PoER worldbuilding dump #1

Gonna start posting my concept/lore/worldbuilding dumps for my personal project: Practitioners of Esoteric Revelations(PoER) here to keep myself motivated to actually start writing again.

I've had this concept for a few years now, but after a year or so on the back burner I'm gonna start playing around with it again and rework some of the concepts now that I've had a break from it.

The setting is a Post-Apocalyptic Victorian Fantasy with Cosmic Horror & Queer influences. With the basic premise being a Dystopian society that worships the Cosmic Entities that previously destroyed the world, in hopes of appeasing them from continued destruction. There’s a lot of class inequality & political corruption with the constantly lingering threat of a plague that does no discriminate based on class or wealth. Oh, and there’s plenty of toxic & fucked-up gay people in the main cast

> an otherworldly cosmic catastrophic event led to the near extinction of humanity and in turn most of the survivors congregated to worship their oppressors in hopes to appease them

> [insert a very long time period here]

> new society stays in the confines of a certain area of multiple large cities that govern mostly independently from each other, each city with its own ruling class & patron cosmic deity

> there 5(?) largest tower-like cities, as sickness and disease plagues the ground levels of society so cities are built has high into the sky as possible to avoid the fog of pestilence. The nobles and ruling class reside in uppermost tiers and trickles down form there.

> a plague known as the eldritch sickness is caused by the contaminated air, the poorest class of people are more suspectable to becoming sick. But the plague strikes indiscriminately and it is not impossible for members of high society to become effected.

> The 5 main cities are named after their respective ruling families

> ‘the Veneficus Collective’ is made up of the representatives of each family + a ritually selected oracle who knows many secrets of the cosmic entities and acted as heir representative in human form

the Veneficus Collective:

⏳Lepus Futurm // the Kepper

👁️ Avenir Family // the All-Seeing Eye
🎭 Grimir Family // the Masked Acquaintance

🌙 Valko Family // the Lonely Lunatic

📜 Zapisvam Family //the Ceremonial Scribe
⚖️ Domari Family // the Untamed Absolution