The Little Tome of Magic Fantasy World Building (Fiction Writing Guides)
Language: English
Published by Bats, 2025
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- Title
- The Little Tome of Magic Fantasy World Building (Fiction Writing Guides)
- Author
- Bats, Aryn
- Publisher
- Bats
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798233479700
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: Guides to Fictional World Building.
Worlds are not built. They are uncovered.
Every unforgettable fantasy world feels older than the story it appears in, as if it existed long before the first page and will continue long after the last. But how do you create a world that breathes, remembers, and resists?
In The Little Time of Magic Fantasy World Building, author and worldbuilder Aryn Bats invites you beyond surface-level maps and magic systems and into the deeper architecture of imagined realms. This is not a checklist or a rigid formula. It is a living guide, designed to be written in, argued with, abandoned, and returned to.
Inside, you'll find expansive, fillable frameworks for every layer of world building, from cosmology and geography to culture, history, language, ecology, and power. You'll explore how magic scars the land, how politics grow from resources, how monsters mirror humanity, and how contradictions can become lore rather than mistakes. A dedicated dark fantasy section digs into decay, corruption, moral collapse, and hope that arrives at a cost.
This guide is built for novelists, game designers, and storytellers who love world building not as a preliminary task, but as an art form in its own right. Whether you are creating a single haunted city or an entire universe spanning generations, this book gives you the space and structure to do it with intention.
Write slowly. Skip freely. Leave blanks.
Let your world push back.
Because the goal is not to explain everything...
It's to build a world that feels like it could survive without you.
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About the Author
Aryn Bats is a Canadian author of horror, psychological thrillers, serial killer crime fiction, dark gothic fantasy epics, and relentless suspense. A self-publishing indie writer, Aryn began releasing work publicly at age 48, though the passion for storytelling started at sixteen. After decades working in the trades, a severe back injury and long recovery shifted the course of his life. When the depression lifted following successful spine surgery, the urge to write returned stronger than ever.
Bats dusted off an old manuscript written as a teenager, expanded it into a full saga, and has not stopped since. Known for twisted serial-killer crime sagas like Grey Kong, Bah Bah Blacksheep, and Cry Little Sister, as well as Dark Fantasy Epics such as Brackengloom, also atmospheric stand-alone horrors such as The Coroner's Daughter, 1313, Marlowe's Grin.
Bats blends psychological depth with dark, immersive storytelling.
Readers who enjoy the unsettling tension of Stephen King, the psychological sharpness of Gillian Flynn, or the stylized darkness of shows like Hannibal, Dexter and Mindhunter will find a familiar chill in Aryn's work.
Bats has more than 30 new stories in development... proof that sometimes a second chance at life ignites a fiercer voice than the first.
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