Worldbuilding with GIANT MONSTERS

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There’s a feeling you get when you stand in the shadow of a creature so much larger than you, it hardly knows you exist. A complex feeling. Something deep enough to change your entire outlook on the world.

Which, unsurprisingly, makes it quiet good for Worldbuilding, too. Let’s talk about it!

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[TheTaleFoundry]

Campfire’s such a fabulous, accommodating tool. Honestly, if you’re intimidated by writing and worldbuilding, it’s just a relief to have something like this that breaks it all down and makes it super simple for you! Go give it a try!

[Jonathon_Hennessey]

A recurring theme in the monsterverse is that creatures like Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra and Rodan ruled the earth before humans did and if we aren't careful, these titans will take their world back by force.

[fukase__]

Depending on the situation, I kind of like feeling small. It feels safer sometimes, when you're a little kid, everything is big, the people who protect you, are big. The walls around you that protect you from harsh weather and temperature are big, and I just wanna be a small creature hiding peacefully with the larger things around me.

[ShannonLikesALotOfStuff]

One thing I love about giant monsters is that even though you can see what they’re like on the outside, you can never quite tell what they’re like on the inside. Do they have human emotions like us? Do they behave more like a dog or a lion? Or do they simply hide their personalities altogether. As someone who has written a lot of monster characters, mostly dragons, it is something I think about a lot.

[geoffreyprecht]

These concepts directly relate to the worldbuilding concept I've been working on as an experiment with scale! I'm trying to make a world where the reader gets simultaneously invested in the lives of creatures of wildly different sizes who all exist in the same world, often not even aware of each other's existence. It's so much fun to use perspective as a tool like that to tell such unique stories!

[トーキ-gv]

As someone who has been raised by Giant monsters and robots, watching Ultraman and other hero shows as a child, seeing how the west does kaiju and giants is so interesting.

[mudshrooze]

By the way, sir, I know you knowthis, your voice is super cool and nice to listen to. I love this channel have for years. I hope you never leave permanently. Even if you take long breaks :) hope this week goes well for you and everyon else involved in this channel

[quincykunz]

Here's a weird thought: an anti-leviathan story. An encounter with creatures much smaller than humans, who encounter us by chance, and through terrifying levels of ingenuity and resourcefulness, gain an upper hand, and now debate whether to harness us for their own ends, or maintain a respectful harmony, as we try to cope with our new reversed place in nature.

[mudshrooze]

I see moose every day here in the kenai peninsula. Their massive. Bears dont even usually ever wanna mess with them unless their the young ones

[BionicleFreek]

OH MY GOD DUDE, i read the leviathan books in school growing up and forgot what they where called and i've been searching for them forever now, thanks!

[rohan]

I love the way Monster Hunter does this. Ignoring the ludonarrative dissonance of being able to hunt an infinite number of monsters, I really like the way the world presents humans as just another cog in the machine of nature, human machinery and weapons just another attribute like a dragon's fire breath or their powerful claws. If one side throws nature off-balance, the other responds to keep it in check.

[Veelofar]

My setting named Waori is built on this concept. There are no static cities or towns, everyone lives inside creatures so large that the people inside are able to move through tubes alongside blood vessels. They live in hollow sections near organs, and they create machines that help the biological functions to be more efficient. Basically, the people are to these creatures what the microbes in our body are to us. The merfolk developed suits to be able to swim through the digestive tract of their creatures and keep them clean, some people have machines to help clean the blood, and all of them fight off invaders that would be far too small for the creature to even see. The people within these creatures are a part of them, in a very real way.

[carmineknight]

I've been obsessing over Wings of Fire lately and was really happy to see it pop up here. The series continues to do really interesting things with the dichotomy in the current state of its world between dragons and humans. The most interesting part to me is how sparingly the "scavengers" _are_ used most of the time, which makes the flashes of them we see feel special and interesting to come from the opposite perspective as your typical fantasy conflicts. The cherry on top for this, to me, is how dragons sometimes accuse each other of "anthropomorphising" the scavengers, since they're seen as insignificant animals like raccoons or something without sapience. And ultimately, the series does bring in elements of the two learning about each other again, and most dragons are horrified at the thought of being violent to humans once they learn how similar they are mentally.

[crimsondragon]

It’s worth noting that in Wings of Fire, a few dragons are known for keeping humans as pets, with one even building an entire town just to study humans.

The main conflict for the first 5 books was started because a human stabbed the dragon who ruled the desert in the tail, and the power grab became a continent-wide war.

[KingOfRayman]

I love giant monsters that look like an island or like a piece of land, and then when the person walks on it, it reveals itself. I just find that cool.

[lonerimortal]

this video can be very helpful for one of the stories I want to make.
it's a fantasy story about a girl who is a giant made by the main villain of the story and a mercenary.

Sinopsis: the villain is a immortal human who lived long enought to learn how to bend the rules of the world in a limited way, but enought to change and control living beings, and he made her to be a war machine, but he never got to really finish her, so she (our MC) awakes alone on her birth place, a place who seems almost like a mix of a lab and a mage workshop but completely taken over by nature, with no memories of any past and incapable of speach, but with a enormous size of 50ft tall and a powerful regenerative ability who makes her almost unstopable on conventional combat (yes, you know where the aspiration comes from, but the similarities end here with what comes next).
At the same time, there is this young cocky cat boy who, despite being short, is a mercenary who hunts monsters for a living (monsters made by the main villain btw), and one day he goes alone on a hunt for a big monster who is killing and eating other monsters on the area disrupting the guild's business, but he ends up almost being killed, but is saved by a giant girl (our MC) and she kind of "adopts" hin.

what I want to do in this story is a wholesome "Cat and owner" dinamic where the reader will never be sure who is the "cat" and who is the "owner", since the girl can't speak and can't really understand hin but stay around because she finds hin "cute", while he is the one who want's to be in charge but can't really order her in any way since she is much bigger than hin, so he slowly learns to be humble and patient while she slowly learns about how to communicate and how the world works, meanwhile there is also the more tense and brutal parts, since the world is in chaos and both of then eventualy has to deal with a lot of conflics comming from each of their sides and origins.

there is also way more to it since it's only a side story of the actual big plot I want to make with this villain mentioned as the main character, but I hope one day I get to finish this one first.
thank you for anyone who readed this far and I hope anyone here likes the idea and maybe even give sugestions on how to do it :^D

[syrathdouglas]

I remember I made a drawing like that. A nuclear submarine on an ocean planet finds an enormous beast, an eel-like creature with eyes bigger than the entire sub, but outside their view we can see the entire back of the creature was bitten off in one bite, and the leviathan monster is in the background, five eyes on one side of the head all locked onto the tiny sub. After all…

…there’s always a bigger fish ;)

[GreenGearStudio]

One of my favourite worlds where men and giant beasts live in harmony, is the world of Monster Hunter. Here there are monsters that shoot lazers, are as big as entire countries or can launch themselves in the air and plumet down with the force of a small comet. But the people aren't just surviving, they are thriving. And it doesn't come at the cost of the monster population, judging how there is always another quest. And with Stories, we know that there are entire civilizations that ride on them. It has so many fascinating implications

[cgRui]

There's a game called "The Wandering Village" on Steam which delves into this theme of living in a village on the back of a giant travelling creature called an Onbu. It gives you a choice to live harmoniously and protect the Onbu where the village exists, or to exploit it like a parasite to further improve the lives of the villagers.

[staticblurrrr]

As someone whose been a fan of The Wings of Fire series since the 4th grade, I'm glad to see that the book series is getting more recognition!