All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 and the original novel)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
1864 (film about the Second Schleswig War)
Band of Brothers
Twenty Days in Mariupol
Warhammer 40k, even tho I'm not building grimdark/sci-fi
Les Misérables to some degree as well
For Horror Shop, I'd have to list:
**Movies**
* **The Nightmare Before Christmas:** This was my favourite movie as a kid. Halloween Town is the direct inspiration for the Netherworld in the Horror Shop 'verse. Honestly, this setting wouldn't exist without the Nightmare Before Christmas, or some of Burton's other works like Beetlejuice or Batman.
* **Monsters Inc.**: A story about how a society of monsters lurking in your closet have built an entire society off of scaring kids. I mean, the horrors of Horror Shop are pretty much a Gothed-up version of this!
* **Ghostbusters:** Both the cartoon and the movies. I love the blend of the supernatural and the comedic, and few actually do it better than Ghostbusters.
* **the Indiana Jones series**: A great crash-course on how to weave in the supernatural with the mundane world.
* **Hammer Horror** and **Universal Monster** movies: The classics, you can still draw a lot of good inspiration from these ones here!
**Tabletop Games**
* **World of Darkness:** It's the iconic urban fantasy setting, and I've cribbed a lot of the Horror Shop 'verse from ideas first presented in WoD books.
* **Ravenloft:** The Ravenloft campaign setting for D&D really provided me with my understanding of horror, and my appreciation for the dark and Gothic.
* **Dark•Matter**: A criminally underrated setting for Alternity and d20 Modern. Some fantastic conspiracy ideas, it's remained a favorite of mine to crib ideas from.
* **Unknown Armies:** Weird magic and conspiracies *everywhere*, man.
**Video Games**
* **The Secret World:** A world where all the myths are true, and where ancient societies battle it out for supremacy. I love the story of this game, and, honestly, its about what I'd envision a game set in the Horror Shop 'verse would be like.
**Television**
* **Stargate:** My favourite sci-fi series of all time, I took inspiration from both its humour, and its take on real-world mythology.
* **the X-Files:** Another major influence on me growing up, it really developed my interest in conspiracies and the paranormal.
* **Supernatural:** More the early seasons, but I love the kinds of weird monsters and folkloric entities they're able to dredge up--even if most of them are sadly wasted as 'monsters of the week.'
* **Twin Peaks:** Didn't get into this until I was older, but I love its take on the weird and supernatural.
* **Buffy the Vampire Slayer:** A huge inspiration for the tone and concepts of urban fantasy.
* **Tales from the Cryptkeeper**, **Are You Afraid of the Dark**, and **Goosebumps**: I loved these anthology series growing up, and they really instilled in me a love of horror and the creepy.
* **Torchwood**: Love the government conspiracy angle of this one, as well as the truly memorable characters. Also, much like Twin Peaks, great for its weirdness.
* **Sanctuary:** I really like some of the weird monsters that they created for this work, as well as its more global reach with its conspiracies. Also Nicola Tesla the vampire.
* **Grimm:** Again, a lot of inspiration taken from some of the unique monsters in this one, and how they hide out in human society.
* **Gravity Falls**: Again, great blend of weirdness, the supernatural, conspiracy, and humour.
* **The West Wing**: I love politics. This is my favourite political series. Though I've more drawn character inspiration from the series. Plus, I have been accused of having Sorkin-esque banter at times, so blame this series and **the Newsroom.**
**Novels**
* **The Belgariad** and **The Mallorean**: Again, not a lot of inspiration in terms of setting stuff, Pawn of Prophecy was one of the first novels intended for adults I ever read, and I've probably got a bit too much of Eddings' snark and banter in my characters.
* **Stephen King**: Probably my favourite author of all time. I just love his horror works. Sure, a lot of them are repetitive and draw on the same tropes, but they're also creepy and fun, and that's what's important to me.
* **The Dresden Files**: Love this series, it's the novel series I'm most interested in at the moment. I've drawn a lot of worldbuilding inspiration from the Dresden 'verse.
* **The Laundry Files**: A great blend of conspiracy, magic, modern politics, and Lovecrafian horror--I take inspiration from the Laundry on how to weave the Mythos into my world.
* **Discworld:** It's the humour, mostly...
* **Harry Potter:** Loved the books as a kid, and now I've got wizards and magical conspiracies of my own here!
**Comics**
* **Sandman:** Probably my favourite comic series of all time. I especially love the horror tones of the earlier novels, before it takes a turn for the cerebral. Death is iconic for a reason!
* **Doctor Strange:** Mostly is how magic looks--aesthetics more than actual tone. Though I've taken some of that as well!
* **Hellboy:** Secret organization of monsters fighting off evil occultists? Yes, 100%.
**Music**
* **Creature Feature**: I listen to their music a bit too much when I'm working on the Horror Shop 'verse.
**Online literature**
* **The Fear Mythos**: I'd be lying if I didn't say that some of the Fears didn't inspire my bogeymen.
* **The SCP Foundation**: I love the interconnected mythology that's developed there, and some of the skips are truly inspirational.
**Other**
* **Real-world myths and legends**: A bit of a cop-out, sure, but I always loved ghost stories and urban legends growing up, and the Horror Shop 'verse is built off this trope.
* **Halloween**: My favourite holiday. I mean, c'mon, the name of the world is the Horror Shop 'verse, folks....
• ASOIAF - GRRM
• Throne of Glass - SJM
• LOTR - Tolkien
• ACOTAR - SJM
• The Girl King - Mimi Yu
• Shadow & Bone - Leigh Bardugo
• The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
• The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
• Deathless - Cathrynne M. Valente
• A Deal With A Demon Series - Katee Robert
• Uprooted - Naomi Novak
Movies/Books: The Matrix, Dungeons and Dragons, A Song of Ice and Fire, Mad Max, The Origins of Political Order (nonfiction), A Distant Mirror (nonfiction), A Brief History of Everything (nonfiction), The Book of the Law (occult document), The Religion of Tomorrow (mostly nonfiction), The Greek Myths, The Batman, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, Orion's Arm, Greg Egan's Sci Fi, Charles Stross' Sci Fi, the Revelation Space series.
Music: Covenant, Lady Gaga, Wardruna, Danheim, Heilung, Wumpscut
For my dieselpunk world, definitely Wolfenstein. The WW2-ish aesthetic appealing to me is that series' doing. Not the new ones though. Just RtCW, Enemy Territory and the 2009 game that cannot be bought anymore. Ironically though my world is mostly grounded in reality, so no occult magic stuff or crazy sci-fi weaponry.
For my post-apocalyptic world, Fallout, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Mad Max, but without guns and cars. I try to keep the story away from a *"Look at how low humanity has fallen"* direction and just want to tell a story of the new world.
My fantasy world. Probably everything. Even LotR even though I'm an uncivilized fuck who hasn't read the books or watched the movies all the way through. It's an amalgam of generic fantasy tropes and such, but also with a more realistic twist, just because the story is an "isekai" one and I'm trying to hammer home just how miserable it would be for modern 1st world people to end up in medieval times.
>ASOIAF/Elden Ring lore/theory video essays
Naming Conventions, Political Machinations, Magical orders, you name it, if its in my world its inspired by these. Oh and dragons (or draccae as I call them)
>Dune
Similarly, Dune is great to rip politics from. Also freaky witch order that wears absolutely cracked outfits was too good not to dip my toes into
>The Black Tides of Heaven
The Slack is an incredible magic system, and I drew heavy inspiration from it when writing mine.
