Worlds under genre: "Modern"

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Informational Modern

Swordsfall

A World in Change Tikor is a world where deities and spirits are as real as the nature that surrounds them. Since the earliest writings of mankind, the gods have been there with them. They are a vital p...

Afrofuturism Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Modern

Tales of Justice

Heroes of many types, shapes and goals have existed across the broad stretch of humanity’s history: Robin hood, the Shadow, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Gilgamesh, the Three Musketeers, and Hercules just to name a small few. Their exploits...

Fanfiction Modern Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic Urban

Kostea

To be Updated

Fantasy Military Modern Science Fantasy Supernatural

Devonia Verse

This is what I've taken to calling a "Modern Fictional" world, that is it's not technically sci-fi or fantasy (I suppose you could call it very low fantasy). It's set on a planet a lot like Earth, which orbits a star a lot like the sun. The continent...

Modern

Ghostbusters Resurrection

It’s been over twenty five years since the world was last saved by The Ghostbusters of New York. Ghosts are a rare sight these days and people have once again grown skeptical. But now, ghost sightings are on the rise in Central Florida. In a desperat...

Comedy Horror Modern Science Fantasy Supernatural

Muzo's Legacy

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Inundated Earth

Alternative History Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Historical Modern

Modern Necropolis

Nestled between the Grand Marron River and the Naapíttahsin Mountains is the shining city of Schonenberg, a multicultural city renown for it's booming economy and growing medical and tech sectors. This new years, we are celebrating the bright f...

Modern Post Apocalyptic

Mahar

[quote]Mahar is a pre-modern fantasy world where magic (also known as the flux) lives side-by side with science, though the flux has taken over most of the world, granting its inhabitants with comfort and ease of life! Meet the dre...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Modern

Zealandia

Zealandia ist ein unbekannter Ort in einer ansonsten sehr bekannten Welt. Ein vollständiges fiktionales land, welches ich erschaffen möchte, um als Hub für alle meine Geschichten zu fungieren, welche ich alle in dem selben Universum stattfinden lasse...

Child Safe Modern Neo Noir Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

SolMiin-Thay

SolMiin-Thay is a sci-fi world that pulls themes and styles from Cassette Futurism and Solarpunk combined with west European culture. The world's stories focus on the Soliil, an artificial race created by the mysterious Ceentarun intended to mimic...

Child Safe Modern Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Deos

This world is one filled with power and magic, but also full of dangers, many brought by its most fascinating feature: the number of gods that exist and how easy they seem to be created. For some reason, gods simply seem to be abundant in this world...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Modern Post Apocalyptic

idk

The tale of two worlds, Prach and Tera. Places where magic gemstones allow great feats of heroism, or where the blood of spirits allows for strange powers to manifest within people. Spheres are the perfect shape and hold unknown powers, restricted to...

Fantasy Modern Supernatural

TEST WORLD

to test features and try to break Dimitris's work (Sorry pal, it's for your own good :D ) ----- Please create a note with the description of the bug and how it happened if you can. Something like: I had an article crash with error 500....

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

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

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

Marvel: New Age

In modern day Detroit, there are whispers of those that are more than human - people with abilities and powers that could change the course of the world. A woman that was saved from a mugging by a mysterious figure. A man that claims he saw someone l...

Modern Superheroic

Earth 27 — "Cats Eat Birds"

Like every other Earth set in the D.C Multiverse, 27 is an altered copy of the New/Prime Earth (Earth 0). Like it's original source, 27 houses aliens, meta-humans, homo-magi, and vigilante superheroes and villains. Superman was the first hero to beco...

Modern Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic Young Adult (YA)

Fantasme Imagination

Introduction You stumble across an abandoned house, and being the adventuring type, you walk inside, just to find a strange door inside. One opened, you see it. The Fantasme. The world you know of is one of science. Of stability. It's norm...

Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Modern Science Fantasy Soft Magic

The Royal Empire of Mekharia

The Royal Empire of Mekharia is a vast, environmentally stunning nation, ruled efficiently with an even hand and remarkable for its military service and keen interest in outer space. The hard nosed, hard working population have some civil rights, enj...

Fantasy Military Modern Political Science Fiction

Pokeau

So like, okay, alright, to describe this in the worst most godawful way possible: the delta episode in ORAS rocked my socks so much that I decided 'my city now', threw canon out the window except for the parts I liked, and added like 500 lesbians. Th...

