Articles


What If Your Dominant Species Can Fly
What if your dominant species can fly? Join us as we explore prestige, architecture, empires and wings races.
When an Apex Predator Takes the Throne
What does a solitary apex predator want at the top of a society? Vaelezar is a dragon and a psychopath. Here we explore how that affects the people and her bloodline, where her children are prey.
Magic Will Take Your Job
Magic would not sit on top of a medieval world. It would create something entirely new, affecting crafting, politics, culture, and what it is like for those without access.
If Schrödinger Wrote Fantasy
The Flux takes a quantum mechanics concept as its world-building premise and follows it all the way down, to where wanting to be alone is a sin.
Six Ways to Worship a God You're Afraid Of
In most fantasy, religion is wallpaper. Make the god real, present, and dangerous, and worship becomes strategy: six ways to live with what you cannot fight, flee, or love.
The Problem With Immortality in Fantasy
Fantasy treats immortality as a gift. Follow the mechanism instead of the myth and you get something else: something beautiful, hard, and brittle.

Worldbuilding and the Bandwidth Problem
Every fantasy world I imagined came out like wallpaper — colourful, busy, and thin. The problem wasn't a lack of imagination. It was bandwidth.
