The Divine Comedy World is an electronic novel, light novel, animation and comic derived from an imaginary background. It is divided into several series: red, white, blue, black, gold and silver. Each series has a different author. (Except gold). The electronic novel comes in red, black, and white, while the animation is only in red. The second season animation is changed from the content of chapters 0-4 of the electronic novel, and the content of the first season animation is original. The comics are red, black and white.
Authors of each series:
Red - Sakaki Ichiro
Black, gold - Junichi Osako
White - Takadono En
Blue - Tsukiji Toshihiko
Silver - Kohei Kohei
There are also four authors of the red, white, blue and black series** * co-created the *** singing movement, and at 11:27 pm on May 25, 2010, Japanese novelist and writer Junichi Osako passed away due to cancer.
In short, Divine Comedy World is a huge series, and both light novels and electronic novels are still being published.
Worldview
The fictional world in which life forms called "elves" are taken for granted - Polyphonica (Chinese translation: Polyphonica), and our earth's The real world has a parallel world-like relationship. Therefore, there are also people who actually existed in the real world history (for example: Dante, Beethoven) appearing on the continent of Polyphonica.
The scientific level of the Polyfonica continent is roughly between the present and the near future of the earth. Most items similar to Earth's technological products also exist. In addition, there is also what is called a future city. The technical system of borrowing the power of elves by playing the "Divine Comedy" is developing in parallel with general technology.
This world actually hides a major secret, and the elves have been waiting for the time when humans will gradually get closer to the truth.
Stage
The backgrounds of “red”, “black”, “gold”, and “silver” are generally based on the general capital “Torbas” of the same period. for the stage. As for the characters on the stage, there is also actual interaction. There is a close relationship between the characters in the four works.
"White" is different from other works in that it is set in the ruins era of the distant past. This work is mainly used to supplement the insufficient explanation of the background and settings of the Polyphonica world in other works, and to mention stories about the elves' past.
"Blue" only has the same era as "Red" and so on. However, because it is set in another city, "Birenis", so far, most of the interactions between the characters have remained at the level of rumors or rumors, and only in the short episode "***" All are interlaced in "Ming Movement" 02.
The chronological order of "Red" that became the main axis of this "collaborative creation world" is as follows: electronic novel version, web comic version, novel version fifth episode, S first to third episodes (adapted animated version no. Season 2) are all classified as "Students". As for the rest of the novel version and the first season of the animated version, it will be the "social man chapter" a few years later. The stories don't take place at the same time.
Terms
Spirit
A being that fills the entire world and is known as a "wisdom person" and a "good neighbor of mankind" . It is a spiritual body that can materialize. Although there are various definitions, the detailed content is still unknown. Their characteristic names are composed in the order of "famous name? pillar name? fine name".
Although there are various shapes (roughly classified in a way called "branch"), no matter which shape, there must be an even number of pairs of "wings". The number of wings is proportional to the level. The general classification method is: two for lower-level (lower) elves, four for intermediate (mid-level) elves, six for upper-level (upper) elves, and even elves with eight wings ( The legendary ancestor spirit). Level directly represents the level of ability possessed. In addition, the wings themselves can be freely unfolded and retracted. Among the elves living in human society, there are also elves who usually hide their wings.
Elves above the intermediate level are distinguished by the physical form they choose when they are born. Humanoid elves are collectively called "Fermanubic", and beast-shaped elves are collectively called "Belster". There is also the half-animal, half-human elf "Ricantora" who lies between the two.
Although they are roughly divided into three levels, there is a power gap even among elves within the same level. There are people like Iaritikai who can suppress even the ancestor elves. Among the possessors of outstanding energy, there are also elves like Atio who can easily cross the level barrier. The difference in level seems to be completely ignored by him.
Elf with abnormal hobby
Commonly known as "Crazy Elf". It is a little different from ordinary divine songs, and is full of negative emotions from the performers.
Compared with ordinary elves, several of their five senses are particularly developed.