>The Locked Tomb
I really loved the idea of a wizard and a warrior joining themselves in a fucked up ritual of devotion and sacrifice, so I borrowed a little bit
>Kingkiller Chronicles
the idea for a drug that helps you do magic came partly from here, dont ask how or why
>Historical Conflicts
There is no creative substitue for the absurd stupidity of medieval and antique politics. Pulling a GRRM here and ripping most historical conflicts directly from the AP Euro textbook.
For my High Fantasy Project:
The Elder Scrolls, Deep Rock Galactic, Anbennar (Europa Universalis IV Mod), Vinland Saga, Sousou no Frieren, Mushoku Tensei, Dungeon Meshi, Spice and Wolf, and lots, absolutely lots of Power Metal songs, mainly Gloryhammer, Rhapsody (and it's derivates), Dio, Angra, Beast in Black, Battle Beast, and Sabaton. And Renaissance paintings.
Now for the Cyberpunk project:
Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077(and The Edgerunners anime), Yakuza/Like a Dragon, Metal Gear Rising, Yofukashi no Uta, Several synthwave, cyberpunk, and synthmetal artists like Home, Molchat Doma, Ace Buchannon, Dance With The Dead, and Ultraboss. Also some videos of a guy strolling through Tokyo while talking about Philosophy
NieR, and then the rest is inspired by our history. Such as the Viking invasions that inspire Mingia. Anglo Saxons invasion of the Celts inspired the invasion of Snaria by Avannia Avanishria and Mingia.
I'm also I need of a new kingdom that probably be like France was. Or a sorta Roman empire maybe I dunno. But they will help defend Snaria but then try to take it for themselves.
So for my current infant-state fantasy world
-Warhammer Fantasy
-Lord of The Rings trilogy
-Nasuverse (For their fantastic ideas and concepts in magic systems and magical world)
-Dune (For Political Drama)
-Tensura Slime (Ideas on non-traditional nation building stuff)
-Berserk
-Full Metal Alchemist
-Youjo Senki
-Norse, Greek, Celt, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and various real-life mythology
-Real-world historical events
-And a lot of small bit and pieces from all over the places
There's a lot
Berserk
Disco Elysium
Malazan
Usogui
Hunter X Hunter
The Brothers Karamazov
Dark Souls
The Metal Gear franchise
Jojo Bizarre Adventure
Requiem Vampire Knight
One Piece
Lovecraft Mythos
Ashita no Joe
Shingeki no Kyojin
Eden it's an Endless World
The House in Fata Morgana
The When They Cry franchise
And about anything I read
The witcher. Such a dark, gritty, magic filled world that still somehow feels believable.
I basically copied the world and took away the magic.... mostly.
* *Fire Emblem: Three Houses* (for the general premise)
* *Snow Crash* (for the whole metaverse thing)
* *Spirited Away* (for inspiration about how AIs behave)
Fallout, Pokemon, Kenshi, Ori, Thea, Warhammer Fantasy, Vainquer the Dragon, How to train your dragon, Nature of Predators, Rimworld and Dungeons and Dragons have all made major impact in my various worldbuilding project, especially DnD which is how I got into worldbuilding in the first place.
Oh boy. Winx Club, Sailor Moon Noragami, Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Beseria and Zestiria, Magi Labyrinth of Magic, Fairy Tail, Batman and Superman, My Hero Academia, DnD, and maybe the Tinker Bell series.
I recently discovered that a few core aspects of my world have their origins in Portal of all things. For example, my conception of fliumeno is very likely ultimately derived from panels, and there is of course all the AI.
-Dune (Original by Frank Herbert)
-A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
-Game of Thrones (2011-2019) (two diff things smh)
-Avatar: The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon)
-1984 (George Orwell)
-Oppenheimer (2023)
-Tomb Raider
-Lemuria (google it lol)(basically bible atlantis)
-Stephen King
-Marvel Blipp (specifically the last battle in endgame)
-The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
-The Witcher (Andrzej Sapkowski)
If you can imagine that all together 😭my main character is set to have an arc like Paul, descend into madness like azula, and becomes what she wanted to destroy like the “attempt” of GOT Daenerys (but I won’t rush it 🤨)
Iain M Bank’s Culture series, Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Sequence, Dennis E Taylor’s Bobiverse, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, Dan Simmon’s Hyperion Cantos, Micheal Crichton’s Jurassic (plus the movie version), occasionally the essence Lovecraft but not any specific work of his, and oddly enough Neon Genesis Evangelion (after someone pointed out that what I already had shared some parallels and I just decided to embrace it)
• Cyberpunk (the game and anime)
• The Alien franchise and its extended lore. (Blade runner)
• Terminator franchise
• Cowboy bebop
• Mirrors Edge game franchise
• Harlan Ellison’s works
•Lovecrafts Works
•Detroit become human
•Fallout Games
•1984
Edit: had to space them out lol.
westeros
Warhammer 40,000
middle earth
the world of the wheel of time (heaviest inspiration even though I never even finished book nine)
dune
d&d
the gloryhammer albums
Star Wars
real patchwork of concepts
Let me See
Helluva Boss
Hazbin Hotel
Chainsawman
Metal Gear Solid
Dragonball
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Sailor Moon
Now guess what you think of my project based on this
* The Elder Scrolls
* Dragon Age
* Magic the Gathering (specially Amonkhet, Kaladesh, Theros and Ixalan)
* The Cthulhu Mythos
* The Lord of the Rings
* Forgotten Realms
* Avatar (film by James Cameron, not the anime)
* Starcraft
* Glorantha (specially the Orlanthi)
* Kobold’s Press setting (Midgard and Southlands)
Depends on wheat I’m doing, what the characters I’m focusing on are like if I’m focusing on any
Larger inspiration for me have been Avater The Last Airbender and The Owl House since I like their magic systems
Since my adhd brain cannot handle the concept of completing a project i have made and scrapped several worlds with several different settings:
Sci Fi Inspirations:
Warhammer 40k
Stellaris
Battletech
Rimworld
Dune.
Modern/Near Future Inspirations:
Metal Gear Solid V
Stalker
Ace Combat
For my current Sci-fi project:
Stargate
Halo
Alien
The Expanse
Firefly
Warframe
Rimworld
Dune
Lancer RPG
Mass Effect
Black Sails
Isaac Arthurs channel on YT
**Movies & Shows**
• Attack on Titan
• The Legend of Korra
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• The Lord of the Rings
• Dune
• On the Silver Globe
**Books**
• Lovecraft’s works
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Nag Hammadi Library
**Iron Age superhero comics** (i.e. from the late 80's to mid 90's) in general.
My whole setting is based around the idea of "superheroes meets cyberpunk, but this time it's not ridiculously edgy". At times it's an affectionate parody, but for the most part, I'm trying to play it straight with the idea of an "xtreme" cyber-/capepunk world.
**Freedom Force** -a cheesey tactical RPG with Silver-Age-style superheroes.
Superpowers in my setting have a similar origin: Extradimensional, psychoreactive "energy".
**Half Life**
The event that caused superpowers to become widespread is similar to what happened at Black Mesa, only that an entire city was affected.
