Aberrant Earth is a setting in which our planet, as we know it, has experienced the sudden and total disappearance of all human life - and in their place, strange and myriad creatures roam the land, slowly making it into a new home.

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Across the late night skies of post-human Earth, Flybiters are occasionally seen soaring, if one has a keen eye. Fast, silent, airborne nighttime predators, and to top it all off - wholesome family figures.

Flybiters normally travel in small groups made of a few families, rarely more than a dozen total specimens. They migrate often every few months in order to link up with other families and let younger generations splinter off into new groups with new mates. As such, just about any environment can become their hunting grounds, but they generally prefer forested areas or anywhere else with structures they can take shelter in during the daytime.

In the dark hours, Flybiters make use of their ability to freely levitate, as well as their impeccable night vision, to hunt down and silently swipe prey to feast upon. This normally takes the form of birds, woodland animals, or generally anything smaller than them that they can sink their claws and teeth into. They will stay well away from larger and more dangerous creatures as, while they’re fast and ferocious, they are also fairly frail. The last thing any Flybiter wants is for their central air sac to be punctured, as that’s a surefire way to ground them, rendering them helpless.

Flybiters start life with their legs still attached. Young are still lightweight and floaty, but unable to properly control their levitation. Once they reach adolescence, the air pressure in their legs reaches a breaking point, and they pop like corks. In the time before that happens, their parents will gently train them in simulated levitation, guiding them by their hands and helping them get a feel for it. Once their legs have popped, the open holes act sort of like pressure release tubes, allowing them to fully direct their movement. It’s at this point that they’re mature enough to hunt their own food, instead of relying on their parents. Sometime afterwards, they’re considered full adults, ready to go off into the night and start their own families elsewhere.

As the title says. How to handle overpowered characters? And how do you handle them?

I started writing a small side project thats about medieval kingdom that discovered how to forge weapons out of literally anything like the concept of a liquid, time, pain and such and later even discovered hell which they fight with. Because i just wanted to write something where the battles are incomprohensibly over the top. So i have characters that move impossibly fast, are impossibly strong and can cut through space itself. How do I handle such fights? If I can even write fights on such scale.

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I've noticed that this sub doesn't touch on religion and it's effects on other affairs such as the market.

Anyways, within Radianism and it's two branches the religion itself effects agricultural and maritime markets because of the belief that Roshen values the hard labor and determination of mortals.

In Yenisk Radianism because of the belief that Roshen requires coffee to run from Tarik, has made coffee one of the most booming products within the sect.

One of the plates made by Anataeus Vaya Al. D. as an undergraduate at the Imperial University. Preserved in a Museum located in House Soria.

This is a travel bulletin issued by the System Transit Alignment Group (STAG). It describes authorized transit lanes utilizing Mass Driver Orbitals (MDOs) and Long-range Outer Mass Driver Orbitals (LOMDOs). Routes and planetary body positions are abstracted for simplicity. Deacceleration nets are not shown.

Because Mass Driver Orbitals have the potential to be weaponized for devastating results, usage of these stations are predicated on STAG background checks and hefty registration fees. Cleared pilots are able to utilize the stations on the pre-approved travel lane, travelling an average speed of 25,000 km/s. This reduces travel time to a fraction of what would be required at conventional intersystem cruise (typically ~400 km/s). Electromagnetic "nets" are installed along specific corridors to reduce vessel speed for docking. Emergency defense nets can be installed and activated along major transportation hubs to mitigate MDO misuse and terrorism.

MDOs and LOMDOs undergo routine maintenance and security inspections. They are classified as strategic infrastructure, and tampering or unauthorized access is treated as a high-level offense under STAG intersystem law. All onboard systems are monitored remotely and locally, with redundant failsafes to prevent abuses.

Approved traffic through these lanes is logged and tracked in real time, indefinitely stored in massive data vaults for future scrutiny. Variance from the assigned corridor or any deviation from registered mass profiles triggers automatic clearance suspension pending an investigation. Pilot clearance remains a privilege, not a right, and is contingent on continued compliance.

