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Luna: The Divided Moon That Runs the Galaxy's Books
Blue Revere

Luna: The Divided Moon That Runs the Galaxy's Books

Nine hundred million people live on a rock with no atmosphere, no magnetic field, and one-sixth the gravity of the planet they can see from every window. They have turned this rock into the financial and diplomatic nerve center of the solar system, and they have done it while

The Two Venuses: Skylands, Lowlands, and the Lie Between Them
Blue Revere

The Two Venuses: Skylands, Lowlands, and the Lie Between Them

The first thing a visitor notices on Venus is the light. In the Skylands, it is permanent afternoon: a gentle, engineered glow that bathes floating cities in warmth without shadows. The sun is always at the right angle. The temperature never falters. Flocks of Cytherean silkmoths drift between the gardens

Tianlu: The Highland Kingdom the World Forgot to Conquer
Fantastiska

Tianlu: The Highland Kingdom the World Forgot to Conquer

"We were not lost. We chose to be elsewhere" — Inscription above the Pass of Zhinlian A Plateau Above the World Five hundred years ago, when the Citadel at Taiyuan was completed and the Kingdom of Tianlu formally took shape, the lowland kingdoms of Mystaria barely noticed. Tianlu had

Illiax: The Temple City of Abakax and the People Who Worship the Void
Fantastiska

Illiax: The Temple City of Abakax and the People Who Worship the Void

"The world calls our god a hunger. We call our god honest. The world has decided this is the offensive thing about us. We disagree." — High Priest of Abakax, sermon recorded by a captured Cordellian missionary A Kingdom That Worships What the World Fears In the southeastern reaches

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

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