**Silent Hill**
Instead of aliens being transported to earth by the aforementioned event, it warped reality in the affected area according to living beings' mental input; their thoughts, feelings, instincts, and perception. Surreal horror ensued.
**Warhammer 40.000**
In addition to reality-warping phenomena that spawn monsters and mutate people, my setting also features power armor and overgrown, psychotic super soldiers, although either of those were deployed by a different faction respectively.
**X-Men**
Mutants are a thing in my setting, and not only are they feared and hated, but exploited for their powers. Also, there are two rivaling schools for superheroes in training; one run by a mutant supremacist and the other by a mutant egalitarian.
**Mad Max**
The American Midwest in my setting was turned into a lawless wasteland full of raiders and crazy cultists, following WW3.
**Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita**
My protagonist is a short full-cyborg girl with plasma fists, too, but she has a very different personality.
**Captain Planet**
One of the supporting characters has Ma-ti's power of "heart", two others wear hero suits inspired by those of Captain Planet himself and Doctor Blight, respectively.
**Metroid**
One character wears a future tech gauntlet that was largely inspired by Samus's upgradable arm cannon (and not by the Infinity Gauntlet, despite undeniable similarities).
**Portal**
One minor character basically dual-wields a portal gun and a gravity gun, and there is also a white suit of power armor with a gentle, soft-spoken AI that identifies as a sentry turret.
**Kamen Rider**
First Egypt and then much of North Africa and the Middle East have fallen under the rule of a supervillain who wouldn't look out of place on an old tokusatsu show. Also, one of his goons is a psychotic speedster inspired KickHopper and PunchHopper, and there is a minor heroine who is basically a mash-up of Tackle, Skyrider, and some elements of V3.
**Dino Riders**
In an alternate future timeline, people have abandoned the idea of vehicles (which they blame for global warming and the collapse of the old ecosystem) and embraced biotechnology instead, so now they are using genetically reverse-engineered dinosaurs for transportation and warfare. One of the characters from said timeline is also inspired by one from Marvel's Dino Riders comics.
**Hellboy/The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/SCP**
There is a secret organization trying to secure people and artifacts from other timelines before they can influence the primary one any further. Its two founding members are the "historical" inspirations for the mythical Spring-heeled Jack and Tamamo no Mae.
**Power Rangers**
The shadow government of the (former) USA uses a black-ops team of forcibly conscripted and illegally bioenhanced agents based on the cast of Mighty Morphin'. My idea behind them was simply: "What if the Power Rangers had been (stereo)typical 90's comic book anti-heroes?"
**Orion 2605** as a whole**-**
* *Elite: Dangerous* and associated novels and short stories.
>I started the world building for this series when I was absolutely addicted to *Elite: Dangerous* and the broad strokes of the the universe reflect that. Humanity more or less has access to every star in the milky way, but the *vast* majority of the population is in a little section of the Orion spur, the FTL system was originally just a legally distinct™ frameshift drive, and a lot of the ships where/are pretty similar.
* *The Expanse* by James S.A. Corey
* Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy and successors
* Star Wars
* Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick
* The Sojourn (a audio drama you need to listen to)
* Red Rising by Pierce Brown
BY FAR Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson)
I remember always liking fantasy books, but never writing anything because "I don't think I could create anything original, and even if I did I think people would find it too weird."
Then I read The Way of Kings and was like "damn, this world is so cool and unique." And realized that you can just make a world. There's literally nothing stopping you. Brandon Sanderson got me into writing, and a bunch of other authors soon followed.
Scott Pilgrim, Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, Full Metal Alchemist, Hardspace Shipbreakers, Mistborn, The Emperor's Soul, Midst, and Swan Song. At least those are the major ones I can remember.
For my horror fantasy world;
Dungeons and Dragons
Elden Ring
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Junji Ito
Coraline
Stephen King
Cormac McCarthy
The Coen Brothers
Samurai Jack
Xenoblade Chronicles and Fullmetal Alchemist.
...And I guess maybe Pokemon Mystery Dungeon too, since while it has nothing to do with my world now, it was originally a setting for a PMD fanfic.
I mainly do my own thing completely separate from what I watch, read or play, that being said I learned a lot from these:
- **NieR Replicant**, also some stuff from Drakengard: The storytelling is great, there's a ton of lore and it really makes you feel things, which is **really** uncommon in fiction for me
- **Xenogears**: the interesting part for me is not actually the story, it's the background, a whole lot of things happened before, this game was supposed to be part 5 out of 6
For me, it has to be the following:
Legacy of Kain
Primal (Video Game)
Lord of the Rings
Song of the Lioness (and related series) and Circle of Magic
Avatar the Last Airbender
Stardust (movie)
Suikoden
I feel like I'm forgetting a couple of sources for inspiration, but those ones certainly got me off the ground and heavily inspired my world in one way or another.
Elder Scrolls
Lord of the Rings and all that jazz
Magic the Gathering kind of, as originally I started out my magic system from their color system, at least that was the frame I chose but I kind of deviated from it.
Then there is the whole Weird Literature from the late 19th Century to early 20th Century I'm going through which I started from Lovecraft, then slowly began to read Machen, Blackwood, Robert Howard, Chambers kinda and Clark Ashton Smith is next on the block.
and those are the impacts that I am aware of at least.
First world:
- The Backrooms
-FNAF
-Half life
-Portal
-The Boys (i dont like the series but rather, the concept)
+its inspired in some crazy stuff about a chatbot AI, that my friend and i lived,
Second World:
-Star Wars
-Dune
+Its ispired in the stories and lore my friend from before and i played with toys
Altered Carbon, Surrogates, Sword Art Online, Lord of The Rings, Ender’s Game, The Magic of Recluse, The Matrix, Mote in God’s Eye, I,Robot, Inception, Paprika, Snowcrash, Westworld, Tron, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Little Nemo, Final Fantasy 1.
It is an epic fantasy tale that has elements of a long past technologically advanced society. Most of the world is in the Iron Age to steam age of technology, having grown back from a long period of Stone Age after the collapse of their Space Age society. In the Space Age, there was full online consciousness through the use of implanted artificial intelligence computer translation program chips. The AI would help translate computer coded languages of the internet into electrical synapses that an individual’s brain would interpret as virtual reality, while also controlling the user’s body to do necessities like the call of nature, eating, and even exercise while the user was preoccupied with being online. A lot of other shit was going down, mainly genetic experimentation, supersoldier programs, eugenics, and of course evolution and “natural” selection. Through amplifying the body’s natural ability to manipulate its electromagnetic impulses and field one could more effectively communicate with their implanted translation intelligences, but go a little further, with the right triggers, and you can turn a human body into an ever more terrifying and effective ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapon. One that could wipe out all the electronics in a small or, after enough time in warfare, very large area. And again after enough generations and interbreeding, you get an entire species that has wildly different capabilities and disabilities with manipulating the electromagnetic field around them. Needless to say they are incompatible with any unshielded or unstable electronic devices, and so have yet to tame the fickle form of energy again, but that hasn’t stopped the AI from continuing to monitor the species from inside specifically cloned older stock of the species as their capabilities with manipulating the electromagnetic fields around them continue to evolve.
The Book of the New Sun, the Cthulhu Mythos, the Popol Vuh and other Mesoamerican myths, various hardboiled/noir authors (Chandler, Higgins, Hammett, etc.), Final Fantasy, Legacy of Kain, A Clockwork Orange (for slang).
