History Main / Worldbuilding

* All of BrandonSanderson's works, in fact, they actually all share [[TheVerse a cosmology]] except for his young adult Alcatraz books, and of course the WheelOfTime books he's written in PosthumousCollaberation with Robert Jordan, WordOfGod says there's even a defined logic that underlies all the different magic systems of all Sanderson's works.

* BrandonSanderson's ''{{Mistborn}}''

In fact, the degree of worldbuilding ranges all over the scale.

* LFrankBaum's "TheWonderfulWizardOfOz" is perhaps one of the earliest attempts at world building. Maps by Baum depict Oz's four regions and it's neighboring kingdoms. The worldbuilding came about because of fans clamoring for more stories and places to explore. (ContinuitySnarl ensued)

* ''HarryPotter'' indulges in quite a lot of this, the world growing more detailed and complex as the books go on.

-->''"It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme, by what has been called the "verse according to the ear."... In fiction, the surrounding world provides the constraint. This has nothing to do with realism... A completely unreal world can be constructed, in which asses [[{{Flight}} fly]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princesses]] [[FauxDeath are restored to life]] by a kiss; but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, [[MagicAIsMagicA must exist according to structures defined at the outset]] (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by [[TrueLovesKiss the kiss of a prince]], or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss transforms only [[TheFrogPrince frogs into princes]] or also, for example, armadillos)."''

* And of course, there are some games where ''you'' can build a world, or at least greatly influence one. Sim games are an obvious example. The {{Fable}} series also allows you to shape the future of the world they're set in.

TvTropes has a WorldCreationProject.

-->'''Umberto Eco''', postscript to ''TheNameOfTheRose''.

* Eiichiro Oda's'' ''OnePiece''

->It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme, by what has been called the "verse according to the ear."... In fiction, the surrounding world provides the constraint. This has nothing to do with realism... A completely unreal world can be constructed, in which asses [[{{Flight}} fly]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princesses]] [[FauxDeath are restored to life]] by a kiss; but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, [[MagicAIsMagicA must exist according to structures defined at the outset]] (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by [[TrueLovesKiss the kiss of a prince]], or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss transforms only [[TheFrogPrince frogs into princes]] or also, for example, armadillos).

->It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme, by what has been called the "verse according to the ear."... In fiction, the surrounding world provides the constraint. This has nothing to do with realism... A completely unreal world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss; but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, [[MagicAIsMagicA must exist according to structures defined at the outset]] (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by [[TrueLovesKiss the kiss of a prince]], or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss transforms only [[TheFrogPrince frogs into princes]] or also, for example, armadillos).

->It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely. In poetry the constraint can be imposed by meter, foot, rhyme, by what has been called the "verse according to the ear."... In fiction, the surrounding world provides the constraint. This has nothing to do with realism... A completely unreal world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss; but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, [[MagicAIsMagicA must exist according to structures defined at the outset]] (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss transforms only frogs into princes or also, for example, armadillos).

* L. Frank Baum's "TheWonderfulWizardOfOz" is perhaps one of the earliest attempts at world building. Maps by Baum depict Oz's four regions and it's neighboring kingdoms. The worldbuilding came about because of fans clamoring for more stories and places to explore.

* MichaelMoorcock's multiverse, encompassing the worlds of {{Elric}}, Corum, and various other heroes who take on the role of the Eternal Champion.

* ''BrutalLegend'' has the Time of Metal, complete with a FantasyWorldMap, FunctionalMagic based on Music/HeavyMetal, and a CreationMyth reflecting the history of the genre.

* BioWare's original properties (well, as original as [[{{Troperiffic}} a BioWare property]] gets) tend to be quite extensively worldbuilt. JadeEmpire is a minor example, while in MassEffect they went into greater detail. ''Much'' greater detail.

* [[http://www.otherworldproject.com The Otherworld Project]], formerly Eshraval, is a long-running online collaborative modern worldbuilding project, which also encourages RolePlay in the context of the world.

* M.A.R. Barker's ''Tékumel'' created in much the same reason {{Tolkien}} created [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-Earth]].

* The ''WarCraft'' series has grown from a fairly standard setting to this, including lore elements dating back ten thousand years or more. It's also a [[TheMultiverse multiverse]], though only four worlds (Azeroth, Draenor, and to a lesser extent, Argus and Xoroth) are explored in depth or even known by name.
** Not to mention Blizzard's other big settings, [[{{Diablo}} Sanctuary]] and [[StarCraft the Koprulu Sector]], which are both getting pretty extensive supplements.

** Of course, there's also the SoYouWantTo/WriteAHeroicFantsy and SoYouWantTo/BeTheNextJRRTolkien pages.

** Of course, there's also the SoYouWantTo/[[WriteAHeroicFantsy So You Want To: Write a Heroic Fantasy]] and SoYouWantTo/[[BeTheNextJRRTolkien So You Want To: Be the Next JRR Tolkien]] pages.

** Of course, there's also the [[WriteAHeroicFantsy So You Want To: Write a Heroic Fantasy]] and [[BeTheNextJRRTolkien So You Want To: Be the Next JRR Tolkien]] pages.

** Of course, there's also the SoYouWantToWriteAHeroicFantsy and SoYouWantToBeTheNextJRRTolkien pages.