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[Question] [ Magic system question here. Would much appreciate your help! I've read a decent bit about writing magic and I think I have a decent grasp of Sanderson's laws. My magic has a cost (you have to shed your blood to use it) and a limitation (the more magical energy you hold the harder it is to control - out o...
[Question] [ I'm creating an Alien race based on Silica-Quartz crystals. While their planet is inhospitable to humans, the tectonically and volcanically active surface has created an abundance of crystalline forms, which have achieved sentience. Their abilities are Piezoelectric in nature, but my biggest hurdle is th...
[Question] [ In my world, there is a notorious cult. Despite its weird (and comical) origins, it manages to be one of the most infamous cults ever in existence. Originally, it was one big cult, formed during their Renaissance, from people losing faith in existing gods, but now it exists as several small cults, unique...
[Question] [ In a world with spirit magic, what could cause a big enough magical accident to destroy a large city and devastate a wide area around it? ## Spirit Magic In this world, all things have a spirit and people with the right knowledge can influence these spirits to manipulate the object they're inhabiting. Fo...
[Question] [ The Emperor (may he live forever) has invented a new form of battle for his birthday gladiatorial spectacle. There are two armies, each consisting of one hundred trained warriors. Each is armed with an identical gladius. Apart from this they wear a simple loincloth. They have no other accoutrements. The ...
[Question] [ I'd like two medieval societies to be separated from one another by a huge vertical wall. The wall is so high that no-one has succeeded in shooting an arrow (or anything else) over it. It disappears up into perpetual mist. This wall bridges a pass in the middle of a mountain range that no-one has managed...
[Question] [ I'm trying to create a people that live on this rolling tide (see [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/126102/massive-tides-and-resources) or on '[millers planet](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/19503/what-would-infrastructure-look-like-on-interstellars-...
[Question] [ I would like my human colonists to settle on the high plateaus (2500-3000m above sea level) of my planet thus never meeting the civilization living in the lowlands (in a huge forest so they aren't visible from above), until settlers find evidence of them and decide to see what's going on down there. The ...
[Question] [ I'm building a game set in technologically medieval, low magic fantasy world. It contains four races: * Seafaring human-likes * Dwarven inventors employing machinery to do their bidding * Elves which live in harmony with nature * Destructive, feral, cannibalistic tribespeople Each race has been unaware o...
[Question] [ Suppose you were an "enlightened" (male) monarch in a very backward, "traditional," unequal society. You want to lift women out of subservience in your society. You can do this one in one of two ways (but they are mutually exclusive, because you have only "one bite.") 1) You can "dictate" (and try to pas...
[Question] [ My story requires humans very quickly creating a ~5km barricade to protect them from the monsters that live in the forest. These monsters are between animals and humans in power/intellect. Currently, I thought of cutting down every X tree along the natural tree perimeter, then attach that tree sideways t...
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[Question] [ I've lately been looking at a lot of *War of the Worlds* remakes/spinoffs, like the 2005 film, the 2013 mockumentary *The Great Martian War*, and of course, the tabletop game *All Quiet on the Martian Front*. While looking through all these awesome stories and scenarios, one question has been bugging me ...
[Question] [ Specifically, could new planets form around a previously destroyed star? (Think of it like a phoenix.) If so, could the potential sentient life detect that their star previously exploded? [Answer] If by explode you mean go Supernova, then no. Emphatically, no. Most stars don't explode at their end of ...
[Question] [ I am creating a story with wizards and a war between the medieval and the magician, but I liked the idea that this world was huge, and the different people lived a colossal distance apart, not just days, but almost years. Therefore, this world would have to be something like the size of Jupiter. However,...
[Question] [ I'm not talking about world-ending, global-scale thermonuclear war, nor about massive salvos of missiles being fired at countries by other countries. I'm talking about, say, a few divisional-level ground-combat armored forces with a contemporary or near-future tech level throwing a bunch of [Davy Crocket...
[Question] [ The villainous gremlins are attempting to cause as much damage to the lands of the Empire as possible with as little effort as practical. They have numerous plans to this end. One such plan is to blow up the granaries/silos which store all the recently harvested grain (mostly wheat and barley), depriving...
