The Refugium: An Overview

MUSIC:

Tempting secrets- Kevin Macleod
Crypto - Kevin Macleod
Echoes of Time - Kevin Macleod
The Pyre - Kevin Macleod
Double Drift - Kevin Macleod
The Skies of Our Ancestors - Kevin Macleod
Cambodian Odyssey - Kevin Macleod
Expeditionary - Kevin Macleod
Oppressive Gloom - Kevin Macleod
Aftermath - Kevin Macleod
Dream-like - Kevin Macleod

PICTURE CREDIT:
White tiger – Basile Toren
Wolf – Mas3cf
Tiger shark – Albert Kok
Crocodile – Goutham89
Xylotrupes socrates – Basile Toren
Creodont – Mauricio Anton
Labyrinthodont – Pavel Riha
Trilobite – Nobu Tamuru
Human skull – Patrick Lynch
Mangrove – Anagounagi
Chalicothere – DiBgd
Terror bird – Nobu Tamura
Cycad – Bernard Dupont
Cabbage tree – Jade
Glyptodont – Carl Buell
Underground temple – Deepakkhurana
Tattoos – Allison, J. Marvin, Lawrence Lindberg, Calogero Santoro, and Guillermo Foracci. (1981). “Tatuajes Y Pintura Corporal de Los Indigenas Precolumbinos de Peru Y Chile.” Chungara 7: 218-225.

0:00 Intro
1:28 Cosmology and Climate
4:35 The Central Regions
6:51 Tsannur
7:28 Thirea
10:09 Suma'a
12:04 Oqolaam
13:45 Tiipu-k'ama
15:09 Nhlogqwa
17:20 The Night Lands
18:35 Closing

[sawendev]

"Which I steadily began writing up into a book.
But then I got distracted from the story by the worldbuilding,
and then I got distracted from the worldbuilding by the conlanging."

I relate way too much to these sentences.

[Vardanix]

Honestly if he were to continue his alien biospheres series into sapience and make a history like this world's i would honestly just die from joy

[AlexandreJ]

"Flying spiders" man are you trying to create Australia or something?

[NoxaClimaxX]

18:48 If you can pause right there, there's a single frame of some kind of logo.

Please be foreshadowing. And please more Refugium: this is even better than I had hoped.

Edit: yep, it’s Aan

[adridaplague-boi]

Refugium? An interesting name, to say the least. I like it.

I’d love to see what happens when they discover electricity and explore the shadow lands, it sounds really interesting.

[tomm]

I know I’m 5 months late, but I noticed something this time I didn’t pick up on when first viewing this.

On the volcano island, supposedly on the very edge of the world, perpetually shrouded in twilight, there are ruins. Many, many, ruins. Now the people that lived here a few thousand years in have developed ways to deal with the cold, but I’d say those who first colonised the islands wouldn’t have been able to survive, and certainly not thrive, in such a frigid environment. And certainly it wouldn’t be one of the first civilisations.

So what’s going on here? Well here’s my crackpot theory. The people who first colonised the volcano islands thrived because it wasn’t cold, it was paradise. Once upon a time, those islands were warm, or at least warm enough to support decent civilisation. But it’s now began to grow colder. And colder. And colder.

This leads to one, terrifying conclusion. The sun is _shrinking_

[misanthropicservitorofmars]

Wow. I’ve literally never considered a world like this. With different physical mechanisms to create reality. Most fictional worlds are boring compared to this. It’s genuinely incredible.

[mosterchife]

I hope later when they have better technology they go explore the dark lands. I really wanna see what’s in there. I think it could be done using flashlights and very insulated suits akin to our space suits that we use, just minus the oxygen tanks and probably colored black instead of white to attract more heat. I’d also bring weapons in case those silhouettes of beasts that you mention weren’t fairytales. And of course, a lot of food.

[sleepiestgf]

"Due to certain events" ominous

[devinhoxha]

Tsannur:Collapse 6 times
China:Those are rookie numbers

[nixl_]

The amount of effort you put into this is just breathtaking, i could barely make one conlang, let alone an entire world of them. Its very inspiring . Ive been watching you for a while, and seeing an overview of everything is really appreciated! Thanks!

[daver]

Yes. More refugium is DEFINITELY needed, would love to hear more about the Nhlogqwa- BTW are they racially distinct from the other groups or just an extension of one of the other races?

[gunjfur]

"things from the outer darkness" sounds staight up lovecraftian

[TruckTheDuck]

2:51 if, hypothetically, someone were to scour the umbral plains, seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him, would those that tasted the bite of his sword call him anything in particular?

[hansmorktopphol]

Will you ever talk about how lexical stress can move from one syllable to another? Like how proto-Germanic had a sound change that moved stress to the first syllable of the root of the word, or how stress was moved from the final to the penultimate syllable in Cornish during the eleventh century

[anapricot-tc]

Mapping vids in 2019: "Germany in a nutshell" "Italy vs. Poland" "Alternate future of Europe"
Mapping vids in 2020:

[davidelambardi]

Astounding. The description of the dark region alone gave me chills. You translated a maritime ecosystem into a terrestrial one, with light gradually disappearing not with depth but distance. I'm wondering if bioluminescent animals could live at its border, sustaining themselves by "what enters their realm", sorta like abyssal creatures does into Earth's seas.

[Utnapishtim]

So I'm guessing shadows in this world would be somewhat unusual (outside the obvious Shadow Lands’ “shadows”), since shadows cast by the sun would be more or less permanent. I wonder what sort of unusual flora/fauna might develop within the larger areas of shadow cast by mountains, or canyons or other large features.

I also wonder if reflecting light would play a large role in the lives of the world’s people. Since the light from the sun is unmoving, you could easily set up any type of polished surface to reflect the sunlight towards a specific spot, and it wouldn't waiver or need adjusting (during the day obviously). Shutters and other simple mechanisms could be used to suddenly light, or darken, areas. The layout of buildings could be altered if natural light could be artificially directed into normally dark interiors; I can especially see religions utilizing reflected light for dramatic effect within their architecture or rituals. Things like solar ovens, water heater, etc. could be set up and would have a permanent, consistent, and easy to scale output. Long range communication systems could be set up relatively easily using focused light bounced from one reflected surface stationed at towers or some similar type of relays. I am absolutely not any sort of expert on light, or optics or anything related to this, so I will leave it there. I am worried I might be missing some obvious issues that make all of these concepts untenable, but my mind immediately ran away with ideas about this, and I wanted to at least mention them.

One final thought:
Since every "night" is essentially an eclipse, I wonder if the people of the world would give any special significance to those odd, crescent-shaped shadows that things like trees, and any other variation of a pinhole, cast right before and after totality. Or, would they just be considered completely normal, and treated as nothing more fantastic than an indicator for when night is approaching? Either way, I assume the people in the areas that experience the eclipses would have unique words for them, and they would likely feature in poetry and various sayings/idioms.

Sorry if that is a bit of a ramble. I felt the need to write this all down quickly before the concepts could get away from me. I just love these types of what-if worldbuilding concepts. Great vid Bib!

[bagelmeister]

"Home to all except one of my conlangs" hmm, I wonder which...;p

[jehooft]

I'm really interested in this world now. Especially the eeriness of the dark lands and the "enormous ineffable things" that roam there. What's past these giant sheets of ice in the oceans? As mankind progresses, they would discover more and more about these fringe lands. It's all so interesting I'm really hoping to see more of this