Recent content by kilost

Yeah, they work together really well. I've made a good few settings which fit this description myself. In my favourite one, I had a version of Earth where Europe (populated by humans much as in OTL, but some vampires in the east) and most of Asia (also human, plus some vampires in China) was the...

1) Thanks :) That's the idea. I've taken a break at the moment, but after my exams are over I'll finish writing up the Kobold sub-divisions and then begin history. 2) Wow, pretty cool. There's some inspiration for me :) 3) OK, just for you I'll have one story where two worlds collide through...

Hmm, I'd steer clear of rats. Unless you're incredibly gangster, you're gonna find it really difficult to reign in a fierce omnivore which could eat you, and domesticating it in the first place is nigh impossible. Even squirrels don't seem realistic. I'd go for tortoises for cargo and so forth...

Basically, it works weirdly. The planets all have the same gravity, roughly equivalent to Earth's, even though their masses vary and pretty small by comparison to our Universe. But gravity gets to a certain height then just stops. No tapering off. On some worlds, mountains might get over half...

Well I'm not COMPLETELY sure, but I was thinking that thicker gases fall into the area immediately around the stars, and insulate them to a fair extent from the oxygen and such further out, while hydrogen is present either within the star itself or floats away from them. It isn't confirmed how...

But why would he spread that kind of information? Surely he'd realise that if he says the Twelve will get his power if they kill him, then they'll try and kill him? And he's a weirdass god if that idea doesn't bother him.

Thanks Zireael. But what I meant was, rather than be inspired by mythology, map a direct route of descent from an urban monster back to one or more older races which resemble those in mythology, but with a dramatic new spin enabling them to live in the modern world.

No actual answer to your question, but I've still got some ideas and some praise. First off, praise: this is awesome! Second off, ideas: What if, rather than being invented entirely from scratch, each of these types of creature was in some way descneded from a creature from mythology? What...

You seem to be going into a very high level of detail on Elven society. Are you also exploring other aspects of the world?

The people of Mythic Scribes should unite to orchestrate a series of coups and unite the world under the Environmentalist Greater Republic of the Fantasy Genre. Then we can protect the frogs.

So yeah, frogs are pretty cool right guys?

Interesting point, I'll probably include something to that effect in the reasoning behind their aversion. However, right now I've finished their five cultures and am beginning the merfolk, who are in many ways the opposites of the dwarves.

In my writing, both in fantasy and in science fiction, I have a conflict of interest. On the one hand, my real passion is in world building, in which I go into immense detail, churning out cultures and settings by the dozen. However, on the other hand, nobody wants to read descriptions of...

Each race has three planets, of very different environments, populated by at least one very distinct culture within the People. No Sea Elves or Underground Elves I'm afraid. With the Elves, I have nomadic plains elves, black-skinned imperial elves, dynastic mountain elves, forest elves, estuary...

Well interesting ideas from everyone, but I'm still deliberating really, while I write up the first dwarven cultures (finished humans, elves and orcs). My reasoning behind having this (fear of deep water, dropping the heights thing) as an inbuilt trait of the dwarves, is that it will maintain a...