Hard Magic

New Terra

Fantasy Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic Science Fantasy

Dali'en

Dali'en is a high-fantasy world with magipunk elements where magic is accessed through the crystallized blood of deities. The world is made for running D&D games in. The world has a slightly unique take on souls, divinity, and their place in the mort...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic MagiPunk Science Fantasy

Project Shonen

Project shonen is a TTrpg meant to give players the feeling of being able to play their favorite characts and make their own, the current land and foundation for this system heavily reflects that seen in the naruto series, though wit...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Hard Magic Shōnen Supernatural

WoD: After the Fall

The fifth possibly final fall of man, the one prophesied by gods and by billions of mortal men and best has come and gone. Worlds destroyed or left in ruin, inter races wiped out or on the brink of extinction. Yet we have recovered. On the ruins...

Cyberpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Post-modern Science Fantasy

Dorne

Die Welt nimmt ihre Anleihen aus drei großen Quellen, denen Dank und Anerkennung geschuldet ist: Frank Herberts Dune-Zyklus, Georg R.R. Martins Lied von Eis und Feuer und Alexej Pehovs Chroniken. Ein wüstisches Fürstentum soll in seinem Sozialsyst...

Ancient Fairy tale Fanfiction Hard Magic Oriental

Mondi Infranti

[p]Mondi Infranti è un'abientazione che si adatta un grande numero di Sistemi di Gioco in quanto include un vastissimo numero di mondi e realtà parallele.[/p] [p]Mondi Infranti è ambientato nel @[Megaverso](location:cb1bd...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Hard Magic Post Apocalyptic

Scarterra

Nine deities work to shore up the battered world of Scarterra while simultaneously undermining each other to advance their own personal agendas. Great mortals can try to rise above the strife to create a...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval

Warshade

On Jard, vast oceans separate seven continents, each host to civilizations both young and old. The fires of war heat their forges for the coming conflict, as forces older than the very bones of the land itself come to claim their place amongst the...

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval Military

Toresta

A city both old and new. Toresta was founded from the sea. An independent city-state grown at the intersection of land, sea and air and energized by powerful leylines, the city has managed to leapfrog into the modern magical era, becoming both a manu...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Steampunk Urban

Efinia

[aloud]Efinia is a world full of life, wonder and conflict. It was created about 10 000 years ago by an entity known as The Sculptor. He left the world after creating it. Then the gods were born from magic. The gods created the sapient species...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Soft Magic

Gault

[p]The world of Gault has been subjected to wars, magic and disasters for Millenia. [/p] [p][/p] [p][/p]

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Supernatural

Raveran

Raveran is a continent in the northern hemisphere of a planet comparable in size to Earth. Two moons, named Naliin and Nerone, orbit. A year is approximately 336.4 days and a day is 26 hours. Iril, the raw material of magic, radiates fro...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Modern Sword & Sorcery

Domen Aria

Welcome to the fantasy world of Domen Aria. It takes place in the troubled times just after its inhabitants have exhaustedly repaired their makeshift societies following a worldwide, catastrophic, planet ripping and soul rending event. During that tu...

Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Gothenya

GOTHENYA... the world of the holy mountain, Celene, said to have fallen from the heavens 200,000 years ago, bringing the foundations of intelligent life along with it. Over the ensuing centuries, as civilizations both rise and fall, the...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Political Science Fantasy

Mythralune

[p]A high fantasy world that newly emerged into the multiverse. Magic is volitale, chaotic, and uncontrolled.[/p] [p][/p] [p][/p]

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Hard Magic

Nehwon

[quote]To live in Nehwon is to feel the breath of ancient, forgotten gods on your neck. The air is thick with the scent of old blood and older secrets. Settlements rise like rotted teeth from the wilderness, isolated and wary, where superstition...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Dessend

The second world of my main character's story and also the host world of my Pathfinder adventures. Due to the existence of magic in the world, technology has largely plateaued at a Late Medieval to Renaissance level. The existence of dangerous and in...

Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Leveus

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Dulimun

Imagine the Bronze Age with a hard magic system. Welcome to Dulimun! From one end of the encircling ocean to another, kingdoms wax and wane like phases of the Moon. Those at their helm reign supreme both on the battlefield astride their chariots a...