[Question] [ The Romans had [pumps](https://100falcons.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/a-roman-pump-in-perfect-condition/), [aqueducts](https://www.google.com/search?q=roman%20aqueducts&rlz=1C1NHXL_enGB711GB711&oq=roman%20aqueducts&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.7301j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), [water wheels](https://waterandener...
[Question] [ I had the idea for a group of advanced humans using technology to rework their bodies so that they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young, just like a platypus (possibly to survive in an alien environment). What kind of advantages would laying eggs provide? [Answer] I could see this being a "g...
[Question] [ Could a species, over centuries of evolution, evolve a special organ that stores pure energy and allows it to control its own magnetic field? What possible steps would have to happen for this to occur? Also, do you think its skin would be would be as hard as lead to contain it? I'd like to thank everyone...
[Question] [ I have some typical gryphons in my world. Bird head and wings, cat bottom half. Four legs and two wings. How crucial is a bird tail for flight? Could my gryphons be good flyers with just having a cat tail instead, or are the two bird wings good enough? No magic should be involved. [Answer] If your wor...
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[Question] [ I saw a couple other threads with slightly similar questions. But I want to stress with this one, that the focus is what instrument and instrument family would be the easiest to build anywhere in the world if we started from the beginning of human civilization again. Also, definite pitch capable designs ...
[Question] [ I finally figured out how my alchemy system works. The problem is, when my characters perform alchemy, they release loads of hydrogen gas. Why? Well, basically, they will take an object and cause every atom in that object to release one neutron or proton. As the protons leave the atom, they capture an el...
[Question] [ I want to make my unicorns use the horn as their male genital. Is it biologically possible to put the genital on their head? I know there are many strange genital locations for animals, for example, the kangaroo, and i know there are many strange shapes and numbers for animals genitals, but so far I have...
[Question] [ Far in the future technology has evolved to the point that humanity is able to try and terraform *something* in our solar system. The moon is out, since it's too close to earth and therefore to risky, since we don't want any debris raining down on our home (assuming we use techniques like dropping comets...
[Question] [ Assuming that some future civilization of hyper-advanced humans, or aliens for that matter, had the technology to reshape the solar system so that there were several habitable planets the rough size of Earth, complete with water and biospheres, how many be made using only materials from the solar system?...
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[Question] [ Zombies are a grand classic of horror and fiction. For this question, let's assume we're talking about the following stereotype, as a starting point: * When you get bit you turn into a zombie * The body is dead but still able to move * Zombies can only be killed with a head shot I keep going through this...
[Question] [ I am designing a human society that exists in the near future. After the development of mass-produced, relatively cheap lithium-sulfur batteries (superior energy density to lithium-ion), electric vehicles- particularly aircraft- become much easier to engineer, as batteries are not nearly as heavy and can...
[Question] [ There are a LOT of unworked holes in this, but the basic premise is my planet is a P-type orbit in a binary star system where these two stars have close orbits around each-other in order for the planet to maintain a safe, habitable distance, and it's atmosphere is purple/violet. In short, this planet is ...
[Question] [ Vaughn Heppner wrote a [science fiction series](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B074CF62CP) in which humans have to defend against a growing cyborg threat. The star of the series, Martin Kluge, comes up with a way to destroy a group of military spacecraft by sending a high speed cloud of sa...
[Question] [ So, we know that big creatures will generate lots of heat if they’re active. We also know that wings are very good at venting excess heat. Now for most animals, this heat isn’t exactly spectacular, a few degrees here or there. Of course, if an animal generated more heat because it was really, really big,...
[Question] [ # Introduction *See background information [here](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/100613/can-you-design-your-own-plants-without-a-computer).* In the Harmonious Republic of Mars, the finest forms may be found of any and all luxuries available in the Solar system. This includes moving pic...
[Question] [ Imagine a world where only precious metals are available. They are as common and plentiful as iron or aluminum are in our world. Any metal that is not precious does not exist outside of biological forms, like the iron in our blood. Taking this into account, which metals, or alloys, would be the most used...
[Question] [ The world has a [Plot Device Treaty](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/100133/aerial-surface-assault-without-bombs-explosives/100213#100213) which, being a Plot Device, bans aircraft from being effective against ships. As we have seen from history, such treaties are often violated, circum...
[Question] [ How can I find the area of an irregular shape while taking into account the distortions of Equirectangular projection? [Answer] Nations likely have borders that can be approximated as many connected line segments, and can therefore be approximated as polygons (in some cases, borders and straighter, de...
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[Question] [ A person is placed into the middle of a forest on an alien planet. The planet is to be considered Earth equivalent in all respects (mass, size, atmospheric pressure, etc.) except atmospheric composition: with only trace levels of oxygen - meaning they would asphyxiate almost anywhere else on the planet. ...
[Question] [ Most planetary rings are rich in water in the form of ice, especially now we are running low on freshwater reserves on Earth. Imagine someone discovered a huge chunk of meteorite consisting of a whopping 100 million carats and decided to auction it and then use the funds to mine the Saturn's planetary ri...
[Question] [ In a time period with medieval technology, what would be the most important local resources? I've put together a small list and broken it down into categories, but I'd like to know if there's anything major I've missed. Sustenance: * Fresh water * Wild game * Fish Minerals (Mines) * Coal * Iron * Tin * S...
[Question] [ What factors could skew the sex ratio of an intelligent species, especially a humanoid/human sub-race? For example, say one race has markedly more females born than males, and another race has the opposite, many more males than females. The race is unimportant, whether elves and dwarves, nymphs and gobli...
[Question] [ In that distant future. Technology has greatly advanced to a degree where now people could augment their senses using cybernetic implants connected via the brain. [ Essentially making the use of a computer screen obsolete.] The government is considering on the use of having a national I.D chip implanted ...
[Question] [ Consider the following concept: * Everyone in the world is naturally a hard worker. * Everyone in the world is naturally of equal intelligence. * Everyone in the world receives equal educational opportunities. * Everyone has an equal desire to follow some passion and start a successful business in order ...
[Question] [ So, we have a captured planet/moon orbiting a gas giant in the habitable zone. It is akin to prehistoric Mars, its geological activity having been maintained by constant tidal flexing from the gas giant. It is half the mass of earth, but knowing that the volume of a planet affects its surface gravity, co...
[Question] [ A member of a species becomes immortal, loss of senescence, incapable of dying from age-related issues. Otherwise it remains the same as other members of its species at the point at which it became immortal, including its current genome/dna and instinctual needs to find mates and reproduce. Would such an...
[Question] [ This is another branch of my [previous question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/205376/a-huge-asteroid-is-going-to-hit-how-many-people-can-the-world-put-into-mostly). Currently, in real life, space agencies around the world charts and tracks asteroids and other objects that orbit the s...
[Question] [ I know that in real life, asteroids tend to be hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart. In fiction, asteroids are often very close together, maybe a few hundred metres. Obviously this is much more exciting. In the short story I'm writing, I want to include a battle scene set in a dense asteroid field l...
[Question] [ Imagine a species that is very much like humans in shape, size and physiology. But they are able to stare at the sun for long periods without suffering any harm, and without needing any artificial device. Suppose the evolutionary pressure for this is that they come from a much brighter world. How could t...
[Question] [ Spells in this world is broken down into several categories, each designed to fill a certain niche: **Enchantment Spells** * These are spells designed to capture cosmic power within a crafted item, so that its power can be called upon in times of need. **Protection Spells** * These are spells designed ...
[Question] [ A hunter-gatherer society exists in lands similar to that of Bavaria. There is plentiful game in the forests and glades, and there are many rivers with edible aquatic life. Smaller rivers can freeze periodically in the winter. Food preservation by smoking and salting are known. Gathered wild grains and a...
[Question] [ Basically, my current thought process is to have a virus that causes one to all vital organs to fail upon reacting to its components. It has to make contact with as many people as possible, therefore has to be airborne. The virus itself would be slow-acting, and can, for example, take longer to cure than...
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[Question] [ ## Setting: Earth-sized planet, its inhabitants are human settlers and live in [towns](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/39775/space-wizards-city-is-it-sustainable) protected by custom-sized atmospheres. The rest of the planet is barren and always was. The population uses the equivalent o...
[Question] [ One fine day, magical space aliens arrived and launched and harpooned an extremely long(100,000 km) and thick(100km radius) spear into somewhere in equatorial Africa, which buried and anchored itself via large barbs. It penetrated 3000km into the Earth. The aliens then left as mysteriously as they arrive...
