Fictional World thread

That too

Cat head-shaped coinage

a terrible world without whites

>tfw no dark-skin elf gf

>a world where flightless bird humanoids live in cavern cities inside mountains beneath the oceans of a world once populated by high tech ancients who built networks of tunnels through the water between the mountains
>the bird people live in a feudal Japanese society
>the oceans are filled with terror predator's

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If I could draw I would draw those white gondla things, that’s mostly why I’d think it would be cool
A world where this man is optimistic and doesn’t hate himself

First signs of history in this world, interesting

Try and find a pic of it cus idk which one you're talking about, but I think it would be rad to hang with my Chupacabra and squatch bros.

Fallout New Vegas but every character has a penis for a head and they all carry Those purple Dildo Bats from Saints Row except for one person.

some catastrophic reality altering event takes place
world becomes a /literally endless/ desert where it is constantly daytime and extremely hot
population is culled by 99.9%
nobody left can truly die until some bizzare criteria is met. they wander aimlessly hoping to find that criteria.
due to how sparse the population is and how massive the plane is, it is very rare that any humans will ever meet unless they were together before the event
bunch of monsters and shit under the sand. while nothing in this world can truly die the monsters are some lovecraft shit and seek to inflict mental or spiritual anguish

basically a slight abstraction of hell

aw that basically destroys all the stuff everyone else came up with

>basically a slight abstraction of hell

These

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Unless its a reality shifted desert area!

maybe 0.1% of the population just got teleported to the plane and everyone else is fine

Never seen them before, but creepy. Wouldn't want to meet them tbqh.

I was imagining an island, but why not? Altered reality "not hell" is real but not here, sorta!

Sounds good to me!

so a recap
>ancient egyptian and mayan terrain, land, and culture
>massive plant fortresses all over the land with randomly shifting walls
>2 dimensional asians with big eyes roam the lands like nomads, hunted by everything else that is living. Oddly enough, the trees have an odd affinity with the nomads, protecting and sheltering them when they are in danger
>trillions of cats dominate the fortresses and make small colony's there, having their own cat currency
>tribal humans are also present along with cryptids, and communicate regularly and have their own society's
>no white skinned people in sight, mostly tanned/black people
>flightless bird humanoids like in caverns inside mountains beneath oceans and on the surface, living in a feudal japanese like society
>tree people live in forests, and coexist with the cats and migrate to fortresses regularly. they are cautious and see chopping trees as taboo
>oceans are filled with cryptids and monsters
>the people of the world are generally happy, but very paranoid
>fallout new vegas like wastelands in random spots with weird people who have hats shaped like dicks
>catastrophic even that makes even more desert and extremely hot climates, killing world population majorly

I’d read that book desu

hell, it could work as a tabletop rpg setting
Actually fuck, lets all think of ideas for how to make this setting and story like a classic tabletop game

>beneath the ground lives a civilization of humanoid beings made entirely of fungus
>they construct vast networks of tunnels all into the earth, irrespective of depth.
>naturally, they cannot see underground, but navigate via echolocation with clicks (yeah, the last of us, shut up)
>they are incredibly tribal, and at any given moment there are occurring wars between factions being waged underneath the ground
>they communicate with pheromones, and distinguish from each other with pheromones too
>when a fungal being joins a faction, the more time they spend around their faction the more they smell like other members
>the life cycle of a fungal being lasts only a couple weeks, seeing as their only source of nourishment is their parent's corpse
>see a few after a being perishes a spore will sprout out of their mouths
>the spore begins growing and then splits into a varying amount of stalks, if it does split at all
>the highest number of splits a spore is able to manage is about 5 or six
>usually though, it's one, two, or thee
>from each stalk, there will grow a small being. a tiny fungal being about 7 inches tall. after a couple hours of growing the being will split off and begin devouring the corpse that spawned it
>if there are not enough nutrients in the corpse, the being will attack and kill its siblings
>the being grows and munches on its' parent until it is around six feet tall, like a human
>the largest ones, who ate their siblings, can get to about 8 feet.
>all beings in this society are asexual

there you go lads. i may add more to it later on.

