Are they good?

In 1678, it was discovered that when Magerot is burned it can release the Arcane energy stored within, and when this energy is channeled via conduits it can be repurposed, a process that was later refined into the Arcane Furnace we know today.

Arcane Furnaces can require a high amount of maintenance due to potential build up of Magerot around the exhaust ports and conduits. With full body protection required when cleaning to prevent Magerot from forming on the individual, since if it gets on the individual it poses a risk of growing into the tissue and causing injury.

Prior to the Great Mage War, this job would have often been done by slave workers, and would later on become one of the many reasons unions began to form in Mage circles in the 1700s.

- yeah due to magic this world did kinda have an early industrial revolution.

Artwork is a composite of a few images from textures.com along with a lot of blending/drawing ontop done by me

I originally started following this sub for this reason, but I noticed that the sub's priority has shifted more towards personal projects rather than casual discussion, support and advices, so I'm asking If you you have any recommentation for a sub where you can have a generic discussion about worldbuilding in general, such as what worldbuilding is, how to do worldbuilding, and what techniques and things to consider instead of showcasing personal projects?

Hey. First time posting here, been reading for a while and figured it's time to actually share something instead of just absorbing everyone else's work.

I've been building a fantasy setting called Echo 96 for a while now. Wanted to start with the piece of it I keep coming back to instead of dumping the whole thing at once.

The basic premise starts with fifteen young people from a world called Asterios. Mostly teenagers and young adults, nothing special about any of them. No prophecy, no divine mission, no reason it should be them.

It's an ordinary day of adventuring, nothing different from any other. They end up swimming across a small lake, and without any warning a rift opens beneath them and pulls them in like a vortex. They come out somewhere else entirely, thrown out of a river into a world called Alethria.

The rift doesn't stay open behind them.

Alethria isn't a world that was waiting for them. It has its own peoples, its own history, its own conflicts, going back long before these fifteen showed up.

Some of them already knew magic back on Asterios, and it just doesn't work here. Alethria runs on something I've been calling Wake energy, and whatever connection they have to it is dormant when they arrive. So even the ones who had real ability back home are starting from nothing.

At first they're just fifteen people stranded somewhere they don't understand, trying to survive long enough to figure out where they are and whether getting home is even possible.

Much later, the ones who survive get remembered as the Riftborn. That's where their story starts bleeding into the much larger history of Alethria, but I'm holding most of that back on purpose.

I'm curious what questions this raises for you from a worldbuilding angle. What actually happens when people from one established world suddenly have to survive inside another, with a magic system that doesn't recognize them at all?

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Recently, I had an idea for a power system that I want to adopt for my worldbuilding, but before moving forward with it, I wanted to put it here for review and maybe get some suggestions and advice.

The idea is to create a power system directly linked to monarchy and the whole concept of royalty and nobility. I know this is nothing particularly new; there is the classic trope "divine right to rule" idea, where only the nobility has magical powers. However, the twist I want to add is that this isn't a power nobles can use themselves. Instead, their power is the ability to give power away.

The general idea is that noble blood has supernatural properties, and nobles can grant that power to people loyal to them: their "Knights." A member of the nobility chooses a loyal champion and allows that person to drink their blood ( is a one time thing), known as "Blue Blood." By doing so, the champion essentially becomes Captain America. Blue Blood basically functions as a supernatural Super Soldier Serum.

What allows the nobility to remain in power is a combination of two things. While nobles don't possess significant combat powers themselves, they are exceptionally healthy. They are highly resistant to most diseases, age extremely well, and can potentially live beyond 100 years. They aren't ageless or immortal; they simply "age like wine." More importantly, they can transform people loyal to them into super soldiers.

This isn't an unlimited source of power. A noble can't simply go around creating a hundred super soldiers. Every Knight they empower places a burden on the noble's body and mind. Because of this, most nobles maintain only one or two Knights, perhaps three if the noble is older, exceptionally strong, and particularly skilled at handling the burden.

Noble ranks are also generally associated with how much power someone can grant. An average Baron's Knight might be comparable to Captain America, while a Knight empowered by a member of the royal family could potentially fight someone like Thor or the Hulk. To use Warhammer as another rough comparison, an average Baron might create something comparable to a Space Marine, a Duke could create something closer to a Custodes, and royalty could potentially create something resembling a Primarch. None of these comparisons should be taken literally; they're just meant to illustrate the general differences in power scale.

