Good idea since the finale is coming up soon.
1. The Overall Story
In the beginning, Limagriseus Forumvita appeared in the Prosper forum, an unexpected internet lifeform. From it would emerge three species soon thereafter - Multipoda TeaKinges, Fabula Ambulator and Dichorisare Chiozore. In the Early Period of the forum’s biosphere, the evolution of those lineages was generally contained to the basics, most importantly the emergence of outcrops of the body and respiratory systems. In the soon following Intermediate Period however things would become more heated as the users of the forum began to fight back against the hungry creatures, and the critters’ hunger itself manifested with the evolution of omnivory occurring in the TeaKinges species and the Ambulator species trying to keep all the letters for itself. Dichorisare meanwhile split into two species with one of them pursuing a less conventional path of creature photosynthesis. Following this the period had increasingly more interspecies competition taking place as the first advanced neural clusters evolved, perhaps accelerating the armsrace. At the same time some species took more effort in appeasing the users than the others, especially the Antelectum species. But the users didn’t take a care as they formed the first organization focused on these pests and their eradication, with a pro-biota alliance emerging the month after. The period transitioned into the next with much similarity in the evolutionary trends, that being the species competing with each other in the three statistical fields - the actual deviation to later define a new era came with the split-off to create Multipoda Yuyimus, a species that would greatly contribute to the first proper extinction in the forum, that being of the user-oriented Antelectum kin. With more species filling the ranks of the Multipoda genus as new niches seemingly open, the Pax Multipoda period has gained it’s name. The advent of cursors steered by mechanical minds would finish off the crippled Fabula genus and the unusual Photosynthetic Dividers not long after the period started, now leaving only two original lineages around, while the organizations evolve and two more emerge, widening the spectrum a new user may choose from. Creatures continue to evolve, gaining more tools to fight, defend, flee and think better. Some evolve to reach for the skies while a strangely Fabula-like Multipoda species develops the ability to interact with the less physical parts of the forum much like it’s namesake. Those abilities would attract some rather interesting individuals to the forum, while other users create parks with unique conditions. By this point several species have begun to move away from the general trend of just becoming overall stronger and instead have specialized in more specific areas, such as intelligence, cyberspace or even parasitism, with the Similisarstractatori slowly attaining a status they would continue to hold throughout the rest of the forum’s history… But this fame would not come without the users’ notice, for some decided to use the magic species for a malicious purpose - from the power held within would be created an entity that darkens, for now relatively weak with what was to come. At the same time the evolution speed and downfall survivability of all the species went up overall as the unfriendly environment forces most kins to prepare for the worst. Intelligence slowly rises to it’s second and third form while more parks get colonized, and yet the evolution seems similar to what it was like even back in the Intermediate Period. Though the creatures slash the air when it gets dark, the mist lives on, and soon gets stronger as the wizards whomst have made it be are… not quite yet exiled from the forum. Other users keep improving the cursors meanwhile, being the main cause behind the way the creatures have been evolving, as they need to fight against increasingly dangerous foes from beyond every few months. Meanwhile as the Multipoda genus has split off new species beyond this singular classification, the era of it’s complete dominance has come to an end, with the intelligence of the biota rising giving the “Intelligence Rises” period’s name. This intelligence would however perhaps first show itself with a pair of species… aligning with the Mist. Other species meanwhile try to skitter away from the dangerous food webs of the website by developing various deterrents like poison, thought not too unusually those barriers are shattered by predators gaining just the right trait. Alas however the period shines the brightest as the originator of the Multipoda genus reaches stone age level of development itself, with other species trailing behind. But this physical kin was not the only sentient thing to emerge in this bizarre site at this very time - for this is also when from the cybermagic wizard species created the infamous Deus entity, paving the way for a future fight of two alliances… While the mist both attacks and is attacked fiercely, until an another event gives it a primitive physical form, that would cost the questionable wizards their stay in the Prosper realm. Alongside becoming smarter, many species are also becoming physically larger, with only a few having become smaller later on. As the land of the forum starts to be invested increasingly more into pro and anti mist factions, one species - the progenitor of the Dichorisare kin - is first forced extinct by the continuously upgraded AI cursors and then revived with Deuses effort, setting the entities position in stone, while the Mistdom gains it’s name. Slowly, civilized actions take over evolutionary mutations in terms of what the species do, extending even to those kins which have not yet attained true sentience. And right here, when things seem to be changing from creatures to people, when the dualism of this world is forming, when