Surviving the Scaly Slow Life

• Divinity: A very mysterious and unknown substance that not even the oldest entities in the galaxy know where it comes from. What is known is that it is a fundamental building block of existence, just like energy and dark energy. 

• Mana: Thought to be a mystical essence by the foolish, it is actually just a form of energy. Technically speaking, it is just a really powerful source of potential energy that happens to be a pain to convert if you don't know what you're doing.
  • Generated in mana-producing stars that convert divinity using the intense heat of nuclear reactions and a pinch of salt.

• Progenitors: The absolute apex of all existence save for one exception beyond all other exceptions. These entities wield the power to bend the natural laws to their will, but never break them because, well, they cannot. Though from a certain point of view, they are the natural laws themselves. Typically reside in a higher dimension plane known as the Divine Realm, but sometimes they come out to poke their kids. 

• Celestials: One step below the Progenitors on the scale of existence, these divine beings are the children of the Progenitors and wield the power of utilizing the raw power of divinity with their mere bodies. More powerful than a singularity, they unfortunately must still listen to their parents. That, or seek adoption from another family...
  • While they are free from all mortal desires (hunger, sleep, etc.), most still choose to indulge in them anyways because otherwise their (technically) eternal lives would result in eternal suffering.
  • Can reproduce with or without a partner.
  • In the galaxy this story takes place in, Celestials are limited in power to one particular element (fire, water, earth, wind, light, darkness) with some amount of flexibility.
    • Because the mother dragon (and therefore the grand-dragons parents) hails from a different galaxy, they have a different set of powers (attributes) from the rest of the fellow entities in existence. 

• Demi-Celestials: The next tier down from the scale of existence, all Demi-Celestials (or just Demi's for short) are mostly creations rather than descendants of Celestials, though some familial relationships do exist between the two. Because of the wild imaginations of their creators, there is a very large variety of the races that make up this classification.

• Puny Mortals Common-folk: Poor, unfortunate souls forced to live pitiful lives with finite lifespans and having to eat, pee, poop, and sleep 7-8 hours a day for a half-decent experience. 

• World Tree: Serves as the sole connection between Reality and the Divine Realm. Only one tree may exist on each planet that holds a sufficient amount of atmospheric divinity. Sometimes used for quick and easy interstellar travel, but one must be a Celestial and capable of operating independently from the space and time axes.

• Time: The local time for the planet upon which the story predominantly takes place is of the following format/measurements:
  • 1 year  = 12 months = 48 weeks = 384 days = 9600 hours
  • 1 month = 4 weeks = 32 days = 800 hours
  • 1 week = 8 days = 200 hours
  • 1 day = 25 hours
  • Seasons: 4 seasons in a year (spring, summer, fall, winter) separated into 3 months each
    • Denoted by the particular month of the corresponding season: (First/Second/Third) + (Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter)
    • ex) First Spring; Second Fall; Third Winter
  • Date: (Day/Month/Year)
    • ex) 1st of Second Spring; 28th of Third Summer; 32nd of Third Winter
  • Note: There is no particular name for the individual days of the week. Each month starts and ends at the same points: 1st, and 32nd respectively.
  • Second Note: At some point, I will figure how to calculate the approximate mass of the planet and with that, the length of a day/year on it. Thus, the above information may be subject to change a bit whenever I get to that in order to reflect an unecessarily realistic planetary experience. Thank you for understanding.
    • The assumptions I will be using for the initial calculation are as follows:
      • Acceleration of gravity = 10 m/s^2¹None of that 9.81 nonsense. Or Dragons forbid the π^2
      • The material composition is roughly the same
      • The star being orbitted has the same mass as our Sun

The planet, unnamed for certain reasons, is split into four main continents (The North, the East, the South, and the West) separated by oceans.

• The North: Home to the world's dragon population and a vast amount of other higher beings, the North is a vast, but dangerous land for the uninitiated. Be it the flora, the fauna, or even just the ridiculous amount of aura and divinity floating around the atmosphere, the lucky souls are the ones who get instantly vaporized. The unlucky ones become a (sometimes) delicious meal. At bare minimum, one would have to be at least a demi-celestial to even stand up straight. 