The power also cannot simply be stolen or extracted from a noble through force. The noble has to willingly grant it, and if the noble dies, the Knight's power disappears.

The main area where I'd like suggestions is the type of control or influence a noble should have over their Knights. I really don't want this to become a "thrall" situation involving direct mind control. I've been leaning toward something more empathic: the noble can sense strong emotions and hostility coming from their Knights and retains the ability to revoke the power they granted. I'm still uncertain about the exact details, though. I want the bond to naturally encourage loyalty without resorting to more forceful methods like mind control.

One additional piece of lore is that, although nobles can grant their power to basically anyone they choose, there are established "Knight Houses." These are families that train their children from birth to become ideal candidates for knighthood, teaching them combat, strategy, etiquette, politics, and other useful skills. Nobles aren't required to choose someone from these families, but generations of specialized training naturally make their children highly desirable candidates.

(also before someone asks, a noble can't get powers from another noble; a knight can't get powers from more than one noble)

Sorry if I broke the rules

Based on Earth's dry sir composition:

Major Gases: (Dry Air)

\ Nitrogen (78.08%): Dilutes oxygen and helps build proteins in living things.*
\ Oxygen (20.95%): Supports animal respiration and combustion.*
\ Argon (0.93%): An inactive gas used in light bulbs and multi-pane windows.*
\ Carbon Dioxide (0.04%): Absorbs heat and helps plants make food.*

I wondered what Terradyne's atmospheric composition would affect light from its binary suns.

What would the light look like with a dry air composition of

* 60.08% Nitrogen

* 35.95% oxygen

* 3% argon

* 0.97% Carbon Dioxide

with a blue hyper giant sun and red super giant main stream sun

With this precise atmospheric composition and a binary star system containing a blue hypergiant and a red super giant, the environment would experience highly dramatic, dual-toned lighting.

The ambient light during the day would be a hyper-saturated, intense electric violet-blue, contrasted heavily by a deep, dark blood-red sun hanging in the sky alongside a blazing violet-white star.

The lighting dynamics break down as follows:

1. The Sky Color (Atmospheric Interaction)

Your atmosphere is strikingly similar to Earth’s, but with roughly 15% more oxygen and slightly elevated carbon dioxide and argon.

• The Physics: Gas molecules like Nitrogen (\(N_{2}\)) and Oxygen (\(O_{2}\)) are significantly smaller than the wavelengths of visible light. They do not absorb visible light, but they cause Rayleigh scattering, which scatters shorter wavelengths (blue and violet) exponentially more than longer ones (red).
• The Visual Result: Because gas type does not fundamentally alter the Rayleigh scattering color, this atmosphere scatters light exactly like Earth's. However, because it is being flooded with massive amounts of high-energy violet and blue photons from the blue hypergiant, the sky would not be a calm sky blue. It would be a vibrant, electric, almost neon violet-blue.

1. The Appearance of the Two Suns

Because it is a binary system, you would have two radically different light sources casting overlapping shadows:

• The Blue Hypergiant: This star would be the primary light giver. It burns at extreme temperatures (often over 30,000 K), emitting blinding blue-white light and massive amounts of ultraviolet radiation. It would appear as a brilliant, pierce-your-eyes violet-white disc in the sky.
• The Red Supergiant: This star is massive but much cooler (around 3,500 K). Its light peaks in the infrared and red spectrums. Because the atmosphere effectively scatters away blue light but lets red light pass straight through unimpeded, this star would look like a gargantuan, deep crimson or ruby-red ball.

1. Shadows, Highlights, and Landscapes

The interaction of these two light sources creates a surreal playground of lighting and contrast:

• Dual Shadows: Every object on the ground will cast two distinct shadows. One shadow (where the blue star is blocked) will be illuminated only by the red supergiant, making that shadow deep crimson-red. The other shadow (where the red star is blocked) will be illuminated only by the blue sky and hypergiant, making it electric blue.
• Direct Light (Highlights): Objects facing both suns will be bathed in a surreal magenta/purple hue, as the stark blue-white light blends with the deep red light.
• The Horizon and Sunset: When the blue hypergiant sets, the sky will rapidly lose its violet-blue color. If the red supergiant is still up, the sky will plunge into a dark maroon, dark rust, or a heavy twilight orange, as there is virtually no blue light left to scatter.

My question is..

What do you all think of Terradyne's atmospheric composition and ambient light? Also, what would Terradyne's environment look like under these light conditions (plants, water, rocks, etc)?

