Can you describe the place your comic/story is located?

[Zaboem]

In Alien Fiction, we have a universe full of Earths. Here is Firefighter Earth were you can go to get a firefighter. Over there is Viking Earth. To the right of that is Superhero Earth. Since there are near-infinite stars to visit, it's inevitable that an alien explorer with enough time will find multiple earths -- not really, but it's good enough for a very goody sci-fi.

I knew that I wanted my alien characters to be able travel to different planets and abduct humans. Specialized versions of Earth seemed like a fun reason why they would travel instead of just taking over one planet and habitually raiding that population. I soon afterward realized that this approach also gives me a chance to satire at various stereotypes.

[octafg64]

My show Bled City ( https://m.tapas.io/series/Bled-City )
Takes place in the fictional Country of Nørak( Die Kongeriget Nørak )
Nørak is a northern european country, member of the European union(yeah they use euros), their main language is Noorkwegian(just english with funny words)
Nørak, just like its neighbouring countries, its shown to be a Welfare State(a modern monarchy however) where a high level of equality is accomplished. Still issues like classism racism, homophobia, etc have not been erased, specially in rural areas (such as Bled)
Noorkwegians are descendants of norwegian and danish settlers that arrived a couple hundred years back.
Nørak is an island located between the Scottish and the norwegian coastline.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Ha! This is funny.
So I was about to post a message in the 'maps' thread saying that before reading the (then thought correct) name BLEDI, I thought it was BLED!, and was wondering why you would have chosen a Latin transliteration of a North-African Arabic word for the name of a place in a Scandinavian-inspired place. But, looks like that what it is finally, with the rural setting etc. My first idea was right, then?

[octafg64]

Hahaha the name of the city is Bled(an actual european city in Slovenia) thing is Bled is short for 'Bada Lasund Edrikkstad Delsinbørg', for obvious reasons ppl sticks to Bled, also its quite catchy.
Pd: i didnt know about that arabic word thingy, interesting

[vothnthorvaldson]

Ok, so it was Bled, but another one

Bled ( بلاد ) means the land/country, but can be with a countryside/rural meaning. We also use it in French.

[octafg64]

Ha! Well thats pretty covenient, thanks for info:)

[allenT]

Revive this thread.

A world definitely not on Earth, my story takes place in a remote small village-- located down a valley of a highland region. The population is about 110.

Also my protagonist also needs to enter this building (I called it a 'pagoda'), about 100 minutes walk distance from home village and a lower altitude, where he can find some answers for himself (about something)

[MoseyP]

Ooo this is interesting, thanks for reviving it!

My story takes place in the city/country of Ardour. Here's information about it from a lore page on the blog I originally posted it on:

Ardour is the world’s first seastead and is considered the pinnacle of permanent sea dwellings. Ardour was established in 2035, around 30 years prior to the events in Vehementia. It took around five years to build, with the base of the seastead taking around a year to create.

Ardour is located in the Pacific Ocean and is considered its own miniature continent and country, similar to Australia. As a result, it has its own government and economy. Ardour citizenship is highly sought after and as of the story of Vehementia, the city is not accepting any new citizens.

Ardour’s main exports, as expected of an island country, is seafood and ore. Deep sea mining is a huge part of Ardour, so much so there is a whole section of the government dedicated to mining.

Ardour is made up of a range of socioeconomic groups. This includes their working class, made up predominately of workers and families who helped in the creation of Ardour. Most of this class now work in minimum-paid jobs such as retail, cleaning and various grunt work. A small percentage are homeless and live in the slum of Ardour, without any means of migrating back to their home countries. This is a great issue within Ardour and is the cause of many debates.

There’s a middle class who work mostly in transport, offices, mining, fishing and mechanical/engineering jobs. This group keeps the city functioning and are more well off than many other middle-class groups in the world.

The upper class of Ardour is considered the cream of the crop compared to the rest of the world. They consist of a range of people, including management, high ranking government officials, scientists and doctors.

Ardour’s culture is considered a melting pot. Although highly influenced by countries surrounding and in the Pacific Ocean such as America, Japan, New Zealand and Australia, it hosts people from over 100 countries from all continents of the world. Its national language is English and its national animal is the giant squid.

Despite being an island, Ardour’s environment has only a few man-made beaches. Most of the Ardour is a vibrant cityscape with only a few patches of land reserved for farming and national parks. It has been compared to New York or Tokyo in this sense.

