Tales of Martio Wiki

Welcome, Stranger, to the World of Martio!
...In other words, a wiki for the Worldbuilding project Tales of Martio, created for semi-personal use as an online, systematic database.

What is it?
Tales of Martio is a project of one (or two) man about creating a whole new fictional fantasy/scifi world (almost) completely from scratch. This includes biographic and geographic information, somewhat working ecosystem, population, historical timeline both unwritten and written, economy, pantheons and religions, traditions... everything essential for a world to be able to work in our terms of reality, on which Tales of Martio strives. Although it is a fantasy world, it tries to avoid common cliches often found in other fictional worlds (Evil guy wants to take over the world just because he is evil,Totally good/evil races). The other fact is that it heavily tries to fit in our perpective of reality, meaning magic and it's capabilities are limited to scientific possibilities and theories (how does that elf shoot fireballs from his fingers? explain very precisely), and a reality within reason (immortal invisible firebreathing super-saiyan dragon dwarf hybrids woah).

The goal is not to create a perfect world however; it's more like a recreation and a personal challenge on how far will it go. The possibilities are that it might be used on a videogame, or a book, or a source of inspiration, but much later. For now, it's but a hobby for a few people (It's also a good way to sharpen my English language skills, which is why the site isn't Finnish, which is a clumsy and unpoetic language). I personally love removing myself from reality sometimes and creating another (one of my friends doing the same thing told me that when your world is so epic you'd rather live in it, it's a good world), and writing is a hobby doing the same thing.

At the moment, while the world settles in the planet of Martio, the more specific point of focus is the continent of Gerontas, where I began to base one of my novels a year back back before I got interested in Worldbuilding.

Interested?
Feel free to read about the world. As the page is, although not for me but probably to you, in a massive disorder, you can use the 'Random Page' found on the 'On the Wiki' section. The other sections won't yet lead to much, or the 'Recent Wiki Activity' thing found when going to some other page than this main page and locating it on the right side of the page.

There are currently less than 5 people working on this project (thinking, planning, theorizing, suggesting), but as I'm writing everything here for now, the progression on this site is slower than in reality. All it needs is pouring all the ideas here, on which I don't have enough time to do efficiently.

---And if you edit this page like i did you're a diiiiiiiiuiiiiick and we will chop you to small pieces and eat for dinner---

---Let that remind everyone---

Yes. The page should be locked and impossible to edit for anyone else than me, so that problem shouldn't occur.

If you have super inspirational hyper awesome ideas that definitely would fit the lore, you can gladly suggest it to me (AugustBoesen), unless, like some have already done, you want to go ahead, make an account and start writing. All the content will be 99% checked for misspellings and weird trivia, but if you want to save time, learn to write English before anything else.

Somethings
- A list on fantasy cliches that will be avoided can be found here.

- A list of things to think about when doing the magic system can be found here.

- A list of moments when Tumblr got deep can be found here and here (might cause serious mindblowing, use with caution)

- A page about Time Measuring can be found here (PLEASE IMPROVE)

- A page about (Gerontian) belief about afterlife can be found here (ALSO IMPROVE)

- A page about Thelisis, also known as magic in Martio (you know what to do)

- THE STORY (for which this project started) is here