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Hello trainers!
We're continuing to talk about the lore of Holozing, or at least the short story I'm working on around this upcoming video game. I've had some help from the community, but for now, I'm just laying the groundwork for the protagonists, the world, and how everything will work once they start playing.
In previous posts, I mentioned that I already had a protagonist. I'd come up with several names, but in the end, I decided to change them: Meet Jacen, the protagonist of this short story in a world inhabited by humans and creatures in constant tension.
Let's position Jacen in this world!
I had kept the sketch from a few posts ago.
In the world of Holozing, humans and creatures live in a kind of perpetual challenge. Although most of both species live in harmony, there are plenty of moments of conflict between the leaders of these two worlds.
Humans, in an attempt to further investigate the creatures in order to harness their hidden power, coordinate expeditions to the deepest corners of the islands where the most dangerous creatures live.
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Their goal? Capture some of the most evolved creatures and use them as test subjects to understand where their elemental powers come from and how humans can master them.
JACEN
Motivated by the thrill of adventure, a young adventurer with no extraordinary gifts decided to join one of these dangerous expeditions in the hopes of finding a little excitement in his boring life.
He travels the elemental islands for months, going deeper and deeper, where the dangers become increasingly evident. For the moment, everything seems peaceful and calm. The innocent creatures, like the humans, have no desire to start a war.
But it is there, in the eye of the hurricane, that several of the humans grow envious of the creatures and decide to capture them to research them, tame them, and make them part of their arsenal, weapons stripped of life.
JACEN and other humans, seeing this, understand the danger they may be in. Several of the captured creatures belong to the lowest level of the Holozing creature chain. At any moment, a larger range of creatures never before seen could attack humans.
And so it happens...
One of those days, while they were catching new creatures, one of them turned out to be several levels beyond what humans could handle. endure
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Of course, their camp was attacked. Most of the humans died, and those who survived were scattered across the island without resources, lost in an unknown environment that had already shown its teeth. Among those humans was Jacen.
Equipped with armor stolen from his fallen comrades, a sword, and determination, our protagonist's first objective is to leave the hot zone of the elemental island. But along the way, he'll discover that the human-led expeditions were wrong.
And the creatures we encounter here have another way of collaborating, so it's also a mission. of building the bridge between humans and creatures so that they can reach a state of peace and cooperation