[Question] [ This is my first post so please be patient with me. My issue is this: I am designing a world in which there is one chief creator god. In order to make the tasks of running the plane less taxing he created five angels to be aspects of his will and govern the mortal races. I want to design this as a world ...
[Question] [ Imagine a field of plants that when walked through cuts human skin. Unlike a Stinging Nettle, the leaves would have to have razor-like edges, without the trichome hairs. The leaf edges should cause a finger to bleed if it were lightly dragged across the skin. The plant can be any height, shape, color, et...
[Question] [ In my world superheroes are a branch of UNE (United Nations of Earth); think the EU for most of Earth. Many of them have super powers, but many do not. They have access to more advanced technology than the rest of the world, but they don't use guns in favour things like batons, swords, and knives. As the...
[Question] [ Nyarlathotep Is an ancient deity that has gone by many names; The black pharoah, the crawling chaos, etc. He seeks to bring himself into this world, but cannot due to an ancient barrier that prevents gods from crossing over. For his plan to work, Narly must be born as a child, who would serve as his avat...
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[Question] [ Assuming a civilization has the capacity to build space vessels designed to travel from one solar system to another, what is the technological difference between traveling at 50% light speed and traveling at 100% light speed (or near)? And then, what kind of technological leap is required to go beyond li...
[Question] [ Technology: Comparable to early XXIst century, except self-driving vehicles are already available. On a tidally locked planet most of the models that I can found (ex. <http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/~tmerlis/coupled_tidally_locked.html>) tend to predict permanent hurricane-like weather near the substellar po...
[Question] [ I have a world (around 3000-3500ad) where human race is spread across various planetary systems - so interstellar travel it's possible. The interstellar travel is possible via a [Bussard Ramjet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet) which uses the [CNO Cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cyc...
[Question] [ ### BACKGROUND Fantasy setting, highly rural/pastoral. Social landscape is significantly more egalitarian (but far from idyllic) with no serfdom tying a peasant class to the land. Magic exists, but wizards, as a social class, are estranged from others and have little interest or incentive to meddle in th...
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[Question] [ There is a world where giant monsters the size of mountains come every few hundred years and destroy huge amounts of the world and any organized civilization of humans. The only effective response countries have found is to build giant mechas the size of mountains to fight them off. The monsters target p...
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[Question] [ Added 9-15-19: Thank you all for your comments. I will be reading them through carefully. I have quickly skimmed through the answers and I do appreciate your corrections on terminology and ideas, and my equation. After I've had a chance to think through all the comments and answers, I will revise my ques...
[Question] [ It's a bit more complicated. I'm creating a sci-fi world for a tabletop game. One of my created races is a form of humanoid octupi. My idea is for there to be a nuclear war that forces their species out of their aquatic habitat. But I want to figure out a solution that still allows for a workable habitat...
[Question] [ Yesterday I was reading through [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/49272/how-to-build-a-1-gj-railgun-proof-tank) and it got me thinking: would it be possible on a ship or building mounted railgun to convert the energy from the recoil of the shot in order to partially rechar...
[Question] [ Santa delivers to the homes of the 7 billion people on Christmas night, eating cookies and milk at each of the homes. Provided each home puts out a glass of milk and 3+ cookies, that's a lot of milk and cookies. How does Santa avoid having heart attacks from bad cholesterol caused by all the cookies and ...
[Question] [ Let's say, hypothetically (perhaps in the setting of a book series), Earth is temporarily destroyed. Antimatter weapons have been used in self-defense during a violent conflict. Now, thousands of years later, humanity has turned to a multitude of alternatives for a home. Venus has been terraformed to hav...
[Question] [ In my story, there is a 10 meter wide room with a 'special box' in the middle. The box is represented in the picture with the blue outline. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q71Hy.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q71Hy.png) The box is 2.5 meters wide. So when you measure from the ...
[Question] [ So the premise is that life under the sea and life on the ground has evolved independently and achieved sentience. Finally, the land creatures (I'm using humans for now because of simplicity, I'm still working on this) reach a level of technological sophistication where they can travel underwater and can...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [Could humanity survive the sun going dark?](/questions/9679/could-humanity-survive-the-sun-going-dark) (8 answers) Closed 3 years ago. Let's say, whether for magical or scientific reasons, Earth and the moon are separated from their star, the Sun, and a...
