Worlds under genre: "Informational"

World Anvil Codex

The World Anvil Codex is for tutorials about the site and information about the staff and upcoming features. It is managed by the staff of the World Anvil Discord. Check in periodically for more guides and for Staff-Run mini events such as @[Li...

Informational Modern

Era'guya

What if you knew how things came to be? What if dragons, gods and men are lost toys dropped in a box by a fickle superpower? What if the dirt was magic? What if you were dropped in this world with no context and no way home? Era'guya is a world wh...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

The Great Conflict

A war is waged upon the five most powerful empires in the Milky Way Galaxy. The United Galaxy, an empire with the most brutal army in the galaxy, they believe that the world is theirs to control no matter the cost. The Imperium, an empire who masters...

Dystopia Informational Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

The Forge

The Forge isn't really a world. It's a place for me to share articles on worldbuilding and storytelling. Please note that nothing written here is mandatory, canonical, or necessarily even correct. If you choose to do things differently, g...

Informational

The Strange History of Terra 34

[p]Form the ancient myths to modern civilizations, The stories of rise and fall of civilization in fictional/alternative world.[/p] [p]Now, let's begin with the ancient time when the meteorite gives the superiority of technology. [/p]

Ancient Historical Informational

Guide to World-Building

Hello there, aspiring Worldsmith! I'm PatheticBarrel, and as a Worldbuilder of 15 years (a little over half my life) I fancy myself a talented instructor in the ways of the Forge. Looking for tips on how to make your world feel m...

Informational

The Everett Consortium

A partner program for World Anvil users who wish to link to each other's worlds on their pages.

Informational

Berkai

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Informational

Lite System

This is a speculative evolution project in a fictional star system focusing on very early life.

Informational Science Fiction Speculative

Tal'rond

Fantasy Informational Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Mesopotamia

Ancient Historical Informational

Diaspora

The Diaspora is an exploration of humanity’s future within the local stellar group. The various projects set within the universe explore humanity’s path to the stars and their interactions with the oth...

Exploration Hard Science Informational Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Askamar and Udaris

For centuries the immortals of Askamar have fought, schemed and betrayed, each striving for power over both the magical realm and the human kingdoms of Udaris. Some mortals choose to serve them, some fight them, and some manipulate them to further th...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Informational Medieval

Aerelys

If there is one thing I have come to appreciate in the years since my appointment as Chief scribe and Guardian of the Great Library in Silvermaple, it is the tremendous influence the legends and tales of the past can have on the shape of our present...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Informational

metAnvil

The metAnvil (meta-Anvil) is envisioned as a set of tools, tips, articles, thawts, and tests that use World Anvil as a platform for worldbuilding and creating stories, RPG adventures, maps, and artistic works. This "world" will take a systemic app...

Informational

Project Rosewood

"Come in Agent, please close the door behind you. Have a seat. No, this isn't a disciplinary meeting. I'll get right to the point - you're being transferred. You are hereby assigned to Project Rosewood. No, I don't expe...

Horror Informational Supernatural Surreal Urban

Weird Dwarves

Informational Speculative Weird

Giasis

The continent of Yeros is an ancient land with a storied history. Empires have risen and fallen. Kingdoms new and old scheme and fight amoungst eachother for political power. Armies march to war, whilst craftsmen ply their trades and priests pray to...

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Informational Medieval

Chronicles of the Wasteland's Earth

((WARNING: THIS UNIVERSE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FALLOUT GAMES 1-4, New Vegas, and 76. PLEASE TURN BACK IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO SEE THEM.)) The Earth as defined by Bethesda Game Studio's Fallout Franchise, and re-imagined with my personal player...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fanfiction Informational Post Apocalyptic

The Midden Realm

[spotify:spotify:user:sablevarg:playlist:2qJtSrRKzGnLDEHgdSGRD4]

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Informational Medieval Political

Akura

Akura is a homebrew fantasy world I created for my Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. Currently the focus has been in the city-state of Abrana. I will add on to this site as more stories evolve over time, and share anecdotes of my parties and their shen...

Fantasy, Low Magic Informational Medieval Political

Seven Worlds

[p]Our human universe is just one of seven. There are also three light ones and three dark ones. Light ones are called Heaven, Upper Heaven, and Hyper Upper Heaven. Dark ones are respectively called Hell, Sub Hell, and Hyper Sub Hell. The world in th...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Informational Soft Magic

The Cosmogony

Technically Everything. The Flux is every omniverse an omniverse has 1-4 multiverses in it one multiverse has infinite universes. don't forget every realm, pocket dimension, rogue galaxy, rogue planet, asteroids and junk flying around in-...

