#worldbuilding

[dead-end-draws]

WOF tribe Merchant/Trading booth concepts:

Hey folks! This one was the recent winner of this WOF poll, so here’s my concept art that headcannons trading in Pyyria.

Read below cut for close-ups of the individual booths + the thought process / headcannons behind the design choices: 👇

Skywings: The Sky Kingdom’s mountain ranges provide plenty of pasture for raising sheep. As such, Skywing shepherds benefit from traveling to sell their wool, dyes, fabric, and woven tapestries. Many of these merchant tables also include herbs grown exclusively in the mountains, or ibex drinking horns that can be strapped on a dragon’s shoulder & carried in flight.

Along with goods, Skywing merchants may offer sewing services to fix tears, burn marks, or other fabric damage. They are sought out for their quality clothing, and most fabric across Pyyria originated from a Skywing’s talons.

Mudwings: Mudwings’ abundant food & cooking skills are envied almost anywhere in Pyrria. Their swamps have fertile soil, responsible for hosting diverse crops which can be purchased as produce at merchant stalls. For those lucky enough to find a traveling Mudwing merchant, the promise of a delicious dish can be whipped up and served at the stall in no time. Along with produce goods, Mudwings sell weaved baskets, spices, and cooking ware.

Sandwings: Sandwing booths offer luxuries of the desert: It’s most common to find accessories such as gold carved jewelry or musical instruments such as drums, lyres, & mandolins for sale. Though, even more sought out across Pyrria is Sandwing tattoos/piercings, which are done within the merchant areas. Ink etchings on papyrus paper are stationed outside their tents to showcase designs. All which can be selected, and poked into the skin with a tapping stick and plant dye ink by a trained talon.

Seawings: SeaWings sell a variety of ocean related goods; taking a share in the fish market with Icewings. Outside of food, there are den decorations like driftwood carvings, accessories such as seashell & pearl jewelry, and rope nets weaved by expert Seawing sailors. Some Seawings even sell fishing equipment, canoes, or offer sailor knot tying instructions to curious dragon buyers.

Nightwings: During the war, it was near impossible to find a Nightwing merchant. Most refused to participate in merchant territory, mostly as a way to keep up with their tribe’s mysterious nature.

Though in the more shady, unground parts of the market you can buy from a huge selection of obsidian weaponry, the sharpest in Pyyria. No one knew initially how Nightwings smithed so many weapons, or why, until their secret volcano kingdom and the intention to invade the rainforest was discovered. Then forging armor & weapons became clear. Along with a vast armory, for the right price, some Nightwing merchants offer Prophecies & Nightwing Literature (not always guaranteed to always be reliable) and assassin services as well (very reliable).

Rainwings: Though Rainwings haven’t been part of Pyyria’s trading for years, they have a vast hold on dragon medicine. An apothecary of herbs, salves, and remedies are all offered for various ailments due to the rainforest’s abundant resources. Along with medicinal goods, many Rainwings are fruit vendors, promising to any hesitant meat-eating dragons that such an array of flavors isn’t to be missed. Though, their fruit selling pitches often fall flat to most other predominantly meat-eating tribes.

Icewings: Icewings have everything a dragon could need to brace the cold, with a selection of goods only found in the most frigid regions of Pyyria. Furs, bone jewelry, and fresh fish (thanks to frost breath) are served on ice. Though Icewings themselves don’t require fur to withstand the cold, it’s considered fashionable and common in upper ranks to wear fur as a status symbol. Since metal is hard to smith without fire & in cold temperatures, fur and bone are more accessible to Icewings for clothing statements.

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[exobiotica]

A Giant Forest Walker

#art #alien #space #creature #astrobiology #creature design #artist #exobiology #speculative evolution #worldbuilding #science fiction #scifiart

[clownsaint]

trench soldier, pt 1 Death is a small mercy experienced a few times a week

#clownsaint #oc #worldbuilding #character design #horror #ersatz

[requinoesis]

how do the sharks in your universe deal with parasites like ommatokoita and copepods?