I'm currently trying to create a badge/emblem for my PMC organization, and I'd like to see your thought process on how you came up with yours. Tell me about them.

-Do they have meanings besides representing their organization?

-Are there smaller symbols integrated in the badge? If so, what are their meanings?

-Are there any phrases that you used in the emblem's creation? What is it, and what is the meaning?

For example: The organization in my story is called "Central Operations Bureau for the Resistance of the Arcane." My idea for the badge (nothing finalized yet) is a circular badge or pin that is worn on the neck collar. It has an image of the world, parallels and meridians included, with a symbol similar to the patterns on a cobra's hood overlaid on top. On top of the border area is the organization's abbreviated name, and the bottom has the Latin phrase "ULTIMA LINEA" or "The Last Line." For context, this clandestine organization specializes in hunting monsters and studying the arcane and other esoteric forces. I went with the snake motif because of their symbolic meanings, from underlying dangers and malice, representing viciousness against seemingly more powerful foes, to wisdom, resilience, and guardianship, representing the will to protect humanity and its allies and the knowledge to do so. They are humanity's last line of defence, and they are willing to do whatever is necessary to win.

Ka-anxi Lanha Xakzha(14, dragon-born), Hannah Farzow (9, human), and Sal (23, Merling) meet at a deep-set pool in Tlachaj Chanxa recreation centre. This is Hannah’s first time travelling, and has never seen a dragon-born or merling in-person. Ka-anxi lives in Tlachaj Chanxa as an archivist student, or ‘Truthkeeper’, and Sal is on break, and is a warrior student, or ‘Oathkeeper’.
Both Ka-anxi and Sal are fully-fledged Society members despite still being children. Merling and dwarves become members at the human age of 13, after 5 and 3 years of schooling/training respectively, while dragon-born become members at the human age of 19, after 8 years of schooling, or 12, after 2 years of schooling, if they are archivist students. Humans are the only species member of the society to require their members to be fully-fledged adults first, after 4 years of university schooling, due to the lack of enough ambient magic in their world.

It is the summer of 2030, and the Second American Civil War has culminated in one of three federal factions the government split into being defeated on all fronts. The remaining two federal governments work towards the reunification of the United States of America while its citizens recover from the mass destruction.

Not everyone wants anything to do with them. Across contested and poorly governed territory, thousands of Americans live as “nones”, people who refuse allegiance to any faction and instead try to live, work, trade, and travel between different territories as normally as possible. Some are refugees, some are smugglers or contractors, and some simply want to be left alone after years of war.

This takes place in an America imagined to be rife with political radicalism. My current in-universe split has nearly 40 different factions occupying territory in America at the start of the war. Of course, by the end of the war this is probably reduced/consolidated down to sub-10. If this information changes anything.

How realistic is this? Would rival governments tolerate a politically unaffiliated group moving between their territories, or would military checkpoints, conscription, documentation, and suspicion eventually force most people to pick a side?

This is just an idea I had about some kind of simbiosis between an animal (mammal) and a plant, kinda like the Eastern emerald elysia (Elysia chlorotica) which is a species of sea slug that use chloroplasts from the algae they eat for photosynthesis. lts is known as a "solar-powered sea slug" living in a subcellular endosymbiotic relationship with the chloroplasts of said algae (Vaucheria litorea).

I'm just a little out of the loop, and would love to hear the general consensus.

Obviously AI art really shouldn't be getting used, but for those perfectionists out there who lack a single artistic bone in their body- drawing your own characters or ideas as stick figures really isn't too appealing.

And while I DO want to hire an artist... at the end of the day this is a hobby, and professional artists are incredibly expensive- far too expensive for a 23 yr old.

SO, with all that mind-

If I went online and just found a cool creature design, regional map, or city/kingdom image- should I be reaching out to those artists to ask if I can use it for my small time hobby? What if I can't find the artist?

If I wanted to share my writing here, and I attached a picture found through that, what would the feedback be? I can assume it'd be bad, but I'm just looking for engagement and feedback, and typically thats more common when a picture reference involved.

(Before someone says- "You should just make your own art! Learn to draw! Take some classes! Who cares if its bad?" Sadly, i do. Plus its just not enjoyable for me. I love to write and worldbuild, but anytime I've tried to draw my imagination, I've just lost interest over the final product. Just a bit of a perfectionist.)