Fanfiction Fantasy, Urban Modern Weird

Das letzte Bollwerk

Eine Welt, welche durch die Erlebnisse und die Geschichten der Protagonisten entsteht. /*Autoren, Leser, Schreiber, Spieler und Spielleiter, das letzte Bollwerk ist eine Welt, die über aller Grenzen hinaus existiert...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Historical Medieval Modern

World of Darkness

Our own world, as seen through a mirror, darkly. A world where monsters lurk in the shadows and greedy corporations scheme and plot how to increase human misery. It's familiar...but twisted. In the dying wilderness, the Garou, noble warriors with...

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Modern Supernatural

Tergon

Kinda similar to Earth, but not really.

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Modern Science Fiction

Ione

A modern world where belief fuels everything. Belief is magic first and foremost, but it is also the building blocks of everything. The houses, the roads, the sky, divine entities, profane entities, you, me... It's all belief. With a strong enough be...

Fantasy, Urban Modern Urban

Diimendment

Diimendment is set in a world where humans, angels and demons all coexist. The story follows Thatcher Werabel, Olivia Valtersken, and their possesioners Silas Lacey and Azslei as they try to solve a murder case. What they stumble upon turns out to be...

Crime Hard Magic Modern Supernatural Surreal

Earth

This Earth is very much similar to our earth except mythical beings such as vampires, werewolves, wizards, and many more actually exist. History here is a little bit different due to such creatures existing. Everything else is pretty much the same....

Fanfiction Fantasy, Dark Horror Modern Supernatural

Isidoro

[p]Isidoro is a place where Mana runs deep within the land. It lives in all creatures, big and small; from dragons to humans. From teleporting to controlling the elements of the earth, almost anything is possible. [/p] [p] Technology and Magic have...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Modern Science Fantasy

Mizos

Región Pokémon basada en Grecia. Diseñada para una partida de Pokérole. El universo pokémon es adaptado según las reglas del juego de rol y para dar un cierto sentido a ciertas mecánicas. Los jugadores entrarán gracias a una beca de la Liga Pokémon...

Child Safe Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Modern

Ersha

Welcome to my pet project. A world I started building when I was 5 for my stuffed animals to live in. I've been adding to it and stringing together the stories within it for over 30 years now. I love letting others in to shape things and my tas...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Fantasy, Urban Medieval

We are the Descendants

After the human race disappeared in year 0, the Descendants, who are mutants with similar shape and behavior of their predecessor but many different appearance, managed to take their place as the dominant species on Earth. Yet they have to fear what...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Modern Post Apocalyptic

Kosmos

Roman/Greek gods as normal people, working for the same company

Modern Urban

Darkfall

What is PROJECT DARKFALL & Updates Terra is a vast, teeming world, filled to the brim with incredible creatures and life. I...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Modern Supernatural

most ocs

pretty much all my ocs put into one world to keep track of them

Adult 18+ Child Safe Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

MetaEarth

Imagine if the town or city or country you lived was a place where both superpowers and superheroes were a part of everyday life. How would you live life in it?

Modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction Superheroic Young Adult (YA)

Seven Devils

TBD

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Urban Modern Supernatural

Einya

[articleblock:0abee6d1-def2-4f11-a0d8-fe02ef86f7ac] Note: the name "Einya" for my world is temporary, until I come up with a better one for the whole universe. Einya is the name of the most developed planet only, that's all.[/c...

Child Safe Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Modern

Paradice

Normal on the outside, but climb through a portal and you've entered the world of 2xdice. Not a fun place to be, if you're just a simple mortal, but survive 3 nights there, and you gain unusual and extraordinary powers. Paradice isn't a comfy coz...

Adult 18+ Comedy Modern Superheroic Urban

Occultae Veritatis

The world of Occultae Veritatis is much like the world you and I know, save for one important facet: occasionally those crazy stories you hear about on the news aren’t all the reports and studies make them out to be. It’s true that opposing biker gan...

Adult 18+ Fairy tale Fantasy, Urban Modern Urban

Vagrant

En el pasado lejano existían reinos, naciones enteras gobernadas por un ser sin magia como tú o yo. Descendiente de una larga línea familiar. Se sentaban en masivas salas del trono con un consejo de personas y discutían problemas de Estado, deliberan...

