grifixverse - GRIFIX LORE UPDATE #23 - updates to Housegrifix, Hangāhausu, Changelings etc.

GRIFIX LORE UPDATE #23 - updates to Housegrifix, Hangāhausu, Changelings etc.

Posted 4 days ago :: Last edited 2 days ago by MysteriousShine

This lore update comes mainly with a lot of minor updates to factions - the whole faction system on the site has been updated to better fit our needs. I had to go through all the factions and make a few required updates so I'll also do a few updates to the lore/information there. It ended up being quite a lot so I'll do a few more such updates in the following lore updates as well.

Firstly, the description for Housegrifix has been updates to contain a lot more information regarding what they do:

✦✦Housegrifix (Housemares and retired warriors)

Usually adult females (housemares) or retired before-time warriors. They usually work around the house, take care of children and cook.

Housegrifix do whatever needs to be done. That might include cleaning up and maintaining the house, making and fixing clothes and other items, attending to vegetable gardens, foraging if needed (although warriors also do that if they find anything useful on their patrols). They might even handle house repairs all on their own: gather straw for the roof and fix if there's a leakage, same for the walls which are made of a mixture of straw, clay and other stuff. They also participate in building new houses for the Village, together with the warriors - building a new house is usually a big event that involves most of the village.

The clothes grifix wear are only rarely made of plant fabrics such as cotton, linen and hemp - as that is quite rare. They mainly wear fabrics of animal origin, such as leather and wool. Housegrifix are involved in processing those - including processing leather, which is a quite long process.

Grifix also use their own hair for clothing. It has the same texture as alpaca wool, so they usually gather all the hair that falls off when they brush or trim their hair, and they weave it into fabrics - pre-dyed cause they have colored hair!

They do not only work for their own house and family - if something needs to be done for somebody else in the village they will jump in and do it! They work for the whole community.

For the second part, here's with some updates to the Hangāhausu Entertainment House:

Legend of the house:

There are stories that this house just appeared out of thin air one day, fully staffed though without a housemother. When grifix enterted to see what could be offered there were rumors that the staff seemed to function perfectly without anyone to lead them. It was strange and eerie, not to mention that some would report feelings of being watched and hearing whispers when no one was around.

It was as if... the house itself was alive, and controlling everyone inside.

Grifix stopped visiting as the house was too offputting. Things were getting desperate for the house... so when a meeting of the housemothers happened it was a shock to see someone showing up to represent Hangahausu and claim to be the housemother.

Advertisements and flyers soon started appearing on the streets, inviting grifix to come experience the house of horrors. They embraced the eerie feeling and it worked in their favour as customers returned quickly.

How much of that is true... perhaps it's for you to find out.

New requirements for the Hangāhausu Entertainment House:

Hangāhausu members are all yokai manifestations - but they believe themselves to be actual grifix, and so does everyone, so their shape is always that of a normal grifix. However, under certain circumstances they may reveal their true shape, and surprise even themselves with it...

- members must have a "monster form" and a "disguised grifix form". If the two forms are similar they can be included in the same reference (for example, if the monster form is just the same as the disguised form but covered in eyes, or their head splits open but the rest stays the same). If the two forms are very different they require separate references.

- regular grifix can be part of the house - but they are always dead, missing or have been replaced by a yokai entity.
- if a character is a real grifix that has been replaced by a yokai entity, the two are considered separate characters and need to be uploaded as such. The reference can be reused for some degree for both of them.

Up next, here are some updates to the Kirinaria Mercenary group:

The Kirinaria Mercenary Camp now has a location page: The Kirinaria Camp
The Kirinaria Mercenary Group now has a faction page, containing rank information: Kirinaria Mercenary Group
IMPORTANT: the "Queen" rank of the Mercenary Group has been changed to "Qilin" - based on Qing Dynasty military ranks.

Similarily, here's some updates to the Great Libraries involved in the Knowledge Treaty:

The four great libraries now have location pages: The Great Southern Library, The Great Eastern Library, The Great Northern Library, The Great Western Library
Three of the great libraries now have faction pages, containing rank information: The Great Southern Library, The Great Eastern Library, The Great Western Library
Important addition to the information about the great libraries:

Workers at the libraries are scholars sworn to secrecy. The libraries are not usual public libraries, for they hold the greatest knowledge of the world.

The Changelings got a pretty big lore update:

Changelings Reproduction

Queens are pretty much the only changelings that lay eggs in the swarm, and therefore they are the mothers of every changeling.

Young Queens are future queens that have not yet reached maturity and can't reproduce yet.

All changelings can have 2-3 eggs, but they struggle a lot more with laying them and they are less likely to hatch properly. And they can't have as many.

During Chrysalis's reign, they never had offspring, only she did. But after she left, the changelings had to start reproducing on their own. This proved unsustainable for the hive so they decided to raise a queen - however, being worried about her turning up like Chrysalis, they thought they could try to make a few more - just as many as they were able to sustain with royal jelly as a hive. That number is around 3 to 5 queens at once. If there are multiple queens at the same time, there would not be one to raise above the whole hive - they thought. It also helped cause when a queen got too old to reproduce, there would always be a young one to take over, since they were no longer immortal.
In the reformed hive and Kirinaria Mercenary Group there's always 2-3 active queens and 1-2 young queens.

A new queen in the hive is chosen and raised - she is not born a queen. All baby changelings feed on royal jelly during their first days alive, but the baby chosen to be raised into a queen will continue to feed on royal jelly for the rest of their life, and that will allow their body to develop differently.

The only changelings that have the potential to become queens are those born from regular parents. Queen-born changelings are unable to grow into queens.

Royal jelly

Royal jelly is a substance produced by changelings' bodies, similarly to bees.

If a regular changeling starts eating a lot of it, they become slightly more fertile so they usually start eating it if they are trying for offspring.

If a queen stops eating royal jelly they will stop laying eggs, but their body will not change from that of a queen, so they can always get back to it. They usually do this when they want to retire.

Queens will only start laying eggs once they are old enough for their body to be able to handle it. If they do not feel ready for it, they will usually stop consuming royal jelly once they reach maturity and only start eating it once they feel ready.

(note: the royal jelly is not what fertilizes the eggs. Infertile eggs can be born. I will not go into that though.)

The hive has a limited supply of royal jelly, that is why they can not sustain more than 3 to 5 queens at one time (plus they also need it to feed the babies).

Changeling eyes and families

Changelings have two possible eye types: with pupils and without pupils. Those are determined by their parents: If a changeling is born from a queen they will not have pupils, otherwise they will.

Chrysalis is the first ever queen, she wasn't born from a queen and she has visible pupils. All the changelings in the dark hive were here offspring and therefore they had no pupils.

Following Chrysalis's departure, changelings started to form families. They would either try to have offspring of their own or adopt children born from Chrysalis' eggs, hoping to live in a more loving environment that way - and offer a loving upbringing to all the children.

After the Great Cataclysm, the hive has a lot of changelings that were born in families and not by the queen - they can be told apart by their eyes, cause they have visible pupils.

Offspring of queens are usually adopted into families, because a queen can not raise all those children on her own. Most families in the hive are adoptive.

Eye examples from official sources:

This was all for today! Pretty short but it's been a lot of work on my side having to do a lot of new pages so I thought it would be fine to cut it here. See you soon!