Fadia

Neverness to Everness) is a supernatural urban open-world RPG developed by Hotta Studio. The game is set in a city where reality and the supernatural intertwine, telling the story of a world where human society has been invaded by abnormal energy and phenomena. You can visit the official website for more latest news.

Core Worldview Setting

Haitro City: The starting point of the story and the core city for main exploration, filled with bustling streetscapes, unknown mysteries, and strange urban tales.
Anomalies and Esper Abilities: The world is eroded by abnormal energy, giving rise to various supernatural "anomalies" and "esper ability users" with special powers. Anomalies can be good or bad, not all of them are disasters.
Anomaly Hunters and Antique Shops: Players act as the first "unlicensed" anomaly hunter, while also running an antique shop that takes on supernatural commissions from the public to keep afloat, solving the city's mysteries with their companions.

The main currency circulating in Haitro City is called Fangs.

J.T.F. (Joint Task Force): The frontline grassroots unit, responsible for being the first to arrive at the scene, maintaining vigilance, evacuating civilians, and initial response to anomalies. It is also the unit where most grassroots members are stationed.
C.S.U. (Containment and Suppression Unit): Responsible for the containment, escort, lockdown, and follow-up processing of anomalies.
E.T.D. (Emergency Task Division): An elite unit responsible for high-risk anomalies, suppression, and special operations.

World Background

The story takes place in Haitro City.
This is a modern city, but supernatural phenomena called "anomalies" appear in various places.
Humans and Anomalies Coexist
Humans have become accustomed to anomalies, so the government has established special agencies to manage and contain them.

Anomalies

Anomalies can be biological, object, spatial, phenomenal, or rule-based abnormalities.
Some anomalies have very low danger levels and only cause minor localized effects.
Higher-level anomalies can cause mass casualties, urban disasters, or even alter the environment.

Anomaly Levels

"Anomaly Ring" Anomaly Level 1-10 Handling Difficulty

Level 1: Almost Harmless Class
Handling Difficulty: Extremely Low.
Example: Money-sucking Mosquitoes (that suck money).

Level 2: Minor Injury Class
Handling Difficulty: Low.
Example: Tagido.

Level 3: Individual Casualty Class
Handling Difficulty: Low to Medium.
Example: Butterfly, Rain Man, Frameless.

Level 4: Localized Mass Casualty Class
Handling Difficulty: High.
Example: Headless Iron Slave, Debt Collector.

Level 5: City-wide Mass Casualty Class
Handling Difficulty: Extremely High.
Example: Justice of Passage, Arachne Who Never Bows.

Level 6: City-wide Catastrophe Class
Handling Difficulty: Catastrophic.
Example: No confirmed examples yet.

Level 7: City Function Stoppage or Destruction Class (Highest Human Handling Difficulty)
Handling Difficulty: Major Catastrophe Class.
Example: Anomaly No. 0, Fog Nest Game, Extreme Pole.

Level 8: City Destruction Class
Handling Difficulty: Extreme Catastrophe Class.
Example: No confirmed examples yet.

Level 9: Multi-City Destruction Class
Handling Difficulty: Super Catastrophe Class.
Example: No confirmed examples yet.

Level 10: Human Extinction Threat Class
Handling Difficulty: Highest Level.
Example: No confirmed examples yet.

The higher the number, the more dangerous it is.

Anomaly Management Bureau

Responsible for all anomaly events in the entire city.

Main Responsibilities
Monitor anomalies
Contain anomalies
Secure the scene
Protect civilians
Combat dangerous anomalies

"Qihai" is a common term for biological anomalies. It can only be used to describe anomalies that fall under the biological classification.

Even anomalies that do not exhibit life characteristics may possess the possibility of thought and self-awareness.

Sometimes, non-biological anomalies can appear, act, be perceived, and express themselves in a life-like manner through abilities or specific contact methods. However, because the core entity is not contained within this manifestation, the body created by abilities cannot be called "Qihai".

