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[Question] [ In the future, a high-tech human civilization has colonised a distant planet. The planet is basically Earthlike in gravity, climate, terrain and vegetation. They want to build Forevertown: A city with low-tech construction which is *built to last*. The projected lifespan of Forevertown is measured in mil...
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[Question] [ I've got a lunar colony that was set up to be self-sustaining before a collapse of life on Earth. The colony has survived on its own for several thousand years through a period of technological regression. But now they've recovered to roughly their original technology levels, and realize that they've bee...
[Question] [ Imagine you have a large population of adolescent humans (as large as you need) on a completely uncultivated Earth, initially containing no artificial structures whatsoever, only natural resources. Suppose, however, that these people possess the same amount of technical knowledge as we currently do today...
[Question] [ > > Where am I? It is so dark around here... Hopefully I have a torch. It looks like I am in a very long corridor. > > > *Time passes* > > > What? No this couldn't be! I walked straight in front of me during the whole time and now I am back to the start point! > > > Oh yes, it is possible. It is ...
[Question] [ Joe Schmoe was six years old when he killed his best friend; it wasn't his fault, it was just the way that he was made... Joe was born with an auto-telepathic telekinetic feedback ability - he has the ability to unconsciously kill anyone who has thoughts of killing him. It doesn't matter if those thought...
[Question] [ I've always found the idea of intelligent every-man sent back in time using his knowledge of the future tech to *realistically* impact the past. The first time something like this came to my mind was in computer science class when it finally struck me just how drastically our computer hardware has increa...
[Question] [ I have evidence that at some point last night a very large man, with a very large sack, somehow came down the chimney, left a gift under my tree, and departed without my noticing. There are sooty footprints in the carpet leading from the fireplace, remarkable given that it hasn't been used for 70 years, ...
[Question] [ I got pulled into 1885, just like Doc and Marty (Or I'm one of them, assuming I can get IP rights :)). I need to go back to the future, which means that I need to get my Ford Pinto time machine up to . . . well, you know, 88 miles per hour. The thing is, **I don't have a train handy**, and the car can't ...
[Question] [ Would any creature ever need to evolve a second (or multiple) brain(s)? If so, under what conditions, why, and what implications would it have on the creature's intelligence? Note that while an octopus' arms are independent from its brain, the animal itself doesn't have more than one brain. Also note t...
[Question] [ I have a creature or more accurately creatures that I have a problem with. I can't figure out why it is afraid of water. They are land based tiny tiny little piranha like organisms that work in unison. Each individual organism is about the size of phytoplankton and plankton. They work together almost lik...
[Question] [ Usual Joe wakes up in his apartment somewhere in New York, USA. He realizes that on this desk is sitting new printer, which appeared out of nowhere. Joe tries to press print button and the printer prints sheet of four 100 dollar bills: [![printed sheet with money](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDYu0.png)](ht...
[Question] [ I'm considering a story set about fifty years (2065) in the future. It takes a rather optimistic view; space exploration has led to colonies on the Moon and Mars, as well as several space stations orbiting Venus for scientific purposes. There are currently several exploratory missions planned or in progr...
[Question] [ Twenty years ago, a 40km diameter alien saucer came to Earth, and stopped 2km above the Atlantic ocean, somewhere near the midpoint between Casablanca, Morroco and Natal, Brazil but over international waters. It is completely opaque, reflects no light or radar (but still irradiates IR as any object at ro...
[Question] [ In this future, technology advances in such a way that privacy becomes **obsolete**. In other words, no one has *decided* to give up privacy, it's just that trying to hold onto it is like trying to keep the horse and buggy around when everyone else has cars - it's a losing battle and isn't going to work ...
[Question] [ Let's assume I can travel in a space-time on Earth. Every time I *jump* I get to almost the *same* place, but in different **past** time relative to the first jump: it solves the problem of planet rotation, orbital moving, etc. Also if there is an obstacle in that place in another time, then I get softly...
[Question] [ Our perception of time is steeped in the rhythms of our world, and blended with the most ancient of superstitions, decrees and mathematical conveniences. Thus we have days that track our world's rotation relative to the sun (or the sun's apparent motion in the sky), richly divisible (but otherwise unwiel...