The Ancestral Elf
In the myth of Zuo Shi, it is mentioned that the eight pillars [2] female type Fu were originally summoned (or created from the world) by the God of Zuo Shi. An elf in the form of Manobic. They are also called "gods" or "goddesses". Elf queens are praised as the mothers of elves. The power they possess is at the pinnacle of all elves. They are usually distinguished by the "color" they symbolize ("red", "white", "purple" and "silver"). Although it looks like it has the same six wings as the higher-level elves, its immense power makes it possible to do things that even the upper-level elves cannot. Each controls a part of the laws and orders (theorems), and together they support the world. The name of the ancestral elf itself has the power equivalent to the Divine Comedy. Using itself as a medium will make it possible to summon and use other elves.
By the way, the ancestor elves are also regarded as the ancestors of all Fermanobic forms, and paired with them are the ancestors of the Belst form, the guardian spirits known as the "holy beasts". The two are originally the same existence, so they have the function of "backing up" each other's existence. As long as both don't die at the same time, they are not completely eliminated. This mechanism is called the "Wheel of Reincarnation", and it is a special ability that distinguishes the ancestral elves and holy beasts from most other elves.
The ancestral elves who have never died are specifically called "Original".
The color and name of the ancestor spirit
"Red" Ketikardi Abba Lagrange (prototype)
"Green" Erandus Orl Tedlandier
"White" Antanalia Silla Clary Theresa ("White" died for a time 200 years ago, in In the "white" era, he was reincarnated as Snow Drob)
"Silver" Estelle Larsa Heliobas (prototype)
" "Purple" Li Xiuliting? Rosa? Amedistas
"Golden" Surastilia
"Black" Letty Agore
"Blue" Blumelit
Holy Beast
Has power second only to the ancestor elves, and paired with the ancestor elves, they are powerful guardian elves. If there is an ancestor spirit, there must be a corresponding holy beast. Its original form is the Belster form, but it usually moves in the male form of Fermanobic. In order to govern the laws of the world, they can be resurrected through the "Wheel of Reincarnation" no matter how many times they die. Unlike the ancestor elves, holy beasts can be reincarnated while retaining the memories of their previous lives even if they die. This is also the ability to achieve the task of protecting the ancestor elves. In the "white" era, most people were accustomed to calling them "pillar names".
The color and name of the sacred beast
"Red" Lionel? (Flamel)? Eludron (deprived of his column name because he committed a felony)
"Green" Safia Kliuso Isumuld
"White" Elifas Blanca Albiona
"Silver" is unknown
"Purple" Secrido Melidia Poinicolon
"Gold" is unknown
"Black" Managaria Stinok Lage Adeleklias
"Green" Sarkar
Playing to the God of the World
Called "Genesis". It is generally considered to have four arms and eight wings. It uses the "Musical Instrument" called the instrument of creation, and together with the eight pillars of the ancestral spirits, it created the entire world. However, some people think that he is just a fictional idol formed by merging the eight ancestor spirits according to the ideas of monotheism.
The common perception is to treat it as an imaginary existence in myth. However, in addition to the real existence of the "ancestral elves", the "instruments to play the world" and the "primordial divine music" needed to play the world again also really exist. People can't help but wonder that objects called gods may actually exist. Regardless, the truth is still unclear.
Musical Instrument
The legendary musical instrument used to play the "Original Divine Comedy" when the God of Zodiac created the world of Polyphonica. The four instruments known as "instruments that play the world" include the Infinite Keyboard (Ινφιν?τε Πιανο), the Ultimate Blowpipe (Νοβλε Ωινδ), the Eternal Tribulation Chord (Ετερναλ Στρινγσ), and the Void Drum (οιδ Δρυμ).
In the past, improper use has caused large-scale disasters several times, and time and history have been rewritten as a result. In view of their danger, and in order to prevent them from reappearing, all parties have extremely strict and careful management of them. However, it was eventually taken away by the "Sighing Foreigner" and activated for the purpose of "re-enactment". After the "Return to the World" was stopped by Furlong and others, the "White Goddess" Antanalia (Sino) and the "White Holy Beast" Blanca recovered the four instruments and sent them back to
The Divine Comedy of the Origin
The musical score itself does not exist in the world, but the ancestor elves have preserved it with their own bodies as memories. From the existing perspective of the Divine Comedy, the Origin Divine Comedy cannot even be called music. No matter which way you listen to it, it is just a simple arrangement of notes. However, just these notes can disintegrate the world into nothingness, and contain the information to build a new world.
