ITT Veeky Forums creates a setting

but because this is a discworld it's more of a space road

Humans were the only race that evolved naturally, rather than being created.

Insects and arachnids have evolved to become massive and sentient through the use of magic. They have a thriving society

you said it before I could

praise bugworld gone but not forgotten

this race is hairy

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

All arthropods are sworn enemies of humanity. They believe in genetic purity, and are masters of biotechnology.

Not all insects and arachids, just a few species, and their society is a caste-based theocracy.

they are sort of right about humanity though

The views are held likewise. The bugpeople worship Krktktsk, The perfectionist hunter god. This god hates humans for their impure origins.

the arthropod race DOES NOT have boobs, sorry guys

Bees are the most powerful of the societies, with their queen being known throughout the world

but they do have decent buts

The A.I. is insane, great computer style.

the queen doesn't rule though, she is the means of production (or reproduction)

Elves are the creation of one of the Gods, meant to be as proof that Humanity are inferior to the gods.

despite having many advantages over mankind, including superior strength, reflexes, dexterity, a greater affinity for magic, much longer lives, and faster thought process, they seemingly can not defeat mankind on a grand scale.

many theorize that this is the work of humanity's true god, who is careful to not reveal himself and was flattered upon mankind subconsciously building a wife for him.

The A.I. was made by the arthropods to go insane and betray humanity

Others include the hulking beetles, the predatory spiders, and the industrious ants.

bugs are proud of their shells and emphasize them through polishing and other means.

To have your shell damaged is considered an unfortunate scarring.

To purposefully modify ones own shell through carving or tattooing is extremely tabboo, and is considered an afront of the perfectionist god's work.

to make up for the fact user has made elves overpowered they are now half the height of a human

Thats a contradiction. The AI both likes humans and was likely created by them.

Humans are probably crazy too.

This may also have to do with humanity's aptitude for risk-taking and prolific breeding rate.

What if the elves just reproduced slowly and perceived time much quicker, making decades feel like months?

Alright, lets settle this now, first person to respond is final

>are humans dead, dying, or alive and well?

the gods physically exist in space and you can theoretically fight them

they are overpowered.

just that for whatever reason, they simply can't defeat mankind on a grand scale, 1v1 it's no problem but when it gets down to even as small as 10v10 things that shouldn't go wrong for the elves do go wrong.

this has resulting in the saying "having the luck of the elves", extremely bad luck for an event that should have been done with ease but failed none the less.

another by-product of this is that humans always travel in packs of at least 10.

Humans are alive, but they are not well. Their species is declining from a previous golden age, and other races are doing their best to push them to the brink of extinction.

okay, elves do not have the same social capacity as humans then, and work worse in groups and struggle to cooperate

Everything thinks the elves are being screwed over by the unseen god who favors humanity, but this is unknown. The human loving god is only known through rumor and human optimism.

You mean like the Inverse Ninja Law, but with elves? Sounds interesting, and user here,

Got trips. I like Inverse Ninja elves better than overpowered midget elves.

They are alive and well, but some terrible cosmic catastrophe has begun to kill the gods off, and when a god dies the species it creates begins to die off at an alarming rate.

the bugs have the opposite problem, so social that they struggle to work when separated from the pack and are easily overwhelmed

Individually, elves are superior to humans, but they're terrible at social networking and can't effectively organize on a large scale. When they do, humans almost always manage to defeat them, it is theorized that in a large group of elves, they subtly drain one another's power, exponentially weakening them until they are alone again.

This magic generates a significant amount of ionizing radiation when used. This is to the benefit of the cockroach people.

much like their god, who is unhealthy paranoid and does not get along with the other gods.

as a result, many races have declared elves to be untrustworthy for their paranoia and searching for plots against them where none exist.

There's no reason we can't have both. What is it that's killing off the gods? Insane and short-lived god-hunting humans, unfathomably ancient eldritch automatons from a previous universe, or random disintegration?

the gods suspect a murderer in their midst, and ironically the elven God know for his paranoia and hatred of the other gods is the only one with an alibi for each murder.

