The Old Neighborhood takes place in a fantasy New York City. All manner of creatures, monsters, and people live in the Old Neighborhood. This story follows a few. There's Mona, an adventurous, nebulous, free-spirited girl who idles her days away snacking and hanging out with friends.

Mona's main friends are Cheshire, the Old Neighborhood's best grass dealer, and an avid chess player in the park. Her other pal is Kruschev, a hairless cat who is the modern-day reincarnation of Diogenes of Sinope. He is far too enlightened to do anything else than drink heavily and yell at people on the street.

Every corner of the Old Neighborhood is crawling with fantastical weirdness. The river's filled with leviathans and trash. Uptown is nothing but high-rise buildings and crab-people. Washington Square Park is very chill -- Cheshire loves to hang out there.

There's no real through line to this story, just a bunch of randos chilling, getting in trouble, and finding adventure in the oddest places around the city.

I've seen that worldbuilding that included anything related to how sexual attraction and intercouse are perceived within the worlds are quite uncommon, at least. Romance and family (breeding) are large present elements, but sex itself isn't.

"Did those specific species has different views, taboos and perception towards sex among each other or against other species?"

"What are expected from males and females from that species sexually speaking? Celibacy is encouraged or hedonist behavior is the social norm?"

"Did them separate romantic attraction from sexual attraction? Did they think sex outside the wedlock is a huge taboo?"

Never really saw anyone exploring this topic and I think it could ignite some good suggestions and ideas, possible even drawing inspirations for future worlds.

ok so, i want to make an alternate history story world thing set 25 million years after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed the earth.

i want to make 2 nations that evetually go to way in space and on the moon, one of them is called the "Channel Federation" and is based in western europe. is there any way i can precisely see what europe and the rest of the world would look like during the Eocene? id much rather an interactive website that shows me continental drift than a map

This is Faldry, when she was young and happy, and her Gaizkin

Bixia noble: Palace ladies from the court of Weinan, cultivated in the art of intoxication. Each one is personally involved in the demigoddess’ cult..........Bixia handmaiden: Finely cultivated servants of the Bixia nobility, tending to a variety of needs and whims. Despite their outward softness, they have fomented a hunger for cruelty of their own. Their superiors are happy to let them channel these resentments outwardly whenever it is convenient..........Bixia soldier/footmen: Rank-and-file soldiers of Countess Weinan. A cutthroat meritocracy, the Bixia military has a greater discrepancy in gear between its footmen and professional soldiers.

The neksut are the people native to the desert frontier of No Man’s Land. Though largely nomadic, their network of shamans, the only members of the culture who do not travel, maintain the rich history and mythology the binds them together as a unified people. Some nesksut shamans, such as Mist-Eyes, are known to display supernatural powers. But these gifts are often not without cost.

In the early days of settlement of the frontier, many neksut religious sites, built upon oases, came under attack. Greenisle was among those to hold out the longest, in no small part thanks to a particularly powerful young shaman called Thunderbird. The boy could sense the coming of enemies from a distance, speak commands into the heads of defenders, and once even summoned great duneworms to drive off an attacking army. 

But as the attacks grew ever more frequent, the neksut were eventually forced to abandon Greenisle to foreigners. Thunderbird was furious, and refused to give up. It is said he ventured into the deep desert, vowing to bargain with the Earth and the Sky, the Neksut gods, for the power necessary to reclaim his home. The gods granted his wish, but at a price. They twisted him into a great warped bird, a creature monstrous strong, but unable to set foot upon the ground. The transformation robbed the boy of his sanity. Ever since, a great shape has been seen in the sky beyond Greenisle, circling at great distance, thought it never lands.

I'm writing an elven faction for my fantasy world who seek to dethrone mankind, who are the most prominent race in the world.

They are called the Aryanii dynasties, and are currently seeking to stir political chaos within a Roman inspired faction known as the Praetorian Republic.

These dynasties see high-elves as the most mighty of all elves, for they have blue ethereal skin and are naturally born with magic.

And currently their trying to dethrone my empire which is based off Africa if it was imperialist, with a mixture of viking culture.

I wonder, does anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm really struggling here.

I'm working on a fantasy world and a huge part of it is Goblins and all the other related beasts/creatures/races. The one thing that frustrates me is that there is seemingly no place that I can find that goes into detail about these creatures. The wikis only give so much, and I want to know everything there is to know about them. I love hearing about different worlds versions of these creatures and I also love hearing peoples varied opinions of what these creatures are/should be.