The "Sighing Foreigners" led by Santila Poruson once captured the ancestor elves for analysis (actually disintegration in this name), obtained information from them, and re-enacted them. .
Dante Ibufambra
In the history of Polyphonica, he was the first person to perform the Divine Comedy and make a contract with the elves, and was the ancestor of the Divine Comedy musicians. And leave a name.
Its true form is a unified will that exists only as thought and is passed down through the human body. It is a mediator between elves and humans, and also regulates the balance of power in the world. It is an enemy of the dominant side of that era and aims to reduce its number. In the distant era of his birth, he was conducting research with the goal of achieving the ultimate divine song, and one of the results was the giant pipe organ "One-Man Orchestra Unit No. 1" and the divine song "Entei's Crest".
In order to make the host accept this powerful fate, the host is often given an extremely unfortunate life. Moreover, even if the host dies before appearing, it can still appear in future generations through the wheel of reincarnation. Two hundred years before the time of Shirayuki and the others, in order to reduce the excessive increase in the number of humans, they made a new contract with Eludron who had lost his power due to the deprivation of his pillar name, giving him power and provoking a sacrifice. An extremely huge war.
Comedy (Comedy)
The Divine Comedy in the myth of the world refers to the music used by the god of the world when he created the world.
In modern terms, it refers to the music produced by Dante that can give special powers to elves.
It is also called the "word" that talks to the spirits. There is no clear definition here, but because the Divine Comedy is the projection of the form of the soul and heart (bioenergy), no matter when All must be performed directly by divine musicians. Moreover, because it has the characteristic that the power of multiple sounds increases when they overlap, the ensemble can give the elf more power than a solo.
It is generally believed that the Divine Comedy is food for the elves, but the elves who originally existed in spiritual bodies do not need food, so in fact the effect of the Divine Comedy is more similar to drugs. When obtaining the Divine Comedy, being able to use powerful power that cannot be used in the natural state is extremely pleasurable for the elves. In order to achieve this state, one longs for the Divine Comedy. Of course, there are also side effects like drugs or even more serious. Shenqu is hungry and goes berserk. When the last trace of power is used up, it will be completely destroyed.
Although the elves themselves are not unable to play the Divine Comedy, for the elves, releasing biological energy is equivalent to directly shortening their lifespan. If the performance continues for a long time, no matter what the elf is, it will weaken and die. Therefore, even if it comes to a situation where the elves have to perform the Divine Comedy, the elves will not do it.
Dantist
A person with special skills who plays divine music and uses the power of elves, and has national qualifications. The divine musician known as Dantist evolved from his ancestor Dante. Taking this as an endorsement and receiving special treatment from society, many people have become arrogant because of this. Corruption in the industry has become more and more serious, and even the qualifications, the fastest way to become a musician, have been changed. , making the door to this profession, which already had a high threshold, become even narrower.
Basically speaking, Shenqu musicians need to register with the Shenqu Commune to facilitate state management. However, there are also illegal musicians who do not like this practice. Most of them belong to the power of the state and cannot In this society, most of the musicians who commit crimes originate from here.
The basic requirements for a divine musician are solid performance skills and the ability to read the environment and the state of the spirits to make fine adjustments to the music. Therefore, "people who cannot hear cannot become musicians." Youfenli said so. However, a deaf girl named "Uriel" aims to become a Divine Comedy musician and is currently studying in the second year of the basic course at Torbas Divine Comedy Academy.
Elven Contract
If the elves like Lexi's divine music, they will form an exclusive contract with them. In the "White" era, lower-level elves could also make contracts with humans, but now that the Elf Island has disappeared, only intermediate-level elves and above can make contracts with humans. If the two parties are close enough, this contract can have a meaning similar to marriage, but in most cases, the contract is more like an employment contract. Based on this contract, the elves will modulate (specialize) the musician's divine music, and can obtain several times more effects than before the contract. In contrast, it is very difficult to accept the shortcomings of the divine songs of non-contracted musicians, and there is also the danger of going berserk when the divine songs of the contracted musicians cannot be obtained. Therefore, for elves, making a contract with someone can be said to be a decision that risks their lives.