Ancient Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

World of the Mundane and the Veil

There's a lot more to the world than meets the eye. Even when lots of the unseen has been documented in the ages past, called mere stories and folklore rather than accounts of things and beings that happened and existed. While the world superfici...

Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic Modern Soft Magic

Eden, Land of Dreams

The story follows Clara, a young girl who possesses the ability to travel to another world in her dreams. When a fellow classmate from her high school arrives in her dream world, she realizes it may be more real than she thought. He is unable to retu...

Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic Isekai MagiPunk Sword & Sorcery

The Walking Dead: Rewritten

[quote]Welcome, mortal. I see you have found your way to the steps of my altar. The world you now look at is reality. The dead are amongst you, hungry for your flesh. A stranger could be your demise. Or even a once-tamed dog. Survival is key. Unbe...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Hard Magic Horror Post Apocalyptic

Renúdetla

Prior to the history of Renúdetla, for as long as reasonable time can tell a great war has been waged in the spirit world. When our world was first born and void of life, great spirits escaped to find solace in the flowing rivers and oceans, for othe...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Soft Magic

Dieviskus

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Kovis

Kovis is a world of new beginnings. After untold centuries under elven rule, the continent of Ashia has overthrown the old order and brought about new nations of every race and creed. But these fledgling nations also have new issues to deal with. To...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Political

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

Karnonde

The continent of Karnonde is slowly recovering from a cataclysmic event - The Clash - now centuries in the past. The empires of yore have fractured under the burden of recovery, and new states have risen to reclaim what was lost - or forge their own...

Fantasy Hard Magic

Thoia

The world of elementals

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Hard Magic Medieval Supernatural

Teralt

[aloud]"Changes are coming to the grand world of Teralt. But rest assured I, the Mystic, shall be first and foremost to review and approve any necessary modifications to our historical documentation."[/aloud]...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Legends of Eternity: War of the Eternals (Rough Draft)

The old world was a place of sin. The few good people that were left escaped as it crumbled. The new world was called Eternity with the hopes it would be eternal. Magic grows here. The magic of this world lives in all things, though few can tap it. B...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

Wilde Blue

Something stirs beneath the Depths. Echoes of an ancient conflict, whose scars are the foundations of the modern world, still reverberate through the bones of that toxic sky. The worlds floating above have not yet noticed, but all have...

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic MagiPunk Science Fiction

Gal'hadar

Intro Gal'hadar is a world that I have been working on for 12 years. It's a truly extensive world at least it feels like it to me. I've used it mostly for dnd but I've always planned to use this world as a setting for pretty...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Scourge of Shards

A little over seventy years ago, the smaller of the two moons, Jypra, spontaneously and explosively disintegrated. The immediate effect was a mana-shockwave, causing a momentary spike in the mana level that blew outward fr...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Aqualon

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Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Merging Worlds

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Calduron

Welcome to a place where dreams come true, but also nightmares if you are not wary.Creatures of every shape and size will be eager to befriend you, rob you, or eat you (and on occasion all three). Choose wisely who to have by...

Fairy tale Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Chronicles of Hysal

[p]Filled with poweful magic and dangerous foes, deadly secrets and mysterious political plots, Hysal is an extensive large, dark and fantastical realm, set in a similar time period as europe's renaisance era, and which was shaken to...

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic MagiPunk Medieval Supernatural

Sonnerand

[color:#44b8ff]Magic is fickle.[/color] The spark of magic. Volatile, expressive, and deadly. At one time it was unknown to the denizens of Sonnerand. The arcane arts were nonexistent, there were no mages, no monsters, no gods. [co...