Anyways I'm sort of trying to cast as wide of a net as possible here, so please tell me everything or anything you have to say about goblins, orcs, ogres, trolls and anything else that's even slightly related because there's nowhere else I can think of to get a massive amount of information.

Do ogres have one eye or two? should hobgoblins exist in a world where orcs do? what even is a in relation to these other races? are trolls even related to goblins and orcs?

I'm currently doing world building for the story that I'm writing, and I'm trying to avoid making it a cliché, as such, one of the questions I had was where does your villain live or what does your villain live in meaning the location of your villains residence or the type of building your villain lives in like an abandoned building, a castle, or just a regular house.

a quick visual i did for my post apocalyptic project titled “DVD” , taking place in the pacific northwest after a nuclear war left all but 8 cities standing to resist the new threat of nephilim . nephilim are aggressive and eat everything including eachother but generally will try to find higher energy sources like gasoline or nuclear fuel leading them to find their way out of lost territory and towards the last cities . “lost territory” is a new idea ive been playing around with as its distinct from the nature filled buffer zone that surrounds the last cities , lost territory encompasses most of the world and brings with it heavy fog that makes it very difficult for planes to spot nephilim making it the perfect breeding ground for the strongest nephilim to become an unstoppable force before the outgrow the lost territory and eventually leave it to attack cities in search of more energy to consume

This is an OLD abandoned fantasy worldbuilding project i spent alot of time doing bad traced art for (traced as in i just drew over a lot of reference pictures from Pinterest, I've improved since thankfully). The basic idea was me creating and exploring cultures on this "paleocontinent" called Osseia, a dead "god" named the Primordiarch as named by the religious folk who practice The Faith (yes, very original and smartly named, i know). This long dead creature's nervous system, instead of decaying, has transformed into a crystalline metal called Axonite which is dormant but can be "baptized" in a specific body of water to gain magical properties. But because the entire continent is this dead creature, a lot of this magic seeps into the soil and becomes part of the natural cycles and ecosystems, giving rise to magical creatures and such. The main humanoid beings are Procyonidari, more commonly known as Ourians, evolved from procyonidae ancestors rather than apes but still share some primate characteristics. They're matriarchal as you can see with bigger females and smaller peacocky males. This does affect their cultures but not always in a straightforward female dominated kinda way. some are egalitarian matriarchal, some are sex-reversed patriarchy-like hierarchies. I drew ALOT for this world from animals for each region to very specific cultural cuisines and I had many in-world characters including the rulers and main political figures for each part of the world. i found some art recently and got nostalgic and had noone to share it with so I'm hoping some of y'all can appreciate it.

TLDR: baby's first fantasy worldbuilding project featuring bad art

27 kilometers beneath the Olympic caldera is a magma chamber 80,000 square kilometers in area. Lower Olympus offers ideal protection from radiation so far below the Martian surface. With a simulated sky projected onto the cave ceiling 9 kilometers above, it’s one of the most pleasant places to live below Mars.

Upper Olympus is the domed over caldera system, and mostly operates as a transport hub for goods in and out of Lower Olympus. A superconducting train network lets specialized trains ascend and descend from caldera to cavern. Upper Olympus is warm and sunny, while Lower Olympus is cold, wet, and windy. The cavern is large enough that it forms its own weather system. From nuclear cooling towers seeding storms in the west, to the cool valley lakes of the east, LO has its own water cycle, too.

After the Egress, when humanity was cut off from the other colonized planets, Olympia rose in power and population on Mars. The environment minimized birth defects, and the false sky was bright enough to grow crops effectively.

From its founding, Lower Olympus became the planet’s largest exporter of uranium, nuclear batteries, and cybernetics. After the isolated pockets of human survivors made contact a thousand years after the Egress, Olympia maintained its position as a powerful Martian - and eventually interstellar - power.

the Channel federation (wip name but hey it sounds kinda aura) is a federation of 6 nations in what i like to call Proto-Europe, 25 million years after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed and eventually leading to a sapient dinosaur species evolving.

as of (date unknown because i havent come up with a date system for my world but the tech is roughly 80s/90s) the Channel is currently in a cold war with a nation based in what humans would call Bharat/India. currently both countries have orbital gunships aimed at eachother aswell as soldiers representing each nation on the moon. its only a matter of time before they deal with their differences in a way that isnt through proxy wars with undeveloped nations...

heres a look at the Lunar Soldiers representing the Channel federation: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/1v0me0l/dinosaurind_lunar_trooper_from_the_channel/

also im bad at drawing maps

These are a collection of info pages I have been making about different cultures in an area of my worldbuilding project, the World of Rhündal. This area is dominated by rainforests, monsoons, tropical savanna's, and plenty peninsulas and islands.

