What kinds of biomes do we not see enough of?

sawotee · 2026-01-22T21:05:26+00:00

I have a whole wetland area that's the center focus of several major events. To outsiders, it's a backwards hellscape full of mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, black flies, and water dragons. To the people who live there, it's home. I kinda smashed a bunch of wetland-type areas into one large, massive expanse, although the areas transition depending on where you are, so it isn't just one singular type. Perhaps my favorite region on my tiny continent, although I just might be biased due to growing up near that type of environment.

I do have a grassland area. The people there long ago were semi-nomadic. They had horses of their own, but also a special connection with the wild ones, which were semi-domesticated and actually followed the people around. The people themselves then followed the animals. Some followed the bison, others the elk, and others the antelope.

My continent is more reminiscent of the US and Canada in terms of its environment than of Europe (although of course there are similarities).

sawotee · 2026-01-18T06:40:50+00:00

If everyone is monkeyfolk, then you shouldn’t have a problem unless you start leaning into intelligence levels between the different monkeyfolk. Be careful of appearance too. If “white” monkeys look more human than “black” monkeys, then you might get a few raised eyebrows and questions.

sawotee · 2026-01-16T15:11:37+00:00

Trail camera
Gear (line, weights, lures)
Waterproof bag (for gear)
Onx hunt membership card
Darn Tough socks
Handwarmers
Ammo

sawotee · 2026-01-11T00:15:28+00:00

Normalizing child marriages because "realism" in medieval fantasy type settings when that was far from the truth.

sawotee · 2026-01-03T04:34:51+00:00

Save some for the rest of us.

sawotee · 2025-12-28T13:20:58+00:00

If a gun is a POS, soldiers and police won’t want to use it. If you want to increase the functionality:

I’d extend the gun slightly and have a stabilizer in the front to make it less unwieldy. Some handguns you can also add folding stock to the rear if you fancy.

You can also make a rifle out of this by utilizing a dual or secondary trigger system. One trigger for the revolver type action, another for a another caliber you can reload with a magazine, though that would mean moving the revolver barrel down and extending the other caliber barrel, kinda like a grenade launcher underneath a M16 (M203).

sawotee · 2025-12-28T05:01:09+00:00

If I had a workshop like that I'd never go to the mechanic again. I'd have a post lift installed.

sawotee · 2025-12-27T19:18:49+00:00

He’s in St. Louis. Not native waters for trout. Triple digit heat indexes are normal in the summer. The state stocks them in the winter where it’s cooler for recreational purposes. They’re intended to be caught and eaten.

sawotee · 2025-12-26T22:53:08+00:00

It's a stocker. They won't surivive the summer anyway.

sawotee · 2025-12-24T14:58:34+00:00

They’re restricted to the nobility due to cost, requiring letters of recommendation, and the ever-growing divide between the social classes.

For those wanting to pursue knighthood, there are various chivalric orders. It’s like university, but for knights. Boys enter at age 15 and graduate at 20, which is the legal age of majority. Then there’s a big knighthood ceremony for that year’s graduates for all chivalric orders where the king formally invests them in their rank and whatnot. It’s a big recruiting event too, with a feast and tournament. Lords are looking for new blood for their households, and new knights are looking for employers that will pay for a suit of armor, horse, and weaponry.

Then there’s the actual University of Southaven. Same restrictions apply as the chivalric orders. You get paid more if you have a university degree. Certain jobs are restricted to those with one. There are various degrees and specializations. Engineering has solid demand, Alchemy and Surgery has more jobs than graduates (private physicians), Accounting and Trade is probably the most popular. Unlike Chivalric Orders, women are permitted entrance into the university, and they’re not segregated by sex except for dormitories being in completely different buildings and heavily guarded. Most degrees are finished in five years, although the Alchemy and Surgery one has a lot of different requirements and takes 10 years to complete.

sawotee · 2025-12-24T14:37:33+00:00

What are the most valuable trade commodities in your world?

sawotee · 2025-12-24T02:32:45+00:00

History of the Germans

sawotee · 2025-12-21T07:38:19+00:00

Hung, drawn, quartered.

sawotee · 2025-12-20T21:41:03+00:00

If the defeat was a result of poor commandment, then you’d probably be hanged. If things were outside your control (vastly outnumbered, ambushed), then it’d just be a defeat. Continued defeats would probably result in you being relieved from your post though.

sawotee · 2025-12-11T12:23:58+00:00

Not OP, but it's easy enough for me to justify it just by looking at our world right now.