I was going to ignore the retarded posts about anime and the dickheads personally

oh shit another civilization to add to the desert/amazon wasteland

they are called nightcrawlers dude. there is some real cool "footage" of them on youtube but they are probably all fake

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i dunno, it could be canon or non canon for everybody
if this world was actually a serious setting, I would omit it, but if this was a setting made purely for shitposting, i'd allow it

A kingdom in civil war that was wizards n sheit

What all would we need more? We already have a bunch of races and cultures and settings, but I haven't played much other than like 2 sittings of d&d so I don't know what else would need to be added.

Very creepy, but very nice. Do they attack outsiders on detection or are they placid?

I know, I forgot the name. Even if they’re fake, I really like the idea of them. They’re just so bizzare and simple

well, it won't hurt to make this world a bit bigger
it's up to anons to shape it as they please

Fair enough distinction, if we make it a legit tabletop something-or-other I'd omit the immersion-breaking stuff personally

funny cus they're black

>they don't have to only feed off their parents though
>their lifespan can be prolonged if they kill and eat another fungal being
>this is why they constantly murder eachother
>they are not harmed by sunlight, but have trouble moving around above ground due to the lack of objects to bounce sound off of
>in dense areas however, like forests and jungles, they can get about with ease
>they have hands similar to human's, but with long, curved claws made out of tough, calcified fungus
>they have a mouth too, in the middle of their face. it is a large mouth. they also have large tongues to click loudly with
>having almost no organs at all, nearly their entire body is devoted to muscle, making them physically superior to humans in every way except in intellect
>they will not harm non-fungal creatures unless provoked
>they're real fuckin territorial too

They sound like good grunts for the tabletop game, at least lil young ones do

you know tyranids from 40k? i imagine they would behave a lot like them

Since they are fungal creatures, they do remind me of myconids from d&d

I don't actually but they still sound like a good idea

Let's add
>A huge jungle with more ruins, cities and peoples such as an Amazon women tribe

Can we also have a mountain tribe like the inca?

hey fellas here’s the plan:
ditch the DnD idea, this is now the plot to borderlands 3, featuring even more gun porn

Of course, anything goes unless it's intentionally retarded

Also, I'm gonna add a bit more:
Alongside the real world and the hellish scape that suddenly manifested itself, there's a plane of oceans and sandy beaches that the sentient beings of the world go to if they drown. Washing up on the shores, it's a hunt for survival, and for some a second chance at life. Dark, fish-faced creatures occasionally appear and properly take the lives of the mortals, but are equally mortal themselves. If an unfortunate soul manages to escape, instead of coming back into their natural body, they are instead reincarnated onto a ghostly vessel somewhere on the sea, never to touch land again - if they do, they instead land back in the plain they once escaped from, their new bodies fizzling into sand itself.

would unironically be really fun (but maybe if it actually gets traction beyond this thread we could actually play this one)

Towards the northern parts of the known world, the ruins of the Kingdom of Noridvir are have found to contain chests filled with ancient screws and gears...

This has a nice charm and ring to it. It also happens to tie into well.

oooh, where are you going from this exactly?

>the cats have expanded their empire and are slowly gaining territory from the Avians (edgy name for the weeb Eagles)
>in the southwest sector of the cats' territory, small skirmishes have taken place with a new emerging threat of the fungi
>this marks the first conflict between the feline dynasty and another society in over 380k cosmic cycles
>cats in the northeast have been training after word of the new threat
>laser pointers and scraps of yarn littered everywhere here
>In a small den in the Capitol of the empire a small rogue unit of cats schemes a coup resulting in the current consul of felines being swatted in the face
>relationships between the felines and fortress tree elves have strengthened and a merger of the two nations is being discussed
>meanwhile the weebs have developed a form of terraforming technology that aims to restore fertility in the barren wastelands of the human reserve where recently an albino human has been spotted and been praised for its unusual color seldom seen

oh shit nice
new lore

Explorers dug deep into a series of tunnels found beneath the surface, and came across a... thing. A machine, of some sort, with a long, boxy body and a pair of four apendages on both sides. There seems to be a section for someone to sit in at the top.

