this is part of my odrisa urls collection


the entire history of odrisa i guess
The story takes place in Odrisa, an island based on central and west africa, specifically Sao Tome and Principe. Let’s go back 40 years before the story, Odrisa is a blossoming country. There are two sides, Noctara/Noctura—the southern piece of Odrisa and Helmura/Helmara — the northern piece of Odrisa. The north and south live unified, they are never at odds. Helmara is considered the smarter of the two while Noctura is considered the more athletically gifted. The country is developing fine when a Helmaran scientist comes to a shocking discovery. Though not confirmed, he suspects the “Wraiths (Soul Creatures)” that roam freely all across Odrisa have suppressed powers within them. He shares these discoveries with fellow Helmarian scientists and they decide to pursue it. (Without the South's knowledge, 1) because their scientific community wasn’t as developed and 2) because this was just speculation at the time.) They begin taking wild wraiths and conducting tests on them, producing drugs with Noctura’s lake water and other substances. Eventually, they find a solution that works. It alters Wraith’s appearance and they exert massive amounts of different elemental powers. (Common ones like, fire, water, electricity, earth, wind. And more rare ones like light/sun, dark/moon, poison, blood). The big “but..” factor is that the Helmaran scientists have no idea how to channel or use the power and the Wraiths become extremely violent after this transformation. So they come up with a plan nothing short of malicious, they decide to slip these drugged wraiths into Noctura, thinking “Oh the north is more athletically inclined they’ll figure it out”. So these altered wraiths start to pop out one by one. The south, developing at around the same rate as the North, has now severely slowed down in industrialization because they’re busy dealing with these violent supernatural attacks. Eventually, the south finds a way to channel this power, “Soul Forging”, a practice where you severely weaken a wraith then forge them with your soul. In turn, absorbing their power (I’ll also add, everyone has different powers because they have different souls and the mix is different depending on their soul, two people could forge the same water wraith while one gets ice powers and one gets steam powers). Now It isn’t that simple, after absorbing this power the wraith fades away but you don’t automatically have mastery of the power. You need to practice and train with it like you would learning to ride a bike. Even worse, there's the possibility of “Over forging”, where your soul and body become imbalanced. The results of overforging are losing your sense of self/being overpowered by the Wraith you forged with. You can become a human shell or embody the wraith's inhumane rage pre-forge. The second possibility is you die, thankfully overforging is uncommon unless you forge with more than one wraith (2 is pushing it, hard to control but 70/30 safe). This discovery brings peace to Noctura finally, but by now so much time has passed and their economy has been stagnant, decreasing even. The north on the other hand has developed wonderfully, and now their years in the making tests have finally showcased results. Helmara sees the state of Noctura and it works perfectly, they offer Noctura jobs hunting these drugged wraiths for them. So, licensed bounty forgers could hunt specific wraiths and get paid commission in exchange for delivering them to Helmarans. Noctura, struggling and deeply immersed in poverty, had no choice but to accept, that’s how the toxic dependive relations between Helmara and Noctura started. Even with the new work field, Noctura stayed poor, barely surviving and Helmara grew wealthier. Helmara had cool, awe-inducing forges while Noctura (who forged out of necessity) had whatever was available. All this happened while Noctura was pumping out drugged wraiths in the shadows. Are you excited? We can finally get into current times! Well, no… we’re going back to when our main character Zanzi was a kid, he was a Nocturan kid raised by a single dad(might be a girl idk..). His dad was a top bounty forger in Noctura, he was amazing and well respected, but most important of all (to Zanzi at least) he was a great dad. He was always spending time with Zanzi even though he was always busy, he brought him gifts and snacks back from his trips to Helmara, and worked really hard so Zanzi could have a privileged life even if they lived in Noctura. He even helped Zanzi when he first forged, it was with a fire-type phoenix wraith. Zanzi loved and looked up to his dad, but always resented Helmara because of how hard his dad had to work for them, regardless he didn’t think much of it and tried to just enjoy his company. One thing I conveniently didn’t mention, Zanzi’s dad wasn’t the best for no reason, he was well known for defying so many forging norms. He was very in tune with his soul and body so he comfortably forged with 4-5 wraiths. That came with cons, he was always overworked and was expected to do the best because he was the best. Eventually the stress got to him, he attempted to forge with another wraith to keep up with his popular demands and went on a rampage in a Wraith-crazed state. Then eventually died in less than a few hours from bodily stress. You can only imagine how this affected Zanzi, a 9 year old boy who knew nothing but his father, soon after he started bounty forging, maybe out of a need to feel closer to his dad, or out of necessity to survive, but his hatred for Helmara never faltered, in fact it grew, as did the rage and unbridled storm of emotions inside of Zanzi’s heart. He never forged with another wraith, swore he wouldn’t ever, he perfected his craft, finding more and more ways to cultivate it. He continued to bounty hunt for years and years,drowning himself in training and work, disassociating just so he wouldn’t be left alone with his thoughts, his grief. That brings us to current time Zanzi, a 17 year old in an elite tier of Bounty forger for his age range (15-19), the highest of all three tiers, called “_”. He’s made a handful (1) of friends. He’s dropping a wraith at president Kynor’s estate when he overhears an advertisement on a TV in the house. It's advertising a tournament. “Since Helmara isn’t as thrill filled as Noctura without Wraiths–” “Wait what…? The Helmarans don’t have Wraiths, how do they know so much about the wraiths they want us to hunt. Even past that, why do Wraiths magically just gravitate towards Noctura and never Helmara.. Didn’t old man ___ also say that wraiths weren’t always this way..” The advert interrupts his internal monologue “Don’t forget to tune in for the annual Helmara-wide tournament “Wraith Rush!”” With all these pieces fitting together combined with Zanzi’s pre-existing suspicions, Zanzi made a rare choice, he brashly delivered the wraith and began to snoop in the estate. He looked for any info on Wraiths and came across a room where bounties to be posted were everywhere, they had info on just about any Wraith possible. Before he could dig too deep he was forced to hide when two of Kynor’s employees walked into the room talking casually. “I’ve seen some Wraith rush qualifiers, the tests are gonna’ go wonderfully” “Pftt, I bet they’ll go the same as usual” “Oh c'mon- I’m sure there might be a few formula edits” The banter continued for a couple minutes as they wrote something on a computer in the room and then left. Zanzi didn’t waste any time, he rushed to tell his friend, Abeni. “You’ve got to go with me, this is insane.” “Zanzi are you crazy, two teenagers sneaking in and committing a crime.” Zanzi ends up convincing her and she makes a group of 5 other top tier (15-19) bounty forgers. The forgers go together into the same room and continue to look around the quarters for some sort of lead. Then Zanzi realizes someone is following them. He turns around and confronts the person (grabs him by the collar), this is where they met Raido. “Why are you following us?” “Woahh, better question why are you in these quarters, bounty forgers stay in the front.” Zanzi glares at him “That’s not your business, why are you following us?” “Okok, chill out I’m not here to report you or anything I was just curious. Honest!” Zanzi looks back at the group for their input. “I don’t believe that for a second,” Kwasi said. “Well we definitely can’t let him go. Let's find somewhere to camp out and we’ll take him with us” Abeni chimined in. “We’ll figure out what to do after that..” And with that the group brought him with them. The group continued to press him for questions, “Why were you at Kynor’s estate anyways” “I work there, only low level though as a bounty lister” “Bounty lister.. We really fudged up this time” “Like I said, I honestly was just curious! The estate is boring. In fact, I’ve always found bounty forgers cool, like y'know.. Superheroes.” The group all looked at him like he was crazy. “A Helmuran thinking Noctara is cool, yeah sure.” “If you do, then help us.” “Kwasi shut up.” “No! I’ll do it, you guys want to know more about helmura’s wraith/mana culture right? I don’t know much but it is sketchy, you should join Wraith Rush” “How’d you know about our objective what the heck?” “I didn;t just follow you with my ears cut off” “Yeah no this guy is sketchy” “If I truly was a danger don’t you think I would’ve broken out of here by now?” “And what’s your reason for not?” “Honestly, I can’t use my mana for shit” “This guy is literally the weirdest Helmuran i’ve ever met, why am i so unlucky.” “We’re getting off topic, ask him about Wraith Rush” Raido tells them about wraith rush and they decide to sign up under aliases. Raido as well, the same night, Raido stays up, not yet untied. Zanzi gets out his tent asking “So you’ve really never trained with your mana?” “Well that won’t work, If you’re gonna join us you can’t f up.” “Well don’t mope about it , get up I’ll teach you” And Zanzi taught him the whole night. PLACEHOLDER I’LL GO MORE IN DEPTH LATER, They go to the arena, there are 10 matches, 7 include them 3 include random vs random. Zanzi goes first and wins his match, as more of them win, they get invited to contestant evets and befriend others, sort of notice the weird industry and keep getting tips from people, as they continue they hear more shady stuff and realize fucked the north is. With raido and these tips they find Aran's lab. In between matches they keep sneaking in and getting more info and clues slight spoilers, everyone wins their matches except seyi and bakari, they get to round two, and continue to play plus sneak MASSIVE MASSIVE SPOILER HERE I put it in white so you have to highlight to read. Abeni dies right after they make a big discovery, and now they’re on the run because they were seen in the lab obviously by the perpetrator who killed her and so this brings us to their final breach into the lab, they’ve obv been kicked from the tournament and are wanted and now they go in. weave through and eventually meet aran he pieces together the rest of their clues and tells them the whole story, there's a big fight and they win. They find out the drug is made with water from the Noctaran lake and they also stream from the lab on wraith rush chanell telling the truth to all citizens. They(aran & kynor and a whole crackdown on the industry) get arrested, they find antidotes and a way to forge without being cruel and idk the endinging still a bunch of questions for me lol that's Odrisa lol. This is a really bad description but I’ll make it more detailed soon :) New update his fathers name is “Ezekien” More lore, No one has last names except Kynor/Aran Brothers. Last names were never a part of Odrisa culture (Ex: You'd call Zanzi, Zanzi of Noctura or Zanzi Ezekien’s of Noctura), but those in power were given them. The last name Kynor/Aran have is Omokare that's why the wraith lab is named “Facility Omokare”. You can also refer to them as the Omokare brothers ! (Oh-Mo-Car-Aye)

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Pub: 23 Mar 2025 00:58 UTC

Edit: 16 Aug 2025 19:08 UTC

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