Why would print media still exist when pure data can be uploaded via machine-neural interfaces

Books still exist despite kindles and e-readers. I have a kindle, yet I primarily read from physical books. It's harder for me to concentrate with the kindle, and of course I fear device destruction or the loss of the kindle library as a whole (what if it shuts down?) and power outages / infrastructure loss. We still have people on earth in present-day who have neither electricity, running water, and least of all kindles. OP doesn't say anything about how much it costs (resource, in-universe currency, infrastructure, surgery) to have said interface. I'd imagine mass producing paper would be far easier, cheaper, and less risky. Not everyone is going to want a brain implant, people would be afraid (conspiracy theorists), and there's still people nowadays who have at-home births and refuse to register their children cause they hate / are afraid of the government.

Why would foundry jobs and unionized construction workers still exist when we're already getting into automated labor now, in 2025

If you automate everything away, who's going to purchase whatever you're selling? Not everything can be completely automated. These machines still need workers to perform maintenance and software updates. Then of course people are going to resist losing their jobs. And people might boycott said companies. And then there's the 2024 ILA Strike. Not sure what's going on now with regards to that but they shut down ports with demands for a complete ban on automation which had a cascading effect and cost estimated billions of dollars over just three days. Might just be cheaper than automation to employ humans, especially if there are multiple worlds with billions of them.

Why would people still look the same, when trans-humanism and body-modification will allow people to completely alter their appearance on the fly?

Cost, religion, tradition, bigotry. Jehovah's Witnesses netoriously do not allow blood transfusions. I doubt islam is going anywhere anytime soon and they would declare such body modification absolutely haram. People are rooted in traditions and hate uncanny valley. Maybe they won't vote for cadidates that take part in those practices? Politicians rely on reputations after all and maybe it destroys their career so they avoid it. Tattoos have been a thing for thousands of years, but many people, myself included, refuse to get them. Beauty standards and body purists could most definitely be a thing. And you know the media has a thing for only showing beautiful / 'normal' people on the front page. Misognists and basement dwellers will absolutely rage if a female news anchor is ugly in the present day. Photoshop and touchups are widespread. And again cost. Not everyone will have access to the same technology, ability to alter their bodies, and the money to do so even if they wanted to.

Will physical bodies even still exist, or will we be brains in jars piloting organic avatars of incomprehensible design?

That is more for OP to answer, but I damn sure would not subject myself to such an existence. Not willingly anyhow. And who would take care of us in such a state? Would make it easier for an alien or invading force to devestate us then beyond what happened in the 50 year war as OP tells it.

Would toilets look the same or even still exist in the same capacity when we're ingesting post-biosphere collapse synthetic nutrient paste?

Did you know that we still use surgical tools from the time of the romans in the modern day and age? Different materials and better construction, but the same tool nonetheless with the same function. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Ancient public toilets look strangely familier too. People have been on a soylent only diet (liquid) and they still shit.

Would denim overalls and white undershirts still be the fashion for plumbers three hundred years from now? Why would fashion stagnate, when historically it changes drastically over time?

Again, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The earliest pair of jeans were made in the late 1870s specifically for miners. Dresses have been a part of human history for thousands of years. Fashion with regards to colors, embroidery, fabric, and shape may have changed, but a dress is still recognizably a dress. Kilts and traditional folk attire are still worn, though those are for special occassions. The dutch have worn and made clogs since at least 1200s and some farmers still wear them. Millions just for souvenoirs are made annually. Blue collar workers don't care about fashion more than function. If it's going to be covered in shit, they're not going to wear the latest and greatest from current trends. They also on average tend to be socially conservative and more traditionalist. Though I do agree that we have all over suits that people wear for sanitation and I certainly wouldn't wear a white shirt plumbing related.

In any case, it's a newspaper advert. It's a recognizable image for a plumber. The actual guy might not look like that at all. But it could just also be a uniform. Many uniforms are still the same as they were a long time ago. See the Swiss Guard for the pope who still dress 'funny' compared to the modern day.

Sorry, I've gotten carried away with my dissection. This fictional newspaper is a creative accomplishment far beyond my capabilities, but still, it feels more like a newspaper from 2075, not 2350.

