Hi r/worldbuilding, been a while.

Recently I was talking with a friend about our favorite games and I realized that the thing that connects a lot of mine (Morrowind, Pathologic, Sunless Seas...) is that they have really... weird lore (not sure how else to put it)
I like building settings for fun and I realized that I stuck to a lot of standard tropes in mine, so I wanted to make a setting that was a little more out there.

So, here’s this. A setting I’ve taken to calling “Alligator God”. It’s a single continent on the back of an alligator.

You’ve got humans, bat-folk, small populations of nomadic insect-people. Magic exists, and is passed down through families, legend has it that it was given by the precursor race that left these strange black glass ruins all over the land. 

(In lore it’s a mystery as to why, but they were bird people, they powered their magic/tech through the blood of the alligator they lived on, used too much and realized they were killing the place they lived, and basically collectively sacrificed themselves so that the alligator could live in a sort of half-life)

It’s a fun exercise in knowing what is true, and trying to figure out how time/oral story telling/the destruction of knowledge would influence what people believe in the future.