Numbers Story


Intro

Numbers Story is my personal headworld I've been working on since 2010. Though convoluted and messy at times, it's been with me through hell and high water, and it means a lot to me to be able to keep working on it and share it with you!

This world serves as the Toyhouse hub for some information. However, I do own a website here, with more information. It is also a WIP, but contains more fundamental blocks of the world that some of the articles here may not make sense without.

If you're looking for a good place to start, the basic introduction covers many of the concepts governing Numbers. Or, you can navigate (through the folder links below) to a world that looks interesting to you, to find out more about its specific details and populace. If you just want to see some horses, you can take a look at my "mains", a set of primordial gods.

Please don't send join requests!
There's no information on the world that is public to members but not guests.
If you want to join to make a character in the setting, I'd rather be talked first and became friends!


What is Numbers, Anyways?

Genuinely good question.

It's, overarchingly, a fictional world with its own set of governing rules and mechanics alien to our own. It spans gods, timelines, universes, and thousands of characters. Fundamentally, its core concepts include self-growth, redemption, morality, understanding, love, and care. Though its scale is massive, Numbers laser-focuses on interpersonal relationships: their struggles, their growth, and the way they can be used to lift other people up, even in the face of insurmountable suffering.

But let's take a step back from all that metaphysical theming and talk about what, actually, is going on Numbers. Populated by a variety of sentient anthro races (no humans), Numbers' sentience is not powered by electrical impulses in the brain, but rather by the magical properties of an element called Magninium. Magninium, in large quantities, gives rise to sentience, and has minor reality-warping effects, allowing for magic and mages to become commonplace. 

There are many, many different worlds in Numbers - not just divided by Timeline. Within a Timeline, more powerful gods typically create entire Universes, with billions of people and nations in order to satiate their appetite for more Magninium. These Universes provide the home for the mortals, and thus an intricate web of both gods and matryoshka-doll-worlds is born.

The Introduction page goes into more detail.

It deals with many heavy concepts, and a lot of trauma. It started as a coping mechanism for my own trauma, and has remained a core tenet of it ever since. I try to mark content warnings were I know things get dicey, but please let me know if you think more should be added anywhere.


Worlds & Characters

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Magnitude Fragments


The primordial deities of the world, comprising the basic geometry upon all else is built. They persist in this world, observing and caring for the individual Timelines, where life has unfolded.

Fragments


Tiny pieces of the creator deities, born when the world was first crafted. Though they argue amid personal ambition and struggle, a universal truth persists: all wish to preserve and care for Timelines.

Flameverse


Powerful Flames imbue their wielders with unique and strange powers, but all pales in comparison to the greater machinations of the gods they worship. Such a mantle has been placed on Peaches, one of their inheritors.

The Well of Creation


The Well of Creation at the center of the galaxy has long borne gods. After an experiment to pull forth a new one broke the Well, the birth of a new Arcanas has shaken the world to its foundations.

Hantel


Two Ant colonies, locked in eternal war, must juggle the ambitions and trauma of those under their banner if they seek to survive the conflict. (A collaboration with my partner Lunila.)

Myrme


A world of Ants, shattered after the brutal massacre of an entire colony, an act of incomprehensible violence. Whispers abound of the reason behind such an attack - none guessing it is to force the gods' hands.

Seleighe


The rigid and religious society of the four Courts have ruled the world since the Highers unleashed judgment on the old gods. Now, it struggles to adapt to the realization that outsiders have survived.

Cities of Ash


The world, in shambles and splinters, has barely survived the apocalypse, heralded by the ritualistic hunting of gods. Now life writhes in the aftermath - as one of the hunters seeks redemption or damnation.

Dragonhost


The World-Ender and Herald of Armageddon, Worm, defies their role and fate as spoken by the Source-All. They flee from their duty, stealing glances at the Heart of the World, and long to be capable of change.

Soleil


Empires spanning galaxies depend on their life-giving stars to provide for them - but can only watch helplessly as espionage, politics, intrigue, and back-stabbing rule the Forum of the Celestials.