Useful Links for Worldbuilding
This section contains links to sites I find useful when it comes to worldbuilding.
- Supernatural Powers and Abilities: A Fandom wiki that has a list of supernatural powers and abilities.
- Family Echo: A simple online website for making family trees. Can be saved in storage unless cookies and history are cleared. Trees can be exported as Gedcom files.
- English to Shakespearean: An exaggerated English to Shakespearean translator.
- Bryn Donovan's writing inspiration and resources: A blog with all sorts of writing inspiration and resources.
- Dictionary of Interjections: A list of English interjections.
- Online Symbolism Dictionary: A symbolism dictionary.
- Character Chart for Fiction Writers: Useful for developing fictional characters.
- The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb): Access movie scripts for dialogue and research.
- 638 Primary Personality Traits: A comprehensive list of personality traits.
- Master List of Physical Descriptions: A huge list of hair, eye, skin and build descriptors for writing characters.
- CHARAT: A free online anime-style avatar and character maker.
- British Royal Family History: Kings, queens and family trees of the British monarchy. Handy for researching royal lineages and titles.
- Timetoast: An online timeline maker, useful for plotting out a world's history.
- RanGen Personality Generator: Generates random personality profiles to base characters on.
Tools and Generators
Links to tools and generators I use for worldbuilding:
- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: Interactive and highly customisable maps.
- Fantasy name generators: Generates names for characters and more.
- Days between 2 dates: Calculator for figuring out days between two dates.
- How Old Was I on a Certain Day?: Calculate your age on a specific date.
- The Divine Wind — Quotes: A collection of quotes from the novel The Divine Wind.
- The Death Generator: Recreates dialogue and text screens from classic video games.
- Pastebin: The classic tool for sharing snippets of text and notes.
- Incorrect Quotes Generator: Generates "incorrect quotes" dialogue using your own characters' names.
- Best Nicknames: Names, name meanings and nickname ideas.
- Writebox: A distraction-free plain-text editor that runs in the browser.
- CK3 Coat of Arms Converter: Converts Crusader Kings 3 coats of arms into images. While this is more for games it can be useful if you are modding CK3 with your setting instead.
- Keyboard Shift Cipher (dCode): Encode and decode keyboard-shift ciphers — fun for in-world codes.
- ArtyClick Colors: Colour tools including a colour-name finder and palette explorers.