Herd’s Worldbuilding

Here be miscellaneous world building of mine and resources from others.

[herdsworldbuilding]

Omegaverse and Historical Fashion

Alright so this post is 100% going to get flagged by tumblr as mature content.

This is a post about what historical fashion might look like in an Omegaverse setting. I find Omegaverse fascinating from a world building perspective but this particular exorcise came about by me asking myself: would a masculine omega wear a skirt?

That was of course quickly followed by the question if a feminine Alpha would wear a skirt or if they would wear pants.

I then decided to think about what fashion in an omegaverse world would have looked like for each designation (Alpha, Beta, Omega) and persuasion (feminine v masculine)

Here are some of the questions I asked myself leading into this endeavor.

• Do O-masc and A-fem clothing mix masc&fem expressions or do they have a unique style of clothing for thier particular designation/persuasion or is there no different style from what is normal for their persuasion?

• Are Betas seen as the baseline for what is Fem/Masc fashion or are they seen as a Gender neutral in fashion?

• How have Historical rites of passage involving clothing changed? Ie. The process of “breaching” a child in western tradition.

• if scents are particularly strong/potent are gloves/long sleeves/collars/ruffs/scarves worn to cover these areas/dull scent

—historical scent blockers?

—perfume? cologne?

My conclusion for this was originally that A-fem do not tend to wear dresses, instead opting for more feminine versions of masc garment for the time or they will wear skirts. On the other hand O-masc historically do wear dresses but are more likely to wear skirts.

Then of course I decided to put all of this into practice by modeling it out.

Though I did run into an issue. That is that every Omegaverse is different. Each creation unique to the person who created it. Though there are broad strokes similarities it is the details that really make the difference. If there is one thing I’ve learned about fashion history it’s “fashion is not an island”

Thus I make some assumptions about Omegaverse. My assumptions are that A-Fem occupies a similar role to that of B-masc. seen as overseeing matrons, while remaining subservient to A-masc. though this is nuanced depending on the era and place being represented. Another assumption that is made is that all designations have pheromones and that the pheromones of Betas are the weakest and that Betas are less effected by the pheromones of Alphas and Omegas.

Now I chose eras at more or less random. Though did stick to eras which have a lot of records for what they wore and where a dominant culture at the time.

I also make the assumption that all the individuals I’m depicting are rather well off

Ancient Minoan& Classical Greek

The Minoan and Classical Greek periods is an interesting time to compare as it is believed that the Minoans may have been matriarchal but that is something that is difficult to get a definitive awnser on. The Greek on the other hand are highly patriarchal. Here I make the assumption that matriarchal collates to Omegas having the most social power. This makes it interesting to compare the two. I did depart for a while if Betas should be the ones with the power, but after thinking it over and realizing that Classical Greece is the model for “western civilization” the Alphas get to rule.

14th century British & 16th century Ming China

Modesty was something I needed to take into account when depicting the “middle ages” especially for the upper classes. More records of their clothing survived compared to those of the lower classes. Medieval Europe was ruled by the church. I assume that sent glands would be covered for all genders. With a bit more permitance of uncovering them for Betas and A-mascs. Though I could also see some pice of clothing similar to a Codpiece developing as well.

Had some trouble finding references for Ming Dynasty China. Like with medieval England I assumed that coverage of glands is preferred. With Omegas wearing long sleeves and high closed coat collars. Meanwhile Alphas have high collar as well but their coats are not quite as restrictive around the neck. Arm gaurds or long sleeves are also preferable to help contain scents. Ideas around elegance and refinement likely make excessive scenting obscene.

17th century American Pilgrims

These where my first model, because of that they are on my scratch sheet of ideas and brainstorming. The pilgrims had very ridged gender roles so it is reflected in their clothing. Here I assume that A-fem’s clothing is relatively masculine but looser fitting as to dull any more feminine features with thier pants reaching their ankles. Modestly and humility are key. A-masc wear larger ruff/collar than B-masc to help dull pheromones. A-fem act as A-masc’s right hand man in controlling their community. They performed a lot of “masc” physical labor and not a lot of domestic labor. O-masc have feminine clothes with Masc signifiers, either wearing skirts of what is essentially a pantsuit. Likely do domestic labor.

18th Century French and Japanese (Edo)

I specifically chose Edo Japan because it was largely free from western influences in thier clothing until in 1850s America forcefully opened japans borders to foreigners and ushered in the meji era. I did think that hair might be a very important signifier on designation. As the style and cutting of hair was a relatively big deal in edo Japan, with the whole forelock thing for young boys and so on and so forth… anyways that results in A-fem and O-masc shaving parts of their hair in very specific manner. Having hair be a bigger indicator of gender than clothes.

Both A-fem and O-masc are wearing pants. That said the A-fem is wearing a sort of split skirt or drag to give a bigger shillhuet while the O-masc wears a long robe with more “soft” details. Though it’s hard to tell the O-fem is wearing more clothing than the B-fem. At this point in time everyone regardless of genders wear gloves.

19th century England and Rococo

Not quite the Victorian era not quite the Edwardian era. Once again I ask: who wears pants? In this case both A-fem and O-masc are allowed to be seen in pants in polite company but these pants are of a rather different cut then the more masculine style worn by A-masc and B-masc. At the same time it would also be appropriate for A-fem and O-masc to wear skirts. Though it’s hard would be more common for a O-masc to wear a skirt than an A-fem.

I struggled fitting everyone on the page with recoco fashion. I can imagine that in the late 1600s and the 1700s when necklines start dropping was when a separate pice of clothing acting as a collar really became a thing. At the very least for Omegas. That bit of modesty might have been seen as less important for Alphas and completely ignored for Betas.

1930s & 1950s America.

The most modern clothing I will be exploring. Another thing to consider is who’s body shillhuet is idealized. IRL one can think of the dichotomy between time periods (for fems) when skinny or when curvy is in fashion. In the 1920-30s I could see the Beta Body types being more sought after while in the previous generation there was a preference for an hourglass figure and the 1950s saw an interest in bombshell beauty.

Here’s another question that affects fashion. Who is expected to fight in war? That’s probably going to depend on what is seen as necessary/a hindrance for a war effort. This question also primarily applies to A-fem and O-masc. would either or neither or both be expected on the front lines or would they be expected to fill some other role on a battlefield such as messengers or war doctors or would they be expected to stay home and gaurd there? On another note I can see gloves and collars for omegas staying popular/proper until the late 1950s early 60s. As well as gloves for Alphas.

Do it yourself

Now with all that said here is a list of things you may want to consider if you yourself are looking to spice up clothing for whatever Omegaverse project you persue?

• how dose each designation wear their hair.

— is gender identity more determined by persuasion or by designation? Or are they equally important?

• undergarments: for support, hygiene, modesty, and possibly even restriction.

