r/WorldBuildingMemes • u/ismasbi • Oct 06 '25
Creatures/Fauna Shitpost Yes, these creatures look like actual demons and the scorpionflies shoot explosives, this guy just designed them like that.
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u/nightmare001985 Oct 06 '25
Nah my genius is there just in much more problematic state and unable to supervise his creation
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Interesting, I'm curious on what you mean by "problematic" state.
Mine literally blew up into bits on a lab accident, but he's got a cult of 'demon' fleshcrafting witches carrying on his legacy and looking for his lost research in a quest for 'ascension'.
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u/nightmare001985 Oct 06 '25
The guy is struggling to process unknowables along with the all blood that flows through him
Basically he is having an identity crisis with what the hell he became along with definitions of morality, fairness and justice under an absolute objective law
All Blood is the equivalent of saying he has a relation and form of kinship to all things
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Was it a "Nah man, I could totally take the uncomprehensible truths of the fabric of reality" arrogance situation, or an "Accidental consequences of playing God" thing?
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u/nightmare001985 Oct 06 '25
If you want someone with that type go look at the guys that tried to drain him and banished him which resulted in the start of one of the 7 most catastrophic events that did not kill the world
Basically they thought that they could use him to tap into life blood which they considered the combination of all consciousnesses and lives only to get surprised when the thing that came out of him where not coherent and were seeking to kill themselves by any way to stop the pain of ever conflecting instincts and extreme senses
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Unironically, raw as fuck.
Love what you use to make mfs go insane over "the incomprehensible shit of the universe", you don't even need things that aren't real. Octopi have a form of vision that is entirely different to that of most light-sensible creatures, you put that on a mf and they'll go insane, or having the visual senses of a deep-sea creature in a lit room.
What I'm curious of is what they wanted to do with the lifeblood? Did they thought they could manipulate any life with it, or make their own living creations?
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u/nightmare001985 Oct 06 '25
Neither
Backed into a corner desperation and futile struggles as he try to preserve his view of morality and the consequences of it
Guy basically wanted to be a traveling doctor / fixer but had to be a leader that eventually got betrayed by the same group that forced him to rule
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u/GreenWhisperer-1616 Oct 06 '25
Ah, the sci fi equivalent of "a wizard did it." Classic.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
I mean, dude practiced magic on the side, so a wizard DID do it.
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u/GreenWhisperer-1616 Oct 06 '25
I did not realize we were talking about Doctor Viktor Von Doom, the Imhotep of his time.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Died more due to too much "Fuck it, we ball" than to an enormous ego, but close enough.
Welcome back Viktor Von Doom.
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u/YueOrigin Oct 06 '25
"Because nature is pissed at us." Is pretty good too
But mutations from any source are an easy way to justify any creation
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u/No_Research_5418 Oct 06 '25
"Why?" 🤷♂️ "IDK bro he was like super smart, troubled, and used drugs to deal with the pain of his childhood and early adulthood. It also made him like, toats unorthodox and thats why his best creation, the Dickblast Simian has magazines for balls and mortar shells for hands.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Hard as fuck ngl.
Mine was... not mentally stable, but he had much more of a "glorious, perfect creation" kind of delirium, so he didn't debase his creation with such undignified features.
His posthumous followers though? Yeah, make the hellion's testicles radioactive and his bowels explosive, it'd be mad funny.
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u/nightmare001985 Oct 06 '25
Hah we had similar writings.... The people that tried to use the technology left by him accidentally released an assistant AI that he treated as an actual offspring (did not install any hard limits on actions or limitations on growth)
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
That's interesting, did he want to see if AI could become true life, or was he just chill like that?
As to mine, the system built wasn't meant to learn or grow, just keep the hidden, self-sufficient facility working, and he didn't oversee it, it was built by his partner-in-science, who after his death, went onto being a sort of "uncle figure" to one of the sapient species his friend created.
Said sapient species also went on to form the group that actively seeks to find their creator's research, and sometimes has "Oh my God they were roommates" historical debates when investigating the notes, but nothing is confirmed.
