timeline of events

• death of the parents of Lulu (16) and Cecil (6)
• lulu and Cecil  are thrown out into the street with no one to care for them within a week of their parents deaths 
•   lulu and Cecil join the community of abandoned in the slums.
•  4 years later Lulu (19) and Cecil (10) along with Estelle (18) scour the catacombs and discover the existence of the Fil'iark Cecil has his heart damaged, and Estelle loses her left arm.
• lulu looses her right arm, 
• Lulu, Cecil and Estelle after struggling to the surface are eventually picked up by Alpheus and he retrofits the Fil'iark organ as a makeshift heart for Cecil.
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• cecil begins to study the Fil'iark biology.

Rough floor plan for the catacombs

Floor 1 

Floor 2

world building Fil'iark

writhing masses of flesh and bone.
vary in size from insects to as big as a 5 story building.the are all more intelligent than a human. most of the higher being Fil'iark are beyond the comprehension of humans. very few higher beings exist though probably 10 are still around on earth.

my sources of inspiration

list of sources i have read and am actively combing for inspiration.

1. shikouku no sharnoth- what a beautiful tomorow (in process of reading)
2. pax brittania book 1: Unnatural history (finished)
3. pax brittania book 2: laviathan rising (in process of reading)
4. the parasol protectorate books 1-5: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless (finished)
5. the custard protocol series book 1: Prudence (finished)
6. the custard protocol series book 2: Imprudence (in progress)
7. the immortal empire book 1: God save the Queen (finished)
8.  the immortal empire book 2: The Queenis Dead (finished)
9. the citizens of antiford collection 
10. the stories by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derlethet et.all (have not read most of these but i still count them on this section because A. i have so many of them (there are soooo many). and B. it is going to contribute quite abit to the world so i am making)
11. the SCP foundation (again i have more of a passing knowlege of this but the concepts are important)
12. Demonbane (i have to re-get this and the sequel because of another blood)
13. the Prototype video game series as the virus mutations are very close to the look i am imagining for look of the Fil'iark and to a lesser extent Cecil's heart and Winfield's leg.
14. Kekkai Sensen,

 list of sources i have lined up to read

1. the immortal empire books 3
2. pax brittania books 3-8 
3. Sekien no Inganock -What a Beautiful People- (in addition to this one there are also like 4 more in this series of games each about 10 hours long to READ because visual novels are just books with character sprites and minor animation.)

sources that i passivly pull from

1. the type-moon universe: the Fate franchise, Tsukihime, kara no kyoukai: the garden of sinners, mahou tsukai no yoru, Notes
2. D. Gray-Man
3. Doctor Who
4. Ancillary justice
5. Umineko no naku koro ni episodes 1-8
6.  my whole manga reading list
7. my whole anime watching/completed list
8. Saya no Uta (song of saya)
9. different tokusatsu franchises

world building part 2 character bios

Right arm: Lulu (main lead): missing her right arm from the shoulder down. Raven mid length hair messy and unkempt. handy with a knife. prefers them over firearms. Motherly since she had to raise Cecil instead of their parents. calm and collected. Is kept in check by Estelle due to her anger.

Heart: lulu's yonger brother Cecil is missing his heart. has an external box( 6"x7"x7" )  containing a heart that he wears on his belt that must always be on his person as without it his blood will not circulate. the box has a "glass" panel for viewing and monitoring the heart. He is 3 foot 10 inches with short dirty blonde hair.

left arm: Estelle (best friend of lulu) has a mechanical left arm that mixes bioorganic material from the Fil'iark as well as mechanical elements. Larger than her but also a significant asset if bit unwieldy in the more mundane tasks of everyday life. Though a shy girl that has brunette hair that she always has tied back in  two long braids she has a quick temper. Uses her prostheses as a claw for ripping and cutting. though dislikes using it in everyday use as blades are not very usefully for that purpose. As the arm is half made of Fil'iark bio material so she has trouble controlling it at times (this does not happen very often).

Leg: Walker- has a leg that was fused to him made out of a tendril of one of the Fil'iark and machanical parts. When Walker was a child he was the first born of one of the upper class families. he enjoyed the freedom given to him

Alph-(eus)   a pupet maker that built the improved prosthesis (the things i'm building) using integrated parts from the Fil'iark.