Exploration Fantasy Informational Science Fiction Slice of Life

Oaara

Oaara the powerful, Oaara the ancient, Oaara the beautiful, Oaara the mystic, Oaara the eternal. Poem from the book of Qhorrtbjok. Oaara is a huge multiverse, with over a quadrillion universes inside of it. Each one of...

Hard Science Informational Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

RK Universe

Set in Meiji Era Japan, 1879. This is the world of my ideas of RK mostly from the movies for my fanfiction, and I'm using this to keep track of things. I am changing some details to fit my interpretation more, so peoples' ages / birthdates are shifti...

Fantasy, Romantic Informational Oriental Speculative Surreal

Retika

An ancient world nestled in a protective nebula in the Beta Quadrant, Retika is the homeworld of two races of beings with a storied and bloodied past. Two races, one from the land, one from the seas, fight for control of the homeworld. However...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Informational Science Fantasy Science Fiction

1920s

Historical Informational Political

Pridi

Pridi is a large, self-made and original world based around my militaristic group of Unity. It is unique because of its way of ruling and the events which have, and are, taking place. At the moment, a large civil war is taking place across the glob...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic

New Tristan

The common world. A world split into 5 big countries long ago, four of them with a strong bond among humans, dwarfs, halflings, gnomes and elves, known as New Tristan. But the last country is greatly separated and forever hostile, this land is known...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Informational

Prehistory Palace

The year is 2124 and an eccentric Quadrillionaire has made both a time portal and the most exciting zoo in the world. Now all that he needs is a team of individuals that will bring his attractions back to the present for him. This isn't a walk in...

Cyberpunk Exploration Informational Post-modern Science Fiction

B Universe

B Universe (also known as the “Bullshit universe”) is the universe of chameleons. Demons and Angels from this universe have an ability known as Reactive Adaptation, that causes their biology to adapt itself based on the Demonic or Angelic biology of...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban

Ad Ghirath

THE WALKER-DAVIS EXPEDITION TO ALPHA CENTAURUS Despite all the stories you heard as a child, the first 12 patriarchs and their wives were not gods or angels, they were men and women who came from a planet called Earth, much like this...

Alternative History Informational Political Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Bulkhai

Informational

Aenar

Aenar is the most recent of many names for this ever changing world. Since time immemorial, Aenar has had a shifting staff of gods to govorn it, changing out every few thousand years. But as time moves on and the hour for a new set of cosmic rule...

Fantasy Informational

The Great Howdidigethere

Dear Reader from the world where I was supposed to belong, I am a scientist, or at least I like to think I am one. One day I’ll certainly be that. What counts is that I’m stuck in this strange, but wonderous place. At least from a quasi-scientist’...

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy Informational Modern

Kwena

Kwena is a Huge Planet with a vast mysterious land full of magic, monsters, strange beings and many natural wonders. Much of Kwena is unexplored and unknown. Legend has it that there once was an empire which once had control over all of the beings o...

Ancient Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic Informational

Indralis

Indralis is a world unlike many others. Many worlds are forged by Gods - landscapes molded carefully, species carefully constructed, and loyalties decided from birth. Many Gods have a direct impact on the lands they created or conquered, and used...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Informational Political Speculative

Deep magic

[p]The basic idea of this world is that of a reverse urban fantasy. Rather than depicting traditional fantasy elements in a modern setting based on the real world. It is to depict modern real world concepts into a fantasy world. More broadly speaking...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Historical Informational Modern

Baurellia

First was the age of oblivion, when all who lived sought naught but survival. Then, the time of History began with the founding of the city of war and wisdom thus began the age of ascension then, Vampires threatened to destroy everything and send...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Informational

Klasterfak Empire

The realms of the Cluster are rich, strange and diverse. Forces of nature and beyond rule supreme - giving birth to all manners of live across the lands, skies and seas of Home. Die Sphären des Klasters sind reichhaltig, seltsam und diverse. Die...

Exploration Informational Medieval Science Fantasy

Empyllea (A Dark Sun setting fan-fiction advancement)

Most notably holding a particularly active section of one of its continents known to the inhabitants as Athas, Empyllea was a world, indeed a planetary system, without gods. For an inconceivably-long period of time, it languished, slowly consuming th...

