Exploration

Emynea

This world was once our own but as we continued to place ourselves above nature and destroy our home, these forces came to life. Earth became a playground for the elements given body and mind: the Erlithmanil. These ten entities reshaped...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Hard Magic Romance

Demis

[container:world-introduction]Introduction Welcome to the realm of Demis, a custom world built within the framework of Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition (D&D 5e) by Wizards of the Coast. This wiki serves as a comprehensive guide, offerin...

Exploration Fantasy Medieval

Dromaria

A pact between the dragons and the gods shapes the magic, politics, and daily life of Dromaria. Within is a detailed RPG fantasy setting including interactive maps, unique classes, races, monsters, and spells. Featuring regular updates.

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Political Sword & Sorcery

Adventures Along the Sword Coast

Some say the Sword Coast took its name from the white cliffs that rise up sharply for hundreds of miles along the coastline between the River Dessarin and Baldur's Gate. Traveling author...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Weird

Yonderverse

Explore the endless planets brimming with life in the Yonderverse! Go after creatures, discover new places, and learn about the people you find along the way. Winner of Best World 2024!

Cyberpunk Exploration Science Fantasy Solarpunk Speculative Evolution

The Codex Of Ephonel

The Lands Of Ephonel are vast and diverse, and in them, you will find countless risen and fallen cities, countries, and civilizations spread across a grand tapestry of history and myth. Interwoven in this great pattern are many tales of brave...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Historical Soft Magic

World Anvil CSS Test

[aloud] This is a public test world that uses every single feature of World Anvil. Use your browser's inspect tool to find parts to customise, or to preview your homemade CSS themes! For more information on [tooltip: and m...

Exploration Informational

Dremora: SotDK

The continent of Dremora has long been shrouded from the rest of the world by a shimmering, powerful magical barrier. Within this glimmering wall, the Dremoran pantheon reigns. Once devout and resolute in their maintenance of...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Political Religious

Abios

Volstis is the third planet from the sun orbited by one moon called Luna in what is known as the void sea. It is on this small blue jewel that we learn of our heroes and though insignificant at this time, may find themselves chang...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy Fantasy, Dark

Starship Inanna

Adult 18+ Exploration Science Fiction Space Opera

Rosengard

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

Rimea

[timeline:b6755bf1-1f1d-4940-bfdc-93eab6013d5e] Calendar of the Twilit Era Many tell us stories of how the world began. There are many who would have you believe their stories of the origin....

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Science Fantasy

Linebound

Welcome to the Endless Sky! What is Linebound? A new age of exporation has come as the first skyships set sail on the open skies. The maps grow larger and yet the world never gets smaller. Many fantastic things wait...

Exploration Fantasy Soft Magic

Septiverse

Welcome to the Septiverse!

Alternative History Exploration Fantasy Post-modern Steampunk

NUGaming's Exiled Lands of Dark Desires

We have created a fantasy world that is set in a fictional timeline. Some aspects of our world have been inspired by our own history, as well as drawing further inspiration from the Conan storyline, the Early Middle Ages all the way up to the...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Malkora

Dystopia Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Adijari

Welcome, I am the Nightshamen, Welcome to the world of Adijari. Adijari is a world of many wonders. But what is most fascinating is the story of the four people. Once these four people were one, but after the divine and vile even...

East-Asian Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Sword & Sorcery

Argeth

A fantastical world, filled with magic and magical creatures alike. Stories say that the world was created by powerful elemental dragons, each sharing a part of their being to bring shape to the world.

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Elaris: Sea of Stars

Exploration Mecha Political Science Fantasy Space Opera

Like Clockwork

A poisonous storm called The Tempest had raged over the sea for thousands of years, sealing away whatever lay within. Then, without warning or reason, the howling winds and corrosive rains dissipated. As it fell, arcane energies rose from...

Exploration Fantasy Steampunk Sword & Sorcery Western

FateRealms

The suns rise over the flourishing planet of Zedrelon. Life on the planet is insignificant, compared to that of the cosmos, but still both move and change in this realm. It is now been years since The First War, and life is at peace. Havoc...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Masters of Illuria

Across the gulf of space, around another star ... At the end of the seventh millennium, the world of Illuria changed… Nations, people,...

