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This website is a compendium of worldbuilding to the tune of biologic speculation, geologic inference, and cultural makeup stemming from both those things. It is forever a work in progress, a way for me to familiarize myself with HTML and have something to show to people. I like fantasy that just puts you in a world and lets you figure it out as you go. So that's what I get up to.

Throughout, you will encounter a few superscripts¹- hover over them to see additional details, usually out-of-universe stuff, but also just asides, because if I didn't use superscripts, my sentences would have 18 commas each. They already do sometimes.

Overview

The laws of physics remain the same. There is no magic system. Any gods exist in theology and myth only- their effect on the world is only as impactful as the belief of those below. The fantasy comes from the shape the world takes, not a changing of rules.

The World

The world's name is Synsolic: a word older than any surviving language, roughly translating to 'together beneath the sun.' And for much of history², that's what existed- the surface, and the people inhabiting it. There is more than that, but that's a story for another day.

The world can be split into two chronologies, pre and post cataclysm, referring to the eruption of the supervolcano that had sat silently for centuries at the northern edge of the main continent. It is known, as a mountain range, as the Spectators. Now, the caldera is often referred to as The Shell. This cataclysm decimated the landscape and the people living there alike, destroying the structure of the world, taking hundreds of thousands of lives. Much of my focus and thus the focus of this site is on the time period approximately 150 years after the eruption. Land and lives have settled, but both are empty and scattered still as a result of what preceeded them.

The People

This world is inhabited by a cast of humanoid species which can be sorted into a variety of categories depending on the purpose of the categorization itself. You can check out the specifics of all of these under the Species tab.

Each species has its own culture, mythos, values, and intracacies, but all humanoids live intwined with one another across landscapes. There are no longer cities or empires consisting of one single, primary species: those all fell with the cataclysm. All that remains are small, scattered settlements, inhabited by whoever happens to make their home there. There are trends, especially following tradition or historical geographic setting, but there is always a great deal of intermingling.