[Question] [ > > *Of all the creatures in Hatjörn's dominion, there is none as peculiar as the Murinae Spirita, the mean booze-rat. A vermin so resilient that has developed the most wondrous means of defence and thus survival.* > > > Excerpt from *Hjårdan Animaliæ* --- Welcome to the *Most Ingenious Questions You...
[Question] [ Assuming the ocean is deep enough and not overcrowded is there any upper limits to the size a "sea monster" can grow? On land creatures are limited by gravity, they have to be able to generate the forces required to move (not to mention hunt, escape and reproduce). However in water the buoyancy does not ...
[Question] [ Imagine an evil dictator. He imprisons his enemies in a labor camp, but they never do any work! He doesn't want to torture them, or force them to do that since he is using all of his soldiers to build him a beautiful castle. Instead, he decides to create an incentive: every time you do a certain task (su...
[Question] [ It is a somewhat common limitation of spaceships in some universes, that they cannot go underwater. They can land on the planet, take off into orbit, hyperdrive into the next star system, but they cannot dive in water. A different vehicle is required to go underwater. But exactly why is that so? In the s...
[Question] [ This isn't a question intended for any specific setting. Rather, this is a general point of curiosity that occurred to me while brainstorming my story. Potion brewing is almost *inexorably* tied to the image of a cauldron. Whether it be witches standing over a cauldron big enough to boil someone alive in...
[Question] [ Let's assume a medieval lord named Gary I of Flowers lives in a "Europe-ish" continent with no gun powder or magic. Somehow, he's aware about modern warfare theory. Maybe he found out a time-traveler who happened to be an expert in warfare (and nothing else!), or maybe he's just ahead of his time. Gary ...
[Question] [ This question differs from [that question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/63496/how-could-i-have-modern-computers-without-guis) in that the other question is asking about a change in history while this question is looking for a change in the future. --- In a [near future setting](http:...
[Question] [ So, there is a dystopian government called the Union of Fascist States. It controls both North and South America, the United Kingdom, and half of Africa. The NAF is the one and only party that controls everything. The party and secret police control all of the citizens lives, and at age 4 every junior ci...
[Question] [ Millions of years ago, friendly aliens set up an automated process to help out other civilizations. This is a robotic help center that sends out gift packages (in the forms of large ships) that hunt out civilizations, land, and give them a boost of some sort of technology. This could be anything from a b...
[Question] [ Bob is a garage physicist. By some stroke of luck (though Bob would assure you it was his sheer genius), Bob has managed to be the first person to [discover](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3136/if-our-universe-was-a-simulation-what-could-a-bug-look-like) that our world [just recently b...
[Question] [ I understand that sea shanties were a type of work song, and often used to help sailors operate in sync with each other. They've survived as an art form, but so far as I know they don't have any practical use anymore. One would think that after technology had advanced far enough to make space travel a po...
[Question] [ With advanced technology would it be possible to make something like the Santa in the story as well as the reindeer? If so could a realistic Santa be a human or would him and his reindeer have to be machines? Some things I was wondering are: 1. Is there any kind of fuel would a realistic Santa and his re...
[Question] [ As a way to travel fast, my Earth-like planet is going to have a special train, circling it (the axis of the 'tracks' is aligned with the planet's axis of rotation). The thing about this train - it never stops and it doesn't end - there is no first or last car, they are all joined in a circle. Moreover, ...
[Question] [ In a world where gods can be seen by the inhabitants of that world, how can multiple religions even hope to form? If the gods choose to show people that they exist, regardless of area or person, I fail to see how the worshipers could believe different things. If gods are proven to exist, how can there be...
[Question] [ **This question asks for hard science.** All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc. Answers that do not satisfy this requirement might be removed. See [the tag description](/tags/hard-science/info) for more information. In m...
[Question] [ Let's say that something horrible has happened and a Mars-sized planet is knocked out of orbit and is hurtling towards an Earth-sized planet. How much time will they have? How will this affect the inhabited planet? Obviously the impact itself means the end of life on that world, but this is happening on ...