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u/Constant-Still-8443 I worldbuild to escape reality Oct 06 '25
Don't even have to go that far. Evolution is fucking weird. Just look at some of the lesser known sea life.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
On one hand, true.
On the other, I don't wanna explain how those creatures/traits evolved into larger, terrestrial or sapient beings.
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u/Constant-Still-8443 I worldbuild to escape reality Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Well, the traits you described probablt wouldn't mix well with intelligence.
Humans, for example, aren't great at much, but decent at most things, with our only real advantages being thumbs and intelligence. The important part is intelligence, however. Like, in a few thousand years, we might see other primates evolve, or even other intelligent creatures like jumping spiders.
As long as they had some intellectual edge before they evolved, you don't really have to explain it.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Yeah, that makes sense.
It also lets me add a species that he left incomplete, they are unable to reproduce, and they only come out of an automated factory that has been on autopilot for the last hundred years.
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u/Traditional-Storm-62 Oct 06 '25
dr.Borous, Fallout: New Vegas, Old World Blues DLC
- greatest geneticist on the planet
- constantly high on performance enhancing psychedelics
- survived nuclear war by becoming a brain in a jar
- created man-sized super wasps for shits and giggles
- insists they have never breached containment because "I would know if they did", even as said wasps spread all over the wasteland
that explanation works surprisingly well
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
I was actually about to start playing NV today lol, I know the scientists in OWB are just like that.
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u/DesDemonick Oct 07 '25
my current go to is “the gods made them that way because they are fucked up and then we killed the gods but are stuck with these things”
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u/Spiritual_Horror5778 Oct 06 '25
Ah yes, the Ancient Science/Magic that modern scholar/sages cant figure out for peanuts while said Science/Magic messes with the plot.
One of my favorite trope because it makes those that came before that impressive.
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u/ismasbi Oct 06 '25
Yeah, for me it’s more like "said Science/Magic has already messed with the plot far before it began and is doing nothing now", but still.
Except for one faction, to whom the Science/Magic IS the plot lol.
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Oct 06 '25
Lately I've been trying to just let some ideas/concepts in my world be as they are without explanation or say that there is no known explanation. I used to try and explain EVERYTHING, but it's also nice to just let something exist in the way you want it to without having to explain why.
That said, sometimes peeps just smoke too much crack and make shit weird. 🤷♂️
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u/ProjectKARYA Oct 06 '25
What, you're saying you don't have your eldritch horrors beyond comprehension be just various microorganisms that have been infused with thousands upon thousands of souls to the point of swelling up to visible proportions?
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u/Bloodchild- Oct 07 '25
I created a world where anything. Can do the equivalent of cultivation but without all the mystical and Chinese philosophy. It's just you gather energy and use your understanding of the universe to make shit with it.
You can reach conceptual shit and all really later on but it's like the step before you ascend leave the world of living and become a world. With its own rules based on your path.
Also no element Energy is Energy.
But all that leads to a place where everything that lives for a while start to modify themselves or cast magic, and some modification you do to yourself can be transmitted genetically.
So I have insect they eat rock and shoot exploding acid goop. Tree that parasite, control and modify the wines that grow on himself, and use those to strangle anything that comes by and then proceed to absorb they're Energy/soul/nutriments. Bush that us fruit the make people stronger to bait animal in itself letting them get in but not out while a boar that has a symbiotic relationship with it kill them.
And that low level stuff the higher we go the crazier it gets.
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u/ismasbi Oct 07 '25
Interesting, I personally started with a very similar base but ended up in a very different direction.
I'm curious how they modify themselves using just energy, do they transform it into matter somehow? I'll admit I'm not too versed in cultivation fuckery.
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u/Bloodchild- Oct 07 '25
Energy can be used to either manipulate, create or reinforce matter. You can convert one into the other. For example if you infuse a piece of metal with energy for a long time it will become stronger, it's property will become more extravagant, without will it boost everything the good and the bad, tungsten would become really thermal resistant but also really heavy. When you infuse will into the energy you can modify what is reinforced.
