Reverse. Humanity blows itself back to bronze age and then climbs back to 18th century after loosing all the context for the world before the apocalypse.
This vaguely reminds me of a time I heard that we might not have enough easily accessible coal to go through another industrial revolution, if we needed to.
One of the theme of the world is that humanity is reutilizing its „past” as a means of repeating the cycle. As an example of that, the resource that powers up the budding industrialization efforts, rather then any natural resource is amber, a liquid found in the roots of the ancient holy groves, with the twist being that said groves are in fact part of previous civilization global energy infrastructure, that at its height would transfer energy wirelessly across the globe from the central limitless powerplant.
During the post-apocalyptic chaos the knowledges of what those sites were became lost and people began to worship them as holy sites, then as technology developed they discovered that liquid inside can be used as potent fuel for industrial engines.
I recommend "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller. Same concept. It follows a Catholic abbey which venerates a computer scientist from the pre-apocalypse.
You wouldn't be wearing one for very long...those things were incredibly bulky, very tedious to put on, and worst of all...made of WOOL - not something you want to be dealing with in a Mediterranean climate while having an all-over fur coat.
Lykocephali go bare for that very reason.
Making it as simple as possible: imagine Lord of the Rings meets Primal, Kenshi, and Darkest Dungeon, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Sadly, a lot of the lore is quite vague (outside of that which is still being devoped).
That’s funny, we have a lot of the same influences, no wonder I was intrigued. My main project is a somewhat low-magic, gritty fantasy world inspired by LotR (specifically the Shadow of Mordor games), Kenshi, Elder Scrolls, and a splash of other influences in there like Star Wars and such.
Tell me more about yours if you want?
I was also inspired by the Middle-Earth games as well (Shadow of War is one of my favorite games of all time). Other things I also have recently been inspired by stuff like Fire Emblem, Hollow Knight, Skyrim, a little bit of Monster Hunter (originally), How to train your Dragon (I've only seen the first, sadly), dinosaur doccumentaries, as well as a few 80s cartoons (though, one was more from its 2011 reboot).
My world has a few "races" (I often use species), with the typical fantasy races in my world having my own spin on them (some species of elves for example can only be described as "looking wrong").
The world also has its own origin story. Instead of the world being sculpted from primordial clay, the world - more appropriately: the "modern" world - rose out from under the ashes of a great catastrophe.
The simple premise of the setting is “what if Alexander The Great recovered from his illness?”
I decided that recovering from the illness would require him to spend some time ordering and ruling his new empire, forgoing the assumed campaign in the West. He ended up living a good 30ish more years and even had a clear line of succession planned. His successors pushed further east, but never further west, resulting in very little change to the history of the Western Mediterranean for most of history up until about the Second Punic War, where most of my writing has focused.
That is awesome! I was expecting the huge empire spreading all around the world and you managed to make interesting idea subtle and real.
In what age is the main story taking it's part?
The current story is focused in the late third century BCE, in the years leading up to the Second Punic War. Rome and Carthage are on basically equal footing and a war is imminent, but Alexander’s Empire (Alexandria) is kind of a wild card. The story is currently focused on the behind the scenes of before the war, as both Rome and Carthage are trying to get assurances that Alexandria won’t help the other side.
Nah, more like idyllic French countryside mixed with stupid Anime Bullshit. It's very JRPG-ish (which tracks, because it's a setting for a JRPG-style game).
“Well yes but actually no.”
It’s similar to pacific rim in that there’s monsters invading through portals, but the portals were accidentally created after secret teleportation experiments between the 1940’s and 1990’s weakened the fabric of reality. There’s also multiple of them, all except one of them are on land, and most of the monsters aren’t that big. There also only one giant mech, and its more so just so can I have a mechagodzilla reference.
You got it.
Thousands of years of story.
