The Tree of Vines

As far as recorded dates go back to, I've been writing this version of The Tree of Vines since at least September 24, 2019 , and I started the original version on November 20, 2017 , so it's been a non-insignificant amount of time since I started to write the world of The Tree of Vines , and I thought at the end of 2020 (especially as the nearly catastrophic year it has been for the majority of the world) would be an appropriate time to at least give some of my genuine thoughts on ToV . To be honest, I'm not absolutely certain where to start. My natural habit / instinct is to simply start scatterbrained, and just follow the trail of my mind, but in all honesty, I want this to be readable. I can't help but imagine it might come out as a bit cringe-inducing, like I'm trying too hard to sound fanciable... and you wouldn't be wrong! haha! Eh, I think it's time I stop procrastinating on this and just get started. Scatterbrain is for the initial draft, and well s...

The world was, at one time, made of two realms; the Realm of the Clouds and the Realm of the Abyss. Above, in the Realm of the Clouds lived many beings at one time, but now only an unnamed species live there who are simply called the People of the Clouds. These People of the Clouds each possessed a different ability, although not necessarily unique to the other. One in particular was blessed with the ability to willfully enhance his physical capabilities at any given time. He, however, had a rarely "useless" ability, one that was mocked. In anger, he tore apart the Realm of the Clouds, leaving many of his fellow Cloud People to fall into the Realm of the Abyss, a place so far below the Realm of the Clouds that no light could ever touch even its air. Many fell to their death, some may have survived and became corrupted into Abyssals, and fewer still clung onto the Realm of the Clouds. Unable to climb back up, they teamed up to create a new surface in which to dwell on. This be...