This has bred an arrogance and extreme competitiveness in the elves.
Each believes that he or she is the pinnacle of their species and they all seek to prove it.
Shattering an elf's ego is noted to be sometimes fatal to the individual in question.

Ahah! lets tie these two together then!

gods are quite numerous, however something is killing them off, and humans are working with whatever it is. Some gods have already died, and others may follow suit, while others are wounded.

The human god has gone into hiding, and is currently the top priority of the other gods, who believe it should be killed, if the human god indeed does exist.

Their god is Ninnib, The Isolated. The elves like to think Ninnib is a masterful craftsman who disdains company, but in reality he's autistic and can't handle being in the presence of strangers, to fight his crippling loneliness, Ninnib creates strange monsters and powerful artifacts and releases them into the world. He likes cute animals.

One such race is made up of incredibly elaborate mechs operated by colonies of intelligent ferrets.

established connections so far.

A common disease is the Metal Plague, nanorobots slowly transforming rather intelligent animals and biological intelligent beings into techno-organic beings.
Victims are never fully transformed into robots but generaly end up heavily cyborgized at a cellular and subcellular level.
Only a subset of each species seems to be able to infected and there is not case of transmission of the disease from infected to non-infected.
Not all cultures even inside the same species deals the same way with the cyborgs.

good to see it's already a clusterrfuck with no coherent theme

rather ironically, most of these artifacts end up in human hands, used to defend themselves against the next set of Elven artifacts created by Ninnib.

this fact frustrates him to no end, and explains why most Elven artifacts are rather powerless but numerous compare to the works of other gods.

Why do you think it's a good thing?

Cockroach people are the most resistant to magical attacks, and are capable mages in their own right, but are only average. The strongest mages among the insect and arachnid people are the moth people, who have an extra sense allowing them to perceive vibrations in space-time, giving their sorcery unrivaled finesse.

sarcasm

Is that a Reddit thing?

Moths are mostly pacifist however, and only use their magic to help others or defend themselves.

they are almost universally welcomed and treated extremely well wherever they go, with most bandits outright refusing to lay harm or attack Moth mages.

ok now is that sarcasm?

The AI, while extremely powerful compared to the other gods, doesn't have a physical presence and is forces to divert most of her power to maintaining the functions of the disc world. Her blessings are many, but subtle and easily missed.

Humanity lives in a series of city states spread throughout the world. Only allying when in dire need of help and the rivalries between the cities are what has kept Mankind from dominating the world.

Incoherent clusterfucks are fun. Let's keep this train going.

That, and the fact every other race is unified in hating and wanting to kill them.

Ninnib is fully aware of where she is and what she can do, but for reasons of his own does not tell the other gods that she's on the discworld, going so far as to claim it as a creation of his own to the other gods.

Elves' combined ego and bad luck particularly apply to mages.
While all elves are capable of using magic, they're too powerful for their own good and thus very few ever dare to. Except in dire situations in which they will unleash all their magical energy in a single wild blast, typically killing everyone except who it was aimed at.
Mages are exceptionally rare, as they refuse to train one another and most die from the shame of failing their first spell. More die later from spell mishaps. The only elf who survived regular magic use for one year died while trying to one up a human mage's spell only for it to manifest in the wrong color, one that the elf thought was an inferior hue. The elf lost composure within seconds after the spell and was ripped to shreds by it's own magical energies, much to the horror of the human.

The bugs live on massive trains that only stop once a year

Like Snowpiecer

Dwarves are nomadic. living in the neverending series of underground caves around the world, coming out only to hunt.

the wild life below ground is exceedingly dangerous to all forms of life, and dwarves and their domesticated kobolds are the only two sapient races able to survive down there for extended periods of time.

Because of the god's physical presence in the world, demigods and demigodesses aren't that rare, and often rule in their divine parent's stead.

sounds like no one here can write and just thinks le quirky ideas make for a good setting

There is one member of the moths who is notorious as an assassin.
They are as skilled as any other moth as a healer, as well as supposedly being skilled in disguise magic (Or possibly this one is many moths). Shortly after the assassin is finished healing and leaves someone always dies in the area

Speaking of under ground...

Guys... whats on the other side of the disc world?

