So sorcerers have their own innate power, wizards study magic in order to wield it, and warlocks bargain for power from other beings. But what puts a magic user into the classification of a witch?

I wanna write a story to critique/criticize the moral complaceny and apathy that many individuals hold about modern societal and social issues, specially white men.

The story takes place in a near future (2029-2032 ish), post war America and the main premise of the story is that white men are scapegoated as the common denominator for violence, oppression, and discrimination. In this world they now face all those things… the newest legislation dictates that white men are banned from procreating with white women as a way of eliminating the race slowly.

I want to build this world in a way where women and minorities can go “this world is heinous but I wouldn’t mind living here as it wouldn’t impact me”

I’ve never world built before… so this feels overwhelming! Where should I start and how should I go about it?

So my world building writing goes like this -- A group of 200 sinners stood before the god they commited heinous crimes on earth for which they were going to hell after the long lecture of the god many of them cried for mercy, God thrown them in a world where they'll get different superpowers based on their personality or backstory they can pick any weapon to fight with other 199 sinners the last surviving sinner will go to heaven. For example a guy named Lynx got hit by thunderstorms raining upon him for few seconds then he remembers his past of mercilessly electrocuting people then he chose silver rod out of every weapon laid arond the ground. Is this concept unique if not which other drama/movie is based on the following details?

I'm wondering if there are any videos online from people pretending to be a character from a fantasy world, but making videos online is a normal thing to do. Like they would make top ten videos on the best magic element to have, or drama videos about celebrities in the fantasy world. Are there any channels that are purely like that?

So I’m creating this kind of sci fi dystopian world for a screenplay. It basically takes place in 2070 in the fictional city called Celestia City. It’s your typical cyberpunk city minus flying cars. But what makes it different is bio enhancements . Which are surgeries and products people can undergo to rearrange various parts of their physiology from wanting to look prettier to military enhancements. Bio enhancement is an integral part of the cities economy and many people use it. But those that use illegal bio enhancements are hunted down by a special police force. This force are the only people who are given authority to use these bio enhancements to dispatch bio enhanced criminals. I literally just thought about this idea now and I just wanted some feedback

Even if it's just a basic list, I finally managed to get something on paper and told myself what I will develop more than other stuff. And apologize for my bad writing.

If I make a continent with lions, zebras, giraffes and elephants, people will go: Oh this is this world's "Africa". Likewise, a continent with coalas, cangaroos and dingos will be "Australia".

How do you avoid this problem and make continents that aren't just pendants to ones we have on earth?

Hi I’m still pretty much a novice at this, but this is a map design for a continent. The rift in the west is caused by two tectonic plates moving towards each other, and there’s a meteor crater in the north. My inspiration was the Scottish highlands and Hebridean islands, and the Scandinavian coastline. Let me know your thoughts.

My writing project is meant to a retelling of a world's history from meteor storm of 3,000BCE to the modern day and beyond. I have this problem of making names too long, like how do I make a country for Northen elves, combine the Venetian and Swedish translation of Sweden to make Svesithland, I can barely pronounce it myself. Currently we are in the age of discovery and HWC or Holandic West Carabia trading company is at war with the Dakishin, just southner in Hindi, and the HWC is wining, I am trying to come up with a name for this rebel general who is upset at the war effort and wants to end the war and make his kingdom prosper again so he plans to coup the current king.

If you see anything wrong please point it out, but a more pressing matter for me is coming up with a name for this guy, I would like the name to be one of the three, Indianan, Pakistani or Bengal

so, i’m an artist, and i wanna draw things from other creators, like places, characters, anything :D sorry if this is against the rules but yeah, completely for free (if you use it online i’d like atleast some credit, but obviously it’s your world/ocs)

I've been worldbuilding for, quite a while, and in recent years it's been more attempting to worldbuild, than actually worldbuild, and it's really disappointing/discouraging on my end, because I've been at a complete standstill with all of my ideas. When I was younger I was able to do shit on command, however I don't know exactly when, but I've sort've lost it? But now I've gotten profusely anal about "realism." Other comments on posts like this usually say something about "verisimilitude" and that makes sense... but I have a hard time seeing verisimilitude in things if they aren't realistic...

It's been starting to bleed out of just my worldbuilding, I've started to get nitpicky and anal about the media I consume, at some point shit's not gonna be fun anymore unless I can somehow get over the realism. I miss being able to just spew shit out of the "rule of cool" or escapism, it was nicer back then.

