution that keeps valid historical records of all former Lumerias, as history is rather oral

I've put together a small zine featuring some of Lumeria's creatures, places, history, and other bits of worldbuilding.

Hope you enjoy it!

As always, I'd love to hear what you think.