Heaven, Descartes Malefecto
Fujiwara Kaori, Name Undecided
Dear Sir, I hope this glorious spring in the life of the world you have entrusted me with finds you well. We are delighted and honored to do business with your heavenly host and hope for many eons of continued cooperation. We hope that our continued relations will lessen the burden and invigorate your health. I hope that if you have a family or a home world that they are in the greatest of health.
As you are aware sir, I have formed a team of deities to help me oversee the planet which I have tentatively decided to call Islandia. The first set of obstacles have been overcome and we have set both the planet and the heavens in motion. I set out to…
Descartes Malefecto sat behind his rather ordinary looking desk in a rather ordinary looking office with only a few oddities to distinguish its supernatural nature. The man in question flicked a pair of cat ears on top of his head as a smile spread across his many needle-like teeth.
He knew that the woman that had shown up in his office around three years ago would be a perfect fit as a goddess. He had high expectations for her but to have a world formed and running smoothly, or even roughly, in only three years was an absurdly short period of time!
He knew a great deal of the details because she had been moving at such a phenomenal speed that he was able to see progress every time he looked in on her world! He was there for a few of the last developments of the world and even advised her on some of her choices about her finances and about her dealings with other deities.
Thinking about that, he skipped ahead to the part of her lengthy and detailed report about her world’s development. There he found what he was looking for, a graph of the new species that she was directly responsible for the creation of! After being a deity for only about two years, she had already worked out a system for creating her own hybrid species! Many of them were species that had no former basis in reality!
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alignment
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good
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good
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good
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neutral
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neutral
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evil
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evil
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evil
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Common name
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angels
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elves
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fairies
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dwarves
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humans
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giants
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Ogres (gray)
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demons
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Godly name
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Arc-ans
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Arc-els
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Arc-sens
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Arc-toks
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Arc-niels
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Arc-tals
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Arc-fens
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Arc-mels
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General personality
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dignified and stiff like robots or British royal guards
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Free spirited but very quick to shy away or hide
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Naturally curious but cautious not to be seen
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Secretive and industrious but boisterous and friendly
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Selfish but kind and as often bound by rules as not
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Proud and strong with a deep sense of superiority
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Honorable but quick to anger with great strength of body and will
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Some reserved others wild but always twisted and malicious
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Common subtypes
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Direct cross
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High-elves
Fairy nobles
Arch-dwarves
High-humans
Titans
Ogre-lords
Fallen
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High-elves
pixies
gnomes
half-elves
forest giants
blue ogres
dark elves
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
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Fairy-nobles
pixies
halflings
halflings
humans
Green ogres
Imps
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Arch-dwarves
gnomes
Halflings
Hodo/brutes
hill giants
Brown ogres
Red dwarves
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High-humans
Half-elves
Halflings
Hodo/brutes
Low-giants
Red ogres
changelings
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Titans
Forest giants
humans
hill giants
low-giants
Purple ogres
War giants
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Ogre-lords
Blue ogres
Green ogres
Brown ogres
Red ogres
Purple ogres
Black ogres
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Fallen
Dark elves
Imps
Red dwarves
changelings
war giants
black ogres
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Plantites
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Forest spirit
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Dryads
Wood elves
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Brownies
Mandrake
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Shrublies
nutmen
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Florans
Fruitlies
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Treants
War-bamboo
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Rootans
Thorn-lords
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Decay spirit
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anthromorphs
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Siren/birds
Pan/goats
Unicorns/horses
Tigrins/tigers
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Kitsune/fox
Satyr/goats
Selkie/seals Avians/birds
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Sasoringen/scorp
Aringen/ants
Vesperin/bats
Leporingen/rabbi
Scuiringen/squirl
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Kobolds/dogs
Kapa/frogs
Nezumi/rats
Sahuagin/fish
Delphingen/dol
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Canids/dogs
Felids/cats
Centaur/horse
Orcs/swine
Lizardmen
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Minotaur/cows
Ursine/bears
Sphinx/lion
Cyclops/worms
Elerins/elephants
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Lamia/snakes
Harpy/birds
Arachne/spiders
Rhinogres/rhino
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Naga/snakes
Krampus/goats
Goblins/monkey
Hobgoblin/gorril
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Fungaloid
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Myconids/gray
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Myconids/white
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Myconids/brown
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Myconids/red
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Myconids/blue
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Myconids/green
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Microbian/slime
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Silver/healing
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Blue/water
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Gray/oil
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Purple/poison
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Green/acid
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Giant green/acid
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Red/fire
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Black/decay
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Lithotites
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Earth elemental
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Mountain elves
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Leprechaun
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Delvers
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Neandertal
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Stone-giant
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trolls
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Fire elemental
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Aquatites
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Water elemental
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Mermaids
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Nymphs
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Cesaelia/octopus
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Tritons
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Wave-giant
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Shiva
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Ice elemental
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Miasmites
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Air elemental
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Djinn
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Will-o-wisp
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Genies
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Genies
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Cloud-giant
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Ifriti
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lightning elemental
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Descartes marveled at the sheer complexity of the methodology by which the woman went about her method of creation. Using a set of codes that had only been added to the format of the universe by one of the great old ones to explain things that her world went looking for. To think that a world could be so far removed from the normal patterns of things that one of the great old ones had to rewrite the entire universe to conform to their thirst for knowledge. It was awe inspiring.
