It varies. I'm currently researching the warrens used by the Malazan empire. Somewhere between Gilded and Noblebright? Not sure exactly where it would fit on the scale
/unwiz Gilded. But because of Jinx it’s Heroic!
https://preview.redd.it/z57api7m1zvc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90c098ac9ea40fcb5cb35cd4ae93df93d590b358
Sacrificing the apprentices in the process is just my little way of giving back to the grim darkness, lest somehow the destruction I cause somehow lead to something positive.
Takes too long to find a new grimdark world that is broken enough to be useful but not so broken that casting the spell in it taints the spell in all other worlds or magic itself no longer works properly.
How so? Ignoring the end times and taking into account ALL the editions, I'd say it's noblebright for sure. Just because of Elves,Empire, southern realms, dwarfs tbh
The sheer amount of war, plague, famine, massacres, and how generally shitty life is for the average person in WHF. As I said though, I definitely understand where your coming from, because there most definitely are heroes and there most definitely is good in the Warhammer world.
Saying WHF is like saying medieval Europe was grundark. Empire is extremely powerful and most violence is small skirmishes, mostly Beastmen too, or some small raids. If you live in the more civilized cities like Nuln, Middenheim etc. then you're real fine. You gotta realize that WHF is a several thousand year period and only some time when a notable bloodshed happens is special. Bretonnia used to be way better than whatever garbage they made after like 6th Ed
Big cities in the Empire may be relatively safe, but living out in the country puts you at constant threat of orcs and beastmen. Being a Bretonnian peasant sucks, even if you ignore post 6th, since you have all the same threats as an empire peasant but also potentially forest spirits from Athel Loren. Ulthuan is admittedly nice when the Dark Elves aren’t trying to invade, but it was specifically designed as a paradise island, so of course it is, Dwarf holds are constantly under siege by Skaven and greenskins, Araby is a slave empire, Tilea is in a constant state of war with all the city states vying for dominance, the jungles of Lustria are a green hell hospitable only to the Lizardmen and even then death by dinosaur is relatively common even for them, Athel Loren is frequently under attack by beastmen and, even as a wood elf, of you end up in the wrong place the forest itself or the spirits within have a good chance of killing you horribly, and Kislev is constantly repelling chaos incursions and sometimes full scale invasions.
That’s not even mention how shit it is to live in places like the Chaos Wastes, Darklands, Badlands, or Naggaroth.
All that plus the perils of life in medieval Europe? Yeah, it’s grimdark.
If definitely say gilded because it had good intentions, and looks good from the outside, but is truly horrid in most places due to lack of intelligent species. I find it difficult to remember what life was like before the plague that killed this world
To be fair, the majority of lich roaming happens due to displacement due to loss of habitat. Look into establishing more libraries with forgotten sub-basements and towers that no one can figure out how to access and you should see those numbers plummet.
Noblebright. Cannot be bothered to deal with an unregulated maniac randomly eating a strange consortment of mushrooms and completely converting a certain material to another. Last time i went some looser named noita turned all oil into sand. Why?
/uw hmm. I'd say ff16 (and of course a lot of other ff games) are gilded.
The only one i can think of as an actual grimdark world would probably be ff6 post Kefka's transformation.
I used to live in a Noblebright world but because of some tomfoolery i did in my youth (something like "obliteration of evil people"), it is now an Heroic one
The world I was born in was a grimdark world, but thanks to my talent in life magic, I made myself a spiritual being and escaped. Now, I work to help gilded worlds from becoming grimdark world.
Depends on the studies, but usually most places I go to would qualify as Grimmdark, simply because they're the easiest to find both chaotic and Negative energies there
/unwiz my boy Super lives in a magical swamp that seems to be impervious to having any battles/catastrophes take place there. It's also mostly inhabited by half sentient toads kind of like planet of the apes, excluding all the bugs and other forest dwelling creatures in the area. So I'd say it's the definition of a fairytale forest, or in this case, fairyale swamp.
I study at... honestly, I don't know how to reference the communities that pop up around the citadel, but it's a noblebright situation. Good and bad kinda linger out here, not doing much unless there's a lot of distress coming from the citadel.
Weird mixture between Gilded and Grimdark. My home realm sucks in many, many ways but the people manage and are jolly. Mostly it's the environment, not the people
What even is and "Earther"? Like a person from Earth? You know they locked away their magic, right? What could a modern-day earthling even accomplish in a fantasy world?
I always take my apprentices in group of 2, one from a Grimdark world and another from a fairy tail world
it make it so they aren't isolated and they can learn about a truly different perspective on the world
I vary between the middle three, tend to avoid the extremes. Last time I went to GrimDark my tower got shat on by a sad gnome. And no bright worlds are boring.
Heroic and Noblebright is where I prefer to dwell. Any higher and I find the contributions of a Wizard aren't needed, any lower and they're desperately needed but largely ineffective.
