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⌬Lore
The Lore of Woomy-Arras.io is about the various histories and entities that can be found throughout the arenas, and indeed, the world for the players to enjoy. This ranges from the forces of the tanks, the evolutions of the polygons, the conspiracies of The Hemispheres and more. The lore mainly centers around the events of the 6 major wars, and the evolution of shape, to tank, to boss, to whatever lies beyond.
Note: This entire directory is about the canon of Woomy-arras.io! You may put your fan-made or "fanon" conceptions in user namespaces instead! Once enough information is known about a certain aspect of lore, it will be compiled in a series of specialized pages.
⌬Aspects[]
⌬Main Aspects[]
⌬Polygons
Main Article: Polygons
The lore has much to say about the evolution of polygons.
"The Egg came first." is a common closing splash, All shapes trace their origins to the mythical first egg, which had evolved into the first Alpha Pentagon. It had gone on to create all other shapes of today before corrupting itself into a form of the Leviathan. More exotic shapes were designed for a particular purpose: such as the green shapes made to ward off tanks, or the orange shapes designed by the Comet to help the tanks out, back when it was on the side of tanks. Shapes like these, however, were more energetic and gave more experience to tanks when destroyed.
Polygons accumulate energy over time, possibly as a result of feeding off their ambient environment. After the first major war, these polygons gained enough energy to evolve to polygons stronger than the Alpha Pentagon. Many more shapes exist, but the lore for them is not detailed and is ultimately up to interpretation.
⌬Crashers
Main Article: Crashers
Polygons rely on the defense provided by independent drones known as the Crashers.
They were seemingly invented during the third war to combat tanks through ramming them, with no regard for its own self-preservation. They were designed with the help of the drone technology invented by the first Battleship, enhanced by the first Director. While these drones are weak individually and have to coordinate together to defeat tanks, they reveal their true capabilities with every successful kill by capturing the victim's weapons. These stronger armed crashers are called Sentries, and a sufficiently experienced sentry can evolve into a full boss entity known as a Nest Defender or band together to form a company of Army Sentries.
⌬Tanks
Main Article: Tanks
They were born as deviant shapes descending from the first egg, they evolved to create weapons to fight off, and prey upon the polygons.
These predatory shapes, feeding experience from destroying other things, became known as the Tanks, for their weapons and bullet arsenals. After the first major war, tanks could no longer evolve like polygons do, and instead, had to choose their upgrade path, their skills, and accept the good and bad of their decisions. Because of these consequences, tanks became overwhelmingly diverse in comparison to the polygons by the time of the second war, although not able to easily gain strength and evolve like they do.
This diversity further exploded as a result of the tanks designed and prototyped by The Brown Team during the third war, many new ammunition types, mechanics, and the advent of the effect systems is presumably a result of their efforts. Many “tribes” of tanks exists with specific purposes in mind, like the Necromancer, and it's branch originally meant to convert polygons to their side, but had instead become a means of using them as ammunition and drones.
⌬Bosses
Main Article: Bosses
Many strong entities that don't nearly fit into the categories of Tanks, Polygons, or Crashers are known as Bosses. They are present across many fronts, with diverse motivations, and will frequently attack tanks irrespective of their actual alliance. (Note though: that part of this is because of game mechanics rather than lore presentation)
Much of the regular bosses can be divided into certain categories as:
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Most of the boss lore revolves around the Comet and the Xyv Wdtcfgzsezgk. The Comet was originally on the side of tanks, but corrupted for an unclear reason. The Xyv is the fusion of the first Guardian, Summoner, and Defender, all working together within the boss. The boss itself is not alive like the bosses are, but is unstable due to the fusion of the bosses. Fallen bosses are the souls of powerful warriors who forgot which side they were on.
The AWP-39, an infinitely powerful boss, was created by the same faction that created Tank A. Comet designed it and witnessed it corrupt and commit genocide during the Fourth War.
Arena Closers evolved from the First Destroyer. Base Protectors and Dominators are AC's disguised as pets. The AC Alarm was invented by the first Streamliner, to warn tanks of their impending doom.
The spawning messages of a few bosses (such as Reanimated bosses, and the Conquistador) hint at some sort of deeper thing. No one knows how the Reanimated bosses died, but the fact that "none could fathom that they would return in this way" implies that they vanished for some unknown reason. The Conquistador was searching for something but found it and came back, for whatever reason.
