It is the capital of what was once a great empire. But the empire has fallen into decline due to a strange circumstance throwing its governance into chaos....

It all began one day after a sandstorm blew in the night before. The citizens did not remember the day before. They acted as if the previous day had never happened, and simply re-enacted that day to the best ability they could - of course, things would be altered if someone called them on the strange repetition, confusing them with the absurdity of living the same day twice. Until, someone noticed....

There was a man slain in a mugging yesterday. But here he was today, alive and well. Until the mugging repeated itself, and he died again. Tomorrow he will also die. Again and again, except where someone intervenes.

The city is caught in a time-loop. Every night, a sandstorm blows in and wipes away the last twenty-four hours. For over two hundred years, the capital has re-lived the same day. But the rest of the world moves on. The empire fell into chaos with the emperor unable to effectively govern, trapped in time as he is. Over the ages, different approaches have been tried - looping the court in has proven inefficient, just re-teaching two hundred years of history every single day. And answering so many questions with just "we don't know." Cutting them out is... messy. Trying to establish a new capital can be misunderstood as rebellion, and the emperor mobilizes forces to put it down. It's just one city and just one day. But their resources always reset, so it would be a fight without end.

The Great Charade is the current solution. A new capital exists, but a phony court is still held. Delude the emperor and his court into thinking he still wields power. Appease him with false platitudes and enough red tape that nothing he demands is accomplished before the nightly reset.

Assuming fantasy races were not created by gods, why are there so many sapient species around that share so many attributes, i.e. humanoid?

This is somewhat of a joke but I actually think it's an interesting concept. Side note, imagine ATLA's intro but Katara goes through the entire periodic table

We're at a new age- the age of the influencer/social media is wrapping up and coming to an end. Now it's all about AI. :x

Every-living-one is immortal.

Suffer a stroke? Immortal.
Attacked with a knife? Immortal.
Victim of a nuclear explosion? Immortal.
Does not know if there will be a day after today? Immortal.
It has arrived the time for the Sun to eat the whole Earth? Immortal.
Your ship's superluminal drive was defective, and you felt at a black hole? Immortal.
Dog? Immortal.

i have built a world in which people get their powers from a special serum which has to be injected into the bloodstream and then the person gets his power known simply as "buffs", the serum is actually the blood of the gods of the said world and the plot slowly reveals how and when that serum got into existence, other minor details:

the serum cannot get finished as it can be diluted infinitely by adding fresh blood of any organism smarter than a dog

only a select group of individuals are aware of the existence of this serum

the serum is not homogeneous, as it is made of the blood of gods, the type and level of buff you will get will depend directly on which god's blood has been injected.

the liquid is completely inert and cannot be altered with in any manner and can only be diluted by blood, if mixed with any other liquid, it will stay separate from said liquid, but can be heated in order to make it more concentrated

yes, in case of too much injection of the blood, the user will awaken a buff that can and will kill the user.

those are some details about my power system, apart from the discussed topics, ask any other burning and unanswered questions related to my power system

I don't know if I'll get any prompts, but I thought I might as well try, I need some questions to answer.

My world revolves around a magic system centered on trains. Enchanted Trains that magically shift between our world and a dimension very different than our own, the Black Railway. They exit in flashes of lightning and on tracks that quickly appear beneath them, starting and ending wherever they need to be (not controlled by the conductor or anyone for that matter, seems to have a mind of its own.) Train robberies, train fights, and other such activities ensue, you get the gist.

I've some stuff built out (the names of the countries that sort of kind of replace the US, some minor history details, a few characters, some ideas about how the magic works,) but what questions are still begging to be answered about it?

For extra points we are working with early modern weapons, swords, daggers, spears, muskets , mace, and so on.

when I say "sci fi technology" I mean stuff like casual FTL (ala Star Wars) as well as gravity generation, inertial dampening, extremely fast sublight travel and fast terraforming. That sort of thing

and when I say "group" I mean everything from unrecognized nations (like Kurdistan and Palestine) to separatist movements (Texas secessionists, Scottish Nationalists, you get the idea) to purely ideological groups (like Communist movements that want a place to start, or ethnic and/or racial nationalists) so long as it has more than 1000 people desiring it and proposing it, they get their own system

I am working on worldbuilding, and I have come up with the main stuff, but I need to make a WORLD, so I need a lot more stuff. Spit out any ideas you have! no bad ideas in brainstorming and spitballing. If you want, I can even credit you for any ideas I end up using! :) I'm looking for stuff like:

• Political figures (royalty, politicians, gods, etc.)
• mythical creatures (hybrids, shrunk/enlarged animals, completely imagined species, etc.)
• artifacts
• armor & weaponry
• legends/myths
• traditions & historical events
• other creative fantasy stuff :>

what do you think?

What do you think

In my world, there are a number of godlike beings, called Devourers, that utilize psychic power to exert their will. This psychic power is provided by the psyweave, aka the sixth dimension, which acts as the hub between different universes that holds them together. The Devourers have created this universe, and all others, and power physics with their will. Most also create special "deific elements" not possible through regular chemistry, either for personal use or for use by panhumanity, that have special effects that may bend physical properties around them under certain stimuli. Devourers are also biological creatures, meaning they reproduce, and while they may bend their physical form to their preference, almost all take the form of their natural biological state present from birth, namely, an armored worm-eel thingy. They do vary wildly in size, color, pattern, and design of armor, however, usually made of a deific element.

So, what is all of this for?

Well, they are biological creatures that reproduce, and yet I have a disappointingly small amount despite that fact. So, I turn to you, dear redditor, to help me create more Devourers. Go wild!

Link to this world's AMA, which should provide some needed information about the world in general: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/10mvico/journey_to_the_end_of_time_an_ama/

Here's a comment from another post that should give you a good idea of what most Devourers are like: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/10s95xl/what_are_your_gods_names_and_what_are_their/j70x26m/?context=3

Is this exploitative? Yes.

Do I care? No.

After the release and subsequent popularity of the song "Africa" by Toto in 1982, there have been no vampires in Africa. It turns out through a divine loophole that millions fervently crying out "I bless the rains down in Africa" or worse "God bless the rains down in Africa" is enough to make the entirety of Africa inhospitable to vampires, due the the rainwater spontaneously turning into holy water.

Story prompts:

What happens as the vampires first realize the rain is turning holy?

What about when they evacuate Africa and encroach on other territories?

How are these vampires and by extension the song "Africa" responsible for notable events since 1982?

God, I laughed so hard when I thought of this.

(reposted from r/worldbuilding because I didn't know about this subreddit when I posted):

There are three Faerie Courts. You've probably heard of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. For a time, that's all there was. But as humanity reached for the stars, some fey took interest in their interest. With the advent of a few satellite colonies and a moon base (and later, even Mars!), there came a demand for smuggling operations so that pixies, sprites, gremlins, and more could see these same sights. It was a demand that changelings and other human-passing fey were quite equipped to meet.

And among those clever fey was none other than Robin Goodfellow. Yes, Puck himself. And one day, on a whim, Puck departed for Mars, telling Oberon off and declaring those who live beyond the earth are no longer part of Oberon's domain. Nay, they are now a part of Robin Goodfellow's court - the Astroseelie Court!

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Like how people thought dinosaurs were purely scaley, but now know they were probably more feathered than scaled

Magic is allowed. Ignore gravity.

The building site which the "world's tallest skyscraper" was built on was previously the site for the two-storey "Imperial Cultural Museum" and most cities and towns in the African Empire did not have any buildings taller than a few stories, with the tallest building in the imperial capital being "just 75 meters high".