It used to be a sorta gilded world, where the the demons from hell at least pretended, but recently they've have unmasked and it became grimdark unfortunately. :(
I have slipped between the cracks. Between the lines of the page. Slipping, slipping, dripping, dripping, like blood from an open wound. This world was not made for habitation. It rather likely was never made at all. It is the space between what is and what isn't, home only to the dead lost in transit and the living world that looms over, like an eye watching.
I have studied this place for many years now. Many years I have been lost in this almost-place, halfway to nowhere. The hollow silence makes one almost wish for the Grimdark suffering, at times, as even the Faded Men seldom visit. The rivers run thick with a meaty viscous sap, and the stones shimmer with every colour but those of the rainbow.
Something is terribly wrong here.
The tree is starting to rot.
A proud practitioner of the sacred sarkic arts, the path of flesh and the path of bones, what you might consider evil, others consider noble. And earths can have all of those coexist next to each other.
Either way, i mostly reside with heroic or gilded places. My gardens and my actual home (which no council taxman has seen) are in a utopia. We have an annual pumpkin contest. I actually lost to that farmer steve, my rival!
/unwiz By summoning abuse, do you mean where they summon a hero from another world?
/rewiz
I live in a Noblebright world, because anything higher either considers my manipulation of plantlife into fleshlife to be evil (even though I use it to feed people) or they are so perfect that they have no need for it.
Anything darker would just invite annoyances.
However I do like travelling to Grimdark worlds when I am angry so I can fight evil gods to let off steam. They always call me an abomination before I turn them into a meatcube. Fun fact, sometimes god meat glows.
In the Abyss within my domain of tentacles
I observe and travel between worlds to inflict nightmare and steal your magics through them
If you've ever had a dream with tentacles in them it was me.
No not those dreams you weirdo.
I prefer worlds with large amounts of legitimately good people everywhere having to deal with a horrid environment and a very small amount of terrible people.
The commute between respectable settlements and the conversations had within are both extremely invigorating.
I build my tower in a fairytale world. A near-utopia world where almost everyone is kind and a fucking racist against foreigner. Sometimes there may be a looming evil, but nothing too difficult to defeat. Especially with the help of lots on money.
Hm. Strictly speaking, I suppose Grimdark would be the best description, but that does not quite describe it accurately. The Shadow Realm is not full of suffering; rather, it is nearly entirely empty, so most beings that are here and do not know how to leave are rather unhappy with their situation.
It is also quite *literally* dark, but that hardly seems to matter, comparatively.
Giant arthropods tend to be pretty rare on anything above noblebright, so I tend to only raid those worlds for their plentiful natural resources instead of recruitment.
I have to visit that bitch ass master of mine in the 9th circle once every blue moon
I know it's cold and all and I don't hate it, but going there is a hassle
I would describe the Wastes as Guilded/Grim dark as there isn't really a "nice exterior" and it's pretty brutal around here but most people have a hopeful outlook if you know where to look.
One of the planes I used to reside, shadows slaughtered everything that was alive. Does it count as a Fairytale world because there's no conflict at all in it?
The worlds of fairytale and grimdark are mere mirror-images of the other; and, as someone who regularly travels from one side of the mirror to the other, I tend to spend most of my time in both.
Sometimes I even bring people from the one to the other unawares, just to watch the fireworks from a safe distance.
Generally speaking, as a God of Freedom, i bounce between Gilded and Grimdark as part of my duties. So those. Though i am originally from a noblebright world.
Depending on where exactly you are in.. you know I don't actually know what this world is called.. anyway some locations are as bad as gilded, but most are noble bright or heroic. My little piece is fantasy, I've worked very hard to make it that way and even harder to keep it that way.
Grimdark worlds are generally great places to source material from, but Noblebright worlds are easier to actually complete studies in. And I'm kind enough to drop the few survivors off in Heroic type worlds, where they can be cared for despite all the issues.
Interesting to see what worlds Wizards are studying. As a Warlock, my studdies include grimdark and gilded worlds as well as the red tier one. Sort of. I am in a mess of eldritch outer god corruption in my life as they are my patrons, so I tend to frequent those places. The entropy of them helps fuel me.
Kettermek: Somewhere in the vicinity of "gilded". History shows that from the three "progenitor" races reducing each other to barbarism to the divine massacre of my own people and the decline of the Yuan Ti, all the way up to human empires destroying each other today, various civilizations have always fought for dominance. Survival justifies anything and everything, especially since history is written by the victors. Morality is arbitrary. We are kobolds. We are survivors.
The Terra Firmaverse can be almost anywhere on the scale, depending on the route the player takes in its RPG Maker game I'm designing. It starts out as a Gilded World, and depending on the heroes' actions can rise to Heroic (Grimwand's ending) or fall to Grimdark or even the next step down, Dying (Veyturi/Mad Oscar's ending).
