world building

Hello! I stumbled upon this community looking for a list of names used for magic-users. Hoping that time spent here will bear fruit for my writing and that I may help others as well. A little about me: My name is Taylor. I've been working on building a fantasy world for about five years now...

I was thinking about how a subterranean race would note the passage of time without the skies. The idea of using music hit me a few days ago. I could imagine ancient Dwarves banging rocks together in rhythm to time out some task. "That's 50 clacks, turn those mole burgers over!" They could from...

In the setting I'm working on, it's been several million years since the world has been almost completely wiped out after some mass extinction (whether it's caused by World War III or some natural disaster, I'm still debating with myself about.). The survivors of this apocalypse live on and...

So, here's my thoughts. On the world I am invisioning, the first living beings were spirits(elementals, wisps, djnn, the whole shibang). Humans were the final race to appear, (haven't yet decided how, more on that later) and had one unique, defining trait. Of every single other lifeform, they...

Another world building bit to be brought up by me, hopefully kind of interesting and maybe y'all will have a say too. Since Eld's stories are just a part of an ongoing world Narrative (yes, same as Discworld) there is also another part. Oral and singing used to and at times still does play a...

Needing some ideas about holy swords/weapons and powers that they can unleash

My world will have around several continent's in the world the trouble I'm having is the various cultural adaptation along each continent and as well as more races that aren't too keen on humans and elves and etc... btw i am new to this community and I joined to expand my own knowledge hope we...

All the questions are in this link, because of the "thousand-characters" deal.

So, just going to throw this out here and thought alliteration (?) was a good way to get attention. Anyways, on my story world of Eld, a lot of the monster line up came about either through drow alchemy or human alchemy. Though this only is in part of this. Magic was corrupted some time in the...

My fiction tends toward an irreverent and humorous take on sword and sorcery and epic fantasy. I like to think of it as Robert Howard meets Terry Pratchett and then they run head first into Douglas Adams. So when I write I like to look for old fantasy tropes and try to turn them on their heads...

I was recently inspired to create a massive Google doc of writing resources for my writing forum (but also just for people in general to use), and figured I would share the link here. A lot of them are geared toward the fantasy genre, but there's a lot of general writing links as well. Over...