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What is your motivation for building this world?

we want to create a fantastical and science-adjacent world of magical creatures and cosmological horrors.

we want to create a rich world which indulges our passion for human geography, ecology, biology, chemistry, linguistics, science fiction, dark and taboo fiction, and classical history.

What are you hoping to get out of it?

we want to give ourselves an ongoing creative project that will also tie into future novels, short stories, and screenplays that we would like to write.

What is the Hook or Unique Selling Point of your world? What makes it different?

a second-world science-fantasy cosmological horror and its perverse materials.

playful xeno biology, including mammiles, an animal group akin to a combination of mammal and reptilian traits.

experimenting with what it means to imagine worlds/cultures outside genre-typical colonialist narratives about the inevitability of the frameworks and systems of oppression that exist today in western society.

theme

What’s the Genre of your World?

our world is science fantasy with realistic fantastical cultural development. cultures are ex-industrial. there's also magic and mutation. change follows from what came before.

How does the world feel (player/reader experience)?

  • full
  • perverse
  • lush
  • meditative
  • romantic
  • thrilling

What is the character agency level like?

we want to decenter the hero's journey as the epitome of character agency in our narrative. changes will range in size and scale, ranging from sweet love stories to the discovery of cosmological horrors. consequences can affect one person or millions.

What is the tone of your world?

the world is intense. horrible and wondrous things happen to ordinary people in equal measure.

What are the recurring themes which reinforce the genre, tone and feel of your world?

true love. people who love each other will find ways to love, no matter the cost. not even magical mutation can keep lovers apart.

patagonia desert, great basin desert, east siberian taiga, temperate deciduous forests, and tropical jungles. the extreme elements and animals that live there.

mutation and change are happening. bodies are mutable and shaped by their connection to magic and the astral realm.

focus

culture

information that guides people that is transferred by teaching, including constructed languages that reflect and change how sapient people think, and roles and dynamics within and between cultures

geography, biology, and ecology

the relationships that the natural world has with its components, what they're made of, and their evolution and history.

cosmology

the creation of the universe as described by its inhabitants, the origins of all things, the forces that govern the world, as they appear to the world's inhabitants

physics

changes in thermodynamics and chemistry from our existing universe, astral matter and particles