The World of Tinir is a Minecraft roleplay running on Discord.
It plays out in the eponymous world of Tinir, where Herobrine is worshipped as part of an expansive pantheon.
With a long backstory still in development, the roleplay itself does not have a proper minecraft server as of yet, but the discord server is open and active for roleplay here
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World of Tinir provides examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: You get names like Meridia, Exspiravit, Turavus, and Hailith alongside Peter and Seth and Junie.
- All Animals Are Dogs: In canon Minecraft, creepers have little to no explanation of what their species is supposed to be. The World of Tinir makes them into canine creatures that bark, whine, and growl like any normal dog. Except for the exploding part. That’s not normal.
- All Myths Are True: Each religion's respective god(s) are real in this world.
- Anachronism Stew: The Tinir timeline is divided into several ages, starting with a mythical "Diamond" age and working up to a modern "Redstone" age. At the world’s current time period, you get things like steam engines and radio in big cities, but there is a noticeable lack of things like firearms or automobiles. Justified in that it’s a world set in Minecraft, which in itself is a bit wonky with its time period.
- Author Appeal: Of the various human ethnicities, the Desert Settlers tend to get the most attention. Ancient Egypt, their inspiration, is a special interest of one of the co-creators.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Gumbo from Rivermouth (a swamp town) is notoriously spicy. Nether native Exspiravit loved it.
- Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Several fantastic species from canon Minecraft are reimagined as being related to real-world animals. For example, the Ravager is a bovine, Guardians are a subspecies of coelacanth, and so on.
- Conlang: Several fictional languages appear in the story. The most notable is Ender and its dialects, which has a working vocabulary and grammar system.
- Constructed World: Quite literally considering the inspiration for it is Minecraft, where everything is built out of blocks.
- Colony Drop: Depictions of The Fall typically involve this, either through Herobrine, the city of New Aether, or a simple meteor.
- Crapsaccharine World: Although the world of Tinir seems fun and adventurous at first glance, a closer look reveals that it can be a shitty place to live at times. What with the wars, abusive rulers, imperialism, political drama, and now an industrial revolution that’s disrupting the old way of life.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: The dominant religion in Tinir, Initiaism, bears some resemblance to Catholic tradition. With a blend of Egyptian- and Hellenic-style polytheism.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Several conflicts in the Nether were caused by humans arriving from the Overworld and settling, pushing out or attacking the native Piglins in the process. The narration of the worldbuilding and roleplay expressly calls it colonialism or imperialism.
- End of an Age: The Fall marks this for the Diamond Age-an age of wonder, legends, and power unimaginable.
- Evil Power Vacuum: When Richard II was assassinated, it wasn’t just partying in the streets and the new democratic government coming to set up shop instead. The death of the monarchy sparked a civil war in the region and there was a struggle to get the new government implemented.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Among the human ethnicities. With the Enders, Piglins, and Testificates, it's a bit different.
- Deserts have a distinctly Ancient Egyptian (one of the co-creator’s pet interests) flavor, with a few other North African influences blended in.
- The Plains are Great Plains Native American nations, with a touch of Midwestern Native American culture too.
- Forest settlers bear semblance to Germanic and Celtic peoples.
- Savannahs take influence from the real-world Igbo and Maasai nations.
- Swamps have a Cajun, Louisiana and Florida-inspired aesthetic. Rivermouth even has gumbo and po-boys!
- Tundra culture is modeled after Inuit and other Arctic/Alaskan Native nations.
- Old cities, like Treehold, are modeled after real-world European towns with medieval roots, like Canterbury.
- Newer cities, like Haxgate, are influenced by American metropolises like NYC, specifically as they were in the Roaring Twenties.
- Fantasy Gun Control: The creators refuse to include firearms in Tinir lore, even as the in-universe technology progresses far past the bare necessities to make a gun. Cars and other automobiles are forbidden, too.
- Fantastic Racism: To some extent, between the four sapient races. Humans in particular are guilty of mistreating their Ender, Testificate, and Piglin neighbours.
- Fictional Sport: Tinir didn't invent Spleef; that game-within-a-game in Minecraft was thought up years ago. In-universe, it's treated like a professional competitive sport.
- Great Offscreen War: Several, actually. In the roleplay, the wars happened quite some time ago, but each one significantly shaped history.
- Insistent Terminology: They're not Endermen, they're just Enders! Justified, in this case, because it skirts around the issues created by an overly gendered term for their species.
- Half-Human Hybrid: In the case of Enderborn race, which is the result of humans and Enders having children together. Averted for the other sapient races in Tinir; humans aren't genetically compatible with Villagers or Piglins.
- Mondegreen: In-universe, the term "Ender" is one of these; it came from mishearing the Enders saying "nan der" ("our home").
- Mythology Gag: Several. The writers have been playing Minecraft for a long time, and it shows.
- In rare cases, an Ender or Enderborn might have green eyes, just like the original design for the Enderman.
- Herobrine's characterization as a mysterious entity who watches people from afar and rarely speaks is much more in-line with how he appeared in the original Herobrine creepypasta.
- The End's association with air (to the Nether's fire and the Overworld's earth and water) is a nod to how End portals were called "air portals" when in development.
- Natural Disaster Cascade: The end of humanity’s golden age, called the Diamond Age, is this, beginning with a meteor strike, followed by massive volcanic eruptions and a near-global flood before Permundum was made habitable once more.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: With the exception of the Hermitcraft gang in a crossover fanfic that’s still in the works, Tinir lacks characters based on real-life Minecraft youtubers.
- Oh, My Gods!: Characters frequently swear by the names of in-universe deities.
- One-Gender Race: More like a one-sex race, to be specific. In Tinir, all Enders are biologically intersex, but they have varied gender identities like male, female, non-binary, etc.
- Religion Is Right: In this world, the deities are all very real, and they don't exactly hide their existence from mortals either.
- Roaring Twenties: Haxgate (a large, technologically advanced city with links to the Nether) has this aesthetic, especially in the inner city.
- Shout-Out
- The magic system is based on Bending from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Richard II's reign of terror takes some cues from Judge Claude Frollo.
- Captain Sparklez’s Fallen Kingdom series is treated in-universe as a dramatization of the last Nether War (a conflict between the Overworld and the Nether).
- The Time of Myths: The Diamond Age is when the world was created by the gods, when humans could preform incredible feats the likes of which have never been or will be seen again.
- Undead: But where would a story set in Minecraft be without the requisite armies of skeletons and zombies? Luckily, these threats have been mostly a thing of the past since the Blight of Bones, a huge war against the undead that kicked off the medieval period.
- Zombie Apocalypse: There was a war at one point because undead mobs attacked the living. It was a pivotal event in Tinir's history, eventually culminating in the coronation of King Peter the Dragonhearted.