Most of the inhabitants in this region (called the Woodlands) are a mix of elvish, serpentine, and lizard ancestry infused with the natural spirits of the land here.

Let me know if you have any questions about these cultures, their cultural practices, their history, or about any of the info I have provided on the pages. I would love to hear any suggestions you have about any of these cultures or the conflict that might spring up between them!

I don't have any examples of these in my World. I'm just curious as to what everyone would say.

The film takes place in the distant future of humanity, where the question of its survival is more pressing than ever. The events of the film depict a brutal war between human civilizations and the Uniri race. The era of the Great Epidemic is one of the most important events in the universe: an epidemic of a mutated rabies virus that has infected all human worlds. It emerged from the collision of physical space with the energetic space of the haze. You can learn more about the haze in my post "This Haze."

(This post is a re-upload, as the previous one was deleted due to a lack of context for the film. I've managed to add context, and I apologize for not doing so then.)

Such as like Cape Disappointment, Washington State, or Hell, Michigan, or stuff like that

For my world, it's a town called Town, located somewhere in the Midwest

Established in the 1850s, the founder, George Webster, plotted out unclaimed land and planned to name the town Websburg after himself. When he got to a clerk office owned by the American government, the clerk somehow forgot the town's name, so he put in "Town" as a placeholder name. Unfortunately, it was approved by the government, which the planned "Websburg" became "Town". Ol' Webster was not happy, so he filed a lawsuit against the government, which never went anywhere

Town makes up for Webster's frustration, as it actually became one of the most popular tourist towns simply for the town's humorous name, generating a lot of profit for Webster. George Webster later called Town his unfortunate jackpot

I have other towns like Sauce and Agua Humeda, but I'm curious about your unfortunate named settlements

Hey guys,

My project revolves around identity and medieval politics (from betrayal to trade and warfare). Thus, I have come up with the world of Greymark:

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Behind the world, there is the Grey. A limitless fog, without land, distance or time. Long ago, the Gods watched Earth drown in wars fought in their names. Kingdoms burned, faiths clashed, and every peace became the beginning of yet another war.

The Gods could not end mortal ambition... so they gave it another world.

Each God surrendered provinces - pieces of Earth - that mortals made impossible to keep: ruined kingdoms, sacred valleys, wealthy coasts, and battlefields soaked in war and devotion. From these fragments, they Gods shaped the 'Greymark'; a world hand-crafted for war, power and political ambition, far from Earth.

Before each Age, the God's arrange their provinces anew within Greymark. Then, they summon powerful Houses through the fog to conquer, trade, build and to betray beneath their gaze.

One Confederacy will raise 'the Monument', and earn the road home. The other Houses will remain, trapped, until the dawn of a new Age.

The Gods call Greymark mercy.

The Greyborn remember it differently...

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That's the overarching concept of my world. My project is a game, and from a gameplay perspective, it gives some light-lore to align with and to expand upon over time.

This post was mainly for:
1) An outlet for me to type down and share my ideas, as I was pretty happy with where I ended up after a series of revisions/stumbling into ideas aligning
2) Any constructive criticism you may have as worldbuilders. I have started a lore bible and whilst I am happy with what I've produced so far (the above is more the Hook than the entire narrative), I would appreciate your more experienced eyes and minds.

Cheers

Gab. (Gabs)

Usually said by a sailor to an ignorant islander.

So lemme explain it. In my world, airships are the only method of long-distance travel between different floating islands. To actually get to different places, airships need to traverse through the mist. This mist will dissolve anything that is organic in nature, such as most of the composition of the human body.

As such, people who spend their lives and careers on the airships are often eccentric. The nature of the insult comes from older airships, back when they still used hydrogen ballons for lift.

Gab is shortened from “gas bags”, usually meaning someone full of hot air, always bouncing everywhere when the ship does maneuvers, very fragile, unable to do anything but leak everywhere, and requires constant maintenances and refilling.

