Harlequin
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Wanted to start one of these. I'm guessing there's a few of us here who worldbuild (whether obsessively or more casually) and like talking about it. I also find it enjoyable to read about what other people are doing! My current project involves (mostly) a planet named Ellos by its inhabitants.
Ellos is a world with a lot of history. It did the stone age, it went through an industrial revolution, it became way more advanced than we were and it was about to undergo a Singularity. It was pretty awesome. Except then the Falrossian Empire desired more expansion and broke pretty much all its treaties with other world nations. Note that it was the cause of the Resource Wars already, and it was responsible for turning what later became known as the Lost Continent into a nuclear wasteland.
So there were about a hundred years of proxy wars fought between the Empire and the Golamu Primacy. The Republican League of Central Vayuru managed to stay out of the wars mostly, playing both sides and trying to avoid the devastation the two powers were tracking all over the world. Eventually Falros and the Primacy started to war with each other, and by this point the population had fallen from 10bn to about thirty million. The Republicans became drawn into the war on the side of the Primacy when Falros razed their eastern cities to the ground and settled their own people there. So there were nuclear bombs being dropped everywhere they thought it might help, the Golamu war automata were being deployed like there was no tomorrow and the Falrossians had developed a very powerful magitech that was making their victory almost inevitable. Then the Primacy launched a last kamikaze attack on the Farasi Archipelago and destroyed their cities, infrastructure and pretty much everything. Then they turned on the GDIs, which essentially emit an anti-magic field which destroys all dolonics. So technology stopped working, since everything was magitech, and the global population was left at around 2 million or so, concentrated on Rosatar and part of Central Vayuru. The war ended not because there was a ceasefire but because there was no one left to fight it, and nothing left to fight it with.
But that's backstory. Two centuries later the world sucks. Cancer is as common as a cold, technology has stagnated and the anti-magic field is still up so you can't achieve much with dolonics at all. There are two main power centres in the world: the Farasi Teachers and the Golgrim Alliance, descended from Falros and Golamu respectively. Nayundica, the last remnant of the Republican League, is not particularly powerful or influencial. Other groups are scattered around the world but in numbers far too low to be of any real note. The fate of mankind rests on those living in Farasya, Nayundica and Rosatar, since those places are the only places where civilisation still exists.
At the moment I'm working on fleshing out the Teacher organisation and its structure, goals and hierarchy. They have a militant wing, the Soldiers, and they're the de facto government of Farasya. They have access to pre-war technology, although they can't use a lot of it. They have powerful Archives, which are like computers sort of but can be weaponised. Er, sort of.
The Golgrim Alliance is essentially a theocratic military dictatorship led by a woman known only as the Priestqueen. It's rumoured she's over two hundred years old and that she's ruled since the war ended. Gogrom is her capital and it's the largest city in the world (60k inhabitants). It doesn't actually do a whole lot on the world stage (but then, there isn't really a world stage any more...), but it's certainly the most powerful single entity that exists.
I really like this project. The world is fascinating, it has a rich history and a hopeful future. The people who populate it all have some kind of story to tell. There's so much I've got left to explore, too. Anyway, that's me done. What are you guys working on?
Ellos is a world with a lot of history. It did the stone age, it went through an industrial revolution, it became way more advanced than we were and it was about to undergo a Singularity. It was pretty awesome. Except then the Falrossian Empire desired more expansion and broke pretty much all its treaties with other world nations. Note that it was the cause of the Resource Wars already, and it was responsible for turning what later became known as the Lost Continent into a nuclear wasteland.
So there were about a hundred years of proxy wars fought between the Empire and the Golamu Primacy. The Republican League of Central Vayuru managed to stay out of the wars mostly, playing both sides and trying to avoid the devastation the two powers were tracking all over the world. Eventually Falros and the Primacy started to war with each other, and by this point the population had fallen from 10bn to about thirty million. The Republicans became drawn into the war on the side of the Primacy when Falros razed their eastern cities to the ground and settled their own people there. So there were nuclear bombs being dropped everywhere they thought it might help, the Golamu war automata were being deployed like there was no tomorrow and the Falrossians had developed a very powerful magitech that was making their victory almost inevitable. Then the Primacy launched a last kamikaze attack on the Farasi Archipelago and destroyed their cities, infrastructure and pretty much everything. Then they turned on the GDIs, which essentially emit an anti-magic field which destroys all dolonics. So technology stopped working, since everything was magitech, and the global population was left at around 2 million or so, concentrated on Rosatar and part of Central Vayuru. The war ended not because there was a ceasefire but because there was no one left to fight it, and nothing left to fight it with.
But that's backstory. Two centuries later the world sucks. Cancer is as common as a cold, technology has stagnated and the anti-magic field is still up so you can't achieve much with dolonics at all. There are two main power centres in the world: the Farasi Teachers and the Golgrim Alliance, descended from Falros and Golamu respectively. Nayundica, the last remnant of the Republican League, is not particularly powerful or influencial. Other groups are scattered around the world but in numbers far too low to be of any real note. The fate of mankind rests on those living in Farasya, Nayundica and Rosatar, since those places are the only places where civilisation still exists.
At the moment I'm working on fleshing out the Teacher organisation and its structure, goals and hierarchy. They have a militant wing, the Soldiers, and they're the de facto government of Farasya. They have access to pre-war technology, although they can't use a lot of it. They have powerful Archives, which are like computers sort of but can be weaponised. Er, sort of.
The Golgrim Alliance is essentially a theocratic military dictatorship led by a woman known only as the Priestqueen. It's rumoured she's over two hundred years old and that she's ruled since the war ended. Gogrom is her capital and it's the largest city in the world (60k inhabitants). It doesn't actually do a whole lot on the world stage (but then, there isn't really a world stage any more...), but it's certainly the most powerful single entity that exists.
I really like this project. The world is fascinating, it has a rich history and a hopeful future. The people who populate it all have some kind of story to tell. There's so much I've got left to explore, too. Anyway, that's me done. What are you guys working on?
