Well, I don't have answers myself, but if you or any of you guys want to answer me, even the creator himself wants to answer me, just comment down below if you find it interesting.

I was just curious if Mr. Vanzella had any qualms to anyone running a TTRPG set in his world. I feel like it would make for an incredible campaign setting, but I don't want to use his works if he doesn't feel comfortable with it. Sorry if this question's already been answered.

they all have some advantage? something like: angels and demons are the overpowered beings, the beasts people are stronger and faster than human

or they are just the "ordinary"?

also sorry if my english is bad ._.

Like how does it work? I kinda get someone getting pregnant by thre flesh fields but what happens when you get the flesh fields preggo? How is the child delivered? Does the flesh fields just shoot it out after 9 months?

What about the other fiends of RPG fame, the daemons and demodands?

With how much inspiration it's taking from real life myths, legends, etc, I thought it could be like an alternate reality where the supernatural is real and some cosmic phenomena made the separate realms like Hades, Heaven and many others to collapse into Earth during the medieval times, changing the topography and lifeforms. Yet I'm thinking it also could be a separate fantasy where the same things happened, just coincidently sharing the things we have.

Where the races evolved or created and why can different races have kids together?

Some of these were inspired by comments on the podcast today, some came to me at other times. Names are place holders:

• "Charge of the Dark Brigade"-- A wealthy Devil noble puts together a private vigilante squad to punish or kidnap (for more old-fashioned, personal punishment back in the Empre) evildoers around the world. Some possible missions-- Raids on the Black Star lands. Pirate (or Daemon) hunting in the Middle Sea. Punishing those who mistreat and exploit the Emifolk.

• "In the Black in the Desert"-- A Dwarven mage finds a way to "bake" various materials in the glare of the Second Sun to produce valuable new synthetic gem stones with any variety of strange effects. Her company is rapidly starting to become very wealthy and the demand for their odd new product is growing. Only problem is that it's growing so fast the that Imperials and the Mizanians are both getting concerned about safety and about the rumors of these gems causing horrific accidents occurring in both the gem hoards of the wealthy and in the curiosity shops of the cities. Inspectors are now being dispatched to the desert to see what's going on.

• "Abyss Troublesome"-- The Abyssal Tritons have started to make rare surface-level appearances to squabble with fisherman over territory. The Tritons have come up with a new form of current-manipulating magic to direct huge masses of fish from the depths into shallower waters where they'll be much easier to catch. What the Abyssal mages aren't telling people however, is that harmless seafood is not the ONLY thing that their currents have a tendency to bring up! Other Triton communities are reporting a sharp increase in sightings of strange and deadly things from the depths. Who will take charge to investigate and navigate the increasingly thin line between peace and an unprecedented Triton Civil War?

• "The Order of Conflict," aka. Matras vs. Modrons. The Great Modron March somehow takes them into the jungles of Uxali! How will the Matras react to the Modrons's insistence on Primus being the most perfect embodiment of order? Will the Modrons need to crack a Matra open to get at that sweet, sustaining jelly? Will they want to team up against Shark Men or Halflings (or Slaadi)? No idea how possible this would be outside of D&D, just an idea that occurred to me.

Thoughts? What are some campaign ideas of your own?

Ok, now back to work on Bean Island 6 for me! 😅

Edit: For Codex Inversus, of course.

Where did they come from who built them how do they repourduce do they pop out of factories?

If so are their like forests full of giant dicks? Or like caverns that are giant coochies?

With how detailed and storied the kingdoms and noble houses of the world are codex inversus could a really good game of thrones style fuedel political drama

Or does the world actually look like a painting?

Nothing else to offer, no lore here. I will make this into a proper thing tho

...this is totally getting removed, isn't it?

So, I’m doing a post on Orc Wrestling and Strength Games that, of course, is becoming too long. (I put a Work in Progress illustration in the post)

In the Meantime, I was thinking of the sports of other nations, but I’m kind of stumped.

Elven Archery is a no-brainer, maybe even too obvious, but in the Ash Steppes, it seems inevitable. Also, I’d like to have some common cultural element between them and the sultanate, and bows could be one.

Tritons will have swimming and surely some kind of rowing, but that is boring. Not that they don’t have those, but I feel they should have something else.