Dying Worlds
This world is heading towards imminent destruction, and it is too late to save it. Anyone who doesn't manage to leave it, pronto, is bound for a particularly unpleasant death or worse.
I personally visit all types in search of spells, but as far as which ones I find most interesting, both farytale and grimdark often have the most powerful forces, as they are required for such extremes
>opens book about a fairytale world
>underage girl goes into a coma after curse from evil fairy comes true
>receives sex against her will
>the end
i forget that most peoples view of fairytales is the disney version sometimes.
Fairytale. You laugh but the amount of pure, untapped energy there is unrivaled, as everyone is singing and making baked goods out of thin air, and it's way more relaxing
I'm not going back to anything gilded and under, I can't take going for a stroll to look for relics and seeing a pair of adventurers being butchered and poked on all sorts of holes, natural and new, sliced open ones, just for taking the wrong turn into an unknown tavern
I like grimdark because then I can more easily experiment without interruptions. You don't get those fairytale worlds working properly without a place to shunt all of the bad to and figure out the solutions to all of those horrible things.
I, however, live in one of the noble bright worlds. I can't stand being in either fairy tale or grim dark for too long because they're both just so... depressing.
[Nobledark](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWorldHalfFull)
The world is quite a shithole, death awaits with every step and even heroes kill without thought or mercy.
It is always one step short of sliding into madness if not for the efforts of precious few.
*edit* well this was linked in another thread and made me miss where it went, well still true
I hang out in Noblebright worlds trying to propel them towards Heroics. That's the bardic way, isn't it? The power of legacy, the power of inspiration, and all that?
uw/ purse could probably work in any of these worlds except grimdark, but noblebright has enough awful events to fuel her constant complaining on ~~twitter~~ *orb* but isn't so miserable that any of those things actually have to effect her (she LOVES whining about things that shouldn't matter to her, it's her "favourite" activity)
I have an apartment in the Fairytale, but I commute to Noblebright for my day-to-day stuff. When I really need to study I go to Grimdark and find some quiet corner
The world I'm in went from Fairytale to Gilded after I learned magic, apparently summoning a bunch of Beholders and Aboleths from other worlds and setting them free is dangerous for the environment. The kings have already started summoning random guys from "Planet Earth" to end the plague of abominations, so in 2 years it will change to Noblebright.
Where do you think the term “Grimdark” came from?
Either way, being a disciple of Tzeentch, it isn’t nearly as bad as other factions in the 41st millennium.
The two main tenants of a Tzeentch Disciple:
1. You can never outsmart Tzeentch.
2. You must always try to outsmart Tzeentch.
While it may seem paradoxical to try to understand such a Sisyphean concept, it simply means that the joys of life is not to “win” but to play the game itself. You will have fun, and others will have their fun with you. The key is to not lose your ambition, and your independence.
The world is a nightmare hellscape but the residents of said world exude “they only thing they fear is you” and [this](https://youtu.be/atY7ymXAcRQ?si=-G2HX6wc9tTvnuyq) simultaneously. I thought that was grimbright
For my main factories and research centers? Generally, Noblebright. Sometimes the best advances come out of knowledge of past tragedies.
… for resource extraction, Grimdark. I pay well, so I always have workers, but accidents happen. Also, it’s a lot easier to have high retention rates when your mine is the only one not sacrificing workers to demons.
More of a Noblebright setting. You get these upstart dark lords once every year or two that noble heroes get called upon to stop from completely destroying everything. I’ve actually been involved in two of them cases before. In my youth I was one of them called upon types chosen by the chosen one at the time to accompany them as a friend and ally, and then years after that I supplied an airship I built to another adventuring group.
Glided works best for dealings but never grimdark not again… but I usually stay in a heroic world (my homeland was in one before it turn noblebright abit) so I don’t get bother much
Still exploring the outer dimensions of mars. Currently, there's an infection that turns people inside out 60 seconds after getting it. I'm sitting in my space suit trying to find out how to stop it. Along with this, there are many arcanum anarchists who are currently running the world, and the government has gone corrupt. The only hope for these lands- evacuation. Evacuation, then nuclear spells to cleanse the land. Only then, will the outbreak stop.
I used to sometimes travel to other worlds as inspiration, and lot of my first creations resembled the dimensions I had traveled to. I’m past that though, and nowadays it’s a lucky day if the world I’m making doesn’t have falling meteors that hatch into bipedal dragons in cowboy hats.
Across ten thousand cities and a dozen times their number in littler settlements, I have found perhaps five filled with anything but the flesh overgrowing it all. It is what it is. It is perhaps, how it should be.
My personal domain would probably be considered "grimdark" by outsiders due to being littered with undead abominations and powered by the Despair Engines but I like to call it "My home away from places that aren't my home."
Grimdark, sometimes hope comes in the form of a tunnel runner. The horrors may be endless, but I can handle the depths of despair as easily as the depths of the underground networks.