TL;DR. I've gotten profusely anal about worldbuilding and I don't know how to stop, please help

so basically im making this space opera style world with this really expanice magic system and cosmology and also features 2 orders one good one evil(inspired by the jedi/sith from star wars). the good one is named "arcadian dawn" and is committed to saving the innocent, defending the galaxy, healing and inspiring change, harmony and the preservation of complexity while its antithesis does the exact opposite. i am requesting a name for this anti-organization.

i would like this name to:
reflect the organizations values of insanity, torment, cruelty and chaos
feature original words that evoke feelings of hell or nihilism

thank you for contributing if you choose to do so!

Succubus condition is a magical affliction that effects humans elves and vampires. It's causes one to need sexual energy from another being. Well mostly found in females many males have also been known to have this condition. And indicator is pink eyes and hair.

Culture

Well succubus are mostly portrayed as seductive and lustful, studies indicate that most succubus have a severe case of mental anxiety and depression. This is caused by ostracization and discrimination, but also there need to sell their bodies to stay alive. The natural mentality of succubus are no different than ordinary people. There a mental state is comparable to many in the prostitute industry.

Magic

Elder Succubus are known to be able to use a special mesmerizing magic.

Treatment.

Humans: In human society they are very look down upon and face much discrimination. However in recent years there have risen many efforts to give benefits to succubus, such a law that prohibits discrimination and an organization called the Succubus Rights League.

Elves: Succubus treatment varies. In many of society they are ostracized. But in some sects, most notably, The Pick Hue order, they are priestesses

Vampires: most vampires don't see succubus condition as anything special, and see it more like medical condition

I've accepted that I am the only one that will ever care about my worlds. (Ok, I haven't completely accepted, so advice on how to more completely accept that would be appreciated) How do I stay motivated?

Maybe there's even some type of advantage to creating a world that exists only for myself (although I'm not exactly sure what that advantage would be at the moment). Any input on this subject is very welcome.

I care a lot about one world that I've been working on for years. I like writing, and would like to continue the hobby, but the more that I accept that no one cares, the more I seem to lose motivation. How do I maintain motivation to continue only for myself.

Any input is genuinely and sincerely appreciated.

First of all, let's start with the planet; Potentia pronounced by a majority of people on the planet as Pa - ten - (harsh "Kh") - jya. and no the J is not a typo. I referenced that this is a majority that pronounces it that way but there are also multiple different languages i haven't really developed since this is kinda prolonged but the second pronunciation which is a formal version is Po - tena - sh - yuh.

Now, let's move on to the major countries...

• United Republic of Diceantra

• Based off of USA/France

• New Superpower ( founded a century ago )

• kinda stratocratic due to the foreign infliction of unrest onto the country

• Holds elections after the president has served their 8th term and can only prolong by 2 years unless judicial electors agree with 4 which is rare. Most presidents only span for 3-5 years because the president can't really tell the people what they are gonna do so it is just pure aristocracy which will lead to further events...

Republic of Trovidum

• In a civil war, and it's analyzed to last for decades due to the situation.

• Really old country, one of the very first countries to exist

• Was #1 in everything till it started to strain dramatically after its pre-civil war broke out causing it to become the most underdeveloped country ever.

• The leader just disappeared when the civil war started, most people suspect he got killed when the civil war started but high ranked ministers and leaders of Trovidum have intel about what is happening with him.

• Used to be extremely beautiful till the Bombing of Trov causing immense damage, wildfire, infrastructure and political delay, economic challenges, and started the civil war.

• Mha'Ahmar Dynasty

-Based off of Indochina and Indonesia, and polynesia.

• lots of islands

• big cultural sphere due to it having extreme media ties and being the main country for media

• basically hollywood

• language is like mixed with Turkish, Persian, and then Vietnamese, weird right?

• recently had a media crisis and freaked EVERYONE out causing literal riots ( and like a bunch of major celebrity deaths )

• very snakey and is like the popular girl.

• Khaatan

• Mha'Ahmar Dynasty's husband ( they divorced 272837 times )

• Russia, Baltics, and Slavic countries.

• owns the Khaa Peninsula in Atlar ( atlar is a continent)

• the climate is mediterranean temperate but then it can be bipolar and you will turn into dust and fry up dry like a raisin

• doing suspicious diplomatic affairs with other countries and securing its borders

• hates the URD because it kinda sucks.

Locraises

• op

• roman empire politics x british empire territory

• it's so op but is scared to collapse due to the URD revolution that occurred and caused national unrest ( 3.7 Million died in just 2-2.5 years ) but that might be changing...

• rich culture and like fancy extravaganza. It's like dubai but it's an entire empire.