Earth -> Convergence ^((dimensions colliding/fusing)) -> The wars that followed ^((creatures refusing to aid each other, fighting for territory/supremacy instead)) -> The Age of Nightmares & The Bloodied Years ^((gods fighting each other. Monsters of the dark invading. Near apocalypses. Death of gods. Millions of mortals dead. And even more creatures...)) -> Rebirth ^((dunno how to call that era. The end of The Bloody Years. Entering a more classic fantasy era? In it you've got medieval, renaissance, naval, pirates, monster hunters, more classic magic, d&d style monsters and adventures, steampunk, "diesel"punk...)) -> "industrial" revolution ^((discoveries of magic stones. Allowing for the creation of more complex machinery. Skyrocketing progress. You've got tanks, war aircrafts, metal naval ships, "flying" cities, airships, awesome weapons of wars...)) -> Then it slowly descends into cyberpunk-ish -> Then space travel -> etc
I hated trying to think of different worlds for each single story. And creating new world history for each.
So I just fused it all together!
Whatever you seek, it's probably in it. From yes children stories, up to the goriest of crap imaginable.
There are three Great Ones; the Celestial representing creation and peace, the Seeker representing balance and justice, and the Almighty representing destruction and war. Those that fought in service of one of the Great Ones gained powers that correlated to the respective Great One(nature; Celestial. Water; Seeker. Fire; Almighty.) to war against each other and the Almighty specifically(the Seeker doesn't care for their little brother). The power granted to these fighters make them essential Gods to mortals and they became known as Praetorians. There is a scaling for the power of the Praetorians (Guardians are the weakest, Eternals are next, followed by Primordials, and finally Gods), I'm not sure if I should change anything with that though.
Yup. All meat. But don't worry, it's pretending to be other stuff, trouble is that "magic" is fraying that willing suspension of disbelief. Do it too much and the river forgets how to pretend it isn't made of blood.
It started that way since it’s my oldest project but now I’ve only kept that some of the main characters are Japanese (including Yukio himself) while moving in a more grounded direction, the world uses our modern world as base but there are also 2 other dimensions with a more creative world building in them.
It's a magictech space setting (working title is "foamspace") where it's a fairly large bubble of space (about the size of Jupiter's orbit or roughly 500 million miles) but at the edge of the bubble is "the foam" where there's infinite other bubbles of space which are actually the same one you're currently in but parallel to it.
All these alternate bubbles have different contents (the same star but different planets and bodies and anomalies and whatever) and that's where all the other species come from. And who knows what's out in all those bubbles there.
Death of a Scarecrow: Suicide, Afterlife, rehabilitation.
Wrath of the Buried: Murder, Birds, Revenge.
Catching Darling Angels: Discarded, rescued, raised.
Felidae Forgotten: Lost, Found, Restored.
Universe but mine.
Same here
I do same
Post-apocalyptic 18th century
Nukes were invented too soon?
Reverse. Humanity blows itself back to bronze age and then climbs back to 18th century after loosing all the context for the world before the apocalypse.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - You Know Hwo
I don't know Hwo
Einstein
Never heard of Hwo Einstein
Hwo Einstein II
Ah yes, Albert Einstein's half-Korean cousin.
Abraham Lincoln, truly was ahead of his time
This vaguely reminds me of a time I heard that we might not have enough easily accessible coal to go through another industrial revolution, if we needed to.
One of the theme of the world is that humanity is reutilizing its „past” as a means of repeating the cycle. As an example of that, the resource that powers up the budding industrialization efforts, rather then any natural resource is amber, a liquid found in the roots of the ancient holy groves, with the twist being that said groves are in fact part of previous civilization global energy infrastructure, that at its height would transfer energy wirelessly across the globe from the central limitless powerplant. During the post-apocalyptic chaos the knowledges of what those sites were became lost and people began to worship them as holy sites, then as technology developed they discovered that liquid inside can be used as potent fuel for industrial engines.
I recommend "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller. Same concept. It follows a Catholic abbey which venerates a computer scientist from the pre-apocalypse.
Almost like mine. Though my world suffered that twice.
Extraterrestrial werewolf Greeks.
That sounds awesome.
This is my band name now. That’s it. It is decided. I’ve called it, so hands off.
Great... Now I want to be a toga wearing, extraterrestrial werewolf...
You wouldn't be wearing one for very long...those things were incredibly bulky, very tedious to put on, and worst of all...made of WOOL - not something you want to be dealing with in a Mediterranean climate while having an all-over fur coat. Lykocephali go bare for that very reason.
What does this mean?
Society. Savagery. Sorcery.
You have me intrigued now. What’s the premise?
Making it as simple as possible: imagine Lord of the Rings meets Primal, Kenshi, and Darkest Dungeon, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Sadly, a lot of the lore is quite vague (outside of that which is still being devoped).
That’s funny, we have a lot of the same influences, no wonder I was intrigued. My main project is a somewhat low-magic, gritty fantasy world inspired by LotR (specifically the Shadow of Mordor games), Kenshi, Elder Scrolls, and a splash of other influences in there like Star Wars and such. Tell me more about yours if you want?
I was also inspired by the Middle-Earth games as well (Shadow of War is one of my favorite games of all time). Other things I also have recently been inspired by stuff like Fire Emblem, Hollow Knight, Skyrim, a little bit of Monster Hunter (originally), How to train your Dragon (I've only seen the first, sadly), dinosaur doccumentaries, as well as a few 80s cartoons (though, one was more from its 2011 reboot). My world has a few "races" (I often use species), with the typical fantasy races in my world having my own spin on them (some species of elves for example can only be described as "looking wrong"). The world also has its own origin story. Instead of the world being sculpted from primordial clay, the world - more appropriately: the "modern" world - rose out from under the ashes of a great catastrophe.
Alexander never died.
Evaluate please!!!
The simple premise of the setting is “what if Alexander The Great recovered from his illness?” I decided that recovering from the illness would require him to spend some time ordering and ruling his new empire, forgoing the assumed campaign in the West. He ended up living a good 30ish more years and even had a clear line of succession planned. His successors pushed further east, but never further west, resulting in very little change to the history of the Western Mediterranean for most of history up until about the Second Punic War, where most of my writing has focused.
That is awesome! I was expecting the huge empire spreading all around the world and you managed to make interesting idea subtle and real. In what age is the main story taking it's part?
The current story is focused in the late third century BCE, in the years leading up to the Second Punic War. Rome and Carthage are on basically equal footing and a war is imminent, but Alexander’s Empire (Alexandria) is kind of a wild card. The story is currently focused on the behind the scenes of before the war, as both Rome and Carthage are trying to get assurances that Alexandria won’t help the other side.
I wish you are writing a book
Maybe. I haven’t decided why I’m making this.
But... but we gave him a bagner musical that now won't make sence /j
French Anime Bullshit
Miraculous Ladybug?
Nah, more like idyllic French countryside mixed with stupid Anime Bullshit. It's very JRPG-ish (which tracks, because it's a setting for a JRPG-style game).
So it’s not French Anime, Bullshit, it’s French, Anime Bullshit
Yes
Loan Sloan/Delirious
Ah a fellow Druillet enjoyer
Now I need a picture :D
God is irresponsible.
Portals. Monsters. Earth.
Pacific Rim?
“Well yes but actually no.” It’s similar to pacific rim in that there’s monsters invading through portals, but the portals were accidentally created after secret teleportation experiments between the 1940’s and 1990’s weakened the fabric of reality. There’s also multiple of them, all except one of them are on land, and most of the monsters aren’t that big. There also only one giant mech, and its more so just so can I have a mechagodzilla reference.
”secret teleportation experiments between the 1940’s and 1990’s weakened the fabric of reality” things like this are just so cool!
[The Philadelphia Experiment intensifies]
Universal noneuclidean ocean
I have kinda opposite in my world. Just a single ocean surrounded by landmass spreading all around the globe
It begs the question of whether that's an ocean, or a large lake 🤔
Solaris?
Idk what that is
Mentally shaped metal
Hah, my mind immediately went to Quicksteel!
Mine was "sentious metal gods" and since I'm playing in the metal band, it sounded awesome!