Winfield- big and bulky, butts heads with the others but only when he thinks they are wrong and would endanger the group.

world building part 1 setting

• large city named Sylph
• Name of eldrich creatures is Fil'iark
• eldrich creatures rule everything from the shadows but humans live their lives blissfully unaware.
• the eldrich creatchers are the source/creators/inspiration of all modern technology
• ancient lost forgotten ruins containing tech were discovered reverse engineered and turned into the modern tech that the Clearil uses. unfortunately the people who discovered and the population as a whole it were unaware that the beings still existed (literally the being/s that made it were still alive). they just thought it was a long lost civilization of humans that were polytheists of a panthion of dark gods....in truth it was but the dark gods were very much still alive and ruling just in a more subtle and smart way.

attempts at a story

i just started free writing this is what i ended up with:

In the city there walked many people some tall some lanky some wide some not. some days the light flooded into the city through the smog creating a gorgeous twilight tint on everything. Through the dim lighting one could see a whole manor of things from the steeple clad in ancient stone and pristine glass of a myriad of colors. Vehicles race side by side making use of the latest and greatest of engines. Buildings made of amalgamations of brass, iron, copper, and steel. It used to be that the feeling of the smog against my skin was soothingly cool and nostalgic. however now that i know the truth i can not be but disgusted by the very sight and feel of the stuff. as if my innocence has been ripped from my body and fed to the dogs of hell.

Unbeknownst to those clamoring around absorbed in the hustle and bustle of their lives in this glorious nation, the world is a much more sinister place. In the dark corners and alleys children are starving. People are losing limbs to the damn machinery that is the very convenience of modern life. And all of this is caused by those unspeakable abominations whose machinations control all aspects of people's lives. Not many seem to notice their existence since they prefer the shadows. But I have seen that which they have wrought. Grotesque beasts the size of mountains that writhe with tentacles and fleshy limbs whose very nature was the subconscious inspiration to the large mechanical contraptions that all modern  cities are incapable of running without. They ate my arm, pierced my brother's heart and my best friends arm.

It all started four years ago when my best friend Estelle, my small younger brother Cecil and I were walking around the sewers at night. we were a few miles into the tunnel system that winds and branches off of the sewer system; part of a large series of catacombs that have since been abandoned by time and civilization and were retrofitted to be our cities sewer system. We scavenge the cultural artifacts of our ancestors to see what is valuable and then sell it for quick cash. Normally we go in much larger groups as there is safety and stability in numbers but we got greedy. none of us had eaten for days and we had exhausted what little money we had. Ideally we would scour the first five floors for stuff however most of the interesting stuff has been removed by now so we decided to give the 9th floor a shot.

So here we are wandering the 9th floor where the most danger there were just some large rats, nothing a sturdy knife couldn't handle with the right skill. since before our parents generation there have always been rumors of monsters roaming the catacombs but there have never been any incidents. Forward and back left and right up and down slopes we went. As we walked Estelle remarked how odd the architecture was getting with it beginning to warp and bend wood beams seemed to fuse and or transform into stone archways, vine which by no means should be thriving in this environment that lacked regular sunlight were lush and crowding the walls. the further we went the worse it became eventually we started seeing drawing and statues littered all over the place depicting horrendous beasts. things of tendrils and bone, were they bone or were they flesh i can hardly say. what i can say is that Cecil quickly became more and more frightened as we progressed through the contorted system of tunnels. Cecil is as strong kid in some ways both him and i had to grow up quickly once our parents died, I more-so than him. 

Cecil quickly interrupted my reminiscing. stating he may have heard something like a small beast. i politely told him to quit his whining as if we did not find anything he would have other problems to worry about besides fear, malnutrition being one of them. In retrospect i 
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Father and mother were strict but they provided for us I do not particularly miss the two of them however i do lament the fact that if they were still alive we probably would not have had to suffer starvation and lack of proper housing. when they died to the Silva I was but 15 years and Cecil a measly 6.
  
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After that incident Estelle missing her left arm and I now missing my dominant right arm dragged Cecil's rapidly dying body back to the surface.