• what is and is not considered prudish or provocative.

• are different designations expected to wear different things?

• who are traditionally the weavers of cloth?

• who stears fashion?

• what kinds of fashions are pushed as typical of what gender(s)?

• Queers? What would be considered cross dressing?

• How do class differences affect what is worn by different genders?

• Do clothes reflect social roles?

• is covering/exposing scent glands seen as suggestive? Are certain designations expected to cover them while others are not?

• what is or is not modest?

Ect. I definitely have not thought of everything.

[beemovieerotica]

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

[herdsworldbuilding]

Aphran Hair

It is a bit funny that I'm posting this bit of information on the Aphran before I actually post the info on my lesbian space lizards and their symbiotic space horses.

Aphran Hair

Transcript of lore below.

The Aphran as a species that lives on a primarily arid desert planet need to conserve as much water as they can. In order to do this they not only store it in their body as nutrients in fat pads (why this reptile-like species possess "boobs" but also store it in what humans recognize as "hair"

This hair is actually a specialized tissue that is capable of storing vast amounts of water. Expanding and contracting at the presence of water. The individual storage buds are connected to a hollow tube that has small (and relatively weak) valves in it that can control the water flow and helps prevent water loss if lower sections of the strand is damage.

Furthermore the buds are covered in a waxy coat to help prevent water loss to evaporation. Despite these adaptations is still partly prone to water loss, Thus the Aphran tend to culturally wear headdresses and hats to further lessen the effects of water loss.

When hydrated the "hair" is capable of aiding in temperature regulation. on the other hand is prone to freezing and breaking when exposed to below freezing temperatures for extended periods of time. During nights when the temperature can dip well below freezing the waxy coat will prevent the body from loosening too much heat. Though their use of tents of burying themselves in the sand to sleep also tends to aid in this.

Some Aphran cut and style their hair, but due to its importance in regulating their body temperature they tend to keep it long. Though just like how wearing eyeshadow and other paints is popular so is styling the hair in certain parts of the world and in certain cultures.

Aphran have thick and long eyelashes in order to help keep particle (such as sand from Rati's frequent sandstorms) out of their eyes. The Aphran who have long hived on the grasslands and shrublands approaching Rati's scattered oceans have shorter and thinner eyelashes on average than their desert dwelling sisters.

When drinking water is not available an Aphran may be seen "chewing" or "sucking" on her hair. She is extracting the water stored in her hair. Though not seen here the Aphran have small organs that run from the base of their neck to the back of where a human ear would be that allow them to extract small amounts of moisture from the air, but these organs are far less developed than the are on some of the other species related to them.

[herdsworldbuilding]

Aliens. These are old art pieces of Aliens I have created.

Up top we have the Symbiotic creatures of the Lasik and the Aphran. Their home world is overwhelmingly a desert. Despite the Aphran looking very mammalian they are not mammals. They are also all mor or less Female. The relationship between the Lasik and the Aphran is very complex and differentiates between different groups and cultures.

Diurnil, are a species designed after a drawing I once saw. They are the main predator of Snoorks.

Exalatiol like the Lasik and Aphran they also live on a highly decertified planet. their tails store the majority of the lipids in their body kind of like a camel's hump. They are reptilian-like and loosely inspired by the Tetramand from Ben Ten, very loosely.

Daiblern are jawless humanoid mammalian-like creatures, jaws like we know them did not evolve on their planet. Their planet has a lot of Mediterranean like climates, as the majority of the planet is covered in oceans. though there are plenty of deserts, beautiful yet dry forests and chilly and rainy mountains. They are one of the more humanoid (not anthropomorphised) aliens I have.

Jurona are another humanoid species, they have a particularly large brain and their "tail" is not located at the base of the spine instead is located at the base of their neck. this is common for a large number of species on their planet. Some of them have psychic abilities. Their society is very sexist. Its a matriarchal society.

Snoorks! snorks have a wide array of physical attributes and this is what some of them are. Snoorks are not particularly intelligent, but they are not dumb. its common for them to be illegally poached from their home planet and sold as exotic pets.

[herdsworldbuilding]

A Didgital Drawing of creatures called Fellen.

They are from one of my world building projects

One that is still currently called “heroes of stone”

Fellen are a bit of the odd ones out among the species of the world as they are one of the two groups that are incapable of doing magic. Though they do absorb it.

They are also the most diverse species of the world’s people.

Here we have five individuals on break from their…work.

There are four races of Fellen here.

(From right to left)

-nemonian (lion): cat-like Fellen with large manes. When they’ve absorbed magic their skin becomes invulnerable.

-kikimora: a chicken like Fellen, there are two variants, one with horns and one without. The one with horns have a fiery venom. When they absorb magic they become telekinetic.

-Shuck (also the white one below): dog-like with sensitive hearing, sense of smell and  antenna that can detect shifts in vibrations, the weather or even blood pressure and other such things in other people. When exposed to magic they can see glimpses of things, such as the future, people’s emotions and intentions or the past.

-Lederic: black feathered chicken-like creatures. When they are drain magic they are able to manipulate the dreams and nightmares of people.

[herdsworldbuilding]

Mirth and Myth.

Sometimes I start projects by Accident. This project is a prime Example.

Of Mirth and Myth is a side project I started regarding some loosely mentioned historical characters in a book I was playing around with in writing called “compass to the stars”

Compass to the stars follows the adventures of the crew of the StarWeaver. As they foil a conspiracy.

It’s a mostly lighthearted adventure story with some …interesting, aspects around every so often.

(Perhaps some more on that some other time)

Mirth and Myth is not that.

Mirth and myth follows the Misadventures of the three Darknesses, the first three wizards of the new age and the founders of the wizarding schools that exist in the world of compass to the stars.

It’s a loosely 1950s inspired setting, where relatively isolated communities thrive in synthetic perfection. Heavily influenced by American propaganda and advertising from that era. Everyone has their place in a perfect society and everything is perfec always (totally nothing sinister whatsoever, no ignore the girls going missing or the creeping darkness of the wastelands encroaching every day)

Mirth and myth (unlike star compass) takes place ~80 years after the apocalypse… might have forgotten to mention that the story is post apocalyptic. Not too much of an issue in star compass as it takes place roughly 400 years after the apocalypse. So umm yha, the apocalypse happened, but life goes on. People rebuild, people live and learn, people move on and hold grudges, and people pretends that the slow corruption taking over the world is not happening and has not been happening since the apocalypse.

These are Concept sketches of the three focus characters in Of Mirth and Myth.

Morgana,Mordred, and Merlin.

Each of these characters fall into their own roll and social group that they hang out with.

Morgana the Socialite:

-Miss prima-donna perfect

-the popular girl in school. She’s got it all, the bod, the bling, the grades, the boy. She also has a terrible secret and a penchant for homicide.