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This is part of a retrofuture worldbuilding project called Helia. Situated somewhere in a distant galaxy, the Helia star is a stellar anomaly, having no close interstellar neighbors. Faster than light travel, including communication, cannot exist; nor do the conditions of Helia's four habitable planets allow for complex electronics. As a result, the Helian denizens travel the stars by mass drivers, vacuum tubes, and conductive fluid. Data transfer is handled by large reams of multilayered punchcards, including the power cycling sequences of their ubiquitous, massive fission reactors.

I’m trying to be more diverse in my characters but the fact that I’m white makes it hard to know a good way to describe people of different skin colors, heights (ie little people), etc.

My world building includes the whole world since it’s an apocalyptic world so I need to be inclusive with different types of people, but I’d like to be a bit more obvious in my descriptions.

Any suggestions?

In Parthos, the most dangerous city is known as Deepspire, a city that stretches miles beneath the land. It is the most populous city in Parthos, and features massive economic disparity between the wealthy topsiders and increasingly destitute lower populations.

Due to rampant sickness, lack of real sunlight, and monster incursions from the hollow dark, there are many ways to die in Deepspire.

So what about your worlds? What would you say is the most dangerous city and why?

Here's a rough copy of the fantasy map Im currently working on. It's a medieval style world with hints of realism intertwined.

I would love to know your first impressions are when you look at this map. What stands out? Who looks powerful? Who looks vulnerable? What critics do you have? This is a rough overview of my fantasy world but I'm open to criticism and discussion to help improve my world building. Thanks for stopping by!

I have a lot of characters/ events that occur and am wondering if there is a resource that is specifically built/ made for this?

I've recently taken to try and gather my mess of a project from across 3-4 different sites into one collective writing program [Obsidian], and it got me thinking- "wow, I have no idea how to even begin organizing everything."

Besides super basic concepts like Characters and Nations, which I got as folders, that I want to add to later, but I have quiet literally no other idea what else I could include. I could just be blanking, but some broader subjects [landscapes, magic, timeline] I don't know if I should split up for better organization.

What categories do you all split up your works into? Tell me some snippets about your worlds and why you split up the way you do!

“The Edge of the World” is a setting in my story where the oddities of this new planet culminate in a remarkable place of calm vastness.

The South Pole of Eden features Salora, a single large continent which sits at an annual 23° Celsius. The winds are calm and refreshing, the air is without scent or sound and the sky is forever dark and beautiful. The rumbles of the encompassing thunderstorms keep the stillness from stagnating, and the aurora of clouds illuminated by the halo of stars never let you forget how good it feels to just stand and look at the world you’ve stumbled into.

Depending on where you find yourself, the sky has something to offer. Near the coasts, the barrier of clouds creates a delta of heavenly light, while further south might let you gaze upon the stars not lassoed by Talsiyon, the gravitational heart of this system. And at the centre of this continent, you might just be able to look up and see him. A pitch black mass of unexplainable size. Talsiyon, an enormous star occluded by light-months of elements waiting to be devoured.

The grounds here are endless fields of alien life thriving in the shadows. Windswept plains with plants as soft as feathers and curious creatures who glow in the dark.

I can’t think of what I’d give to retire in a house on the coast, watching the ocean flutter and the stars above slowly arc by. The only place that never feels like home and yet always feels safe. I’ll have to draw what that place would look like— after all, it is where my story ends. Where tomorrow is here and yesterday will be again.

Serious inquiries only. I'm a GM for GURPS and looking for someone to collab on a Fantasy medieval world. The details of the world can be etched out together. I am interested on the dark fantasy side of things, also I like lots of twisted cities, dark concepts, slavery, societies that eat each other, etc kind of world. This world definitely wouldn't be for the faint of heart.

If making a world like this for fun interests you hit me up! I will be using it for my GURPS games. If you collaborate you will can use it for your games as well!

I'm writing a setting for maybe a role playing game I am for now calling Cloudsea. The world of Cloudsea is one where land is scarce. All of the humans, terrestrial critters, and societies live on the stone Spires that rise from the misty, and haunted, Fall. Because of the limited land, the people and creatures of these Spires have limited food and resources, and knowing how to sail a skyship is a vital skill in a healthy population.