⌬Lore Aspects[]
⌬The Six Major Wars
Main Article: Wars (Lore)
There has been 6 major wars known throughout the course of the canon.
The first war was fought between tanks and polygons, most similar to the original game of diep.io as a conflict. Even before the first war, conflict has always existed with the birth of the Arena Closers and the Mystical Polygons, but many figures have not yet made their appearance. The second major war escalated with the introduction of the Fallen, Reanimated, and AI Tanks. The third and fourth war introduced a lot more actors onto the conflict stage with the AWPs, the Celestials, the Hemispheres, and many of the polygonal forces via influx, sentries or the Elite detachments led by Mladic. While the fifth war remains enigmatic, with little information surrounding it.
The sixth war is the current war, and the players, and by extension, everyone else are stuck in a time loop, forced to constantly fight the same battles over and over. The overarching theme of every single one of these wars has always been the rivalry between polygons vs. tanks stretching back to creation.
⌬The Tank A Project
Main Article: Tank A (Lore)
The Tank A project is well-documented in the closing splashes. The Tank A project was an attempt by an unknown faction of the tanks to clone themselves; however, it backfired during the first war and the project became what is now known as AI's today. The project was hijacked by an unknown enemy group, causing the tanks to be defeated.
⌬The Hemispheres
The Hemispheres include members of the Brown Team, an old team that disbanded after the First War. The Comet is occasionally brown, to reflect this. Other powerful entities, such as Mladic and Sassafras, are Hemispheres. They continually seek to stop the time loop.
The known Hemispheres are:
- Hemisphere Comet: Not to be mistaken with Brown Comet, Hemisphere Comet has a a Body like Switcheroo in the shape of a droplet
- Mladic: The General of the Polygons and the Protector of Golden İcosagon
- Hemisphere Factory: A Factory on the Brown Team that is loyal to Hemisphere Comet
- Hemisphere Director: A Director on the Brown Team that is loyal to Hemisphere Comet
- Hemisphere Engineer: A Engineer on the Brown Team that is loyal to Hemisphere Comet
- Sassafras: The Sassafras Boss is also known for spawning with the name Hemisphere and the extraordinary ability to crash servers upon spawning even though it was fixed.
- Confidential: A new(ish) boss that was just learned to be a hemisphere, not much is known about it.
- Atlantis: A old Developer boss that also is a Hemisphere
- Hemisphere Industry: The Hemisphere version of Industry, It is brown unlike the normal one and its corners are slightly lengthened, also there are small orange Rectangles at the middle of its spawners.
The Comet, Director, Engineer, and a broken AWP-39 can be found in this image: http://woomy-arras.io/img/unfixable.png. The image is considered cursed; and it was created by Clarise.
⌬Lore Sources[]
Woomy-arras.io lore is mainly found through various messages at special points in the game, various sources can give significant amounts of lore like the following:
⌬Arena Closing Splashes
Main Article: Arena Closing Splashes
When an arena is closed, players who are disconnected after death or being kicked will receive a screen containing the server closure notice and a lore splash picked from a pool of many possible messages below it. As of Woomy.app and Woomy.glitch.me, there are only 6 possible splashes, and much of the remaining splashes can only be found in older versions of the game. This is well-known, as every player has encountered at least one message from playing until the arena closure.
⌬Unique Broadcast Messages
Main Article: Unique Broadcast Messages
Throughout a regular play section, there are broadcasts usually on the top of the screen mean't to announce events in the game such as boss spawns, objective updates, and the announcement of the arena closing. There are rarer, special messages though that may have lore relevance or interest of some kind. Some messages are especially rare because of the steps required to make it appear, such as a defeat or spawn of a rare boss, or the selection of a very specific tank.
⌬Source Code Messages
Main Article: Source Lore
In older versions of the game, looking into the game's source code reveal that certain long dialogues exist. These messages are far longer than any splashes and are written seemingly from a character's point of view. These messages do not appear in-game and must be data mined to be seen, making their knowledge rarer than most.
⌬The Adaricek
Main Article: The Adaricek
The Adaricek is the rarest lore source, as it is entirely lost. It is a legendary book that has been reported (although entirely unconfirmed) to contain massive amounts of lore on many major aspects of woomy's story, and it supposedly contains future events and plotlines not seen in-game. Clarise wrote the book in the Woomy-arras discord server, but has left the discord server after.