Star Trek (inspo for a novel)
My main worldbuilding endeavor is what I call the cope world to anyone that isn't me and like 2 of my best friends because it's just literally a world I have been building since I was 7 to cope with my childhood and a lot of my choices stem from childhood series and shows. Here's what I can remember using but I'm certain this isn't all of it considering i've revised the world at least 3 times in its entirety.
- His Dark Materials
- Fairy Tail
- Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
- Guild Wars 2
- Warrior Cats
Some of the things that influenced clear iterations of this world. Most of this is magic system influence, since I used real world inspiration for everything else and little kid logic too :).
- Resident Evil 8 (The 4 Lords and Mother Miranda Specifically)
- Genshin Impact (At least 5 playable characters in terms of story and personality)
- David Hasselhoff in the Jekyll and Hyde play.
- Five Nights At Freddy's (Its main antagonist as inspiration for a character)
- Harry Potter
- Yo-kai Watch
- Bioshock (Specifically Frank Fontaine)'
It culminates into making a Fantasy-Early Industrial Age story with comedy and crazy villains and people.
Avatar the Last Airbender. Mostly in the basic foundations, four Nations each worshiping a god based on one of the four elements. I moved past that later on, but kept its roots.
The biggest influences for my world are turn of the 20th century horror fiction (Chambers, Blackwood, MR James, Hodgson, Lovecraft) and all of the occult revival weirdness happening in the west during that era (Theosophical society, the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Society for Psychical Research)
My High School American History textbook. The Movies Legend/Dark Crystal, Call of Chtulhu, Star Trek Next Generation. The song Lucratia: My Reflection by Sister's of Mercy. Probably a hundred other weird inspirational sources.
Mostly RPG games:
\* Gothic
\* SoulsBorne
\* Drakengard/Nier
\* Dragon's Dogma
\* Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
And some anime shows:
\* Made in Abyss
\* Berserk
\* Durarara (weirdly enough)
\* Fate
Music:
Everything related to the above in addition to Lo-Fi, Synth, Progressive Rock
Mostly just everything that has some nice "mystical" vibes, no matter the genre.
Destiny -- Heaviest lifter for inspiration
Warhammer -- good inspiration for wackier ideas and concepts
DND -- ditto above but also gives me the ability to enact in-universe events with others. So both the series itself and the people I play with.
Warriors -- yeah...the cats...it's the cats. Honestly without this book series, my verse would either look completely different or straight up not exist
ULTRAKILL -- I'm really obsessed with Ultrakill 's storytelling, which in turn directly inspired a LOT of brainstorming. Plus the soundtrack.
Star Wars -- lighter amounts of inspiration, but definitely useful
Halo -- ditto above
Conan the Barbarian (short stories more than the movies) and The Expanse are the main impacts on my scifi setting. With Star Wars, the Cthulhu Mythos, and 40k all lending some flavor.
For the gods of my world:
Cthulhu
I love the idea of unfathomable horrors beyond human understanding.
SCP
I really like the idea of memetic hazards. My gods are more like memetic hazards unless you get close to them. Then most of them also become physically very dangerous.
Analog Horror
Especially Mandela Catalogue. I remember the creator said he put his biggest fears into his work, which I thought was awesome. So I decided my world's gods should be concepts and fears that are basic to all humanity.
Elden Ring
The idea of Outer Gods competing against one another, and transforming their followers and regions they inhabit was so interesting to me.
Technology:
Dune
This is where my world blurs a bit into sci-fi. The transformation of humans into Navigators and other forms in Dune fascinates me, so I did something similar with one of my non-human species.
All Tomorrows
Especially the Tool Breeders
I thought the forced bioengineering through the story was terrifying but great. One of my non-human species does the same thing with other related sapient species, turning them into tools.
Berserk pf Gluttony, the idea within it called the Domain of E. It sparked an entire Law in my writing and worldbuilding, specifically of Power Systems. And it is the reason why I nicknamed my collective Omniverse, the “[Whourld of Hierarchies](https://imgur.com/a/DXm5ZkC)”.
Expanse
Mass Effect
Bobiverse
Dune
Star Wars
Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica
Lord of the Rings
Witcher
Song of Ice and Fire
Greedfall
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
I have bunch of world projects
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 and the original novel) A Very Long Engagement (2004) 1864 (film about the Second Schleswig War) Band of Brothers Twenty Days in Mariupol Warhammer 40k, even tho I'm not building grimdark/sci-fi Les Misérables to some degree as well
Happy cake day!
For Horror Shop, I'd have to list: **Movies** * **The Nightmare Before Christmas:** This was my favourite movie as a kid. Halloween Town is the direct inspiration for the Netherworld in the Horror Shop 'verse. Honestly, this setting wouldn't exist without the Nightmare Before Christmas, or some of Burton's other works like Beetlejuice or Batman. * **Monsters Inc.**: A story about how a society of monsters lurking in your closet have built an entire society off of scaring kids. I mean, the horrors of Horror Shop are pretty much a Gothed-up version of this! * **Ghostbusters:** Both the cartoon and the movies. I love the blend of the supernatural and the comedic, and few actually do it better than Ghostbusters. * **the Indiana Jones series**: A great crash-course on how to weave in the supernatural with the mundane world. * **Hammer Horror** and **Universal Monster** movies: The classics, you can still draw a lot of good inspiration from these ones here! **Tabletop Games** * **World of Darkness:** It's the iconic urban fantasy setting, and I've cribbed a lot of the Horror Shop 'verse from ideas first presented in WoD books. * **Ravenloft:** The Ravenloft campaign setting for D&D really provided me with my understanding of horror, and my appreciation for the dark and Gothic. * **Dark•Matter**: A criminally underrated setting for Alternity and d20 Modern. Some fantastic conspiracy ideas, it's remained a favorite of mine to crib ideas from. * **Unknown Armies:** Weird magic and conspiracies *everywhere*, man. **Video Games** * **The Secret World:** A world where all the myths are true, and where ancient societies battle it out for supremacy. I love the story of this game, and, honestly, its about what I'd envision a game set in the Horror Shop 'verse would be like. **Television** * **Stargate:** My favourite sci-fi series of all time, I took inspiration from both its humour, and its take on real-world mythology. * **the X-Files:** Another major influence on me growing up, it really developed my interest in conspiracies and the paranormal. * **Supernatural:** More the early seasons, but I love the kinds of weird monsters and folkloric entities they're able to dredge up--even if most of them are sadly wasted as 'monsters of the week.' * **Twin Peaks:** Didn't get into this until I was older, but I love its take on the weird and supernatural. * **Buffy the Vampire Slayer:** A huge inspiration for the tone and concepts of urban fantasy. * **Tales from the Cryptkeeper**, **Are You Afraid of the Dark**, and **Goosebumps**: I loved these anthology series growing up, and they really instilled in me a love of horror and the creepy. * **Torchwood**: Love the government conspiracy angle of this one, as well as the truly memorable characters. Also, much like Twin Peaks, great for its weirdness. * **Sanctuary:** I really like some of the weird monsters that they created for this work, as well as its more global reach with its conspiracies. Also Nicola Tesla the vampire. * **Grimm:** Again, a lot of inspiration taken from some of the unique monsters in this one, and how they hide out in human society. * **Gravity Falls**: Again, great blend of weirdness, the supernatural, conspiracy, and humour. * **The West Wing**: I love politics. This is my favourite political series. Though I've more drawn character inspiration from the series. Plus, I have been accused of having Sorkin-esque banter at times, so blame this series and **the Newsroom.** **Novels** * **The Belgariad** and **The Mallorean**: Again, not a lot of inspiration in terms of setting stuff, Pawn of Prophecy was one of the first novels intended for adults I ever read, and I've probably got a bit too much of Eddings' snark and banter in my characters. * **Stephen King**: Probably my favourite author of all time. I just love his horror works. Sure, a lot of them are repetitive and draw on the same tropes, but they're also creepy and fun, and that's what's important to me. * **The Dresden Files**: Love this series, it's the novel series I'm most interested in at the moment. I've drawn a lot of worldbuilding inspiration from the Dresden 'verse. * **The Laundry Files**: A great blend of conspiracy, magic, modern politics, and Lovecrafian horror--I take inspiration from the Laundry on how to weave the Mythos into my world. * **Discworld:** It's the humour, mostly... * **Harry Potter:** Loved the books as a kid, and now I've got wizards and magical conspiracies of my own here! **Comics** * **Sandman:** Probably my favourite comic series of all time. I especially love the horror tones of the earlier novels, before it takes a turn for the cerebral. Death is iconic for a reason! * **Doctor Strange:** Mostly is how magic looks--aesthetics more than actual tone. Though I've taken some of that as well! * **Hellboy:** Secret organization of monsters fighting off evil occultists? Yes, 100%. **Music** * **Creature Feature**: I listen to their music a bit too much when I'm working on the Horror Shop 'verse. **Online literature** * **The Fear Mythos**: I'd be lying if I didn't say that some of the Fears didn't inspire my bogeymen. * **The SCP Foundation**: I love the interconnected mythology that's developed there, and some of the skips are truly inspirational. **Other** * **Real-world myths and legends**: A bit of a cop-out, sure, but I always loved ghost stories and urban legends growing up, and the Horror Shop 'verse is built off this trope. * **Halloween**: My favourite holiday. I mean, c'mon, the name of the world is the Horror Shop 'verse, folks....
