Mention a random quirk of your world

After and Before the end? o.0

All the important communications in my world are digitally signed.

Most of civilization in the 21st century went to shit because of a world war, leaving South Africa (with its rather badass military) to fend for itself; they were forced to expand rapidly in order to seize resources required to stay alive, like oil. Eventually, this led to the inception of the African Solar Empire. That's the After the End part.

On the subject of a completely separate setting, I do believe this setting may top WH 40 K in being obscenely over the top. Yes, that's right.

Imagine a 200 foot tall metal colossus with a gun that shoots boulders of antimatter. That's the basic ground troop of one of the factions in this world. That faction also has, among other things, mountain sized serpent demigods encased in mecha suits that can destroy planets. The basic starship of that faction is a 20 light year long biomechanical creature that eats star systems.

FTL travel involves creating wormholes...The size of supermassive black holes, which tends to destroy whatever planets happen to be nearby...

A big bad guy faction? Consists of a living universe that survives by eating other universes, which attacks by dumping 20,000 galactic masses of troops to destroy everything and bring it back into the galactic cluster sized portal back into its own body.

All of this came around before I ever heard about WH 40 K

• waits patiently to be accused of heresy*

edited 4th Mar '11 9:44:08 AM by Archereon

The thing about W H40k is that it has just the right amount of Over The Top. With your description, it's gone so far off the deep end to call it an overdose is a gross understatement.

Pretty much. Fortunately, it's not meant to be taken remotely serious.

Now, in my own defense, I didn't create this setting alone, it was actually the end result of a nation RP. Players kept trying to top each other, and things got more and more extreme 'til we got the result seen above.

You can always take Refuge in Audacity by Crossing the Line Twice. Or in your case, maybe four times.

edited 4th Mar '11 9:55:55 AM by FrodoGoofballCoTV

That's pretty much what happened.

@Archereon: There is no FTL travel in my world, but people travel between the most distant of stars in seconds. Try to figure that one out.

Simple, wormholes.

@Frodo Goofball Co TV: makes sense to me. All the echoes from mining picks.

Hmm... I actually didn't think about that. I was thinking about something completely different when I thought that up.

Whoops... XD  ^*

edited 4th Mar '11 5:23:53 PM by EldritchBlueRose

there's literally no way to get a ship to another star faster than a beam of light. No wormholes. Anyway, I answered that question already.

@Loni Jay
I couldn't say for certain until I find out what the heck "thaumo" means. My google search for "thaumo definition" didn't turn out as informative as I hoped.

The logic that I used for it was that magic is power, Power Glows, glow means light, and plants photosynthesize light. There are numerous examples in fiction of magic bouncing off of mirrors as though it were light, which makes the connection seem easier to understand. Treating magic similarly to light allows me to have a good justification for Color-Coded for Your Convenience: red light bounces off of red objects and so does red (fire) magic.

Well, some fantasy series use it as a word for magic, I was being facetious, really.

The mages of Full Auto don't actually cast magic, they use extremely powerful computers to hack into the laws of physics and change them.

Thauma is Greek for wonder, marvel or miracle. A favourite fancy word for wizard is Thaumaturge, meaning wonder-worker.

A Thaum is also the standard unit of magic measurement on the Disc, I believe its equal to the energy require to conjure three doves or something.

As for my world, besides the spirits and Magic Music, I guess I'll have to get back to you.

The technology of the most powerful civilization, descendants of the Precursors, runs on The Power of Rock. It's still taken seriously, though.

Dwarves are short, but not stocky. Their low height is due to bad nutrition and low levels of D vitamin caused by living underground.

Absurdly Sharp Blade. Lot's of Absurdly Sharp Blades owned and used by a single person. Plus, a screwed up reality.

Those who are in tune with the worlds can actually hear their background music.

The FloatingContinents are upside-down.

hmmm, I have a few.

For one, one of the protagonists (and several of their foes) is an overlord: a title, bestowed by charter, somewhere between a king, a Rouge Trader, and, well an evil/neutral/benevolent overlord.

Magic and Superpowers, as well as super-science and divine miracle, all work by the same process: much to the chagrin and frustration of the aftermentioned gods and wizards.

Another thing: FTL is possible, but still really slow, so most overlords get around by warping from universe to universe, looking for something to conquer. They do this by means of a Quantum Detangeler.

Naturally, it looks like a sewing machine.

Some other random things: you can beat the stupid out of someone, you can gain telepathy by jamming a wireless router into your head, and while by no means a technological backwater, earth is still too undeveloped to join the combined empire’s conference.

Wait, I got another one (from a different story, obviously)

There's a race of Winged Humanoids that feed on emotion and can turn into birds for a short period of time. One of that happens to be the raven from Edgar Allen Poe's poem.

edited 6th Mar '11 9:01:37 AM by Quillpaw

You can, in my Urban Fantasy universe, become a vampire if you die a violent and/or tragic death. This leads to the fact that there is a minor villain who became a villain after she was killed by being run over by an car...

Becoming a vampire by being bitten by an vampire doesen't work, however.

edited 6th Mar '11 11:23:24 AM by TheBorderPrince

lord Gacek: Dwarves are short, but not stocky. Their low height is due to bad nutrition and low levels of D vitamin caused by living underground.

That's really interesting, because I never thought of them not getting enough Vitamin D before. Definitely something I need to do some research on.  ^*

If The Other Wiki is semi-accurate, then I might make my Dvargar would have a diet with lots of meat, eggs, and fish.  ^*

^{Now you got me thinking of Dvargar cowboys armed with crossbows, fishers who have to channel into underground rivers, and the like. Damn you Tropers!}

edited 6th Mar '11 8:02:15 PM by EldritchBlueRose

My Present Day Present Time setting in which geography and history are dripping with horrible puns -

The very first Scandal Gate occurred in the Renaissance. The Pope refused to grant absolution to a particular penitent knight; by the time he changed his mind, the knight had already committed suicide. (They called it Tannhäuser Gate.)

On a more pointless note, the literature of HP Lovecraft and Arthur Conan Doyle became more immediately influential than did Jules Verne and HG Wells, with the consequence that most of the PunkPunks are basically mainstream while obscure greats like Carl Sagan are only now starting to see popular rediscovery.

Everything dies.

Wait, that's not a quirk.

My fantasy world has two moons.

The first one, called Y'iraa, has sentient alien life on it, and a major character has one of these aliens as his mail girl. The second one, called Hann'l, is shaped like a potato, and its "soil" feels like powder and is a hallucinogen.

No, really.

edited 8th Mar '11 3:15:02 PM by CrystalGlacia