the history has reached a halfway point, the event happened to perhaps definitely define the Deuses Covenant and Mistdom relations for most times to come. For the mist found a way to upgrade itself without the help of users - and it emerged as a being worthy to rival the god made by the arcanest critters. Not just that, it brought all the dead beings back and made it fight for it’s name, even fully reviving the recently extinct Yuyimus species. With this event being definitely a major one, the organizations at the time decided to name it the age of chaos, later to be renamed as the confrontation age, while a new council would emerge to combat the dark entity itself. There was little reason left to stay neutral - most creatures jumped over to the covenant when the worm of dark emerged. From this point on, the discourse between the two forces took over the happenings in the website nearly completely, shoving the regular evolution even further back, alongside technological developments rising. This rivalry would eventually result in four battles taking place around the dark worm, which ended up with the worm taking on a spherical safety form whilst it’s subservient species were sacrificed to keep it going. At this time the alliances of the old have also finally disintegrated after a long period of decline, with the forum being united under one banner perhaps more profoundly than ever before. Species grew closer than ever before, being a prelude for perhaps a new epoch yet to come… For now however a struggle was still ongoing to secure the victory over the Mistdom, while species rapidly rushed onward with their technological predicaments. The orb would be secured increasingly tightly while it’s last loyal species would face more and more pressure… Eventually, the two groups would start to look beyond their at-the-time situations as the covenant tried to grasp for the forums beyond their own one while the Mistorb created a new entity that could operate beyond the confines of it’s creator’s prison. The technological development within the place reached levels comparable to the real life for the first time. Powerful entities began to pop up across the species themselves too, becoming the lesser gods of those creatures, second to Deus of course. Finally, the progress of the covenant would pay off - their Mistdom enemies have been mostly destroyed or otherwise rendered harmless, making most users become more docile about the entire creature situation, even if just for a while. With the chaos definitely over by now, the age of covenant’s dominance, Pax Foedus, has begun. At this point the critters begun developing such innovations that would usually come off as sci-fi more regularly than more familiar constructs, New intrigues were still popping up however as the blur of the mist begun it’s rise while the other forums begun to amass actual proper biotas inside, slowly coming together. All seemed to go well for covenant nevertheless… Until much happened not even that long into this period. The outsider biospheres, targeted by the kin of cat beasts, found refuge within the forum, while Darkblur suddenly acquired all the powers of it’s maker by locating and consuming it. Worse yet the users came back at the creatures, now either pretty hostile and operating the deadly cursors or treasonous behind a false veil of helpfulness. The rise of the blur and the rebuilding of the Mistdom did make some return to the most pro-covenant organization, but things were far from certain still, especially as the recent dangers acquired their own followings of people. As so the New Confrontation period has begun, with the covenant’s attention pointed at the New Trench PM, where was the secret center of their science and actions located at. Things became more heated when, after trying to investigate a certain particularity relating to the border of the forum some of the creature top scientists have been researching for a while now, a being seemingly divine descended upon the forum from who knows where, with it’s intent seemingly being to sweep the place of more ambitious dreams. It seems like the ones already present in the website with history now long did not find this prospect very acceptable since soon enough the entity was defeated in a battle where the beings of the forum put aside their differences. The technological supremacy of the covenant would show up in it’s ability to create projects starting to go beyond human comprehension in mere weeks. With a common threat gone though the alliance of the species would go for it’s long-sworn enemy whilst the divine being defeated not long ago would continue to pester researchers from time to time. The technology has perhaps peaked by now as even the most mundane breakthroughs seem to be as if they were from a science fantasy movie now. This level of development would manifest with the final defeat of the Mistdom, the blur being taken to a prison by a grand flying battleship and the loyal user numbers dwindling quick. This left the other batch of rivals left standing, which at the time tried, and mostly failed, to eradicate their oppressors from times begone. While this threat was unresolved, an another not just got worse, but existential even - for the divine have not been happy with how the creatures want to learn more about the great beyond, and so they have announced their will to wipe out the biota once and for all. The preparations didn’t have much time, and yet much was still achieved - The enemies of the old have once more, this time last time, turned against a common enemy, the species found the best ways to improve themselves before the last battle, and the users are now once more closer than ever before besides the brightest period of the council, watching as below them a battle is about to begin, to define the conclusion of this tale over half a decade long for them.