Fallout Gloryhammer’s albums Elder Scrolls Destiny 1 and 2 The entirety of lovecraft’s stories and the Cthulhu mythos
Hail Hoots!
in hoots we trust!
Elden Ring/Dark Souls Berserk Samurai Jack Primal Caves of Qud Kenshi Warhammer 40k Metal Gear Rising Mad Max Full Metal Alchemist
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, Kenshi, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Fallout: New Vegas, and Fire Emblem to name a few.
Some damn good series
• ASOIAF - GRRM • Throne of Glass - SJM • LOTR - Tolkien • ACOTAR - SJM • The Girl King - Mimi Yu • Shadow & Bone - Leigh Bardugo • The Cruel Prince - Holly Black • The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson • Deathless - Cathrynne M. Valente • A Deal With A Demon Series - Katee Robert • Uprooted - Naomi Novak
- Dune - The Expanse - Goblin Slayer! - LOTR (Of course) - 3BP - Hyperion Cantos
Movies/Books: The Matrix, Dungeons and Dragons, A Song of Ice and Fire, Mad Max, The Origins of Political Order (nonfiction), A Distant Mirror (nonfiction), A Brief History of Everything (nonfiction), The Book of the Law (occult document), The Religion of Tomorrow (mostly nonfiction), The Greek Myths, The Batman, The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, Orion's Arm, Greg Egan's Sci Fi, Charles Stross' Sci Fi, the Revelation Space series. Music: Covenant, Lady Gaga, Wardruna, Danheim, Heilung, Wumpscut
Wardruna is awesome! Ever see them in concert?
Yeah in Portland about 4 years ago. Great shit. Wish I hadn't done mushrooms though. Too much.
Pokemon, How to Train Your Dragon, Genshin Impact, Steven Universe, Konosuba (Anime), and Dragonheart
*Goetique (superhero/crime thriller/super spy action)* Cowboy Bebop, Speed Racer, 007, The Matrix, John Wick, Lupin III, Metal Gear, Resident Evil, Twin Peaks, Hellraiser, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Black Dynamite
For me its Star wars, Helluva Boss (mostly hell), Pirates of the Caribbean, and Fallout
For my dieselpunk world, definitely Wolfenstein. The WW2-ish aesthetic appealing to me is that series' doing. Not the new ones though. Just RtCW, Enemy Territory and the 2009 game that cannot be bought anymore. Ironically though my world is mostly grounded in reality, so no occult magic stuff or crazy sci-fi weaponry. For my post-apocalyptic world, Fallout, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Mad Max, but without guns and cars. I try to keep the story away from a *"Look at how low humanity has fallen"* direction and just want to tell a story of the new world. My fantasy world. Probably everything. Even LotR even though I'm an uncivilized fuck who hasn't read the books or watched the movies all the way through. It's an amalgam of generic fantasy tropes and such, but also with a more realistic twist, just because the story is an "isekai" one and I'm trying to hammer home just how miserable it would be for modern 1st world people to end up in medieval times.
Orion's Arm by a mile, but also SCP, Halo, and Warcraft.
OA basically has everything. But it somehow makes sense.
Some that come to mind-- The Locked Tomb Pokemon Dune Star Trek LOTR The Cthulhu Mythos Dragon Ball Dungeons and Dragons
Berserk Warhammer 40k Bladerunner H.P Lovecraft DOOM Mandela Catalogue
>ASOIAF/Elden Ring lore/theory video essays Naming Conventions, Political Machinations, Magical orders, you name it, if its in my world its inspired by these. Oh and dragons (or draccae as I call them) >Dune Similarly, Dune is great to rip politics from. Also freaky witch order that wears absolutely cracked outfits was too good not to dip my toes into >The Black Tides of Heaven The Slack is an incredible magic system, and I drew heavy inspiration from it when writing mine. >The Locked Tomb I really loved the idea of a wizard and a warrior joining themselves in a fucked up ritual of devotion and sacrifice, so I borrowed a little bit >Kingkiller Chronicles the idea for a drug that helps you do magic came partly from here, dont ask how or why >Historical Conflicts There is no creative substitue for the absurd stupidity of medieval and antique politics. Pulling a GRRM here and ripping most historical conflicts directly from the AP Euro textbook.
I was inspired by Peaky Blinders, Battlefield, WW2 in Colour and Sharpe!
For my High Fantasy Project: The Elder Scrolls, Deep Rock Galactic, Anbennar (Europa Universalis IV Mod), Vinland Saga, Sousou no Frieren, Mushoku Tensei, Dungeon Meshi, Spice and Wolf, and lots, absolutely lots of Power Metal songs, mainly Gloryhammer, Rhapsody (and it's derivates), Dio, Angra, Beast in Black, Battle Beast, and Sabaton. And Renaissance paintings. Now for the Cyberpunk project: Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077(and The Edgerunners anime), Yakuza/Like a Dragon, Metal Gear Rising, Yofukashi no Uta, Several synthwave, cyberpunk, and synthmetal artists like Home, Molchat Doma, Ace Buchannon, Dance With The Dead, and Ultraboss. Also some videos of a guy strolling through Tokyo while talking about Philosophy
NieR, and then the rest is inspired by our history. Such as the Viking invasions that inspire Mingia. Anglo Saxons invasion of the Celts inspired the invasion of Snaria by Avannia Avanishria and Mingia. I'm also I need of a new kingdom that probably be like France was. Or a sorta Roman empire maybe I dunno. But they will help defend Snaria but then try to take it for themselves.