Decopunk Hard Magic Political Science Fantasy Surreal

Aedes

Fantasy Hard Magic

Terram

It Has Been 150 Years... Since the formation of Lothlonde and the capitol city of Rowanshyre in the north - and since the horrific events of The Void War. While the north did ex...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Arora

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Az Barnuá

[color:#fbb8ec]A PLACE IN BETWEEN[/color]

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Political Sword & Sorcery

Aclara

Welcome to Aclara, a world filled with life and wonder. Those brave enough to pay the price shall triumph over their fate. [p] Many decades after the Empire of Medeea had mysteriously fallen, the kingdoms of the Meri...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Historical Political

Gates of Eternity

This world is a field of a battle that is older than time, that exists in its current form as form of a compromise between beings that escape human comprehension. Beings that permanently try to recreate reality itself to suit their needs, fo...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

The Brightbound World of Essiothas

Biopunk Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic MagiPunk Post Apocalyptic

Syndeomai

A flat earth with a mythology inspired by the ancient Greek pantheon. My goal as a writer is to flush out as much of the cosmology as possible. However, as a DM, I do not want to bludgeon my players to death with exposition. Now I can write as mu...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Avica

[p]The island-continent of Avica, home to the El'ur, is a land of rolling pastures, tall mountains and deep valleys, winding rivers, deep caves, frosted tundras and arid deserts.[/p] [p]Kings of old left cities of glass and steel, and secrets of bot...

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Science Fantasy

Gadria

A large planet in the Material Plane, also known as Dimension Prime, with thick layers of magic and several sapient species capable of using magic. Most of the planet is covered by salt sea, with one enormous supercontinent on one hemisphere, and a s...

Comedy Exploration Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Tathariel

Welcome to Tathariel A Continent of Mystery and Lore What is Tathariel / Elysoria ? Tathariel is a rich, living continent designed as the backdrop...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval

Mardlo-Arias

A world of magic, gods, and fantasy. Mardlo-Arias is a realm of possibilities. A place where the gods take a more active role in the lives of mortals Mardlo-Arias is a place wracked with chaos. The wilds take hold of much of the lands and the mortals...

Exploration Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Weird

Gilden

[p]A tumultuous world of magic and fantasy, where around every corner could be something dangerous, or wonderful, or both… but usually just dangerous.[/p] [p]To the west is a great, impassable mountain range inhabited by dragons, and to the south, a...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval

Torre

A planet of torroid shape locked in an ever elegant dance with the twin stars Lus and Sul, Torre was created by Venar as the pinnacle of balance in its universe. After its disappearance however, the planet is now in an age of tribulation as new gods,...

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval Solarpunk

Lands of Erdos

Welcome to the Lands Built upon the ruins of an ancient, magically advanced era, Erdos is a world where magic and science are the same discipline. A world where raw magical power is so dense, that it manifests in kaleidoscopi...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic MagiPunk Science Fantasy

Ashes of Ragnarok

Jormunland: Land of the Serpent. The world of Jormunland was created after Ragnarok. The Aesir gods Odyn, Thor, Heimdall, Loki, and Freya are all dead, and the human race and others from the nine realms have been all but destroyed and have had to sta...

Ancient Fantasy Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Vasileo

The World In Chaos Many moons ago the world used to be perfectly in balance, the realms cooperated in their own strange ways, however that reality was thrown into turmoil with the birth of the Thirteen Demons. The Demons who turned the worl...

Crime Hard Magic MagiPunk Political Sword & Sorcery

Tonchora

Hello this is my World.

Ancient Comedy Exploration Hard Magic Slice of Life

Abenor

Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Hard Magic

Unfao

A utopian, futuristic society set in the 6000s. Led by the all-ruling power, the Radiant Council, Unfao is a world of mysticism and mystery, governed by peace and acceptance of all. Species of all kinds, any you can imagine, linger and interm...

Hard Magic Post-modern Solarpunk Supernatural Surreal

Graymarch

Graymarch is a material plane full of conflict, dark secrets, and forgotten pasts. Its lands are dotted with the echos of long-forgotten Empires and Kingdoms that once controlled great swaths of the land but now lay in ruin or house a new soc...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Gothic Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

The 5 Shudake

It's surprisingly difficult to decide what to write about when you know what will happen. Past. Present. Future. Sometimes it all feels like it doesn't matter anymore, not with what I know. But I suppose I should start at the beginning. I am Avalon A...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval Science Fiction

Helaeron

Legends live on when their Heroes fall and die. When the greatness that was their lives have been forgotten by they who follow in the Heroes wake. Their Legend is the last true word of their lives long after comrades have been laid to rest. With only...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Soft Magic

