Worldbuilding Tapestries

World Anvil 1st year anniversary with honours to all amazing supporters, volunteers and friends from the first year on the back (only on the t-shirt!)

Cultural References Influences In Final Fantasys Worldbuilding

Embark on an extraordinary adventure through the captivating realms of fantasy islands and enchanted landscapes. Unleash your creativity as a map builder, crafting intricate worlds brimming with magic and wonder. Discover hidden treasures, encounter pirates, and navigate shimmering seas that beckon with promises of excitement. As you explore lush forests and traverse pristine beaches, let your vector illustration maps capture the essence of this enchanting realm. Your creations will inspire wanderlust and ignite the imaginations of those who dare to venture into this fantastical world of endless possibilities.

The Last Of Us Episode 2: The Cordyceps Fungus Explained

Miskatonic University Lovecraftian Horror

Margaret Atwood​​ once quoted saying In the end, we’ll all become stories. Oscar Wilde lightly quipped It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. On Writing within Memoir of the Craft, Stephen said If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time to write. So what time does George RR have to finish Winds of Winter? I love this one out of them all, you don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them by Ray Bradbury. Considering people don't read beyond headlines with our short attention spans, books are being burned digitally.

The Teaching of Great Humility is an official religion of the Swampland. Since 90% of all newts profess Great Humility, a large number of teachers serve in the Swamp Army. In the Army, teachers receive military training and combine the positions of commander and clergyman.

Bad Rolls Make Great Stories Tabletop RPG

"...By the law of the Highest Heaven, marriages between mice and newts are prohibited. If there are scoundrels who are able to spit on the Heavenly will, the investigators of the Department will take over them..."

I Want to Believe Cosmic Horror

Make Lovecraft Not War Funny Cosmic Horror

Cthulhu Cosmic Horror Emblem

Drak elves are tall and slender beings with gray or blue skin, yellow or red eyes, long black hair, pointed ears, and intricate tattoos who are intelligent, cunning, assertive, ambitious, skilled in magic and warfare, possess a high regard for tradition, and can be vengeful and cruel.

So many characters should have died but didn't because they were a plot device for the story or it's a third-rate anime where no one dies, no matter how much damage they take or how dead they look before the episodic cliff-hanger. If only we had to live with this armor to keep us safe in real life.

Miskatonic University Education Open Doors

For a thousand generations the Brethleens have crossed the desert of Knoth. And for a thousand generations, the Maerblyng shamans have awaited them. A new shaman passes their initiation into the Rites of Knoth by choosing and riding one of the Brethleens through all the long miles of the migration.

An unlikely party of adventurers from all over the world of Tethea: Bee, Evrin, Eris, Veril, and Vivi (yeah, she's a skeleton, don't even worry about it). They're traveling along a forest trail, just to see where it'll lead. This is an illustration for my personal worldbuilding project, the planet Tethea. It's the setting of Karali, my webcomic (which is currently on indefinite hiatus).