-she’s cheating on her boyfriend but also is only dating him to keep up appearances.

-Corruption of her soul, water and light: she is later associated with dragons.

Mordred the Outcast:

- they are the Greaser of the three, but somehow the least likely to actively cause trouble.

-They wanted to be a doctor until a “medical problem” forced them to be shut away from public eye by their parents. They sneak out and hang out with a gang, but otherwise thier only contact of the outside world are visits from their childhood friends Morgana and Merlin.

- the flowers that are in their hair grow there naturally and at sort of painful to remove.

-their designe is the one that stays least consistent and it’s sort of frustrating.

-corruption of Body, Darkness and Plants: eventually associated with Unicorns (aka murder horses)

Merlin the Misfit:

-he acts as the middle of the two extremes. Morgana perfectly fitting in, Mordred entirely outcast beyond the good will of their parents. Merlin sort of floats In the middle. Ostracized for being weird and different but not different enough to be a threat.

-he is relatively level headed for a while… but sort of goes off the deep end at some point, becoming known as The fire Devil.

-Coruption of mind, fire and air, he is a friend to the Phoenix.

[nonetoon]

[nonetoon]

I made this in reference to comic/game stuff but I’m glad to see this one’s going over well with all the writers

[sarroora]

Reblog to give your followers and mutuals the strength to continue

[valtsv]

the most important question you can ask yourself when designing a magic system in fiction is "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened"

[valtsv]

your first priority when developing a magic system should be to make it as cool as possible. your second priority should be making the audience sick to their stomach.

[herdsworldbuilding]

City Grime.

so world building a city.

It’s a complicated subject, involving things of how the city came to be, who made it and why? Where is it located and why is it located there? A city trends to thrive on trade or defense. Where dose the city get it’s food and water and where dose it’s waste go? Who holds the power, who are its people? what shapes it’s streets? Is it planed down or did it grow naturally over time? These are all good things to ask about world building a city… but that’s not what this is about.

I’m here to ask about some small scale things you can ask yourself about these cites. 

Specifically about Graffiti

- what is graffiti in the city like?  cities have a lot of graffiti, sometimes its small, sometimes its rare, in some places graffiti mainly takes the form of writing. in other places in the form of drawings.

Is graffiti big and bold or is it small and intimate? Is it both? Is it generally found out in the air or indoors? Graffiti out in allies and on walls vs the small stuff you find in bathroom stalls, school desks and on benches.

what sort of writing is favored? is it short phrases, “like Gorgeio was here.”  is it Tags (small words or names written on objects to claim something in some sort of competition, used by individuals or groups, to show territory or just to show off by getting them in the oddest places.) or perhaps graffiti is away to spread news about something, a bit like how graffiti in Pompeii was used. is grafiety used as markers and cyphers for people in the know?

Do people use graffiti to communicate in an indirect manner?

Think phone numbers written on toilet doors.

Is graffiti used as a more direct form of communication? Such as hobo signs that where used to tell eachother where it was safe to rest, or perhaps thieves guilds to quietly signal to eachother where a target or safe house is. Or perhaps it’s used by magic users for instructions or tests or pointing out the local supernatural hot spot. or wandering cultures telling eachother stories and warnings about the city they are passing through or even as sighn posts that only they can read. Like trail trees.

street art.

stickers, posters, and flyers.

Sometimes more physical things like a wall of gum, flags, shoes hung up places, necklaces strung up high where no one can easily reach them or locks chained to bridges.

I have even heard of small constructions; like fairy or mouse doors and little statues glued to trash cans or in cracks in the wall.

It can be a drawing and paintings or even something more physical like scraps of cloth tide to poles, yarn woven around trees or stickers slapped onto trashcans and signs.

In one place I have lived most graffiti is in the form of spray painted tags on everything and stickers. While in another place tags are rare as the buildings are painted with murals and art and trees with knitting tied around the branches. In another place most of the buildings where wood so graffiti was carved into it.

What kind of things are often drawn? What imagery do people use?

Graffiti will look different depending on what era of history it is, but it will still be around. It might be smaller in earlier time periods.

Is all the graffiti in this city you are building visual? Perhaps some of it is auditory, like wind chimes in a park, or poles carved to whistle as the wind blows through it, or perhaps it invokes a sense of smell or touch? Is the graffiti only able to be sensed or seen by the magical?

-what dose your city smell like? Do different districts in the city have different smells?

-what dose your city sound like? Is it mostly quiet humming of conversation and rustling of leaves, is it car horns and loud construction, is it water lapping on brigades and electricity buzzing through wires. Is it street musicians and local bird? Are some areas of the city different in sound pollution and how dose that contribute to graffiti?

Dose a certain kind of graffiti have a certain kind of well known meaning? Like initials carved into a tree surrounded by a heart, meaning romantic or sensual love.

- is there a code of conduct for graffiti? 

note that I am far from an expert in graffiti, I know like shiltz about it. im simply going off my observations.

I know that there is a loose hierarchy of tags.

If you can’t outdo it don’t tag over it, and if it is a memorial then do not tag over it. These guidelines are not enforced in the same way everywhere, but breaking them will get the other people that tag to come after your tags with a vengeance.

Or at least that’s what I have heard…

Another guideline that might exist is what can and cannot be tagged.

Street signs, utility walls, underpasses, abandoned buildings, train cars are free game.

While things like windows, cars and residential homes are often off limits (though I have seen plenty of exceptions to this too)

Trees and natural rocks seem to me a hit of miss on if they are in limits or off limits. - how dose the city deal with graffiti? 

Do they paint over it? Wash it away? Leave it to be.

Is it the city or private residents who deal with it? Dose the city even think it worth dealing with or do they let it alone?

Are there certain things that get graffiti more than other thing? Such as benches, utility boxes, lampposts, under bridges or one specific wall.

Dose the city do something to prevent this graffiti such as have anti graffiti seats in tram and rail carts.

If a city doesn’t have graffiti why is that? Are punishments so harsh that no one dares or are things allowed elsewhere so no one bothers or is it covered up as soon as it’s thrown up?

Dose the city install public works of art? And if so for what purpose? Public art is usually political in some form or another, be it from a statue to commemorate some historical event or another statue to be an ego bust to a certain people in political power or as a pice to try appease one group or another. It can also be used to hide things that the city dose not want it’s citizens paying attention too. Either in a benign way such as hiding vents or utility wires from view or more malicious things like Anti-vagrancy architecture hidden as “art”.

Dose the city encourage certain kinds of graffiti in certain places. Think street art vs graffiti Tags. Or the before mention news walls in Pompeii.

Is some graffiti seen as vulgar while other kinds of graffiti are tolerable or even encouraged?

What is the legal punishment for graffiti, if any?

Is some graffiti seasonal? Such as graffiti that occurs during certain festivals. For example beads caught in things after Mardi Gras or toilet paper during Halloween.

Do cities see vandalism in the same light as graffiti or are they viewed in a different way?

Is morality ascribed to graffiti? Is it seen as a symbol the degradation of civilization or is it just an active that is seen as fun? Is it something in between?

- how dose the graffiti interact with the citizens?

Is graffiti used in political messaging? Who in your world or city tends to use it that way?

Dose graffiti contain hate speech? Are there other groups who go around covering up the other groups messaging?

What groups tend to make what certain graffiti and who is the other group that tries to cover it up? Is it a gang? A secret society? A political activist group? A cult? Or just a group of petty artist trying to one up each-other?

Dose advertisement interact with graffiti? In example posters that advertise an event or painted art and words on a cross walk advertising a local concert.

Do people steal posters or graffiti when they can? Are there collectors of graffiti or is it seen as only something vulgar?

For example Alphonse mucha the most recognizable artist in the art nouveau movement did a lot of work in advertising. The main form his advertisement took was posters. I have heard that these posters where stollen at such a high rate it was difficult to actually get the advertisement out… though that may have been for an other artist. I also know some people who steal advertisement posters.

Are there any famous graffiti artists or is it an anonymous work for fear of harsh legal action.

How much attention do the average person walking the street notice the graffiti or pay attention too it?

Is there a specific pice or tag that everyone in the city knows about or is especially well known for one reason or another. Like wings painted on a city wall.

Is there a certain graffiti that is found in multiple cities or even travels to multiple countries.

In example; Kilroy was here, a small pice of ww2 graffiti that is still making its was across the world.

(I will not be confirming or denying if I have added to the collections of world wide Kilroys)

Is there graffiti that a person from one city in your setting wouldn’t recognize as graffiti if they traveled to another city?

Are there certain areas of the city that has more graffiti than others? Is there a city district know for its murals or a famous ally or street. Or something seen as a curiosity like the island of dolls in Mexico City.

Is there a certain group of people in your world known for a specific type of graffiti? If so why do they make this graffiti?

Is there religious graffiti? Either invoking or dameing one group or another?

Is religious motifs used in graffiti?

Is there graffiti involving superstitions?

For example (blue) bottles hung up in order to trap spirits, copper coins wedged into wood to ward against good luck. Pices of paper tacked to walls or posts with the wishes of the citizens.

What about public memorials? Do people make small plaques or remembrance? Do people create make-shift shrines? Have candle lit vigils? Or paint a mural? Do different communities in the city grive different ways?

How do the different cultures of your world, especially those living in any given city influences the kinds of graffiti found there? Do the patterns and styles of art change depending on what culture is more dominant in any given area of the city?

What kind of vibe dose the cities graffiti give? Is it chill and relaxed? Is it rebellious and provocative? Is it artistic and hopefully? Is it desperate and territorial? Hostile and hateful? Helpful and fun? Dose the over all vide of the graffiti change from one city district to another or is the city rather harmonious in its cloterr?

After all a sticker for a favored sports team slapped on a sighn post has a very different vibe from a sigh post littered with bullet holes.

-is there magical graffiti?

If you have a magic system, would people use it to make graffiti? Would there be something unique about graffiti made using the magic system?

Is there enchanted graffiti that changes and moves? Graffiti that looks different for everyone who sees it? Paintings of laughing women, chalk fish that swim on sidewalks or tags that translate themselves into many languages?

Can graffiti be organic in nature? Living pods and biological bits used as gag inducing decoration or bones hung up carved in runes? Sculpture made of feathers and fur.

Are magic users used to get rid of graffiti? Or are they the ones who make the most graffiti?

Is it used as protective wards? As a way to put a curse on someone?

And so much more!

As I mentioned I am no expert in graffiti, I don’t even know a lot about it.

But I hope I could at least make you consider about thinking of the very small details of your world, the slight and insignificant.

[what-even-is-thiss]

All those videos that are like “Why is this big area of this country uninhabited???” always have five reasons it might be.

It’s really cold

It’s really hot

Big mountains are hard to build on

No water and humans generally need that

All four of the above all at once

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Why is the population of Spain almost all concentrated in these little areas?”

Well it’s probably the mountains innit

“Why does most of Russia live on the west side of the country?”

Well it’s probably the freezing cold winters and boiling hot summers innit

“Why does most of China live east of this line?”

Here there be water, my friends.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Many great societies have managed a living in some of the less habitable parts of the planet but they have generally been hardy and small in number while the rest of us have stuck to the mostly temperate river areas.

Yes there’s ways to get water in the Sahara desert and ways to get warm in the Arctic but most people generally prefer flat areas with livable temperatures and lots of water.

Like that’s why the American west was mostly sparsely populated until relatively recently. The fact that there’s so many of us there now is frankly a result of the hubristic technology that is the air conditioner.

[hollowedskin]

"why does everyone live on the east coast of Australia and hardly anywhere else" it's the only place it rains mate.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Australia is like three habitable zones all surrounded by ocean on one side and a desert on the other. And I think there’s lizards somewhere around there as well.

[herdsworldbuilding]

A good explanation of it

Also people need to stop going to the Midwest. It may not seem like it on a glance but the place is running out of water. (Slowly but unsustainable farming practices and population increase is speeding up the process.)

When a region that normally would only have a small population or no population has a lot of people living there you might have to ask how? How they are finding a way to sustain the population and what is driving people to settle there.

For example, the American Midwest (at the least part of it I am using as an example) has very little surface water. But it makes up for this by the large rivers it has as well as a ‘normal’ cycle of heavy rain that feeds crops, followed by a roughly decade long period of Drought.

(That drought period might have been growing longer in recent years)

Now this might not be to large of an issue with the way the population was traditionally on the land.

Relatively lows and many of the people who lived in the area moving around a lot.

But when larger settlements encounters this cyclical problem they run into issues. Often in the form of failing crops and the lack of finding already rare surface water. This might cause issues such as the abandonment of the mound builders. Or it might cause more wise spread issues like it did in 1930s. Where a cyclical drought arrived. Where normally the ground stays in-tacked due to the deep roots of the native prairie plants. The plants had been plowed up and replaced with shallow rooted cash crops.

Loose top soil+high winds = Everyone’s problem.

That’s how we (humanity) loosely got the dust bowl.

At least that one has a (sort of) happy ending as it is an example on a large scale of reversing the process of desertification.

Part of that process is the hidden factor to the continued used of that environment for heavy farming. There is a great underground water reservoir: the Ogallala Aquifer.

(It’s been starting too/ is running out of water)

But makes the ability to live in the region easier even with the lack of surface water.

Other hidden factors to why an area might have a larger population than what it reasonably should have could include social or economic reasons.

