Concept
The Wonderful, Wild, and Wyrd… Far from any map you know, between the folds of twilight and dawn, lies a realm whispered about only in travelers tales. It is not just a place but many stitched together. Rolling meadows of silver grass that hum like violins in the wind. Forests where the bark of trees reshapes each night, never taking the same form. Lakes ripple with colours unseen by mortal eyes, reflecting memories instead of skies.
Here, direction is but a suggestion - you might walk straight and arrive in yesterday, or follow a crooked path and find tomorrow sitting down for tea.
The Wonderful
🎭 The Whimsical (Gravity Falls, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cult of the Lamb)
- The grotesque can be charming; the unsettling can be funny.
- Trickster spirits, oddball creatures, riddles and puns woven into encounters.
- Levity balances dread so the uncanny remains enchanting, not oppressive.
The Wild
🍂 The Melancholic (Over the Garden Wall, Grimm)
- Autumnal hues, candlelight, twilight forests.
- A sense of things fading, ending, or slipping into memory.
- Beauty tinged with sorrow, like finding joy in a song that makes you cry.
The Wyrd
🌑 The Uncanny (Twilight Zone, Grimm)
- Rules that feel inevitable but alien (What you give, you gain).
- Morality expressed in stark, fairy-tale absolutes.
- The world tests travelers relentlessly — not to punish, but to reveal.
Raw Concept / Inspiration
- Twilight Zone
- Over The Garden Wall
- Gravity Falls
- Tim Burton animations like Nightmare Before Christmas
- Brothers Grim fairy-tales
- Cult of the Lamb
- Alice in Wonderland
Inhabitants
- Laughing masked Jackdaws
- Lantern Beasts -
- The Patchwork folk
- The Candleborn
- Sentient anrtho mice and rats, otters and beavers, skunks and turtles.
- Hollow Choir
- Mirrorlings and Wyrdlings
Laws of the Realms
- What you give, you gain.
- What you fear, you face.
- What you wonder, you find.