2. Species Histories and Descriptions
a. Multipoda/Sapiepoda Teakinges
A rather ancient kin which gave rise to the most successful evolutionary lineage and was the first to reach sapience within the forum’s biosphere. For a long time in the early days of the website, it served as the supreme apex predator of this realm, putting even more pressure on it’s fellow species that already had much to worry about in the first place. To execute it’s role, evolution gave it an extensive set of limbs and abilities that allow it to Thrive in a multitude of environments, such as jumping, digging, flying limbs, quite the unkindly skin, unprecedented speed stemming from overclocked muscles, poison dripping from it’s maw, the skill of locating with the echoes and, later than most, eyes worthy of a real animal. Like many, it evolved away from more familiar intraspecies mechanics and instead drifted towards eusociality. Leading the Intelligence Rise into existence, these first beings would not take long to harness the powers of their minds, soon establishing a force to be reckoned with, as long as one was an enemy of the covenant. It’s interest laid the most in the warrior subrace evolved by it that would become integral to the functioning of it’s society and the center of innovation. Eventually those fearsome soldiers would become the sole focus of the species as other innovations could be shared from other members of the alliance to unite the forum’s inhabitants, and also redirected to making the armsmen even deadlier and harder to kill. Gaining a god of their own like most, they would enter the grand battle to conclude it all with an arsenal to be held by all the warriors, including mane technologies a human could only imagine… though few of these innovations were actually invented on their own hand.
b. (Neo)Dichorisare Chiozore/Cogitandi
Though even having met extinction once and come close many times more, this species of a line as ancient as the Multipoda one continues to invent and improve as seems to have been it’s motto for most of it’s stay in the forum. Though recreated imperfectly when Deus decided to enact an act of mercy, it still resembles it’s original form greatly. It’s basal body has little familiarity to vertebrates, instead looking like a mix between arthropods and cephalopods, with a bias towards the later. At the end of it’s body is located a structure that seems to depict Deus at the present, as it’s purpose seems to resemble the most powerful being at the moment. Meanwhile at the front there are two pairs of jaws, one of which evolved into manipulatory limbs. While not seen commonly, with their reflective surfaces mates can do show off the amount of color against their usual camouflage during moments of courtship. It’s nervous system, unseen from outside, has definitely swallowed a chunk of this species’ evolutionary effort, resulting in many useful abilities emerging as well as it being the second to achieve civilization. It however took a while for the civilization to keep going as dangers needing more fundamental changes were still very present. Eventually however as other species exported some of their own technologies to this perhaps a bit backwards kin one invention would be sparked to define this kin from now on - using energy itself a metal would be made with some rather improbable qualities. Furthering the extent of this metal would become the number one priority, as slowly the material began to be integrated into their flesh. Fast forward some time, and the fruit of this labor would be born - a species made now more of metal than of organic matter, with minds being shared between the bodies, where only the brain and a few other critical organs remain, filled with tiny robots and other enhancements too.