• The East: Home to the world's largest forest, which stretches from coast to coast all around, the East is a paradise for tree lovers. However, the Faery Queen, the Fae, and the weaker beings known as elves are not the only tree lovers around, so it would be highly advised to keep both eyes and ears peeled, lest you lose your way and become one with nature. Though in a grand twist of irony, the land of the tree huggers is not actually home to the largest tree on the planet, for the World Tree dug its roots deep in the heart of the North.

• The South: Home to a very large block of ice, there also happens to be a large number of inactive volcanoes deep below the surface. Completely void of life unless you count the hundreds of creatures that went there and became popsicles shortly after.

• The West: Home to pretty much all the common-folk (humans, beastie folks, etc.) as well as the rest of the world's inhabitants, there is no shortage of nations nor strife as each individual attempts to get by in this grand game called life. 

• Dragon's Peak: A mountain range near the southern coast of the North inhabited by, you guessed it, dragons. Lots of dragons. Home to a certain family of Elder Dragons that manage and maintain the place.

• Heaven's Gate: Somewhat of a picturesque kingdom located at the base of the World Tree, roughly around the center of the North. Home to lots of different races to simulate the liveliness of a city without the hassles of one. Run by a fiery Elder Dragon and his equally fiery but feathery wife. 

• Arachnae Cave: Located in the side of a mountain (the same one that the family of Elder Dragons live on), there is actually a clan of Arachnae's that make clothes for the planet's Celestials and friends. Very welcoming to children.

• Some taiga somewhere: Very cold. Lots of coniferous trees that look like pines but are much more deadly and huggable. Home to the elusive Fenrir and his pup as well as every other animal you'd expect to find in a taiga but slightly larger and more magicky.

• Faery Kingdom: The kingdom of Faeries except it's actually just a giant home for all the Faeries in the world and their mother, the Faery Queen. Often smells like cookies.

• Bubster's Bay: Home to a pod of space whales and the main hub for their interstellar travel and logistics business. Occasionally invaded by krakens during mating season.

• Isles of Setting Moon: A collection of islands associated together. Home to the elusive Oni race. Technically, the individual islands are managed by particular Oni clans, but the real big boss behind it all is an extremely floofy fox with an unusual number of tails. 

Lucillia:

Solestia:

Lunestia

Caelenia

Silvania

Corinna:

Helios

Cyra

Aurelya

Kiyomi (floof mama because names are hard for me to introduce apparently)

Akari

Akira

Fen

Fenny

Kiralyne

Arak'sha

Titania

• Mira: Demi-Celestial (Undine: Water); a human-sized and shaped fish that serves as Lucillia's maid; younger cousin of Naida
• Naida: Celestial (Kitos: Space); a (sometimes) human-sized and shaped whale that runs an interstellar logistics company; older cousin of Mira, mother of two 
• Alex: Demi-Celestial (Axolololol: Water); a walking axolololol that was raised by Mira when she ran an orphanage; the oldest sibling of said orphanage
• Scutos: Common-folk (Tutel); a turtley turtle; enjoys jellyfish; is a menace to underwater society; is the youngest sibling of said orphanage
• Scutla: Common-folk (Tutel); a more majestic turtley turle; older sister of Scutos; often has to keep her brother in check
• Gus: Common-folk (Tall-rus); a walrus born with opposable fins and ostracized because of them; always helped out in the kitchen at said orphanage; has very squishy blubber
• Cinthiya: Demi-Celestial (Dryad: Flower) a (kind of) human-sized and shaped plant that serves as Silvania's maid
• Gruul: Demi-Celestial (a very fancy Orc, I guess: Cooking?); head chef (and also the only chef) at Dragon's Peak household
• Greta: Demi-Celestial (Capricorn: Earth); one of two maidservants for the small, firey birb; younger sister of Gertrude
• Gertrude: Demi-Celestial (Capricorn: Earth); older sister of Greta; head chef at Heaven's Gate (former head chef at Dragon's Peak)
• Safiya: Demi-Celestial (Anubis: Sand); one of two maidservants for the small, firey birb; gets distracted easily
• Madeleine/Beignet/Tarte: Demi-Celestial (Cerberus: Fire); a three-headed doggo that is actually just three doggos magically attached together

And more to come as the story someday progresses.