Exploration MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Superheroic

The Ninth World

There have been eight previous worlds. You may refer to them as ages, eons, epochs, or eras, but it’s not wrong to think of each as its own individual world. Each former world stretched across vast millennia of time. Each played host to a species who...

Exploration Science Fantasy Weird

Taeva

The world of Taeva is a [url:https://www.worldanvil.com/w/brad-icastbolt/a/tone-26-setting-alignment-article]Knight/Nobleglow fantasy setting for a potential novel. Magic has played a major role in the history of the world, from the distant pas...

Exploration Fantasy Young Adult (YA)

BREACH

2010-2012: Fortean Events skyrocket in frequency. A flock of passenger pigeons, ten thousand strong, darkened the skies above New Jersey for the first time in over a century. A man began ranting and raving at a store in Sa...

Alternative History Exploration Modern

Rolara

The Resurgence of Light in the Realm of Rolara The Astral Apex of Mount Origin In the heart of Rolara, where the veil between realms is gossamer-thin, stands [b...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Wuxia-Fantasy

Odysseia

The world of Odysseia is vast and still has many unexplored secrets for adventuring parties to find!

Exploration Fantasy Medieval

East Marches

[url:https://discordapp.com/invite/gBhDq55]Discord New Players Start Here! @[H...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval

The Fabulae Anthology

[p]Welcome to the Fabulae Anthology, a high fantasy setting exploring the tales of its people, the immortality of legends and the adventures that occur amongst these lands.[/p] Places to go... [p]@[Fabulae](location:ac006e61-...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Seelen Stream Sub-Sector: A Warhammer 40k Setting

Deep in the Segmentum Tempestus and imbedded along the outer edge of the Spartus sector lies the Seelen Stream. A stretch of Imperial systems providing one of the few stable corridors to the outlying sectors and a bastion of opportunity and danger wi...

Exploration Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Dawn

A Diverse and Magical World: My Homebrew Creation My homebrew world is a rich and diverse tapestry, blending different races, ideas, and a magical environment reminiscent of the world of Eberron. Here's an overview of the key elements o...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Science Fantasy

KATTARNIS

Die SPOTIFY-PLAYLISTS findet Ihr hier: [url:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Du0TRUkRlOwkeTGvLPtj2?si=2f034305fed14a60]AKT I - Hexenkessel [url:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RtY1dUAcfVl2aT67DlRDt?si=6af223effdc543...

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic Political Religious

The World of Eldara

[container: panel][container: UL][/container][container: UR][/container][container: panel-body]The World of Eldara is a Medium-Magic Fantasy World. There are no Humans or Earth-native animals on Eldara. It is instead populated by its ow...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Sword & Sorcery

The Thirteenth Sea

A world littered with magic, Skies of purity dotted with fated destiny, The tidal currents bend to the will of Fate. Light and darkness face off once again. Unforeseen allies pick up arms, Friends turn foe, and chaos returns to pu...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Supernatural

Prototokos

Welcome to Prototokos, the first realm created by cosmic beings and Gods to show a truce of powers, an ancient peace treaty. The realm was designed to see if all beings could live in harmony under these new circumstances and rule. During the creation...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Waking Materia

[p][/p] [aloud]I do not know where to find in any literature—ancient or modern—an adequate account of that nature with which I am acquainted. Mythology comes nearest to it of any. — Henry David ThoreauThe Journal[...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Post Apocalyptic

YonZora

The Multiverse, with its nine known classes of pantheons, encompasses vast realms, each with its own histories, cultures, and conflicts, and YonZora is but one planet within it. Among its continents, YonZora’s unique geography and cosmology have shap...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Medieval

Valakadyn

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Ailosod

In the year's following the Disjunction, the world was in turmoil. The landmasses shifted and the oceans swelled and ebbed violently. Cities were destroyed, kingdoms fell to ruin, and civilization was left to start again. Among th...

