Are there any fantasy settings similar to the works of Anonhistory, Baalbuddy, the movie Bright or the /tg/ homebrew Cross Species Dating Advice where various fantasy races and legendary creatures alike coexist with humans throughout history as if they've always been around? While I am open to urban fantasy recommendations as well, I'm looking for more historically geared stuff like pic related where you see Elven and Dwarven kingdoms neighbor real life medieval or historical realms. Imagine a full blown setting with a timeline that combines historical fantasy (for the ancient and medieval periods) and urban fantasy (for the modern era we currently live in) into one cool thing. With stuff like the following for lore: >Elvish and Dwarven Knights participating in the crusades along with realms like the Holy Roman Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Eastern Roman Empire, Kingdom of France or what have you. >The Census departments of various countries not only taking in human ethnic groups into account, but other sapient fantasy races into account. Such as the percentage of say, Dullahans, Centaurs, Vampires, Werewolves, Elves, Dwarves, that live in a particular country. >Full blown evolutionary charts for how eastern and western dragons evolved into their current forms. Not to mention zoos having exhibits for the more animal like legendary creatures or cryptids out there. >I'd imagine that various Orc tribes would be like the various steppe nomads who have waged war with their neighbors. I'd also imagine Orcs with American citizenship having a massive enough gun culture where there have been one or more firearm companies founded by Orcs. With the Desert Eagle being a popular choice among them even if other gun nuts consider it a wanker gun. >The various shitposts and arguments you'd find on the more obscure corners of the internet in a world where fantasy creatures are real.Are there any other fantasy settings like what I've described above?
>>97055844>Anonhistory, Baalbuddy, the movie BrightGood God man, why?To give you an earnest answer though, Victoriana does this. There are some differences from the real world aside from the addition of fantasy races, but most nations are intact to where they were, more or less.
>>97055844>empire of mankind>elves
>>97055948Elves are Germans in that artist's world
>>97055948>holy>roman>empire>of man
>>97055945I imagine that Shadowrun is also a good example of what I'm looking for, right? Though I have heard that the fantasy races of Shadowrun basically got isekai'd into our corporate cyberpunk dystopian future if my understanding of its lore is accurate and up-to-date. >>97056002One thing I wanted to mention in the OP but didn't have enough room to do so was that I'd imagine that "knife-ear" would be a real slur and that pic related would be an unironic pol meme.
>>97056053>ShadowrunMore like in that setting various mythological creatures and magic used to be real, but an event caused the magic in the world to die out and it left it all very mundane. For the game itself, this magic reawakened (I think) more or less as the Mayan Calendar reached its end.Speaking of the Mexicans. Much like all the native american tribes suddenly having their rituals and magic be real again, their south-of-the-border cousins returned to blood sacrifice for their own magic.But there also exists a more traditional "wizard" kind of magic too.Right as for the different fantasy races. Orks, trolls, elves and dwarves returned to the world by being born to human parents initially. But then further off-shoots came from these four, and even further beyond that are "Changelings" which just covers a more wide range of freakshit.
>Are there any fantasy settings similar to the works of Anonhistory, Baalbuddy, the movie Bright or the /tg/ homebrew Cross Species Dating Advice
>>97055844God i hope not, but if such an abomination exists it will doubtless be in an anime
>>97055844>Holy Human Empire>Not Holy>Not Human>Not an EmpireIt's okay it was later renamed the Holy Human Empire of the Elven Nation.
It's not "knights and castles" but Flintloque is fantasy Napoleonics (France = Elves, GB = Orcs, Russia = Undead, that sort of thing) although in fairness I'm not sure if I've ever seen actual humans as part of it. I have a vague itch at the back of my mind of others but that one leaps up first.
Did I hear elf office ladies?
Something adjacent to your horrendous request is Banestorm, a GURPS setting. The gist of it is>world of elves, dwarves, and orcs>radical faction of elves get real tired of dealing with orcs>archmages cook up a spell, a terrible bane that will finally end the orc question >spell backfires>creates rampaging dimensional rifts that cross worlds and abduct races from other worlds>goblins, halflings, giants, centaurs, and other races from various worlds are stranded>and, of course, humans from earth (or earths), during the crusades>humans come in the largest numbers and become the dominant race>they bring with them the cultures and religions of earth and convert many races>christian halflings and goblins>muslim reptilemen >new arrivals still trickle in from earth occasionally >mages and conservative aristocrats become noguns. order of mages hunt down new arrivals and wipe their memories so they stop talking bullshit about guns, computers, and communism>but humans btfo the orcs, so I guess the bane worked after allIt sounds like isekai bait but it's actually very grounded and very comfy. The real-world religions gives instant cultural nuance and avoids the retarded trope of, "this is the land of not!arabs and their not!muslim religion, and that land has a big not!catholic church!" It circumvents the whole thing and in the process has way more depth than any made-up theology could ever have. Here's a free adventure for this setting that takes place in the cosmopolitan city of Tredroy, a city split by three nations, one shia, one sunni, and one christian.https://1shotadventures.com/great-urban-adventures/
>>97055844>Are there any fantasy settings similar to the works of Anonhistory, Baalbuddy, the movie BrightAlso Shabazik.
