Tell us a bit about your comic/novel's world one random factoid at a time!

Myst 2019-01-26 07:31:34 UTC #9

Facts for my current ongoing story that I'm mostly working on:

If someone has white hair and red eyes, they are treated and shunned like an outsider. Whoever has those traits are part of the "Cursed Generation" and will either be tortured publicly or executed on sight. Most children with these traits have no families and no place to call home. They rarely live to adulthood.
The Eternal Realm is a unique setting and it's one of the worlds that gets introduced early on, but the characters won't step foot in there for a while. It's my most unique place as the lands are infinite and the seas are bottomless. (Literally!) In-universe, it's possible to head to the edge of the realm where you'd be able to watch the Realm build up underneath like a painting in progress.
There are a lot of things that I placed in the world that could have their own story. These are typically mentioned when the setting is described. Like if there are giant skeletons with massive swords impaled into the mountain the skeletons are resting on, dictating there was once a battle between giants in that location at some point in the timeline. It's those small details that make up a lot of the world building for me.

JeanGuillet 2019-01-26 07:35:05 UTC #10

DARPA stands for 'Dentists Advocating Reasonable Parental Accountability'. They want to ban Halloween.

Lucca_Vendramel 2019-01-26 08:15:01 UTC #11

There are two major superpowers in the Everdream Known Galaxy; The Federation of United Planets and the Empire of Etheria.
Everdream is ambiented several millennia in the future, where Earth is just a myth if not unknown by most people.
The most famous wine in the Known Galaxy is made by aliens that resemble humanoid elephants, and are called the Someleirs.

You can read it here:

vfinnigan 2019-01-26 08:16:29 UTC #12

Random factoid, or not so random as the case may be: my comic has too many facts to just pick one.

Probably the best is how a poor girl from the Florida Panhandle became the founder of a multimillion dollar cosmetics company, then made history as a pilot and, though her status was not recognized at the time, as a World War II veteran.

TheYaoiEmpire 2019-01-26 08:22:39 UTC #13

Fatal Moon: Angel's Axia

Trapped in the Death Camp Of The Garden Of Eden, Lucifer's small band of angels are actually cut off from the others sent to earth. These other bands are not as well led, and some have descended into an insanity that not even the main characters will face, yet.

ckileru 2019-01-26 09:45:30 UTC #14

Random factoids:
1 Sens and Beltran are exchange students.
2 Tennier's skin is squama for a half
3 I have a 3d model of Tennier's spaceship, and you'll see it in a month

MK_Wizard 2019-01-26 11:50:34 UTC #15

Cockatoo in a labcoat.
Troll in a tuxedo.
Southern belle who is a total steel magnolia.
Old man with a tragic past.
A lawyer who actually cares about people and does good.

Rodimus13 2019-01-26 11:50:47 UTC #16

Hmmm random factoid huh? Well, King Matt Chocobars is a nut butter (they have different kinds produced at different factories), with a Rice Krispy like treat coated in chocolate cut into a circle shape. At one point, gold colored crowns were painted on.

HGohwell 2019-01-26 12:41:43 UTC #17

We'll stick to the Aurum Sphere's current time frame since going over the entire expanded story is too much:

All crime is treated as equal. Literally everything from traffic violations to murder is all given exactly the same treatment and punishment. If found guilty of a crime you have 2 options: deportation to the prison colony to live the rest of your life or conscription, serving the military on the Far Dark Planets fighting nightmares with at least a chance to earn your way back into society if you survive.
The Far Dark Planets are actually alive and carnivorous.
The inhabitants of the Aurum Sphere are not quite Human but were originally based on the Human's of Earth. Their creators known only as Primordial Beings, saw Humans and decided to use their DNA with a few tweaks to create their own inhabitants for their system. These as a whole are known as Terrans.

Lyrienn 2019-01-26 13:27:27 UTC #18

I really like the idea of the topic So let me join in with my own.

By the time of Crimson Cursed, the High Maixans or Highlanders featured in Lily of War live in flying cities of wonder both in looks and magical solutions.

The youngest school of magic, Machina, is looked down upon by most competent mages. Which is mostly applied science or the combination of science and magic.

imiogri 2019-01-26 13:38:04 UTC #19

the camellia japonica flower is the flower of the gods
butterflies are the symbol of evil because they "suck the life out of the camellia"
they're actually not humans but immortal beings that act more like porcelain dolls. they can crack open and shed their skin to reveal new colored layers. showing those layers is considered blasphemous and you get punished for it even if you're born missing a layer. (very vaguely explained)

LortiaMJB 2019-01-26 13:45:50 UTC #20

These are fun!