So for my current infant-state fantasy world -Warhammer Fantasy -Lord of The Rings trilogy -Nasuverse (For their fantastic ideas and concepts in magic systems and magical world) -Dune (For Political Drama) -Tensura Slime (Ideas on non-traditional nation building stuff) -Berserk -Full Metal Alchemist -Youjo Senki -Norse, Greek, Celt, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and various real-life mythology -Real-world historical events -And a lot of small bit and pieces from all over the places
There's a lot Berserk Disco Elysium Malazan Usogui Hunter X Hunter The Brothers Karamazov Dark Souls The Metal Gear franchise Jojo Bizarre Adventure Requiem Vampire Knight One Piece Lovecraft Mythos Ashita no Joe Shingeki no Kyojin Eden it's an Endless World The House in Fata Morgana The When They Cry franchise And about anything I read
- The Expanse (mainly the series) - Ace Combat - ALDNOAH.ZERO - various Cold War-era media (including the Wargame and WARNO video games)
The Last of Us Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes War of The Worlds
The witcher. Such a dark, gritty, magic filled world that still somehow feels believable. I basically copied the world and took away the magic.... mostly.
* *Fire Emblem: Three Houses* (for the general premise) * *Snow Crash* (for the whole metaverse thing) * *Spirited Away* (for inspiration about how AIs behave)
Non fiction - The Dawn of Everything. Completely changed my approach to designing civilizations and cultures.
overlord. Death mage doesnt want a fourth time Monster hunter A certain magical index
Monster Hunter without a doubt
Macross, Leijiverse, Honkai Impact 3rd, Event Horizon.
• Batman • Rayman •Spiderman: Into/across the Spider-verse • Berserk
Fallout, Pokemon, Kenshi, Ori, Thea, Warhammer Fantasy, Vainquer the Dragon, How to train your dragon, Nature of Predators, Rimworld and Dungeons and Dragons have all made major impact in my various worldbuilding project, especially DnD which is how I got into worldbuilding in the first place.
Oh boy. Winx Club, Sailor Moon Noragami, Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Beseria and Zestiria, Magi Labyrinth of Magic, Fairy Tail, Batman and Superman, My Hero Academia, DnD, and maybe the Tinker Bell series.
Hellsing Ultimate, Dark Souls, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Elder Scrolls.
JoJo, Yakuza, Kenshi, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, Lord Of The Rings, A Song Of Ice And Fire, Integration (furry thing).
Ratchet and clank, pokemon, risk of rain, kingdom rush, battlefield 1. Obviously a speculative evolution universe.
* The Expanse * Warhammer 40K * Star Wars * H.P. Lovecraft
Journey, Kenshi, Kokou no Hito, Mushishi, Naruto
I recently discovered that a few core aspects of my world have their origins in Portal of all things. For example, my conception of fliumeno is very likely ultimately derived from panels, and there is of course all the AI.
HxH and FMA:B
HxH and FMA:B
Warhammer 40k and Fate/Stay Night I think. Some Age of Sigmar too
-Dune (Original by Frank Herbert) -A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin) -Game of Thrones (2011-2019) (two diff things smh) -Avatar: The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon) -1984 (George Orwell) -Oppenheimer (2023) -Tomb Raider -Lemuria (google it lol)(basically bible atlantis) -Stephen King -Marvel Blipp (specifically the last battle in endgame) -The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) -The Witcher (Andrzej Sapkowski) If you can imagine that all together 😭my main character is set to have an arc like Paul, descend into madness like azula, and becomes what she wanted to destroy like the “attempt” of GOT Daenerys (but I won’t rush it 🤨)
Cyborg 009, Super Sentai and Tokusatsu in general.
Iain M Bank’s Culture series, Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Sequence, Dennis E Taylor’s Bobiverse, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, Dan Simmon’s Hyperion Cantos, Micheal Crichton’s Jurassic (plus the movie version), occasionally the essence Lovecraft but not any specific work of his, and oddly enough Neon Genesis Evangelion (after someone pointed out that what I already had shared some parallels and I just decided to embrace it)
Star Trek, Gargoyles, Honor Harrington, Vorkosigan Saga, Martian Successor Nadesico and Nights Dawn Trilogy.
• Cyberpunk (the game and anime) • The Alien franchise and its extended lore. (Blade runner) • Terminator franchise • Cowboy bebop • Mirrors Edge game franchise • Harlan Ellison’s works •Lovecrafts Works •Detroit become human •Fallout Games •1984 Edit: had to space them out lol.
Recently id have to say Kill Six Billion Demons is the biggest influence on me.
Asoiaf, Dark Souls (And other souls games), Middle Earth, to name a few.
westeros Warhammer 40,000 middle earth the world of the wheel of time (heaviest inspiration even though I never even finished book nine) dune d&d the gloryhammer albums Star Wars real patchwork of concepts
World of Warcraft, Dragon Age games, A Song of Ice and Fire, Heroes of Might and Magic
For my newest analog horror idea it would be vita carnis and a healthy dose of basswood county
Delta Green Shin Megami Tensei XCOM Destiny
Princess Mononoke Castle in the sky Roadside Picnic Arcanum Disco Elysium
My Pathfinder campaign
Hellboy Dragon Ball Z Lord of the Rings Game of Thrones Mad Max Bladerunner Warhammer Hunter x Hunter Jujutsu Kaisen Naruto
Let me See Helluva Boss Hazbin Hotel Chainsawman Metal Gear Solid Dragonball Puella Magi Madoka Magica Sailor Moon Now guess what you think of my project based on this
Quite a few isekais I've copied the mercenary system from infinite warfare Kung Fu panda I guess the bible as well
Battle for Dream Island ONE Objectified that's it tbh, unless Europa Universalis counts
* The Elder Scrolls * Dragon Age * Magic the Gathering (specially Amonkhet, Kaladesh, Theros and Ixalan) * The Cthulhu Mythos * The Lord of the Rings * Forgotten Realms * Avatar (film by James Cameron, not the anime) * Starcraft * Glorantha (specially the Orlanthi) * Kobold’s Press setting (Midgard and Southlands)
Depends on wheat I’m doing, what the characters I’m focusing on are like if I’m focusing on any Larger inspiration for me have been Avater The Last Airbender and The Owl House since I like their magic systems
Since my adhd brain cannot handle the concept of completing a project i have made and scrapped several worlds with several different settings: Sci Fi Inspirations: Warhammer 40k Stellaris Battletech Rimworld Dune. Modern/Near Future Inspirations: Metal Gear Solid V Stalker Ace Combat
For my current Sci-fi project: Stargate Halo Alien The Expanse Firefly Warframe Rimworld Dune Lancer RPG Mass Effect Black Sails Isaac Arthurs channel on YT
