INSTAR

In the beginning the world was a single chrysalis — the First Pupa — hanging in a void that had never known hunger. When it split, the event was called the Great Molt, and its cast-off shell became the sky. Everything alive since has carried the same law in its blood: grow, harden, split, emerge greater.

The realm is a garden the size of a world, and everything in it is mid-metamorphosis. Ironbark trees shed armor instead of leaves. The rivers run with amber sap that hardens into memory. At the Garden’s heart stands the Husk Cathedral — the split shell of the First Pupa, large as a mountain range. The four Great Houses hold its four gates, and none trusts the other three.

Here, rarity is not scarcity. It is ascension — how far a creature has molted. And every creature here is built from a real superpower: nothing invented, because Earth’s insects were born with powers stranger than any story.