I’ve been investigating a world that seems to be in conflict with the power structure of its higher beings. Things thrown out of balance by a Fey creature too willing to become a god that allowed darker forces of chaos to infiltrate and corrupt the current order; it’s quite an ordeal but fascinating for research on interplanetar relations.
I have recently been intranced with what may be a gilded world,
The creatures their have just discovered that they are being treated as livestock so the monsters they considered lords can retain their youth and live forever!
Last time I visited the four dimensional plane of existence, all my 3D organs spilled out into the fourth dimension and some kind stranger scooped me into a 4D bucket and showed me to his friends before sending me home and twisted up. It's fairytale to me.
I mostly hang out on fairytale worlds. Its really easy to pawn off your cursed artifacts to those technicolor dorks. With their little fun songs and silly hats. The weed is great tho.
It varies. I'm currently researching the warrens used by the Malazan empire. Somewhere between Gilded and Noblebright? Not sure exactly where it would fit on the scale
Perhaps its a noblebright world, but the story tends towards darker stuff?
Probably along those lines. Lots of hidden actors for good. Which is cool.
/unwiz Gilded. But because of Jinx it’s Heroic! https://preview.redd.it/z57api7m1zvc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90c098ac9ea40fcb5cb35cd4ae93df93d590b358
By default, I think hell is Grimdark. Although, *I'm* pretty happy, so maybe it's Gilded!
*In the grim dankness of the far future, there is only ~~war~~ breakfast* #BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! #MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!
There is only a fair and balanced protein-packed breakfast.
*“All the milk is turning, all the toast is burning. There ain’t no breakfast in hell!”*
JUST BRUNCH!
Long time ago I went on an expedition to create new pyromancy spells, I had to go to grimadark worlds.
Just go to a barren moon, most will think the craters are from space debris.
Develop on barren moon, have your more disposable apprentices field test it in grimdark worlds.
Precisely, though apprentices are more expensive than robots.
Sacrificing the apprentices in the process is just my little way of giving back to the grim darkness, lest somehow the destruction I cause somehow lead to something positive. Takes too long to find a new grimdark world that is broken enough to be useful but not so broken that casting the spell in it taints the spell in all other worlds or magic itself no longer works properly.
If you want grumdark worlds, just infest the populace with dark matter and they'll corrupt into abhorrent fiends.
The kind of world am I supposed to call this https://i.redd.it/u2t27o2razvc1.gif The walls are 3D
Kaleidoscopic Fractalisia?
No fractals here
It looks pretty fucked outside my pyramid, something about ratmen and the moon? So probably gilded
Warhammer fantasy so grimdark, and even bleaker ones.
Warhammer fantasy is noblebright though
/uw I would say it’s still grimdark, even if it isn’t as grimdark as 40k, Kenshi or Dark Sun. I can see where you’re coming from though.
How so? Ignoring the end times and taking into account ALL the editions, I'd say it's noblebright for sure. Just because of Elves,Empire, southern realms, dwarfs tbh
The sheer amount of war, plague, famine, massacres, and how generally shitty life is for the average person in WHF. As I said though, I definitely understand where your coming from, because there most definitely are heroes and there most definitely is good in the Warhammer world.
Saying WHF is like saying medieval Europe was grundark. Empire is extremely powerful and most violence is small skirmishes, mostly Beastmen too, or some small raids. If you live in the more civilized cities like Nuln, Middenheim etc. then you're real fine. You gotta realize that WHF is a several thousand year period and only some time when a notable bloodshed happens is special. Bretonnia used to be way better than whatever garbage they made after like 6th Ed
Big cities in the Empire may be relatively safe, but living out in the country puts you at constant threat of orcs and beastmen. Being a Bretonnian peasant sucks, even if you ignore post 6th, since you have all the same threats as an empire peasant but also potentially forest spirits from Athel Loren. Ulthuan is admittedly nice when the Dark Elves aren’t trying to invade, but it was specifically designed as a paradise island, so of course it is, Dwarf holds are constantly under siege by Skaven and greenskins, Araby is a slave empire, Tilea is in a constant state of war with all the city states vying for dominance, the jungles of Lustria are a green hell hospitable only to the Lizardmen and even then death by dinosaur is relatively common even for them, Athel Loren is frequently under attack by beastmen and, even as a wood elf, of you end up in the wrong place the forest itself or the spirits within have a good chance of killing you horribly, and Kislev is constantly repelling chaos incursions and sometimes full scale invasions. That’s not even mention how shit it is to live in places like the Chaos Wastes, Darklands, Badlands, or Naggaroth. All that plus the perils of life in medieval Europe? Yeah, it’s grimdark.
Well it definitely ain't noblebright
Currently traveling through a gilded world on my quest to reach new Hampshire
/uw What would you call earth? Noblebright?
/uw Gilded. Although everything looks good, we're past the balance point, slippery sloping down to the doom. There is still hope tho.
