a's big a** fantasyland challenge response/no posts please

[Se4Queen]

1.1 BANG. FIZZ. POP. Your world has come into being! What just happened? Describe the creation of your world. You can take this literally, refer to superstition, or anything else you can think of. If your world does not have a 'beginning', tell me how its denizens answer the question, 'how did it all start?'
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A child's mind is one of infinite possibility; there is an outstanding capacity there to absorb and to observe, to question and to wonder. Their minds are open to all things, no limit to possibility.
Now curiosity may kill but it may also lead to new discovery... whole worlds of discovery.

An exact recollection of the events that lead to Nix's creation are is not documented. The story has passed, as stories do, with change and evolution, each exchange bringing it farther and farther from it's truth. The story is still told though, regardless, and these days it goes a bit like this:

A church bell chimed the hour, not disturbing but enhancing the silence from within the brick building. A group of well dressed and pressed individuals filled the pews, watching the front of the room with sharp attention.
A string quartet began the lines of pomp and circumstance and added apprehension to the room's atmosphere.
A small girl of blonde curls - dolled up in a red ribbon tied gown - made her slow way down the isle.
It was her mommy's wedding, and she was the flower girl.
She knew it was a special day - all her mother had talked about for months on end, so much planning and fussing had gone into this day- but it didn't feel so special to the girl.
She wasn't so sure she wanted her mommy married to this man with his heavy hands and his loud slurred voice.
She rather wished she was somewhere else.

Unaware of the girl feelings the ceremony went on and it was lovely, accompanied by white doves at the windows and a weeping father at the alter.
The girl was hugged and doused with kisses, the center of her mother's affair. All fussed over and adored.
She felt like a princess, but even a princess can only take so much.

Eventually she detached herself from the crowd of cheering friends and acquaintances and made her way into the church's back gardens.
It was a nice spring day, but too damp for outdoor gatherings. An arbor was set, covered in poppies; the wedding intended location.
The girl took small steps and sat beneath it, damping the back of her knees and she wouldn't dare think what else.
She looked up towards the heavens and saw the most magnificent thing. A sky in two parts. One piece showing a beam of sunlight ripping through dense clouds, revealing a rainbow of most high definition. The second a white plate, cloudless, and still showing a faded imprint of the previous night's moon. The rock was haloed by a perfect splatter of pinpoint stars.
She contemplated this for a while and eventually felt an unexplained urge to outstretch her arms. She reached up from her seat on the ground, her fingers spread wide, her eyes closed.
Colors floated into her fingertips, soaring at her from the rainbow, and dust from the stars.

Eventually she reopened her eyes, the impulse having faded.

She found herself in a completely different world.

[Se4Queen]

1.2 How big is this world? You may give an exact square mileage, compare it to extant bodies of land or planets, or, if the world cannot be measured by standard methods, explain why and how it can be measured.
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Nix is physically parallel to Earth. Though it is considerably younger. For this reason there has been no separation of land mass. The idea of Pangaea rears it's head here.
Additionally there are a few known islands. Rather small.

[Se4Queen]

1.3 Give a brief overview of the sentient races that populate your world. Come up with 5 races and describe them to me. If you only have a single race in terms of genetics, you can divide populations on the fuzzier line of intra-species race (like Asian, African, etc for earth). If it is more suitable, you may also separate people by civilizations instead of race. (Though they must be capable of interacting, so no dead civilizations). You can also mix these categories up, as long as you come out with at least 5 in the end. Tell me what differentiates each race, what they look like, and a few sentences about them.
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>>Children of Nix. These are the children born of the land. They are similar to humans in every way only distinguishable by the magic that resides within them. Announced by a few physical marking shared between the group. Only detected by a trained eye.
Occasionally a child born to the Earth realm will receive the magic trait but they are rarely discovered and considered of lesser caliber. Weaker, they say.

