🌏World Building

Have your fictional world come to life.

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What is Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding in writing is the process of creating the setting, rules, and cultures that define a story’s universe. Writers build geography, history, societies, and magic systems to make their worlds believable. Effective worldbuilding gives readers context for why characters act as they do and how events unfold. Authors often draw maps, invent languages, or design political systems to keep their worlds consistent. In Fortelling, worldbuilding tools let you store these details in one place and connect them directly to your chapters and characters.

General

See the page linked below for a general overview and explanation of creating and using a story element.

🧩Story Elements

Locations

Besides your characters, an essential story element are the locations your characters experience their story line in. Fortelling allows you to create any virtual world using a sublocation system. You can add an infinite amount of story element underneath eachother.

Example: World > Countries > Cities > Streets > Houses > Floor of a house > Room

Attributes

Location

• Dimensions

• Objects

• Condition

• Feeling

• Noises

• Smell

Biology & Environment

• Climate

• Landmarks

• Flora

• Fauna

• Bodies of Water

• Pollution

Culture

• Inhabitants

• Language

• Rituals

• General Ethics

• Art & Music

• Views on Life

• Views on Death

• Gender/Race Equality

Politics

• Government System

• Political Parties

• Important Political Figures

• Opinion of the Public

• Laws

• Punishments

• Law Enforcement

• Opposing Forces

Magic & Technology

• Magic

• Technological Level

• Unique Technologies

• Medicine & Healthcare

• Ethical Controversies

History

• Date Founded

• Founder

• Major Events

Religion

• Deities

• Religious Groups

• Religious Leaders & Prophets

• Religion Founding

• Religious Values Commandments

• Government View

• Freedom of Religion

Trade & Public Relations

• Currency

• War

• Trade Partners

• Major Imports

• Major Exports

Species

Come up with completely new species and keep an overview. Who, what, and how do they behave? What's their background? Use our attributes to order your thoughts.

Attributes

Species

• Lifespan

• Height

• Weight

• Diet

• Skills & Abilities

• Weakness

• View on Mortals

Appearance

• Physical Description

• Mental Description

Lifestyle

• Common Locations

• Habitats

• Reproduction

• Growth Stages

• Major Stages

• Major Ethnic Groups

Background

• Origin

• History

• Religious Connections

• Common Cultural Influences

Items

Have a unique item in your story? Like a magical sword or a ring that holds immense power? What about its history? Describe them in the items tool.

Attributes

Item

• Purpose

• Special Abilities & Properties

• Collection

• Production

• Composition

• Value

• Rarity

• Occurence

• Detection Methods

• Armaments

• Defense

• Other equipment

History

• History

• Origin

• Notable Owners

Languages

If you're a hardcore worldbuilder, you've probably come up with a few fictional languages and some words. Use this tool to create background lore for this language and a lexicon with existing words. No more looking at prior chapters to see what word you came up with.

Attributes

Language

• History

• Commonness

• Writing System

• Writing Direction

• Number System

Speech

• Sound Production

• Spoken By

• Religions

• Dialects & Slang

Grammar

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Sentence Structure

• Derivations

Lexicon

Every language you create has its own lexicon. Your lexicon is displayed as a table with the following properties for you to fill in:

• Word: the fictional word

• Definition: describe the meaning of the word, or provide a translation of the word

• Type: you can choose from nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverb, prepositions, postpositions, determiners, demonstratives

• Pronunciation: how do you imagine the word to be pronounced?