• Secretive politics, literally the civilians don't even know how the politics work except for local laws and all that common sense, so it's very peaceful and de-polarized but it can have sudden episodes of chaos where one day you have a meditation session and the next your next door neighbor is bashing your newborns head into the concrete while 837292 domain coups happen across the country, but nobody knows how to manage the government so they just resign.

• high education and civilians are very relaxed and especially formal and respectful but they can crash out sometimes causing the chaos.

Erisian Empire

• Byzantines

• You will see very... interesting... things there, like people doingthingsin plain sight.

• very peaceful and you can optionally have privacy, culture in the area does not care about having privacy but will respect if you want privacy.

• birth rates are amazing.

• Do not let an erisian see a slip of the skin, you might have an army of babies the next day.

• hella powerful and they love that because they will never endingly glaze themselves with billions of bottles of something called ego because they're ego is as big as-

• major power but is definitely not an empire, hasn't invaded a country in decades and still adopts an imperialistic doctrine of invading other countries, and most civilians love violence but that's why they are so 🦄. because their culture states that if they cannot control their violence they should control it with love.

Kingdom of the Iduchu

• semi-big

-ottomans but aren't religiously tied.

• rising hegemony over non-major/non-semi-major powers because they are like the pretend popular kid, even though they are actually the popular kid.

• architecture is like very preserved and is really bulky and blocky.

• has an extreme egotistical attitude with bordering countries because like all of them kinda "stole" their land

That's it, please ask questions or suggest something , and PLEASE let me know if u want to know more about these countries or other countries.

I've noticed this through quite a lot of fantasy - oftentimes, the polytheistic religion of the fantasy world has gods that are evil and toy with people, but if you see fantasy media with only one deity, often it's the opposite. There are examples of evil monotheistic gods in fantasy, I'm sure, but much less in comparison to evil pantheons.

I've never understood this, coming from a polytheistic religion myself. I can't think of many examples off the top of my head with positive depictions of a polytheistic fantasy religion. Is it because of a common bias among fantasy writers? A fear that it'll be too close to being seen as critiquing the church?

I am genuinely curious if anyone has any insight on this, or has even noticed this trend over the years, because trying to search for it online doesn't really bring anything up.

Do your criminal organizations have unique origins or structures due to your setting?

You know, things that have no explanation, even in your notes. It could be incomplete, it could be intentional, but do y’all have anything like that ?

The setting is in the 1890s with no magic, monsters, or steampunk aesthetics. I already have battles, wars, court cases, leaders, a couple of villains, colonies, major cities, natural disasters, landmarks, major companies, military regiments, states, and money. You could be anyone or anything besides from a major player like a world leader. You could also name something like a small town or an archaeological site after something from your own life or a world you have. The choices of countries are: Carindan, inspired by Britain and France with 3 colonies on the continent of Dereca (Carindanian East and North Dereca and Clawdawn Colony), is a Democracy. Rodalia, inspired by America and Imperial Rome with 5 colonies (New Beaxtolk, New Iredaw, Rodalian West and Couth Dereca and Saint Wectal), is an aristocracy, Yttral, inspired after China and Japan with 1 colony (Cape Masedrew), is a monarchy, Salat, inspired by Saudi Arabia and Egypt with no colonies, is a monarchy, Myril, inspired after 1939-1945 Germany, North Korea, and Brazil with 2 colonies (Meltill and Saint Sasaket), is a dictatorship, and Bralan, inspired after the Norse culture and North European countries, is a monarchy. You could be a leader of the Salatian oil industry, a wealthy Rodalian aristocrat, a Carindanian suffragette trying for women's rights, a high-ranking member of the NIC (New Iredaw Co, inspired after EIC), a Yttralian military general or strategist trying for their worth on the battlefield, or a Myrillian revolutionary trying for freedom and to triumph over the dictator Edward Spallton.

I am working on a sci-fi setting and one of my alien races can't have chocolate. It is like a drug to them, or a poison. I am not sure which.

This might sound like criticism but it's advice:

People can do what they will with their worldbuilding projects but this trope seems kinda overdone. When there's any form of revolution or social clash between classes historical there's always a group of either wealthy or royal members that supports the revolution either for their own gain or for ideological purposes. Doing a world where EVERY wealthy person is somehow evil is just unrealistic and often makes a lot of projects with a lot of potential very cartoony (when they are clearly aiming for something more complex).

Maybe the word "Philosophy" sounds bad, but it is the closest to what I mean.

What are they moral principles? How do they think society or the world should be? Are there different ways of thinking that conflict with each other?