Continue?

yes please

I guess he's not gonna

What else does this world need, do you think?

Every scientist, engineer, mathematician, or anyone else who might crack the code was brought to the cave. All that could be found was a small, square-like hole near the seat on the top of the machine. It was discovered, after a several week period, that it was a style of locking mechanism never before seen. With difficulty, the code was cracked, and seven months after the group arrived, the machine hummed to life. The once-thought completely smooth stone now had a harsh blue light poring from dips that seemed to have not been there before.

LORE
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>Year is 2139
backstory
>100 years after small nuclear war.
>America split into 2 nations, the Peoples Union of Dixie (PUD) and the United States of America.
>Both sides back by other world powers.
>The PUD is allied the South American Union (SAU) and the Mexican States (MS)m forming the Grand International
>The USA is allied with the British Empire and the French Kingdom, forming the New Entente
>On May 10th, 2132 The US and the PUD had a skirmish in Nashville, TN
>The skirmish had lead to a full scale civil war by the end of the night
>The SAU seized several French and British forts in the Caribbean
>The PUD swept through North Carolina,Kentucky and Missouri
>in the winter of 2133 The US won a decisive battle at Kansas city that.
>The PUD went in full retreat back to their former border.
>The US lost its momentum when they reached the PUD capital, Atlanta in
>The Treaty of Richmond was signed on July 4th, 2134
>The Grand International and the New Entente has been locked in a cold war for the past 5
>July 10th 2139
>The USS Windfall is sank while on an annual patrol on the East coast
>The PUD denies all responsibility
>The US doesn't buy it
>A massive diplomatic nightmare follow between the International and the Entente
>September 2139
>Chairman Doug Augsborne of the PUD is assassinated
>The PUD blames it on the USA
>The following day the US border town of Durham was bombed by the PUD
>The PUD and the US go to war, leading to what would become the largest and most deadly conflict to face The western hemisphere after the Nuclear war 100 years prior.

Im not good at story telling but I thought Id give it a try
pic related is an overly simplified map

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Holy shit I'm a retard
didn't read the "all of it is mashed together shit"

Ah don’t worry I’m sure like half of us didn’t

Bionicles were the shit, my man

This thread rules. I'd love to draw up stuff, but it's 2am here, so I'll pop on Krita if we're still going in the morning.

just came back to the thread to find a man or woman of impeccable taste

idk what Krita is but I'm glad this thread got so much good stuff. I'll try and bump it when I wake up if it's still up.

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OP asked for a fictional world

>Planet Earth, circa 2500
>Everything worth doing is automated
>Only 2 people left alive
>Boy and Girl
>Both too addicted to VR to have kids
>Robots' entire point of existence is to continue human species
>However, they can't rape/harm humans
>So super AI with all of human knowledge must convince these two to embrace the real world and continue humanity
It would be a scifi novel which uses the narrative to critique antinatalism and escapism. It would also focus on finding purpose in a world where we aren't necessary.

The sky progressively goes red and dark as days go by. Every day the erosion gets quicker until everything collapses to dust as an ultimate finale.

Sounds nice even if incompatible with the rest of the thread. I would enjoy reading that novel.

But as long as a single grandfather clock in a parallel plane of time and gears gets rewound the red doesn't finish and start again every week or so.

(pls no kill our world)

Bump before bed, hopefully see y'all tomorrow

I've always liked the idea of a medieval fantasy setting where magic was a natural force rather than a divine one

How would you want it to be natural as opposed to divine? D&D has the Weave alongside divine forces. What are you looking for in it?

Also bumping because morning

Bumpin’ cause this is my favorite thread in a very long time

isn't that just new zealand

you got the political shit, but what's culture? the aesthetics of the time?

Nuked to shit I suppose

that's not an answer, buckeroo. bad storytelling if you only see your world through a map.

Oh no I’m not the OP

Ancient war machines from civilizations long past

I know you aren't, I'm just pointing this out for you, nerdo

You're gonna make me blush

Well technically a story can be told through a sterile, war-like POV and it could be interesting all the same.