[Question] [ [This answer to *Making food last for a large group*](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/53281/885) made me realize that using the zombies **as a source of resources** is pretty much never covered by genre pieces even when it is essentially a siege situation. What ways can the besieged find to use...
[Question] [ I once read a novel about a prison-planet which was chosen to make the prisoners suffer. One of the different "tortures" was a gravity three times higher than that on Earth. Would the human body support living under such a gravity? It is known that living under no-gravity conditions for long periods of t...
[Question] [ I've had this idea for a short novel, at the intersection of the *One thousand and one nights* and the Multivac (& co) short stories from Asimov. The idea is that there's some kind of super AI that was so efficient that more and more people gave it their problems to solve. At some point the AI is kinda m...
[Question] [ The title basically says what I need to ask, but I have been wondering this. I currently just say a wizard comes in and cools down the drinks, but I have started to grow out of Magic and Sorcery and more into realism. Say the city is in roughly 1100-1300 AD and placed somewhat near a desert. How would a ...
[Question] [ So I'm building a galaxy with bunch of space-age civilizations and an galactic wide supra-nation. Something similar to the Citadel races in the Mass Effect games. Unlike those games, the most of the aliens in my story are hardly humanoid. Right now, I have one humanoid alien, two beetle-like aliens, a sq...
[Question] [ I always wondered what it would look like for a Sci-Fi battle in space to occur if it were a bit more realistic. I don't plan to use any space fighters or anything like that, just big capital ships and freighters that can fire in full vacuum / zero atmosphere. [Answer] Space battles, at least realist...
[Question] [ So, in my setting, there are magical weapons, armor, tools, and jewelry. They are quite the standard fare, ranging from swords that can cut better to amulets that let you breath underwater and the like. The more mundane magical items are quite cheap to buy and produce, while the fancier ones will tend to...
[Question] [ Suppose an evil genius (in 2015) wants to kill as much of humanity as possible. But he's on a budget; despite his years of stealing priceless historical artifacts, and despite having been selected for several excessively over-funded research grants, and despite having rigged AAPL value to shoot sky high ...
[Question] [ I am very aware that this is a deep question and I am really not an expert in Islam or Muslims, though I have tried to do my research. I know that Islam is the second-largest religion, I don't see why this wouldn't be part of my story in one form or another and should also be respectfully represented. Th...
[Question] [ I have read (and answered) the question: "[If true artificially intelligent robots could be built, would they be allowed human rights?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/85805/if-true-artificially-intelligent-robots-could-be-built-would-they-be-allowed-hu)". But let's explore the topic fr...
[Question] [ Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12219/), I am wondering something similar. In a modern war a dragon that simply flies over enemy forces and torches them with its fire breath there are several ways of taking it down with aircraft and anti-air weapons. But in e...
[Question] [ I'm one of the test subjects for a new device, capable of sending an individual back to any point in history. I've been told that - due to certain problems with the process - I'll arrive naked, and so have no means of returning to the present, meaning if I want to provide feedback and/or data, I'll have ...
[Question] [ I'm working on an idea for a novel and need to know roughly if this is possible. Ideally, the characters would be able to attach another submersible (usually used for rescue) onto the sub in the modern day, and either use a hatch or cut through the hull to gain access to a still pressurized section. With...
[Question] [ ## Disclaimer This seems a particularly stupid question, but the more I think about it, the less trivial I find it. Worldbuilding possess the most appropriate tags. It does not fit in physics-network usual problems, and we don't have a gun-enthusiast network that I know of (other than in a theoretical ma...
[Question] [ Far away, across the vastness of space, lies an alien civilization, who are pretty similar to us. They've got ice cream, peer to peer networking, and photography. More importantly, they do lots of their communication with radio waves, just like us. However, we don't know that they're there, because they ...
