world building

Hi there, I'm Echo, and I am a teen author! I've been working on a writing project for 6 months now, and it's set in a fantasy world (wow) where the magic is based on the sun, moon, and stars. So, from that, I have two questions: Is my concept too basic? Is my fleshed-out idea actually any good...

Let me explain: the concept of "magic" can be applied to any world setting. In a more ancient world, you can explore intriguing themes that feel timeless... Conversely, in a more modern world, you can showcase how technology and magic intersect, illustrating their evolution and relationship with...

I’m looking for 5-12 passionate volunteers (preferably 18+) to join me in creating a rich and immersive fantasy and sci-fi universe. The project will involve developing new creatures, races, planets, cultures, languages, politics, fashion, and much more. While experience is welcome, no prior...

Magic is generally used as a descriptor from someone outside of the realm of understanding of a thing or phenomena, in my mind at least. Since wizards, sorcerers, and the like know what they're doing, would they consider what they're doing as magic? What would they even call it if they didn't...

Let me share a bit more about Arcana. Arcana is a world within our planet, a place born from the great cataclysm when Earth collided with a celestial body, which wiped out much of life. Does that ring a bell? Scientists speak of a massive meteor that ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million years...

Hi guys, I'm new here so apologies if this isn't the right place for this. I've been working on a world build for about a year now. For this part of it I really wanted to challenge myself to making a dizzying economic system that makes enough sense that someone who put their mind to it would be...

Hi guys! Does anyone have a world with thousands of years of history? Especially one that advances in technology over the years?

Hello! So I'm playing around with a "currency-less" society for my Connexa world. I'm thinking of making it a Technocratic Geniocracy. So the people in power will be in power because they are highly knowledgeable and accomplished in their respective fields. They would only be allowed to make...

As shown here, I have started to create a story thread for my timeline where the Earth begins to spin the other way, exploring my existing lore of this world’s human and animal denizens that have changed over the years since my timeline’s point of divergence. I wanted to create this thread to...

Sorry if it a day later since my last posting. XD That was an article I wrote a couple years ago. THIS one, I just published an hour ago!!! ... And I'm quite excited about it. Check out my new article about medieval cities and roads, as a companion piece to some random name generators I...

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...