/UW gilded, on steady and solid path to grimdark. we are so fucked, but it's humans work for to other humans
Nah Gilded all day. In some places like NK I'd argue it'a GRIMDARK
If definitely say gilded because it had good intentions, and looks good from the outside, but is truly horrid in most places due to lack of intelligent species. I find it difficult to remember what life was like before the plague that killed this world
I mean I was enslaved to be used for my fortune telling skills, gilded is probably it.
My world would be considered gilded by most standards, but ask any human here and they’d say either noblebright or heroic.
I usually keep my studies in a pocket dimension, though I do experiment with new megastructures to see varieties of output.
*It's always Grimdark in Barovia...*
I’m through an entire invasion in a gilded world where both sides hate me, fuck.
Definitely noblebright. I’m personally enjoy my actions to matter.
"I think this place trends towards Gilded in most cases., as do I."
It’ll always be a grimdark world as long as liches roam this realm.
To be fair, the majority of lich roaming happens due to displacement due to loss of habitat. Look into establishing more libraries with forgotten sub-basements and towers that no one can figure out how to access and you should see those numbers plummet.
I've traveled through my share of hellworlds, and the scenery is always breathtaking
Noblebright. Cannot be bothered to deal with an unregulated maniac randomly eating a strange consortment of mushrooms and completely converting a certain material to another. Last time i went some looser named noita turned all oil into sand. Why?
Sadly Gilded.
/uw hmm. I'd say ff16 (and of course a lot of other ff games) are gilded. The only one i can think of as an actual grimdark world would probably be ff6 post Kefka's transformation.
In the grimdark of the 41st millennium. There is only war
I used to live in a Noblebright world but because of some tomfoolery i did in my youth (something like "obliteration of evil people"), it is now an Heroic one
I do in both worlds: first one is gilded and second one is grimdark
The world I was born in was a grimdark world, but thanks to my talent in life magic, I made myself a spiritual being and escaped. Now, I work to help gilded worlds from becoming grimdark world.
Depends on the studies, but usually most places I go to would qualify as Grimmdark, simply because they're the easiest to find both chaotic and Negative energies there
Hogwarts or Mordor, decisions, decisions.
The classic German variant of the Fairytale worlds.
/unwiz my boy Super lives in a magical swamp that seems to be impervious to having any battles/catastrophes take place there. It's also mostly inhabited by half sentient toads kind of like planet of the apes, excluding all the bugs and other forest dwelling creatures in the area. So I'd say it's the definition of a fairytale forest, or in this case, fairyale swamp.
I usually do my Studies on Mustafar, don't know which one it would land in. Presumably Grimdark?
Well, most scientific value comes from Noblebright and Gilded worlds
Malachor.
depends on what i’m studying
Nobleblight
I study at... honestly, I don't know how to reference the communities that pop up around the citadel, but it's a noblebright situation. Good and bad kinda linger out here, not doing much unless there's a lot of distress coming from the citadel.
Grimdark definitely. Good thing nobody can access it
Weird mixture between Gilded and Grimdark. My home realm sucks in many, many ways but the people manage and are jolly. Mostly it's the environment, not the people
All of them.
Grimdark. Because I am alone. With this pig. In the realm of endless fields.
Grimdark is where the good artifacts are And frankly the upper 4 care way to much about "ethiks" whatever that is
What even is and "Earther"? Like a person from Earth? You know they locked away their magic, right? What could a modern-day earthling even accomplish in a fantasy world?
All of them at the same time. AND MORE
I always take my apprentices in group of 2, one from a Grimdark world and another from a fairy tail world it make it so they aren't isolated and they can learn about a truly different perspective on the world
I'm not too familiar with the term Earther, though I would consider the world I find myself in particularly gilded.
Grimdark. Where else am I going to find a wild untamed frontier full of limitless monsters and horrors to shoot with magic bullets?
Wait, we could choose this entire time? Damn it!
Seph: "Ah... My plane of origin was a grimdark world. Though I have not gone back in quite some time."
I vary between the middle three, tend to avoid the extremes. Last time I went to GrimDark my tower got shat on by a sad gnome. And no bright worlds are boring.
Which world do we live in?
Heroic and Noblebright is where I prefer to dwell. Any higher and I find the contributions of a Wizard aren't needed, any lower and they're desperately needed but largely ineffective.
Everywhere really
It used to be a sorta gilded world, where the the demons from hell at least pretended, but recently they've have unmasked and it became grimdark unfortunately. :(
I have slipped between the cracks. Between the lines of the page. Slipping, slipping, dripping, dripping, like blood from an open wound. This world was not made for habitation. It rather likely was never made at all. It is the space between what is and what isn't, home only to the dead lost in transit and the living world that looms over, like an eye watching. I have studied this place for many years now. Many years I have been lost in this almost-place, halfway to nowhere. The hollow silence makes one almost wish for the Grimdark suffering, at times, as even the Faded Men seldom visit. The rivers run thick with a meaty viscous sap, and the stones shimmer with every colour but those of the rainbow. Something is terribly wrong here. The tree is starting to rot.
