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  1. Mari More

    Can Anyone Help Me Choose a Fitting Title to My Story

    Just like the title of this thread, I would like to ask you guys to help me choose a title for my story. The story has magic-related elements in it and it's important in the story as a whole. Fire element, water element, earth element, air element, light and shadow element. My main character...
  2. Mari More

    I've Created My Own Language But I'm Out of Ideas Now

    I've created my own language that is inspired by ancient/pre-historic Tagalog language but it's hard to search for specific words and phrases from that era because Google would either redirect me to Spanish colonialism or give me the Filipino term of the words I was searching for. What I need is...
  3. Mari More

    My Main Antagonist is a Ghost/Evil Spirit so How Can I Kill Her?

    Please help, I put myself in a corner. So here goes. As my story progresses, it will be revealed that the main antagonist is a dead soul who was once a fire magic user. she was once a powerful magic user but in her time, women are oppressed so she was also belittled even though she was reaaally...
  4. Mari More

    Which of These is the Strongest Element

    Hi! I'm writing this story where everything revolves around magic users and there are ONLY five elements (but each has many sub elements) namely fire, water, earth, air, and light and shadow. The first four elements are what we're all familiar with while the fifth element is called light and...
  5. Mari More

    Help! My Magic System is a mess and I need to allocate my sub elements :)

    Hi, I'm a new member of this community but I've been going in and out of this page for months now. Anyways, I'm a wannabe writer who writes about fantasy world stories. This time, I'm writing about a world revolving around magic and has no correlation or connection to 'Earth'. My world has no...
  6. S.T. Ockenner

    The Realms

    So, I have a rough idea for a world called The Realms. Basically, there are a bunch of different dimensions (One where the gravity is random, one where giant earthworms burrow around, one full of dog hybrid creatures in a savannah, etc) and there is an ancient evil known as The Nightlord who is...
  7. Alexander Knight

    Christian fantasy

    I don't see a lot of Naria type fantasy out there, where the reader can learn something about Christianity via a fantasy story, so I'm thinking about writing some. I'm pondering creating a world based on real biblical history. My concern is that I'll need to use fiction to fill in some of the...
  8. ClearDragon

    Assistance building a new world for my fictional universe

    Hello people. I'm starting a new world building project for my fictional universe and need a bit of help deciding things. It's going to be a planet very distant from earth, it will be considerably warmer then earth. Now for the backstory I've just started, it will have been a naturally habitable...
  9. S.T. Ockenner

    Magic System- Help!

    I'm about to start a story somewhat based on Greek Mythology (but Science Fantasy), But I don't really know what my magic system should be. I've never really worked on magic systems for any of my writing. All I know is that I want it to be alongside technology and wielded by wizard priests...
  10. RandomName

    Creating a world for new video game development, need advice.

    First and formal, How you guys doing, I am a new member of this amazing site. I am a college student that is working on a video game with a small team, we are building a world for our new game. the presentation of this world in the game will be something like Dark Souls (telling the story, the...
  11. D

    Questions on Spirit attuning/capture magic system

    Hey there I was just wondering if I could step outside my own head and get the communities thoughts on a magic system I've been developing. This is in a very early phase. The world of Torrent is deeply connected to the Spirit World. Spirits are everywhere on the physical world. They exist as...
  12. d20kaiju

    “Dragon Magic” —what comes to mind?

    When you read the phrase “dragon magic” what comes to mind? I’m working on a piece that deliberately caters to old tropes of fantasy and trying to work within the old expectations to create something that feels fresh by the characters that live within the world and the magic they use. I’ve got...
  13. Ž.J.

    Conlanging in "Fantasy Land"

    Hey guys! Hope you're all healthy and doing fine! I want to talk a bit about conlanging in worldbuilding. I'll ask y'all a few questions: -Have you ever created a world especially created for your conlang? Similar to what J.R.R. Tolkien. -How much do y'all focus on conlanging in your worlds...
  14. P.A. Trujillo

    Aquatic creatures

    I'm looking for some unique, original creatures from cultures and mythologies around the world to use in my canon of stories. And some of the most creative kinds of creatures, I think, are of the aquatic variety. Of course, my mind immediately turns to mermen (and, by extension, the similar...
  15. P.A. Trujillo

    Escaping the "Tolkien Trap"

    I love J.R.R. Tolkien. He is an incredible writer and an extremely creative world-builder. It was his writing that inspired me to turn my creative energies to fantasy writing. That said... Do you find yourself defaulting back on Tolkien's pre-established tropes and race archetypes? I know I...
  16. d20kaiju

    What Monsters Would You Like to See More in Stories?

    I’m drafting a fantasy story from the perspective of the monsters and while I’m brain storming I thought I’d reach out to my fellow fantasy writers and see what monsters interest y’all the most? Are there any particular creatures you’d like to see more in books? Anything with an old favorite...
  17. Ž.J.

    Culture in Medieval Fantasy

    Hey folks!! Had quite some fun with our last discussion over "empires" and now I have a new topic in mind! How important is culture in a fantasy world? In my own fantasy world, that is only populated by humans, I find creating new and diferent cultures important. Combine this with my love for...
  18. James Wilson

    Casual Sex in a medieval setting?

    One of the things that we read backward into earlier times, including data at settings, is a casual attitude toward sex. TV and movie versions of fantasy novels often add these elements where they didn’t exist (thought not GoT). Why were sexual mores so much more strict in almost all earlier...
  19. v_legolas_gleaf

    World's End

    I have a question for the community: Let's say that we have a planet, very much like the earth (tilted at 23.5 degrees) and its sun (a normal yellow star). The planet is populated by normal human beings or human-like beings who have been living on its surface for countless years (say 2-3...
  20. Bardic_Knowledge

    The World of Experia

    Okay, so I was going to do this in a more structured fashion, with headings and everything, but I decided it was taking too long for my procrastinating self to rearrange everything, so here I am with something more organic. The world of Experia began with an odd idea: In A World with Save...
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