>>Fairies. They are fairies in the usual sense. Minuscule and winged. They may be friendly helpers, great for companionship, or filthy little troublemakers, depending on their upbringing and influence. Though a fairy's intention are usually quite frank for their wing color gives off their mood and emotion.
Being sprinkled with their dust will bring you a half days worth of the flying gift, general good luck, and happy spirits.

>>Mermaids. Mermaids and Mermen dwell as they do, Kings and Queen's of the sea. Generally friendly, and good watchers. They hold a special kind of magic that can influence the weather and calm or bring great storms.
They often times choose to be transformed into people, for mermaids never age, but rarely manage to grasp the magic of Nix. Because of this they often times find there way into the human world to grow old and lead lives.

>>Sirens. Sirens are predominantly woman and scorned lovers. Though they will occasional be men, and you can elect to become one. They lure you with their charm and may take any person's form which they choose. They can read your mind and in this lies the threat. They can be whatever you want them to be.

>>Halflings. Magic blood is not meant to mix and because of this any woman found pregnant by another creature's doing is advised to abort. The baby will be born of normal quality, aging rather well into young adult hood. But by the time comes 20 or 21 years the child will begin to fall into a state of decay. First signs being cracked lips or patched skin. Eventually this person will turn into a crusted shell of who he use to be, made from dust as the world was. Destined to crumble and take those with, whom he can.
Another teller is the child may be born of any eye color shade. Though this sometimes may lead to a normal hue of blue or green, a violet eyed baby must be watched, and red eyed children are often times discarded.

>>Werewolves. You never know when you'll have a werewolf. It seems to be a recessive trait capable of being birthed to any 'human' couple. These children will know a mean streak like no other and an air of murk and eerie that seems to follow them perpetually. A full moon will cause the change, where the man becomes the wolf. Seclusion and access to food should keep any werewolf from causing too much harm.

[Se4Queen]

1.4 Come up with five distinct regions of your world. Briefly describe their geography and climate, as well as who lives there, if anyone.

Vertically through the land mass a magicked wall of brown brick and copper is erected, separating the world; east and west.
The Western world is mostly inhabited. The Eastern portion, not so much. Half of the Eastern world is grave yard, deemed The Court of Mort. Many halflings roam these parts which is mostly desert and dry lands. The other part of the west is home mostly to trees. Forest. Many fairy's, and werewolves make their home here. Danger may be found here, in the Region of Greens.
The Western world is split as the east, north and sound. Separated by type of land.
Castles and modest homes of ice and stone are build in the North, inhabited by all. This piece is deemed the Tundra of Shadow.
The southern west is much hotter. The producers of most things, the working hands, dwell here. All types live here as well though not in the same peace that is found farther north. This area is refereed to as Dry Ends.
The Island's of Nix are left for the very wealthy to build estate.

[Se4Queen]

1.5 Pick a single population group and tell me what they think about their world. Are their lives easy? Hard? Are they on the world for a purpose?
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We have seen Earth, and for this reason we favor Nix. While we have dark forces and nothing can be perfect, we are far from the horror film that plays out among the Simples.
We have everything, quite literary, at our fingertips. We are the molders and the creaters of our world and our lives. We sit comfortable - surrounded by only the things we desire - while the world we are descended from lives uncomfortably among rats.
To be a Child of Nix is to be blessed. It is to be lucky. It is to be shrouded with the light duty of carrying a lighted beacon to illuminate and cast good spirits on the present and the future.

[Se4Queen]

1.6 Map time! Draw a map of your world. It does not have to be complete or good, but I suggest that you make a big one to save and then shrink it to post, because we will be going back to it. You don't need to make it too complex, as we will be filling it out through the course of the challenge. Just show me general land and water masses. Also include the regions mentioned in prompt 1.4.
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Nix. The actual world is not square shaped. I am a terrible artist.

[Se4Queen]

1.7 In 3 sentences or less, tell me about your world and what makes it special.

We are the future. We have been given a new start, a new world, and we will cherish it. We will not destruct.