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<sub> Tales of New Eden/ToNE is a story revolving around a magical garden, existing outside of time and as essentially a type of purgatory. When a person dies, if they meet certain criteria (mainly if the garden sees them as “worthy” to be a host for it's immense thirst, as well as a representative of its beauty), they will enter immediately, often trapped there for the equivalent of many years, and undergoing many trials.
New Eden itself is sentient, and contains much land divided into many little “kingdoms”. The ruler of each of those kingdoms is a person chosen from the beginning of time, destined to enter into it, and often with the combination of exterior beauty but some fatal flaw in their mind/personality. This is because New Eden feeds off evil, negativity, and pain in order to keep itself alive; the reason why, or how it does this, is currently unknown.
These “rulers” will undergo many trials while within Eden, though they will often be suffering them and not noticing, as compared to most of their past lives, life in this hidden garden will seem as a paradise. (One requirement of being a ruler in New Eden is that you be under a certain age, as though the garden is alive, it manifests itself in the much more able form of man; therefore it wishes to have a representative that is not only beautiful, but amply young, to mirror the life of a young and beautiful flower. Resulting, most of these rulers would have had to have died young, as a result of some tragedy in their life.) After this, everyone gains Immortal life.
In addition to “rulers”, others, also chosen from birth though the decisions can be impacted by the lives of the rulers, may also enter, though they will be in an odd form; lacking a solid body, these will be more akin to spirits or ghosts, not being able to speak. They are essentially as will-o-the-wisps and possess less sentience or willpower as the rulers, and the garden can take over them more or less at will; like wisps they have been known to appear in the world, and guide the predestined to places and events which Eden wishes them to attend to.
(New Eden itself can indeed take a human form, though it will appear more as one of these "wisps" and not as an actual human; therefore it relies on the rulers. Though not parasitic, it does influence their decision making without impairing their will.)
The rulers are bonded to New Eden itself, physically and emotionally.
In regards to emotion, the more negative energy they create, and Eden feeds off it, the worse their mental state becomes, and the more power they gain.
Physically, they have lost much of their humanity, to be replaced with plants. This is a complex process, as there are many elements and ways this can happen. Primarily, flowers grow over wounds gained in life, since a person enters the mystic garden in whatever physical state they were in at the time of their death. Thus, a physical injury may be treated in this way (though it would still cause pain, just not bleed out or cause disaster), but not a mental one. Their are some on the line, for example, sociopathy acquired through physical injury. Over time such injuries will heal but the process is slow (and unpredictable, New Eden being outside of the real timeline in the first place, though time does pass in its own way). Additionally, it is often the inside of the body (since it is often the main cause of death and decay, for example, if organs are damaged. Also important is that if an organ has been replaced with organic material, the person cannot exit New Eden without serious risk of death, since the Garden will not be around to provide life to them) where the growth begins, as slowly body parts become replaced with flowers/plants, the longer the person remains in New Eden, and also the more negative they become. In some cases, some rulers' entire skeletons have become replaced with a combination of bone and wood. The particular science behind this is complicated and varies with the individual. (resulting, in the modern world, the rulers are very afraid of becoming hurt, injured or in need of a doctor, lest someone cut them open and reveal their true nature. Apparently, New Eden itself wishes to remain hidden, for now.)
This is not parasitic; New Eden can never remove someone's will or sentience, but it can impair their decision making, cause them more insanity, and over a long period of time, physically bond them to itself so much that they are unable to move, being absorbed into the Garden, and living withing the entirety of their domain, feeling, breathing, and seeing, not with their body (which acts more as the heart and brain of the entity), but with the nature around them. As they are unable to physically speak in this state, no one knows what it is like to be so thoroughly bonded with Eden, or how decision making works. It is also unknown if anyone has yet reached this state.
Due to the nature of such deep attachment to New Eden, which connects every ruler within it, naturally, all of the rulers are connected to one another. Therefore, if one person is to become injured, though there may not be a physical wound on everyone else, all within Eden would feel the pain (though to a slightly lesser degree than the original person who felt it). Because of this in general, as well as the rulers all having acquired more or less permanent wounds at some period of their life, everyone is always in constant pain and is more or less desensitised to it.
The balance of Eden is suddenly upset one day, when an ordinary woman from the natural timeline somehow manages to break into the Garden's timeline, opening the door to a Pandora's box that it would take the end of worlds to close.</sub>
Hey, are you active here these days?
10 days, 21 hours ago
10 months, 10 days ago
hello! i am so sorry to bother you, but i found one of your threads while browsing the deviantart forums and went to leave a comment- only to find that i have been blocked? i don't believe i have ever met you before nor do i believe i've ever interacted with you before- so i figured i would ask you about it here, my DA name is The-Platinum-Badguy, whatever i might've done to upset you, i do apologize! again i'm sorry if i'm bugging you, i just thought i'd ask since i am a tad confused, do have a lovely day!
4 years, 8 months ago
Hi : )
Oh my, that's weird. I vaguely remember your name but I don't remember ever encountering you before. I've unblocked you now ^^; Sorry to cause any worry, and have a wonderful day!
4 years, 7 months ago
5 years, 9 months ago
Hi.
I don't know what to say. I believe you, and since it wasn't you I'm sincerely sorry about what I said. If I can be honest I've been nervous about you since you said you hated my art style before. Perhaps I misinterpreted the comment; I just felt like since you were my friend it was somewhat odd to say (Additionally, his year has been pretty bad for me so I jumped to conclusions a lot). If that wasn't your intention, then I'm truly sorry about this.
5 years, 9 months ago Edited 9:58 pm
Holy shit your art is amazing
5 years, 10 months ago
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! ;w;
5 years, 10 months ago