Exploration Fantasy Medieval

Theria

[color:#b3d5f4] Many eons ago, the Gods crafted their very first world. It helped to slake their boredom, and bring meaning to their endless existence. There have been many, many worlds since. All of them Theria, all of them seen a...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Sword & Sorcery

Tales of Cevantia

[color:#aaaaaa]Welcoming All Seekers![/color] To the enchanting realm of Cevantia, where dreams and magic intertwine to create a world unlike any other. Here, the boundaries of reality blur, and the extraordinary bec...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Athanya

Before the Realms of Athanya aligned and the Age of Balance began, the intelligent races wandered mindless...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Horror Medieval Oriental

The Void Between

[quote]We broke into heaven, and took everything that wasn't nailed down. When we got back, I couldn't help but feel off. I'm a different person out there, adrift in the black sea. I was happy when we lost our home. I thought, great. No more...

Exploration Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

Agrophon

Agrophon is a fantasy continent, and a campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition. After centuries of competition for land and authority, the many factions of Agrophon finally settled into peace. Between these nations, who were sp...

Exploration Sword & Sorcery

New Genesis: Legacy of Imagination

[container:fierytextheading][container:fierytext][section:fire]The[/section][section:burn] brave[/section][section:burn] and the foolish[/section] [section:fire]walk not the middle road[/section][/container][/container] New G...

Exploration Isekai Science Fantasy Supernatural

Aurum

A post apocalyptic, medieval western europe, sword & sorcery fantasy set 300 years after the most recent war for the world of Aurum in the material plane. Where creatures and servants of chaos still roam scattered, wounded, and desperate and where...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Political Sword & Sorcery

World of the Five Gods

The World of the Five Gods is the setting for an RPG campaign. It starts in the Weald, a Celtic-inspired fantasy land which is trying to become strong enough to prevent invasion while maintaining the core of its traditional culture. It's magi...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Political

The Vayl

The Vayl is a world-setting for creative storytelling and adventure.

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Political Post Apocalyptic

Oniran

Stories are a powerful thing. They surround us, influence every aspect of our lives, warn us of danger or reassure us with heroes that overcome it. Stories can be healing, but can hurt us all the same. They can bring people together...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

The Web

Cover Image from adobe stock, Assets used in manipulation are credited [url:https://www.worldanvil.com/i/604984]Here! [container: panelA] Bear with me, dear reader. I want you to take a look aroun...

Exploration Fantasy, Urban Horror Speculative Supernatural

Sanctum of the Nexus Vale

The eyes of the world Creator is always looming high in the sky, day and night always watching over everyone.

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Space Opera Steampunk Sword & Sorcery

Varzzen

Varzzen is a continent on the world of Alvandis. Anthropomorphic insects, also called Insectoids, populate Varzzen.

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Scourged Lands of Valenor

Valenor is an extraordinary world, populated by myriad of different races, with a rich and intricate history. Over the millennia, many empires and kingdoms have risen and fallen, and powerful gods, rulers, wizards, and legendary creatures have helped...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic

Terra Caelum Legacy

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Gothic

Kethenicaea

Kethenicaea is a world of magic and adventure, a world of infinite possibility. In Kethenicaea evil monsters and dastardly villains clash with noble heroes and adventurers, struggling over the fate of kingdoms, continents, and the world. Kethenic...

Exploration Fantasy Medieval Political Sword & Sorcery

Requiem

Requiem, a world that once was ruled by gods, was left dormant for a millennia after the Shattering: a cataclysmic event that cleaved the continent of Tamlron in two and left the pantheon shattered. In this new age, ancient technology and magics are...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Post Apocalyptic

Dragons Tale

Exploration Slice of Life Sword & Sorcery

World of Stendaaris

The current setting takes place 32 years after the incidents involving the sealing of the Wells of Eternity, the rise and fall of the Silver Shadow Clan, and the restoration of the Dwarven ruins of Rhineforrell. The evil Lich Kardun and his wife Tani...

