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That sounds like what I looked like as a teen-ager! I am brown-haired and hazel-eyed, and had freckles.

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When you were a teenager you had broken up with a hazelnut?

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I was going with a hazelnut once, and let me tell you first hand, they're nothing but trouble.

My conworld is medieval-ish with sentient animals plus some other sentient+non-sentients that I came up with. Some magic, but not overload.

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My conworld has a Polynesian theme. The Nazinaran are lovers of the open ocean and have spread themselves over the globe living in island communities.

Dammit, now the Adari aren't original...

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Banami bhjaddhos rafi mau cy vyaja cecerror.
Fools do not see the sun nor sail the seas
-Azenti Proverb

It happened that way due to a collaborative project on the ZBB, there was no more room for me so I just made up some islands in an ocean and....voila.

My conworld is a Jungle PlanetTM. Well, the population is concentrated in the tropics, but on the whole the climate of the planet is pretty similar to Earth; maybe just a little warmer. There is FTL travel and interstellar trade, but there are still farmers who work their fields with draft animals.

My conworld is a Planet of Hats. Both literally - the people don't wear much more than that - and figuratively - they have Issues.

My conworld is not as nice as it may seem. It can look like a lesbian utopia, or a naturist haven, or a tropical paradise. But behind the smiling carefree facade, there is trouble.

My conworld is an attempt to strike an interesting balance between Author Appeal, Flawed Utopia, Nightmare Fuel, and Realism... IN SPACE!

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On an unrelated note, I made you a new signature image.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

Shiny! Thank you! Ute earo!

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Being an old (well a little old) Civ-fan I like the idea of having no magic or fantasy/steampunk in conworlds, but instead thinking about different places and countries insteed being different far in technologies. Not only: Country 1 = meidival Europe and Country 2 = Ancient Greek. But different areas can be different far in different areas of technology, maybe one people have come far in gunpowder, maybe they're at the same level of the 18th centuary western Europe, but they're only at the sea travelling level of the vikings?

This can't of course go how far becuse sooner or later technologies will start aiding each other, scienties will draw inspiration from each other. You're not going to be realistic if you make a people have steamships but not ironworking.

Economy can of course also play a part. Maybe a certain technology cost a certain amount that a poorer country can't afford, but a richer maybe can. And the moore they use it the cheaper it becomes, thereby making the technology easier in the richer country than the poorer one. So even if the richer country becomes poor 20 year after using a certain technology they may still be able to use it becuse it is so cheap in their country now after using it for 20 years.

But this is of course only my idea, but I kinda like it

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Talar svenska flytande (eller ja, typ skånska)
Speaking english, but dammit it's hard to spell!
Mi komencas paroli esperanton
Wo bu xihuan shou hanyu
Deutsche? Danke, aber nein

My con-world Saltha is fantasy (it contains non-human races) though there is no magic (at least in the form of casting magic, I'm considering magical artifacts and things like that as a possibility) either.

There is also the Trahernians in the same world, who are I guess what you might call "ancient steampunk", kind of like the gnomes in WoW.

My most developed con world has a narrative spanning three distinct time periods, a rather unrealisticly advanced classical period, closer to the pax Mongolica really, then a dark age and ensuing renaissance and age of discover resulting finally in gaslamp fantasy period roughly corresponding to the gilded/Edwardian/Belle epoch. Although there's one dirigible, it's not t right to calk it steam punk, as most of the steam is used only in the periphery of the narrative, and not to espouse any particular message about how awesome goggles are. There are only humans, but the nature of their existence is sort of, well existential.

I also have a terribly soft science fiction setting, but most everything else ends up swallowed by the above conworld

Zhoyit oyigriit tormat "Seyrán ta Tainaa" pe Itlanan tashi shim chovód aulavá brinkiyava. Pe vunan ta maka lapanyara ruzay urzit vey rarayizhe igüairit onyara. Seti ta tsornian ta untár pashni armiteynit onyara. Togyaru u pelit ta imara ta prazhenarun "Tadranú ta Sintinisarun" ba "Dzevún dazhini ta Sintinisavá" onyana - ganaken vey nirdalo.

My most recent novel "Circle of the Lantern" takes place on Itlán, five thousand years ago. Magic exists there but it is weak and not often used. Presently, the world is more modern. I believe that it is closer to the feel of the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes - fantasy and science fiction.