Oh, that's a very specific question hehe

Well, they developed arms, so naturally they got rid of the parasites with their bare hands. The parasites developed new tactics like attaching themselves to parts of the body that the sharkfolk probably couldn't reach. But then a sense of community blossomed, so they got rid of each other's parasites until they finally invented natural repellents to apply to their skin.

As they adapted to the surface of the sea, they never came into contact with these parasites again, but they found other problems to deal with on the surface, mainly related to fungi ~

In relation to the Ommatokoita, the civilization who have Greenland Sharks as their original ancestors, known as "Longevians", probably had a cultural and spiritual connection with this parasite. They believed that allowing themselves to be blinded by the parasite throughout their lives gave rise to new senses that perceived a hidden reality, saying that they could see the 'essence' of life forms and thus discover whether they were mentally or physically ill. With the rise to the surface of the sea and the arrival of the modern age, this slowly became folklore and the tradition was lost.

The parasite that specifically affected the ancient Longevian sharkfolk has never been found in the wild again, only a few remain alive living in the eyes of elders who are more than five centuries old, probably extinguished by the abandonment of the practice.

I wrote some more details in the alt text of the illustrations if you want to check ~ I hope you enjoy! 🦈✨ I wanted to thank whoever asked this question! I've been stuck with art for a few days due to my declining mental health and this has inspired me to draw a little again! I will answer the other previous questions soon ~

#shark #sharks #worldbuilding #art #illustration

[whereserpentswalk]

There are massive warships. Things that are the size of stations but that can move more swiftly through hyperspace and real space than any other object created by humans or gods. They're not like the warships you imagine, they're like entire divisions of the military, some of them have the populations of small planets, the largest of them have populations higher then earth had before industry came to it.

It only takes one of these ships to comquor a system. Though they often have smaller ships swarming them, like the microorganisms on your skin. And when they fight eachother, holes are torn in hyperspace, and heavily bodies become asteroid belts. Even the weapons that can destroy planets can't take ships like this down in one hit.

Inside the ships are entire societies, of humans, cyborgs, robots, and strange organisms generated by human science. Many of them soldiers who exist to serve as the ships troops, especially since a boarding action is the fastest way to take them down, but many are there for other reasons. You need an entire society to support a ship like that and all the troops it can carry, from workers who maintain the ship, to traders who bring new recourses on, to artists and teachers and lawyers and all the other things that end up as needed when there's that many people.

Some of these ships are so large and so deep that there are people on there who've never seen the world outside their machines of war. And some isolated parts of those ships, who've been within the depths of the endless machinery for so long, that they've lost contact with the more outwards facing parts of the ship society. Tribes and towns within the dark mechanical labyrinth who don't know they're on a warship, who don't even know planets exist.

And they say, that as the loyalty of a ship fades from the empire that built it, that the ship may come to be controlled by many nations, vying for control of the ship's flight. They say that within the depths of some war ships, wars are fought.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #writing #my worldbuilding #my writing #original fiction #flash fiction #short fiction #short story #scifi #scifi writing #scifi worldbuilding #science fantasy #science fiction #sci fi #science fiction writing #science fiction worldbuilding #space #deep space exploration #far future #spaceship #spacecraft #space exploration #outer space

[prokhorvlg]

Sketch of a robot oc from my worldbuild, SANGUINE HAZE

Designed by Honda Hokota, set up to defend Martian-Japanese assets, has gotten more erratic over time even before humanity vanished. hacked their own faceplate to produce kawaii expressions

(it's ironic because they're a computer. get it? binary? please get it)

#sunsetsystem #art #robots #worldbuilding

[mother-wilds]

#motherwilds #webcomic #worldbuilding #artists on tumblr #webtoon #nature #illustration #art #digital art #cross section #magic system

[zal-cryptid]

How long did it take for Santa and Krampus to go from enemies to lovers? And who initiated the polycule?

