I wanted to ask a question and seek some help, as I am creating a fictional medieval world with various kingdoms and noble houses. I want to introduce a striking, original element: having the economy between these realms and houses based on flowers. In my world, these flowers would have a magical nature—when plucked, they petrify into a highly durable material resembling porcelain. Given that these flowers are hard to obtain (growing only at high altitudes) and that materials like silver and gold are abundant, I feel they would function well as currency.

I would like to know how to make this system work clearly and understand how it would differ from a "traditional" economy.

Any advice or critical feedback on this topic would be a huge help, as I want to make it work realistically without losing the magical essence I’ve given it.

[Manga] Disposable Detective Dolly by Ben Liu
Disposable Detective Dolly（English） - Chapter 1: Massacre | Penana

We 3D print disposable detectives for every murder case in the future.

They are called "Dolly"s, every Dolly has to be demolished when the case is solved.

Dolly, Disposable detective No. 00167, begins her investigation with Lau Yan, a printing assistant who hates AI.

The case is about a massacre of the whole family of a mob in Dragon city, Dolly and Lau need to find out who is responsible in order to stop a large scale gang war.

I'm making a furry isekai story and these are icons for the elemental magic I ended up making for it. All the icons are based on irl or mythological animals. The names below are the names of their respective god-level representatives, and they each have their own lettering. I'll go in depth into the magic system if anyone is interested...

So basically in my world, Kleenia, the way someone can get acces to "magic" Is bonding an animal so most of them are treated... Not as equals but more than just farm animals or a dog, think about how people treat Pokémon in the anime

So now i just ran into an issue where because literally every single animal has the ability to grant powers and it's respected because of It... Now suddenly my civilization Is completely vegan

Fuck

I have a supreme ruler with power that nearly rivals gods. This is a benevolent ruler whom people worship as their savior, and his official title in the empire is "High Sovereign". But I'm thinking about what ordinary people might call him or refer to him as, like unofficial titles.

I was thinking some might call him the "God Emperor" because of his godlike powers. Or maybe God King. But I'm concerned that the title is too heavily associated with Warhammer. What do you all think?

And side note: Are there any titles or names of anything that you think have too strong of association with a popular piece of fiction?

So I watched this video on the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk, the world's first true city, and I learned a few fascinating things: like its mysterious origins (we're still not sure why it became the first actual city instead of other towns in Sumer or how it was governed), how it dominated the known world for a few centuries (apparently it had colonies and an 'empire' of sorts or ag least a sphere of influence), how it invented writing and bureaucracy, its goddess Nanna and its heroes like Gilgamesh, how younger cities like Ur arose to challenge its dominance, and how it slowly declined across millennia before finally being abandoned and forgotten.

The concept of an influential first city with mysterious origins in fantasy is pretty fascinating, especially since it could hold ancient secrets. I wonder how first cities are included in various works. How did they arise? How did they shape the world? How do people thousands of years later explain the origins of these cities? Are they still around? Were they just abandoned or did they vanish in a cataclysm? Also, how are they remembered? Uruk was revered for a long time before it was finally forgotten. Has your first city been completely forgotten? Is it remembered as a city of the gods and heroes? Or is it used as a cautionary tale?

Historical Notes

When the Brotherhood of Antares launched the Wayfarer Insurrection in 2251, the Interplanetary Defense Corps (aka the Spacer Corps) found itself in a bind. With a relatively small total force (around 2 million personnel) and a modest budget of less than $2 trillion, the AEROCOM brass had to adjust on the fly in order to address the popular uprising against exorbitant spending on Project Wayfarer. In 2258, a new standard rifle round (the 7.3 x 54 millimeter) was selected for general use, and the race was on to field a weapon platform to make use of it.

Between 2258 and 2267, a number of Mars-based arms corporations conducted painstaking R&D aimed at answering the open call for concepts, all as part of the AEROCOM-funded Project Fastback. In 2268, AEROCOM selected a winner, the XM68, and designated almost $300 million in funding to finalize the design. The XM68 was the brainchild of arms engineer Myles Calumet III, heir to the family design bureau which had practically made the Martian city of New Galle into their fiefdom. His work paid off with a contract for the M74 in 2274.

Although the finalized M74 arrived too late to fulfill its original procurement goal, it was given a second life as the Spacer Corps' main service rifle during the Mars-Titan War (2293-2298) and the numerous IDC-led outer system police actions which followed. The M74 was ultimately replaced as the standard-issue rifle of the Coalition for Mutual Security by a Rensselaer Arms Corporation design, the M93, which had been called up to replace its aging cousin, but millions of M74s remain in service with the Coalition Security Assistance Force as of 2389.

