world building

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Hello, I am having kind of hard time trying to make it Paramount in my fantasy world that there are gods and deities but they are not interfering in lives of mortals. There are races that don’t even believe in gods so that might be easier, but how would people that believe in their god still...

Hey people 👋👋 I'm new to this forum, I'm a creative writer and lack people in my life to talk with about my work. I always grew up admiring the process people go through when developing their worlds and stories, i love the detail and beauty of middle earth, the vastness and realism of a song of...

Would anyone be interested in creating a team to worldbuild together and have fun? We would create a country in an alien world and then everyone would either take care of a different aspect of worldbuilding or we would just discuss everything together and combine our ideas. We could even have...

I kind of want to use some lines from Anne's Tomorrow in a sad/creepy way for one of my antagonists. (She's a mechanoid villain) Not the full song but a couple of lines (and later the melody is described to fit the songs description the song itself is not explicitly mentioned other than one or...

Now, I don't plan on writing book after book after book in the same series. (in the traditional sense, like the Harry Potter books) But for one of my stories, the Sea of Data is just too cool of a concept to scrap it after only one story. I was thinking maybe doing a thing where, there's...

It's somewhat similar to what some religions call ethereal plains or what have you, doesn't matter what wordage you use (Sea of Data, Spiritual sanctuary, Nirvana, etc) but what matters most is how you use it. And why it exists in the story to begin with? It's main reason to just 'exist' is to...

I just got through a few fantasy books, and all of them have maps drawn for its settings. This is really cool! It's giving me good feelings. I think doing the worldbuilding gonna be really fun!

Hello there! I'm currently working on a story that takes place in a desert community. It's far future post apocalyptic (think Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and stuff like that) so they have *some* technology but not much. I'm interested in resources about life for ancient cultures in the...

To summarize quickly: The book is a fanatasy/mystery novel. The story is a side of it's own, but something about the world bothers me. So, just to summarize the lore of the world: It is a planet, with one large continent. On the north, northeast of the continent, among the mountains, a race...

So, I'm thinking of adding a few species of large Dinosaur-like reptiles but base them off what we think dinosaurs looked like now instead of 15 years ago, aka bright colors and odd patterned feathered behemoths. And oh yeah, they'll probably all have a sort of magical attribute. Anyone else...

Some time ago, I got the idea for a middle-grade fantasy story involving demons from the Swedish book series "Demondeckarna" (title means "Demon Detectives"). Some of the concepts in the book were interesting but the execution and writing was sub-par. The characters were bland and undeveloped...

The concept of locations/landscapes created from the body of an enormous creature is nothing new; Ymir in Norse mythology and Pan Gu from Chinese mythology are both creation myths where the world is created from the body of a dead giant. However, currently the Disney cartoon The Owl House is...

So I have a little problem about my magic system. It's actually my first time doing something like that but in summary: I was thinking of creating a system of magic in which sound (and music) was the greatest driving force and was so powerful that all organic and inorganic matter depended on it...

I have been thinking about this concept for a bit and can't seem to get a grasp on it. I hope some of you might be able to share your thoughts on this kind of topic :) Thanks !

PLEASE HELP! I'm stuck on this one. I'm writing an urban fantasy legal thriller, and the main character's a lawyer who deals with "Arcane Law." She's got an appointment that has to take place at a very specific time and place because she's got a magical creature coming in as a witness and it...

Having been thinking on one of my past fantasy worlds, in which there are armies that can scale walls with calvary units. True, the world itself has mounted defenses as it is, usually by growing thorny vines along the walls. With thorns about five inches long at that, along with spiked defenses...

I want you to help me with the worldbuilding of this medieval romance fantasy novel of mine. What do you think of this medieval romance fantasy novel of mine? This is about a warrior princess who rules a whole medieval country while waging wars against wicked humans and demonic forces that try...

Hello I'm really curious on people's thoughts on World Building and the scaling of it, I started making a map on Inkarnate and I'm quite proud of it but I've been told it's either too small or too big for a dramatic fantasy novel... I'm obviously not done with creating the landscape but I'm...

I'm world-building for an alternate history version of Belle Epoque with magic and the like. While I already had some ideas which will be listed below I'm seeking ideas for any more magic users. On Magic Magic is well known in this world being used for many things all the way up to the...