>>97056422Hey, I'll have you know frau Loirieulean has been serving the empire since it's foundation. You watch your mouth before I try to spell her name again.
>>97055844>the works of Anonhistory, Baalbuddy, the movie Bright or the /tg/ homebrew Cross Species Dating Advice
>>97055844I think a more important question is who is the source of pic related?
>>97057323The fact that OP brought meme pseudohistorical artists rather than actual worldbuilding examples tells you just that much
>>97055844I like this guy's art/setting, but it's pretty much just your average safe horny happy land with cute girls 90% of the time.
>>97055844i personally love this concept,I wanted to run somehting like it before however if done right it requires a lot of research and alot of thinking.Maybe i should just throw that away and go fuck it we ball
>>97058299I wish he did more of serious worldbuilding, rather than "another waifu-bait comic". Still, could've been worse.>>97057323My favourite guy, aside from some fetish shoehorning. Even then, he is quite chill, so no biggie.
>>97055948>Holy>Roman>EmpireThe joke writes itself.
>>97056002>>97059836Voltaire was a peasant though.
>>97056293To be devil's advocate for OP, he may be asking since the examples the OP knows that use the concept he is describing are shit.
>>97056174I definitely love alternate history/urban fantasy settings where the various dead polytheistic religions and their gods are still alive and well. I really should get around to playing Shadowrun Returns, Dragonfall and Hong Kong. >>97056438Cool concept for a war game. If you happen to remember those settings at the back of your mind feel free to post them. >>97056614Banestorm sounds cool. Thanks for the link. >>97058680If I remember correctly that's how Robert E. Howard came up with his Hyborian Age setting. So he wouldn't have to constantly fact check everytime he wanted to write a story. But he studied so much history that some /x/ schizos unironically did some theorycrafting about it: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/24338571/>>97061595I've definitely heard that Bright sucked, so I was wondering if there were more well written/well-designed examples. Or examples of settings that take themselves more seriously instead of being tongue-in-cheek like the other examples.
>>97061714It's funny cause looking at it now compared to recent slop, Bright doesn't come off that bad. Also it is amusingly the closest we will ever get to visual media for Shadowrun, even with the background for that world being completely different.
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>>97059110Well, here’s hoping for the future then.
>>97055844>What if I had a game, but then grafted any given setting to itNigga, you dense or just never, ever, not even once, played a single session of any given TTRPG?
>>97062287>Bright doesn't come off that badIt's still shit, Max. Nobody takes you serious and never will>the closest we will ever get to visual media for ShadowrunWhich is sad as fuck
>>97060070>Voltaire was a peasant though.And that matters why?
>>97055844What about settings where magic and other races appear in the modern day?
>>97073298That doesn't work for serious settings imo.A world with magic would develop way differently to how the real world developed, a fantasy world with our level of tech would look practically alien compared to us. To make it make sense, you have to either make the fantasy elements no different from irl stuff (boring), or you put no effort into justifying why history and societal power are still identical in a world where there are extreme differences in warfare and innate abilities (lazy).It only works if the fantasy stuff is "new" (portal/dimensional travel/whatever), or if the setting is so low stakes and unserious that you don't ever have to think of the reason why every war in history went the exact same way as it did for us (I would enjoy a story about an Elvish office worker).
>>97074214>It only works if the fantasy stuff is "new" (portal/dimensional travel/whatever), or if the setting is so low stakes and unserious that you don't ever have to think of the reason why every war in history went the exact same way as it did for us (I would enjoy a story about an Elvish office worker).I think they meant in the modern day on EARTH.
>>97070540Low social status and a monstrous visage is reflective of a low character and a monstrous inner life.And Voltaire was monstrum.
someone knows the source of OP pic?
The Last RingbearerHawk the SlayerThraxasJonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy
>>97058042>>97080559It's on Anonhistory's twitter: https://x.com/anonhistory/status/1879207886217486634>>97081157Thanks for the additional recommendations. Anything that wouldn't be out-of-place in the various "Approved Media" pages on 1d6chan would do. Be they books, video games, comics, anime, cartoons, film, TV, or what have you.
>>97082535thank you anonlooks like a fun artists