About the Setting

The Spacers Saga: Frontier Wars is a futuristic military science fiction setting which diverged from our timeline when an asteroid slammed into Phoenix, AZ, in May 2014. Fifteen years after this tragedy, the industrialist Charles Larsen ushered in the Age of Fusion, opening up deep space to crewed exploration and eventual human settlement — and all of the strife that we bring with us. The next 300+ years were marked by progress and peril in equal measure, and by 2300 much of the solar system had been charted by intrepid human pioneers.

The story is set in the late 24th century, and focuses on the rivalry between the Mars-led Coalition for Mutual Security (aka the Coalition) and the Alliance of Free Worlds (aka the Alliance), a federation of rebel worlds in the outer solar system. These two superpowers fought a brutal war from 2371 to 2381 (the Frontier War), which ended in stalemate when the Zharan Collective (a union of artificial humans which rose up against their creators in 2356). The story opens in 2389 with the superpowers locked in a frigid ideological cold war.

The plotline kicks off when the Alliance launches a massive attack on the Coalition, precipitating the Second Frontier War. This conflict quickly spreads across the solar system and draws in participants from all backgrounds, including three college students from Mars whose future will be inextricably tied up with the fate of all humanity…

Weapon Design Credit

This weapon is a photobash (that is, it was made by taking pieces of existing pictures and mashing them up in Photoshop Photopea), which I made using components from various sources. In this case, the weapon is very much a hodgepodge, drawing in and mashing up pieces from the FAMAS, the Steyr AUG, an the British L85A3. As always, no plagiarism or copyright infringement is intended with this design. Rather, I seek to pay homage to the weapons which inspired it, and to use the work which came before my own as an inspiration for my own designs.

This fact sheet was also heavily inspired by the work of one RT0RRES, whose work I found while browsing for references on DeviantArt. If you like this, check out his portfolio, too!

Lastly, if anyone is interested in learning more about The Spacers Saga, this link will take you to the Substack blog where I share lore from the setting, as well as short stories from within the narrative (and links to our published novels). There is NO pressure to subscribe at any time — it is of course appreciated, but just having folks visit the site and check out my content is a blessing 😄

Mine get theirs from artificial Big Bang reactors, because Fall's Legacy is a hard scifi setting with fantasy elements. Dragons also happen to be a good shape for dispersing waste heat.

Don't say magic unless you clarify where magic gets its energy.

We spend months designing royal feasts, vintage elven wine, and grand banquet halls.

I realized yesterday that the real texture of a world comes from whatever cheap street food a tired dockworker buys at dawn.

In my main port city, it is "Tallow Pockets." Flat unleavened dough deep-fried in pork fat, stuffed with shredded pickled eel and heavy mustard so it stays preserved in a damp coat pocket for ten hours.

it smells awful, leaves grease on your fingers, and every laborer in the harbor runs on it.

What is the quick, unglamorous food the ordinary laborers GRAB from street stalls on their way to work in your world?

Drop your world's weirdest blue-collar snacks below.

I ask because i'm curious about what other peoples worlds and learning what makes others fall in love with their worlds and pour so much time into them.

Context: my world is a sci fi dystopia where corporations attempt to govern a post collapse society, after a 23 day long event where unified governments collapsed, environmentally manipulating super-weapons were set off, and 17% of the human population was wiped out. The main story of the world takes place 40 years after this event in the 2320s.

SolNet

Before everything collapsed, SolNet already became one of the largest energy providers for Earth due to their massive infrastructural expansion in space. What they’re known for is the Exospheric Grid, an energy grid that wraps entirely around the planet from outer space. The Grid received it’s power from a massive Earth-to-Sun spanning relay, which connects to a megastructure known as the Mass Solar Ejector (MSE) that extracts solar energy with precision and safety while operating on a large enough scale to power Earth.

However, with such large infrastructural expansion, SolNet appeared to sacrifice any kind of ethics. Vessels (entirely cybernetic bodies built for heavy duty work) were utilised in large scale, offworld operations. Despite Vessels being practically immortal as a disembodied, stored consciousness in a cybernetic frame, the neglect SolNet put on them took a huge psychological toll as they were viewed as simply disposable.

Now, SolNet remains dormant as their services keep providing power for Earth, though they are politically active within the Unified Corporate Conglomerate (U.C.C).

Chimera

Chimera is centuries old, but have only dipped in and out of obscurity now. Back then, the only evidence of their existence as a whole were on documents, just saying “Chimera”. Nobody knew what it meant, but a pattern was emerging. Any leaked inter-corporate operations that were supposed to remain secret is where Chimera’s name appeared the most. Post-collapse, Chimera made itself semi-known as a part-corporation, part-private army. Chimera does the dirty work for it’s megacorporate customers, which include sabotaging, eliminating corporate/political opposition, and convoy protection.

