Initial World-Building Thoughts

The cursed ones. The ones who didn’t evolve. Why was I born like this? Long before the current times, the world of Wysteria was peaceful and fair. But that did not mean it was not an easy life. Wysteria was very primitive. It was mostly water with a few scattered islands of nearly uninhabitable land. All of the available land, probably totaling to the size of current Australia, was either mountainous with peaks beyond the naked eye, or a dense forest teeming with the unknown. While the water had an abundance of food, the land only had rodents. In order to survive, they lived off the water mostly. Over time, their constant reliance and expertise in the water led to the Wysterian’s people evolution, known as the Lifting of the Curse. To many Wysterians, it represented the end of their struggle. Their evolution gave them powerful tails to propel them throughout the ocean and the ability to breathe under water. No longer were the difficult days of swimming in the vast oceans for hours for food or the agonizing wait for traps to fill up. With their evolution came Wysteria’s shift from the land to the water. A new world below the water became the norm and life was easy and prosperous down there. Wysterian water people thrived. However, an unfortunate few did not evolve. Known as the cursed ones, they were bound to the hard-knock life of Wysteria’s land still. Life would have been the same, but Wysteria’s new underwater life threatened their sea life diet. Now, their only food source were the rodents and a select few plants. Due to such food scarcity, the land was a dangerous place, ridden with crime and constant stealing. It was every man for themselves here on land. To make life even more difficult, Wysteria’s water people heavily discriminated against the cursed ones, thus never providing benefits of their evolution to their unfortunate counterparts. The land people longed for their evolution to come so they may be relieved from the chains of Wysteria’s curse, but it never came. Their only hope was to force their evolution through the magic potion, created by Wysteria’s free spirited birds. Where is it? How do I find it? I need it. And so, the search begins for the magic potion.