The world of Sage's Sunset is just a revamped DnD campaign world I ran a couple of years back with just some 'convenient' changes
what if a world didn't revolve about the sun but had cores surrounding a bigger core that emits light is pretty much how you start a strange story about fluffy creatures playing drums!
the common misconception for the inhabitants of Sage's Sunset's world is that there is way more than the continent that they live on, but the sea is so dangerous that few have taken their chances going over it, and none came back. The MC's mom actually did so.
Cebyr is not the only owl in the world, against common belief!

Chita 2019-01-26 13:56:14 UTC #21

Cool idea! Here are My worldbuilding factoids:
• Asters' hair color ins't anime like for no reason. Since they're bound to the stars their hair will have the color that the sky has when they're born.

• The first generation of asters have pure white wings. A child of two of them will have his wings mostly white but with hints of his parents' hair color in the area near his back. The wings will be more colorful as the generations go on.

• All have golden/yellow eyes, though they can be darker or lighter.

DruidPeter 2019-01-26 15:33:37 UTC #22

@aqua03 That is incredibly random and fascinating. A strange mix of regular, mundane legal entities discovering and exploiting what typically would only be accessible to the highest of the high tech corporations of the world. It makes for... huh. A very strange juxtaposition. Are these two factoids specifically relevant to the plot, or do they more or less form back-story so as to set the stage for your plot? I think I'll probably check it out!

As for myself, here are some interesting factoids, about my world, The Kolldrunn:

The Kolldrunn is one planet out of a three planet system: Kolldrunn, Wohlodt, and a third object that orbits much farther out at a highly elliptical and retrograde orbit. The solar system itself is actually a rogue system, in that it does not belong to any particular galaxy, but rather was ejected from the rotational disk of its home galaxy countless eons ago, and no wanders the inky blackness of deep space. This means that the night sky of the Kolldrunn constitutes only 5 objects: 3 stars that appear in a line and rotate as one in exactly the same path each night. (These are the three nearest, and hence visible, galaxies). A single star, the position of which changes throughout the year in the night sky( this is Kolldrunn's sister planet, Wohlodt), and the moon!

I'll just place one factoid down for now, but this was a great idea for a thread, aqua03. Thank you!

droidmonkey1 2019-01-26 15:49:33 UTC #23

I have 3 comics running but this is the only one that have a "world".
1. the MC world is a way station between live and the afterlife, therefore he can go anywhere through time and space.
2. the magic words are combination of words from different languages that are threaded on a phrase, the magic spell as it were.
3. the escaped souls get magic powers that is manifestation of their previous life in a way. A soul of a card shark could have powers related to cards in some shape or form.

aqua03 2019-01-26 16:15:50 UTC #24

Thanks! It kind of factors into the plot of sorts for Edible Green Tea. (It's currently in more newspaper comic esque form until I reach strip 101, then I'm gonna let it lie and figure out if I want to go with my plans to reboot it into a slightly more story focused comedy series.)

Here's another factoid about Edible Green Tea:

Scientists discovered that climate change in that world was not humanity's fault, but instead was the fault of a couple of Norse gods fighting over the thermostat.

And here's some factoids of my work in progress comic DRGN:

The six main Dragoon Armors the heroes use are tied into the six main elemental biomes and the six main seasons of the home planet of Anticthon among being tied to a few other aspects of dragon culture and mythology.
The six Knightro elemental spirits the heroes are partner with were all originally part of one being called "Skybreaker the Dragon King" until they were split up to create the individual armors and render them safe for dragons and other beings to use.
Anticthon originally had just one super continent until the Great Netherworld War released massive amounts of raw magical and elemental energy caused the world to split into five major continents plus many islands along with flooding a large portion of the planet.

If you guys have any more factoids, don't be afraid to share them!

nathanKmcwilliams 2019-01-26 18:03:18 UTC #25

The country in which my protagonist Rip Vykirson lives is known as Valhalland.
Valhalland is considered a Reservation by the IGPU and as such the inhabitants are allowed to live their lives uninhibited by galactic law.
Valhalland was formerly known as Aasgard, ruled by a class of warriors who had abilities, while the normal people did not and preferred to spend their days farming and living off the land.

Rodimus13 2019-01-26 18:09:10 UTC #26

The world effectively became 3 countries as everyone banded together for each side of the debate. When a 4th side tried to really shout and say this was dumb.... they were blown up with a giant lazar weapon destroying the moon colonies.

aqua03 2019-01-26 18:23:09 UTC #27

Was the fourth country the Purple country?

writercynknapp 2019-01-26 18:30:53 UTC #28

I have several stories within "Sprites Save The Universe". It is a multiverse with numerous planes of existence. Elementals exist one per element type, per species to serve the whole multiverse. See "Love Whispers Of Elementals" for a valentines sample.