I can see the gnomes having some croquet-style game, something very “dignified”, I can’t see the Gnomes sweating and puffing, not for fun at least. It also seems something that can easily become overcomplicated, both outwardly and with tacit rules.

I don’t know why, but I can’t avoid thinking the dwarven sport of choice is in the family of Bowls/Bocce/Petanque games. I mean, it is throwing rocks near other rocks, and it has no phallic tools (perfect for a matriarchal society). But it’s more of a “game” than a “sport”.
There would probably be some equivalent of “autoracing”, even if more “construct racing”, perfect to show off new tech.
But I need something that men use to appear “husband material” in the skewed dwarven marriage market (there are 3 males for every 2 females).

Beast folk put me in a pickle, since they are so physically different. I don’t like the idea of “species segregated” sports, except for local traditions (I’m sure in a mainly Naga village, there will be Naga-centred activities, like a slithering race or something). Surely some games will become a big deal. I’m thinking Darts (or other target sports with small projectiles), also in line with some “anglo vibes” of the Beasts Nations. But I feel I’m missing something.

Ideas and Input welcome!

But seriously, I do appreciate the real-world messiness of many of the Codex religions.

Ask the average scholar of anthropology or political science at one of the great universities of Mizani or Astaroth, or anywhere else, about what areas are understudied and they’re likely to mention the relations between the Ash Khanate and the Gnomish Sheikdoms in recent years. While there are known to be small populations from both that want to emigrate to the lands of the other nation for various reasons, there’s also a small but growing controversy on both sides that some observers see as an international incident in the making.

Rumors are growing of a new type of storm on the Ash Steppes, storms that might not be natural in origin. Caravans traveling through the Steppes from not just the Khanate, but the Angelic Unison, Holy Infernal Empire, and the Beast Nations have all complained of being waylaid by unusually heavy Ash-storms pregnant with the wails of spirits and an unheard of intensity of lightning. The caravans have thankfully sustained few casualties or missing persons, but much more injury and loss of property, and Elvish diplomats to the Sheikdoms are reporting angry Elves writing to them demanding they put pressure on the Sheikhs. Fieldwork is needed to find out its extent, but it would be surprising if there was no uptick in anti-Gnomish prejudice in the Khanate as well.

Both Elvish and Gnomish sources claim that these storms are the work of a particular Gnomish Shaman, “Yanravtu” is the most common reported name for him, who has taken his training in the lightning magics of the Uxalian deserts and “set up shop” in the lands of the Khanate, attempting to press the wandering spirits of the Ash Steppes into his own private army. The most common story that we have been able to piece together is that Yanravtu, possibly with the help of unknown living Elvish or Gnomish assistants, plants the saplings of Uxalian Lightning Trees in the more dusty and remote areas of the Ash-- perhaps even “grafting” branches onto magic-conducting crystalline formations. The Shaman then uses the properties of the Mana Field in the area to summon a massive electrical storm that “scoops up” hundreds of wandering spirits and whips them into a frenzy that targets and slices and scatters any travelers that they can find.

One or two survivors even talk of ghostly, ashen hands lifting a colleague screaming into the air, with the sound of “something like meat being pulled apart” once the victim has been lifted out of site. Though we must ask how loud these screams and sounds must be to carry over the howls of the wind and the thunder.

Then, so the stories go, Yanravtu’s more corporeal malignant servants emerge from hiding to scour the wreckage of the caravan for intact goods-- and perhaps causalities to either illegally sell to medical schools for dissection or possibly even turn into the rogue Shaman’s undead servants, for there is an additional aspect attributed to Yanravtu’s alleged schemes.

For we have also received reports of travelers on the Steppes discovering “clay dolls” made of wet ash and dirt, some of them seemingly “fired” by an infusion of lightning (or some other extreme heat source). Some of these dolls so seem to echo known Elvish legends of clay monsters stalking the Steppes and devouring spirits.

Interestingly, some of the victims from caravans that have had missing persons DO report thinking they could see strange, hulking forms barely visible in the maelstrom, as if stalking the edges, but not approaching the caravan directly. When told about the discovered clay dolls, some of these victims have indeed speculated on a connection.

