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Guides & inspiration for our worldbuilding templates, including which to use, and how to get the most out of each template's special features!

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Guide to the Character Template

Use the Character template to write about any named creature in your world! This includes people, but also the protagonist's pet dinosaur, a vengeful god, and even sentient doors. If it has a name and a personality, it's a character!
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How to Create Magic Systems and Magictech

Learn which article templates you can use for magic, magitech, and superpowers
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How to Create a Space Station and Other Space Structures

Learn which article templates you can use for space structures and artificial objects!
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How to Create Dreams, Visions, and Flashbacks

Learn which article templates you can use for visions and flashbacks!
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Guide to the Spell Template

Use the Spell template to write about individual manifestations of powers. Think magical spells, psionics, superpowers, etc.
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Guide to the Tradition Template

Use the Tradition template to describe celebration, festivals, superstitions, dress codes, and more! If it's about something a group of people does or beliefs, it's probably a Tradition.
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Guide to the Technology Template

Use the Technology template to write about technological artifacts, inventions, and machines. From the humble wheel to time travel and faster-then-light travel!
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Guide to the Title Template

Use the Title template to write about ranks, distinctions, and other honorifics people in your world hold.
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Guide to the Prose Template

Use the Prose template to write short stories, scenes or chapters for a story, poems, and any other narrative text!
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Guide to the Profession Template

Use the Profession template to write about jobs, volunteer positions, and other occupations. From clerks and librarians to adventurers and monster hunters, this template is perfect to describe the type of activities people in your world spend time with!
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Guide to the Plot Template

Use the Plot template to plan your stories and campaigns, from a single scene to the full novel or campaign!
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Guide to the Myth Template

Use the Myth template to write about anything that's not true (even if it's based on truth)! Think creation myths, urban legends, conspiracy theories, children's stories, and more!
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Guide to the Ethnicity Template

Use the Ethnicity template to write about people who share a common ancestry or culture. This includes people with the same social and cultural characteristics, backgrounds, or experiences.
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Guide to the Military Formation Template

Use the Military Formation template to describe types of military formations, such as specialized battalions, logistics units, and combat mage squads.
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Guide to the Natural Law Template

Use the Natural Law template to write about phenomena in your world. Remember that if magic is a natural part of the world, it counts as a natural phenomena! So you can use this template to write about anything from weather phenomena magic systems.
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Guide to the Language Template

Use the Language template to write about an actual language, but also about dialects, slang, secret codes, and any other system of communication.
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Guide to the Organization Template

Use the Organization template to describe any group of characters that are united for any reason. Think magic covens, armies, assassins' guilds, and even a country!
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Guide to the Document Template

Use the Document template to write about anything that contains records about something. This includes books, but also audio/music recordings, letters, and even illustrations!
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Guide to the Conflict Template

Use the Conflict template to write about ANY type of conflict between two (or more) people or groups. Think wars, street fights, and even a heated after-dinner discussion!
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Guide to the Material Template

Use the Material template to write about any type of resource that something else is made out of. That can be a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. This includes pure or impure materials and living or non-living matter!
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Guide to the Condition Template

Use the Condition template to write about diseases, mutations, transformations, superpowers, and even RPG statuses. On World Anvil, a Condition is anything that a person can get (or is born with) and alters their physical or mental state
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Guide to the Vehicle Template

Use the Vehicle template to write about any kind of means of transportation. This includes medieval carriages, automobiles, aircrafts and armored vehicles!
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Guide to the session report template

If you're using World Anvil to run an RPG campaign, you can use the Session Report template to write about what happened during a game
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Guide to the Generic Article Template

Use the Generic Article template to write about anything that doesn't quite fit any of the other templates! The Generic Article template is a blank canvas for your writing, which you can use for content like RPG mechanics, mini-metas, primers, or simply very specific worldbuilding details that don't perfectly fit into another template.
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Guide to the Settlement Template

Use the Settlement template to write about any place where a group of people live in an organized way; from the smallest hamlet to the largest space station!
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Guide to the Species Template

Use the Species template to write about any group of organisms that consist of similar individuals capable of interbreeding or exchanging genes among themselves. This includes different species of animals, plants, fungi, dragons and microorganisms!
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Guide to the Item Template

Use the Item template template to write about any type of object. This includes tools, clothes, weapons, and even food!
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Guide to the Geography Template

Use the Geography template to write about natural places (i.e. not built by people). Think mountains, rivers, continents, and even entire planets, galaxies, and universes!
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Guide to the Building Template

Use the Building template to write about any type of constructions, from the smallest hut to the largest cyberpunk megacorp HQ. You can also use it for monuments, streets, city squares, wells, and rooms within a building
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Guide to the Character Template

Use the Character template to write about any named creature in your world! This includes people, but also the protagonist's pet dinosaur, a vengeful god, and even sentient doors. If it has a name and a personality, it's a character!
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