Besides, this town clearly doesn't have enough water to fill a bathtub, just look at it.

They don't have accommodate waterfaces anymore than the ocean cities need to make things not wet so knicknacks can visit safely

Janet would know what to do.

he KNEW he should have gone off to learn mind control because right now the only mind control going on is his own that keeps him from stabbing people that do this to him and he's decreasingly effective at it

Typical of the slave-taking aristocrats to whine about inclusivity. Where are your above-ocean cities with non-slave populations then, you GIANT ADORABLE OTTER?

sealorcas ok

and look

like someone commented in a chat

I did not consent to your land laws.
Without a contract of consent I will not adhere to your oppression. Can't you see what they're doing to you? They're making you sheep. Use your real name. You are exempt from taxation if you did not opt in.

Hahahahaha, this is so good.

Wow. So much anti-semitism in here.

my cousin's off fighting dragons. What do I get? Guard duty.

But where did the original concept for seals come from in the first place? Did those motherfuckers steal it from us? Or did we from them??

uwi is one of the worlds that is a sequel to our earth, so seals came first

Is there like, an original 'root world' or being from which all the other ideas and concepts came from?
What kinda communication is goin' 'tween these worlds? Cause a lotta different beings in seemingly unrelated worlds seem suspiciously similar to one another.
Is this just convergent evolution? Do other worlds get inspiration from other worlds, like: "hey bro those are some bretty cool aminals ya gots there imma just 'borrow' them for my story lol"
Or is it like Plato's ideas of forms (And Bogleech's Noisy Tenant setting) Where there are perfect base forms that already have always existed, & different worlds just draw from that (and then remix or mix n match to their liking)?
(Yes I know if I wanna get real meta, then yes, the answer is you yourself: The Author! But you seem far to clever to go with such an obvious cop-out"

oh boy okay let's do this

chronologically the origin world for all the worlds in this setting is earth, like, our actual-ass earth we're sitting on right now, which dies and a ton of ideas shed from it and form into worlds. HOWEVER, that was a relatively long time ago, and other iterations of earth started up chains of earth-making-slightly-different-earths. in fact our current earth might just be part of that iterative chain?? chronology is difficult because outside of the context of a world it's hard to actually tell the relative order of time

think of like... two books, from completely different settings, unrelated. which "happened first" is a difficult question when they don't share the same timelines, and so you have to go on... publication order? but if one book starts with the start of a universe and another series starts ten-million years in their timeline, is the ten-million one older? what if there's a prequel set at its beginning of time? but that was published after the other book's beginning of time?

... so telling relative ages of worlds is hard because worlds provide temporal context internally, but it's kind of a clusterfuck outside of them

UWi is a descendant of an earth-iteration, and was specifically someone's thought about a deer. which is why so much of UWi is deer-influenced, because the original thought of it was just "deer" and it had to work its way back into things from that starting point. like, imagine archeology. we have only a few bits of this ancient culture, and it's up to us to work backwards from those bits into "what was their culture like?" for UWi it was like that but for the entire reality.

because most worlds share the same pedigree, you're going to get a lot of commonalities between them. that's why you can get several worlds where humans exist, even though they're completely separate worlds. on a world-genetics level, earth-things are dominant traits that are likely to reoccur even if the worlds are far diverged from one another. like how within our earth, >>most<< animals have two forelimbs, two hind limbs, with the same number of joints and analogous parts between them, no matter how far apart on the scale we are.

but this has been going on "for a while" as far as we can talk about time outside of the context of an individual world, so other standards have also become standard. in the same way that animals that look like animals from earth are likely to occur within worlds, some really successful worlds have set out their own standards, which 1) influence other worlds from memetic drift, and 2) are mirrored in other worlds because of convergent evolution, where those shapes are efficient, desirable shapes by worlds' standards, and since no world is so alien to one another in this library, they share common ideals of aesthetics, so you get independent worlds inventing the same thing on their own

which brings us to the common shape templates, which are Ideal Shapes that worlds influence one another to use, and which worlds also "independently" arrive at (although arriving at it from the same distant starting point, going through long twisty routes, and finding themselves in roughly the same place):