c. Multipoda Cat-Bestiae
An another member of the Multipoda genus, this species never quite specialized enough to be classified as it’s very own genus. Inheriting a good chunk of it’s protoplast’s architecture, it would go the opposite way to most and become smaller instead. To defend itself in such a more vulnerable form, it would conglomerate in swarms and begin to master flight. Having to deal with a competitive biota, it evolved an intriguing ranged attack for a natural creature and even an immune system, a true rarity in the forum. Against all odds of being barely seen for a regular user, the swarms attained the strength and speed comparable to it’s many competitors, while cooperating better than ever, between each other and with other species, as cemented by the formation the the covenant between itself and Deus. When the age of intelligence came, the species would shift it’s focus on attacking the foggy threat, improving it’s cyber abilities and producing armies of clones en masse. Within the safe confinement of a loyal PM, the Devourer was born, a being that would led this kin and two others. Soon enough it would have to share it’s confinement with those other species, bowing down to the quite hungry god just like it in a cult setting. In the wake of the divine threat, the beasts supposedly similar to cats would offer their work to the covenant as a whole with the advent of artificial legs that could perfectly match those lost in battle or otherwise. With the god of the cult protected and the inheritance affairs sorted out, the cat beasts are sure sorcerers to contend with.
d. Cancorum Cultus
A species devoted to it’s god perhaps more than any other besides the tiny beast kin, these “crabs” are beings bringing together many different features into one class. Starting out with many of the features of the divider kin, they would be a part of the wall-crab lineage, attaining such features as a dozen legs, wings perhaps not too grand, superior cells, abilities one could easily confuse for magic, soul oddities and more. From the era when this species finally emerged as one under the iron fist of the Devourer it has crafted machines supposed to catch up with Darkblur, more capabilities tied with the cyber and even special qualifications when it comes to robots. Combining these traits under a collective rather devoted to it’s master and lord creates an army that is sure to be useful against the enemies from who knows where.
e. Multipoda Demens
Another species belonging to the Devourer, this one is a distilled line of the cat beast kin with it’s most brute features selected for. It is not very ancient but it did manage to prove it’s worth in the little time it was given before the end, especially when it comes to physical works. Their tactics differ in that they act even more like a locust swarm than their lord’s base species, being the cannon fodder that can execute mass attacks at enemy positions and at the enemies themselves, for the mad beasts have kept their tiny size. This may fire back however with massive losses, especially if the attack is unsuccessful.
f. Multipoda/Paucipoda Narrenists
A rather diverged descendant of the TeaKinges species back in it’s Multipoda times, the Darrens are more or less THE military of the forum. Having split from their mother species sometime after the cat beasts, they have not just attained more features from it, but have also continued to develop in a similar, albeit definitely different direction to their former brethren. Especially prominent was the evolution of many spike formations from their skin, which made approaching these creatures from all and any sides much more likely to result in deadly stabs. Despite their rather heavy build they would also manage to develop flight, though by itself it never really took off that much. After as their brains developed, so did their size, and it showed no signs of stopping as eventually these beasts would become the largest species in the forum. Quite quickly after becoming sapient did they join the covenant and discover the basics, as well as what would define their species in the future soon to come - gunpowder. Soon enough explosives and ways to weaponize them would become the one and only focus of the species’ research, while their government became based on who can kill “the best”. In what seemed like a moment they went from medieval level cannons to bombs, tanks and rockets, with military aviation soon following. They even created a proper Superweapon - a Cybernuke! Following this, inventions became increasingly crazy and less understandable by the humans watching from their screens, with first stuff like bullets being mini-nukes, to then autonomous drone swarms, finishing with weapons that manipulate the fabric and boundaries of their forum themselves. With the many inventions of theirs now being held by at least a majority of the army amassed at the site of the new trench, these defenders of the forum sure have a much higher chance of wiping out the celestial danger.