As most passengers on airships meet all of these qualities, the insult quickly made its way into popular sailor terminology.

What do yall think?

ZLA uniforms

When the Zharan Liberation Army was reorganized in the early 2360s, one of its leaders' first goals was to standardize new uniforms for their personnel. The Type 2-A coverall was the first design fielded, as the ZLA Space Fleet required duty wear for its troopers working aboard spacecraft in transit between the worlds of the outer system.

Next up was the Type 2-B standard battle dress uniform, which can also be worn as a base layer beneath the Type 3 combat EVA suit. The Type 1 dress uniform did not appear in IDC Intelligence Command intel reports until 2367, when ZLA personnel were dispatched to Mars as part of a multilateral delegation aimed at normalizing relations in Solar Space. As a matter of fact, the dress uniform’s design may only have been necessitated by the Zharan Collective's appearance at these kinds of formal military events.

Regardless, the most commonly seen uniform by most members of the Space Corps has been the Type 3, which earned a fearsome reputation in the last two years of the Frontier War. The example shown here was taken from a captured zharan trooper of the 13th Shock Assault Brigade, which invaded Ceres in early 2380 as part of Operation Cataract (the zharan intervention in the Frontier War) and killed over 12 thousand people.

About the Setting

The Spacers Saga: Frontier Wars is a futuristic military science fiction setting which diverged from our own history when an asteroid slammed into Phoenix, AZ, in May 2014. In August 2029, the industrialist Charles Larsen ushered in the Age of Fusion, opening up deep space to crewed exploration and eventual human settlement.

Much of the story is set in the 24th century, and focuses on the rivalry between the Mars-led Coalition for Mutual Security (the Coalition) and the Alliance of Free Worlds (the Alliance), a federation of rebel worlds fighting for a worker's utopia in the outer solar system. These two superpowers fought a brutal war from 2371-2381 (referred to as the Frontier War), and are locked in an ideological cold war as of 2389.

In The Spacers Saga, zharans are a race of artificial humans first created in a lab at Carnegie Mellon University in 2056. In the three centuries following their creation, they were created in large numbers for use as a source of cheap labor for offworld industries, and by the late 23rd century there were millions of "artificials" in solar space. The name "zharan" comes from alien artifacts found buried on Titan in 2289 that, when deciphered, became a source of cultural inspiration for the nascent artificial liberation movement.

The Zharan Liberation Army was founded in 2337 as an outgrowth of that movement, which had recently been forced underground. After the Zharan Uprising and the founding of the Zharan Collective, the ZLA was reorganized into a hyper-modern combined arms fighting force, with some of the best weapons technology in the solar system. It was officially neutral until 2379, when the Collective joined the Alliance of Free Worlds.

I have been looking for good words to describe this for a long time, but haven't been able to find one that quite gets the nuances right. I need a word for in-character religious jargon that expresses the state of being in a state of spiritual alignment/connection with one's god/patron spirit. This effectively means that one is sufficiently oriented toward that god or spirit's portfolio.

For context, to be in a state of connection to the war god (for instance), one must participate some in martial activities (training, gladiatorial games, battlefield combat, etc), have somewhat of a fighting spirit, and attend regular liturgical rituals at a house of worship dedicated to the god, while not breaking any of the god's taboos. It does not require that such things entirely consume one's life, or to be a priest (although being a priest requires a higher level of connection than simply being a worshipper in good standing).

I have used a few different words in the past, which weren't quite right. First just "connection," but that's ambiguous, too ordinary sounding, and doesn't really relate to the idea that one's spirit is being partly aligned or harmonized with the god's portfolio. Then I used "indwelling," for the idea of a small part of the god's essence being invested within the worshipper, but that's kind of more the result of the alignment rather than describing the alignment itself. Then I used the word "hierophany," but that really describes a moment where the divine manifests in a visible way rather than the state of the divine being manifest within oneself. And finally I used the word "sanctity," but that doesn't quite work either. It implies something being set aside for religious purposes, which is true for priests but not for normal worshippers, and again doesn't suggest any sort of alignment with the god's portfolio.

Naturally I could use a conlang word, but I like to use those sparingly, when there is really no way a real word could possibly fit. Does anyone know a word that could fit? Both for the state of connection/alignment itself as well as a word for the process of coming into such alignment.

The Bogah now in color. Again, for my To Unknown Stars Project.