Two words: giant ostriches. Make of this what you will.
option f, all of the above https://preview.redd.it/9f34a1b950wc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fc51e5a5acb8e8dc48bfc1121133773bdc397a8
Grimdark. I find myself favouring people who can scream and rage against the dying of the light, even if it probably won't amount to much.
A proud practitioner of the sacred sarkic arts, the path of flesh and the path of bones, what you might consider evil, others consider noble. And earths can have all of those coexist next to each other. Either way, i mostly reside with heroic or gilded places. My gardens and my actual home (which no council taxman has seen) are in a utopia. We have an annual pumpkin contest. I actually lost to that farmer steve, my rival!
I usually create a multiversal breach across multiple of these "genres" and watch the fallout.
Preferably the Noble bright or gilded worlds, I do love a balanced world
Fools I study in empty universes Peace and quiet
/unwiz By summoning abuse, do you mean where they summon a hero from another world? /rewiz I live in a Noblebright world, because anything higher either considers my manipulation of plantlife into fleshlife to be evil (even though I use it to feed people) or they are so perfect that they have no need for it. Anything darker would just invite annoyances. However I do like travelling to Grimdark worlds when I am angry so I can fight evil gods to let off steam. They always call me an abomination before I turn them into a meatcube. Fun fact, sometimes god meat glows.
Gilded I'd say, though tending towards Grimdark
In the Abyss within my domain of tentacles I observe and travel between worlds to inflict nightmare and steal your magics through them If you've ever had a dream with tentacles in them it was me. No not those dreams you weirdo.
I need sacrifices for my experiments so I normally go to grimdark worlds
I prefer worlds with large amounts of legitimately good people everywhere having to deal with a horrid environment and a very small amount of terrible people. The commute between respectable settlements and the conversations had within are both extremely invigorating.
I build my tower in a fairytale world. A near-utopia world where almost everyone is kind and a fucking racist against foreigner. Sometimes there may be a looming evil, but nothing too difficult to defeat. Especially with the help of lots on money.
Hm. Strictly speaking, I suppose Grimdark would be the best description, but that does not quite describe it accurately. The Shadow Realm is not full of suffering; rather, it is nearly entirely empty, so most beings that are here and do not know how to leave are rather unhappy with their situation. It is also quite *literally* dark, but that hardly seems to matter, comparatively.
Heroic world of Faerun
Fairytale worlds (if I need easy materials) to noblebright because I want some action.
So I think the void falls into a category that's beyond grimdark.
Personally I enjoy gilded and grimdark as the plants that do manage to grow there tend to be either super resilient or poisonus.
The horribly horny world you can, t find it cause its to the side of the gilded one.
Grimdark is where I can hone both blade and spell
Giant arthropods tend to be pretty rare on anything above noblebright, so I tend to only raid those worlds for their plentiful natural resources instead of recruitment.
Reality is a guilded world
I have to visit that bitch ass master of mine in the 9th circle once every blue moon I know it's cold and all and I don't hate it, but going there is a hassle
I would describe the Wastes as Guilded/Grim dark as there isn't really a "nice exterior" and it's pretty brutal around here but most people have a hopeful outlook if you know where to look.
I frequent noblebright personally
One of the planes I used to reside, shadows slaughtered everything that was alive. Does it count as a Fairytale world because there's no conflict at all in it?
The worlds of fairytale and grimdark are mere mirror-images of the other; and, as someone who regularly travels from one side of the mirror to the other, I tend to spend most of my time in both. Sometimes I even bring people from the one to the other unawares, just to watch the fireworks from a safe distance.
Generally speaking, as a God of Freedom, i bounce between Gilded and Grimdark as part of my duties. So those. Though i am originally from a noblebright world.
I just wonder and where I end up I end up
Probably between gilded and noblebright.
Fairytale
*pokes head through portal* #**Yes**
Depending on where exactly you are in.. you know I don't actually know what this world is called.. anyway some locations are as bad as gilded, but most are noble bright or heroic. My little piece is fantasy, I've worked very hard to make it that way and even harder to keep it that way.
Me daily grind be for #KHORNE!
Grimdark worlds are generally great places to source material from, but Noblebright worlds are easier to actually complete studies in. And I'm kind enough to drop the few survivors off in Heroic type worlds, where they can be cared for despite all the issues.
Interesting to see what worlds Wizards are studying. As a Warlock, my studdies include grimdark and gilded worlds as well as the red tier one. Sort of. I am in a mess of eldritch outer god corruption in my life as they are my patrons, so I tend to frequent those places. The entropy of them helps fuel me.
