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ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD - template [English]

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ORIGINAL FANTASY WORLD - template

by Daisetsu-bushido


I. The universe

1. Number of all worlds/realms
2. Crucial differences between the worlds/realms
3. Relations and dealings between the worlds/realms
4. Forms of communication and traveling between the worlds/realms


II. World's outer structure - "body of the world"

1. Level I - basic information

World's name:

NATURAL ASPECTS
- number of astronomical objects surrounding the world [the suns, the moons]:
- characteristics of the world's shape [eg. globe or any other shape]:
- real length of days and years:
- number of continents:
- percentage share of the land and waters:
- level of land's dispersion:
- dominating races and creatures living in the world and their characteristics:
- physical anomalies [differenses in gravity, atmosphere etc.]:

POLITICAL ASPECTS
- number and names of countries/nations in the world:
- dominating differences between societies of the countries/nations:
- relations between the strongest countries/nations:

2. Level II - country/nation, region or any other big land unit

BASICS
- name and location on the world map:
- size:
- neighbouring countries/nations:
- position and comparison of country/nation's strength with other countries/nations:
- history of the country/nation's rising:

NATURAL AND CLIMATE FACTORS
- characteristics of landform:
- characteristics of landtype [eg. desert, grassland]:
- level of land's variety [single rocks, lakes, hills]:
- climate and its harshness [seasons, rainfall's frequency, possible cataclysms]:
- rivers's parameters:
- fauna and flora [most common and characteristic species of plants and animals]:
- natural resources and minerals's occurrence:

HUMAN FACTORS
- level of natural environment's degradation:
- number of biggest cities and their characteristics [eg. city walls's presence, characteristic districts]:
- city centres's arrangement [as government centre or meeting place for people]:
- characteristics of the economy and trade forms:
- forms of inner communication and abroad traveling [forms of transportation and infrastructure]:

OTHER ASPECTS
- aspects of popularity or pride of the country/nation:
- other curiosities:

3. Level III - single settlement unit

- name and location [at the sea, at the lake or river, in the mountains etc.]:
- population [population density, existing races, level of races's settlement dispersion]:
- level of urbanizaton:
- history and reasons for settlement:
- forms of maintenance:
- characteristics of dominating architecture style [most common building materials, climate's influence, charakteristic forms and shapes, buildings's sizes, decorations etc.]:


III. Civilization's structure - "Heart of the world"

1. Faith and religion

- number of gods and their traits:
- believes about the world's creation:
- forms of religious rituals and holy symbols:
- important rituals [weddings, funerals etc.]:
- characteristics of the ecclesiastics:
- venerated and cultivated values
- celebrated feasts:
- religious restrictions [posts and prohibitions]:
- level of god(s)'s presence in actual reality and his/their influence on the society:
- society and individual races's attitude towards religion and faith:

2. Law and authority

AUTHORITY
- level of authority's dependence on the religion:
- form and kind of performed authority:
- government's influence on the development and traits of the economy:
- foreign policy and relations with other countries/nations:
- politics's stability:
- society's structure and hierarchy:
- military, defence and order structures and their equipment:
- level of society's respect for the government:
- non-governmental organizations:

LAW
- most important orders and prohibitions:
- forms of punishments for breaking the law and norms:
- society's attitude towards the law:

3. Cultural and social aspects

BASICS
- characteristics of the current times/age:
- relations between races:
- language, gestures and other forms of communication:
- calendar and time measurement meathods:

SOCIAL ASPECTS
- system of educacion and it's level in the society:
- level of medicine's development and meathods of treatment:
- hierarchic structures in families and forms of creating them:
- structure of employment [agriculture, industry and services]:
- level of society's wealth:
- access to weapons and other forms of self-defence:

CULTURAL ASPECTS
- clothes and fashion [common materials, climate and religion's influence]:
- forms of information flowing:
- art and definitions of beauty:
- attitude towards history and its heroes [building monuments etc.]:
- cultivated customs [eg. birthdays]:
- popular and respected jobs and types of work:
- popular entertainments and forms of spending free time [dances, theatre, music, individual or team games]:
- food [used cutlery, popular dishes etc.]:

4. Magic and technology

TECHNOLOGIES AND INVENTIONS
- society's attitude towards innovations:
- factors responsible for technology's development [eg. steam engines, robots]:
- meathods of generating energy:
- level of technology's development, mechanization and robotics:
- application of technology in everyday's life and  its universality:
- important inventions and their characteristics [eg. spaceships's engines]:
- other information:

MAGIC AND SUPERNATURAL POWERS
- extraction and source:
- role and influence on the world:
- society's attitude towards magic and people with supernatural powers:
- rules of functioning and existence of magic/powers:
- influence on the proprietor and limits of using magic/powers:
- magic/powers's branches and specializations [eg. healing magic, destruction magic, alchemy]:
- magic/powers's presence in items and weapons:
- other information:
A text version for fav.me/d6oo9a1 the info about it is there too.
Please remember to use it only for your own personal use and don't submit this anywhere without my permision.

Have fun creating your own original worlds! :)
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Clysmic-Aesthetic360's avatar

would I be fine to use this on toyhou.se?