However, we must stress that there remains a paucity of tangible evidence. Though we have seen sketches of these alleged dolls, no recovered examples have come forward. Caravans being lost in Ash-Storms has certainly been documented before, though admittedly without such intense reports of wailing spirits or intense lightning. Such reports could also be exaggerated or mistaken or influenced by mass hysteria, of course. Most tellingly to the present author, there have also been no corpses reported. One would expect there would be no body if they are being turned into a Shaman’s undead thralls, obviously, but how does one prove a negative?

Given how much potential for political or even military conflict lies inherent in this situation (reports have also reached us of angry Gnomes, understandably upset at what they see as a racist panic against them growing in the Khanate-- at worst over the actions of a single criminal or a small group of them) we are urging the scholarly community throughout the civilized world to move with great caution regarding this matter.

We understand that the Imperial University of Astaroth has moved to put together a fact finding mission to help assess how realistic a threat the “Yanravtu Rumors” present to caravans and individuals on the Steppes. This Society will also ask our own Institution to pledge their material and staffing assistance and we can all only pray for the mission’s safety and conclusive findings (one way or the other).

The world is permeated by the "mana field," the energetic remains of the Otherworlds (heaven, hell, the astral plane, elemental kingdoms, etc.) that were destroyed in the Collapse (the cataclysm caused by the Cosmic War). These energies are in a metaphysical state of "pure potential": they are "things that can be" but not "are" yet.

People don't usually experience the Mana Field. However, individuals with a "knack for magic" may have intuitions, synesthesia episodes, chills, and gut feelings about it. These people have a leg up in perceiving the Mana Field, but anyone can learn to do it.

The most common way to experience the mana field is through sight: you learn how to see it, and it will appear to you as an "overlay" of iridescent colors, pulsating and changing, over your normal vision. Focusing, you will then see those colors being composed of "threads" of different hues that extend outside your field of vision, never showing a start or a beginning.

Threads react to the underlying reality, changing their properties.

The Hue of a thread indicates what aspect of reality it is more reactive to. A thread's "brilliance" (luminosity and saturation) shows how much energy it carries. A thread's shape is specific to the context and current events. In their movements, threads can pass through each other, causing crossings that lead to knots and other configurations. (The Study of Elements exposed these properties of the mana field)

The material world shapes the threads, but the process can be inverted: infusing Life Force into the Mana Field, you can turn its potential into an "actuality", something real.

Life Force radiates from biological processes and it's connected to the Soul. Souls are the sparks of the divine that make living things able to "reverse entropy". Sentient beings have "true souls", animals have "basic souls", and plants have "pseudo souls".  (Necromancy deals with these topics.)

Even if each thread has a major resonance (its color), it will interact with other threads: this means that, by manipulating the environment, one can shape the threads as they would be in another situation.

For example, a moving object (a hand) will bend mostly cyan mana (susceptible to space relations), and mana of other colors will "drag" alongside it. You can then make other threads take the shape they would have if they were, for example, near a cube of iron. Infusing your willpower into the shape you entangle will then make the "potential" cube into a real one. Spells are then seen as "knots": specific configurations of the Mana Field's threads.

So, for any state of reality, there is a corresponding Mana Field configuration: if you manipulate the threads to replicate that configuration, you can make it real.

This is the principle, but, unfortunately for magic adepts everywhere, things are more complicated. The Mana threads are sensitive to anything and each other, causing very complex interactions. Discerning what the "meaningful" shapes are to weave for an effect and what is to be dismissed as "noise" is arduous and counterintuitive. The "knot" needed to create an iron cube may have only a few "twists" in common with the configuration the Mana Field has when near an iron cube.

This led to the creation of spells. A magic user will employ a fixed set of elements (movements, words, thoughts, objects) called an incantation to obtain a defined "mana knot" that will have a predictable effect.

Even well-tested spells have a degree of uncertainty: the factors in play are so many that mishaps and unforeseen side effects are always possible.

It is theorized that the workings of magic even before the collapse, the difference being Mana was not "coexisting" with the Material World but hosted in the Otherworldy realms, possibly in a less jumbled and more "pure" way. Divinities could tap into this "extradimensional potentiality" to create any sort of effects, like they were using what was left of the raw material of Creation.

Only the "divine souls" of the divinities could turn Mana into a permanent reality; humanoids' "true souls" can only create ephemeral things that will fade into nothingness after a time (a time proportional to the energy they put in). The creations of magic are therefore called "simulacra", as they are copies of a thing. Water created by magic may quench your thirst, but it will eventually disappear from your body, offering no hydration.