[Question] [ Birds, as we currently know them, build nests and lay eggs on the ground. People and *things with sharp teeth* live on the ground. There are also things with claws and beaks up in the air, but fewer. **I was wondering if a bird-like animal could exist that would spend its entire life in the air**, and on...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ I would love to shape my planet in a way, that allows me to have an extremely cold, icy desert, next to an extremely hot, sanddesert. By "next to", I don't mean a few hundred miles apart, with gradually equalising climate. I'm talking about a foot-march of, at most, 4-5 minutes between the two. Light a...
[Question] [ # Setting Not so long ago, in a galaxy not too far away, there were two civilizations at war. Both were at war because the leaders of both wanted more and more power. Both were advanced and mined the stars. Both had an extensive fleet of powerful ships — everything from fighters to transport ships, to de...
[Question] [ Researchers are developing increasingly powerful Artificial Intelligence machines capable of taking over the world. As a precautionary measure, scientists install a self awareness kill switch. In the event that the AI awakens and becomes self aware the machine is immediately shut down before any risk of ...
[Question] [ The universe is brutal on information. I'm looking for ways to preserve about an exabyte of information for a million years. I'm looking for answers rooted in reality without any lucky circumstances helping it along. I'd prefer if there were minimal to no systems in place to maintain it. I'm also hoping...
[Question] [ Let's say a human engineer comes across an alien electronics lab. It occurs to me that electrons are electrons, if the aliens are at a similar state of development to us then at least the simplest (discrete?) components might be similar in operating principle and should be recognisable. On the other han...
[Question] [ I have often heard/read/watched in fantasy about dwarves drinking mead and lots of it. I recently learned that mead is made from honey which requires bees and flowers which require sunlight. I doubt that they could import enough to satisfy the thirst of an entire city (or nation) and even if they could i...
[Question] [ Most [modern planned cities](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7565422,-73.9805797,2130m/data=!3m1!1e3) are based on grid layouts. [Historic cities](https://www.google.de/maps/@52.371018,4.899751,2226m/data=!3m1!1e3) are more organic on a macroscopic level, but buildings are still generally square-shaped l...
[Question] [ Mars and Earth's moon already feature in a lot of fiction about space colonization. After these two planets, and assuming that other solar systems are too far away, what is the best place within this solar system to colonize? [Answer] The Asteroid belt. * It has similar requirements for life-support s...
[Question] [ The only logical reason a alien empire was to let us join them was if we had something to offer them. After all, alien empires aren't running a charity! Let's assume that humans have discovered the effects of an alien empire in space, we do not know how much more advanced than us they are, what they hav...
[Question] [ We have successfully put [37 trillion nanobots](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/32602/16977) the size of a red blood cell into ~~the experimental group test subjects'~~ willing participants' bloodstream, but without a power source, the nanobots ~~clot up the bloodstream and don't carry oxygen~~...
[Question] [ Inspired by [this question](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/3136/if-our-universe-was-a-simulation-what-could-a-bug-look-like) regarding reality as simulation and [this question](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/35674/is-time-continuous-or-discrete) about a continuous time lin...
[Question] [ We have thousands of languages in the world, which seem to have evolved differently due to lack of communication methods (it wasn't quite easy for a Chinese guy to speak with French people thousands of years ago, for example). Currently, the lack of one common language across the world wastes an awful am...
[Question] [ Could I, purely in quantity of material only, build a solid bridge to a star? Ignore anything like strength, relative motions of systems, that is all taken care of, using lalalaicanthearyouium - this is not remotely based in any actual science. All I want to know is whether there is enough material for a...
[Question] [ Well, Santa's finally done it. He's bankrupt, thanks to some rather dubious investments and some bad luck in the real estate market (a couple ice sheets he was renting out just melted away). Kris Kringle, therefore, has to appeal to us mere mortals, to find someone - preferably a private individual - who...
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[Question] [ Being a superhero without being state-sponsored or independently wealthy is kind of a massive pain. You're essentially working two jobs, one of which is highly dangerous and doesn't even pay. So naturally, a lot of them would have a great deal of motivation to make their dayjob as high-pay, low-stress, a...
[Question] [ I want to have a socialist\* country where economy is good enough to have at least one big city of more then million people, that has well maintained buildings. The people don't have to be rich but there shouldn't be any [queues](http://englishrussia.com/2011/01/16/soviet-reality-that-seems-never-existed...
