Peak Fantasy

Terry Pratchett is pretty much the Tolkien of flat earth literature.
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- Yeah, it's pretty obvious when you think about it.
  You have all the continents on the one side and ocean on the other so there has to be some sort of counterweight to make sure everything doesn't start slipping and falling off. This predictive use of the world theory led to the discovery of the golden island. Sure the four elephants provide a stable base on top of Arduin but you if you completely stock a plate on top of a glass only on one side it's going to fall off even though the plate is full of soup.
  For any doubters they should feel free to take a ship to the edge of the world and take a peek at the irrefutable evidence filling up your entire view before your eyes. Your could argue that the world is multidimensional since some people are known to travel the mysterious L space but it hasn't been proven yet. Until then you can be sure that most evidence point to the obvious fact that the world sits on top of four elephants on top of the great turtle floating through space.
- thanks, haha, I was checking the comments before I said "discworld"
- And openly stated that his worldbuilding strategy was to sidle up to something cool and make off with it when nobody's looking.

Does anyone have that map on the right? It looks cool
- https://www.deviantart.com/ohawhewhe/art/THE-WORLD-BEYOND-THE-ICE-WALL-3-0-968699994
  
  Oh, so it really IS intentional fantasy and not something a flat earther came up with
  
  I mean, the tags literally say fantasy, so I guess OP is getting what he asked for
  
  Reminds me of the 4-poles map from the Exalted fantasy setting
  
  Could see this on a ringworld. Come to think of it a ringworld would be the perfect place to base a fantasy novel on.
  
  Heterotopia

"You could make a religion out of this."
- No, don’t

I have wanted to make a soulslike game that uses creationism lore for its world building for a while because it perfectly would fit the religious/biblical overtones I want, while also being 100% straight up fantasy with some pretty dope ideas for a fictional world.
The only thing stopping me from even starting such a project is that it is one of the few ideas I have that absolutely requires a visual touch that I can't provide, and store bought assets would not do what I have in my head justice at all. 😮‍💨
- No artist vision is ever perfectly realized, so go for it.
  And if you can't find store bought assets that fit the theme try to come up with some yourself.
  You only truly fail if you never try.
- You should set up a Kickstarter, send it to all the SovCit and Flat Earth Facebook pages, saying that you're going to create a realistic SIM of flat earth, and then release a fantasy game based on all of their ideas and watch the meltdown create the best press a game has ever received before launch.
- The book of Judges would make a great game. Like a bit where you capture foxes, attach torches to their tails, and have them run through enemy farmland burning it all down. Truly I say to you, Christian video games haven't mined their own lore far enough.
  
  Just ... That bit about chopping up a concubine will put it firmly in the 18+ rating. And the subsequent I'll-turn-my-back-and-not-see poaching of young women might be a bit much for modern sensibilities.
  Still, a Riddles in the Dark crossover with
  Out of the eater came something to eat;
  Out of the strong came something sweet
  ... No okay I can't actually see how that would work, but I'm sure someone could!
  Also plunging a left-handed dagger into a fat king - that's probably peak Lemmy cheesecake.
- The idea of a world that's periodically being demolished and rebuilt, to satisfy the egos of tyrants, does seem to fit the ideology of a Flat Earther.
- Wait, you know how to code for a 3D game? I know game design! We would just need to find the artist at that point, and I can help with fundraising
- Hit me up.
  Together, apes strong.

It's like SCP.
- SCP-6011 - Flat Earth
  
  That's more flatland than flat earth

Are you afraid of the word shit?
- Can you imagine how terrible the world would be if people could say shit on the Internet?!
  
  Damn! That would be fucking awful.
- It could be someone else censoring it and they just took the image
- "These four letter words... If they all come into public use, we'll have nothing left for special occasions!"

Whi fucking censors shit

The map reminds me a little of the world in Hunter x Hunter. The viewer is initially shown a world map (a flat projection) that is basically the typical cluster of continents in a vaguely ring-like shape, but it is much later revealed that it's not a map of the whole planet but just a fraction of the surface area, and all the inhabited continents are actually completely encircled by one giant super-continent labeled "The Dark Continent", meaning every known ocean was just part of one super-continental lake called "Lake Mobius".
p.s. watch/read hunter x hunter, it's a cool manga
- I stopped reading a couple years ago. I think we still haven't reached the new continent by the time the new mega hiatus hit, right?
  
  They’re on a boat headed toward the mega continent. There’s a lot of political drama/murder.
  
  That's right, it was just like 30 chapters or so since then most likely, and it's all been the succession war on the boat headed there. I think most likely the story is written so that they never actually reach the Dark Continent because the ship was always meant as a vessel for the sacrificial ritual of the succession war. On a meta level, there's not a specific enough stated goal for the expedition, so I think it's meant to be a pie in the sky. I'm fine with that though, since the succession war has been my favorite arc in the whole manga so far. All just my personal opinion on it, of course.

It's more hard science fantasy, but Stephen Baxter's "Raft" sets up a bizarre universe around a dead star where physics is very wild.

if flat earthers would just write books
Yup, if Pratchett had been born thirty or forty years later we would have gotten unhinged twitter rants instead of discworld
- I am not sure I like my Pratchett being likened to an actual nutjob flat earther. Or did I miss him being all about that other than writing humorous books about a world like that?
  
  "my"
  parasocial relationship detected lol
- Horse shit. Pratchett was a well grounded, sane human being.

That's how conspiracy theory evolves into religion.

The Aquaman movies were laying some groundwork for the Warlock comics to maybe be included, which is a hollow-earth reality. It's too bad they did such a terrible job.

If you need anything more than The Babylonian map of the world you're just over complicating things.

looks like the refined version of this map was actually made by a worldbuilder integrating every conspiracy into one for a real world fantasy setting
it's actually really cool i want to do a steampunk TTRPG there

If you write a bad sci fi or fantasy novel you can just call it a true story and you'll sell a lot more copies.

this is why i really like the book "shadow of the conqueror", it takes place in a world consisting of a floating continent suspended in a seemingly infinite expanse of air, and from that the author just worked out how to justify this in cool ways and the consequences of having a world like that.

The one on the left is giving Malazan vibes. If someone could manage to keep a K'chain Che'malle caged up, I could see somewhere in the world turning fighting it into a blood sport.