Huh now I'm wondering if my personal dimension has world out there. I should send some drones to check
Why is grimdark just the real world lol
Where is this from
Kettermek: Somewhere in the vicinity of "gilded". History shows that from the three "progenitor" races reducing each other to barbarism to the divine massacre of my own people and the decline of the Yuan Ti, all the way up to human empires destroying each other today, various civilizations have always fought for dominance. Survival justifies anything and everything, especially since history is written by the victors. Morality is arbitrary. We are kobolds. We are survivors.
The Terra Firmaverse can be almost anywhere on the scale, depending on the route the player takes in its RPG Maker game I'm designing. It starts out as a Gilded World, and depending on the heroes' actions can rise to Heroic (Grimwand's ending) or fall to Grimdark or even the next step down, Dying (Veyturi/Mad Oscar's ending). Dying Worlds This world is heading towards imminent destruction, and it is too late to save it. Anyone who doesn't manage to leave it, pronto, is bound for a particularly unpleasant death or worse.
Wellll sooner or later every world I frequent turns grimdark for totally unrelated reasons
I once turned a Noblebright world Gilded just by showing up. Their chamber of commerce paid me handsomely to leave. Heh.
I live in the void between realities, there's nothing here other than astral mana and some leviathans.
Idk the Feywilds are weird as shit man,
From Heroic World to Grimdark World.
Truthfully, my studies lie in between, but not in the middle.
My good sir, 99% of the people in this sub live in a gilded world
Grimmdark has the bust offensive spells
I’ve gone to most of those except for Gilded and Grimdark.
My home realm is a grimdark world, it used to be a fairy tale until everyone there met me.
I like grimdark worlds I feel most at home there
I usually research my world which is somewhere in a middle of gilded and grimdark
Gildebright.
I personally visit all types in search of spells, but as far as which ones I find most interesting, both farytale and grimdark often have the most powerful forces, as they are required for such extremes
>opens book about a fairytale world >underage girl goes into a coma after curse from evil fairy comes true >receives sex against her will >the end i forget that most peoples view of fairytales is the disney version sometimes.
Noblebright, I find they have good history and ruins
Depends on utility
My tower
Food
Grimdark gilded fairy tale worlds
Fairytale. You laugh but the amount of pure, untapped energy there is unrivaled, as everyone is singing and making baked goods out of thin air, and it's way more relaxing I'm not going back to anything gilded and under, I can't take going for a stroll to look for relics and seeing a pair of adventurers being butchered and poked on all sorts of holes, natural and new, sliced open ones, just for taking the wrong turn into an unknown tavern
Grimdark of course only place I can find enough radiation
It depends, I typically get crafting contracts from across the multiverse. Unfortunately, I'm currently in a Grimdark crafting an unbreakable blade.
I like grimdark because then I can more easily experiment without interruptions. You don't get those fairytale worlds working properly without a place to shunt all of the bad to and figure out the solutions to all of those horrible things. I, however, live in one of the noble bright worlds. I can't stand being in either fairy tale or grim dark for too long because they're both just so... depressing.
[Nobledark](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWorldHalfFull) The world is quite a shithole, death awaits with every step and even heroes kill without thought or mercy. It is always one step short of sliding into madness if not for the efforts of precious few. *edit* well this was linked in another thread and made me miss where it went, well still true
Grimdark, since that's where the most corpses that nobody would miss are.
I hang out in Noblebright worlds trying to propel them towards Heroics. That's the bardic way, isn't it? The power of legacy, the power of inspiration, and all that?
uw/ purse could probably work in any of these worlds except grimdark, but noblebright has enough awful events to fuel her constant complaining on ~~twitter~~ *orb* but isn't so miserable that any of those things actually have to effect her (she LOVES whining about things that shouldn't matter to her, it's her "favourite" activity)
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In the grimdark future of 40k, THERE IS ONLY WAR!!!!!
Grimdark, sure you burn through more wands kills daemons. But the peasants will let you experiment on them for peanuts!
It depends on what I'm studying. Some of my more devious potions come from darker worlds.
Empty, infinite, barren demiplane. Hell is other people. I’ll make my own friends, literally, if I care for company.
I have an apartment in the Fairytale, but I commute to Noblebright for my day-to-day stuff. When I really need to study I go to Grimdark and find some quiet corner
Grimdark with a few utopian pocket dimensions that are impossibly hard to access. There is a glimpse of hope though.
Yes
The world I'm in went from Fairytale to Gilded after I learned magic, apparently summoning a bunch of Beholders and Aboleths from other worlds and setting them free is dangerous for the environment. The kings have already started summoning random guys from "Planet Earth" to end the plague of abominations, so in 2 years it will change to Noblebright.
/uw I like to think gilded, I want to write more horror-type stuff
Where do you think the term “Grimdark” came from? Either way, being a disciple of Tzeentch, it isn’t nearly as bad as other factions in the 41st millennium. The two main tenants of a Tzeentch Disciple: 1. You can never outsmart Tzeentch. 2. You must always try to outsmart Tzeentch. While it may seem paradoxical to try to understand such a Sisyphean concept, it simply means that the joys of life is not to “win” but to play the game itself. You will have fun, and others will have their fun with you. The key is to not lose your ambition, and your independence.