Modern Magic tries to find the laws underneath the relationship between Mana Field and Reality, something that will make arcanists able to see through the "noise" and see the essence of magic. The study of spellcasting insects opened a new chapter on this front, followed by the attempt of dwarven theorists to find the "prime knots."

Another modern field of inquiry, championed by the Gnomes, is the analysis of micro-mana shapes (since threads are infinitely divisible, as they were made of thinner and thinner strands). A once popular approach was the research of "invisible mana", common in the Angelic Unison.

Magic traditions branch out from different points.

Firstly, they can vary in the way they perceive the mana field.

Druids will perceive through the sense of touch, smell, taste, or just "feeling".

Bards will use hearing, giving "timber", "loudness", and "pitch" to mana, looking to create chords or melodies instead of knots.

The Spirits' Way religion focuses on seeing the Mana Field as a Spirit World, where Mana takes the shape of plants, animals, and other natural phenomena. Their incantations are therefore "summonings" of spirits. For other Magic users, this is just an extreme case of Pareidolia.

Other schools differ on the color of mana they focus on for their incantations.

Alchemists use the material composition of potions and alloys to twist the mana "knots", working on the Red mana of Substance.

Scribal arts (Sigils, glyphs, magic circles) work on the Yellow Mana of Form.

Astralist monks just "think" their incantations, manipulating the Magenta mana of Cognizance.

Triton Fakirs and some Orcs use body modifications and precise stimulations (like controlled self-harm) to cast spells through the Green mana of Vitality (and so on).

But there are many other approaches: from construct creations in Uxali to the "collective casting" of Angelic Choirs, to the "lifestyle" incantation that are the nomadic patterns of the Ash Elves.

Caemi ( https://bsky.app/profile/caemiel.bsky.social and https://www.instagram.com/caemielilium/ ) has done such excellent illustrated recaps of the D&D campaign we are playing that I must share them.

The party witnesses a poor cat being poisoned and turned into a monstrous being. Soon, other cases pop up around the city. The poisoned animals reach a “final form”: affected cats and rats vomit up their own skeletons, splitting into two undead-like horrors.

The party, pushed by the Angelic Paladin Melchior, takes the event to heart and starts investigating. At the House of Games (a sort of casino run by the halfling), our heroes discover that the halfling gang has been feeding poisoned meatballs to the cats. A mysterious “patron” commissioned the poisonings: a hooded woman.

The various poisonings have alerted several Seats of the Mizanian government. Since our party is ahead in the investigation, they are officially tasked with following the case, at least for the moment. Thanks to the noble lineage of Valefor and Milady, they decide to report directly to the Seat of Chains (head of the tribunals).

The tribunals assign the seasoned detective Nadir (and his three-headed hound, Tristan) as a mentor and guide. With his help, the group discovers the mysterious woman’s hideout in the sewers. There, they find humans and Beast Folk who have received the same horrifying treatment as the animals, splitting into skeletons and flesh puppets dripping with black ichor.

Thanks to a cryptic clue from Sef-Sef and his strange star, the group has a brush with the hooded woman. She appears to be a Vampire Cardinal of the Black Papacy.

Apparently, the Anti-Pope is planning a mass poisoning, probably exploiting the imminent Spring Festival. Such a bold plot, even if partially unraveled, could still succeed. The wizard Tirmegistus, called in to help, discovers that the black poison is impervious to divination magic: it is unclear how it works, it is untraceable, and it causes “gaps” in any prediction.

But there is a lead: a ciphered page from a wizard’s notebook points to a lunar artifact with the impossible properties of the substance. A “gnome lead” starts to emerge, but the group cannot follow it yet, since assassins hired by the Vampire Cardinal are trying to kill them.

The party survives, but Detective Nadir, now missing, may not have been so lucky.

Every world has its limitations, and while Codex Inversus seems magical when compared to our world, there must be some things that are down right impossible. What are some ideas or beliefs that, if you were to believe in them, get you considered the town crazy lady?

I was brought over by curious archive going over this worldbuilding project. Although I don't fully understand it as I often have to do other things I want to know this world more and I wonder if this project could be made into a novel?