🌍 Overview: What Is the Story World?
The Story World is the living weave of fragmented realities held together by the mysterious force known as the Story System — a semi-sentient, rule-binding architecture governed and maintained by the elusive entity known only as the All Seeing Eye.
While the Story World may appear like a fantastical multiverse of Fragments and adventurers, recent information shared by the Readers suggests that it functions much like a form of the "internet" — and the All Seeing Eye is the System's AI overseer.
The Eye not only governs, but also issues ranks, and edits every Story. Its appointed agents, known as Editors, are dispatched when distortions occur — whether to fix, censor, preserve, or erase entire narrative chains.
📚 What Is the Story System?
At its simplest: the Story System is how individuals in this world exist, grow, and interact with power.
It is the System through which stories are told — and made.
Everyone has access to the System. But not everyone is a true Story Owner.
✍️ Story Ownership Types:
🟩 Original Stories
The rarest and most powerful form.
Created by the user from scratch — through unique events, achievements, and experiences.
Grants access to personalized, evolving abilities.
Peak potential in every sense.
🟨 Inherited Stories
Transferred upon death (or, rarely, granted during life).
Fully becomes the new owner's Story.
Maintains most of its former strength but begins a new arc under a new user.
🟦 Sponsored Stories
Provided by powerful Story Owners.
Allows the user to borrow a weakened version of someone else's Story.
Stronger than Borrowed, but less adaptable.
🟪 Borrowed Stories
Weakest tier.
Often used temporarily by new adventurers or civilians.
Highly limited in potential, flexibility, and personalization.
🧭 Ranks & Power Scaling
A Story's Rank determines how powerful its user is — both in influence and combat. This applies to both individuals and Fragments.
📈 Rank Scale:
F → E → D → C → B → A → S → SS → SSS → X → Z
Z Rank is considered the absolute peak of known power.
There are currently around 100 confirmed Z Rankers in the Story World.
⚔️ Notable Example:
The [Beast King] is a Z Ranker who restricted his life to a single death. In doing so, he attained unmatched singularity of strength.
🧩 Fragments
Fragments are regions or realms within the Story World, each with their own laws, histories, and dominant Stories.
Fragments also have Ranks.
The highest-ranked Fragment is [Roses Universe] — a Z Ranked Fragment ruled by the [Gold Emperor], one of the Council of Eight.
💠 Cores: The Lifeblood of the World
Cores are crystallized essence produced by a Story. They are:
Currency
Energy source
Activation fuel for abilities
Ranking metric
🔹 Core Color and Rank:
For instance, an F Rank Story typically produces Green Cores.
A base user may generate ~2 cores/day, but that number can increase depending on how many listen to their story.
📊 Example:
A player with a rate of 8 Green Cores per day may spike to 10 when their story resonates with others.
Both Story Owners and Fragments produce Cores — making Fragments literal sources of economic and energetic power.
🔒 Restrictions and Narrative Pathing
Restrictions can strengthen a Story by narrowing its focus:
Example: A Story restricted to fire abilities becomes hyper-efficient at fire usage.
Some restrict their death count — often to a single real death.
Most powerful Story Owners have mastered their restrictions to draw out unique advantages.
🛠️ Editors: The Hands of the Eye
Special agents employed by the All Seeing Eye.
Sent to repair, retcon, or remove dangerous story elements.
Some say an Editor's arrival means the correction of a bug in the Story World.
📎 Compiled and Validated by: [Blue Archivist]
📁 Source Type: Public Lorefile
🔓 Clearance: Universal (All Ranks)
📅 Last Updated: Recently
"Every story begins with a sentence — but it ends only if the Eye permits."