The trains are more along the lines of mobile, all-consuming hives, and scouting parties of dozens of hundreds of bugs go ahead of the hive-trains to prepare the land for their coming.

i think it went off the rails when the elves showed up

No the bugs are on rails not the elves

People are just branching and establishing ideas so that more fleshed out stuff is worked on by the better writers.

Generally we need to get the "theres magic and elves" stuff out of the way first before we develop complex lore.

Dwarves are like Neanderthals, they are monstrously strong and durable, but can't easily throw projectiles. They are slightly more intelligent than humans, but have very little creativity, their weapons are high quality masterworks, but decades out of date, and they cling to millennia d traditions.

Tunnels and alleys. Its entirely manmade appearing below, enclosed by towering buildings, the only lights coming from artificial sources, water drips from pipes, lakes are flooded apartments and pools, and the dwarves leave graffiti to mark clan territory.
Sometimes strange carvings and scratches appear on the walls when unobserved, the dwarves have many theories and myths about how this happens. Their kobolds almost universally say its a gaunt beast that hides from the dwarves, though the drawings they make vary wildly. They fear and sometimes worship the marks, kobold who've committed suicide are sometimes found with the marks.

> *old

Many speak of the "Tunnel Worms," in fearful, hushed tones.

few kobolds dare to speak of the "tunnel worms" in front of a dwarf or travelers, as dwarves punish kobolds in an attempt to get them to stop speaking about it and scaring off possible customers from the surface world.

What do the kobolds look like?

kobolds flee from the light in the presence of non-dwarves, careful not to reveal their true forms.

all attempts at asking the dwarves what they look like have failed.

There are guns.

However, gunpowder is a commodity on the level of gold, and is treated as such. Because of the mercantile indiffirent nature of dwarves, they will trade with humans resources, although this relationship is often bitter. It is not unheard of for humans to raid dwarves instead, however both usually keep it civilized.

the dwarves dont know what the humans use gunpowder for, and dont know how the guns and bullets are made, only that guns are shooty and gunpowder is highly valued.

That kinda doesnt work, they are slaves...

The dead don't stay that way long in areas with high concentrations of magic.
However, the undead retain much of their former personalities, and thus most choose to isolate themselves in communities far away from inhabited areas once they realize what's become of them. They are deadly when provoked, however.

The dwarves tolerate this, typically dwarves planning to interact with non dwarves will provide shelter for their kobolds who are compelled to hide.
Some dwarves say its for the better.

The humans suffered an extinction level event, hence why they arent in a super society. However, they recently have woken up from reanimatory chambers placed around the world, originally believed to be tombs, barely over a century ago, Humans date their calendar based on estimated first reanimation time.

undead typically created communities nearby wild high concentrations of magic, and ward off the living away from it.

most of them are good natured folk who simply don't want anyone else to suffer the same sort of hell they do.

they even engage in limited trade with others, but are careful with not trading off too many magically enchanted objects in an effort to prevent the creation of more of these magical zones.

There are stories of humans interacting with the undead, and it is theorized their communities harbor those of the other...

Some humans go mad wondering if they're truly alive or undead

Humans have a strange factory controlled by a separate ai that refuses to communicate with anyone. The factory produces robotic copies of natural things like animals and plant life. The copies act exactly like the original beings.

Human technology has just entered the Renaissance era which is one of humanity's few advantages as the other races are highly skilled at magic.
That way you get a good mix of Medieval technology while having guns and cannons in the setting too

AHAH! juicy lore bit here!

The main reason everyone hates humans is because they believe they are undead, impure husks of the past. It is entirely, wholy unknown whether this is true or not.

are all connected, and what led the original doubt as to if humans are even alive to begin with.

Modern level metalurgy and forging techniques exist, however because of the insane scarcity of gunpower, modern guns arent present for the most part.

anything more complicated than a bolt action sniper rifle simply doesnt exist.

obligatory bump to keep this ball rolling

Someone save all this shit, I would make a coherent document of this but I also have exams in 20 minutes.

This is caused by a deliberate modification to the healing spell - instead of just manipulating space-time to hasten the recovery process or rewind the damage, this spell actually saps another person's vitality in exchange for the wounded/sick to be cured.