Felarya is an independently published OEL Manga distributed via Lulu. It takes place in the eponymous world of Felarya: a dangerous world where humans are hardly at the top, frequently hunted by predatory fauna and flora, as well as much larger sentient humanoid species. In the manga, the storyline prominently features a giant naga, Crisis, and her acquaintances.In addition to being an OEL Manga, Felarya is an active world-building community where fan-created stories, not entirely unlike Fan Fiction, are created and ideas to expand and elaborate upon the structure of the world are encouraged. The world is owned exclusively by the creator, Karbo, and those who write or draw Felaryan related things must follow his specifications and rules on his forum.Note:*
The comic features heavy vorarephilia themes, and those not into it might be somewhat put off. Much of the content is Not Safe for Work, as many images contain nudity.
The Ageless: Everyone has this due to the magical properties of the world. Unfortunately for those who come to Felarya seeking immortality, it it very easy to die there.
Alien Sky: Varies, depending mainly on what sun and moon(s) are currently in place.
All There in the Manual: If you're going to get involved in the community, read the wiki (NSFW) first. You'll pretty much need it to understand what's going on.
Always a Bigger Fish: One of the defining traits of Felarya- if you think you're safely at the top of the food chain, think again.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: With huge creatures and races commonplace in the setting, a threat from something giant isn't so much an unlikely occurrence.
Ascended Fanon: Many ideas, characters and locales created by fans have been integrated into canon. Fanon regarding the nature of the world itself is often accepted by the creator.
Also Yuri, leader of the Spetz. How badass is he? He managed to survive thirty-five years in Felarya (Word Of God is that he served in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan before his arrival), form a militia/adventerer group with an impressive home base, and on top of all this, recruit Nikita, a giant dridder. And as you can probably tell by the name of his group, he's a Spetznas.
Bad Ass Army: The Vishmitals have this reputation.
Balloon Belly: With stuffing an interest tied in with vore, inevitably there are depictions of big belly bulges on satisfied predators.
Bare Your Midriff: Of the few characters who actually do wear clothes, there is maybe one woman among them whose clothes conceal her stomach.
Cluster F-Bomb: Harpy speech is literally composed of nothing but insults and curses, even in casual conversation.
Conveniently an Orphan: The sheer danger of the world easily justifies a lack of family ties for characters- Crisis never even met her parents, having hatched alone in a cave.
Crossover: Many characters are from other worlds/unpublished franchises.
Continuity Snarl: While Karbo retains sole ownership rights, he puts great interest in the community and allowing their works to become canon. Sometimes, this leads to interesting pile-ups of character traits, stone's throw neighbors going unnoticed for years at a time, technological / cultural progression / regression of the natives, etcetera.
Crossover Cosmology: Pretty much justified by the fact that no religions are true. Rather, angels in Heaven model different sections of it after different religions' respective afterlives. Powerful enough angels will take the names of gods and act in their stead.
Death World: The setting is often considered too dangerous for any sensible person to visit without very good reason.
Death Trap: Melany the fairy uses these to catch unwitting prey.
Delicious Distraction: Commonly a view portrayed by giants of humans or nekos they may run into, nekos of tinies, etc.
Disability Superpower: The fairy swordsman Alvar's blindness prevents him from being lured by appearances or caught off-guard by sneak attacks, as well as being immune to most illusions.
Emotion Bomb: Lady Lesona does this to Anna in T2 of the manga.
Emotion Eater: This is theorized in-universe by the archmage Talbeln Veridimus to be the reason Angels and Demons take interest in the souls of good and evil beings, respectively.
The Fair Folk: Despite looking like the sweet, generic modern fairies, Felaryan ones have the alien concept of morals that the traditional ones have.
Fan Fic Magnet: A world capable of temporarily intersecting with any other? HELL YES.
Fantastic Racism: Nekos are discriminated against by humans for their predatory nature. Harpies and sphinxes have a long-lasting conflict of superiority. A historic war between the half-spider dridders and the half-snake nagas has long since ended, but racial tension remains.
Friend To All Children: Fiona is rather kindly towards humans in general due to having been raised by them and in general tries to befriend them rather than eat them. This trope comes into play because, even though she will occasionally eat a human, she will never eat a child.
Honey Trap: Vivian. A rather strange case, since she seduces people so she can eat them.
Horror Hunger: Fiona views her own predatory instincts this way. Though she will try as hard as possible to avoid eating any sapient being, she has accepted that she needs to eat them to stay healthy, and will do it if given a good reason.
Humans Are Bastards: Repeatedly played with in many works and stories. Many human characters are actually decent people, but a few others are truly despicable. (See Freudian Excuse).
Humanity Ensues: Many stories use this as a basic premise. May cause a change of heart if a giant predator is turned human.
I Am A Monster: Somewhat subverted with Jora. She accepts her place in the food chain, but this only came about after an intense adjustment period after her sudden increase in size.
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin: Many stories describe the consumption of smaller humanoids as an addiction. Predators that have a change of heart (a very rare occurrence, mind you) will find out that it's a lot harder than they think. And to make it even harder, predators don't suffer any negative consequences for eating other people.