Adult 18+ Comedy Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Sword & Sorcery

Wouraiya

Welcome to Wouraiya! If you're interested in sampling stories, I'd like to suggest a few: [url:https://www.worldanvil.com/w/wouraiya-daskalarch/a/weaponizing-power-of-love2C-and-similar-faff-prose]Weaponizing the Power of Love, and Similar F...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Medieval Military

Estellia

The Undying Emperor is no more. His lands lay wasted and cursed. His subjects corrupted and enslaved under his lingering will to protect his greatest treasure: The Lance of Truth. The weapon forged from the bones of the great creator, used to strike...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Medieval

Scalespiral

Many eons ago, so long that the exact details are lost to the mists of time, a group of wizards discovered the secret to wandering between worlds. After much trial and error, they arrived on Scalespiral, the ancestral home of the @[dragons](species:e...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic MagiPunk Solarpunk

Revania

Welcome to Revania!-From the frigid mountain ranges of Dorohk Khai to the Direwood Forests of Vallonreine encompasses the many realms that are collectively named Revania. The realms of Reva...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Cerilia

The campaign setting of Birthright. I don't own it, just using it to play with friends. Birthright (and my flavour of it) is a dark and harsh world. In this world blood is power, the blood of dead gods has settled onto the material plane, absorbed...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Medieval Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Valley of Man

An expansive high altitude valley bordered by the ever mountainous Brine Marshes to the west, the Bad Step to the east, the Northern Range and the Floodlands in the south. This is a story of the end of human civilization as the Sang know it. The...

Ancient Exploration Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Political

Ulpo Kingdom

An immense continent - rich with natural elements: Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. From the depth of the oceans to the highest mountains Four clans rule together creating the ULPO Kingdom. Each clan is led by a designated Four fathers.

Exploration Fantasy Medieval

Hastened Delight

[container:article-content] /*How-dee-doo, Constable? Why yes, o'course you're busy, but I have an issue I would like to be noted, if it isn't a bother. I happen to have a small sip...

Alternative History Dieselpunk Exploration Medieval Victorian

The True Dark Ages

The world is now in the 9th Century, and the Early Middle Ages is in full swing. Adventurers are constantly in demand. Some act as mercenaries, others follow the path of magic and bolster their respective nations. Groups scattered here and there long...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror

Setelin

A world with intent to be used in stories, campaigns and possibly games.

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Isekai Mystery Political

Orion 2500 FR

Introduction L'an 2500 En l'An 2500 de notre ère, les puissances du Bras d'Orion s'en vont en guerre. Alimentée par des décennies de rivalités et des siècles de rancunes, la conflagration risque de faire exploser la Civil...

Exploration Military Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

Aroka: Fallen World

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Tarana

The world of Tarana and the Crystal Spire campaign setting are built on D&D 5E with the goal of capturing the texture, flavor, themes, and experiences of Celtic mythology, while including aetherpunk/steampunk flavors and aesthetics on top of it all.

Adult 18+ Ancient Clockpunk Comedy Crime

Les Terres de Myrn

Située à l'Est d'Alarian, les Terres de Myrn sont oubliées depuis des millénaires. La plupart des côtes sont inaccessibles, le seul accès par voix terrestre est la Passe Maudites. Le peuple de Myrn vie donc éloigné de toutes les autres terres.

Exploration Fantasy Medieval

Azuria

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Sword & Sorcery

Tellus

This is a vast world. I have poured years into writing about it, meticulously crafting it to feel real and unique. There are plenty of references to other series, books and shows and the like, but this world is my own. This will change when I think o...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Blue Way

Blue Way, our first laser highway, is complete and more, to other stars, are in construction. We made it far into to the darkness, but we are still only dipping our toes in the deep cosmic ocean and who knows, what lurks in the deep.

Atompunk Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Primatis

A world created from the void, made from godly essences combined. The planes leak into the realm to create strange environments. This world has seen much turmoil as the demons of the abyss charged through the material to attack everything and ever...

Adult 18+ Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Kena'an

Aeons ago, the gods of Light and Darkness shaped Kena'an, crafting a world of perfect balance, until their ambition shattered that harmony. Their rivalry led to the cataclysmic Purification...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Literature RPG Superheroic

Poneren

Magic. The world is held together by magic. From the smallest part of the smallest atom to the multiverse as a whole, everything @[believes](law:1cc2...

Exploration Fantasy Political

Kealladius

In the beginning, the proud Elves of Kraztenzia formed the Enyiserine Empire. They quickly enslaved the other races to do their bidding. After thousands of years, humans and other races have rebelled and thrown off the chains of their masters, the e...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Medieval

Kal'Araan

[quote]To live in Kal'Araan before The Descent was to live in chaos. Imagine a landscape scarred and altered by the Gods who fought over them. We mortals were nothing but ants, crawling across a battlefield, in hopes of not being crushed. Somethin...