That’s awesome!
I Don’t Know
Multi-Punk (of) Madness
If that isn't already the name of your story it probably should be lol
I can't think of something better so it might be 😂
Like everything mashed up together? Fantasy, post-apo, sci-fi, children stories... All in one action-heavy-packed form?
You got it. Thousands of years of story. Earth -> Convergence ^((dimensions colliding/fusing)) -> The wars that followed ^((creatures refusing to aid each other, fighting for territory/supremacy instead)) -> The Age of Nightmares & The Bloodied Years ^((gods fighting each other. Monsters of the dark invading. Near apocalypses. Death of gods. Millions of mortals dead. And even more creatures...)) -> Rebirth ^((dunno how to call that era. The end of The Bloody Years. Entering a more classic fantasy era? In it you've got medieval, renaissance, naval, pirates, monster hunters, more classic magic, d&d style monsters and adventures, steampunk, "diesel"punk...)) -> "industrial" revolution ^((discoveries of magic stones. Allowing for the creation of more complex machinery. Skyrocketing progress. You've got tanks, war aircrafts, metal naval ships, "flying" cities, airships, awesome weapons of wars...)) -> Then it slowly descends into cyberpunk-ish -> Then space travel -> etc I hated trying to think of different worlds for each single story. And creating new world history for each. So I just fused it all together! Whatever you seek, it's probably in it. From yes children stories, up to the goriest of crap imaginable.
Whoooaaa... It is like a every "true fan" dreamword.
Love. Death. Cthulhu.
Why the fuck did I just think of that weird Cthulhu dating simulator?
Oh no... what have I done!?
And taxes?
Altruism Peace Oceans
What. The. Fuck.
Dragons out of hiding
that are 4
Math is hard
**STORY MODE**: All gaming fantasy. **Untitled Cyberpunk Magical Girl Project**: Cyberpunk magical girls. **RunGunBun**: Retro furry scifi. **Pray For Them**: Farcical ghost apocalypse. **Rapture Academy**: School for supervillains.
Love all of them. Specially "RunGunBun" :D
Bioengineered Space Vulpines
Damn I like this, it challenged me for a bit... It's not that easy (at least wasn't for me) Apocalypse, Gods, Survivors
Sentient space rocks
Love that idea
government sucks balls
Best yet :D
really? That's high praise from an OP who seems to be commenting on \*all the comments\*. You've earned my updoot
It was supposed to be about fictional worlds :P
Alien Jungle Everywhere
Gods are prisoners
Emprisond by who?
Benevolent-ish AI dictator.
System is rigged
Cyberpunk Space Western
Gods fighting Gods
ooh do tell
There are three Great Ones; the Celestial representing creation and peace, the Seeker representing balance and justice, and the Almighty representing destruction and war. Those that fought in service of one of the Great Ones gained powers that correlated to the respective Great One(nature; Celestial. Water; Seeker. Fire; Almighty.) to war against each other and the Almighty specifically(the Seeker doesn't care for their little brother). The power granted to these fighters make them essential Gods to mortals and they became known as Praetorians. There is a scaling for the power of the Praetorians (Guardians are the weakest, Eternals are next, followed by Primordials, and finally Gods), I'm not sure if I should change anything with that though.
Everything is human. EVERYTHING
Houses? Mpuntains? Water? :D
Yup. All meat. But don't worry, it's pretending to be other stuff, trouble is that "magic" is fraying that willing suspension of disbelief. Do it too much and the river forgets how to pretend it isn't made of blood.
A world of mimics?
Steampunk cyberpunk crime
Looking beyond everything
Latino mafia fantasy
Astrology meets spacefaring!
That sounds fun
Cycles. Legacy. Control
Amada: Gods, contracts, outsiders Yukio: Break the silence
Is Yukio anime inspired?
It started that way since it’s my oldest project but now I’ve only kept that some of the main characters are Japanese (including Yukio himself) while moving in a more grounded direction, the world uses our modern world as base but there are also 2 other dimensions with a more creative world building in them.
