#originalworldbuilding

✨ Calling all fantasy artists + worldbuilders ✨ If you’ve ever wanted to step inside a living universe and help shape its visual identity, the Globiuz Premium Art Portal is now open.

This space is built for illustrators, concept artists, and creators who love deep lore, strange creatures, ancient forests, and worlds with real structure behind them. It’s a guide, a reference point, and an invitation to collaborate.

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If you want to dive deeper into the world itself:

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🌍 Welcome to Vael’Theron 🌍 The capital of Thedas. The heart of a world reborn.

Where steel meets soil. Where light is drawn from roots, not wires. Where three once-divided peoples now walk the same streets—and not always easily.

Above, the spires rise. Below, the deep city glows. And at the center... the forest breathes.

✨ Chapter 12 of Mass Effect: Pathfinder – Book One: Belonging is now live. New revelations, new history, and new fractures beneath the surface.

Old-fart storyteller

There’s something hauntingly beautiful about characters who don’t swing swords, cast spells, or command armies — the ones who simply watch the world and keep its memory alive. Bakarak is exactly that kind of soul.

He’s not a hero. Not a warrior. Not a chosen one.

He’s a wanderer with a notebook, drifting through Globiuz like a shadow, collecting the stories everyone else forgets.

He listens in taverns. He walks through ruins. He writes down the lives of ordinary people — the ones history usually erases.

And somehow, that makes him one of the most important figures in the entire world.

Because when kingdoms fall and legends fade, it’s the quiet historians who keep the truth from disappearing.

Bakarak feels like the patron saint of:

archivists

writers

wanderers

introverts

anyone who’s ever felt invisible but still wanted to leave something meaningful behind

He’s not shaping Globiuz with power — he’s shaping it with memory.

I’ve just published a new deep‑dive on one of Globiuz’s most unsettling inhabitants — the Krahters.

These creatures have always lived in the darker corners of the world, but I wanted to explore why they feel so wrong. Their malformed bodies, predatory instincts, and uncanny presence aren’t random — they’re part of a larger, older horror woven into Globiuz’s ecology.

If you’re into grotesque fantasy, folklore‑adjacent monsters, or worldbuilding that leans into the uncanny, here’s the full piece: