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In my story, an advanced alien civilization that can travel to other universes has created an infinite energy source, named "an amvelian core". This core resembles a small sphere in appearance (about the size of a baseball) and the aliens can use it to draw unlimited amounts of energy. Apart from that th... |
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Imagine an animal like a cow in regards to eye positioning; they can look forward to lessen their frontal blindspot a bit but assume that doing that for a prolonged amount of time is straining.
What would their high speed transportation look like if they have a large front blindspot without using someth... |
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These dragons spend most of their lives in the ocean, however during the mating season they will migrate inland and gather together on a mountain top. Throughout the journey they will cease feeding and fly for hours upon hours non stop until they reached their destination, a few didn't made it due to old... |
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For a SF story I'm wondering how thick a planet's rings can be? When viewed from the inside, can the ring material be so dense that visibility would only be a couple of meters? What would it take to form a ring this thick, moon collisions, etc?
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I have a clonal colony of trees that are around 150 meters in height and live in a wetland habitat. These trees cover the majority of the wetland area, covering thousands of square miles.
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Imagine human like creatures with glands inside their forearms that can quickly produce a liquid that when exposed to air turns to a solid has hard as bone.
The liquid can be used to create and throw projectiles out of the forearm or to create a blade attached to the underside of the wrist.
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I actually have European ancestors who survived the plague and because of this, I have been told that I am more immune to diseases that broke out back then and that does make sense. So I can imagine that the chances of me contracting the plague wouldn't be as high per se. But now, my concern is what I mi... |
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In the world I'm currently working on, there are several species of sentient creatures: humans, elves, dwarves, merfolk, centaurs, and avians (winged humanoids). I need to figure out how I could have a capital city that allows all of these species to live side by side.
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Say that you have a medium-sized, bipedal, vertebrate-like creature. It no longer has the need to have arms, so they atrophied until they disappeared entirely.
Now imagine an animal that shares similar morphology to the other one, except that its two legs have, over time, fused to become a single, muscu... |
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Welcome to my fantasy, late-medieval world. For the sake of the question, we can divide it up in two major continents:
**Continent A** is considered the birthplace of my humans and features a solid presence of the other main race (winged humans, of which I talked in a previous question). The geopolitical... |
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I'm planning a short story in which - for the purposes of this question - everybody has certain restrictions on their actions due to a 'curse'. These restrictions include having only 1,000 steps, and only **ten "strikes"**, every day.
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The world has suffered from near apocalyptic cataclysm from the new birth of a God. The nations of the world have teamed up and defeated the Evil God and have formed a new Alliance of nations. One of the nations, before the destruction, was the leading nation in technology and military powe... |
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How big could a nebula be? If a spaceship were traveling 300,000 times the speed of light (assuming this were possible and had no other effects, such as time travel or time dilation) is it plausible that it would take several hours to traverse a distance equivalent to the average width of a nebula?
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The laws of the Universe are not set in stone. Impossible does not exist. Everything, absolutely everything, is possible given that enough people believe in it.
Centuries ago magic was as real as electricity today. Dragons, fay, unicorns, and other mythological creatures roamed the world. But as beliefs ... |
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I am imagining a special ecosystem on a rogue planet (a planet that wanders throughout space without orbiting a star or other heavenly object) but I would need your help to fill in the gaps and realize if a world like this would be possible.
Imagine a jupiter sized gas giant: lets call it Erebus.
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When I posted [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/94402/argyria-and-dwarven-industrial-runoff) about mountain dwarves, I got a comment about breaking dwarf stereotypes by having Jungle Dwarves with a cavalry of Jaguars. I said if I thought of something, I'd ask a question.
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Let's say you've either cloned yourself a native population (the ethical option) or taken a bunch of volunteers and wiped all their memories of modern technology and society (the slightly more morally iffy option), then taken your fresh batch of blank slates and dropped them into a closed, simulated envi... |
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What would rehabilitation/ recovery look like for someone with a brain transplant (assuming all the right nerves were properly connected and the like)? Would a person have to relearn everything if the body functioned fine prior to the new brain?
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So I am aware of this question, w[hich deals with large plants (trees) and animals](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/84772/how-would-large-animals-and-large-plants-adapt-to-frequent-hurricane-weather), but **I am interested in adaptations present in smaller animals on this planet, and ho... |
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There was a culture I read about that understood human biology to be very different from what we know today. This was a matrilineal culture which believed that men did not pass on their genes, but a piece of their spirit. The spirit was the life force of a human being which kept the body alive. It posses... |
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In my fantasy story, elves live high up in giant trees (or at least something similar to a tree). These trees are so massive, that entire cities can be built on their branches. The branches have flattened to accommodate these elves, as their presence is beneficial to the trees. This has the double bonus ... |
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The main trait of my story originates from a village in what's now the Belgian city of Tongeren, around 1000 BC in our timeline. Anyone born there after that trait arrived will have the trait, as will their children, recursively, regardless of where they are born. The trait doesn't have a single Patient ... |
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So, riffing off [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/66212/a-culture-of-lies), **who would be the best at lying (not getting caught) in a culture where lying is a way of life? What strategies would an individual use to effectively get away with deception, given such a culture... |
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Phone message to ***you***, Noel, on 10th October 2016 (AD):
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The aliens have come and would like to test our mettle. We will need to build an almost exact duplicate of the Empire State Building, complete with any ornate fixtures, carpets, curtains, furnishings, etc, in a day. The concrete needs to be dry, the building needs to be stable at the end of the 24 hours.... |
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Due to a reason that we don't need to get into (or explain), some large birds have developed the ability to float. There is no scientific explanation to how they can float, it's just happened and we do not need to know why.
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Set in 2015, a highly classified experiment goes awry and as a result the entire universe including non-observable and all multiverses are trapped in an infinite time loop whereby each cycle lasts 24 hours. If our memories can be carried over from one cycle to the next but everything must eventually rese... |
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Let's imagine that tomorrow we (well, only those 18 or older, so not me) all wake up and find a nuclear bomb next to our bedsides1. The bombs are about the sizes of hand grenades2 and are easy to transport3. Each person can only set off their own nuclear bomb.
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Imagine there is a rise in crime rates over the last couple of weeks in a small town in medieval age Europe. The victims abruptly combust into flame in broad daylight according to multiple eye-witness accounts.
A ***detective***, who is investigating the case, notices a pile of ashes and the... |
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Frontinius, while dreaming, was visited by Vulcan. The god showed him a big ball of cloth, flying above Rome, fueled by a fire. Once he woke up, he understood. He built a large bag of cloth, impregnating it with resins from cedrus and placed a large basket below it, held by ropes. A fire was feed by wood... |
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What effect would a crystalline material that is inert under ordinary environmental conditions have on someone if it was injected into their bloodstream? Examples materials include finely pulverized silica or alumina, and the quantities under consideration are at the gram level.
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While world building, I came up with a planet that had the combined traits of very rough and rugged terrain and small seas.
The planets surface is covered with mountains and hills are common place, along with ravines, valleys and plateaus; my inspiration came from looking at tree bark.
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I am going to be asking a series of questions that will be relevant to forming some sort of a picture of human space commerce.
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Reading questions of [How much TNT needed to blow up Mount Everest](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8942/how-much-tnt-do-you-need-to-blow-up-mount-everest) and the [Moon](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/8951/how-much-tnt-do-you-need-to-blow-up-the-moon) - and especiall... |
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Given enough time for research (centuries, basically in a post-faster-than-light-era) and resources, which current (or new) weapon technologies have the most potential?
Missiles? What payload would they use?
Plasma? I know about the problems, but is their potential (damage-wise) worth it?
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Supposing explorers from Europe either never sailed to the Americas, or were all [killed off and never seen again](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6625/killing-all-the-explorers), could the world resemble the way it is today?
A couple things that may have been affected:
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# How would a species that forms new life only when the parent fragments, do parenting?
Like sea stars and molds, my species forms a new child when the parent is broken. However, this is the *only* means of reproduction.
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Assuming a technological level similar to or slightly more advanced than our current one, what is the longest amount of time that a front line, foot slogging soldier could expect to survive and carry out all their necessary combat duties while wearing a level of protection equivalent to something like [M... |
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I am working on an alien creature with a venomous stinger. Injecting its venom causes sodium chloride to rapidly crystallize throughout the victim’s body, swiftly dehydrating them and hardening their body into a salty husk, basically turning them into a statue or a “pillar of salt.” The process takes les... |
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The fictional planet has a mass of 18 times Earth's and four times earth's equatorial radius[reference](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=surface%20gravity%20calculator&assumption=%7B%22F%22%2C%20%22GravitationalAcceleration%22%2C%20%22r%22%7D%20-%3E%224%20earth%20equatorial%20radius%22&assumption=%7B... |
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I want to use piranha solution to kill a large, horrible thing that I really don't like.
[Piranha solution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution) is an acid [that makes organic substances not exist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVd_WxblGI) and [can dissolve elemental carbon](https://science... |
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The arachnotetrapods are a type of animal in my worlds with an anatomical setup that is hard to figure out
Specifically, it has an arachnid-like intestine, with many branches going out into the limbs, but the limbs have an internal skeleton with a series of long bones, as in tetrapods
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I'm working on a short story, and I plan to put some ancient Diremen in charge of the vast majority. (Please note that Orcs are called Diremen in this story) . Diremen have a variety of biological differences to humans, and I'm hoping to give them a realistic age for these elders.
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**Setting**
* We are in a European medieval society.
* Magic exists, but to answer this question you cannot use it.
**About the creature**
* This creature could be an "[Edge of Tomorrow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow)" kind of monster, with a central core that controls a bunch of smaller... |
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**This question is all about how a shark can evolve to have the following traits:**
* Amphibious
* Pack behavior
* Dromaeosaurid form (bipedal, scaly, with four talons and a sleek but strong frame-resembling a movie Velociraptor)
* Capable of climbing trees and rocks and so forth
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Can electricity be used to propel aircraft out of the atmosphere and into space? If not, what other other options are there to get heavy stuff away from the planet?
Why the question? Fuel is limited and requires fuel tanks, and heavy fuel tanks that take too much space.
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I was looking into creating a planet with an icy ring around the equator while also having ice at the poles and bands of warm/tropical areas in between.
The way I thought to do this would be having the planet with a thick planetary ring (or rings) orbiting a star with either no axis tilt or a very small ... |
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I recently got back into the *Shannara* series by Terry Brooks and it has me wanting to take a shot at adapting the material into a TTRGP setting. One of the things that I'm hung up on is how to explain how Airships work in the setting since there are some gaps the books never fill in. For those not fami... |
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[Maps for reference](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/lniivb/maps_detailing_the_current_state_of_the_united/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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When a nuclear firestorm engulfed the world in 2029, those who caused it, the politicians, military officials, along with some scientists and engineers, retreated deep into a large, underground bunker. Now they have to stay.
Due to an error with their radiation-sensors, they believe nuclear winter comple... |
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Surface-dwellers (like us) often went underground for resources e.g. mining. However, I find it hard to find a strong reason (resource or otherwise) for underground creatures to be on the surface. But first, here's the premise:
1. Use real-life physics and assume a very Earth-like planet.
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Do the laws of physics permit any chance for a [Type III civilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) on the Kardashev scale to halt or even reverse the expansion of the universe, or bring the galaxies back closer together, assuming they had a few billion years to accomplish it? Would it ... |
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I was thinking of a creature that uses ultrasound to echolocate and infrasound to communicate with its species.
The current idea is a dog-like creature that hunts in packs, due to a large avian predator they developed infrasound to communicate at a pitch that cannot be heard by the predator and their pre... |
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[Wyverns](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/167897/could-my-wyverns-exist) in a lot of ways are living weapons. They're huge (roughly the size of quetzalcoatlus), can fly, can support the weight of ONE unarmored human, and can breathe fire. Given these traits, it's likely that many that s... |
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I am facing a conundrum. You see, my world has magic, but this magic is very restricted and has great limitations. As consequence of these limitations, they never got into metalwork, developing no cannons, but their magically enhanced woodwork allowed for far better wood than anything medieval. Soldiers ... |
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We live in a jungle that is devoid of metal and stone. A giant vine forest hanging high above everything. We’re totally reliant upon the plant life to supply to our every need. Which isn’t all bad, there’s a large variety and it’s all around us. We’re seeking ways though to improve our ability to hunt…an... |
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Basically, I have a creature that is larger than an average human, and smaller than a bigger shire horse. So, size is adjustable. The bodyplan is similar to that of a horse, except for a longer neck and a powerful tail for ranged attacks.
This animal was supposed to be fighting humans armed with various ... |
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My planet is frequently set with thick fog. What is the best way to have its residents see accurately?
One species called Hell Fires fall from the sky, landing on top of prey and killing it. How could they actually see through the fog in order to hit the target? We are talking a range of over 100M.
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A rare design I have seen in fantasy games is a wyvern or humanoid being with hand like wings to fly 
I’m curious if this is in any way a practical design and the reason something like this would evolve over classic wyvern or ba... |
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A powerful empire rules this world, which is divided into several sections. Each section is ruled and governed by various noble families, under the rule of the royal family led by the king and queen. Each family competes for power and seek any advantage they can get over their rivals. Magic has returned ... |
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I'm writing a short story that focuses on an area with high thermophile activity, like a hot spring. There are [known thermophile viruses](https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/thermophilic-viruses.htm), but thermophiles aren't able to transmit these to humans because our bodies are too cold. So we don't... |
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I have a species in mind that I want to write about for a book I'm planning, and they look exactly like humans (minus the 'unnatural' hair and eye colors they can posses). However, they have silver blood, so what would their skin and such look like? Would it still have a pinkish/reddish tint, or would th... |
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In a post-post-apocalyptic world with adequately schizophrenic tech, a tinkerer decides to build a submarine engine around a lump of radium, or some other reliable source of heat. But instead of using some complicated setup to drive a propeller, the engine simply evaporate water in a chamber, then uses t... |
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I am curious if there is a way for a disease to negatively effect the intelligence of humans;reducing them to non-sapient ferals in the end. I am curious what such a disease would need to do to effectively achieve this and how it could originate.