[Question] [ A human civilization, civilization X, decides that food Y is not fit for consumption. Food Y grows well in its climate, is highly nutritious and tasty, and is not harmful to its inhabitants. Food Y could easily become a staple of civilization X, but its people refuse to consume the food. All taboos again...
[Question] [ Without going into unnecessary detail, one of the races of my world believe that the land itself is a dead god, and that by resurrecting it, it will ascend to the cosmos and carry the faithful upon its back. The form they choose to represent this great god is born out of their own image, and represented ...
[Question] [ I am creating a race (either near-alien or a human sub-species) in a science fiction setting that have an unfortunate "tell." While they can stay silent in non-social (stealth-requiring) situations, they are unable to stop themselves in social situations from constantly saying exactly what they are think...
[Question] [ Set in the distant future, space travel becomes prominent and cheap. I can imagine each spaceship would have a multitude array of sensors to track distance and relative position in space. Is there a good way to determine another spaceship's mass beside hailing them for specifications? I know we can accur...
[Question] [ I was wondering--**why are there no self driving tanks in the US army?** They seem much easier to build than a flying drone. Most of the space within the tank is wasted on instruments/cabin space for the crew. Removing all of that would allow the tank to be much smaller or have thicker armor. It might e...
[Question] [ Imagine a typical fantasy world. Elves, goblins, dragons, magic. If you were to equate it to a D&D campaign, you would be close enough for proverbial government work. That said, thanks to time and magic, their knowledge of science is more advanced than usual. The people understand germ theory, and atoms ...
[Question] [ Let's say we want to build the **strongest possible fortress¹** in a **medieval** (1300 CE) setting while having access to any **modern technology and material**. Said technology can only be used **during the construction of the fortress and not afterwards**, so e.g. a solar powered device is allowed to ...
[Question] [ ## A free-market solution to preventing further domestic abuse This society has gone full-on free-market everything including the punishment of severe domestic abuse. As a check on the abuser, the abused is granted a perpetual (or very long, 20 years or so) murder-right on the abuser, and only the abuser...
[Question] [ Watching Indiana Jones movies for some time got me wondering how you can effectively kill the explorers to your temple after a long time. **How can I prevent explorers from stealing my artifacts for at least 500 years?** Setup: I have about one billion dollars to spend and 50 years to build an "artifact ...
[Question] [ In the present day, petty crimes like speeding, trespassing, and jaywalking in a dangerous area are punished by fining the infractor some amount of money. This is usually a deterrent because being forced to give up your money means that you'll be more limited in your ability to obtain your needs and basi...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How can someone that has lived for hundreds of years avoid suspicion in the modern world? [closed]](/questions/124150/how-can-someone-that-has-lived-for-hundreds-of-years-avoid-suspicion-in-the-mode) (13 answers) Closed 5 years ago. The immortals are am...
[Question] [ My story opens with an old man who arrives at his "personal" asteroid somewhere out in space. When he arrives, everything is powered down and he has to bring systems online before he can take his suit off. He has left galactic society (perhaps there was a war) and he wants to live out his final days insi...
[Question] [ [Carnivorous plants](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant) live in nutrient-poor, highly lit habitats, such as bogs or rocks. For example Earth's biggest carnivorous plant, [Nepenthes rajah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_rajah), lives on mountain-tops with high concentration of heavy m...
[Question] [ Assume a universe depressingly like ours, in which special relativity holds. No hyperspace, no warp drive, no wormholes, and even the limited get-out clauses offered by real world physics either don't exist at all or are not practical. [Added later in response to comment by Fhnuzoag: no ansibles either. ...
[Question] [ **This question already has answers here**: [How long would people live in the US if an immortality treatment was available?](/questions/6491/how-long-would-people-live-in-the-us-if-an-immortality-treatment-was-available) (5 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Let's imagine there are some ageless people ...
[Question] [ From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth): > > By volume, dry air contains 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. > > > For example, would humans be able to survive in these atmospheres? : * 100% oxygen, nothing e...