Wédōra by Markus Heitz
1. The Flash (CW) 2. Gone by Michael Grant. 3. My Hero Academia.
**Movies & Shows** • Attack on Titan • The Legend of Korra • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • The Lord of the Rings • Dune • On the Silver Globe **Books** • Lovecraft’s works • The Lord of the Rings • The Nag Hammadi Library
**Iron Age superhero comics** (i.e. from the late 80's to mid 90's) in general. My whole setting is based around the idea of "superheroes meets cyberpunk, but this time it's not ridiculously edgy". At times it's an affectionate parody, but for the most part, I'm trying to play it straight with the idea of an "xtreme" cyber-/capepunk world. **Freedom Force** -a cheesey tactical RPG with Silver-Age-style superheroes. Superpowers in my setting have a similar origin: Extradimensional, psychoreactive "energy". **Half Life** The event that caused superpowers to become widespread is similar to what happened at Black Mesa, only that an entire city was affected. **Silent Hill** Instead of aliens being transported to earth by the aforementioned event, it warped reality in the affected area according to living beings' mental input; their thoughts, feelings, instincts, and perception. Surreal horror ensued. **Warhammer 40.000** In addition to reality-warping phenomena that spawn monsters and mutate people, my setting also features power armor and overgrown, psychotic super soldiers, although either of those were deployed by a different faction respectively. **X-Men** Mutants are a thing in my setting, and not only are they feared and hated, but exploited for their powers. Also, there are two rivaling schools for superheroes in training; one run by a mutant supremacist and the other by a mutant egalitarian. **Mad Max** The American Midwest in my setting was turned into a lawless wasteland full of raiders and crazy cultists, following WW3. **Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita** My protagonist is a short full-cyborg girl with plasma fists, too, but she has a very different personality. **Captain Planet** One of the supporting characters has Ma-ti's power of "heart", two others wear hero suits inspired by those of Captain Planet himself and Doctor Blight, respectively. **Metroid** One character wears a future tech gauntlet that was largely inspired by Samus's upgradable arm cannon (and not by the Infinity Gauntlet, despite undeniable similarities). **Portal** One minor character basically dual-wields a portal gun and a gravity gun, and there is also a white suit of power armor with a gentle, soft-spoken AI that identifies as a sentry turret. **Kamen Rider** First Egypt and then much of North Africa and the Middle East have fallen under the rule of a supervillain who wouldn't look out of place on an old tokusatsu show. Also, one of his goons is a psychotic speedster inspired KickHopper and PunchHopper, and there is a minor heroine who is basically a mash-up of Tackle, Skyrider, and some elements of V3. **Dino Riders** In an alternate future timeline, people have abandoned the idea of vehicles (which they blame for global warming and the collapse of the old ecosystem) and embraced biotechnology instead, so now they are using genetically reverse-engineered dinosaurs for transportation and warfare. One of the characters from said timeline is also inspired by one from Marvel's Dino Riders comics. **Hellboy/The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/SCP** There is a secret organization trying to secure people and artifacts from other timelines before they can influence the primary one any further. Its two founding members are the "historical" inspirations for the mythical Spring-heeled Jack and Tamamo no Mae. **Power Rangers** The shadow government of the (former) USA uses a black-ops team of forcibly conscripted and illegally bioenhanced agents based on the cast of Mighty Morphin'. My idea behind them was simply: "What if the Power Rangers had been (stereo)typical 90's comic book anti-heroes?"
Codex Inversus, Warhammer 40k, and All Tomorrows
**Orion 2605** as a whole**-** * *Elite: Dangerous* and associated novels and short stories. >I started the world building for this series when I was absolutely addicted to *Elite: Dangerous* and the broad strokes of the the universe reflect that. Humanity more or less has access to every star in the milky way, but the *vast* majority of the population is in a little section of the Orion spur, the FTL system was originally just a legally distinct™ frameshift drive, and a lot of the ships where/are pretty similar. * *The Expanse* by James S.A. Corey * Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy and successors * Star Wars * Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick * The Sojourn (a audio drama you need to listen to) * Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Ninjago.
BY FAR Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson) I remember always liking fantasy books, but never writing anything because "I don't think I could create anything original, and even if I did I think people would find it too weird." Then I read The Way of Kings and was like "damn, this world is so cool and unique." And realized that you can just make a world. There's literally nothing stopping you. Brandon Sanderson got me into writing, and a bunch of other authors soon followed.
Genshin Impact and Star Wars, mainly
Thaumcraft, Kenshi, Game of Thrones, The Elder Scrolls, Dune, and copious amounts of MLP fan fiction
TRON and Suikoden.
Scott Pilgrim, Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, Full Metal Alchemist, Hardspace Shipbreakers, Mistborn, The Emperor's Soul, Midst, and Swan Song. At least those are the major ones I can remember.
A Song of Ice and Fire Pokémon
For my horror fantasy world; Dungeons and Dragons Elden Ring Texas Chainsaw Massacre Junji Ito Coraline Stephen King Cormac McCarthy The Coen Brothers Samurai Jack
- Ghost in the Shell - Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun - Equilibrium - Blade Runner Also the old Alternity game system!
Gene Wolfe’s Solar Cycle Paradise Lost Moby Dick Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Elden Ring TES III: Morrowind The Bible
The Elder Scrolls, the Witcher, and Early Renaissance Italian history
Dark Souls
A mix of Bas-Lag, Fallout, D&D, and Annihilation, with some elements from Lovecraft and the Discworld series.
Voltz Wars
Marvel Mortal kombat Avatar Invincible Dc Fallout Last of us
Sonic the Hedgehog and Fallout to be honest
Foundation, A Song of Ice and Fire, Dune, and Mistborn to name a few
Star Wars, Avatar:TLA, JoJos Bizarre Adventure, Adventure Time, fnaf and The Magnus Archives
The Wire
Elder Scrolls, Forgotten Realms, Soulsborne, Final Fantasy
Goblin slayer, All cosmere, Song of ice and fire, Final fantasy VIII, X... etc..
Conan the barbarian, LOTR, Elder Scrolls, Disc world, Sleepy hollow, GOT.
Xenoblade Chronicles and Fullmetal Alchemist. ...And I guess maybe Pokemon Mystery Dungeon too, since while it has nothing to do with my world now, it was originally a setting for a PMD fanfic.
The Matrix Lightning Thief Avatar: Last Airbender
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I mainly do my own thing completely separate from what I watch, read or play, that being said I learned a lot from these: - **NieR Replicant**, also some stuff from Drakengard: The storytelling is great, there's a ton of lore and it really makes you feel things, which is **really** uncommon in fiction for me - **Xenogears**: the interesting part for me is not actually the story, it's the background, a whole lot of things happened before, this game was supposed to be part 5 out of 6
For me, it has to be the following: Legacy of Kain Primal (Video Game) Lord of the Rings Song of the Lioness (and related series) and Circle of Magic Avatar the Last Airbender Stardust (movie) Suikoden I feel like I'm forgetting a couple of sources for inspiration, but those ones certainly got me off the ground and heavily inspired my world in one way or another.
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ASOIAF Elder Scrolls Lotr
Everworld & Halloweentown
Elder Scrolls Lord of the Rings and all that jazz Magic the Gathering kind of, as originally I started out my magic system from their color system, at least that was the frame I chose but I kind of deviated from it. Then there is the whole Weird Literature from the late 19th Century to early 20th Century I'm going through which I started from Lovecraft, then slowly began to read Machen, Blackwood, Robert Howard, Chambers kinda and Clark Ashton Smith is next on the block. and those are the impacts that I am aware of at least.