I Die Free: Subverted. Just when Lea (not that one) thinks she's about to be eaten by the giant naga Crisis, they end up becoming friends!
Infant Immortality: Not quite, but many works tend to dance around this issue a bit. Of course, the setting implies that people of all kinds end up dying...
Interspecies Romance: Harpies are a One Gender Race, but they can reproduce by mating with males of other humanoid species. Vivian the omnisexual giant naga isn't likely to take something like species into account too much if a similarly-sized humanoid might be up for some fun.
Manipulative Bastard: Oh dear God, Gunther. To elaborate, he's a rather crafty Con Man who will scam you out of your money for a product designed specifically to get you eaten.
Mary Suetopia: Deliberately used, then subverted. To the casual observer, Felarya often seems like a place where the giant and/or magical predators are heavily favored, with the world often seeming to be tailored specifically to them. Look a bit more closely, though, and you'll find there are just as many things in the world that hunt them, too.
Dimensional anomalies in general are relatively common in some parts of Felarya.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: If Safe Harbor is threatened, expect Jade to deliver one of these to the unfortunate sap who's causing trouble.
No Nudity Taboo: Many sapient predator species are also feral enough to see clothing as more of an inconvenience than a necessity. Predator species (e.g. faries) that live in more civilized areas are more likely to wear clothing.
Elves are a bit of a weird case. While many of them have no problem with being nude normally, elves take great offense to being seen nude while bathing.
Noodle Incident: Subeta is rather secretive about why she let Marken (a human) be her assistant.
Odd Friendship: A recurring theme, the main varriation being a predator/prey species pair.
Older than They Look: Growing up here means you don't age past natural physical prime, giving one who lives there type II immortality. Thus the genuinely young may be virtually indistinguishable from the deceptively old.
One Gender Race: All-female races include the bird-based harpies and razias, bee-hybrid miaxi and wasp-based gyspas, dryads and actiniaes (sea anemone hybrids), succubi and 'slug-girls' which despite their name and outward appearance, are hermaphroditic. Razias function similarly.
Powers That Be: Felarya is guarded by several entities, the Guardians of Felarya. Not much is known of them, and they tend to show themselves only when the existence of the realm as a whole is threatened.
Word Of God has said they keep Felarya from becoming too civilized. One city-state was torn apart by a guardian because they were aggressively expanding their empire.
Precursors: The Sagolians and their ruined city-state, Ur Sagol. They eventually went extinct because they tried too hard to tame Felarya and ended up getting blasted back to the stone age by one of Felarya's guardians.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Telekine and Voidfingers quickly develop these roles as red and blue, respectively.
Red Shirt: Any adventurer not given a name is almost guaranteed to die at some point.
Scenery Porn: To the point where the characters often play second fiddle to their own backgrounds.
Schizo Tech: Felarya's few civilized areas, especially the city of Negav, are generally a mishmash of different magics and technologies from different worlds.
Series Mascot: Crisis is considered the mascot of the universe.
Smart People Play Chess: The giant succubus Menyssan may agree to relinquish your soul instead of snacking on it, merely by defeating her at a bout of chess. It's not surprising she'd agree to a contest that plays to her strengths as a master strategist- she is a demon after all.
Stalker with a Crush: The giant naga Katrika can be frequently seen stalking Anna.
Stockholm Syndrome: Nicely subverted in the case of Isham, who was was held captive for a time by the giantess Milly. They did eventually become close friends, but only after Isham was released and settled in Safe Harbor, and after much conflict during his captivity.
Swiss Army Weapon: Subeta the fairy's glove, capable of disabling, teleporting or summoning artifacts, wall busting, magic hax and comic relief.
The Tease: Probably the most prominent sex-related trait regarding Vivian. Which, given her reputation is saying something.
At one point in the Manga, it's implied that she teases Crisis into doing something sexual with her. This wouldn't be so bad except Crisis is never shown in any other sexual situation in any other canon work. And Crisis views Vivian as a surrogate big sister.
To Serve Man: Humans are favored over most other available food by sentient predators.
Token Evil Teammate: Nikita serves as this for the Spetz. She's not evil per se, but she still gulps down the occasional human, despite the Sptez being composed of "prey species".
Trapped in Another World: Many stories have this as their basic premise. Those unlucky enough to become trapped in Felarya will be forced to adapt quickly to the dangerous environment, lest they be eaten.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: When a great deal of non-human sentient races are notoriously known as man-eaters, there is no doubt a strong bias against such predators on their behalf.
When Trees Attack: Carnivorous plants being abundant, don't be surprised when you're dragged underneath what looked like a harmless tree by its roots.. Or discovering too late a giant dryad that's been looming over you.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ironically, this applies to the half-snake naga Crisis. She's completely phobic of tonorions- magic-shrugging, armored, spiked, carnivorous giant insects- having experienced a nearly fatal encounter with one in the past. Despite being a feared predator and being quite able to take care of herself, she totally loses her wits about them- even comparably tiny ones frighten her.
Word Of God: The creator, Karbo, is quite involved in the community and has a tendency to discuss ideas presented in the community and accept/reject Fanon.
World Tree: The Giant Tree is heavily implied to be one of these. There's even an entire religion that worships it.
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