In my canon, Nick and Kramps first met in the Alps sometime around the turn of the second Millennium. Krampus was terrorizing a village one day, so some Christian converts called upon the Saint to come and protect the children from the demon. Krampus is technically a nature spirit, not a demon, and so Nick was having trouble figuring out how to stop the beast.

Fortunately, a young Befana was dispatched by Perchta to fetch Krampus and found the two duking it out in the town square. Thinking quickly, she created chains and shackles out of Nick's shadow, which he used to bind him successfully.

Perchta decided that it would be an apt punishment for Krampus to remain shackled to the Saint and be his twisted reflection. Krampus dispised his situation at first, expecting to be treated like some wild animal to be tamed or put on display. But Nick always treated him with respect. He always treated him like a fellow man. Perhaps it was Befana's mediation...perhaps it was Nick's "I could fix him" attitude...maybe it was even Krampus' "I could make him worse" attitude...but something eventually clicked between the three of them.

By the 14th-15th century, their love for each other became apparent. I think...I think Nick would have been the one to admit his feelings while Befana would have been the one to propose a polygamous relationship.

#ask #misfits in toyland #tales of the otherfolk #worldbuilding #lore #santa claus #krampus #befana #perchta #frau perchta #mrs. claus #st nicholas #frau holle #mythology #my art #sketches #comic #polyamory

[amethystfairy1]

If Doc had to properly court Etho, what would he do?

Cuddles! For fox hybrids lots of physicial affection is considered an act of courtship, especially literally sleeping together and also helping with grooming, like the fur on Etho's arms, tail, and ears!

Doc actually found this rather tricky because during the year they lived together before they started dating, they'd often huddle together or share a blanket for warmth, so yeah! 😆

#fanfic #ao3 fanfic #through the sky blue cracks #ttsbc #ttsbc au #doctho #docm77 #ethoslab #worldbuilding

[gfbs-the-decaying]

Prologue- 8. final | Page 8

PREVIOUS | NEXT | FIRST

#webcomic #the decaying #worldbuilding #art #zombie apocalypse #cw blood #cw animal injury #not warriors #original comic #comic page #final page of chapter #see you in a while-

[creature-wizard]

genq, but would it be ableist/stupif to use the terms(starseed, etc) for fictional worlds and worldbuilding? I assume not since its fiction, but still.

So, the reason New Age starseed mythology is ableist is because it claims traits commonly associated with autism and ADHD are actually signs that you're an alien soul incarnated in a human body. Some claim this means you might be a starseed; others go so far as to claim that autism and ADHD were made up by The Conspiracy to suppress starseeds' true nature.

So like, I don't think the term itself is inherently ableist. Like, the way Naoko Takeuchi used it in Sailor Moon wasn't ableist, because she wasn't creating a world where having characteristics associated with autism and ADHD meant you were actually a space alien. (You could argue that the Sailor Guardians are ADHD and autistic-coded, but the same is true of many Sailor Moon characters.)

I think if you're going to use the term for anything, it should be something that has nothing to do with the New Age usage whatsoever. Though personally I'd just avoid it altogether since it's so heavily associated with a very active movement that's doing a lot of harm.

#answered #writing #starseeds #starseed #worldbuilding #ableism

[extrajigs]

In the post about Octavia it said that she got smote for eating the residents of her abby, but in a previous dragon post it mentioned Maria was different than other dragons in that she prefers to not eat human flesh, which seems like it's implying that the other dragons do eat human flesh and that's considered the norm.

So what was different about Octavia's situation that angered the gods?

Astute observation! You shall be REWARDED!

Basically issue is that the word 'human' has a very loose definition in this setting. The core factor is that the Gods and all those imbued with their power have this gnarly corruption that compels one to munch on humans. Anything that sates this hunger is therefore considered 'human'. Which includes regular folks, mutilated beasties, dragons, abbies, or even the blood ocean itself! Most dragons hunt the monsters around their Abattoirs, but of course regular unaltered humans in the abbies are the choicest of options.