Essence of Esper Abilities: Abnormal Resonance between Human Souls and "Anomalies"
In the hidden archives of Haitro City, esper abilities are not gene mutations or magic. Their essence is "the forceful alteration of the world's underlying physical laws by human spiritual will."
Invasion of Abnormal Energy: When the world is eroded by abnormal energy called "anomalies," the vast majority of ordinary people will be assimilated, go mad, or die.
Spiritual Resonance (Arc): A very small number of humans with strong, obsessive, or extreme mental traits, when facing the desperate situations caused by anomalies, their mental structures will miraculously "resonate (Arc)" with the abnormal energy.
Manifestation of Laws: This resonance will manifest their inner strong obsessions, fears, or desires into a supernatural power that can interfere with real-world physics. These are the "esper ability users."

II. Core Division: Innate Esper Ability Users vs. Acquired "Disqualified Species"
In the top-secret files of the Bureau of Anomaly Control, humans who can use supernatural powers are strictly divided into two completely opposing ecological categories:
1. Orthodox Esper Ability Users (Esper)
Characteristics: Perfect fusion of spirit and anomaly energy, self-generating and self-growing.
Essence of Power: Supernatural power exists within their souls, which they can mobilize freely, natively, and as naturally as breathing.
Social Positioning: Most are incorporated into official law enforcement or registered as legal hunters.
2. Disqualified Species / Contractors
This is the most cruel and dark setting in the worldview. Origin: Some people are born without any talent for esper abilities, but after experiencing supernatural disasters or black market human experiments, their souls are forcibly torn apart by anomalies. To survive, they are forced to sign irreversible "contracts" with external "anomaly entities."
Essence of Power: They have no power within themselves; instead, they act as "vessels," forcibly borrowing the power of anomalies through physical parasitism or external armament (such as Adler's "Round Awakening" armor, or the anomaly within Sagiri).
The Price of the Price: The bodies of Disqualified Species are continuously "eaten away" by the anomalies within them with each use of power, until their physical and mental bodies completely collapse, eventually evolving into new anomalies.

The Iron Rule of Awakening: The Cruel "Price" Mechanism
The underlying logic of the worldview is equivalent exchange (but forcibly deducted by supernatural laws).
To gain god-like interference power, humans must, at the moment of awakening, have the most important or unbearable part of their lives forcibly taken away by the world's laws.
1. Eternal Deprivation of Physiological Functions
Sensory Impairment: For example, Adler is completely blind in the worldview; he must rely on the anomaly creatures he contracted with to serve as his vision and extrasensory perception.
Perception Distortion: Daftil's price for gaining "Weakness Vision" was severe visual impairment, bordering on blindness.
Haiyue's awakening directly and causally deprived her of her "sense of direction," leaving her with a lifelong directional disorder where she can never walk in the right direction.
2. Physical Mutation and Developmental Malformation (Beastification and Growing Pains)
Non-human Appearance: When esper abilities merge with willpower, abnormal energy forcibly reshapes the body. For example, when Nanali and Shadow awakened, their bodies physically grew non-human beast ears, tails, or beast-like features, making them outcasts in mainstream society.
Premature Maturation of Life Cycle: Mint (Requiem)'s awakening price was the most impactful. She triggered her awakening at the age of 10. To match a combat-ready body, her bones and muscles were forcibly "matured and stretched" to adult height in a very short period. This caused her to endure "bone-cracking growing pains" a hundred times more intense than ordinary people, nearly driving her insane, leaving her with lifelong psychological trauma.
3. Causal Backlash and Mental Curse
Binding of Incantations: Bai Zang's esper ability is "words become reality" incantations, but the price of awakening is an extremely heavy karmic backlash—in her childhood, her uncontrolled power accidentally caused the deaths of those around her. Since then, this power has become a dual psychological and real-world shackles, forcing her to live in "silence" (communicating only through sign language) in her daily life.
Memory and Hereditary Torment: Renee (Heng Jinshi)'s price is the most hidden. She inherited her mother's immortality and time-manipulation esper ability, but the price of awakening was to permanently endure the "death loop memories" of her entire family's annihilation in a supernatural disaster. Her soul is constantly torn apart by illusions of red text and the pain of betrayal.