Pretheya

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Political

TAHARJIN'S FLAME

[quote]Not from around here, eh? Well, let me give it to you straight: You’re probably not going to last long. You’ve got that look on your face. That “what’s going on?” face. Always the first to be picked...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Political

Eorin 5e

In the past the world was full of stories. Stories of magic and heroes. Stories of those chosen by the gods to wield their power. Stories of mythical figures who channeled the wrath and justice of the great beings above. Stories of...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Wróblowersum

"Wstępujesz właśnie do mrocznych, zmutowanych i Zapomnianych Krain, gdzie nawet śmierć nie jest absolutna. Wszystko może wydawać się znajome, ale jeżeli przyjrzysz się bliżej okaże się, że nic nie jest takie jakie myślisz. Mrok wylewa się z zakama...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval

Iosis

A dark/high fantasy world that uses rune-based magic rather than typical spell casting. Rune casting has only been around for a few centuries and yet, it has quickly become simultaneously the most sought after skill and the most controversial. Wi...

Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

A Mythmaker's Guide to Virosia

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

The Angellonian Sagas

The Angellonian sagas tell the story of the Angellonian Empire from their origins to their modern day galactic conquests. It will also have the stories of the other star nations within this galaxy; but they will have a minor spotlight overall, yet th...

Ancient Fantasy Hard Magic Religious Science Fiction

Ragged Lands

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic MagiPunk Sword & Sorcery

Old Zenithas

A mysterious plane that serves as an anchor between a plethora of alternate realities. the bonds between realms here are weaker than normal, and alter-dimensional beasts, and even civilisation have been known to appear from rifts in the continuum. As...

Exploration Fantasy Hard Magic Science Fantasy Weird

Kael-an'

Hard Magic Medieval

Armonía

Start Here: If Confused... [articleblock:d67f7c58-5365-4ace-8e49-b780901c57f5] Armonía is not just one world but a collection of Seven different realms: the Frimary Elemental Realm...

Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Urban Hard Magic

Sands of Saraya

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Magic Post Apocalyptic

Project PYRE

Welcome to Pyrrhia: Reimagined, or Project PY:RE This is the repository for the PYRE project's main canon collection. PYRE is a reimagining of Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire setting including fleshed out draconic biology, indepth societal s...

Alternative History Fanfiction Fantasy Hard Magic Speculative

Elysiar

Hard Magic Science Fantasy Sword & Sorcery

Tivian

The past thousand years have been unkind to the land of Tivian. The world's progress stagnated under the narcissistic rule of the magic wielding race known as the Anu'rhi, so it wasn't until the humans started a revolution that things started to...

Fantasy Hard Magic

Enfadis

The primary world for my homebrew D&D campaigns. Most of it is empty or a work in progress. If an article is linked but it says it's private, that means it's either still being worked on, or it's a minor article I only added for a single link and do...

Fairy tale Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Ysireth

Fantasy Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Ysteria

[aloud]More than two hundred years ago, the cataclysmic Explosion of Magic unleashed by the original witches resulted in the near annihilation of humanity and the emergence of numerous fantastic creatures, with vampires and werewolves at the...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Post Apocalyptic Young Adult (YA)

Beast Empire

Beast Empire covers the rebuilding of society after a thousand years of disease and natural disaster reduces the human race to near extinction. A world full of Hybrids, Demons, disease, military conflict, and those trying to keep the world...

Dieselpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Flintlock Hard Magic

Sol

A Story of Humanity our triumphs and our failures

Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval Military Political

Ostara

Ostara, meaning Fertile Lands, was named by the humans who overthrew the Jotunns. Ostara is a beautiful land with fertile fields, forests, lakes, rivers, and mountains. It is inspired by medieval Europe mostly but with a unique topography. In this wo...

Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Medieval

Orcerta

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Science Fantasy

Riven Faerun

By [url:https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Marking_the_years]Dalereckoning, the year is 1499. The cosmopolitan scholars of Waterdeep tracking the years by [url:https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Marking_the_years#Present_Reckoning_(PR...