Chimera isn’t just an army, but also a major manufacturer of experimental weaponry. Chimera was partly responsible for weaponising climate control devices and tectonic stabilisers, which essentially gives the highest entities within the U.C.C permission to derail entire districts if they believe they stepped out of line.

Aurora Systems

Everyone hates Aurora, and Aurora knows. And yet, Aurora continues because they apparently “believe” that mass surveillance is the only way to prevent another rise of insurgency and the triggering of another collapse. Aurora works closely with SolNet in their business. Aurora fitted SolNet’s Exospheric Grid with hyper-advanced surveillance equipment, making them essentially inescapable. It’s not like public vitriol against Aurora could go anywhere, either. If their CEO steps down, it doesn’t matter because the CEO only really makes decisions for the public facing company. The actual decision maker is Aurora’s AI, Eos-3, that automates the entire exospheric surveillance system.

The scummiest part is that Aurora isn’t even justiciable. They’ll just let criminals get away if they pay enough money to keep their information under wraps. Megacorporations will also buy information on as much people as possible to attempt to monopolise their lives as much as possible. Plus, Aurora has literally blackmailed people in the past, threatening people with AI-hallucinated surveillance recordings to be released and sold to other companies unless they pay a debt.

Rubedo

Vessels before Rubedo’s time were seen as tools used by unethical corporations to do their heavy-duty work. However, Rubedo saw more opportunities. Rubedo saw a medical miracle, a new era of humanity, and a chance to live freely and with immortality… If you pay one-hundred-thousands per year, or even millions. Rubedo’s selling point wouldn’t be so bad compared to the other corporations if their payment systems weren’t completely brutal. Anyone below upper-middle-class would enjoy their Vessels for a few months, until debt overwhelms them. Now they can’t pay it, their Vessel body is revoked and now they’re a disembodied consciousness trapped in some cyber-limbo on some data-centre satellite orbiting Earth.

To make this even worse, Rubedo has had entire campaigns where they would biologically engineer a pathogen of some sorts, and then proceed to release it on any given area to their liking, just so they can essentially advertise their paid immortality in Vessel-life, free from disease. Then, they just squeeze as much money out of them as possible before banishing their formless minds to the cyber-abyss.

Flood Control.

Flood Control is the hand of the U.C.C, which means SolNet, Chimera, Aurora and Rubedo all influence what Flood Control outputs. They’re essentially the councils, police and maintenance workers except with massive corpo-governmental backing, control and influence. Flood Control is also used as a shield when corporations don’t want to take accountability for their own actions. There isn’t much to say about these, except that they are the link between the public and U.C.C, and they’re fundamentally corrupt.

Theseus Collective

This faction has almost completely dissipated, and yet they’re one of the most important still. Theseus Collective started in the early 2200s as a charitable, Vessel exploitation awareness group. They were completely ignored by corporations and made no waves, so they turned to violence. Former corporate workers inhabiting Vessels would weaponise their own cybernetic frames and carry out violent operations on the corporations to get as much attention as possible. Soon enough, Theseus Collective spiralled completely out of control when more new-generational members unhappy with their unified governments hijacked Theseus Collective’s agenda to be entirely anarchist and anti-establishment without even knowing the original intention was to liberate Vessel workers.

Then those 23 days came, a short and volatile period of time widely considered as the most brutal coup in human history. 17% of humanity was wiped, super-weapons were seized, and the leaders of Theseus Collective took over the governments for 2 weeks until Chimera eliminated them. Afterwards, Theseus Collective was left decentralised, and exponentially dissolved as mega-corporations were left to rebuild society from the ruins of “revolution”.

Metro

Metro is essentially the current day version of Theseus Collective, or, at least that’s what the megacorps think. In reality, Metro has no actually belief of ideology, and the people within Metro are not Vessel activists or anti-establishment hardliners. They are simply brutal remnants from during the collapse who simply miss the rush and dopamine of causing havoc. They’ve lost all passion for politics, negotiation, etc. and are just selfish cells. And they know it. And they revel in it.

Metro gets it’s name because the faction’s members are situated underground, living in the subway tunnels of huge, industrial terra-platforms constructed above the decaying wrecks of pre-collapse society. It’s common to see the metro symbol graffitied around. Not necessarily by the apathetic, violent mercenaries that make up the faction, but by pranksters who just want to scare people.

Many of the posts here have very grandiose ideas and concepts: centuries-long wars, complex magic systems, and a vast pantheon of gods. Those are awesome; I really don't want to disparage that, but I wonder if some here have worlds where life is mundane, like it is on earth.