IV. Social Ecology and Threats of Esper Ability Users
Beneath the daily neon lights of Haitro City, esper ability users are not aloof heroes, but dangerous individuals on the fringes:
Risk of Collapse: The mental state (SAN value) of esper ability users is directly linked to their combat power. Once their minds collapse or emotions go out of control, the esper abilities within them will erupt uncontrollably, causing urban disasters known as "Dissonance," and even directly degenerating into new anomalies.
Official Double-Edged Sword Treatment: On one hand, the Bureau of Anomaly Control heavily relies on esper ability users to contain anomalies and clear out abnormal overlapping zones in the macro world. On the other hand, the authorities conduct extremely strict 24-hour surveillance on all esper ability users, and will forcibly contain them at the slightest sign of losing control.
Essence of Anomaly Creation: "Pollution Manifested by Human Obsessions"
The origin of anomalies remains a mystery in official records, but the current consensus is: they are supernatural products born from intense human emotions, subconsciousness, and urban memes.
Emotional Resonance: When the fears, anxieties, strong obsessions, or unfulfilled desires of countless humans in modern metropolises gather and reach a critical point, they cause unstable "cognitive pollution" in real space.
Memetic Reproduction: Rumors, urban legends, or collective memes on the internet, the wider they spread, the more likely they are to directly "appear out of thin air" as corresponding anomaly entities in the macro world under the catalysis of abnormal energy.
Indestructible: Unlike anomaly users, anomalies, even if expelled or nullified, do not disappear permanently. As long as the collective subconscious that gave rise to them still exists, they can reappear in the dark corners of the city at any time.

II. Five Core Classifications of Anomalies (Index Classification)
Anomaly forms in the macro world are bizarre and varied. The Bureau of Anomaly Control strictly classifies them into five ecological categories:
1. Biological Class (Bio / Oddities): Supernatural creatures with independent consciousness and life characteristics. For example, the "Kirumarus" commonly seen in the macro world, or specific dangerous mutated beasts (Taygedo).
2. Object Class: Conventional items imbued with abnormal energy. On the surface, they are ordinary videotapes, antiques, or even a hamburger, but once triggered, they exhibit strong physical interference or spatial distortion abilities.
3. Phenomenon Class: Lacking physical form, manifesting as sudden rule abnormalities. For example, on rainy days, the road surface might actively absorb standing water like a living organism, or time distortions might occur at specific points in time.
4. Location Class: "Anomaly Overlap Zones" created by the superposition of supernatural energy. Within these spaces, gravity may be inverted, corridors may extend infinitely, and physical laws may completely fail, similar to the underlying logic of large-scale dungeons.
5. Meme Class: Purely ethereal anomalies formed by collective consciousness and information transmission. They can directly invade human minds, alter memories and perceptions, causing collective hallucinations or mass madness.

Deviation Rating: The "Negative Coordinate" that Determines Danger and Fate
The Bureau of Anomaly Control judges the danger level of an anomaly not by its combat power, but by its "reality deviation":
Rating Logic: The rating system uses 0 as complete reality. All anomaly values are negative numbers (e.g., -1 to deeper negative numbers). The more negative the value, the further it deviates from human physical reality, and the more terrifying its harm and pollution to the world.
Good and Evil Coexist: Anomalies are not all destructive monsters. Anomalies with lighter deviation and stable personalities can coexist with humans. For example, harmless anomalies that help clean the streets, or rabbit anomalies working in bakeries or convenience stores (requiring passing an exam to obtain a citizen ID).
Fatal Disguise: Some high-deviation hostile anomalies possess high intelligence. They precisely disguise themselves as ordinary humans needing help in the macro world, luring humans or low-level esper ability users into their predatory traps.

IV. Political Relationship Between Anomalies and Human Society
In Haitro City, the relationship between humans and anomalies is very peculiar:
Guarantor System: If a benevolent or sentient biological anomaly wishes to operate legally in human cities, it must find a legal "human guarantor." Guarantee does not equate to a master-servant contract; it is merely a mutual safety and survival protection certificate.
Bureau of Anomaly Control's Dual Approach: For mild anomalies that pass tests, the authorities will issue resident permits and integrate them into the municipal system. However, for those that escape, become dissonant, or have excessively high deviation, the authorities will assign civilian hunters like "Eibon Antique Shop" for brutal violent containment and complete eradication.