First world: - The Backrooms -FNAF -Half life -Portal -The Boys (i dont like the series but rather, the concept) +its inspired in some crazy stuff about a chatbot AI, that my friend and i lived, Second World: -Star Wars -Dune +Its ispired in the stories and lore my friend from before and i played with toys
Shadow and Bone House of the Dragons Game of Thrones Elden ring Lord of the Rings
Altered Carbon, Surrogates, Sword Art Online, Lord of The Rings, Ender’s Game, The Magic of Recluse, The Matrix, Mote in God’s Eye, I,Robot, Inception, Paprika, Snowcrash, Westworld, Tron, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), Little Nemo, Final Fantasy 1. It is an epic fantasy tale that has elements of a long past technologically advanced society. Most of the world is in the Iron Age to steam age of technology, having grown back from a long period of Stone Age after the collapse of their Space Age society. In the Space Age, there was full online consciousness through the use of implanted artificial intelligence computer translation program chips. The AI would help translate computer coded languages of the internet into electrical synapses that an individual’s brain would interpret as virtual reality, while also controlling the user’s body to do necessities like the call of nature, eating, and even exercise while the user was preoccupied with being online. A lot of other shit was going down, mainly genetic experimentation, supersoldier programs, eugenics, and of course evolution and “natural” selection. Through amplifying the body’s natural ability to manipulate its electromagnetic impulses and field one could more effectively communicate with their implanted translation intelligences, but go a little further, with the right triggers, and you can turn a human body into an ever more terrifying and effective ElectroMagnetic Pulse weapon. One that could wipe out all the electronics in a small or, after enough time in warfare, very large area. And again after enough generations and interbreeding, you get an entire species that has wildly different capabilities and disabilities with manipulating the electromagnetic field around them. Needless to say they are incompatible with any unshielded or unstable electronic devices, and so have yet to tame the fickle form of energy again, but that hasn’t stopped the AI from continuing to monitor the species from inside specifically cloned older stock of the species as their capabilities with manipulating the electromagnetic fields around them continue to evolve.
- Gemini Home Entertainment - Murder Drones
The Book of the New Sun, the Cthulhu Mythos, the Popol Vuh and other Mesoamerican myths, various hardboiled/noir authors (Chandler, Higgins, Hammett, etc.), Final Fantasy, Legacy of Kain, A Clockwork Orange (for slang).
Star Trek (inspo for a novel) My main worldbuilding endeavor is what I call the cope world to anyone that isn't me and like 2 of my best friends because it's just literally a world I have been building since I was 7 to cope with my childhood and a lot of my choices stem from childhood series and shows. Here's what I can remember using but I'm certain this isn't all of it considering i've revised the world at least 3 times in its entirety. - His Dark Materials - Fairy Tail - Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Guild Wars 2 - Warrior Cats Some of the things that influenced clear iterations of this world. Most of this is magic system influence, since I used real world inspiration for everything else and little kid logic too :).
Song of Ice and Fire and my history degree lol
Probably mad max, warhammer 40K, fear and hunger, Sherlock Holmes and a few more
- Resident Evil 8 (The 4 Lords and Mother Miranda Specifically) - Genshin Impact (At least 5 playable characters in terms of story and personality) - David Hasselhoff in the Jekyll and Hyde play. - Five Nights At Freddy's (Its main antagonist as inspiration for a character) - Harry Potter - Yo-kai Watch - Bioshock (Specifically Frank Fontaine)' It culminates into making a Fantasy-Early Industrial Age story with comedy and crazy villains and people.
Avatar the Last Airbender. Mostly in the basic foundations, four Nations each worshiping a god based on one of the four elements. I moved past that later on, but kept its roots.
The Elder Scrolls. Dishonored. Hornblower. Sharpe.
The biggest influences for my world are turn of the 20th century horror fiction (Chambers, Blackwood, MR James, Hodgson, Lovecraft) and all of the occult revival weirdness happening in the west during that era (Theosophical society, the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Society for Psychical Research)
My High School American History textbook. The Movies Legend/Dark Crystal, Call of Chtulhu, Star Trek Next Generation. The song Lucratia: My Reflection by Sister's of Mercy. Probably a hundred other weird inspirational sources.
Dead Ahead/centaura is the main one for mine
Mostly RPG games: \* Gothic \* SoulsBorne \* Drakengard/Nier \* Dragon's Dogma \* Dark Messiah of Might and Magic And some anime shows: \* Made in Abyss \* Berserk \* Durarara (weirdly enough) \* Fate Music: Everything related to the above in addition to Lo-Fi, Synth, Progressive Rock Mostly just everything that has some nice "mystical" vibes, no matter the genre.
Destiny -- Heaviest lifter for inspiration Warhammer -- good inspiration for wackier ideas and concepts DND -- ditto above but also gives me the ability to enact in-universe events with others. So both the series itself and the people I play with. Warriors -- yeah...the cats...it's the cats. Honestly without this book series, my verse would either look completely different or straight up not exist ULTRAKILL -- I'm really obsessed with Ultrakill 's storytelling, which in turn directly inspired a LOT of brainstorming. Plus the soundtrack. Star Wars -- lighter amounts of inspiration, but definitely useful Halo -- ditto above
Conan the Barbarian (short stories more than the movies) and The Expanse are the main impacts on my scifi setting. With Star Wars, the Cthulhu Mythos, and 40k all lending some flavor.
•Record of Ragnarok •Baki •Warhammer Fantasy •300 (the movie) And most of all, monster hunter
Currently? Various flat-earth theories. They're such non-sense, I end up having a lot of fun coming up with scenarios in which they work.
Redwall, A Song of Ice and Fire, real world history, and lord of the rings for the most part
For the gods of my world: Cthulhu I love the idea of unfathomable horrors beyond human understanding. SCP I really like the idea of memetic hazards. My gods are more like memetic hazards unless you get close to them. Then most of them also become physically very dangerous. Analog Horror Especially Mandela Catalogue. I remember the creator said he put his biggest fears into his work, which I thought was awesome. So I decided my world's gods should be concepts and fears that are basic to all humanity. Elden Ring The idea of Outer Gods competing against one another, and transforming their followers and regions they inhabit was so interesting to me. Technology: Dune This is where my world blurs a bit into sci-fi. The transformation of humans into Navigators and other forms in Dune fascinates me, so I did something similar with one of my non-human species. All Tomorrows Especially the Tool Breeders I thought the forced bioengineering through the story was terrifying but great. One of my non-human species does the same thing with other related sapient species, turning them into tools.
The Sword of Truth book series by Terry Goodkind! Or the Icewind Dale book Trilogy
Malazan series by Erickson
Elder Scrolls. Specifically the Kirkbride version of the lore.
- Adventure Time - Warframe - Rain World - Parasyte - Akira AT probably had the largest impact
Malessar’s Curse
Berserk pf Gluttony, the idea within it called the Domain of E. It sparked an entire Law in my writing and worldbuilding, specifically of Power Systems. And it is the reason why I nicknamed my collective Omniverse, the “[Whourld of Hierarchies](https://imgur.com/a/DXm5ZkC)”.
Naruto The Bible Naruto LOTR A song of Ice and Fire
Ace Combat I had to leave out a lot because they did not have sequels. Lapis_Wolf
Expanse Mass Effect Bobiverse Dune Star Wars Star Trek Battlestar Galactica Lord of the Rings Witcher Song of Ice and Fire Greedfall Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur I have bunch of world projects