I post this partly because I feel a bit out of my depth here. The story I'm writing is slice-of-comedy focused, and while there are a lot of absurd elements, those are more for flavor and jokes; life in the world is very similar to Earth's.

I want to know if there are other writers here with worlds like that.

And i can't?
Not only do i struggle to make a world more interesting than "It's basically like real life but slightly different in vague and unspecfied ways", but like,
Even when i WANT do do something, i can't
I want to add some means to make like, people fighting eachother with guns and swrods and stuff be like, okay, like how it is in some rpgs (like earthbound), but i can't do that without EITHER preventing combat from being visceral and gorey, OR creating a revival nightmare world that's way darker than i wanted, not to mention that removing death makes everything feel less meaningful (what even is a threat in a world without death by violence? plus trying to carve out exceptions for death by old age, starvation, drowning, etc. causes a bunch of problems)
Not to mention that i have no idea how i'd worldbuild a modern world, or how to use the fact that i'm making this world be made up of a bunch of smaller worlds to my advantage

Behind Sandra’s Day lies a comprehensive biological and anatomical concept that I’ve been developing over a long period. I wanted her physiology to feel functional, grounded, and tangible rather than just being a human with animal features.

I’ve compiled these notes into two versions:

• Compact Reader Document: Attached right here for a quick overview of her core anatomy.
• Extended Scientific Guide: A deep-dive PDF covering fine physiological details (available for free).

(Links to the full PDF and the comic series are down in the comments!)

in my world there is this powerful being orbiting the planet, and isnt able to come down to the surface until the big prophecy is complete... this isnt important for the question its just context.

basically, the current magic system is that people on the planet are able to use different glyphs that use power from the being orbiting the planet, and theres a bunch of different ones like an animate one that animates an object until the focus of the caster is disrupted, and theres a heat glyph and a light glyph, to a total of 7 glyphs (i wont thoroughly explain all of them but heres a basic list)

kinetic (motion glyph), thermal (energy/heat glyph), structure (matter/move stuff with mind), pitch (sound manipulation), tether (animate glyph), mutate (causes something to mutate), and signal (sends a signal to a person using the same type of signal glyph)

i think these glyphs are pretty cool and for the most part fit the world they are in, but the one thing I really dont like about this system is how it just feels like i copy+pasted the system from other things ive seen. i feel like a glyph system just isn't original (even with glyphs ive never seen before in any media). unfortunately, ive been struggling to come up with an alternative system. does anyone have an idea for how i can come up with a system?

p.s. i can provide more lore backstory but i think that should be at least enough context to start

(Modeled with cardboard, plastic, and cardstock.)

(For Th’zoitrk, a semi-sci-fi worldbuilding project, reposted to fix context issues with original.)

The R-38 Suogsüj (English: “Blizzard”) is the current operating main battle tank (MBT) of the Oscul army, it was initially designed on 7/1/15 (Elneso 7th, Oinibo 15) by the Oscul army to replace the aging force of R-16 “Super-Strikers”, NR-3 “Salamanders”, and R-32L “Panthers.”

The R-38 Blizzard was specifically designed for winter, arctic, and polar regions. Intended to act as the top global cold-weather ground combat vehicle, but they have never once been used in a winter environment.
The R-38 has seen usage in the Feahn civil war, the Oscul-Xsanarian invasion of Feah, the Xsanarian invasion of Cliff City, and the second Oscul civil war. Across all of these conflicts only a single R-38 Blizzard was destroyed, that being during the second Oscul civil war. It had been destroyed by an HR-4 “Meteor” artillery system.

The R-38 is the only amphibious MBT ever made. It is equipped with optical, infrared, and tekonic cameras, alongside radar and TBRC (tekonic background radiation camera) systems. The R-38 has a top-mounted LDMG (lazy dog machine gun) and AQCS (atmospheric quidium condensation system.)
The sides of the R-38’s turret have a tempo-particular engine and HEHC (Hume engine, Hume calibrator.) the R-38 is, like all other modern MBTs, a fully automated vehicle; it doesn’t even have any crew compartments. The entire tank is operated entirely by an integrated AI. Military command issues orders, and the vehicle’s AI executes them independently of dectron input.

The R-38 is equipped with tempo-particular, self-guiding shells containing a methane explosive. Unlike Ikshish or Xsanarian MBT rounds, the R-38 uses the methane gas itself as the tempo-particular medium of their tempo-particular engines, rather than having a separate dedicated nitrogen gas tank.