For a Socio-Economic example Las Vegas. There should not be as many people living in Las Vegas as there are. But because of the large amount of tourists and other industry factors and that humans can pump (way too much) water all the way out to the desert. There is an increased population. Even if the area would normally be too hot and too dry. (At least it’s flattish)

Economic factors often results in more temporary population booms. Things like the gold rush, where a settlement of notable size pops up, but when the resource is gone so are the people. There are a great number of ghost towns founded and failed by such rushes in mountainous and less habitable regions. But where did a lot of those populations resettle when they where done exploiting whatever resource they where after? On the coast in cities like San Francisco or Seattle. Or they found some other resources to rely on.

Another Social reason might be displacement, forced migration or for spiritual or religious reasons. A group might be moved by a larger group to an area that is less ideal for habitation, like how the “Civilized Tribes” where moved from the more fertile and ‘useful’ land in the American south to the less ideal more rocky but still usable land of Indian Territory. So that the larger group (white settlers and plantation owners.) could buy up the now unoccupied land and grow more tobacco or something.

Meanwhile religion may play a part of it too. Utah is a strong hold of the Mormon Church (they own a lot of land in a lot of other parts of the United States) but from my understanding the reason there is such a large population of Mormons in Utah is because when their group was originally moving around they settees down in the hot,dry, and mountainous region because they where not acceptable by mainstream ideology at the time. So when they grew their congregation the population of the area grew as well… then along came modern piping and air conditioning.

But yha human hubris is a big part of it too.

(Also fair disclaimer I’m not an expert in any of the things I mentioned. I know enough to know I don’t know shit.)

(So this is an oversimplification just to give examples, have a nice day)

[cute-pluto]

theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for

[cute-pluto]

things that sure are.

[cute-pluto]

things that are.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is peak design

[writeouswriter]

Can't believe no one posted chair (for sitting)

[bookishdiplodocus]

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

[redeadepression]

Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.

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Here

[herdsworldbuilding]

So despite my own personal statements regarding my dislike for complex, multiverse like narratives. I am infact like most people, a hypocrite.

So let me talk about my multiverse narrative.

This is a project I started sometime in high school, and it keeps changing every year that I work on it. I think it may be the project where I have done the most overhauls on.

There is no garentee I will not overhaul it entirely again in the future. But that will be then, this is now.

So even though it is a constantly changing project, I will share the oldest remaining a (and most consistent part of this project) Witches.

Witches are rare, shapeshifting beings. Able to transform into many things. Though they all have a unique familiar.

This familiar is what they are named for… ie the wolf witch, the chameleon witch or the cat witch, gryphon witch So on and so forth.

Witches for this setting are not born they are made. Quite purposely mind you. As it would be difficult if not impossible to make a witch without all parties consenting to it.

A consensual deal with the devil per-say.

The reason for this is because of how magic naturally works.

There are three kinds of majics. Major majics, middle magics and minor magics.

Under normal circumstances stances major magics like the kind that witches perform are deadly to most beings so minor magics are instead used

See even with minor magic it is done by cooperating with several people at a time. Usually the safest minimum is three individuals. Two to cast one to keep watch. The safest large amount of individuals is somewhere around twelve as any more and it tends to be a too many cooks in the kitchen ordeal.

Magic can be performed alone, but it is difficult and likely to backfire. Especially with the more magic you are dealing with. Or in other words the closer to major majics one gets.

Crafting with magic is slightly less risky but not as potent when done alone, and there’s several ways to do this sort of crafting… but before I get off track.

Witches are the exception to casting magic on thier own, they can just throw it around whillynilly all they want. This is because of one simple fact:

A witch is never alone.

That is because witches make themselves. when they fuse their bodies and consciousness together with others. This horrific process results in a single individual and an offshoot (the familiar)

This individual, with multiple consciousness, two to cast one to watch. Can perform magic as they wish.

Witches like this draw magic from the worlds around them and from themselves, and that is where this whole multiverse thing comes in.

Magic is everywhere and in everything there is life.

And the majority of witches come from and live in the place where dead universes combined. To be melted together and reused until the end of magic. This place. The place where dreams are made and go to die. As it has always been, and never will be. Is connected to everything. The cosmic ocean if you will. The roots of the world tree. The brackish world. The home of the many gates.

So it’s from here that a witch can fulfill their greatest purpose.

See when a witch create themselves they also creat a magic system (middle majics). A way to easily harness that energy so normally inaccessible to most.

Normally a magic system will be used by the witch themselves.

For example the Chameleon Witch upholds a magic system that relies on color, change the color of a thing and change the way that thing fundamentally interacts with life.

The chameleon witch uses their system when they perform magic.

But others can also buy into a witche’s system. Usually the inhabitants of the brackish worlds may buy into a witches system in order to perform magic in an easier way.

But that’s the less interesting option.

The more interesting system occurs when a real world, floating out in the spiderwebs of the cosmos decided to try magic.

If there is enough magic around (at least a 1.7 on my scale) and individuals start to pull on magic. There is a high chance that instead of pulling on nothing they find a witch’s path that’s already been thread. As it is easier to walk the path already taken than bushwhack a new one.

Some systems are more popular to buy into than others. Like the dragon witches elemental system. Or the black witches deal making system.

A magic planet can buy into multiple systems at a time, usually having them fuse into something unique. But they can stay separate too or expand in ways unknown to the witch themselves until they learn of this new idea.

The old sort of magic the kind that sings universes into being, still exists and could in theory be used by anyone in a world with enough magic to notice the fabric of order and chaos that the witches use to create themselves. But why do that when your system lets you throw fire balls? Or even find the mysteries of the universe in the equally impressive minor magics? (I mean the name is deceptive, this magic can be used to revive the dead, grant wishes and control entire worlds of used in the right place by the right “people”, it’s the magic of gods and “soft magic systems”)

The thing about witches (and magic system as an extension) is that they are mortal. Majic is an immortal force of existence. To exist is to be just a bit of majic.

But witches are mortal and so they can die. And with them the system they upheld dies too. In some cases a similar system belonging to another witch may fill the void, but otherwise the system dies.

The likelihood of a witch dying is slim though. They are mortal, but they are also ageless, as by the rules of the chaos at the ends of existence. Where things like time and scale and gravity don’t behave as they should. From where you can watch the countless ends and existences die and begin again in universes uncountable. As gods and giants and cosmic dragons forge worlds and multiverses of their own volition. And elder things play games and battle over the scraps and threads of thier own universes that they wish to forge into new existences. Doing anything they can to prevent existences from falling into the place that witches live.

Speaking of dragons and elder things: witches follow dragons, because cosmic dragons are especially good at destruction and creation. (Chaos incarnate, along with their siblings who are Order incarnate) So if a witch wishes to place her magic system in a particular place she will give it to a dragon who will go to a world and from there spread life and magic that they carry to that world.