Fanfiction Fantasy Informational Science Fantasy

Novus

--- This world is published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Informational Modern

Earth 2.0

It is much like Earth but the only major difference is the pre-existence of bond-mates. The government has

Alternative History Fanfiction Historical Informational Science Fiction, Modern

The Infernal Lawbook

In a perfect world, the spirit of the law would matter more than the word. Every law would only be in place to remind citizens that there are guidelines for life. But we don't live in a perfect world, do we? In fact, we don't even create perfe...

Comedy Fantasy, Dark Informational Political

The Forge

- Cortex wiki and R&D alpha - Developed P&P projects

Informational

Aestra

Magic, the wonderous power held above the uneducated; politics, tools for even the weakest nation to strive; and science, facts that world majority believe to be a laughing joke. These are the methods in which countries across the known world rule an...

Fantasy Informational

The Regulia States

This land is very similar to ours. Cities, countrysides, oceans, forests; the whole lot. However, what makes this world different to ours is the Machine known as the AMD (Anti-Malicious Death) Machine. This machine, as the name suggests, prevents tho...

Informational Modern Young Adult (YA)

Kândalo

Magic creatures with capability of speaking, enslaved humonoides, knights in plate armor, adventurers with muskets and witch hunters walk on the street. Mysterious and powerful magicians are hiden on the woods and on the scripts. Two empires are c...

Fantasy Flintlock Informational Slice of Life Sword & Sorcery

Earth

Earth is just like earth but like, less shitty and cryptids are cute gay girls. With inspiration mainly from American cryptids as the main focus but other prominent cryptids of other cultures are there too. The main inspiration being I really wan...

Comedy Gothic Informational Supernatural Weird

Avenir

A city some time in the future. Time measurement has ceased, the only knowledge left to the citizens of Avenir is the fact, that nothing else than their city is left in this world, after a war of which the causes are unknown to this day. And what a c...

Dystopia Informational Modern Post Apocalyptic Urban

Nazdrin

the travallers discription of the may wonders and horros of the dream world of nazdrin.

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Horror Informational Surreal

Earth

Just recreating my life

Historical Horror Informational Political Slice of Life

Hereda

Hereda est une univers de medieval-fantasy avec une touche post-apocalyptique. Je compte l'exploiter dans le cadre d'un jeu de rôle fait maison, mais je souhaite réaliser un univers crédible avant tout. Suite à l’avènement d’une force dévastatr...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Informational Post Apocalyptic

Nevermore

Nevermore- Sci-Fantasy stuff, my dudes.

Alternative History Fantasy Hard Science Informational MagiPunk

A Second Chance

A Maglubyet Host rising in the south, the King of Cormyr offers annexation of Sword Coast to the Lord Alliance. All the while, escapees from the Underdark yell of Demons coming from below, the Cult of the Dragon is on the rise. The Harpers are on the...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Historical Informational

Nordis

Created by The Elder God, Fathaaj himself, Nordis its filled with different race, magic and mystery. There are four main Continent on Nordis, these are Ishara, Akamus, Nokhasa, Kenzu. Each Continent have their own natural condition, geographic, kin...

Fantasy, High Magic Informational Medieval Young Adult (YA)

Traveler's Cove

Welcome to a wonderful Island off the Coast. Traveler's Cove has been a travelers oasis for centuries. Many cultures from around the globe and of all alignments find neutrality when Visiting the island. Tower of Hope serves as the islands Magical Bea...

Exploration Informational Science Fantasy

Subaqueous Earth

Hundreds of years have passed since the nuclear winter that covered the world for decades finally faded. Since those times life on Earth has recovered, and in fact, flourished. Human settlements are few and far between, many of the larger cities a...

Alternative History Exploration Informational Medieval Post Apocalyptic

Q/G Technical Readout

Discription of various technologies and machinery to be found in both the Patchwork and Earth Sphere. The documents contained herein will be mostly of a granular and dry nature by author preference, for the most part, in a neutral style emulating tha...

Fanfiction Informational Mecha Military Science Fantasy

USA

This world is America, but all over the world. People are constantly chanting USA, FREEDOM, and AMERICA everywhere. Its kinda fun.