[Question] [ I'm trying to create a realistic magic system, this may be a lost cause. Imagine in our story we have a wizard who wants to cast a spell to start a fire. In some magic systems there are magic words, in others the wizard waves a wand but these are just ways of controlling the spell. What I'm interested in...
[Question] [ In the Land of Metal, there exists a tribe that has upheld the gospel of Manowar with such zeal that it modified their bodies. Metalheads descend from humans, and may look human at a glance. A more careful examination, however, will reveal the traits their kind has acquired through the ages. These traits...
[Question] [ I'm currently writing a story based in another world. I try to keep the story outline and the world in fairly separate notes obviously dipping into the world notes when I need to remember names, locations, descriptions etc. Currently I'm using [trello](http://www.trello.com) because of it's flexibility. ...
[Question] [ **This Query is part of the Worldbuilding [Resources Article](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143606/a-list-of-worldbuilding-resources).** --- Once geological processes and erosion have created a landscape this landscape will in turn alter the planet. Ocean currents and trade winds will...
[Question] [ A common trope weapon in science fantasy (such as [RWBY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY) or the appropriately named [Gun Sword](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Sword)) is the gunsword. As the name implies, a gunsword is a sword that's also a gun, or vice versa. This has always interested me as a co...
[Question] [ My hero has to journey into a mirror world. This world is much like our own except ***evil***. Almost everything there is an enemy and there will be very little kindness. On top of that the world is visibly *DARK*. It isn't just a metaphor and the sun hasn't gone away. It isn't just cloudy/stormy all the...
[Question] [ If every star and planetary system and blackhole—all mass (not sure whether to include dark matter or not) except what directly makes up our solar system—in the Universe except the Sun were wiped from existence (not explosively destroyed) would the existence of life on Earth be immediately (~within a few...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ In a lot of science-fiction stories, there are people who hibernate of sorts in cryosleep. Basically something like the person's body is stored in a container which is then chilled at really really low temperatures so that they can wake up at a much later date. Disregarding whether the person could have ...
[Question] [ *Thanks to the commenters in the [question sandbox](http://meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/635/sandbox-for-proposed-questions) for helping refine this question before posting.* --- In many vampire stories the vampires do not have a reflection in a mirror. This is generally not explained be...
[Question] [ I'm making a world that is 1/3 medieval fantasy, 1/3 pre-civil war American west, and 1/3 Mad Max. The world underwent an apocalyptic scenario that destroyed the governing bodies at the time, but it has been a few generations since then, so city states and towns have started to rebuild. Since their old ...
[Question] [ **Closed.** This question is [off-topic](/help/closed-questions). It is not currently accepting answers. --- You are asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world. For more information, see [Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?](https://w...
[Question] [ Apologies in advance that my bullet points got away from me and turned out a bit long, but I'm trying to give as much information as I can to ward off initial questions. Imagine the following constraints: * An island nation laid out similarly to [Hawaii](http://hawaiimap.facts.co/hawaiistatemapof/hawaiiD...
[Question] [ There are already real-world problems with analyzing whether particular graphic evidence is "photo-shopped" or genuine. In sci-fi technologically advanced future, realistic and perfect computer generated images are pretty much standard. Same applies to audio. In past, graphic and audio manipulation was o...
[Question] [ I am a fiction writer, and I'm designing several worlds for my various novels. As it so happens, I really like designing worlds. I seem to like it so much, that I'm beginning to wonder if I'm carrying the worldbuilding too far. Since I'm designing all this for novels, there comes a point where I have to...
[Question] [ The Dwarves pride themselves as great craftsman, smiths, and tinkerers. Dwarven craftsmen have access to not only the metals of man, but also metals only the forges of dwarves can refine. One of these metals would be Titanium. What pieces of technology would Dwarves need to forge Titanium? More specifica...
[Question] [ After Cain killed his worthless brother Abel, he was unjustly cursed by God to wander the earth forever. On his travels, he met a sympathetic woman named Lilith. They discovered that they had a mutual beef with their creator. Lilith, first wife of Adam, refused to suit to her husband and was cast out of ...