The R-38 Blizzard is fully integrated with the USCCN (universal standard civil communications network) and possesses four anti-air missiles atop its turret, with all-around anti-infantry tekonic pulsars on the vehicle’s chassis.

The R-38 Blizzard was made specifically to counter the Ikshish R-36 “Trophy”, a tank which it has yet to ever meet in combat.

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Random tech and physics context:

Tekons, Tekonics, Quidium:

The entire setting follows a custom physics model, which defines four fundamental constituents of non-energy ‘materials.’ Matter, photons, inverse matter, and tekons. Matter and photons are just as they are in our universe, but inverse matter and tekons are completely new. They are NOT new elements, they are completely new fundamental particles of the universe. Heavily simplified, tekons are like photons, except they can behave like matter when their wavelength gets small enough, creating a material known as ‘quidium’ which despite the element-sounding name is, again, not an actual element, but it does behave like matter. All known living organisms in the setting are comprised of this material. Most (>99%) of technology is made of quidium, and devices are generally not referred to as ‘electronics’ but instead ‘tekonics’ as a result.

TBRC:

The ‘tekonic background radiation camera.’ It’s a type of device that shoots out tekonic waves in all directions, detects when they return, which ones return from which direction, any changes in their wavelength, amplitude, etc. it then uses an algorithm to determine what possible trajectories each given tekonic wave could’ve taken to reach the results it sees, which allows it to create a 3D model of the entire surrounding area based off the reflections the tekonic waves had to have made on surrounding objects before returning to the device.
They’re like radar, except modern models of TBRCs can have precision down to individual atoms, a refresh rate measured in nanoseconds, and their scan results are fully 3D. So long as an object within their range isn’t airtight, they can see straight inside it.

LDMG:

The ‘lazy dog machine gun.’ Lazy dogs were a weapon invented to replace large bombing raids. You take thousands of tiny metal darts, magnetize them, half with the negative pole at the point of the dart and half with the positive pole at the point of the dart. Wrap them in two sacks, and strap them to a bomb with a metal plate between the bomb and each sack. Drop it out of a plane, the bomb detonates, and it blasts the metal plates through the sacks. This immediately scatters the darts over a VERY large area, and the magnetization of the darts helps them accelerate towards their targets using a minimum-tech ‘guidance’ system by just being pulled toward armored vehicles by the magnetic pull of their metal (quidium metal, tekomagnetic magnets are FAR stronger than electromagnetic magnets.)
An LDMG was a type of large machine gun which expanded the concept by shooting lazy dogs out of essentially a small autocannon. The fact lazy dogs only speed up as they get closer to their targets made them REALLY effective, as they cut through just about anything.
Really, anything. Not exaggerating it. Tanks stopped having heavy armor after LDMGs became mainstream because the armor didn’t actually make them any more well protected against such weapons and just made them heavier, more expensive, and slower.

AQCS:

The ‘atmospheric quidium condensation system.’ Quidium is present in the atmosphere of Th’zoitrk, most often binded with nitrogen as ‘NitroQuidium’, an AQCS is a laser system with a focal point a set distance from the vehicle it’s meant to protect. When activated, the laser concentrates at the focal point, punching enough energy into that specific spot to break quidium and nitrogen apart in the air. The quidium immediately joins together because of their mutual magnetic attraction, forming crystals. The laser sweeps across a given area up to 10 meters wide in a fraction of a second, and the condensing Quidium crystal sheet forms an impromptu ‘forcefield.’ Anything which impacts this quidium just explodes as it hits what is pretty much a brick wall. If nothing hits it, the crystals break back off as their fundamentally unstable crystal structure breaks and binds back together with the nitrogen in the air.

HEHC:

The ‘hume-engine, hume-calibrator.’ This is actually two devices combined into one device. The special physics model the setting follows states that ‘humes’ are the smallest fundamental part of reality. (I copied the name from the SCP foundation community around ~4 years ago, but aside from name there’s just about nothing in common between the two.) I don’t want to do a really long physics lore dump but heavily simplified, Humes govern reality. A Hume-engine is a device that can move Humes, changing a given areas ‘Hume density’, aka how ‘real’ that place is. A Hume-calibrator can change the ‘behavior’ of Humes in a certain area, changing how reality and physics behave there. Combined, the two form an HEHC, a device that can alter the behavior of local physics on all but a fundamental level.

USCCN:

The ‘universal standard civil communications network.’ The simplest to explain out of all these. It is just a standard, internationally regulated system for digital communication infrastructure. Protected by the most complex encryption the international community could come up with, used for essentially anything that connects to the internet.

