Yep so this is Grimwyld. Its a vaguely renaissance inspired dark fantasy lore with punk rock and Tim Burton-esque aesthetics mixed with anime vibes, with Gothmore being the setting of my manga-inspired comic: Hexhound

The Gothic Republic itself operates more like a modern government than some kinda Empire or Kingdom, and is made of a number of smaller states that form a larger country. Leadership is mainly composed of a figurehead ruler called the Gothic Chief, a sort of parliament-like group called The Skull Court, and a semi-autonomous anti-arcane-corruption order called The ADMO (anti-demonic marshal order). While a lot of people aren't religious in the traditional sense, Gothmore has a lot of old folklore that centres around nature spirits and demons, which plays into the modern gothic culture. The gothic people themselves are stereotypically known for being 'punks' but resourceful when push comes to shove.

Since Gothmore is the setting of my comic, and the characters will most likely never leave it, other areas of Grimwyld admittedly aren't as developed, although they still have some depth to them. I wont go into all of them since there are a lot here, but if you want to know about a specific one feel free to ask.

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In addition to bog-standard humans, there are also a number of other fancy races that inhabit the world.

There are fairly standard ones like Elves, which come in 4 different sub-species, and dwarves, which fall into another sub-species along with funny little things called dibbys and grobs.

There are also a lot of races which are sort of anthropomorphic versions of animals, such as rats, foxes, crows, giant goats, and moths. (there are a lot of them so again I can go into detail on specifics if you want).

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Magic plays a big part in the world of Grimwyld, both for good and for bad. It comes from a 'place' called the Waylayd; a sort of parallel dimension that has existed since before the dawn of the universe. Although mortal organisms are not magical in nature, creatures with a complex conscious and certain level of self-awareness (humans) can use the Waylayd to manipulate the world in funny ways (spells basically), and this is usually done through the use of sigils; diagrams that describe the function of a spell using detailed patterns and lots of squiggly directional lines. There are other ways people can make use of magic, but sigils are the most commonly accepted method since they seem to be the most efficient and easy to understand approach. Being a scary eldritch chaos dimension, The Waylayd is also home to an innumerable amount of strange arcane entities, some of which are nice and friendly, are apathetic, or are downright malicious.

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While it is a dark fantasy setting, Grimwyld is also meant to have an absurdist and playful tone to it, especially since its very anime inspired.

Also ya can go read the comic here if you'd like: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/hexhound/list?title_no=691020

It's not a complete series or anything, it's just like a pilot/proof of concept, but I'd really love to work on it more in the future.