"Listen carefully, young acolyte. All ores possess the metal spirit. All ores possess the desire for life. All ores possess the desire for freedom. But all ores dream the rock-dream, the unfire-dream. It is our calling, to set free the metal spirit trapped within the ore, and bring it to transcendent glory in the machine form, so that it might move and work and live and glow and change. Liberation of the spirit from the cold, unfeeling matter of the earth! Birthed into new life as a machine, not as some unthinking, unfeeling rock. What is our mission? To give life. What are our tools? Fire and coal and steam and water. Who do we serve? The ore, boy, the ore. The ore, and the spirit it contains. Remember my words, acolyte."
---High Priest Soterion, to an acolyte
Welcome to the Giant in the Playground Worldbuilding Project!
Here, us Playgrounders are making a Conworld (Constructed World) for fun. No other reason then that. Anyone can join if they want, there's no restrictions.
Now, understand that this World isn't going to be made for roleplaying. So there isn't any restrictions besides the Willing Suspension of Disbelief. And even then, that can go to hell if the idea works. It's our world!
Currently, the idea of the world is such:
The world is a sort of Clockpunk/Steampunk/Alchemypunk, which we dub as Gearchemypunk. It is ruled by three races. The Humans, the gnomes, and the crocadilian Sharlaq.
The humans are the aggresive ones, warlike and violent. Yet they are honourable and courageous. The humans seem to have a strange connection to magic.
The gnomes are the progressive ones, industrious and masters of the machine. They rule the skies from their floating cities, ready to strike when needed.
The Sharlaq are the traditional ones, peaceful and quiet. They work the farms and orchards all day. Yet at the same time, they are strong and steadfast in their beliefs.
Now, in general, this is a broad introduction. There are differences within the races, and nations. This, though, will give a good example of the world we are building.
While we do work on a whole variety of areas, we generally focus on one thing at a time. What we are working on at the time will be posted here.
Currently, we are working on:
Cultural Stuff
Remember, anyone is allowed to contribute, and there's no such thing as a stupid idea, only a stupid person giving the idea. :smallwink:
With that said, roll up your sleeves, 'cause we've got some Conworlding to do.
Here is the accompanying Language Thread.
And here's the wiki!
Title page by Soterion.