"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds (1927)
From the observation deck of the Grand Keratin Spire, one beholds the undulating landscape of our world: a living dermis stretching to all horizons. The surface gleams with an opalescent sheen where sebaceous reservoirs catch the light that filters through the upper strata. Here in Follicularis Prime, the great follicle-towers rise like crystalline hairshafts, their biological-brutalist forms engineered by the architect Keratina Flux using techniques that fuse living tissue with structural proteins. The cityscape follows the host's natural topology: melanin-rich districts form deep umber swirls, their boundaries shifting with cellular migrations; the Sebaceous Vaults glisten like pearls, their walls exuding a constant lipid sheen; massive pores function as public squares and trading hubs, their diameter determining property values in accordance with the Porometric Index maintained by Porus the Vast's consortium. Most striking to new observers is the perpetual motion of the substrate ...
From the lore of Metabolic Currency and Cellular Capitalism.