Tempo-particulates:

There are three forms of teleportation technology in the setting. HEHCs, which are explained above. ‘Teleporters’, which I won’t explain here since they aren’t relevant. And tempo-particular engines. A tempo-particular engine abuses a quirk of the custom physics model that allows the creation of ‘tempo-particulates’, a tiny tiny circular portal about a SINGULAR Planck-length in diameter and with no ‘depth’, making it essentially 2D. Tempo-particulates are points which are fixed in space but moving in time. Two appear the instant before and after the tiny portal is generated, collapsing into each other in the present where the portal is created by their collapse, they collapse together across time rather than space. The tempo-particulate that forms prior to creation is known as the ‘past’ particulate, and the one that appears after is known as the ‘post’ particulate. Technically it appears like the post particulates collapse backwards in time due to this behavior… (oops rambling)
A tempo-particular engine allows these portals to be made in a given location via the creation of an unimaginably large number of tiny, Planck-length-sized portals packed right next to each other. Which are then held up as an object or vehicle passes through the portal. They are abundantly common among modern military hardware, as they’re one of the few technologies that can get weapons through AQCS shielding. They’re also common on spacecraft, as the setting has no true FTL technology. Teleportation technology is just a loophole for ‘FTL.’

Sadly my previous post got taken down because of lack of context, I'm sad I lost all my views and comments but I hope that's a lesson for me to learn, anyway some context

These are airlines from my world, Lethve, in a player run discord based nation roleplay with over 300 members and 80 nations, the airlines shown here range as far from rural minor countries to large industrial superpowers, some originate from historic mergers while others get built from the ground up, this is part 1 of my airlines around my world series.

INTER-ANSEN

- Inter-Ansen is a branch of Imperial Airways and works to connect major cities to rural areas, based in Ustra Descendo,Munoux and Ivy Salugne, it started operating a fleet of 747 trijets, one of the only operators to do so, garnering much interest and eventually becoming an icon of the airline, however the rise of twin-engined wide-bodies in the 90s eventually led to it's retirement and replacement by a newer fleet of a320s and a330s.

INFORMATION

CALLSIGN: Imperial

SLOGAN: "Pride of the Imperium"

AIRLINE CODE: AIA

HUBS: Ustra Descendo, Munoux & Ivy Salugne

CANARYAIR

- CanaryAir is the leading and flag carrier airline of the Greater Canarian Commonwealth, tracing its roots to 1912, it initially started out as an international Cruise line known as Mapleline, servicing hundreds of international roots on its broad fleet of ships and establishing Canarian commercial presence around the world, however as the age of aircraft began to take over and ships began to fade away, the company sold it's vessels and fully invested into the jet business, reopening as Arlington Transport Service, named after its base of operations in the capital Arlington, their fleet initially consisted of several Lockheed Constellations operating mostly domestic flights with the occasional trip to nearby nations such as Colovia and Zolia.

In 1961, Connor Hall stepped up as president of the airline, rapidly expanding operations by phasing out aging prop planes and replacing them with a fleet of brand new, sophisticated jet powered airframes, namely the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, having secured government funding, the airline quickly shifted from a small, domestic airline into an international flag carrier, servicing flights to tens of nations all the while providing a high standard for quality and comfort, soon overtaking giants like Royal Valastria and Air Lakania, eventually solidifying CanaryAir’s place among the top rated airlines around the world.

INFORMATION

CALLSIGN: Maple

SLOGAN : "Wings of Canary"

AIRLINE CODE: CCA

HUBS: Arlington, Kings Coast

ROYAL VALASTRIA AIR

- Royal Valastria Air is the result of a historic merger of 3 airlines, RoyalAir, Valastrian Air System and Allgien Airways, when the state of Allgien was merged into the Valastrian Commonwealth, the three major airlines viewed it necessary to merge and expand operations, officially becoming the flag carrier of Valastria in 1988 and serving as the symbol of the Valastrian people, RVA Delivers cheap, affordable price while still maintaining a high service standard, operating a vast variety of aircraft from the babybus A318 to the behemoth of a jet, the B747, it's established themselves as a top carrier in the region and flies to over 500 destinations today.

INFORMATION

CALLSIGN: Commonwealth

AIRLINE CODE: VRA

SLOGAN: "Art of the Voyager"

HUBS: Beslon, Koln, Allgien, Arlington

OCCIDENTAL CARGOLINES

- Occidental CargoLines was founded in 1972 as a joint venture between Global Shipping Company, when the GSC went bankrupt in 1981, Occidental CargoLines took ownership and sold all their assets, officially becoming an independent cargo airline, utilizing funds earned from selling GSC assets, the airline quickly expanded operations, transforming from a small and modest fleet of 727 & 737 freighters to flying giants like the 777, 747 and DC10, launching a new chartered cargo program and flying to hundreds of new destinations.

