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Seems like we could use some collaborative stories in other genres, so here's my stab at starting a fantasy one.
Please stick to the following:
1. Fantasy world with magic.
2. Death is final without extreme effort/deity intervention.
3. Medieval tech level.
4. A pantheon of deities.
Okay, let's ramp it up a notch. Feel in a fantasy-style mood. If we don't get bogged down in a doggie-licking love story, and don't get cut off at the knees with a "suddenly the ground opened up and everyone fell in" scenario, this could turn into a nice continent-bopping cloak and dagger fantasy!
Not sure what a furrie is. Remember hearing of something like that from some novel my wife read. But that just leapt out of my head. A sentibeast is an animal to which the person is tied.
In the interest of keeping the work from sounding like some kind of documentary I thought I'd put it into the text. A glarstone is named for the planet which no one had named to that point. The stones are given upon maturity and the person somehow becomes chosen, or chooses a beast to link to. Has that been done ad infinitum somewhere? If so I can retract the post.
What effect does the linking have? Are they a were-creature? Is it merely an ego aspect? What else can you tell me about it? Does everyone do this or just special people?
Do you have any literature on this anywhere or can you make some up? I tried google-ing and this thread came up
A 'furrie' is a slang (and somewhat derogatory) term for a person who dresses up like an animal regularly. Also sometimes used to describe a shapeshifting character who fails to exhibit any characteristics of the animal they shift into. Essentially, a human with a specific type of superpower that has no impact on their personality.
I'm now wondering if the beast they're 'linked to' is a separate creature somehow, or if you mean that more like a totem kind of thing?