#headworld stuff

[sysirauta]

Is it a good day for some infodump of your headworld? I love learning about what goes into people's headworlds but like, in a more personal way, what inspires what, do you talk to your characters in your head? is it just Finland but fantasy? too many saunas? explain pls

First of all yes there's definitely Finland affecting a whole lot, as this is the only place where I've properly lived (okay a had of year student exchange in Austria has its own inspiration there) and I like our forests and stuff like how ice age shows around and that we have saunas. There's definitely too little saunas and glacial erratic rocks in any fantasy setting.

I have basically just one single headword (which has spawned a couple of AUs to accommodate the fact that I've got some too fun extra iterations to certain characters and they cannot fit in by any means). I don't keep it set in stone or create a new one when I need to change something, so it has gone through a lot of reconstruction. It started accidentally in 2003 when I wanted to draw some high fantasy esque art but had no skill nor interest to draw humans, so I just replaced generic fantacy races with some person-creatures which then remained and became their own things. Back then it followed pretty regular high fantasy rules and there were actual plot of this one bloodline of certain creature which were in the key role to defeat some big bad and end a hundred year old war blahblahblah. Anyway when time went on, I created more things, got different tastes, got more characters, discarded a lot of old stuff, the world got a lot weirder, and there's no single "plot" anymore. Everyone are just vibing (or not, but there's no The Plot. Every character has their own story and shenanigans.)

Canonically the world is old, created by a big yellow bird. It has gone through at least two proper apocalypses, by time changed from "normal" to something that looks normal but includes lots of elements of magic and unexplainable things, and old ruins of things which sometimes are leftovers from previous ruler species. There's no humans, nor humans have ever been. There's no big scale cities nor technology, but there are things like advanged medical skills, working postal system, (and saunas!), overall working society between sapient species, which could be referred as common folks (salkahi, gureta, dravene, aridmander, datyle) which make the most of world population, and mythical folks (gryphons, dragons, kirins, perytons) which are less in numbers but still visible in everyday life. Everyone are just...people. They're biological and usually do normal things like eat and breath and die one day. Aaand then there are all other things. Two supreme gods (Creator and Chaos), not-time-tied weird looking ones which help to keep things together (true angels), their helpers (angels, but like, hybrid kids of once lived mortals), postcreateds (unique non-biological non-dying surreal/bone-esque creatures which are put under a single umbrella term for clarity) and postcreated-related creatures (any other unique creechur), and also possible other weird things. ... Of course there be also just animals, which I mostly borrowed from our world (I'm apparently more interested of making sapient weird creatures than animal-intelligence-creatures).

So back to original question so uhh I just keep throwing things into one place and see how it goes. Sometimes it makes things more peaceful, like introducing postcreateds. Any large scale war cannot happen when there are non-killable, absurdly strong metal/stone/porcelain creatures which have no interest to rule or anything like that, nor they like unnecessary killing.

For the last, I don't really chitchat with my characters. There's no "me" in my current headworld, I'm just observing it from the outside perspective. Even if there's always moments when something happens that makes me feel like [insert character here] is [insert emotion here] in my head.

[sysirauta]

There's always one...

I should draw my headworld species a bit more. I started with static standing datyle and then drew another in not so static pose. Bird people be birding.

[sysirauta]

Kali and Radza, peryton siblings.

Perytons are rare sapient mythical creatures, belonging to the same category than for example gryphons and dragons. They are a bit oddballs as they grow fast into their full size and start their independent life as feral creatures and gain intelligence slowly long after they've grown to full size. Younger unmature perytons are basically feral animals, it's no use to talk or reason with them, they see you as a lunch, or in better case a threat and leave you alone. Perytons have sharp talons, also blunt claws to kick, and venomous bite and they do eat meat and they're not small, so it's adviced not to travel alone in areas where young perytons flock, as they might attack anything except other perytons.

Adult perytons carry the infamy of their past, but will not attack other sapient creatures anymore without a reason. It's rough to grow big brains and gain things like empathy and realize that you ate somebody as a kid.

When Kali and Radza were young and just left to live alone, they fought and Kali won their childhood territory. Radza has a quite visible scar through his chest to remember that. They don't still like each other too much but are over the worst grudges as they're adults with functional brains now.

Female perytons are earthy colors with only tiny nub antlers, whilst male perytons are ridiculously colorful and have lightweight yet rather impractical antlers with sole purpose of showing off.

Perytons cast a shadow of their last victim, that makes their presence hard to spot sometimes.

[inkedbantam]

Hey guys! I'm working on a personal head world and project that personally makes me really happy + I would like to share it with everyone!!

It's currently empty right now but it's over at @the-golden-rose-archives

The blog is open for lore related asks, anon and not Anon, so once I post more about it, I'll be able to answer asks pertaining to the universe!!

[zibulon01]

As always, i’m working on several things at once, including a few big traditional artworks and some quick ref sheets like those above for my headworld project, that i’m slowly entirely uploading from my oldest notebook into a big digital document, and is thus in dire need of some recent visual data (we’re talking about 10 years of note-taking and old sketches to review and rework/synthetize here, it’s going to be long @-@). Anyway, some notes below for those interested:

- First pic depict  ██████ , a Minor deity and ice god whose worshipping area englobed most of the continent. In this instance, he was considered to be the main known ice god. He was a rather aloof and discreet deity, even when magick was still practiced he was not seen much and like most other entities, magick pact ceremonies were mainly taken care of by the head priest of his main temple.  More recently, he personally ended up taking one apprentice under his wing, a millenia after his temple was emptied of followers and students due to the global ban of magick.

- Second pic depicts Lord Kanka, Minor god of the mind. Unlike most of his peers, Kanka was an outlier: he was, and still is closely involved with mortal affairs, even going as far as living among them and becoming an important political figure back then. He was a cunning politician who worked relentlessly to protect the interests of his kingdom. He was not the only known Minor god who did so, but as magick became forbidden, he too, disappeared from public view. It appears he came back as an active but discreet figure a while ago among the small insular kingdom he used to live in.

[zibulon01]

Ice god, roaming the northern forests and tundra. His altar abandoned, left to be encased by his icy breath. Forgotten by all, he found a new student in the purposeless wanderer who dared venture in his land.

[zibulon01]

Working on some headworld stuff, among other things. Mostly trying to organize, translate and reunite all my notes/drawings into one document, it’s going to take some time. Anyway, this is the sand goddess, mother of all worms. Just like regular sand worms/sand dragons, she can flatten her body like a ribbon-like shape and use the hot air currents to glide accross distances if needed, although they usually move underneath the sand.  As a deity, she doesn’t need to eat, but regular worms, which are smaller sized than her, sustain themselves by hunting sand wyverns and other big enough desert fauna. They can stay for months without eating as long as they don’t move around and spend their energy too much. Some people had reported seeing sand dragons springing out of the dunes to catch a wyvern midflight, which certainly contributed to the infamously very dangerous reputation of the desert in question.

[beaky-beast]

stuff about Malifirrum and headworld demons under a cut

Malifirrum is not the only demon that came out of the wargames that the deities held to decide their territories, there’s probably thousands of the from that era alone floating around in the ether, waiting for an opportunity to return, or waiting for a meandering spirit to come by for them to torment.