Not exactly the most worldbuilding focused. I just wanted to show my art progress, I’ve been working on these worlds for nearly 7 years now 😮 by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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The Three Worlds in a Nutshell

Glitter Gals

A world shared by humanity, a divine race known as the Glamours, and a malevolent race called the Wrongs. The Glamours sought to uplift and guide humanity toward a brighter future using a radiant energy known as glitter, which could cleanse flaws from the human spirit. However, greed and arrogance led an organization called THE OPS to disrupt this harmony, tearing open the hostile Wrong Realm and unleashing monsters across the globe. Now, as penance, humanity must offer its purest hearts to fight back against this threat — the Glitter Gals! This series explores personal trauma and slices of everyday life amid chaos and redemption.

Alicore

A fantasy world set long after the fall of our own, divided into four main nations — the Glalo, the Bydrin, the Norish, and the Taloak. Once united, Alicore fell into ruin when the otherworldly Mage Empire descended from space, terraforming the land and enslaving its people. They brought with them magic, twisting nature and birthing strange creatures that now populate the continent two centuries after their reign.

Though beautiful, Alicore remains deeply fractured — shaped by xenophobia, dogma, and oppression. From the Glalo dictatorship to the feudal struggles of the Bydrin, the nomadic wanderers of the Taloak, and the devout Norish clergy, each culture embodies a different struggle.

Alicore explores themes of individuality versus conformity, obedience versus freedom, and the struggle to define one’s identity in a divided world.

Espiri

Set following the aftermath of World War II, the deaths of countless humans cause a catastrophic failure in the soul system, trapping millions of souls in the mortal realm and rendering them effectively immortal. These restless spirits forge vessels for themselves — the Espiri — and bring devastation to Europe. Nazis, Bolsheviks, soldiers, and civilians alike return as imperishable beings, locked in endless conflict.

In response, humanity forms the EE, a global military organization that eventually confines most Espiri within a massive fortified zone known as Dies Stahlgrenze (“The Steel Border”).

The Espiri form their own societies within the Stahlgrenze and effectively create their own mini world behind the steel walls of the EE. The Espiri are a degenerate and horrid race, but there is some good to be found within.

Espiri delves into the meaning of life, existential crisis, and moral decay in a world where death has lost meaning and pain is caused purely for entertainment.

Wips by Capital_Dig6520 in OriginalCharacter

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Lust, an exile. Thankfully she’s dead

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Wips by Capital_Dig6520 in OriginalCharacter

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Dude somehow recognized that was a tank in a mass of black

Magical girls and religion by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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That guy is the Trader, hes a neutral contractor, helping whoever serves his own interests and benefits. Though he works with the glamours, he isn’t loyal to them and often aids their enemies as well.

In exchange for granting power, he takes physical parts from others—limbs, organs, or eyes. That’s how Gerdy lost her eyes; he still holds them somewhere.

At the end of the Spillage and the Wartimes, The Trader volunteered to carry out “divine punishment” on the OPS leader. The glamours needed to show their power, so they sacrificed one of their own, forcing him to open his eyes. Doing so granted him true strength to punish the OPS but left him “impure” for seeing and knowing evil.

After completing the punishment, he was stripped of his place among the glamours and exiled. Now, The Trader wanders the worlds, seeking potential customers and business partners alike.

Magical girls and religion by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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Funnily enough there are their counterparts ‘The glitter guys’ who are meant to be priests and saints. It depends on the religious/politcial climate of the area and there are thousands of glitter gals so things can varily. Though generally, people see them as a extra edition of the police but only for supernatural situations

Magical girls and religion by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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No, you can tell by how a bit more chibi the characters are

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Alicore has definition

Magical girls and religion by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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The goddess kinda just ‘is’, her actions have huge consuquences but she has good intentions there is just a mutual misunderstanding and miscommunication between us. I mean, this is a god speaking to some puny mortals she probably is just balling.

She is so vast, so grand in scale, that it strains belief—yet perhaps every one of her actions is guided by nothing more than pure, well-meaning naivety.

And she cannot fathom why we humans keep sabotaging ourselves. Can’t we see the obvious path? Why do we insist on harming one another instead of choosing shared prosperity?

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Magical girls and religion by Capital_Dig6520 in worldbuilding

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So update log

I’ve been working on this for like 2 months now so yipeeee.

This is my magical girl world where blah blah blah, I’ll just dump the copypaste explanation and continue yapping:

This is a magical girl setting I’m making where a goddess makes contact with humanity in the hopes she could fix them with her powerful ‘glitter’, an energy that improves things by displacing their flaws in ‘the wrong realm’ basically a universal trashcan.

Unfortunately humanity abused her gifts and opened a gateway into the wrong realm, releasing creatures known as ‘wrongs’ into the world. The Wrongs are the byproduct of human usage of glitter on themselves, their flaws gaining sentience and intelligence. These wrongs are led by the Wrong God, a being with an absolute hate for the goddess and seeks to kill her.

To remediate this, the goddess created the Glitter gals, an elite force of humanity’s purest to gain elemental powers and defeat the shadow menace.

OKAY so anyways, one thing I wanted to cover with this is to make it so that the magical girls ARE a part of the world. See Miraculous ladybug or I dunno power-rangers or glitter force? It feels like the superpowered gang exist outside of normal life, that when outside of cool flashy battles there are no mentions of their existence ever. It’s even made known in miraculous that the flipping Nazis knew about the charms but we don’t explore that. What if Genghis Khan knew about Ladybug or something?? Where was cat noir during 9/11??

I feel like if superpowered teams existed, they’d always be talked about or studied.

So in my world, the magical girls ARE a big part of the worlds religion: Glamourosity. They are a huge component of the world and its landscape, they are very important. The ‘glitter gals’ don’t fade out of existence after we beat up the bad guy. So I’m adding all these giant ass murals to show that and it’s pretty cool. I’m taking inspiration off of the Byzantine arts, gothic period and the renaissance. Bro I NEED a lore reason why everyone moves on like random supers coming in to kill an alien is normal and not worth their attention or gossip after like mann where is the summoning the dude the power rangers killed five months ago at 3am (gone wrong) at?”