(Also 100000% would never try to pass off any art as something done by me. Of course id keep their signature or reference them somewhere.)

I'm writing a multi-POV story with a few different peoples/places and was hoping to get feedback on one of my communes. They're a remote group, ~500-1000 citizens, mostly runaways and misfits, but with several families that have grown in time. The commune is setup just off the seashore, backed by a forest with a few plots for farming. One of my MCs is getting ready to pick her faction/labor, and although it's not absolutely necessary, her people are clearly into numbers (3, 6, 9, and 12).

So I was trying to come up with 9 core factions/labors, but I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.

Note: the factions have more colorful/descriptive names, but I figured I'd keep it to the basics.

1. Farmer/Fisher (they've got plots to sow/reap and traps to harvest along the seashore)
2. Mason/Carpenter
3. Cook/Baker
4. Seamster/Spinner
5. Sage/Healer
6. Alewife/Brewer
7. Minstrel/Mummer (because you everyone loves some prime entertainment)
8. ???
9. ???

There's also a group of Elders, but they're elected from all factions, so I didn't think they'd count. And I had imagined that every group would pitch-in for cleaning/tidying (on split rotations).

But what do ya'll think? They're not a militant group, but I suppose I could consider a guard/watch type faction. Thanks in advance!

THE PRIMORDIAL TWINS: THE VOID AND CHAOS

The Primordial Twins, known as the Void and Chaos, are two primordial forces that existed at the very beginning of the cosmos, before time and space.

The universe is merely an extension of their existence. For countless ages, they ruled over everything that exists, while order was little more than a fleeting memory, a brief moment lost between their immense and endless tyrannies.

Their infinite reign came to an end with the arrival of the Trinity.

The Trinity confronted them and banished them into the Nothingness, a dimension where nothing exists and where the universe was finally separated from their bodies. In this way, the cosmos could begin to become free, evolve on its own, and exist without being constantly consumed and destroyed by them.

But the Void and Chaos did not disappear.

The two Primordial Twins united into a single avatar: the form depicted in this image.

A single entity representing both forces:

the Void, which consumes; and Chaos, which destroys.

They know nothing of balance, order, meaning, or harmony.

They are destruction, annihilation, absolute obliteration, catastrophe, and Nothingness itself.

From their dimensional prison, the Twins constantly attempt to escape the Nothingness and the Guardian Angel, the entity that keeps them imprisoned.

This image represents their union: two primordial forces transformed into a single form, a manifestation of everything that exists beyond order and creation.

This is one of the most important images I have ever created. Bringing the Primordial Twins to life in this form was an incredible experience.

Original Lore & Artwork by Nicolás Farfán

The concept, characters, mythology, and lore presented here were created by Nicolás Farfán, who also created the original illustrations and artwork.

© Nicolás Farfán. All rights reserved.

So this is going to require some explaining. I love boats and worldbuilding (airships too) and I love doing that for my own projects, but also creating creative tools and games that allow others to create their own worlds and fantasies. Usually this ends up overlapping in a game that centers around my own universe. But I started making a ship design game and it's all gotten a little bit out of hand.

I love boats, transport is a lush topic for Worldbuilding regardless, it communicates technology, geography and the challenge of a world's environment.

So shipshaper turned into fun hybrid between tool and game where anyone can create the ships needed for their worldbuilding. Its fun and requires no skill other than storytelling. You can even test the ships you design to test their seaworthiness and ground your design in plausible usage.

And the special Kicker I wanted to add. You can export your creation to 3D printer files or gameready 3d Models,, and then you get to use your creation commercially, you own it and you can pull it into a 3D program, make a new game, print minis for your tabletop, I don't care, this is yours to use and sell and adapt..

Anyway it's going live tommorow on Steam, it's called ShipShaper. It features no AI-Gen, it's procedural generaton a la tiny glade but for ships. It's got a full selection of historical and fantasy items all handcrafted by myself and stretchable and adaptable so anyone can make something great.

I won't post the steam link, because I will await any mod reactions if I am crossing a line here. But I've posted my own world here before and shown this tool also.. But now that it's live it's something else.

But check it out, a quick google for ShipShaper should do you the steampage. And it's super easy to use and its going to be very cheap and give you a brand new tool in your arsenal.. Especially if you are not handy with 3D tools like blender but do want ships to be featured in your world

(cuz ships are awesome to design and mess around with!)

I started using Nortantis recently to create maps for the fantasy book I am writing and wanted to know what your recommendations were?