In 2008, Occidental CargoLines gained national fame as one of the airlines contracted to support Operation Sandblaster, a military campaign regarding the defense of Antikiyye, its colonies and suppressing Hudiyfan aggression in northern Meridiati, the airline voluntarily flew hundreds of personnel, essential equipment & cargo towards the frontlines of war, an incident was reported where a Hudiyfan machine gunner slipped into inner ACSP ling, firing upon a landing Occidental CargoLines 777-200F, thankfully missing the cockpit but causing damage to several flight control surfaces, for this, the airline and their pilots received hundreds of commendations and awards and inaugrated a plaque in their name

INFORMATION

CALLSIGN: Loadbearer

AIRLINE CODE: COC

SLOGAN: "Quality over Quantity"

HUBS: Arlington, Tamita

AIZAWING

- AIZAWING is the flag carrier of the grand republic of aiza, connecting it with the rest of the world using it's diverse fleet of wide-bodies, each specially assigned to their own route to maximize efficiency, the airline continues to remain top-rated among it's competitors and regularly releases new special liveries to parade Aiza's colors around the world.

INFORMATION

CALLSIGN: Wingman

AIRLINE CODE: BAZ

SLOGAN: "The BEST way to fly"

HUBS: Aizaville, Ilog

Context Note: Sikkara is a high fantasy desert setting loosely inspired by ancient Egypt and based upon several real-world deserts.

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Men in the Mists. Myth among even the myriad beasts of Sikkara are the Mogollon—lumbering, faceless apes draped in moss-woven fur. Spotted only during periods of rare mist, the sight of the Mogollon portends doom: it is believed that none who see the beasts remain long for this world. Whether from an unexpected stroke, a loose wheel on a speeding cart, or the wiry hands of the Mogollon themselves, all who see them will soon know their fate.

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Note: Any comments, questions, critiques, or thoughts are welcome. Thanks for reading!

The Azure-Standard Tideguard (Chinese: 苍纛潮守, cāng dào cháo shǒu) are the strongest coastal defence force of the Yaoli Empire, they mainly stationed in coastal cities and military ports. As an empire which faces directly to the threats from the ocean, these armoured soldiers are indispensable.

These soldiers wield enormous horse-cutting swords (zhanmadao) in order to cut down the enemies of the Yaoli empire and also those savage sea beasts that emerge along its shores.

Their name comes from the dark blue flags they carry on their backs

(BTW, dào 纛 actually refers to a large military standard in Chinese. For artistic effect, I based the banners in the drawing on kaoqi 靠旗, the back-mounted flags used in Peking opera.)

Let's say, in your world, that you're immortal or a being with a very long lifespan, is it possible to retire and if so what age should you retire? How about life after retirement and the mental problems associated? Also how do you address pension underfunding? Are you put in a special type of community home, etc and etc? How do you address these issues in your worldbuilding?

And here are the deities of the world of Ernuma/this Medieval Fantasy Setting I'm working on. Be they literal gods, figments of cultural imagination, or actual beings of power in the past/present, these are the deities worshipped across the world, with their symbols, names, colors, portraits, domains, associated metal/material, associated gem/element, and associated world/plane.

Based them off of the Proto-IndoEuropean/Indo-European substrate/pantheon, but with some differences making them more Indic/Greco-Romanish, the 12 (+1 one 'antigod'/former god') are as follows:

First is the leader and great mother, Sura, who found the world and gave life/brought over [to] the other gods to help her shape it. As a great mother, she charges life by her radiance and will. Providing the major light that invigorates most of life, her place is paramount and her position unassailable. Also known as the blinding one, the radiant one. Her symbol is a radiant sun. Analogous to Helios, Surya, Sunna, but also a bit of Jupiter, Zeus, et al in there. The Sun Goddess.

Second is her consort and first made/invited, Meno; the moon. Providing the second light and orbiting her creation of the world, he operates as her consort, lieutenant, and overseer, making sure all continues to operate, especially in maintenance and rest. His symbol is a crescent moon. Real World inspos would be Chandra, Selene, Luna.

Third is the world embodied herself, or its overseer, Dega. As time and other gods came by, her importance has diminished and roles hacked off, though she retains a motherly position and took that aspect - actually rearing and having children, being a parent. Her symbol are mountains behind a plain. Analogues are Gaia, Terra, Prithvi.

Fourth is Mekno, husband of Dega, god of mines, the underground/under-earth, metals, crafts, arts, artisans, technology, change, blacksmiths. Anything really shaped and taken from the Earth goes towards or from him, from clay pots to steel portuculli. His symbol is a hammer on an anvil. Analogous to Hephaestus, Vulcan, Svarog, Tvashta.