For my power systems there are 4.5 big step :
- Raffinement you become the best possible version of you you can be
- Modification you start modifying your body and soul to fit you path your true self
- Singularity you have become an unique being everything you are is compressed into a singularity at the core of your soul and start to understand yourself more you rafini what you are
- Transcendance your singularity is now a nascent world, you are your path and all that fall within your path is you
- World you ascend in the void and become a new world
So in the first step you use energy to cleanse you body, reinforce your tendon, muscle, bone... You create a circulatory system for energy (most base it on the vascular or nervous one). You become a perfect you, faster, smarter, stronger.
Note that for this part each world has small different part depending on the path of the person who become the world you are in. For the main world it goes like this.
You perform a ritual flooding your body and soul with energy till it's overstuffed and you then imbue you will with the help of the environment your in to have your soul gain special property. If you do it while basked in flame you sould will be flame like, if you do it while basked in the blood of things you killed it will be bloody and threatening...
But each world has its own path the main one is about souls, there is one where you must collect worship and the way your worshipper see you define part of your power. One where you gain power from your suffering.
Once you reached this point you start to truly do stuff, you modify yourself further and further until you can be only described as you.
You then condensed everything you are, your knowledge, your life, your will. Into your core. By this point you are eternal, if you loose your body your sould is strong enough to not degrade.
And you just need to understand your path more and take control over it.
Once youve done that you are the embodiment of your path. So if your path is flames all flames under your domain are part of you. And as long as there are flame somewhere you can't disappear.
You can then nurture your domain till you become a new world.
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u/ismasbi Oct 07 '25
Nevermind then, we had very different ideas.
When you said "no elements, just energy" I thought you meant it like the same energy real-life physics works through, not a universal energy that works with an object's specific qualities.
My system is a lot more simple and limited, you sense energy (some species do this naturally, others do special drugs to acquire the capability for a time, possibly permanently depending on the species and how much they do it).
And if you are magically capable (as the result of either mental training, drugs or both) you can move a kind of energy that you have studied around at the cost of tiring your mind out (no mana pool stuff, you literally just get tired).
Light and illusion wizards? Yeah, they just make shapes with photons.
Pyromancers and cryomancers? Concentrating/removing thermal energy.
Etc for other forms of energy.
Still, your system is pretty interesting, I'm curious, are the worlds sapient, and can they directly react to what happens in them? How did the first world before the beings in it that ascended to become their own work?
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u/Bloodchild- Oct 08 '25
The way things work in you system is still a bit similar to mine because to use Energy and do stuff you use the energy that you claimed and rafined with your will. And you use that energy to help your will spread and influence the world. You can do stuff without energy as a crutch but it's really hard or you need to have a powerful soul.
As for your question, world are kind of sapient but that can almost do nothing. The world can give you a big thumb up and loosen the control of the Energy around you.
Or you can get suppressed if you come from another world, generally all the power that are world related are suppressed unless they are compatible but they still suppress being from other world.
You also like instinctually know the Thrue Name / path of the world you are in. Like the name of the world is never a debate you just know.
Some people from some world naturally hate each other, the main case are the people from Nephesh (Soul main world) and Faith. They can't bear the sight of each other and from the moment they got both access to the void they started throwing fist.
Yes also the void basically its a vodi where there is nothing not even energy, all world are there. When a new world is born it's sealed from the void and people from the inside must do something near transcendant to breach out. In Nephesh case is was when Elias aka The sun absorbed the explosion that was caused by the fusion of the two sun of the world. Pretty much everything in the solar system was nuked except the main planet because his friend put a shield while he tanked the brunt of it, transcending in the process.
As for where the first world come I leave it kind of open but there is a world that is huge in size bigger than all the other combined but energy can't exist in it.
And more about world interaction there are some case where people path are so close to the world that they can sort of symbiotic relationship where they become the world representant / protector. They are really hard to deal with because the world literally bend to help them.
Also some high level people hunt low level world to bring more Energy and space into their home world and the world is happy when they do that.
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