Are they active? Destroyed? Hostile? Passive? The ancient civilization that has been hinted at so far itt doesn't have a lot so be as creative as you like

I kind of pictured them as mostly broken down with a few dozen left active. I’d think the last remaining few are hostile. Or, better yet: they were supposed to protect a country, and yet they turn against their creators and ruin the place

Por que no los dos? I actually like it rn, they seem like late-game bosses or something, or they have some villain of a story controlling one. Are they fully mechanical or do they use magic (from ) to work?

I was thinking fully mechanical, I don’t thing magical war machines would shut down. Maybe the civilization they came from was too far from a ‘magic well’ or some shit so they relied far more heavily on technology than anyone else
I’m just spitballing ideas rn

Hmmmmm I was thinking totally mechanical too. How about magic just manifested into the world and that was what caused the ancient civilization to collapse in the first place? Maybe it has to do with those parallel dimensions earlier in the thread.

oh fugg
even more stuff
How are we going to fit the new stuff in?

All of it except the alt-earth stuff fits neatly into the existing world imo

kewl
We still haven't given a name for our world though

How about something to do with the fact that it has so many sources? Surface-level depth in the name maybe. "Multiplica" or "Confluencia" or something.

confluencia sounds really good
Lets go with that

Also I'm going to throw some names out, feel free to veto:
egyptian cat people that work with the cats: Basti
Mayan cat people: Jagwi
bird people: Baachur
Hellscape: Radia
Fungal people: Kordyans
amazon women tribe (I imagine them as a diff species like giants): Amazians
inca mountain people (again if they're diff): Sherpans
ocean plane: Jonesa
Time/gear plane: Dia

Sounds good to me, plus we can always change it later

This is such a fun thread. I hope a new one starts once this one is saged

Lemme expand upon my ideas earlier
>the great jungle splits the desert continent in half in terms of communication.
The safest way through the jungle is along a mountain range and plateaus within it. A small inca like Empire controls these passageways
>throughout the jungle, many mutated beasts exist. These were thought to have spawned from an ancient civilization capable of powerful magic. Their powerful magical relics are in many ruins hidden inside the great jungle. Expeditions are sent in to recover such artifacts and knowledge but aren't always lucky.
> tribes of Amazon are the only ones who are able to survive, they have become far larger and stronger than normal humans.

There’s so much conflicting yet complimentary tech/magic/other worlds it’s starting to feel like a mod pack

>highly technologic world dies and everything gets buried under the rock for thousands of years
>new life and humans live now
>primitive humans though

>the junk is rare on the surface but when humans see it use it wor weaponery & stuff

>Technology is seen as sacred and devices (like lightbulbs, betteries, speakers) are divine. >Only few people really know how to produce these devices with junk, they're seen as wise shamans or smth

I like it

It almost feels like a real fantasy world lol

I like to think that maybe only humans feel this way or something, like the cryptids and tree people might not care at all, and some other races might think it's heresy or just junk. Or maybe all of them can think diff things. I like it though. Tech shamans is sick tbqh

YOOO I FUCKING LOVED BIONICLE AS A KID

write a book

bump

>orbiting moon is actually an ancient extraterrestrial fortress covered in rock
>has been "abandoned" since pre-historic times
>is the source of tons of religious superstitious stories and legends though people just consider it a moon with magical powers and not a giant ball of technology
>at random discharges massive bolts of lightning onto the planet along the equator, creating a scar circumventing the entire planet over the course of aeons
>fortress used to be inhabited by now long-dead zealots who escaped religious persecution from the far ends of the galaxy and established a fascist theocracy within the winding, labyrinthine corridors of the "moon"
>an abandoned mega city of technology and space-magic spans across the entire moon's underground
>immortal mindless zombies addicted to magic roam the pitch black corridors endlessly, sucking whatever magic and electricity's left of the fortress
>unbeknownst to the people on the planet below, the "zombies" sucking magic from the "moon" is steadily making the moon inch closer to the planet and within no more than a 1000 years, the moon is going to collide with the planet
>obscure religious sects on the planet want to go to the moon and control its lightning and magic, but even they don't know the true reality of what lies beneath the moon's surface

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