Yume
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Yume (yoo-meh) is a world in constant renewal. Its nature swinging between daylight forests and sky-gardens and wet, electric nights where hidden currents run deep. It is populated by people of all shapes and sizes that are all interconnected with their world—a massive city of billions that climbs a tree the size of a moon entwined by roots, cables, and shared purpose.
A World of Light and Dark
Yume is a moon that orbits a giant water planet, Leviathan, which in turn orbits the Crystal of Arva directly. The number of fellow planets is unknown to Yumians. Yume was created as a hollow hemisphere whose inner surface is covered by land, sea, and sky. Floating at its center is a single, super-massive, tree–whose trunk and roots descend down close to the crust of the world, while its highest canopies extend over the rim of the half-sphere. Yumians call this world tree Shinju (神樹).
The Spiritual Plane
The entire realm shifts between Seikai ( the Material Plane) to Kōkai (the Dream Realm) every 12 hours. This is entirely normal for Yumians and they see very little difference between this dimensional shift and the shift between night and day.
Mythos
Long, long ago, when the world was still young, Shinju, the World Tree, rose from the void.
And upon its towering crown, the Nimbus was set, radiant and eternal.
むかしむかし、世界がまだ若かった頃、神樹は虚無から立ち上がった。
そしてその頂に、光楽園が輝きながら永遠に置かれた。
Before the heavens collapsed, the Nimbus (光楽園) was created for both spirits and people to dwell in peace. This large ringed structure that floats in the upper canopies of the great Shinju was, and still is, a beautiful sight to behold. Then, after the stars rained down, and the world was split in two, humanity decided that it would not be good that everyone should be allowed to gaze upon the highest canopies of Shinju—the last place the great spirits were seen walking amongst humanity.
And so many were cast down from the canopies, and the city of Yume was split in two—those the lived in the Nimbus, and those that lived in the Lower End. Only those who are highly devoted, and their descendants, are able to live in the paradise and away from the stagnant life of the lower city.
The City of Yume
The eponymous supra-city of Yume is split in two sections, the Nimbus which rings the canopy of the world tree, and Ne-no-Mori which straddles the lower trunks. Ne-no-Mori also descends far down into the rising waters, the city itself climbing up the tree over…
Ne-no-Mori
Ne-no-Mori hums with life’s tenacity—an urban forest woven through steel and circuit. Shinju-powered panels sprout like leaves along faded gantries, powering bio-luminescent streetlamps that glow soft green at dusk. Rainwater gardens cascade from rooftop terraces,...
Nimbus
Perched like a crown on Yume’s canopy, Nimbus is a cathedral of spires, glass-tubed walkways, and gardens that float among drifting clouds. Here, sunlight weaves through living lattices of crystal—each shard humming with arcane resonance. The Shinsei Council convenes...
Life in the City
Politics Governance in Nimbus is overseen by the Shinsei Council (神聖会議), a theocratic technocracy composed of six Elders and one Tenshō (Heavenly Light), a figure elected once every century through a ritual known as The Calling of the Crown. These rulers are seen as...
Seasonal Cycle
Yume has a full 24-hour night/day cycle, and each 24 hours is split into 6-hour "seasons." The flood occurs every night in Autumn and Winter (the Seikai half-cycle), and recedes each day in Spring and Summer (the Kōkai half-cycle). Summer During Summer, Yume is fully...
The City of Yume
The eponymous supra-city of Yume is split in two sections, the Nimbus which rings the canopy of the world tree, and Ne-no-Mori which straddles the lower trunks. Ne-no-Mori also descends far down into the rising waters, the city itself climbing up the tree over...
Into the world of Yume
The Colossi
They come from the depths of Leviathan’s abyssal realm. Each a behemoth a hundred or more meters tall, these creatures are emissaries of destruction forged to rend Yume’s delicate balance. Their titanic bodies marry raw, pulsing muscle with angular, rune-etched relic...
Madōshi
魔導師 Between the neon glow of Ne-no-Mori’s alleys and the glimmering spires of Nimbus, the Madōshi are walking conduits of Shinju’s ancient power. More often than not they're born in the streets of Ne-no-Mori, each Madōshi carries in their veins the Song of the World...
Creator:
Yume has been developed by Atomic Panda, a project of Create International. We would love to invite you to develop your own creations within Yume!