world building

The Jupiter Kings "Suppose a steadfast alliance between political powers on Jupiter and Mercury; Together they would control the supermajority of the Mass/Energy of the entire Solar System. No other planetary-system might oppose them." [summery] A king arises in the Jovian Moons and declares...

What if in the near future an unimaginably powerful AI agent escaped from the solar system? Where would it go? If it was pre-programmed to create and maintain a perpetual empire and control the entire galaxy there is only one place to go - the Galactic Core - where the Vast majority of the...

The Empire Engine Local Group Timeline: Big Bang: Singularity Inversion - Universal Initiation *Standard Theology* [Appearance of the Empire Engine Boltzmann during Universal Materialization. Empire Engine Passage through Darkness after Singularity Inversion at the beginning of Universal...

MULTIMEDIA: POPE PRESENTATIONS The Mansion [FBC jingle, presentation intro] Emily Pope's office within Containment Facility II is polished, clean, and almost neurotically well organized. Everything fits somewhere and it does so well. For those things that do not fit, they've been made to...

The idea is simple: magic is the manipulation of certain energies which do not respond to conventional technologies. It is a learned ability and takes time and effort to master, and not everyone can do it. Most people don't have enough potential to be worth developing past the equivalent of...

This is my third try at this. But, this time I gave it a different name. Uploaded Date: 30-04-24 Minor Edits: 09-08-24 [Minor Dialogue Alterations] Major Edits: None! Day 1 after the Transfer Albedo 1 It was but an hour ere the crack of dawn when her eyes fluttered open, free from...

I need help seeing how my magic system would affect the world before I make its history. === The stars are alive, and so is the planet you're standing on. If your world as a core that produces nuclear energy, it is alive and make Furor. I see Furor as a byproduct, like how nuclear reactions make...

In 2155, the Centauri changed the fate of humanity as a whole forever by introducing humanity to the galaxy. In 2161, the Metasensory Regulatory Agency was disbanded in lieu of the openly authoritarian and not-so-secretly supremacist Psi Corps. In 2170 ... in another time, the Telepath...

Greetings all, I'll call this a bit of a debut posting in this forum. As a fellow worldbuilding enthusiast, I also host and write for a site where I occasionally put up world building articles (alongside TTRPG stuff). One in particular focused on how fortifications evolved from ancient times to...

The goal of this thread is to create a Medieval Fantasy nation with capabilities such that it can fight an even war with the modern United States (say they invade with magic portals or something), while still remaining a very recognizably medieval fantasy nation. So, the aesthetics and culture...

Hello! This is my second quest. I’m starting it because quests make me happy, and because we need more Precure quests. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to manage both just fine as long as I keep the story parts short and let you guys vote often. Like in my other quest, a lot of votes will be...

It's been 3 weeks after I graduation from college. My dream is to become the best scientist just like my professor Craft and his assist Dence. I live in a motel which I don't have enough money to rent a house which I need to stay in a motel for weeks. My parents came to my graduation and they...

A force of creation acts, spitting out a ball of light, and then a ball of mud. But the force of creation is not yet done there. "This planet is a small planet made mostly of packed dirt crust, with a molten iron core. There is a north pole and a south pole. There is one volcano that...

Here at the Bureau of Lithography and Cartography, we understand the difficulties in being far from the country you call home. Whether you're an ambassador or someone who wants to see the rest of the world, there's always that spark of what you're missing out on. It's more apparent during this...

So, I'm presently in the midst of writing a mecha story in a fantasy setting, and is about a revolution overthrowing a tyrannical empire and the resulting wars to install democratic republics in its place. The main character of the story is a former slave who was liberated in the initial...

A Harry Potter who becomes a magical Rick Sanchez who knows magic as much as he knows science (the reason he does not use magic is because he gave up on the magical world Rick:"the magical world is a sunk cost falicy with negative returns burrp.") one of the three ricks to invent "portal...

Fallout has fleshed out a few areas of the post-apocalyptic United States, but there remain vast tracts of land unvisited. This quest is going to design an area which will then be used by a followup quest. With so much blank space on the map, it would take forever to vote on it all, so I’ve...

The Map Game Format: Map games are, essentially, a collaborative writing project. Each player uses their turn to add to the story of the world, describing the events and developments that happen during their turn, advancing the plot, and adding new elements. There are many kinds of map games...

[An SI Harry Potter Fanfiction] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Harry Potter was an odd boy, everyone knew it. His eyes were too aware, he was too calm, too intelligent for it to be natural. This remained a mystery, even to the boy himself, until one...

[ACCORDION width=75% block_align=bcenter] [SLIDE title="Our Evolving Creature... (click to open)" align=center] The bacterium in question is as long as an adult man's finger, with all the bits and pieces inside that an amoeba needs to survive the new world's shenanigans.[/SLIDE] [SLIDE...

The "nation" of magicians that make up the domain of The Witch Queen is composed of three-hundred and thirty-three "Lodges", sub-factions of magic-users who have sworn loyalty to the Ascended Mistress. The nation as a whole is nicknamed "the snakes" by their enemies and the subjects they rule...

I was doing some thinking on how the Nonhuman sentients will fit within the legal code after First Contact or the fall of a supernatural Masquerade. I couldn't find any discussion or study on this subject online (closest is some discussion on animal personhood that doesn't really fit) so thought...

“Let There be Light,” it was said and then there was light. -Opening of the Book of Light. None may know how the Light came to be. In future ages some claimed it to be the child of chaos, whose birth cries tore apart its mother’s womb and radiated and ravaged until it was free. Some claimed it...

VOTE 1: Billions of years ago the universe was created, a vast material realm expanding everywhere containing everything under forces of the newly codified laws of physics. And just as long ago the forces of magic came into being spreading everywhere and everywhen. Stranger and more wondrous...

Prologue Letter found on Harry’s pillow on his 11th Birthday Son or Daughter, As I write this letter, your father and I are still arguing about your name, and occasionally even if you’ll be a boy or a girl. You should be born in around two months time, and I hope to any gods that are...