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A universe-destroying parasite is set loose, and basically earth is placed under magical quarantine. (Think of it like the world is wrapped in magical cellophane.) My question is, how would earth's environment change, if at all, if the atmosphere is completely closed off from space? Would it affect pollu... |
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I know it may be a bit of a silly question and not really something of great importance to a story, but how would you secure a spaceship when you leave?
For example; *when the Millennium Falcon lands on a planet (not in a hangar bay or anywhere secure but just "in the middle of a forest/desert/wherever")... |
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In fact, **why keep a prison for even normal humans** in a city at all?
Where are the benefits that offset the obvious drawbacks? From my limited knowledge on the subject, you would prefer to have a large internment center, in a remote area, preferably hard to reach and get into. It would act as a natura... |
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The Protestant Reformation in the 15th century was devastating for the catholic church because it broke its exclusive hold over Christendom and ended up leading to the diverse branches of today. Due to the overspending on monuments, selling of indulgences, and the promoting of family members to valuable ... |
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The loose idea of this structure is in my world a secret society believes the Earth is going to be heavily damaged in the near future by war and that humanity will be pushed to the brink of extinction and reverted back to the Stone Age, losing most of humanities knowledge. Therefore this secret society i... |
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My question is simple:
In theory, would an industrial revolution driven exclusively by alcohol fueled internal and external combustion engines in the early 1800s be practical? What effect would this have on the development of modern society?
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[What are the military pros and cons of colonizing a low gravity world vs a high gravity one?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/109340/what-are-the-military-pros-and-cons-of-colonizing-a-low-gravity-world-vs-a-high/109341#109341)
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In short, the Portuguese invaders have arrived on the New World to meet a more organized coalition of native city-states that fields giant lizards to the battlefield.
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I recently went to Hawaii for a business trip. As I was coming in for a landing and looking at the progress map in front of me, it occurred to me just how very small the Hawaiian Islands are out there in the middle of the great Pacific ocean. Later that evening when I was relaxing in the waves off the co... |
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Mathematics is considered to be the language of the universe since it is the most fundamental type of logic (in physics anyway) and therefore the best way of expressing the universe (which is a physical environment). From this it is safe to assume that any civilization advanced enough to reach the stars ... |
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Last Tuesday, as every Halloween, I re-watched the Cowboy Bebop movie.
For those who don't know, it is a sci-fi anime set around the solar system in an hypothetical future.
This question focuses on the "airwalls" that surround the cities on Mars. They seem to be there to keep the atmosphere from escaping... |
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I'm looking for a reason to keep humans living on Mars on the ground, and - apart from storms - the very slowly rising air pressure is the best I can come up with, since planes do need significant air pressure to create lift.
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If tiny particles of solid material (the size of sand grains, for instance) were flung into space, would they pose a danger to anything they hit?
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I am creating a fictional universe where humanity's evolution followed a different path that it did in ours (*evolution* might not be the best word, but bear with me).
Long ago, in said universe's equivalent of what we call the prehistory (i.e. when the first humans started appearing), there was already ... |
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So I am working on a concept for a location, wherein a sort of oracle will exist. This oracle will in no way be super natural rather the strange behavior of the oracle (a human for the sake of the question) will be the result of interaction with some naturally occurring chemical/compound.
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So I have this mid-to-low fantasy world (which in this case can be taken to mean that it is a setting where there are monsters and various types of supernatural creatures but they're at least slightly grounded in reality, magic exists but isn't very common except amongst those rare few who have been bles... |
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This might be a little difficult to explain, but basically: the concept of "atmospheric ocean" is a gas that is found pretty much everywhere on the planet. Probably very dense and sinks to the surface, creating a gaseous ocean at low altitudes (such as in valleys).
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In your space journey your ship systems have spotted an unusual source of gamma rays: it's the size and the mass of a planet and it has a pulsating behaviour.
Further observations shows that you are observing a planet made of anti matter hosted in a cloud of normal matter (for clarity sake, I envision t... |
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Bob is an average person in your country. One day, Bob wakes up and is omnipotent. He wants to form a cult that worships him and is the same size as one of the pre-Bob major religions. However Bob has a strong code of ethics. He will not use his powers for mind control.
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So, we have our [MEU vs. dragon](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59919/fighting-a-dragon-with-modern-military-units-or-smaug-vs-a-meu) scenario set up. Harriers launch and zoom overhead as the Marines on the ground hop off their LCACs onto the island and spread out in search of the beas... |
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