you have humans, which are very common but i don't draw them as often because i fuck up their faces too much to make them consistent because i'm a furry artist and the stereotypes are very true. Nyria from Tabrix's mess is a human, and she is one of the most powerful things in the library because she's hacked how things work and rebooted her own life through dozens of lifetimes to accumulate a ton of varied sets of powers

you have bipedal/quadrupedal switching deer-dogs. you see these in UWi as the main races, but you see them in Tabrix and her homeworld as wilderness children; you see them in Auroral Oceans as the Savrr. there's a lot of variation within those races, but it's variation to the extent of "human with face sculpie on" like in star trek. u2i's wilderness children have four hoofed toes per leg, uwi's freepeople have two hoof blades per leg. they still function otherwise on very similar templates. like a cheetah and a mountain lion, basically.

what ISN'T convergent evolution, are the hwual/gravity children, from Auroral Oceans/Up to Interpretation, which is what Aluwacha i been drawing lately is. they originated in a world that's now dead, and their meme traversed the void like a photon or meteorite and seeded itself in both worlds simultaneously. that's right, i'm bringing panspermia into this now.

you have to think though that while worlds are suspended in the Void, and have infinite distance between one another, that infinite distance also means no distance, and so reflected ideas from one world can also affect adjacent worlds. when a world explodes, "adjacent" worlds can sometimes be influenced by their shed Ideas

AND THAT is to say nothing of the fact that many worlds are double-sided, where they are universes on the inside, and PEOPLE on the outside, just walking around. where do they walk around? the City in the Middle, which is an ancient, central world at coordinates 0,0,0. so you ALSO get Worlds hanging out at bars inside a city made out of chunks of dead worlds, and those worlds might actually fuck, and get actual-pregnant with ideas from another world, which can influence the themes or add new races to their internal worlds.

mij, a cat world, fucked uwi, the deer world, and now uwi has a race of cat people in it, as a result.

further-furthermore, The City in the Middle is in fact my authorial fursona, the red crystal deer, which is the center of this library. worlds are born out of her or return in corpses to her, in a never-ending cycle, and so she ALSO serves as the rough "god" of the other worlds by virtue of being the Biggest and Most Central Idea that serves to filter, home, and guide other worlds.

which is to say, YES THE ANSWER IS MYSELF AS THE AUTHOR, but THE AUTHOR in this case is a massive crystal deer god engaged in the cosmic reproductive cycle of other worlds, and is memetically/genetically many of these worlds' grandmother--not where their worlds came from, but where the ideas that made their world came from, WHICH IS TO SAY yes the worlds are like this because i decided they would be like this BECAUSE I AM A COSMIC SPACE DEER GOD and that is my role in cosmic universe reproduction

bitch i got ALL ANGLES COVERED i am henry fucking darger

which is to say, the City in the Middle? that's not so much ME as the WORLD I YIELD WHEN THIS WORLD ENDS

THAT'S RIGHT BUDDY WE'RE LIVING IN THE PREQUEL FOR ALL THESE SETTINGS RIGHT THIS SECOND AND THOSE WORLDS ARE ALREADY GOING AND LIVING BEFORE THIS ONE ENDS BECAUSE CHRONOLOGY IS MEANINGLESS OUTSIDE THE CONTEXT OF A WORLD

oh also i mean in the city in the middle, worlds can also just be like "hey check out this race i have" and another world can go "shit that's cool, i want that to retroactively have always existed inside me"

which is to say, the answer is:

YES.


ALL.

This is really interdasting to me. Like we've seen stuff from an earthers perspactitive, but what happens if we look at things differently? Like, explore the other non earth planets of the universe, and their lifeforms and their ideas. What might we find then?
Open settings are so much fun! And I'm just getting into them;

I also like the whole way space and time interact inside and outside a world. I had some pretty cool idears about that too, at like 13/14 when I was making this big epic story/setting after reading Homestuck and was like "hey thats super interesting but doesn't go nearly far enough" I've mostly lost the notes now, & have to start again from scratch but still. Super Kool