Exploration Fantasy Medieval Political Sword & Sorcery

Irth

MAPS! LOCATIONS! DETAILS! (but not too much detail). I like playing in a world where I know where I stand. I like worlds started from far away and then zoomed in with more and more detail. Give me lots of maps and locations, but don't fill in the spa...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Political

Shackleton Expanse- 10th Ex Fleet

Exploration Fanfiction Science Fiction Space Opera

The Utopian Revelation

Humanity has breached the stars. The Core Worlds are a political battlegrounds between three major idealogies. The Rim Worlds are an unregulated mix of paradise and horror. The Depths beyond are terrifying collectives of unknown planets, alien specie...

Exploration Political Science Fantasy Space Opera Supernatural

Ebea

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Sword & Sorcery

The Magic Multiverse

Your vision shifts as the magic takes hold of your dream. It draws you through the air; you feel your consciousness spread across the cosmos and you get short sensations and glimpses of many places: You feel it in the air, a slight tingle as a sin...

Exploration Fantasy Science Fantasy Speculative Young Adult (YA)

Ovensu

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Mystery Political

E'ath

E'ath is a forest world populated by many differnt races each living as a part of nature either by their own choice or by the choice of the arch druids and the forest itself. Scattered around the world are many different world trees, each different i...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Political

Forgotten Waters

With the coming of the Fogbane Comet, a new era was forged. Numira's fog cloud was displaced into the north and south poles, clearing way to the undiscovered and uninhabited New World. Hundreds of ships from almost every nation in Prythwyn ma...

Exploration Fantasy Flintlock Political Sword & Sorcery

Legacy

A hub for Ironsworn: Starforged and a variety of other RPG campaigns.

Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Ancient Waters

This sandbox of cultures and concepts aims to draw on inspirations from our own Earth's history, cultures and myths and combine them with classic D&D concepts. Ancient Waters started with a small region of many rivers and waterways, and the idea o...

Exploration Fantasy

Namiria

Long ago, Namiria used to be a peaceful place. Its nine realms existed together in perfect harmony, each realm flourishing in its own way. Everything was well balanced. It was perfection created by the gods themselves. [...

Comedy Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Medieval Weird

Oreon

Die Welt von Oreon ist ein Ort voller Magie, mystischer Wesen, politischen Intrigien und dem Kampf ums Überleben.Der Wind trägt uralte Geheimnisse und Versprechen über das Land - in die Ohren all jenen, die gewillt sind zuzuh...

Exploration Fantasy

Astra Planeta

Astra Planeta is a hopeful exploration of humanity’s future path to the stars, and the connections we may forge with the other peoples and worlds of the local stellar group.

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Coriolis

Coriolis is like Arabian Nights in space. Coriolis is a science fiction role playing game set in a remote cluster of star systems called The Third Horizon. It is a place ravaged by conflicts and war, but also home to proud civilisations, both new...

Exploration Science Fiction Supernatural

Aerithia

Comedy Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Science Fiction

Beukalos

Exploration Science Fantasy

Lureaum

Welcome dear reader, to Lureaum. A collection of many worlds of chaos, and disorder. That as they say once sprang forth from the ancient pools of Chaos in the shape of a tree. And as Order seeks to arrange this world in oh so orderly fashion. It alwa...

Adult 18+ Clockpunk Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic

Stellar

L'humanité s'est étendue dans les étoiles et l'exposition aux radiations du vide cosmique à provoqué un changement dans l'humanité, des gens ont commencé à manifester des pouvoirs, des dons, de la magie selon comment vous voulez l'appeler. Certains p...

Exploration Science Fantasy Science Fiction

The New World

Since the dawn of time ... [p]...this part of the world has been called many things and inhabited by many creatures but its current name took root in the turmoil that would lead to Kalevala's fall. The plotters who overthrew Kalev...

Exploration Fantasy, Dark Political

Terminus

Adult 18+ Dystopia Exploration Fantasy, Dark Horror