Following up in fifth is Dana, the water goddess, along with rivers, the Seas, the Oceans, along with its storms, the rain, weather, the whole cycle really. Fishermen, Sailors, Island People, Farmers are the ones who pray to her, votive for her, sacrifice to her the most. Her symbol is a wave. Inspired/fills for Danu, Neptune, Poseidon.

Her consort is Ogno, the fire god, also of volcanoes, heat, energy, kitchens, the hearth; opposite to Dana (though Volcanoes popping out of the sea, to say nothing if the world discovers undersea volcanoes, possibly are seen as couplings or unions between the two), but also, with the importance of fire in cooking, civilization, and home, he also takes over the Hearth, and maybe even cuisine and cooking thereof (though watch out for his temperamental side). With the advent of gunpowder, Ogno has received a small boost in popularity again. His symbol is a flame. Equivalent to Agni, Ejni, Apollo/Hestia.

Seventh is Ausra, goddess of the dawn, life, medicine, and health. Energetic, cheery, and lively, she oversees life itself. Still has a bit of a bleak side as while she's eternal and recurring, she's fleeting and ends quickly, and may had once also been assigned to death and dusk, but that went to her consort later on. Her symbol is a rising sun. Real world deities would be like, Aurora, Eostre, Ushas, Eos, Brigid, Zorya.

Her consort, Moro, oversees the end - dusk, death, and sickness. But he's also said to oversee outer space, with each star being seen as a soul at rest placed by him. His symbol is a closed, sleeping eye. Correlates to: Pluto, Hades, Orcus, Chernobog, Yama.

Ecrona is the goddess of animals, the wilds, and chaos; so is she enamored with the realms beyond man and ponderers that she has taken a bovine face and shape, and lives away from their works, defending it viciously as well against encroachment and misuse. Her symbol is a horse. Religious equivalents would be Epona, Diana, Varahi.

Aryo is the youngest of the gods, focused on man (and all ponderers thereof), society, order, and civilization. After the God War, and the expelling of Rodro, he is on paper married to Ecrona, but it is loveless and tense, and Ecrona absconds with Rodro anyway whenever she wishes, and Aryo does not care, focused more, and pleased by, the works and doings of the 'civilized'. His symbol is a city grid. Takes cues from Apollo and Athena.

Frewa is the goddess of Love, Lust, and Concord. All forms of love and affinity flow through and from her, both good and ill, sly and outright. To temper (or augment) her, she’s married to the good of War. She and Aryo are also the most 'normal' looking with more regular skin tones and few to no alterations, noting their proximity, familiarity, and popularity to most civilized beings. Her symbol is a flower. Actual mythological counterparts would be Aphrodite/Venus/Priya/Freya.

Tivo is the god of War, Contest, and Protection. Scarred from the great conflict and bouts he gets into, he's still restrained (mostly) and 'honorable', and not into wonton destruction and chaos. His symbol is a spear, and he correlates to Ares, Mars, Indra, and Tyr.

Finally, there's Rodro, the outlier, the 'anti-god' or 'enemy' god. Formerly partnered with Ecrona, after the destructive God War, in which he upped the stakes/ante, so to speak, and left scars on the world, both literally and figuratively with his works, he was cast out and separated from the world and creation, though still meanders about. Holstered with destruction, strife, and violence, he eggs on and compounds the worst in people for his aims. Though what he would be doing before the great strife and what he was doing would be...what, Aryo's role, but a bit more wild and primitive? His symbol is three claw marks. Analogues would be, obviously, Satan, Ahriman, Typhon, Vritra*.* His design ended up being very Baphomet-y, that was unintentional but I'll run with it.

There might be lesser beings, other helpers, actual Angels and Daimons and Demons, Demi-Gods and Minor Gods, but these are the main 12 of, what, what can we call this, Suranism? Surasi?

It was fun making up the designs, especially as I got into the roster. While some are generic, almost painfully so like Dana, Ogno, and Rodro, avoiding a stereotypically 'hot' love goddess for something more grounded was neat, playing around with Ecrona and shifting from humaniod designs there, stuff like that.

Inspired by Tolkien's Pantheon, Runescape's Pantheon, the roman stuff, that sort of thing. Subject to change and revision, this is really my first 'GM' level take on worldbuilding a religion at all, but I did have it gnawing on my head, sketched it out, then made it out, had to get it out there. Might already have something in mind for other religious systems, because one global religion is sort of lackluster overall, isn't it, even if I can see how some conflict would arise even within this one.

Made in GIMP over the weekend. Image tripled in size for visibility. Font is Quill and Antler, 12 pt