Setting + World Building

Keep your fantasy map grounded by following these helpful rules to create a realistic fictional world.

Coming up with place names is hard. How do they start, change, and what is their broader relationship with power and migration?

Creating a fantasy map for your world requires a lot of different elements including cities and settlements. Learn how and where to draw them for your map.

How can the axial tilt of your story's world affect its seasons in drastic ways?

A written fictional language needs to adhere to rules in order for it to feel realistic, and many of those rules you need to set up on your own. Learn what you need to do to create yourself a realistic writing system.

Learn the process of drawing mountains for your fantasy maps covering practical and artistic considerations, from initial planning and placement to detailed shading techniques.