I. Global Highest Authority Core: "The Circle" and Organization A6
Essence: The global supreme governing and power organ for dealing with supernatural anomalies. Its power supersedes that of ordinary secular governments.
Supreme Council "A6": The highest governing body composed of six core decision-makers within "The Circle." Based on different core philosophies, they divide global governance and oversee five public power organizations.
Operational Logic: Responsible for formulating fundamental laws for dealing with anomalies, appointing regional supervisors, and serving as the ultimate defense line with ultimate decision-making authority when the world is on the brink of "total dissonance" apocalypse.

II. Direct Subordinates of the Supreme Council: Five Public Power Organizations (Partially Decrypted)
Currently, in the Haitro City Grand Archives, two core public power organizations under "The Circle" are known:
1. Bureau of Anomaly Control (BAC)
Core Philosophy: Control.
Organizational Functions: The official law enforcement unit players most frequently interact with in the metropolis. Primarily responsible for on-site containment and eradication of anomalies, handling criminal offenses involving esper ability users, and suppressing large-scale urban esper ability disasters.
Internal Structure: The headquarters is located in Haitro City and consists of four main departments:
Joint Task Force (JTF): A regular frontline department composed of professionally trained ordinary humans, responsible for monitoring the "Weitheimer Index" and handling daily low-threat anomalies.
Containment and Suppression Unit (CSU): A field assault department responsible for large-scale dangerous missions.
Emergency Task Division / Executive Tactics Unit (ETD): A core combat esper ability user unit specializing in resolving high-risk, dissonant anomalies.
Daily Security Department (DSD): Responsible for maintaining city order.
2. Grose Island
Core Philosophy: Containment.
Organizational Functions: A global maximum-security island prison used for indefinite containment and imprisonment of extremely dangerous anomalies or severely out-of-control esper ability users. Its name originates from the "Star of Judgment" in ancient mythology, symbolizing destruction and judgment, implying that this organization is "The Circle's" terrifying trump card for executing final purification judgments.

III. Civilian and Underground Backbone Forces
1. Eibon Antique Shop
Organizational Essence: Ostensibly an underperforming second-hand machinery and antique appraisal shop located in a bustling corner street, it is actually a secret base personally established by Elfried, the director of the Bureau of Anomaly Control.
Worldview Positioning: As the first "unlicensed" civilian anomaly hunter organization in Haitro City. Because it does not follow the rigid official administrative procedures, the antique shop specializes in taking on various unsavory supernatural commissions from the public, operating in the gray area between law and the black market (also the warm camp to which the protagonist group belongs).
2. Sterry Express
Organizational Essence: The apparent logistics giant of Haitro City, secretly the city's premier intelligence and espionage organization.
Operational Logic: Utilizes the ubiquitous courier network and transportation system throughout the city to secretly collect and sell top-secret intelligence regarding anomaly origins, black market technology, and the power struggles between various factions.
Top Conglomerates and Metropolitan Families
The economic and technological lifeline of the metropolis is controlled by a few monopolistic conglomerates deeply involved in supernatural research:
Dvořák Family: Top capitalist giants, controlling cutting-edge technology and the financial lifeline of Haitro City.
Collins Family: An old nouveau riche within the metropolis, with intricate ties to various esper ability user factions and high-ranking officials.
Leon International: A multinational technology and industrial conglomerate, secretly funding numerous ethically questionable esper ability and arc weapon modification experiments.

V. Extreme Antagonists: The Scarlet Letter
Organizational Essence: A global extremist esper ability terrorist organization.
Core Doctrine: They do not believe in the hypocritical order maintained by "The Circle" but fanatically believe in "anomaly disorder."
The Scarlet Letter believes that anomalies are the next stage of human evolution, and therefore secretly orchestrates and triggers large-scale "dissonance disasters" worldwide.
Cruel Crimes: The Scarlet Letter privately conducts extremely cruel "Disqualified Species" human modification experiments in the black market, forcibly transplanting high-deviation anomalies into ordinary people without talent, and even setting up scenarios to torture and kill esper ability families (such as the destruction of Renee's family) to plunder supreme esper abilities like immortality.