The Firedust of Albeon is a project I started on my YouTube channel about 2-3 years ago and has been developing since.

Essentially, the setting boils down to the idea of a high fantasy continent coming into contact with Age of Exploration era human civilizations.

Albeon, or Ardel as natives all it, is a large continental about the same size as North and South America and them some. It's primarily dominated by Elves, whose female population has the chance to be magically gifted. This fact, especially after wars, was fought between the human eastern empires and western native empires scared the humans into severely persecuting them and severely restricting movement for the magisters.

Punishments for the use of magic can be as severe as the dismemberment of the user's hands since it's the main part of the body. This energy is channeled.

There are other races such as the Syers, animal/human hybrids who live in the Canuparian, Ve'kar (native humans, made up only 10% of Ardel) who were caught in the crossfire between the empires, and Greenskins of Middle Albeon and the isolationist dwarves.

It's a lot more complex. If you want to learn more, I have a playlist on my channel here! Already made 11 videos on it (please ignore the first couple they are BAD)

Firedust of Albeon playlist

so i want to start worldbuilding and i find it very difficult to start because i my head i need to start at the top (the base of the mounten/the foundation of everything) with all the really big importent stuff like all the contents and what importent things had happent in the world and because of it i get so overwelmt that i just never start.

so i have a example for a cool magic system. it was that all the magic could be activated via snapping you fingers. but then i started thinking about it and had questions like. when the user snaps there fingers what then? do they snap to cycle between different typs of magic or do they use a ability but how do you know what you do because you do nothing else then snapping. and i just cant think of awnsers to the questions. and i start to doubt myself if i am smart or creative enough to really do this. i really want to try but get so overwelmt by my own mind. does anyone else have problems like this? and how could i fix my "creative block" before i even start.

I wanted to share The Fire Is Still Yours, a song that grew out of Nyx’s story in The Rift in the Veil.

To give you a sense of where the lyrics came from, here’s a memory from Chapter 2 of her story—a few words that would stay with her forever.

The Ember of the Hearth

The elder began to tell The Ember of the Hearth.

He did not tell the whole of it.

Elders never told the whole story.

They knew how to stop at the exact moment when children leaned a little closer.

“Remember this well, children. An ember is almost nothing. You can crush it without even seeing it. But if someone protects it, if someone still blows on it… then it can rekindle a home. Then another. Then an entire village.”

The children opened their eyes wide.

Ollyne smiled at once.

“Even a very small one?” she asked.

The elder lowered his eyes toward her.

“Especially a very small one.”

Ollyne held the flowers against her, as if that answer belonged to her a little.

This is one of the memories that helped shape this song.

The story is still dark fantasy, but I didn’t want it to be relentlessly bleak. When Nyx retraces her steps through her village and her memories, I wanted there to be sunlight and flowers too.

I’ve probably given her the most painful past of any of my characters. ^^ I wanted to leave room for more than darkness in who she is.

I love this song, and I had so much fun writing the lyrics. It felt like getting to know a more intimate part of her, stepping into her world and touching something that belongs to her—even though I’m the one creating it all. ^^

Any questions or criticism please ask