[Question] [ Both the prey *(plural)* and predator *(singular)* are intelligent and sapient. The predators are semi-solitary - they meet up occasionally to conduct rudimentary trade (think bartering), find mates and raise a family. They'll teach their children hunting skills and tool use, but they spend the rest of ...
[Question] [ It makes sense to me that the best food in an underwater dome complex would be fish. Considering the massive amounts of aquatic life in the vicinity, it could work pretty well. However, I can't think of how the people would actually catch the fish. They need to be able to breathe, so an airlock leading i...
[Question] [ I have a fantasy kingdom set up where the landscape is mostly mountainous with rock and pine forests, like the picture below. As such, it is quite difficult to have agriculture. One plant which can grow there is gorse (which can grow almost anywhere). Could a gorse bush provide for food? ![enter image de...
[Question] [ In a setting of late Victorian technology, would it be possible to record and replay sound and light near-real-time similar to modern video-recordings? The ideal criteria for the system would be (in order): 1. The ability to record sound inside a room (not having to be right in front of a microphone). 2....
[Question] [ In a society with near future levels of technology, the crime rate reached a high degree and the government decided to transform an island (which was a city) into a large prison, or an exile/banishment place. This is the plan: * Building a wall around the island * Leaving only one bridge as a connection ...
[Question] [ Aluminum is the most common metal on Earth. Despite this fact, this element wasn't discovered until the 19th Century. This is because Aluminum is never naturally found in the ground. Instead, aluminum always binds with other elements and oxides like bauxite. Pure aluminum used to be a very valuable metal...
[Question] [ Info: * [Apparently leather is buoyant](http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=5044). * The material composition shouldn't exceed the technology of the 1700s. * Please use the image below for a rough size comparison of the person and the dragon. * The dragon either suddenly disappears at a height or ...
[Question] [ So if you remember my dragons: 1. They aren't that big (roughly a shire horse in size, but a longer neck and a tail) 2. They use graphene in their bodies, which [might or might not explain how they fly](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6109/928) 3. They have additional player classes and levels...
[Question] [ I'm writing a character for a fantasy setting, and I wanted him to be a gruff half-orc war master whose mount is a bull. I wanted to know if there has ever been an actual historical use of bulls or steers used as mounts, and what are some of the challenges that come from it so it could be covered a littl...
[Question] [ In a magic-rich, Tolkien-inspired world, I am developing a system of taxation for a city-state. Centerseat is an important trade city, with many crafts being made under a guild system. Valuable magical items are also made, bought and sold here. It is located on busy trade routes and is also the most-inl...
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[Question] [ I was wondering, how would a civilization of humans who can see only in grayscale live their life? There is none of them that can see color. Everyone sees every thing in gray. Yet, color actually do exists. The environment they live in is Earth-like. Plants, animals, even the humans has color pigments an...
[Question] [ Earth discovers and contacts multiple interplanetary groups of aliens. With this discovery many on earth feel need for earth to speak with one voice in interplanetary politics. A worldwide meeting is declared, representatives from every country on earth is invited. A planetary Council is proposed to thi...
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[Question] [ If there was a majority of land on earth (66 percent land), how would it affect the animals and plant? Lets say somehow earth has been created with 66 percent land and 34 percent water? Would our planet still have life? How would it affect our ancestors? The would be less sea life creatures I guess. [...
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[Question] [ I'm trying to design a culture that has access to cooling as a primary source of food preservation. This culture is set in the desert. They will have access to a magical stone that has the ability to create stable volume "bubbles" off themselves. These bubbles would be robust, but temperature permeable. ...
[Question] [ Prehensile hands have the advantage of not having to constantly touch anything they don't have to - with the exception of things like doorknobs. Feet don't have that luxury, and so in a sense will always be 'dirty'. Even if you're wearing shoes, grabbing something still isn't hygienic. Sentient birds wou...
[Question] [ So I'm writing a book that takes place in an endless ocean with islands inhabited by many races, and I'm trying to come up with unique boat ideas for races; well I have most of them, but I would like some help with one race. I call them the Cellene, they have a body shape like most humans but their legs...
[Question] [ If I use, say, Greece as a reference for a fictional country, do I need to write that country as mountainous and coastal also? [Answer] Most people would suggest that your culture should relate to the physical geography of your setting. For instance, fashion and food are both going to be dictated to a...