Descartes sat at his desk reading more of the report and wondered idly what Kaori was doing now that her world was running. As usual, his time to read her report was cut short as an assistant knocked on his door, no doubt bringing him a new crisis on one of the many worlds he oversaw that were run by his woefully less competent lesser deities.
Somewhere on the central continent of the newly minted Islandia
As she began to come round, she noticed a few things. The first was an intense ringing pain in her head followed closely by the fact that it was somewhat quiet around her. Her ears twitched and caught the sound of insects and more than anything else, the scraping sound of leaves being moved by her ears. That meant she was probably on the ground, right?
She ventured to open her eyes and found it was still dark out when she awoke fully. She rolled her head to look up from the leaf covered ground at the trees overhead. There was a large tree next to her and a large branch right above her but nothing that really stood out as a danger. Nothing but the all-pervasive pounding in her head.
She sat up a bit at a time and brought her hand up to grab the side of her head. She had to be careful of the claws on her hands so she didn’t poke her eye. Slowly, she began the arduous task of standing up, using the tree as a support.
Once she was standing, she began gingerly dusting herself off and using her claws to get the forest litter out of her fur. She noticed that at first she could only tell that she had a darker coat with a lighter belly color but realized that she was beginning to be able to make out an orange tint to her fur. That might mean it was getting lighter out.
She looked around and her spastic movement set her head to throbbing. Cringing at the sudden burst of pain, she began looking around her a low slower and discovered that it was indeed getting lighter. She could now make out many details that she couldn’t a few moments ago like the individual hairs on her curled bushy tail. Wait, did she have a tail before…
There seemed like there was something she was missing. She felt that she was different somehow. It was like she was forgetting something. There was a certain sense of urgency when she realized she couldn’t recall ANYTHING before waking up!
She suddenly felt very vulnerable and scared and sad. She instantly began climbing the tree next to her while her heart pounded which only made the pain in her head worse! She relaxed slightly once she got to the branch she had spotted before. That was, until she saw the claw marks on the branch!
With a sudden spike of terror she froze, only willing to move her eyes to look for any potential danger. After several moments of not seeing any movement in the trees around her besides the wind, she relaxed a little. It was only then that she began to examine the claw marks in greater detail.
With sudden realization, she placed her hand over the claw marks and the gouges fit her claws perfectly! They were vertical though. At first her instincts told her that there was a predator that could reach all the way to this branch and mark the bark but it turns out it was her after all.
Vertical claw marks on this branch and she woke up on the ground. It didn’t take her long to figure out that she had fallen from higher up. She had missed catching herself with this branch. When she took a closer look at her claws on her left hand, she found the remains of the bark stuck in the grooves in the bottom of her claws. That confirmed her fall from on high and this branch was likely the only reason she wasn’t dead now. An involuntary shiver ran down her spine at the thought.
She looks around for a few more minutes just to be safe but finding no danger decides to look around the tree for food. After a couple minutes she finds a cluster of acorns and decides to have a meal here. The acorns are large with thin shells on them and the scales on top are soft and still a little green. She ignores how green they seem and cracks the nuts with her front teeth and then picks the shell off with her claws before throwing each into her mouth. The taste is a little off because they aren’t quite ripe but she ignores that and continues her meal.
Several nuts later she wasn’t paying close attention when she bit into the last nut she scarfed down. Suddenly, a pervasive foul taste permeated her mouth and she almost puked but managed to just spit out the acorn she was chewing on. To her shock and disgust, the whole thing was black and had several worms crawling out of it.
Having lost her appetite, she scurries further up the tree and begins working up a run to jump to the next tree branch when a sudden twinge in her shoulder stops her in her tracks. At first, she comes to a skidding halt and freezes in place looking for a predator trying to kill her but then she realizes the obvious. It’s the shoulder she landed on when she fell.
She rotates her shoulder a bit and winces as she feels the twinge again. Perhaps it wouldn’t be a good idea to go running and jumping just yet, she quickly decides. She then sedately climbs back down the tree while looking around warily.
After climbing into a nearby tree, she finds this tree has several branches that are close enough to some from the next tree over that she can climb onto them. Using this method, she searches a number of trees till she finds a good one that has a lot of nuts in it and even a vine with a few berries.
Content in her find, she curls up and goes to town on another batch of nuts.
Kaori observes the squirrel girl with a slight grin. “Such a peaceful existence. Ignorance truly is bliss.”
The girl spends the next four days just moving from tree to tree. She finds a spot with food and posts up in that area until the food is gone. The only time she really travels any distance is when she goes in search of water. Kaori took the chance to get her used to the idea of getting guidance when she would search for water.
The girl freaked out and ran up a tree and over two more trees the first time Kaori spoke to her. Only after the fourth time hearing Kaori whisper to her, when she was completely parched, did the girl follow her directions to a small brook.
That aside, the girl was relaxing to just watch. At first, Kaori was a little conflicted but soon put it aside. She wasn’t a voyeur; she was the goddess of the entire world and she had a reason to be watching this girl. Keeping that in mind made her a little more comfortable. She thought back on her first meeting with her underling, Yaju god of the hunt. When she first met him, he was doing nothing but watching the local elven populace and freaking them out.
Kaori grinned to herself “A little creepy, but he couldn’t do much else so I guess.”
Cute and relaxing as it was to watch the girl eat, sleep, and groom herself, Kaori really had to get things started. “Well, I guess I will give her a bit of a nudge.”