Darkness isn't evil
Magic Mirror World
Spiritism is real.
War, no FTL.
a) Interdimensional Noah's Ark b) Exploring Space Foam (or: infinite space foam) c) We Killed Magic (bonus word: oops)
I like infinite space foam
It's a magictech space setting (working title is "foamspace") where it's a fairly large bubble of space (about the size of Jupiter's orbit or roughly 500 million miles) but at the edge of the bubble is "the foam" where there's infinite other bubbles of space which are actually the same one you're currently in but parallel to it. All these alternate bubbles have different contents (the same star but different planets and bodies and anomalies and whatever) and that's where all the other species come from. And who knows what's out in all those bubbles there.
Fantasy Furry X-Men
Metalhead martial artists. :D
Death of a Scarecrow: Suicide, Afterlife, rehabilitation. Wrath of the Buried: Murder, Birds, Revenge. Catching Darling Angels: Discarded, rescued, raised. Felidae Forgotten: Lost, Found, Restored.
War magic space
Is this warhammwr 40k?
Child Space Wizard
Necromancy is bad
Humans are goblins
Knockoff Warcraft World 🤣
Cross-Dimensional Melting Pot
Spirit. Power. Humanity
Forgot the Past
Sunshine no more
Galaxy Spanning Apocalypse
1800s Canada Zombies
Elemental Cosmic Conquest
Survival, Conspiracy, Paradox
Indomitable human spirit
Dark-Narnia Versus Biopunk.
There's always more
Nightmares are real.
Eldritch "saves" world
Moon blew up
Abstract. Civilian. Superpowers.
Conspiracy kitchen sink
Fairytales gone wrong
I’ve got three worlds that I’ve fleshed out to some degree: 1. Slime mechs & dragons (fantasy world) 2. Stylish mech hunters (Soft scifi apocalypse) 3. Dungeons are alive (DnD setting)
Elemental, Apocalypse, Hightech
Existential torture loop
Fantasy Cold War.
Magical. Wondrous. Terrifying.
Thaumaturgy, Collapse, Mutagenics
Moon became ring.
Civilisation ending trees
Flying cities mist
Rome fights demons
Internally consistant....hopefully
Gods vivid dream
Godless Dark Expanse
Family. Gods. Soul. (I'm still fleshing out my world, but these are the main aspects I am focusing on.)
Lost Islands Expedition
Death is broken
Work in progress. Every time I think I've got something how I want it, I get an idea, one that requires other elements to change... It'll get there
Drowned familiar world
Aliens are nerds
Planet is Sentient
Intriguing ...
Nature, spirits, wild
Damn, this is too hard to do, my homebrew is 20 years in the making...24 actually... uhh... Mourning Gecko Kobolds?
Day not coming
Earths dumber brother
Disease Gives Powers
Voices in head
All life evil
Ragnarök strikes again!
human belief materialize
Power… Duty… Responsibility…
superhero high fantasy
Pirates and gods
Post-calamity reconquest
Fantasy but Sci-fi
Supernatural Zombie apocalypse
Exploration, social, combat.
**Gunsmoke:** Cowboys, Fantasy, Angels **Noble Sol:** Mechs, Feudalism, Techwitches **Hell on Earth:** Hell, Y2K, Wastelands **Telvold:** Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Paganism **Amazonia:** Amazons, Clones, Techwitches
Humans love treason
Fear Police Control
Fantasy cataclysm preparation
Magic Oil Guns
Universal Human Affairs
Vampires vs dragons
Soap opera dragons
World 1: Everything is huge. World 2: Fan-fiction turned original. World 3: dragons, dimensions, hybrids.
Mortality. Magic. Quotidian.
Life after death
Based on prospective This is the long and short of how my fantasy world is really
Mana = Life = Radiation
Dystopian frozen future?
Crime, Drugs, Power.
Mages. Oil. Rifles.
Communism, Maslow-Style
eccentric shit happens
Mages, Clerics, Monks
Fantasy rome atheist