Biopunk Fantasy, High Magic MagiPunk Modern Urban

Rykea

This world is still a work in progress so a lot of these articles are blank for now. Eventually everything will be finished. Ahéhee'! Rykea is a continent that has been at war with Dancaskar, demonic beings from the Spirit World. Although the war...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Modern Sword & Sorcery

Half-Life 2 Post-Rebellion Headcanon Nonsense

Dystopia Fanfiction Military Modern Science Fiction, Modern

Soviet Europe

Suppose Germany had conquered Britain in WWII before invading Russia... but still eventually fell to the Soviets’ staying power and sheer determination. After a long and brutal war, the Russians finally liberated Europe from the Nazis. Of course, 'li...

Alternative History Historical Modern Political

Earth Adjacent

Before the 1960s, superpowered beings were few and far between. The greatest of these was Captain Valiant, a man who lead the heroic Freedom Guard across the 60s and 70s, and into the new age of supers after the Iron Baron released his meta-bomb, cre...

Modern Superheroic Supernatural

Neygea / Neguyea

Neygea (Or Neguyea in English) is less of a "planet" and more of a nation. This nation formed after the Fall of the Roman Empire, like many others. What makes it different? Perhaps the fact that they closed the doors of the nation ever since. Growin...

Alternative History Modern Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Asavla

The Kingdom of Divinice, founded over 700 years ago, has long since fallen from grace. Once the international center of worship of Ylais, goddess of light, the slow degradation of its once vast empire has left its people bitter and overworked. The lo...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Modern Young Adult (YA)

Twinsverse [tbd]

Some fantasy requires a whole new world - and sometimes, fantasy is just what lies out of sight, beyond our star and the iron curtain pulled tight by hard-lined gods. Twins Life and Death, they regulate where celestial force meets Earth, monitoring t...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science

Xasperia

the witch world connected to the modern human word by a hidden entrance, Xasperia is only accessible to the young girl witches attending the "private catholic school" named Trinity Catholic School For Girls, a facade for a witch school, the furthest...

Fantasy Modern Young Adult (YA)

Seattle - The Dark Emerald

"Seattle 2020 - The Anarch ran city of Seattle is no more. Twenty-two years ago the old Anarch way of running Seattle was thrown aside and replaced with the Camarilla; Seattle's new law of the shadows. Can the new Camarilla of Seattle, and their f...

Adult 18+ Gothic Horror Modern Political

Sanguine Society

Äußerlich gleicht sie unserer Welt. Das Büro in dem du arbeitest, die Schule in die du als Kind gegangen bist und das Altersheim in dem du deinen Großvater besuchen gehst sind alle gleich, in unserer Welt und der Welt der Dunkelheit. Aber in der W...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Urban Gothic Horror Modern

Second Earth.

The world has been remade. The continents and land masses, the same, but the geography, the landscape is entirely different. The world is divided into two central hemispheres, the West and the East. What separates the two is a barrier of both magic a...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Medieval Modern Superheroic

Clarkwoods Literary Universe

[p]The Clarkwoods Literary Universe (CLU) was introduced with the 2002 publication of Those Little Bastards. It is a series of interconnected short stories and books written by E. Christopher Clark. In fact, e...

Historical Modern Surreal Victorian Weird

Cytan Cluster

A vaguely D&D-inspired dimensional cluster.

Alternative History Dieselpunk Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Modern

Gypsum, Nevada.

Welcome to Gypsum, Nevada and thank you for using our new interactive brochure, accessible via the World Wide Web through personal computers or maybe the computer at your local library. Through this brochure, we hope to teach you all about our great...

Modern Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

Robin's TL

An alternate history timeline that I still haven't come up with an actual name for yet. I'm aware that it's unrealistic, and I don't really care.

Alternative History Modern Political

Post-Ice age Earth

This Earth has suffered through an Ice Age that happened in 2021, that lasted til' 2145. Many people died through the bitter cold and the fights for food and water. But now it seems it's warming up again! Loads of country's are rebuilding themselves...

Alternative History Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Slice of Life

Safety

Queer center starts as one house in the middle of nowhere expands to houses, a university of gender and social studies, religious houses... Inhabitants: magical people cascats werewolves various [fairies] and other shit overall magical bei...

Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Modern

Boys

A quiet and studious college music student named River unexpectedly befriends the last person they'd think of having: a football player named Caspian (Casper for short). As the two grow as friends, it is revealed that Mr. Jock is in the closet and ne...

Comedy Exploration Fantasy, Romantic Modern Young Adult (YA)

Wild Heart

In Wild Heart, everyone has horns and badass superpowers and every fight is mega-destructive! That's all you need to know.