Comedy Fanfiction Informational Slice of Life Western

Panwar

The world of Panwar is ancient, with a vast history spanning for many Ages. Many a hero's Song have been sung, cultures and species lost and nations come and go. The world is of Earth, but held by the energies of Magic. Though Cracks does magic...

Exploration Fantasy Informational Science Fantasy

Harena

My Conworld it's a desert planet where the only habitable zone it's the north Pole

Historical Informational Medieval Military Post Apocalyptic

Lumayya City

"a place of Lumanons, a place of espiritually, a place of family, a place of pride..." Welcome to Lumayya City!

Informational Modern

Sonium

A land of history; with each land containing their own stories and myths to tell, their own inner conflicts, and their own unique flare which separates them from the rest. Inspired by every story/mythology/lore found in, well, reality, Sonium (based...

Fantasy, Low Magic Informational Medieval Modern Urban

Odraria

A stray planet, Urilia, crashes into planet Earth. The collision caused a reformation of the two into one. This newly formed planet orbits slightly further from the sun then earth. During the formation of this planet, a chunk of Urilia broke away and...

Fantasy Informational Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Liyanth

Liyanth is a world based in magic and fantasy. One day Ahnish the biggest volcano on the main continent Nithane, erupt causing a volcanic winter upon the world. Although small amount of species stayed alive during this time a most of the species on t...

Exploration Fantasy Hard Magic Informational Sword & Sorcery

Daft's Empire

A world like most

Informational Political Speculative Urban

A Tale of Stars

The Milky way Galaxy has many alien nations and dangerous creatures. One of these nations is the Velutârian Empire. Spanning a modest amount of the South-west corner of the Milky way, they are an ancient and regional power. A proud and honorable race...

Ancient Fantasy Informational Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Insignia

Fantasy, Dark Gothic Informational Modern Supernatural

Trichandria

[p]Trichandria is a world vast with life. Creatures of all shapes and sizes can be found if you know where to look. Some creatures are more common to others, such as Humans, Dwarves, and Elves as examples. Some inhabitants might not even know if anot...

Fantasy Informational

Alsair

Alsair is a ringed world governed by gods, magic, and ancient ties. It has many landscapes, with many different life forms inhabiting them. Some are sentient, like the savanna dwelling Osai. Others are magical, as in the Estrali of the Crystal Glen....

Exploration Informational Science Fantasy

Scoria

Scoria is a frequently modified and updated world building project. Started in July of 2012, it was, at first, a small handful of nations. From its origins as a singular region housing one country, it has evolved into a large, diverse planet, rendere...

Fantasy, Low Magic Informational Political Science Fiction, Modern

Babel's Ascent

Exploration Fantasy Informational Surreal Sword & Sorcery

Omega Earth

After an unfathomable quake of power rips apart the fabric of space and time, realty folds in on itself. Everything that could be is along side everything that could never be. There is not just one of someone or something there is every posbul someon...

Alternative History Informational Science Fantasy Science Fiction Weird

Duoverse

Remember the Big Bang? There's a theory that when it exploded, that was another universe ending. The start of the Duoverse is the end of our Universe, in which we live in. So once our universe ends, the Duoverse comes right after. And this is the tim...

Alternative History Exploration Informational Modern

Anemoi

Welcome Travelers, from these antique lands, please sit and we will tell you of the sights that await you. Of the unheard monsters, who slither and bite... Of the wondrous items and artifacts you may find, their mysteries yet to be unlocked. Of the v...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Exploration Fantasy

Vaspida

Vaspida is a world where magic is a natural ressource. Like oil or precious metal, there is a flourishing trade for raw mana. As a result only the most wealthy people - or those with a very wealthy patron - can become powerful mages and the feats t...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Informational MagiPunk Political

Venathuria, Telara, and Kaldesh

Exploration Fantasy Informational Medieval

Tales of Dracolen - The Planet called Aether

An alternate world populated by eight nations of civilized dragons, along with other fantasy races.

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Informational Medieval

DragonSpine

There exists a small country encircled by the Dragon Spine mountains with no other known territories beyond. The little kingdom inhabitants segregate themselves by trade into an assortment of craft villages with two days of every week devoted to trad...

Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Gothic Informational Soft Magic

Very Much a Placeholder name

Um, My world. Very incomplete.

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Informational Medieval Supernatural

Castitate

bad bad

Adult 18+ Hard Science Informational Post-modern Science Fantasy

Mundus Goetia

Different Earth. Different nations. Different histories. Different natural laws. Same daily life. Mundus Goetia is an alternate Earth inhabited by multiple sapient species coexisting alongside the world they live in. Magic exists, but it's docu...

