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How I Built the Last Elven Empire
Aldermark

How I Built the Last Elven Empire

Welcome to the worldbuilding series for Aldermark: The Last Elven Empire. Over the next month I'm pulling back the curtain on the setting, the cultures, the characters, the institutions, and the ideas that didn't survive the cutting-room floor. This first post is the map of the

Arashima: The Storm Island Kingdom of the Dragon-Gods
Fantastiska

Arashima: The Storm Island Kingdom of the Dragon-Gods

"The storm does not punish. The storm corrects. We learn what it teaches, or we drown. Either way, the lesson is delivered." — An Arashidō priest of Inabuchi, opening the Festival of the First Wave A Kingdom That Made Peace With the Sea Far to the east of the

The Stellara Progenitor and the Vow of Non-Interference
Blue Revere

The Stellara Progenitor and the Vow of Non-Interference

In 2072 CE, ten thousand people climbed into cryo-chambers aboard a generation ship called the Stellara Progenitor and went to sleep. They did not expect to wake up. Their children's children's children would. That was the arrangement. Forty years into the voyage, an unshielded solar flare

The Witching Isles: The Tarorangan Archipelago
Fantastiska

The Witching Isles: The Tarorangan Archipelago

"Magic is fire. Carefully tended, it warms a village for a generation. Misused, it burns the village to its foundations. We are the women who tend the fire." — First Minister Glamora Glimmerspell, addressing the Sisterhood A Nation Where Witches Make the Law Off the southern coast of Mystaria,

Phazani: The Iron Kingdom That Forged Itself
Fantastiska

Phazani: The Iron Kingdom That Forged Itself

"Iron bends for none. The weak yield to the strong. There is no perfection greater than becoming an unbreakable weapon for the kingdom." — The Three Tenets of the Blackguards A Kingdom Forged, Not Born To the west of Verdania, past the smoke-wreathed hills and slate-grey forests, the Phazani

Verdania: The Kingdom Where Kindness Has Teeth
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Verdania: The Kingdom Where Kindness Has Teeth

"In Verdania, the woods listen, the rivers remember, and the people will smile at you before they draw a blade. Do not mistake any of these things for weakness." — Erudite Mirahn Velloway, Ladies of the Bust A Realm of Living Pacts Verdania is, on the surface, the kingdom