Vehementia | Tapas

[Darth_Biomech]

I have a great quote to describe the place my story will be set in:

Look at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Second half of the story unfolds on the Alliance Exploration Fleet. It's a fleet of ships clustered around a huge "mothership" vessel, designated on charting and exploring the space. The mothership is a vessel of the "Dawn" class, some 5 kilometers in length and using centrifugal gravity to accommodate several thousand residents in an area of a small town.

Leaving The Cradle Webcomic

[AmandaJ-art]

My comic has both anthro animals and regular animals. The anthro animals are very similar to humans. (Human teeth, food, living situations)

This also means that two different kind of animal anthros can have kids, but in this world some people are against it.

It takes place in Talsi, Latvia (a real place. It's a small hilly town.)

My inspirations come from our world or from cartoons. Like things i've been through or have seen others go through.

I add onto the world slowly : )

The lives we live | Tapas

[surenlicious]

My novel (and its mini comic series) take place in a world of my own creation called the Jade Kingdom. The Jade Kingdom is actually the last continent that harbors life on the dying earth, which is in a dying state after the primordial dragon of the Sentient Mind ordered the planet to die to a massive drought. The entity in charge of the planet's healing however, is adhering the dragon's orders and after a 100.000 years still hasn't issued the order to let it heal.

The Jade Kingdom is a city with gemstone-like buildings, gold with a mother-of-pearl like luminescence coating it. Its a shiny place, very colourful and makes you think there nothing wrong with it. Its a nice blend of many cultures taking influenced from the medieval style-like clothing yet toned down to a more simple design.

Think lots of fantasy, pastels and glitter. Nothing fishy going on here, nope. XD

[elisabeth_ist]

It's the real world, with the exception that there are a bunch of magical creatures living in it. My main character starts off in Milwaukee (where I've been exactly once), ends up in a fictional town in northwestern Virginia (which I know pretty well), and then makes a getaway to the Blue Ridge Mountains (where I've never been, so I ended up doing quite a bit of research).

[Iris-Grimoire]

Splitting Image takes place in the Four Winds Kingdom (or just Aeolia), a world enclosed by a cylindrical barrier. It consists of four floating islands, vertically miles apart, with slightly different climates, but all overall a bit cold. Standing on the top one, Boreas, is like being in the top of the world, while standing in the bottom, Eurus, is like sitting under a shattered mountain.

Fantasy creatures of many types live in Aeolia, usually in harmony, in the surviving hamlets, villages and towns. Though the world is in our equivalent of late medieval ages and start of renaissance, magic permeates every aspect of it, and much technology is replaced by spells and abilities. Dragons act as sentient transportation, elves can synchronise earth and nature spells to raise a beautiful house, an orc can travel with a clear head as a small crystal can carry a whole jar of water.

Aeolians survive and celebrate when they can, because both lives and material gain can be cut quite short in this realm. Animals can also cast magic, and this makes forests and jungles homes for extremely dangerous beasts that don't always stick to the wilderness; many artifacts of unknown power, from ages forgotten, can be misused and cause untold damage in the wrong hands; and every few decades, a new Dark Lord rises to cause random destruction, raze villages, seemingly do everything in their power to make the people most desperate... And eventually, the fell sorcerer dies, and the kingdom has a few more years to deal with only their usual dangers.

One didn't do that however. Their last Dark Lord was laser focused on stealing objects of power, and while that also meant a lot of houses and temples in many pieces in his wake, he always made sure to never kill. An idiot, really, that seemed to have endless potential, but always easily thwarted over little mistakes, oversights, or just simply underestimating his opponents... Until he made a mistake that no one could fix, and instead of dying, persevered on, more for others than himself.
That's Mortimer, our protagonist.

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Honestly, it's a LOT of inspirations for this world. I can name off the top of my head Touhou for being a potluck of fantasy creatures, Xiaolin Showdown for the saturday morning cartoon structure with a ton of special artifacts littered across the world, Final Fantasy XII for the floating island of Bjhuerba + Skylanders for the whole place, that made me love islands that defy gravity way too much. This is all part of a much larger world with different localized inspirations, but it's quite the odd one on its own.

[Berserker]

The world of The Turbulent March takes place in an earth-like climate on a single earth-like continent. It is a tall narrow continent that begins in the desert delta of the Empire of Qismat and ends in the frozen north.

Though the continent is not wide sea travel is heavily restricted to short coastal trips. The Oceans teem with monstrous life. It's like the old medieval maps that always showed ships getting eaten by monsters.

The center of the continent is occupied by the city of Greihold. It is fortunately placed in a pocket of safety, surrounded by mountains. It is a small medieval city by earth standards, but is the second largest city on the continent.