Alternative History Fantasy, Low Magic Informational Modern Political

Freydel

Freydel is a land created for a Pathfinder DnD campaign but has since evolved into something so much more. Ever since the creation of this world, I have used it as a setting for nearly all my campaigns as the world holds the ability to host multiple...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Comedy Exploration

Pallad

It is the year 1945, The world has fallen into anarchy. Quite literally. The great nations of old have fallen into disrepair, and now socialist revolutionaries besiege the mighty nations that once dominated the world. Among theese Revolutiona...

Historical Informational Military Political

AI's are not our worst nightmare (chg later)

It's a time that artificial intelligence has been illegalized to use, maintain and create. If the government found you to do said actions they might kill you or kidnap you or make you nonexistent from the world. Our main character is a doctor who...

Informational Post-modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Castle

My World is my Mind. Nothing is real. Nerves, Atoms, particles of existence create scenarios vividly in my head, almost real enough to touch. But nothing is real. None of it will ever be real. My mind is not a World. My mind is not a Planet. My m...

Informational Surreal

Name later

Just ye regular old supernatural realm with various cultures and species of fantasy creature scattered around. This is just for personal use since I find it fun to think about things like this and like designing different species , thus needed a plac...

Ancient Comedy Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

Dzintarzeme

Based on the concept of the Percy Jackson series and others similar to it, I have decided to embark on a writers journey to write a book based on Latvian mythology, as it is my heritage. Aina was just a regular American girl. Sure she was bilingua...

Child Safe Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Informational Young Adult (YA)

The Cygnus Galaxy

In the vast ocean of galaxies in the universe, Cygnus shines in a tenuous light. home to many sentient species and civilizations, this galaxy has lived in a state of peace for more than 1500 years. Cygnus is a place of bustling planets, some of w...

Cyberpunk Exploration Informational Mecha Political

Earth

A world not unlike ours, but instead of wars of religion, it's a final war between God, or "Him", and Lucifer, or "The Evil". One side, the side of evil, is led by Zion Rache and their goal is to either kill or convert the side of good to their cause...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Informational Modern Political

Eclipse Phase (Prime Timeline)

This is an offshoot of the default setting for the Eclipse Phase RPG by posthuman studios.

Cyberpunk Horror Informational Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Zichay

A world with nineteen separate nations, with shifting alliances due to a two-party power system, the superpowers being Zua and Vabilia, the medium power Zichay is working hard to defend itself and gain its land back from the smaller nation, Shua, and...

Informational Political Speculative Supernatural

Ginza

Ginza/銀座 is a civilised planet created back in Ginza Year 0, when a community of people living in Ginza, Tokyo decided to move to a different planet to suit their needs. They found an empty planet and decided to name it after their homeland. Througho...

Exploration Historical Informational Modern Oriental

Terrifia

Terriffia is a world with an ecosystem similar to the Earth's. The land is broken up into four notable continents, Tu'La, Ro’Aine, Beskott, and Murr’Belle. Tu'La being the powerhouse and the largest of the four. Ro'Aine is closer to the Northern hemi...

Ancient Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

Ikarios

The home place and planet of the Ikarian people who came to Earth in 30BCE. It is a hot place that is like earth in many ways, but ruled by the Ikarians, humanoid creatures that have only one thing in common: boasting a pair of magnificent wings....

Ancient Informational Military Oriental Political

Meretis

Meretis is a quaint world that slowly starts as semi-fantasy prehistorical. As time goes on, it becomes a world with magic, technology, war, famine, death, birth, and renewal. With over two thousand years of history and counting, Meretis has bound...

Ancient Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

DW Earth

g d d

Fanfiction Informational Science Fiction

Mundo Pokemon

O Mundo Pokemon, como o nome diz, abriga diversos seres chamados Pokemon, que vivem junto com os humanos, e geralmente se ajudam mutualmente. Os Pokemonforam vistos neste mundo como sendo tanto suplementos quanto substitutos para animais e plantas qu...

Fanfiction Fantasy Informational

Hawk Bay

A modern day town located on the edge of Oregon, Hawk Bay is a small fishing town with a population of only eight hundred thousand people. With the town's smaller population comes less evolved minds, as shown in the town's more conservative politics....

Adult 18+ Comedy Informational Modern Political