To terminate a contract, the method is usually to detect the natural death date of the contractor in advance. If it is an elf who wants to terminate the contract, he will slowly spend time to free himself from the musician's death. Detached from the Divine Comedy. Therefore, if an elf loses its contractor due to an accident, it will use the power of the divine music of other musicians who are not so receptive to complete the tune as quickly as possible before it evolves into a berserk state. However, for musicians and elves whose contract is equivalent to marriage, it often happens that the elves are "buried" for the musicians.
Elven supremacy realism
The idea that elves are the apex of the biosphere and that humans are just "animals used as servants". Because I am a realist, I carry out activities in a very practical way.
The main content of the activities is - submitting articles to newspapers, signing signature activities, and social movements, etc... There are also "extremists" who hold the same idea and mainly engage in negative activities such as pranks[3] . However, since the radical faction has actually been disbanded, the only ones that still exist are the realist faction and the ruin faction mentioned below.
The Elf Supremacist Ruins Sect
Some people also call them the "Ruin Theory". The elves who proposed this idea, because they kept saying goodbye to the musicians whose life span was shorter than their own, held a prudent attitude and believed that "the contract is nothing more than the constant repetition of separation", and therefore stayed away from it. human beings. It is considered a type of elf supremacist faction. When they turned into spectators, they held the wish for humans that "the human world is very beautiful, and beautiful objects should be destroyed beautifully." Although generally speaking, they are just watching people's actions and do not pose a threat. However, because the goal is "to enable the beautiful destruction of mankind", sometimes it will show a threatening face of "any means necessary to achieve the goal". Incidentally, the name "Ruin Sect" was named by the leader of the Realist Sect, "Heidi Uru Kodirefs".
Human supremacy
It is completely opposite to the "elf supremacy" treatment mentioned above. Even within the empire, this dangerous idea is strictly controlled on the grounds that it "cannot be allowed to continue." As the name suggests, this kind of thinking tends to "treat humans as beings greater than elves." At the same time, he has a contemptuous attitude towards the elves. There are many anti-elf groups that carry out various public or private activities based on this idea. One such type of thought is the Hozona theory advocated by "Hozona Mozia".
Hozona Theory
The theory of human supremacy advocated by the former Berenice Comprehensive University professor "Hozona Mozia". He once said: "It is because humans rely too much on elves that the development of civilization becomes slow." Although these words once caused the entire society to panic, because he did not deny the achievements of the elves, he not only positioned the elves as "Man's good neighbor", and based on this positioning, he proposed that "human beings do not rely on elves, and elves are not used by humans. This is the most perfect way for humans and elves to get along." This is not an extreme proposition. It attracted many supporters for a while. However, due to the "Blue Crown Incident" mentioned later, Professor Mozi resigned and left the university, and Hozonner's theory was completely erased from history.
The Blue Crown Incident
This incident was the opportunity for the Hozona theory to be obliterated. Twelve years ago, among those who believed in Hozona's theory, there was a group's plan to immigrate to an island without elves. Although they relied on their own strength to build the ship and successfully went to sea, unfortunately, the sea conditions were not good at the time, causing the ship to sink and all the people on board died. At the time of the accident, the crew insisted on solving the problem on their own and refused any help from the elves who came to rescue. It also killed more than a hundred people who were still alive at the time. This incident led the Society to dismiss Hozonner's theory as a dangerous idea. This incident also made many people, led by the elf "Heinz" who participated in the rescue activities at that time, begin to think about the question "How should elves and humans get along?" The origin of the name of the incident is directly named after the name of the ship they were on, the "Blau Crown".
The Massacre of St. Cerurem[4]
A musical score created by the talented composer "Hislau Igesar" to get closer to Dante's Divine Comedy name. However, it is nothing more than an ugly imitation. A complete failure. Although this musical score was originally created to make Yi Zhu's elves obey orders... However, it had no effect on the target elves at all. Instead, it will interfere with all the elves around it and lead them to kill each other.