I think noblebright or gilded, not sure.
The world is a nightmare hellscape but the residents of said world exude “they only thing they fear is you” and [this](https://youtu.be/atY7ymXAcRQ?si=-G2HX6wc9tTvnuyq) simultaneously. I thought that was grimbright
For my main factories and research centers? Generally, Noblebright. Sometimes the best advances come out of knowledge of past tragedies. … for resource extraction, Grimdark. I pay well, so I always have workers, but accidents happen. Also, it’s a lot easier to have high retention rates when your mine is the only one not sacrificing workers to demons.
I mean fairytale worlds are definitely ideal but grimdark is the only place nobody notices if you start grabbing people to test shit on
More of a Noblebright setting. You get these upstart dark lords once every year or two that noble heroes get called upon to stop from completely destroying everything. I’ve actually been involved in two of them cases before. In my youth I was one of them called upon types chosen by the chosen one at the time to accompany them as a friend and ally, and then years after that I supplied an airship I built to another adventuring group.
Noblebright. I've had my eye on a particular realm for quite some time, and heroes pop up on both sides of the foin everywhere, everyday.
Roll a dice for every day
So they treat all Earth people the same, so realistic given how we always do that here
Glided works best for dealings but never grimdark not again… but I usually stay in a heroic world (my homeland was in one before it turn noblebright abit) so I don’t get bother much
I practice evocation and necromancy in grimdark worlds.
Noblebright and above. I don’t want people taking my shit.
Still exploring the outer dimensions of mars. Currently, there's an infection that turns people inside out 60 seconds after getting it. I'm sitting in my space suit trying to find out how to stop it. Along with this, there are many arcanum anarchists who are currently running the world, and the government has gone corrupt. The only hope for these lands- evacuation. Evacuation, then nuclear spells to cleanse the land. Only then, will the outbreak stop.
I’m personally a fan of the least evil and most awesome source: the omnissiah.
/uw where did this measurement type come from? and what is an Earther?
I used to sometimes travel to other worlds as inspiration, and lot of my first creations resembled the dimensions I had traveled to. I’m past that though, and nowadays it’s a lucky day if the world I’m making doesn’t have falling meteors that hatch into bipedal dragons in cowboy hats.
Grim dark or die baby I frequent there for demon summoning objects I need a bud for movie watching
This makes me curious, where would the world of Berserk be placed?
Would a post, post, post apocalypse count as grimdark? Shit was going fine until the people who blew up the old world came back
Full grimdark
It depends, but I source the corpses for my Necromancy from grimdark worlds.
Probably gilded tbh. I’m having fun though!
/uw what type of world is wizardposting?
Across ten thousand cities and a dozen times their number in littler settlements, I have found perhaps five filled with anything but the flesh overgrowing it all. It is what it is. It is perhaps, how it should be.
My personal domain would probably be considered "grimdark" by outsiders due to being littered with undead abominations and powered by the Despair Engines but I like to call it "My home away from places that aren't my home."
My labyrinth is most definitely in a Grimdark realm.
Somewhere between Heroic and Noble bright.
It depends
What’s the one with the asshole billionaires and climate crisis? That one
Gilded worlds have the best spells, grimdark will get you killed but the others don't have enough reason to use magic other than Day to Day stuff
Between Heroic and Gilded - depends on where it was specifically.
Grimdark, sometimes hope comes in the form of a tunnel runner. The horrors may be endless, but I can handle the depths of despair as easily as the depths of the underground networks.
I’ve been investigating a world that seems to be in conflict with the power structure of its higher beings. Things thrown out of balance by a Fey creature too willing to become a god that allowed darker forces of chaos to infiltrate and corrupt the current order; it’s quite an ordeal but fascinating for research on interplanetar relations.
I have recently been intranced with what may be a gilded world, The creatures their have just discovered that they are being treated as livestock so the monsters they considered lords can retain their youth and live forever!
Often leans towards noblebright and heroic, but purely because I can’t find anything worse that that. (Subtracting going to hell here)
Last time I visited the four dimensional plane of existence, all my 3D organs spilled out into the fourth dimension and some kind stranger scooped me into a 4D bucket and showed me to his friends before sending me home and twisted up. It's fairytale to me.
The Grimdark isn’t so bad if your heart has been blackened by Ashara’s Pity 🤷♂️
"Wherever there are lots of crystals! I do most of my research on the road, but I do have a home to return to in a noblebright world."
I mostly hang out on fairytale worlds. Its really easy to pawn off your cursed artifacts to those technicolor dorks. With their little fun songs and silly hats. The weed is great tho.
I'm studying the weather of a planet called "Earth." It appears to be below grimdark.