Fantasy Hard Magic MagiPunk Sword & Sorcery

SanZera

[quote]"The world is defined by dualities. There are two suns, two moons, two continents, two peoples, two eyes in each of our skulls, two hearts in each of our chests."|An unnamed philosopher[/quote] /*[p]Just over a thousand years...

Adult 18+ Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Medieval

Excellence

[quote]They move amongst us. We've build our lives and world around them.[/quote] The older gentleman stated as his arm slid across the stain, scarred table with hot, stale ale breath. [quote]" THEN, " he pointed off towards th...

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Surreal

Olam

This world is new in its existence. recorded history only goes back about 6,000 years. Around a thousand years ago, a dangerous ritual was performed which shattered the second moon creating the red, green, and blue rings that now surround the planet...

Fantasy Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Orlon

Orlon is home to several species that all at varying stages of technological and sociological advancement. The balance however, was shifted by a mysterious figure who emerged several hundreds years prior. No one really knows if this figure is the...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Science Fiction, Modern

Vi'Dan

Vi'Dan is a small continent, no more than 5000 km long and 1500 wide, that stretches from 20 degrees to 60 degrees in latitude. Two great 'civilizations' live in Vi'Dan, seperated by the great @[Trans-Vi'Dan Mountain Range](location:be97ab39-703f-410...

Fantasy Hard Magic

Zee

Zee, a planet in a galaxy not so far from our own. Everything about the planet, on the other hand, is as far away as our imagination permits. Our story will be set in a time where magic rules, under the dancing lights of the ever present 3 moons....

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval

Aeklamund

[currentdate:afe4e21e-ed9c-4726-b47b-2b2f1de021a8]Das Leben in Phandelver könnte so leicht sein. Morgens genießt man ein Honigbrot aus dem nahegelegenen Niewinter-Wald und danach geht man neun Stunden in den Säureminen malochen, bevo...

Comedy Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Modern

Estya

The world of Estya is the setting in the (hopefully) upcoming fantasy novel A War of Men and Demons and is a land torn apart by centuries of war. It is a world where magic runs through the earth itself and in the blood of every Estyan. From th...

Adult 18+ Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic

Lyna

A humble and mainly peaceful world, a land filled with magic and mysteries yet to be discovered. Thanks to the vast richness of magic, the residents of Lyna are naturally gifted with it. From plant life to humanoids, everything has some form of magic...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval

The Composer's Realm

The Composer's Realm is a world born from the maelstrom of the galaxy and ordered by a deity that has long since abandoned it. The stewards left behind to shepherd the world and its inhabitants have fallen into disorder and now bicker ceaselessly. Th...

Exploration Fantasy Flintlock Hard Magic

Azeroth

Still recovering from the events of the First and Second wars between the Alliance of Lordaeron and the Orcish Horde, new threats begin to emerge, threatening the peace of Azeroth. The Alliance of Lordaeron, once strong and unified, is beginning t...

Fantasy Hard Magic Sword & Sorcery

Primordia

[p]Welcome to Primordia, a world richly inspired by Celtic mythology, where the supernatural and mystical intertwine to create an experience that all can enjoy. In this world, there are alternate planes of existence known as Otherworlds. Due...

Fantasy Hard Magic Medieval Supernatural Sword & Sorcery

A dance of orc's and elves

The Year is 1307 After the Conquest A dance of orc's and elves is a fantasy world that's a mix of sword and sorcery and classic fantasy. In this world orcs are the children of men and elves*. A world of magic, ruled by the blade...

Fantasy Hard Magic Horror Medieval Sword & Sorcery

Galdor

[quote]"It glimmered in the darkness, a shine which soothed our fearful minds, a beacon which dangled a promised salvation. Like insects drawn to a flame, we reached out. Like children, we took hold and like fools we pretended to control it."|...

Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Hard Magic Science Fantasy

Partha

Adult 18+ Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic Science Fantasy Steampunk

Hárronfall

Hárronfall is a land where creatures from many mythologies, religions, and folklore live. Beings such as álfar, dragons, aes sídhe, therianthrope, and oni all coexist with each other. All living things have a source of aura...

Adult 18+ Fairy tale Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic Hard Magic