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  1. F

    Retrograde Earth lore building and discussion

    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...
  2. Trailofstardust

    Worldbuilding a demonic pantheon

    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...
  3. LieutenantWolf34

    Seeking Ideas For Magic-Users In The Early 19th Century

    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...
  4. Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    The Child God

    "We will walk into the horizon every day and every night, we will seek injustice and take down those who impart it, so are the orders of the Son of the Wind" Youngest of all of the four brothers, Otto arrived to a world were pretty much everything was taken, and so, he tried to learn from his...
  5. Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    Here walks the young king Otto and his caravans of wanderers, bending time and seeing prophecies, while riding beasts and the wind itself, they travel long and wide through all Nimbia, through the forests, to the frozen lands, even the plains and deserts of the barren lands of the south, here...
  6. Nimbia: The druids of Prima

    The godess of Spring

    "I shall see my forest reborn rather than consumed by these vile plague that has corrupted my sons" _Prima, The Mother of all Prima was the second of all five entities to reach Nimbia, she is represented as a young woman, who has green hair and long pointy ears, with pale skin and yellow eyes...
  7. Nimbia: The druids of Prima

    Nimbia: The druids of Prima

    here im posting the stories and lore of the godess Prima and her druids, archdruids and some other creatures that inhabit the forests and lush jungles of Prima at the East of Nimbia, I will also include the different uses of druidcraft and accept some help from here to implement stuff and create...
  8. P.A. Trujillo

    Help Depicting Names

    So for my fantasy world, I am using the languages of our world to create names for my fictional characters, countries and kingdoms. But I don't fully trust Google Translate, so I am seeking the help of anyone who knows any language other than English to help me write believable. If you can give...
  9. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Cold Heart: Page 4 of part one

    “Back up, I can't concentrate with you crowding me unless you want him to die.” The creatures hopped back at least five feet. He pretended to check Spring while he saw Spring’s fingers twitch against his own boot. Reaper reached into it and his hand closed around a dagger hidden in a silk...
  10. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Cold Heart: Page 3 of part one

    The next day a bucket appeared also a plate with bread and water. Spring refused to touch the bread after finding a bit of mold on it. Summer split his own loaf in half. “Here,” he offered. “I shouldn’t take your food.” Spring looked ashamed of himself. “We need to find how the food came in,”...
  11. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Cold Heart: Page 2 of part one

    Summer looked disgusted. “Could a survivor regain the Unseelie Throne?” he asked. “No, Queen Mab established the succession based on trial by combat,” Reaper responded. “Are you King Dagda?” Summer asked him. Reaper laughed loudly. Spring looked in his direction a startled expression on his...
  12. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Cold Heart: Page 1 of part one

    Reaper followed suit, he was used to the cold but that didn’t mean he wanted to freeze to death. Trying not to stare at the patch of grass and the two flowers that had leaked from Spring’s feet when he had gotten agitated. Then they heard a groan, another boy dressed in nothing but a grass...
  13. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Cold Heart: Page 1 of part one

    Reaper awoke, the back of his head throbbing, fighting a wince he pressed a hand to the back of his dark brown hair there was a bump. Someone had taken him from behind. Was it luck or did his attacker know his regeneration abilities did not affect his skull? A failsafe in case he had proved too...
  14. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Dragons Breath and Fairy Dust

    Short stories set in the world of my book "Descendants of Magic", the tale of how the veil between the human world and Faerie land split and the chaos that followed, when Faerie became a part of Washington DC. It mostly explores a pre veil split Faerie land and the wonderful and terrible things...
  15. Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Dragons Breath and Fairy dust

    Short stories set in the world of my book "Descendants of Magic", the tale of how the veil between the human world and Faerie land split and the chaos that followed, when Faerie became a part of Washington DC. It mostly explores a pre veil split Faerie land and the wonderful and terrible things...
  16. Loremongre

    The lore of Sal'taron

    I'm going to open this page for discussing about the lore of the mixed-fantasy world I'm creating and expanding. To start, here's the (really shortened) timeline.
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