Abattoir people are off the table for the dragons for most of the year, though when the gods slither over for their yearly feast you can always ask for some scraps. Usually they'll cough up a few if asked. But once the gods became MIA then those within are off the table entirely. Unless you're Octavia!

She crossed pretty much every line, briefly interrupting the circle holding the Abattoirs dome to let herself inside, letting her presence be known to those living within, reinstating the yearly feast, and eating her fill of divine worm food. Until the delayed reaction of the Gods saw the end of her, her Abattoir, and all those within.

#good ask! always like to EXPAND #the abattoirs #art #worldbuilding #body horror #SLIGHT #i love her she was so sneaky

[leoneliterary]

Point Of View Poll

This isn't exclusively related to interactive fiction, it's more of a question to readers out there in general. What point of view do you like to read in? Do you like to be in the story through the character's eyes via 1st person, or do you like a bird's eyes view through 3rd omniscient? I'd love to know!

#writing #writing prompt #reading #books #booklr #writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #fiction writing #interactive fiction #worldbuilding #stories #fiction #narrative

[whereserpentswalk]

Reblog to let the demon come to you. Like to enlarge their power.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #writing #my worldbuilding #my writing #fantasy #urban fantasy #demons #angels and demons #demon girl #demon boy #demon #devils #devil #oni #angels #fallen angel #angelic #angel #fae #faries #faeries #faerie #mythical creatures #monster fucker #monster lover #polls #my polls #tumblr polls

[prokhorvlg]

Quikbrew (a coffee mech from Raypoint Products) wanders the innovation cubes looking for mugs to refill

Meanwhile, miss whiskers waits for the machine to enter the sacred food cave

full image below and article link

#sunsetsystem #art #worldbuilding #robots #cats #cassette futurism

[laughingbrand]

Looking for art buddies/Introduction

Hello, my name is Brandy, and welcome to my blog! I'm a 20+ art major who has fallen outta my passion for art over the last few years and wants an excuse to get back into it. So, I figured I might as well give Tumblr a try again and see where it goes! My main account is @brandywyne so if you get a follow from that it's me lol I dunno how to follow from side blogs. I'd love to make some friends on here again and just have a good time and maybe get some art practice here and there. I'm probably going to mainly post fanfiction/fanart for a while as I get back into the swing of things. Might have art requests open too? Haven't decided yet. Though if you like/do any of the following, please leave a note/reblog/like so we can chat! Biggest interests to smallest: ☠ World Building (!!!) ☠ OCS (I love making fanart of OCs, please let me know if you aren't okay with that!) ☠ One Piece (Big Kid Pirates fan) ☠ Creepypasta (I was an OG back in 2012 era Pasta community) ☠ Sketching/drawing/art (any medium is cool!) ☠ Summoner's War Sky Arena ☠ Markiplier fan (Been a fan for about 10 years now) ☠ Music ☠ Headcanons ☠ Horror (games/movies/stories/etc) ☠ Fanfiction/stories ☠ Monsters/teratophillia ☠ Journaling ☠ I used to be in a lot of older fandoms like Homestuck, MLP, Ninjago, SVTFOE, OFF, RPG games, Villainous, New Vegas, Skyrim, DC Comics, Outlast, Evil Within, Samurai Jack, MHA, Hazbin Hotel, and a few others too. Not as big these days but some I still have a mild interest in. Feel free to ask! NSFW Stuff: I'm fine with general NSFW stuff for writing and art, but because of that I do want to mention the following:

Please do NOT interact if you're a/into: Underage/minor (18+ only please. I'm a little too old to be friends with kids.), pedophile, bestiality, lolicon/shota, incest, age regression, pet play, feeder/vore/inflation, basically anything you'd find on the front page of Deviantart if you catch my drift. (Edited post to include more info)

#creepypasta #artists on tumblr #one piece #summoners war #horror #worldbuilding #strangled red #fanart #looking for friends #looking for mutuals #kid pirates #mha #villainous #off game #hazbin hotel #writeblr