My Rkuom world is mostly iron age that is fantasy. Magic appears but it's more like a religion or mystics, the shaman field. So it's possible to interprete the world without anything supernatural. People are half hunters half farmers.
All conworlds must however have an interesting "what if". Rkuom is the world with inteligent tree cats whose society is somewhat bound to that of humans.

Ay, ¡si sólo éso tuviera! {jealous I am!}



I absolutely AD RED how you could have synchronous Ancient , Medieval, Mayan, African (etc.) civilizations on a more or less even keel. Now that's fantasy!

Rally, Civ-Fans!

In another life, I used to come home from College or work and play that game all friggin night long.
As a naughty uncle, I corrupted ehem...introduced my nephews to Civilization those same strange aeons ago.
Ah, Golden Misspent Days of Youth!




A lot of adventures can be had with two folks and a hot air balloon! This sounds sort of where technologically the landslide majority of folks in Tirga are at with my story: from gritty peasant agrarians & barbarians to over-the-top fake birthmark-doilie-lacey-froufrou noblesse (well...not quite like that). I tried to include the idea of airships (even clunky, bumblebee, Gilligan's Isle coconut and jute, never will fly in 1,000,000 years airships), but nothing beats lassoing and scudding the welkins on your own Skvaeder or Walpertinger - Gamainduþ evreo!



Makes perfect sense. My world Tirga sounds similar to yours in certain ways. Advanced technology exists, but to the natives, it might as well be magic.

My, still largely undeveloped conworld is an habitable moon orbiting a gas giant (HD 28185b). The dominant civilization is a collection of matriarchal queendoms under the loose overlordship of a rather militant church-like body (the Oefefaāei).

The local religion is maltheist : the Great Goddess, Toūme te Laituto is downright evil and the whole point of worshipping Her is to keep Her entertained, so She doesn't get bored and destroy the world.

Relatively high tech... for the nobility. Everybody else is medieval. Endemic warfare, chronic political instability, strict sexual segregation, a lot of weird cults, roaming mercenary bands...

A nice place to live

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Native : French
Known : English, Breton
Intermediate : Gothic, Latin
Basic : Russian, Danish, Old English

Conlangs : Gutesc (Eastern Germanic), Lautopaei (a-priori)

I recently got an idea for a conworld, actually, where the two major landmasses of the world end up rather different due to the fact that the eastern one has been under the influence of magic since the breakup of the last known supercontinent 50 million years before the main setting. The western landmass, however, has not been affected by magic.

Eastern landmass is mainly late Bronze Age/early Iron Age plus magic (technology-wise), and has a variety of "mythical" species. There are several stable states over there, as well as some small tribes or petty kingdoms. No large wars have been fought there for the last 70 years.

Western landmass is mainly High Middle Ages/early Renaissance (technology-wise), and something akin to baseline humans (i.e. us) exists as the dominant species. It's a place of near-constant small-scale warfare, and roving bands of mercenaries are among the richest groups on the continent.

There's been little contact between the two continents, and in fact, only a few people on either side know the other side exists. What contact has occurred is a closely-guarded secret on the western side.

That's all I've got for now.

Disskeh! My conworld, Barrer, is a fantasy world I created for a novel. It is divided in two parts, its equator is vertical and not horizontal like ours. The East part is the main land. It is formed by 10 letter-shaped islands that create the text "Do Not Enter" (in English, not in Hecathver, my conlang). The West part is instead a more RPG continent, where I set a videogame I'm currently creating. Of course, the whole planet speaks Hecathver.

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Il compito del conlanger è rendere perfetta la cosa più imperfetta di questo mondo: il linguaggio.

my two conplanets, Suenu and Amphitrite, are both realistical fantasy. This means that they're, at a surface level, somehow fantastic [humans in another planet, alongside with earth fauna and ] but the premise of the world is sheer improbability, nothing impossible [both sort of terraformed a shitload of time before the world's present by far future humans who have since sort of moved on with their lives, leaving a few humans for some reason, that is, indistinguishable from gods or magic-wielders as per Clarke's third law ]. Besides that unpoetic origin story, Suenu is entirely realistic and earthlike, with no magic or any funny voodo going on. Amphitrite is a bit more fantastic, as its entire biology is philogenetically non-terran, but still no mumbo-jumbo.

The post-terran polity that made these worlds, which I indent to come up with eventually, *does* have magic, as per Clarke's law, but not otherwise. I dislike magic, I find it cheesy. What I do like are metaphisically different conworlds, but that's another matter entirely.