Fantasy Modern Science Fantasy Soft Magic Superheroic

In Between

Generations ago, the edges between dimensions were torn, letting the world shift and spin in unexpected and dangerous ways. Creatures of havoc come in and out of the landscape. The few human survivors of the rifts moved into isolated cities with high...

Biopunk MagiPunk Modern Post Apocalyptic Surreal

Bare feet, arizona

This is a world a lot like our own. There's the same people, the same countries, the same media but here there is magic. From the beginning of time humans have lived along side hundreds of different magical creatures. From vampires to centaurs, e...

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Historical Modern Supernatural

Bureau XIII Earth

Ever since the dawn of time, magic has entwined itself with the earth. Supernatural creatures roam freely, unbeknownst to much of mankind. The few who have learned of magic's existence seek to either use it for their own gain, or protect others from...

Adult 18+ Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Horror Modern

Iventeir

Ainye is a dimension, made up of a cluster of various Realms and Worlds surrounding the great Inave called Arvoldaf. Within Ainye is a world known as Olmua, and within this world, a country called Iventeir is situated across an expansive cont...

Crime Exploration Fantasy, Dark Modern Science Fantasy

Mobius (Sonic: Destiny)

The modern era is one of unimaginable disparity of income. The richest few own most of the world, and even have some extremely powerful individuals in their pocket. Namely, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, a well-loved celebrity businessman who keeps up the imag...

Ancient Comedy Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Urban

Solmute Universe

The Solmute Universe consists of the worlds we explore while playing The Genesys Narrative Dice System by Fantasy Flight Games.

Fantasy Modern Science Fiction Space Opera Steampunk

The Strange Nation

These people carry a genetic marker in their DNA that, when faced with an emotional event, gives them superpowers. But beware, not all survive the transformation, and turn into monsters! These Strangers live in secret with the modern world, taking ca...

Modern Political Science Fantasy Superheroic

Spiritscape

Spiritscape is just the normal world except ghosts and high spirits are a commonality that everyone experiences whether or not they know about it.

Fantasy, Low Magic Modern Slice of Life Young Adult (YA)

Fragility

Oh Hye Young is a sixteen year old girl who has gone to live with an old friend of her late mother. Living in a new town with unfamiliar people is already a daunting situation, but for Hye Young it's a different kind of scary. After her mother passes...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Modern Young Adult (YA)

Nytosha

A world I have been developing for years, but still a work in progress. Nytosha is a mostly peaceful world where many common themes and common stereotypes are flipped on its head. Examples of this would be the fact that gold is practically worthless,...

Fantasy, Dark Modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Circum Mortuis

Come one, come all, climb into the shadows of your worst nightmares and greatest fears. Embrace the darkness that creeps into your hearts at sundown, this is the place where inhibitions melt away, and reveal the bare bones of depravity. Forswear your...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Horror Modern

Laiya

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Modern Post-modern

Zodiac

A world where everyone has a trait of one of the 12 animals from the chinese zodiac, and everyone has one power. There's a very obvious divide betwen high class, middle class, and low class in the city [that still needs a name but is kinda like San F...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Low Magic Modern

Galileo

The planet of Galileo has been documented to exist for 3.9 billion years, and since it's birth it has held many stories and evolution through it's hardships and triumphs of its species. It holds a massive amount of water, and land. It's circumference...

Military Modern Urban

Night Shift

In a city there lives a secret populace of monsters who go about life more or less nocturnally in order to avoid unwanted human attention. Here, monsters tend to go to their night-to-night life almost like any regular day-to-day human would, though w...

Comedy Fantasy Modern Supernatural

Arret Ashcrath

Arret Ashcrath is a world much like our own, a modern day place with all the human problems, technologies, and knowlage etc. though under the surface is a much darker situation. With magic still around there are creatures and societies of which the c...

Modern

Otera

Military Modern Political Victorian

Dustlands

Yavis was always a dangerous planet. Not that you really minded, You knew the risks when you bought your ticket and loaded up. You were desperate after all. That, or a little suicidal, most people who visit this hellhole of a rock are anyway. The...

Adult 18+ Military Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Realms of Achtung! Cthulhu

Horror Modern

Smallscale

The world is a dangerous place when you are only 4 centimeters tall. Aniso, a young dragon fly, tries to make sense of the massive world around him and find a place in the world all with out he or his loved ones falling prey to the terrifying world t...