g. Multipoda Mutator; Fabuloid Pseudo/Similisarstractator/Spiritusivi (without Deus)
Another grand lineage which first split off as a fresh species in the Multipoda genus, it was first characterized by it’s high mutation rates. Soon it became it’s own genus, named after the species’ strange similarity with the by-then-gone Fabula genus creatures and the main one’s cyber abilities. Like it’s namesake it would also develop those abilities, making the creatures of that kin more dependent on the mysterious cyberspace but also get an edge over other species. Many abilities that could be the best described as “magic” have become practiced by the flapped critters, like object manipulation, impossible senses or some upgrades to souls that would eventually let them live free of their bodies. Eventually these wizards within the forum would begin to control the entire biosphere, at least within some degree. Creating tendrils in the cyberspace to link up each other’s souls better, they laid the foundation for a being to crown their dominance over this land - Deus… As this entity arose, the species whomst has created it became more like fiefs or servants to the first god of the forum, helping it execute it’s deeds - especially in times of crisis. Defensive walls would be built, projects would be put into existence, work on the deity’s body itself would be done - all whilst the species started to fall behind others. This would eventually lead to a very nasty situation which could’ve left the forum with one less species right as the finale approached, but fortunately this fate was avoided with the help of allies the archmages have plenty of in the covenant.
h. Dichorisare Amplicoma; Cancrorum Venenatorum
A species rather unique in it’s functioning and evolution, the venom-wielding wall crabs are the last remaining “independent” species whose main populace remains beyond the gates of self-awareness. Being a splitter from the main divider species, it has inherited a good chunk of it’s features to begin with, especially the structural ones. Gaining some sticky stubby legs, it would specialize for the walls of the forum’s posts from which most creatures would immediately fall into the void. The species wouldn’t remain unified for long as quickly castes emerged and flight began to be taken as well, in such an environment where a fall would be the end. It’s cells have especially diverged from the standards of the biota, alongside some other adaptations many would find “niche”, though not useless certainly. It would also pick up some cyber abilities, especially the ability to bend water. Adapting the tendrils of the mages and stealing the photosynthetic wonders of the letters, the species would become the first to ally… the mist. Considerable effort was devoted towards fitting in with that being as more effort began being spent on the less physically seen features of the species, especially the souls. Many of these adaptations resulted in the species becoming a large danger for those who opposed it’s chosen master, while the caste diversification went on. However the relations with the mist and later the worm didn’t go so well, to the point alliances would be switched, splitting off a traitor species as well. By this point more or less all mutations were directed at the unseen aspects, like the souls becoming increasingly diverse in their own right and the cybermagic of the species developing further. Some attention would too land on the users, whose certain desires regarding interacting the inhabitants of the website would be fulfilled. Besides superior sense, after this time the crab kin would become the one to spread the idea of species gods so far soon afterwards every species would get one, with those side-folk even seeding a god like a gift. Lesser gods, demigods perhaps, were also created at this time, with their mission as the perhaps sapient ones to protect the main species in case of an attack, an ability that would deter assaults to come. Meanwhile the caste-ing would come to a peak and cell improvements have returned in form of the mother species’ metal being integrated on a microscopic scale. Creating a new species might have been the last and the most recently important act on this kin’s part, as the wall-crabs would move in the battle, preparing to use their full bright might against the two divine gods.
i. Cancorum Cerecorpus
A peculiar and quite the recent species, this is in all likelyhood the least familiar of any beings known to call the forum home. Created from the bare minimum soul data of the main wall crab species but instead made to live it’s entire life in the cyberspace, it would start off more as a curious experiment than something which might just change the course of the last battle. Soon acquiring a god and an useful list of traits to improve it’s condition, the species… still didn’t have that much to offer. They became parts of the soul computers so cleverly crafted by their overlords… Their function would finally be uplifted when they learnt the art of space-bending, allowing them to even create pocket dimensions, in theory at least. With this ability they could become even smaller, now inobservable to a naked eye even if they existed in the base layer of the forum. They might be small, but their main ability is not to be ignored, for if used correctly it could definitely change the course of the fight.