A road leads north, out of the ring of mountains and wraps around to a cluster of villages that are in the highlands east of the Greihold plains. That road marks the patrolled territory named "The Turbulent March".

Everything north of that territory is the domain of mutated, enlarged Chimera that take on aspects of two or more animals at once. Chimera resist damage well and have varying levels of intelligence. All the way up to human-level intelligence. These chimera radiate outwards from a central point in the continent, the epicenter of the Great Tempest, a world-ending storm that destroyed everything it touched and corrupted everything on a dna level.

The other nation that lives north of the human kingdom is the scattered settlements of the Orcs. The Orcs are placed unfortunately close to the source of the Chimera and combat them constantly. The Orcs have settled and fortified hundreds of scattered hilltops across a vast series of broken, low plains. Every Orc family defends their own tiny hilltop kingdom.

The Orc life is basically Monster Hunter 24/7. Orcs resist damage well themselves, with bones as strong as iron, and flesh that can clot itself closed in a couple minutes. A fight between chimera and orcs will often leave both sides brutally battered, but alive.

This is the carved up river valley that marks the beginning of "The Turbulent Territory". It is loosely human controlled but a dangerous place harried by bandits and even the rare Chimera.
-A link to the novel https://tapas.io/series/The-Turbulent-March1/info

[CommanderMarty]

My novel takes place in a medieval fantasy setting.

I would say the location is medieval England.

Jervis T Booker | Tapas

Currently the characters are located in a city called Reby.

[Crusoe]

Fair, No Fair | Tapas

My story mostly takes place in an hotel which used to be an old villa next to a lake and forrest. Sometimes the Characters move to other locations which are all inspired by trips I've been on to musea and such when I was on vacation in Denmark. I needed a wintery setting with plenty of activities for my characters to undertake.

[Berserker]

Your drawings of the inside of the 5km ship are pretty cool. Good sense of perspective and scale.

[NickRowler]

It takes place in the Town of Omnia which is located ambiguously in the Mid-Atlantic United States. It is populated by humans and magical people and is watched over by a bunch of Guardians who are Tree-People. The main source of tourism is a small amusement park called Noodle Land. The majority of the population is low-income.

Crow's Worth | Tapas

[artamazon]

My comic takes place on a lawless remote planet once abundant with resources. A global disaster ruined its ecosystem and reduced the landscape to nothing but dirt and whatever plants that manage to survive. The destruction revealed a far greater resource; glitter. With this discovery, began a type of glitter-rush, with people rushing the planet having to mine resources in an attempt to get rich. Over the years, the population grew and changed, cities rising and falling. The rich elite and their glitter-mining corporations built nearby cities on orbiting moons, sending their contracted mercenaries to keep order in the mining colonies, sabotage rivals, wreak havoc or whatever else they need them for. Mercenaries are now also part of a reality show that is now the most watched show in the galaxy.

The cities on the planet itself are most like the wild west covered in neon lights with minimal technology. The farther away from the mining cities you get, the more high-tech, clean and cared for the cities get.

I describe it as Lisa Frank/Mad Max. To me, this is like, a weird amalgamation of all my interests, lol. I love post-apocalyptic stuff, muscle cars, Heavy Metal, Mad Max, Judge Dredd, drawing mostly-naked people, sex, violence, ridiculous situations, sci-fi, and so on.

I'm from Sacramento, California, and I put a ton of references to it in this comic. Probably too-on-the-nose with my references that now I'm regretting some of my decisions, lol. This was fun, thanks for the thread revival, guys!

https://tapas.io/series/SpaceBitch

[MeltingCORE]

Fantastic question! "Red Shift" takes place on a molten, hot, industrial world. I have done many paintings since it's my favorite thing to paint... I'll leave some of my descriptions from the novel and my artwork - they speak louder than anything else could, I feel.

Demilunes clawed skyward; saliva made of darkness seemed to reach for her. Even to elites, the Royal Palace was a menacing zone. Stellar gripped the hem of her dress with sweaty hands. She hadn’t found Tilde and no longer had time to search. Stellar peeked at luminescent lava streaming near decorative towers. She visited the Palace many times before, but it never ceased to set her on edge. That morning was particularly sickening due to her nightly misadventure. Ambient pain enveloped her in layers of mental sediment. Steppenwolf would be happy she had arrived on time, at least.

and

Stellar moved through the murmuring glow until she was in a crescent of shadows. A hot breeze filtered through the area whipping Stellar’s hair and dress into a hallucinatory spiral. Beneath her, terrain groaned mechanically. She reached out and grabbed a nearby pole when the planet’s surface shuddered momentarily.

Red Shift | Tapas