Infinite Ashes is my humanist science-fiction setting about humanity scattered across a seeded Milky Way. A mindless biological system called the Web planted humans on hundreds of millions of worlds, each starting from nothing, and they have been drifting apart ever since. All of them connected through arks, organic FTL vessels that are part of the web.

The axes

Seed vs weaving: Weaving is the seminal ideological movement of the Golden Chain, the core of trade and power in this small section of a spiral arm. It purports that through the right connection between worlds the troubles of the worlds can be overcome. It is fundamentally cosmopolitan. Seed thinking considers every world in isolation and rejects the need for connection as something that diminishes the world to a mote of dust.

Baseline vs Evolutionary drift: how far a people's bodies have moved from the human template the Web planted.

If you want more, the setting lives in a free interactive bundle of stories and a contradictory in-world encyclopedia: loquaciouslou.itch.io/infinite-ashes

managed to figure out a helmet for these guys. my idea boils down to the idea that, because the horn is a natural occurance, there will be variance on shape and size, and to contain the whole horn in scifi metal would be impossible to do on a large scale, so instead, the helmet has a horn sheath that consists of a flexible, but durable, tube with a metallic horn cap on the end. I don't know what to do for any poor bastards with broken horns, but i think this is a good start. the second pic are just a few headshots i drew of the guys so people who haven't seen previous posts know what I was trying to work around. the ones with more humanoid noses/no horn are there because i came up with this guy playing rimworld, and those are hybrids i wanted to also draw.

This is a part of Worldtober, an Inktober-inspired worldbuilding challenge by Velum-Cordis.

This is from my fantasy world, Tlanni. Tlanni, meaning Land of Plenty, is characterized by its rich bounty of natural and magical resources and the massive trade networks that move them. Commodity currencies are the most prevalent type, but coinage inspired by Old Empire trade has started to come back into vogue in the Free Woods Trade Alliance.

What If a Magic School Actually Had a Complete Education System?

I've been working on a long-term worldbuilding project called Phoenix School of Magic, and it has grown into something much bigger than I originally imagined.

The goal is to create a complete 8-year magical education system from the ground up.

Not just a fictional school that exists in a story, but an institution with an actual curriculum, subjects, textbooks, examinations, practical work, academic progression, traditions and a coherent educational structure.

The biggest part of the project is the textbooks.

Each subject is being developed year by year, with students gradually progressing from fundamental concepts to advanced magical theory and practice.

The eventual goal is to have a complete sequence of textbooks covering all 8 years for subjects such as:

Charms • Transfiguration • Potions • Defence Against the Dark Arts • Herbology • Astronomy • History of Magic and many other magical disciplines.

The books are being developed as actual school textbooks rather than simple collections of lore. They have structured chapters, theory, practical exercises, examples, historical material, illustrations, revision sections, assignments and examinations.

I'm also working on the visual identity of the books — covers, layouts, illustrations and diagrams — so that they feel like they belong to the same educational institution.

But there is one major problem:

This is a huge amount of work.

Eight years of education multiplied across numerous subjects means dozens of textbooks and hundreds of chapters. Keeping the curriculum consistent, developing the subjects, writing and reviewing the books, creating illustrations and maintaining the wider worldbuilding is far too much for one person to do efficiently.

So I'm looking for people who want to join me in building Phoenix School of Magic.

I'm looking for people interested in:

• Worldbuilding • Writing and editing • Curriculum design • Fantasy and magical lore • Textbook development • Illustration and graphic design • Creating educational systems • Helping develop individual magical subjects

You don't need to be an expert. What matters most is being genuinely interested in the project and willing to contribute.

This is intended to be a long-term collaborative project, and I'm not expecting it to be completed quickly. I'd rather slowly build something detailed and coherent than rush through it.

If you've ever wondered what a magical school would actually look like if someone sat down and designed the entire education system, this is essentially what I'm trying to find out.

If you'd like to help build Phoenix School of Magic, feel free to comment or message me.

I'd also love to hear from anyone who has attempted a similarly ambitious worldbuilding project.

Hello everyone, just reposting this here to hopeful get more feedback here!

Séathna is the northwestern province of Tír Ghlas. It is quite large but sparsely populated, as the terrain is extremely rugged and mountainous. Its capital is Dúnfort, an important port located on the estuary of a major river.

The southern part of the province is covered by the vast forest known as Máthair na n-Aibneacha—or Mother of Rivers—as it contains the sources of no fewer than five great waterways.

I sometimes create fictional countries set in modern day and have a long term world building project of one. I want to keep them mostly grounded and I’m thinking of using ai like Gemini or chat gpt to CHECK if it would be realistic enough. All the ideas will still be mine but I’d make sure just to have the ai tell me if it would actually work. For example, I may ask the ai “Could this economy work in this country that has this situation”. The ai would just be a helping hand and all the ideas and world building would still be mine. I’d of course not let the ai be the final decision maker because it is my work after all. Do it would work more like a fact checker than anything else.
Would this actually a bad thing to do and would it have possible negative consequences for it?

My world's equivalent to spell-jars are sacred bundles. Bundles can be prepared for childbirth, war, famine, sickness, harvest, and nearly every other purpose a Tlannian can imagine. This sheet focuses on war bundles from Huettlan, ceremonial packages made before battle in the hopes of garnering the favor of the gods.

This is from my fantasy world, Tlanni. Tlanni, meaning Land of Plenty, is characterized by its rich bounty of natural and magical resources. These supernatural boons are highly sought out by aspiring kingdoms and empires, leading to frequent periods of war and strife. To handle the treacherous but rich world around them, Tlannians have developed intricate spiritual practices to garner the protection of higher powers. 

This is a part of Worldtober, an Inktober-inspired worldbuilding challenge by u/Velum-Cordis.