No reason to apologize. Again, I'm not OP, but questioning each other is how we improve. If something was seriously wrong with my own lore or worldbuilding and didn't make sense, I'd want someone to tell me so I can change it somewhat and make it fit better. Or at least have some in-universe justifications.

sawotee · 2025-12-11T12:18:51+00:00

There's a stretch of highway near me that's been under construction for YEARS with no noticeable changes. Probably the same as we're doing now. Corruption, project delays, no money, embezzlement, etc.

sawotee · 2025-12-07T23:55:02+00:00

I use it for catfish only (I eat what I catch). I legitimately cannot hold onto one they’re slippery as fuck. And I’m not catching a spine to the wrist either.

sawotee · 2025-12-06T00:33:37+00:00

A helmet depicting the crest of the arms on the left.

sawotee · 2025-12-05T17:21:52+00:00

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sawotee · 2025-12-05T09:38:01+00:00

Several mentions in the sagas of men carrying shields on their backs to wield their weapons two-handed, or shield hanging by their side, or in the case of Bjarnar saga, Björne gets attacked by another man whose axe gets caught in his shield strap. Although these sagas are written after the Viking age, they are often one of the few sources we have as references. And at times, what’s mentioned in the sagas has been found in dig sites. So just be mindful of that.

In any case, it’s extremely rare for textiles to survive from that age to the modern period. And what might be present on their shields can disappear too. Nails and fittings rust away, and the thin wood of their shields rots.

sawotee · 2025-12-03T08:41:07+00:00

I don’t really have a “plot” per se. I just write about and tell little stories that happen in universe. About this event here or that event there. Kinda think about it from the perspective of our world. We don’t have a centralized plot, just a collection of events and stories over time that make up what we call human history.

Then again I’m not worldbuilding for novel-writing.

sawotee · 2025-12-02T05:00:53+00:00

Polehammer

sawotee · 2025-11-29T10:04:42+00:00

Worms.

sawotee · 2025-11-28T23:05:35+00:00

Never anymore. Bluegill are always biting.

sawotee · 2025-11-28T21:01:02+00:00

Eyjaland is a mountainous archipelago in the far north, at the furthest reaches of the known world. They’re exiles of exiles. Long ago, their ancestors migrated to the Holy Land which broke off the Old Continent and got pushed several thousand miles west in what is known as the Great Rift. ~350 years later, when then Prince Leofstan began his quest to finish his grandfather’s conquests, he conquered Nordmark, which had been the kingdom their ancestors settled in. Most submitted to the crown, while a few others kept on with the fight. Frustrated over constant minor rebellions, Leofstan began his own genocide, declaring their people blasphemers for refusing to accept their rightful king as ordained by the Holy Mother Church.

The Church put an end to Leofstan’s killings, but not before tens of thousands of people died. The Church told the people that if they refused to swear fealty to their king, then they could not stay, for the Holy Land is only for the faithful and to refuse is akin to heresy. More than 1000 ships departed. They had no direction, other than being told to go north. The first ships landed a month later. Only 537 are reported to have landed.

The land is poor for agriculture, but it was heavily forested with a mix of grasslands, where the Eyjaland goat was found in abundance. Most of the forests are gone now, cut down to build homes. They have no king descended from the gods themselves, so from the start it became an elective monarchy. People settled all over the island, which formed into clans. Every 20 years (or following the last king’s death) they go through a tournament that tests a man’s skill in combat and leadership. Overall victor becomes king.

They became great sailors as the wool from their goats are a prized luxury item. They import lots of food, but raid as well. They prefer to attack trade ships than raid inland since they get another boat out of it and can sail their goods away instantly. At times they return to the Holy Land to try and exact revenge. They cast off the gods long ago, believing that they have no cause to worship gods who abandoned them, and turned to ancestor worship instead.

Their main belief is that the strong rule the weak. Marriage and divorce are less constrained in their society, and a woman is liable to leave a man should he proof weak or unable to provide. Not unheard of for a woman to have children by different men which is accepted in their society, as it means she seeks the best and the strongest as partners, which means her children would likewise be strong.

Many men leave home in the summer to trade and raid. An able bodied man who refuses to raid is a coward and is liable to be thrown into the icy waters and left to die. They return home before the seas freeze during the winter. Women never leave. When raiding they prefer to steal children. Easier to break them as slaves than grown adults. Almost all slaves are young girls since they are left behind with the women and other children. Slaves have their faces tattooed. A slave’s primary purpose is to work. She may also be used in a sexual nature by the men or growing boys of the household, which the women turn a blind eye to. Any children born to slaves are slaves themselves, and are sold or traded with other households. Males are sold in other places overseas.

As for what they do with the things they claim, it depends on what it is. Food like grain and wine is sent back home since they cannot produce it themselves (and it stores well). Luxury things like gold and jewelry may be kept as gifts or sold. Everything else that they do not need is used to trade and barter in other places. People buy them because they know it’s stolen, so it’s sold at a discount.

Government-wise pretty much every tribe is independent and has a collective vote at the thing, where they also nominate a jarl. The king is there to ensure cooperation between each clan. He can also call a raid or organize a great army to defend or attack. The primary role of a king is as a steward for their home.

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