Elder things know, they tend to have lived through the birth and rebirth of several universes. So they are especially good at learning and unknowning. They are usually the ones responsible for changing the ways a system interacts with the world around it.

A Witches counterpart is a Muse, witches write the rules of magic, Muses write the paths of things.

[victusinveritas]

[ralfmaximus]

Don't skip the final step! Do a search on your new character name to make sure it's not an egregiously offensive slur in some real human language.

[yjcorefourenjoyer]

I know the beginning of the story, I know the end of it.

BUT THE MIDDLE

OMG WHY DOES THE MIDDLE HAVE TO BE SO SO HARD TO WRITE!?!!??!?!!?!?!?

-a writer

[herdsworldbuilding]

lets find out how well I can condense world building.

this is a challenge for me as I tend to ramble.

The world of Day and Night. Aka

The Dragon Sorceress.

On a World with a day and night cycle that is 48 hours long.

With a day and a night being around 24 hours each with roughly 2 to 3 hours of dawn and dusk, every cycle.

the world has an eastern and a western hemisphere which their own associated continents.

Most creatures have two variants of themselves. One that is is nocturnal usually these creatures only interact with each other during dawn or dusk.

Humans are no exception to this.

The world’s population is made up of humans (diurnal) and vampires (nocturnal) who both make up the majority of the worlds population.

The only real distinction between the two groups are sleeping habits, some minor physical difference (vampires have fangs and better night vision) and the eye colors

Humans have the eye colors you are probably familiar with: browns, blues, grays, blacks and greens. And albinism causes pink/red eyes,Humans have the widest array of eye color but also the dullest eye colors comparatively.

Vampires have eye colors of brown, black, reds, pinks, orange, and yellows. Albinism causes purple/blue eyes. Vampires can also drink blood, it’s not necessary for them but when they do so they gain a physical boost, either in their strength, stamina, or speed. The more compatible the blood is for the vampire the stronger the effect.

It said that the eyes are the windows in to the souls and in this world that is somewhat true.

Though there are other “races” as well.

The main way to tell these groups apart from the humans in the vampires is also by the color and shape of their eye.

The major groups are:

1. Dria: can have any color eye of a human or vampire, but their eyes whites are dark instead of white. This does affect the vision.

They are known as the darklings, night children said to be the opposite of the Nephling. Their power is born from fire because of this they’re sometimes called fire witches, but they’re not true witches.

They like Nephilim are sometimes randomly born among humans or vampire parents, even though they have no known Dria previously in the family, but usually they are born if they already have a dria as a parent.

Abilities, fire related abilities with three different rankings

1. Are immune to fire and limited control of existing flames.

2. Can control, fire and unique ways.

3. Can create fire in unique ways.

Can learn other magics and are able to use sorcerer stones, but rarely do so.

2. Nephlins: the blind eyed angels. they are not blind, but their irises are light-blue, blue-gray, gray, or other pale colors, but many are considered to have white eyes. many of them have white hair.

They are also called the nobles. These are creatures who rightly deserve their names. Born much like the Dria through human parents and they film. Keep the world safe in times of darkness. They are also called sky witches, light witches, or day witches.

They cannot get tattoos because their natural magic will eat the ink.

Abilities: the gain powers by writing symbols on their body. The symbols can be standardize, or they can be personal to the Nephilim they can sense the presence of magic can astrally travel through the Leylines. They can learn magic by sorcerer stones, but it tends to backfire on them.

They are also able to make magical pendants that grant them other abilities, such as spreading wings, halos and increasing their physical strength and endurance. These are known as the Stella lunar and solar pendants.

These pendants can only be made by Nephilim and are highly tracked and regulated. As each pendant requires years of training and medical skills to make.

*Pendants allowed or user to gain a pair of magical wings. These wings can be retracted. Well they may physically not look like they’re able to carry you, but they can break in the wings will affect their ability to be used to the wings look different for different individuals.

Moon pendants increase the users, magical capabilities for sorcerers it increases the potency of their spouse for Nephilim titans their site census. Aspers become more dangerous and so on and so forth when they activate their power liked patterns of appear on that around them, moon pendants, allow where to summon light objects.

Sun pendants the rarest of all pendants, these pendants increase physical strength, agility, speed and reaction time, but the most powerful thing about the same pendant, is its ability to heal near, fatal physical wounds, but some tendons have a permanent side effect of this coloring, a disfiguring the skin

3. Werecreatures: their pupils are often elongated like a cats eye, their eyes come in warm, browns, gold, yellow, yellow, green, yellow, orange oranges and yellow reds in rare occasions.

Wild and free. Ancient sorcerer's blood runs through the veins. The old abilities of spells are long gone, but the magic of transformation still comes with ease.

Abilities: shapeshifting happens in a few seconds for practice adults, children have a lower control of their abilities it takes longer. Heightened senses. They can learn week magic, but it is never able to be used to its full abilities for sorcerer. Stone

werewolves are sometimes called beast witches. They tend not to be fond of this. Also called lichens and any number of things depending on thier animal form.

Animals a werewolf form can be: wolf, fox, Badgers, linxs, lions, Tigers and Bears, Wolverines, raccoons bats, seals, otters, hyenas, Panthers coyotes, weasels, minx, sables, cats, tigers, cheetahs.

4. Time turners: like ghosts. Bright lime Green, electric blue, Acid greens and icy blue colors in the eye colors. Time Turner‘s are mysterious, a little of known about them, on occasion they have been reported to have a red or yellow irises.

Mysterious figures are usually only seen at night or early morning fog. mysterious, secretive, and lonely protectors of the night phantoms.

Abilities: turn invisible, faze through solid objects, float independently, pull objects, or float objects, create warning systems, they cannot learn magic, and they have a banshee s scream. Rumored to be able to transform into a human or vampire form and none are the wiser.

5. Espers: magic that appears within the mind of vampires and humans. they are not born, but form sometime during child hood to young adulthood. though sometimes appear. Espers work different for vampires and humans

Espers can not use sorcery.

Some espers hair turn pink or red.

They have a certain range from themselves to where thier powers work. This range can be as short as within five feet ( m) to as long as fifty( m). The average is around twenty five feet ( m)

For vampires:

Repulsion- can push objects away. Break objects, float themselves and objects ( can only go up or down unless pushed away) they can rille up a frenzy of fear, disgust, or anger in other creatures and people. Either towards a certain object or person or for themselves.

Attraction- can pull objects towards themselves. Clime on walls and also sway people’s minds as they fall into a charm.

Transformation- Smokey haze envelope the vampire Espers able to freely take on any form they wish or simply alter thier body

For humans:

The shatter- breaks and binds things. Repairing is easier the more familiar with a thing you are.

Shapers- combination of shatter and moving

The moving- telepathy, can push, pull, and hold things in place. Able to move objects of certain weights with their mind.