This is a low-magic setting where, besides the Hauntings that occur to those who dare travel into the Fall and the insightful Magi who understand the nature of spirits, there isn't much that defies explanation. I want this world to have an ecology and a food web that feels natural and intuitive, but I also need some deadly monsters, apex predators to bring drama and danger into the stories told in Cloudsea.

And I would like to avoid the easy route of doing dragons... however tempting that may be.

So, I want to ask the community what they think would be cool, interesting, and scary to encounter sailing their skyship through the Cloudsea?

P.S. So far I've come up with insects and birds species with gigantism. And maybe terrible lizards that can fly.

Green (it is said) shows countries where there is no linguistic distinction between "arm" and "hand"

Some say the strip along the equator may because clothing in hot countries don't cover just the arm or just the hand (sleeves and gloves).

Are their any linguistic quirks in your world caused by clothing/temperature?

I'm 13 years old and I have a world with lots of island based on certain places on earth with my own flair added.There is lots of animals and nations with the more advanced nations having 17th to 18th century technology and most of the islands are unexplored.

These are most of the islands!

Southern Isles:

The largest continent of the explored world and home to the kingdom of Whitecrest, the world’s largest nation. It is made up of several large islands and many more small ones. It is Tropical to Sub-Tropical Climates with many species of fish, birds, and mammals.

South American/Africa Continent:

The second largest continent of the explored world housing a few large nations within the several large islands and smaller surrounding. It has a tropical, sub-tropical and arid environment/climate with an extremely wide array of birds, reptiles, fish and mammals across many habitats.

Hawaii Inspired Islands:

A chain of volcanic islands, one of the first to be mapped and discovered by major nations. It is home to a large indigenous population within its few main islands and small ones surrounding them. It has a tropical environment hosting an extremely biodiverse ecosystem of many animals.

Aroha Islands:

First explored and mapped around 100 years ago with a couple main islands and smaller scattered ones. It has a tropical environment but with not enough land for large forest growth. It has a large population of tortoises, birds, iguanas, small mammals and many fish in the surrounding waters. It has no known native population.

Northern/New World:

First discovered in the northern expeditions around 40 years ago with many chains of islands and large single islands with an extremely cold to temperate climate and almost sub tropical climate in the south in summer. Most of the land goes through seasons with and without snow. It is widely unexplored with an extremely diverse and large indigenous population and many mammals, birds and fish. It is still being explored more and more every day with the start of new settlements of large nations along with new nations being forged within them. There has been a few conflicts with the newcomers and the natives as well as other nations but many peaceful negotiations as well. It is a very mysterious and dangerous place with much unknown about it.

Caldonia:

Very newly discovered chain of tropical islands with many forests, scrubland and sub-tropical savannahs and wildlife within them. It is possibly a moderately sized chain of islands starting to be mapped and explored only within the last two months. There had been few expeditions so far with no know native population yet and a quite large population of birds and reptiles, more specifically geckos.

Suthralia:

A quite large single island with smaller island surrounding with many birds, mammals, insects, reptiles and amphibians. It has a quite large aboriginal population with many cultures. The island has many diverse habitats including rainforest, rocky coasts and outback. Not explored by white man yet.

New Zealand Inspired Island:

A medium island on the east coast of Suthralia with mainly birds and reptiles and amphibians with little to no mammals. It has a wider variety of habitats from humid tropical rainforest to snowy mountain grasslands. There is a large native population spread across some of the island. It is also undiscovered by white man.

South-East Asia Island Chain:

A large chain of islands undiscovered by white man with a very large native population with advanced technologies, city’s, markets and religion and languages. There is many islands in it with a large main island as well. It had a tropical climate with rainforests, jungles, wetlands and tropical grasslands with tons of animals within.

Auritia:

A smaller undiscovered tropical to sub-tropical climate island blocked off from any large islands with no native population and an extremely unique and biodiverse ecosystem of birds and reptiles with no large predators which are very different from those of the mainlands.

Caribbean/Central America:

Yet to be named and explained.