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Modern Slice of Life

Santa Lucita

A quiet town on the California coast, Santa Lucia is a haven for artists and vintners, a natural habitat for otters and sea lions, a port of call for fishers and sailors, and home to doctors and waitresses and teachers and ordinary people of all flav...

Fantasy, Urban Modern Supernatural

Ancient Chronicles

Legend has it that the universe was created by powerful beings known as Ancients. It's said that a dark evil had risen, but the Ancients sacrificed themselves to save what they had created. However, when the taint began to spread and horrific mons...

Ancient Medieval Modern Science Fantasy Soft Magic

DRIVE

FUSION IS JUST A CHEAP TACTIC TO MAKE WEAK LESBIANS STRONGER

Adult 18+ Modern Science Fantasy Weird

Call of Cthulhu: Millennium (world)

Subscribe now for new episodes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pan/id1258343195 The year is 1999--the place, Earth. A prehistoric eldritch abomination wants dominion over the human species badly by the turn of the millennium--and is having di...

Alternative History Comedy Exploration Fantasy, Dark Gothic

Feathered Legacy

The World is vast and full of magic. Immortals live among the mortals, struggling with their own conflicts. Some deal with constant wars. Others deal with illness and disease. Some prefer to keep to themselves, while others have swallowed...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Medieval Modern

The Shadow

The setting is late 20th Century Earth, and there is nothing all that special about it. At least nothing normal people do not know about. However, beneath the surface, there is a secret world dominated by beings of ancient myths, monsters from ho...

Gothic Horror Modern Supernatural Urban

Panthea

Panthea is an immense flat world which extends outwards seemingly forever. Within the center of the world there is an earth sized area known as the midlands. At the southernmost reaches of the midland...

Exploration Fantasy Modern

Lost Detroit

A city of forgotten dreams and newborn hopes; A shelter for the ones who lost everything and got their souls back; A stage for the magic and tragedy of the Fae. (...)

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Urban Modern Supernatural Weird

World

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Modern

Argyle

[quote]"What must we do, in this little world, when we see a new horizon? If we awake in the night to see what day would never let us dream, If reality crumbles beneath our feet Like dust, something new underneath? We, who...

Fantasy, Low Magic Modern Science Fantasy Supernatural

Ipswel

Forewords Ipswel is a world I'm building to hopefully act as a building bed for future endeavours into writing, art and hopefully game-making, the fact you are simply reading this warms my heart because it tells me my work won't go unnoti...

Fantasy, High Magic Modern Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

World of Darkness

The world is not like you once thought. You know better now. It is a dark place. The bedtime monsters you once thought fantasy are real. Not just a few of them, no, all of them. They all exist. The gods and goddesses that you were once told in histor...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Modern Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

Worlds of Daora

As the name suggests, this isn't simply about a single planet, but a collection of worlds all orbiting the same Gas Giant known as Daora. The various Worlds of Daora are all unique in both their topography but also the methods through which they deve...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Mosaic

Three humans, a vampire, a shapeshifter, an android, and an alien walk into a space station. They have an interdimensional road trip - maybe save some folks along the way. They meet some strange people - some try to help them, some try to kill...

Fantasy, Urban Modern Science Fantasy Science Fiction Weird

+Allá

Y estas muerto, sí, tú. Pensabas que tu vida iba a estar llena de gozo y júbilo y al final todo terminó de forma abrupta y poco heroica. Despertaste en una ciudad inmensa y gris donde todos los días son lunes y siempre parece que vaya a empezar a...

Fantasy, High Magic Historical Modern

Disenfranchised

In the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion that resulted in the death of many of the worlds most renown Metahumans. A 31-year-old bus driver finds himself out of a job and a home. Through pure happenstance, he discovers he has the ability to st...

Alternative History Modern Superheroic Urban

earth

a normal world, but hiding in plain sight there are angels, demons, demi-humans, and catastopies.

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Modern

The House

London Set in 2019

Crime Modern Political Subversion

Red Cedar

Every town has its ghost stories: its abandoned buildings and haunted homes and graveyards you don't go near at night. Every town has its unsolved mysteries: disappearances and murders and vicious attacks. In some towns, those stories are overblown,...

Horror Modern Supernatural

Dione

It is basically a modern day earth with some advanced technology, in terms of the overall feel of the world. Places will be named the same, but the layout and places in the countries/cities may be different. There are supernatural beings, such as dem...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Romantic