Knowers- a combination of moving and commanding

The Dreaming- divination, see and be aware of things you should not see and be aware of. Some can see glimpses of the future in their dreams, others can see people they have never meet.

Finders- combination of dreaming and commanding

The commanding- telekinesis, can impose their will on others. Especially on livening things. It gets a bit icky when imposing their will on people.

Enders- combination of shatters and dreamers.

Spy- dreaming +mover+commanding

Soleer-shatter+ moving+ commanding

Peels- shatter+dreaming+ commanding

Rulers- dreaming +shatter+moving

6.Witches: there are several kinds of witches. Witches are unable to use sorcery stones

-Sea witches: the rise or reflective, iridescent and shiny humans find them creepy. They live in communities all around the coast, or even had an ocean, isolated witches have tribes in close-knit communities all over the world.

Abilities: they secrete a special type of mucus from their skin pores this allows them to control a Jell-O flashlight like substance with their mind. They have gills on their neck can survive ocean depths, without extra protection, can see in the dark, and some of them have bioluminescent dots on their body.

-Star witches: they burn bright, and they burn fast doomed to die Young, but live forever, their eyes have star shaped pupils, and there are often deep blue to violet violet colors. The closer they are to the end of the life the more brilliantly, the rise shine beauty and Grace to piss me off of space this fat, powerful beauties bring all enjoyed all the meat. As soon as they will be gone start which is diver, young usually living from 13 to 30 years of age they rarely have children the bodies can’t keep up with the power inside of them.

Abilities: they are power, they can glow, they can create light bolts. They can create illusions and holograms. They can perform most kinds of magic with ease, and they are technically eternal.

As it is believe that when the start witch dies, they don’t truly die, and instead the energy, the star that was them, just moves on to inhabit a new body, because the body would burn through so fast.

Fun fact, if you handed a star witch your dead phone it would recharge from the energy that they give off. They can also recharge can be tricky because of the magic may not act the way it should.

-Forest witches: also called by several other names, (trolls, fairies, Huldra, leshy, deer women) they are only found in heavily wooded areas, mostly in the western hemisphere. Their eyes are dark green often with hints of brown respects of gold.

Abilities: They have power to command plants and understand nature that is around them. they are good at hiding. supernatural good at it. can cary Ingus lanterns.

-Dream witches: known for their bright, iridescent color, changing eyes with a goat like across like people. They only really live misty isolated areas. Sometimes called sleep, paralysis, demons,Sandman, or mares.

Abilities: they can enter dreams or see dreams, as well as Carse pleasant dreams or nightmares there they even feet are known to feed all nightmares and dreams. They can sense the emotions of those around them if not, physically, see those emotions and project them onto others.

-Sand witches: sometimes called mummies! The rise can change colors between blues, reds and gold, often wit, a warm, colored iris, and a blue colored pupil. Their eyes turn black when they use their powers, is found in deserts throughout the world.

Abilities: they can command shape and warp, sand glass and other stone low, preferably soft stone sandstone, limestone or shale. They can move through solid surfaces as long as it’s stone, and they are able to command dangerously high winds, and they can also cause plagues and curses on people, so have fun with that.

-Weather witches: blue, grey, or gray violet eyes are people is a symmetrical shape. They are usually found where violent storms are common.

Abilities: they can send the weather pattern understand the way Windsor shifting they can float and fly around on air currents they can channel electricity, summon rain for total disasters, and create fog banks around them. They also really just like messing with the lights for some reason.

-Ore witches: have a gray or yellow eye whites. They are found in rocky regions or near mines.

Abilities: they are able to move through solid objects again if it’s stone, they’re able to sense the location of valuable rocks and ores three able to levitate smaller stones, and are able to seismically sense the shifting of the earth and ground. They also have something called a knocker lantern (or ignus lantern), which they can summon at their leisure to act as a light in dark caves. Have echolocation and don’t actually need to see.

-water witches: like a weird marriage between weather, which, and a sea witch. They are often found in human settlements around fields and freshwater, and especially in swamps. Their eyes are a blue to green color often having radial stripes or spots of gold or orange and Iris.

Abilities: they can locate freshwater. They can summon a lesser form of the slime. They also have gills, allowing them to breathe in water. They have beautiful, hypnotic voices. They are able to sense shifting weather patterns, able to “smell” rain. Can also create an ignus lantern usually used to lead people off paths or lead people to safety.

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the world has little magic but it is potent.

Most magic not contained in creatures and objects floats around In The air like green blue aurora borealis. These are usually invisible during the day and transition times but visible at night. They are called laylines.

magic is either a natural part of something or someone. Or it can be harnessed by the use of tools.

The main tool for doing this is a Sorcerers stone

A Sorcerer Stone allows humans and vampires to draw on the power of the lay lines in order to perform tasks. The power is returned to the Leylines. Once it has been used, they can be from any species, except witches, sorcerer stones, or what give sorcerers their powers and sorcery act a little bit different for everyone who uses it.

A Sorcerer Stone Has to be recharged in order to be used. The stones are usually recharged where Leylines cross. (or at CrossRoads for the cheap sorcerer.)

Sorcery is a bit of an art form, and there have been many spell tomes that exist so sorceress can remember and recite existing spells. But the rock is necessary to perform the magic.

The schools of magic

Psychomancy- a school of magic that mimics the power of Espers (except divination)

Necromancy- a school of Magic that involves heavily in the animal body, decay, diseases, and blood also electricity

AbjuraMancy- school of Magic that specializes in keeping things away be that disease, spirits or people

InvocaMancy- a School of magic that pertains to summoning ideals, and bringing things into existence.

ApothecaMancy-a school magic, heavily involved and healing and medicine.

FormaMancy- school of Magic that involves manipulating the physical form something or someone has.

CrusiusMancy- a School of magic acting similar to a cross roads involving heavily with the Leylines themselves, but also mixing other magic

MandatMancy- a School, the magic all about commands in orders given to objects, plants, animals, people, or nature itself

DivinaMancy- a School of magic based on finding answers and things be there in the past future or present.

Magic color power scale

(Used for all things involving the laylines and magic energy including Espers powers)

Yellow- also called lemon sorcery. It’s a bright yellow with a bit of a green hue to it. The weakest magics. These stones are usually only used as safeguards for apprentice (children) sorcerers. And as batteries in magic items. store 30 min-1 hr of magic in them depending on size.

Lime- called lime sorcery. a bright lime color as the name suggests. they are fine, but not preferred by anyone who performs sorcery on a regular basis. store 1hr- 2 hours 30 minutes of magic use.

Yellow green- also called field sorcery, the most abundant of quality of sorcery stones used in everyday sorcery. often made into jewelry. stores 2hr 45 minutes - 4 hours of magic in them.

