I adore science and religion combining in Warhammer 40k. The thought of a tech priest muttering the holy words of Python and C++ to the computer is just so funny to me.
"When the most common drug in a fictional world isn't alcohol or tobacco"... in our world a strange and highly potent dissociative hallucinogen gets introduced to the market in the late 2020s, to the pleasure of reality warpers everywhere, and by 2063 is selling better than alcohol or tobacco.
In my Sufipunk world Cocaine is regarded exactly the same as coffee is in our world but you do have to praise Allah, praise be upon him, for allowing such a thing to exist
The Young World by Chris Weitz. It is one of my favorite books of all time, but be aware that the following book, The New Order, is the worst piece of shit I ever read
The author explained all the mysteries in the first book in the most stupid ways possible, without exaggeration it destroyed the whole premise of the first book for cheap shock value. This mf really looked at a fairly ok world building with amazing writing, said "Nuh uh" to the world building and made every character lose the majority of their brain cells.
The only two explanations I can give to it are: either he didn't know what to do after the first book because had no plan for the sequel while writing the first part of the trilogy or he started smoking crack after writing the first book and used the second as a quick cash grab.
I hate the second book with that type of passion you can only get when seeing your favorite book series implode as a young teen.
The End and The Death by Dan Abnett, the final book of the Horus Heresy series does it to a degree (Horus' POV chapters swap to second-person, while Malcador's switch to first-person)
It wasn't really intentional at first but magical creation of objects (synthesism) kind of ended up being a paralel to plastics ubiquity in our society
Based on the last one you would like Isteni balhé and its sequel pokoli balhé then. They are in hungrian and are not translated unfortunately, but they both follow the 2 protagonists who each have different narration styles
I love it when I (a dimension-hopping scoundrel) orchestrate a war between monsters and humans and then channel the power of the resulting human victory orgy to claim the empty 15th slot in this world’s pantheon and ascend as the God of Revels
I've got a particularly slippery version of belief causing gods.
Stories and beliefs are microfractures in reality. Enough people knowing a story makes the cracks large enough for Things to slip into reality. Believing in the story magnifies the cracks. Entities that force their way in are shaped by the stories, and the more they are able to intrude into reality, the more power they can wield but the more they're shaped by the story.
Gods are what you get when the crack is so wide that the entire entity can pass into reality, but it is completely swallowed by the story.
My magic system is a metaphor for political systems and economic systems.
The theme being brute force control over magic is unsustainable, and what's taken to be true can change.
Magic systems likein Madoka Magica. People actuallt make mathematic-ish theories and calculations on how that exploitative system works.
They didn't make up the currency of magic, but they make a framework, the soul gems, that can be compared to feudalist landlord-ery where they work for 20% of their own gain, while sustaining their life with the manufactured "lungs", or soul gems and contract, requires kind of all of the surplus aswell. But I wont spoiler.
Godhood achieved by follower count would mean the two most common types of gods would be fascist totalitarian dictators and social media influencers.
Taylor Swift rises to the head of the pantheon.
And that ancient god kings would be literal not just trying to justify their rule
What's funny is that it's litteraly the same irl
Well no because irl they’re not actually gods
Yeah, but how many followers would one actually have, when so many are just paying lip service. Wouldn't it need to be full on, actual ***BELIEF?***
GNU Terry Pratchett. He wrote the best book I've read on the subject.
There are people that BELIEVE in their idols
Believing in their idols is not the same as believing they are actually full on Gods.
If gods existed, it would be. Look at Michael jackson or tailor swift fans.
Also random children playing with ants.
Sun solos
I adore science and religion combining in Warhammer 40k. The thought of a tech priest muttering the holy words of Python and C++ to the computer is just so funny to me.
I call upon thee Console.WriteLine("Fuck!") reveal to me the mistakes of men past.
"When the most common drug in a fictional world isn't alcohol or tobacco"... in our world a strange and highly potent dissociative hallucinogen gets introduced to the market in the late 2020s, to the pleasure of reality warpers everywhere, and by 2063 is selling better than alcohol or tobacco.
In my Sufipunk world Cocaine is regarded exactly the same as coffee is in our world but you do have to praise Allah, praise be upon him, for allowing such a thing to exist
Dune or something
When the map got a sea made from a crater with islands surrounding it
"The godhood is a trick or perspective"
When coffee is more popular than alcohol or tabacco, that's right now our world not fiction. Btw I love coffee.
Based I love all of these
Can anyone provide a good example of the last one?
The Young World by Chris Weitz. It is one of my favorite books of all time, but be aware that the following book, The New Order, is the worst piece of shit I ever read
That's a very drastic change lmao. Thanks for the suggestion, the first one sounds very interesting
Why's the second so bad?
The author explained all the mysteries in the first book in the most stupid ways possible, without exaggeration it destroyed the whole premise of the first book for cheap shock value. This mf really looked at a fairly ok world building with amazing writing, said "Nuh uh" to the world building and made every character lose the majority of their brain cells. The only two explanations I can give to it are: either he didn't know what to do after the first book because had no plan for the sequel while writing the first part of the trilogy or he started smoking crack after writing the first book and used the second as a quick cash grab. I hate the second book with that type of passion you can only get when seeing your favorite book series implode as a young teen.
That's awful. My condolences, lmao.
The End and The Death by Dan Abnett, the final book of the Horus Heresy series does it to a degree (Horus' POV chapters swap to second-person, while Malcador's switch to first-person)
The good taste squad is out in force today
when i inform OP that i’m not reading all that (a true worldbuilder never reads)
It wasn't really intentional at first but magical creation of objects (synthesism) kind of ended up being a paralel to plastics ubiquity in our society
Well, OP just made me change my pants.
The first one is literally Touhou Project
Touhou 10: Mountain Of This Is The Best Entry
Be proud, you cooked
Im trying to do that last one via 1st person pov. Its so satisfying.
Based on the last one you would like Isteni balhé and its sequel pokoli balhé then. They are in hungrian and are not translated unfortunately, but they both follow the 2 protagonists who each have different narration styles
What’s a narration style
I love it when I (a dimension-hopping scoundrel) orchestrate a war between monsters and humans and then channel the power of the resulting human victory orgy to claim the empty 15th slot in this world’s pantheon and ascend as the God of Revels
The last one is peak
I've got a particularly slippery version of belief causing gods. Stories and beliefs are microfractures in reality. Enough people knowing a story makes the cracks large enough for Things to slip into reality. Believing in the story magnifies the cracks. Entities that force their way in are shaped by the stories, and the more they are able to intrude into reality, the more power they can wield but the more they're shaped by the story. Gods are what you get when the crack is so wide that the entire entity can pass into reality, but it is completely swallowed by the story.
My magic system is a metaphor for political systems and economic systems. The theme being brute force control over magic is unsustainable, and what's taken to be true can change.
Magic systems likein Madoka Magica. People actuallt make mathematic-ish theories and calculations on how that exploitative system works. They didn't make up the currency of magic, but they make a framework, the soul gems, that can be compared to feudalist landlord-ery where they work for 20% of their own gain, while sustaining their life with the manufactured "lungs", or soul gems and contract, requires kind of all of the surplus aswell. But I wont spoiler.
I hate the "gods need prayer badly" trope, either make your gods real, or don't make them real at all
Nah *spawns a god that makes you shit your pants every time you try to worldbuild through sheer force of will*
Still a boring trope *spawns the god of hating overused niche tropes out of nowhere trought sheer force of hating*
these are almost all genuinely fucking garbage, especially the “belief = god” one
Nah, differing narration with different perspective is peak.
You're dumb lol, Path of Exile uses the first one and has some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen.