Letalium is a dark fantasy universe [[EarthIsABattlefield perpetually torn by a war]] between two rival spirits, Rakhmet and Keth, both of whom want to become {{god}}--which in this context, simply means "the guy in charge of everything.''

Humans were once spirits who lived in heaven with Rakhmet, Keth, the angels, and various other cosmic entities including the original actual {{God}}. However, the early humans were on the bottom rung of the heavenly ladder, so they decided to hold an uprising. They succeeded in [[RageAgainstTheHeavens killing God]], but all of Its servants turned against humanity, cursing them with mortality and banishing them to the physical world.

With the threat of marauding humans averted and [[GodIsDead God dead]], Rakhmet and Keth both decided that they deserved to take God's place. So they rallied other spirits and started fighting a war over it.

Meanwhile, the humans tried sneak a huge container full of God's blood with them down to the physical world, as they believed that they would use it to restore their immortality. The angels escorting them, however, found out and tried to confiscate it. After a brief scuffle, the humans dropped it into the physical world, and it spilled all over the place. It seeped into the ground and welled up in subterranean pools.

The humans got dropped off in the physical world as planned, but now everyone in heaven knew that the incredable magic power of Godblood was down there. It is very difficult to travel physically between worlds to get it, but it was a valuable resource that could potentially decide the outcome of the Cosmic War between Rakhmet and Keth. So both sides spend the entire history of the Physical World manipulating mortals into procuring Godblood for them.

Created by @/AnthonyAlexander.

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!!''This ConstructedWorld provides examples of:''