Green- good quality stones also called leaf sorcery, often used in the medical field. stores 4 hrs- 8 hrs of magic in them.

Deep green- forest sorcery any sorcerer worth their salt usually has one of these. these powerful stores of magic can continuously perform small feats of sorcery from 8-16 hours.

Blue green- sea sorcery rare and expensive stones, they have 16-20 hours of magic that can be stored within them.

Teal- called river sorcery, these stones are he highest quality stones that can be obtained with relative ease. last for 20-26 hrs.

Cyan- called brine sorcery. used primarily by groups of sorcerers rather than a singular sorcerer, such as in research, medicine or in teaching. they are rare and quite expensive so not seen often outside of academic and political spheres. last for 26-30 hours.

Blue- a light blue color, called sky sorcery, these stones are often only used by grand sorcerers and have permission from the state that sponsors them to use such a stone. think a wizard up in a tower pondering an orb, that is sky sorcery. lasts for 30-48 hours.

White blue- not light blue. It’s both hues mixed together. sort of like looking at a marbled stone. these stones are rare and valuable. they are considered semi legendary in their powers, and these stones are often owned by highly accomplished sorcerers. last for 48-50 hours.

Though the power scale can be a useful tool it’s not always accurate. For example the most powerful sorcerer stone in the world, the stone of the dragon sorcerer is a field stone. even though it often appears white when not in use.

The size and color of the stones matter in their innate power. But creative and well practiced use in them can be just as affective or more so than having a big stone.

an over use of magic tends to have two results: burn-out or burn-up, both can be devastating or temporary afflictions. worst case scenario for burn out is that all the magic within you (your life energy) is drained out off you, causing you to become a mummified undead of sorts that hungers for the energy that was lost. an energy vampier in a manner of speaking. a soul stealing litch. Burnout causes the magic inside of you to ignite in a manner of speaking, spontaneous human combustion. it burns you up leaving a flaming undead.

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Zombies: a creation of Necromancy. Can only be created the within first few minutes to hours of death. The spirit of the person has to then be attached to a soul jar.

Zombies have green hair. They don’t feel pain. Though they can still react to “pain” They have strength, speed and can’t die again. They still retain their personality though as part of becoming zombies their memories and personality will change and fade as they remain undead for longer and longer, until they eventually become creatures called Hollows. Hollows are more like traditional zombies. Zombies can’t be killed unless their soul jar is destroyed. If their body is burned they will take on a new host body, unless the zombie has turned to a hollow. A burned hollow becomes a burning ash. It dose take a few centuries for them to completely loose their memory unless something occurs. It’s difficult for older zombies to form new memories. They are unable to recognize faces.

Animals can also be turned into zombies too and hollows

Hollows have black veins, can not be persuaded, can not be controlled or commanded without immense magic. It’s not known if they feel pain, if they do they do not react to it. ( hollows are like traditional pop culture zombies)

Inifrin are puppets created from necromancy and are made from older bodies.

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Dragons

Dragons have scales made of metal.

More precisely coated in metal. A “dragon’s Horde” is their scales.

They are rare now, they where hunted for their scales, so they hid away in isolated places.

You are unlikely to see a dragon, unless you live near a dragon’s domain. As they live in groups of two to eight dragons.

Dragons behave a lot like cats, but they are intelligent like people often trading and talking to humans on occasion.

Though usually calm and temperate, but can also be angered and lay waste to their surroundings.

Dragons are omnivores, but can absorb energy from laylines the sun or moon. Able to do magic. including the use of sorcery stones.

Male dragons have curved horns. Females have straight horns. Their gender identities are confusing to humanoids. (horn shapes has nothing to do with identity and horns have been known to change)

Nocturnal dragons: silver, copper, bismuth

Diurnal dragons: gold, iorn, lead*

* Uranium > lead: a unique kind of dragon that transform between many forms through their life time. They hatch as uranium dragons, but only live as uranium dragons for a few minutes before transforming into radium dragons. Radium a while later to Radon and so on and so forth until they become lead.

Ferrous dragons-creatures related to the other dragons, but they are overall smaller in size and live in large social flocks. many of them live in human cities. acting as gargoyles on roofs. people are more familiar with these small dragons than what they are with true dragons. ferris dragons are much less magical than that of their larger cousins. Ferrous dragons are closest related to Iron dragons. they claim that they come from an ancient curse that changed their ancestors. types of ferrous dragons- Steel, carbon steel, chromium, manganese, cast iron.

celestial dragons- have powers like those of star witches.

ghost dragons- appear much like time turners.

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Familiars: animals with witch like abilities.

Star beasts- 24 kinds of known star beasts. They are like living stars. Some superstitions say that star Witches are star beasts taking the body of a human.

Isnis- beasts of chaos and fire. They are dangerous and should always be treated with caution even if they are acting docile. Their touch burns.

Imnvi- a kind of monstrous creature that take on a amalgam forms of animals.

Laylines beasts- the laylines are the source of all magic. Laylines beast take the form of all sorts of animals. Usually colored green, blue gray or white. Changing color depending on mood. These beast can phase through objects and turn invisible

Pheridi: sea monsters of many kinds.

Phantoms: creatures and animals from the foggy vale. A ghost world of sorts.

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Technology: the world is roughly in the late 1960s-1970s. the have semi modern technology. they have trains, and planes and sewing machines. television and radio are roughly on even ground as large forms of entertainment. cars exist, but they are less popular than trains outside of inner city travel and travel between communities that do not have access to armored trains that keep things of the wild out.

the area of technology that is the furthest in aging behind is that of medicine as the medical field is largely dominated by magic.

(Note on the picture: I drew it, but it is a redraw of a gift I got from someone if this character of mine. Their drawing is the superior one, but as I have lost contact with that person I don’t want to use that picture without permission.)

[localpubliclibrary]

Say what you will about humans but they really went off with flatbreads

[localpubliclibrary]

guys there are so many wikipedia articles about flatbreads...

[localpubliclibrary]

I didn't realize this would spread around when I posted this, so please also find the wikipedia articles I sourced all of these from, starting with top left ending at bottom right:

Bolani

Chapati

Matzah

Focaccia

Jianbing

Corn Tortilla

Fry Bread

Flatbrød

Injera

Laffa

Lángos

Lahoh

Luchi

Lavash

Lokša

M'semen or msemmen or msamman or musamman

Makki ki roti

Naan (tandoor baked)

Paratha (picture of Punjabi Aloo Paratha)

Qatlama/Kattama

Pita

Samoon

Taftan

Sangak

Bazlama

Paratha (Bengali style)

Tonis Puri

[herdsworldbuilding]

Flatbreads and pancakes. Along with dumpings people everywhere just seemingly like to make things.

Not 100% sure where I was going with that. But honestly this makes a good reference for my world building purposes.

So thanks for sharing.