Thanks everyone!

Hello, worldbuilding community!

I have thought to make a world to sort of link all of my hobbies in a single, cohesive universe. The only problem being that I don't know how to start...

I already thought of the context of the world, but designing the actual map (shape of the land, where the mountains are, etc...) has puzzled me. What tools should I use, what should be the size of this world, where to place the cities—all of these are questions that I've been asking myself for a few weeks now.

What's the best way of approaching worldbuilding for a beginner? Any suggestion is welcome!

The city would control most of the tri-state area and some of the Hudson Valley, sharing a permeable border with the Phillidelphian sphere of influence and the less urbanized New English Communities. My explorer writing a travelogue will be from Utah so he also wont be able to fully understand them. My top thoughts are currently.

New York

New York City

The Five Burroughs

The City

Dasiti

Any other thoughts?

This is my first reddit post so Im sry if theres some unspoken rules of reddit or subreddit I violate here

Recently I have been working on making my own powersystem as part of my world. Its inspiried from Anime and manga (particularly hxh) and I need some help with how spells work. I didn't want it to just be "I use different magic circle so now spell different" I wanted to have magic circles that actually mean something. My idea was to split spell circles into 3 different parts

1. Outer Sigils. Depending on the sigils used the spell's properties may act different. For example a water sigil will cause water to be outputted. The more of a sigil the more of that the spell will be. Using 4 water sigils will create more water than 1 water sigil. This is also used for combining opposite sigils like a water sigil and a fire sigil might cancel eachother out, but 2 water sigils and a fire sigil will cause for the water to be boiling. Of course the sigils aren't limited to the 4 elements. Thats just the best way I could explain it

2. Spell Circuit. The Spell Circuit determines how the magic gets to the center sigil to cast the spell. The outer sigils used may change how the magic goes through the spell circuit meaning that getting the spell circuit right is a must

3. The Center Sigil. Determines how the spell gets outputted. Going back to the water example from Outer Sigils, the center sigil will determine whether the water comes out in a ball or in a stream, or focused into a very high pressure

The thing Im struggling on is the outer sigils. I don't have enough idea's for outer sigil's. I need more idea's so can anyone else here help me? I want the out sigils to have somewhat interesting interactions with one another. If it helps casting spells does cause a bit a backlash on the user, so how strong of a spell you can cast, and how much you can cast is based on your endurance and what your willing to go through to cast that spell

By order of President Louise Maignon, I am to stand at the public's discretion for questions. I understand any questions may be adressed, yet there may be questions I can not answer, either because of secrecy requirements, or because I have no knowledge thereof.

I welcome your questions.

(OOC: Hello, I am the author of the series the Vice-Admiral is from. It's called Heir To The Empire (yes, I know there are Star Wars Expanded Universe books with the same title, I don't care) and it follows officer cadets through certain points of their military careers in an industrialized world (technology level cca early 20th century) where magic is somewhat prevalent (roughly half of all people can use it, but there are different thresholds at which one can use magic, thresholds that depend on, among other things, experience and training). Vice-Admiral Hernault appears in one book of the series (so far), the soon-to-be-released third book, The Unfolding Order, which covers a tournament for officer cadets from the International Military University, or IMU, where the leads study, along with other cadets from the ARAF (Allied Republican Armed Forces) member countries. I will occasionally chime in to add context to the various answers, if need be.)

(And yes, this is the 2nd time I'm trying this out)

Alternate history world.
For context the plane has been built from the ground up to be a carrier capable multirole fighter for a low cost.
The kix-5 is hraxis’ first native multirole aircraft, price at 34 million USD it has a per flight hour cost of 12,000 USD. Made in 2023 and production starting in late 2025 It is capable of holding up to 10,000 pounds of ordnance but chooses to only carry standard 4 standard 120 kg missiles for fuel efficiency (commonly imported pl-15 missiles) capable of pushing mach 2.4 and with a cruise speed of mach .6 it’s airframe is capable of withstanding 12 g’s reliably and the air frame is capable of withstanding up to 19 g’s without its wings shearing off though it has major damage and stress. The most common variant is carrier capable, it is HASS system compatible and as of 2026 only 32 have been made, ten of which were bought by india and in the one month of the jet being in the hands of militaries it has exceeded 500 flight hours.

Some parameters:
Its actual combat speed is mach 1.7
It cannot reliably hit over 10 Gs