Splintertown (physical)
When a living creature falls asleep, small seeds fall from their nose and mouth and grow into dream-plants that sprout delicious dream-fruit.
Human dreams are the juiciest and most nutritious of all, and few people know this better than Kainma. An orphan who spent the first twelve years of her life subsiding mainly off of animal dream-plants while living in a complex cave network, Kainma decides to go to the Surface to seek a better life after a terrible tragedy. She finds a happier life after being taken in by a thief named Su and his family, but when Su’s mysterious past comes back to haunt him, Kainma and her new friends and family find themselves embroiled in a terrifying mystery that takes them to some of the darkest places in the Caves…and the mind.
Trigger/Content warnings: On-page: Blood, stabbing, physical violence, arrests and being imprisoned, earthquakes, death, animal death, dead bodies, body horror, traumatic flashbacks, depression and anxiety.
Referenced/discussed: Child abuse, child death.
Implied: mild suicidal ideation.
Please be aware that while the conflict between Nocturnals and humans is inspired by, and very similar to, issues in real human society, it is notably different in many ways due to the fantasy setting and is not meant to be seen as a direct parallel to real life conflicts.
When a living creature falls asleep, small seeds fall from their nose and mouth and grow into dream-plants that sprout delicious dream-fruit.
Human dreams are the juiciest and most nutritious of all, and few people know this better than Kainma. An orphan who spent the first twelve years of her life subsiding mainly off of animal dream-plants while living in a complex cave network, Kainma decides to go to the Surface to seek a better life after a terrible tragedy. She finds a happier life after being taken in by a thief named Su and his family, but when Su’s mysterious past comes back to haunt him, Kainma and her new friends and family find themselves embroiled in a terrifying mystery that takes them to some of the darkest places in the Caves…and the mind.
Trigger/Content warnings: On-page: Blood, stabbing, physical violence, arrests and being imprisoned, earthquakes, death, animal death, dead bodies, body horror, traumatic flashbacks, depression and anxiety.
Referenced/discussed: Child abuse, child death.
Implied: mild suicidal ideation.
Please be aware that while the conflict between Nocturnals and humans is inspired by, and very similar to, issues in real human society, it is notably different in many ways due to the fantasy setting and is not meant to be seen as a direct parallel to real life conflicts.
When a living creature falls asleep, small seeds fall from their nose and mouth and grow into dream-plants that sprout delicious dream-fruit.
Human dreams are the juiciest and most nutritious of all, and few people know this better than Kainma. An orphan who spent the first twelve years of her life subsiding mainly off of animal dream-plants while living in a complex cave network, Kainma decides to go to the Surface to seek a better life after a terrible tragedy. She finds a happier life after being taken in by a thief named Su and his family, but when Su’s mysterious past comes back to haunt him, Kainma and her new friends and family find themselves embroiled in a terrifying mystery that takes them to some of the darkest places in the Caves…and the mind.
Trigger/Content warnings: On-page: Blood, stabbing, physical violence, arrests and being imprisoned, earthquakes, death, animal death, dead bodies, body horror, traumatic flashbacks, depression and anxiety.
Referenced/discussed: Child abuse, child death.
Implied: mild suicidal ideation.
Please be aware that while the conflict between Nocturnals and humans is inspired by, and very similar to, issues in real human society, it is notably different in many ways due to the fantasy setting and is not meant to be seen as a direct parallel to real life conflicts.