* AChatWithSatan - The Night God Keth is disembodied at one point, so he basically has to interview people to find a proper [[GrandTheftMe host]] to replace his body for a while.
%%* AGodAmI - Emperor Solidir eventually came to believe he was.
* TheAlliance - The Republic of Omnikar started out this way, but 200 years of BlackAndGreyMorality politics has turned it into TheEmpire. The Coalition of Free Nations might count, if they didn't KickTheDog so much.
%%* AlwaysChaoticEvil - the Lunans
%%* AnachronismStew
%%* ArtifactOfDoom - The Lunar Staff.
* AwesomeButImpractical - Pretty much all "modern" technology. Especially the ornithopeters and [[SteamPunk steam-powered]] spider-mechs used by the Republic Army.
%%* BadassArmy - The Republic Army.
%%* BambooTechnology - Ancient Rakhmeti and Ezo left it all over the place.
%%* BeliefMakesYouStupid
%%* CainAndAbel - a recurring theme
%%* TheCaligula - King Ferrishk II.
%%* ColonelBadass - Vidic Bonechain.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience - Things associated with the night god Keth are "cool" colors like blue, black, white, purple and grey. Things associated with the day god Rakhmet are "warm" colors like red, yellow, orange and brown.
%%* ConLang - Rakhmeti. It's very crude and not at all usable yet, but it's there.
* CoolSword - Dominion and Judgement, the two swords owned by Moon Emperor Solidir. He himself wielded Dominion in fights, and was confident enough [[RankScalesWithAsskicking in his skills]] that he would give any challengers Judgement to use. Needless to say, they are very ornate.
%%* CrapsackWorld
%%* DarkMessiah - Sheriet i Rolfe
%%* DealWithTheDevil - Solidir made one, and his family continued to suffer from it until the end of days.
* DefusingTheTykeBomb - Vidic tries to do this with Sheriet and fails. Here, however, his intentions are primarily selfish; she is in the way of him [[MacGuffin getting what he wants]], and he would rather try to talk her out of fighting than be forced to kill a thirteen-year-old girl.
%%* EccentricMillionaire - Aleon.
* EldritchAbomination - Keth and Rakmet, the lesser angels and the Roc Lords.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - Keth and Rakhmet have been fighting for the title "God of the Universe" since almost the beginning of time. In the end, [[spoiler:Keth gives Rakhmet a final "fuck you" gesture by just destroying it all]].
* TheEmpire - The Moon Empire and later the Republic of Omnikar
* EternalRecurrence - Rakhmet and Keth just can't decide which of them should be {{God}}. So they fight over the title (and really, it is just a title in this universe). However, they are both immortal and indestructible, so neither of them can have won for long.
* EvilOverlord - The Avatar, Nehaz, Solidir, the Raven Queen...Evil Overlords are a dime-a-dozen in Letalium.
* EtTuBrute - Mortal villians tend to have moments like this when their friends and families don't follow them to TheDarkSide. Especially when [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Eliaza]] helped LaResistance defeat Emperor Solidir, and when Sheriet's own daughter foiled her plans to create an EarthShatteringKaboom.
* EvilSorcerer - Moon Emperor Solidir, and his Witch-Generals
* EvilVersusEvil - Keth versus Rakhmet and Dria'ac versus Qetzo, both pairs of rival Eldritch Abominations
* FantasyWorldMap - Mr. Alexander loves creating them and there are several different ones depicting Letalium. However, Mr. Alexander has no scanner, so you can't see any of them sorry.
* FlamingSword - Angels sometimes wield them, when they aren't wielding flaming whips.
%%* GhibliHills - the Omnikar Plains
%%* GeneralRipper - General Victor.
%%* GodIsDead - And yes, humans killed it.
%%* GrimUpNorth - the Frostlands
%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters - Nehaz
* HeWhoMustNotBeNamed - The Man too Badass to Name.
%%* HumansAreWarriors
%%* ItMakesSenseInContext - I bet you don't understand a word that I've been saying, do you?
%%* LaResistance - The Wenibi and later the Kemwenibi.
%%* MindRape - A favorite tactic of botht Rakhmet and Keth.
* MoralEventHorizon - Emperor Solidir passes through it when he begins [[PowerPerversionPotential raping girls with magic.]]
%%* {{Mordor}} - Most of the Elderland.
* MuggingTheMonster - When some highwaymen attempt to accost The Man Too Badass To Name, the results are not pretty.
%%* {{Mythopoeia}}
* OneManArmy - Nehaz and Vidic are separate one-man armies from different nations and eras.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - There is no clear-cut difference among angels, demons and gods. The three words are pretty much just titles.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent - The Lunans are basically Tolkein orcs with [[NotUsingTheZWord another name]] and a [[NightmareFuel horrific origin story.]]
* PatchworkMap - Justified as the result of earth-shaking battles between supernatural forces.
* PowerAtAPrice - Godblood makes you super-strong, super-fast, and long-lived. It also makes you very ugly.
* ThePowerOfBlood - The local SuperSerum is the blood of Letalium's ([[GodIsDead dead]]) god, which has seeped into the earth and welled up in pools underground.
* {{Precursors}} - Humans in this universe are descended from long-dead angels.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy - the Omniks and, to a lesser degree, the Highlanders. Some Lunans like to think of themselves this way, though usually for them it's just [[AxeCrazy an excuse to fight.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath - In a rather grim way: if a person allows him/herself to be possessed by an evil spirit (and it is a decision), the spirit will leave his/her body right before he/she dies. So you get just a few minutes of clarity to realize how royally you have screwed up before kicking the bucket.
* ShatteredWorld - Letalium used to be this. The forces of gravity pulled it back together, though, so now it's just a very jagged and wierd-looking, but entirely intact world.
* StormingTheCastle - Shamad and the Wenibi (AGoodNameForARockBand?) storm the castle of Emperor Solidir.
* SuperSerum - Godblood, which is literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin God's blood.]]
* SuperSoldier - The practitioners of the Kemenati martial arts form. Also Vidic Bonechain, who is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-angel.]] Emperor Solidir intended the Lunans to be super soldiers, but he failed to control them and they just ended up being [[TheUsualAdversaries Super Pains in the Ass.]]
%%* SuperStrength - Granted by Godblood.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking - [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that most of the time, only the rich and powerful can afford SuperSerum
%%* RoyalBlood
* TykeBomb - Blue Lotus warriors begin training in childhood, and usually complete it around the age of thirteen.
* TheUsualAdversaries - The Lunans, whose [[PlanetOfHats entire culture revolves around]] [[AlwaysChaoticEvil rape.]]
%%* VestigialEmpire - The Moon Empire
%%* WorldSundering
* WorthyOpponent - Vidic initially sees Sheriet as this. Sheriet, however, is too bigoted against Vidic's race for the feeling to be mutual.
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