Why I Keep Building Worlds
I don’t know, I just love the idea of Ossara. Sometimes you can’t give up on your dreams—or, in this case, your dreamworlds.
I created this elaborate universe, Mirabilisphera, which is composed of driftworlds and dreamworlds, all held together in Aetherean space. It’s a place to put all the various cool worlds I’ve developed over my lifetime, starting with my very first D&D world, which didn’t have a name I can remember, and my latest, the driftworld Ossara.
I love building worlds for fantasy. I wish I could make a living at it. I started building worlds before high school for planned novels. I wanted to be like the Screwtape Letters guy—C.S. Lewis—or his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien. Those two gentlemen could make worlds. They made the worlds I lived in, in my mind, before, during, and after school. That’s all I wanted to do. I did my best to follow in their footsteps.
I started out as a conservative Christian in high school, then went on to get three degrees in anthropology, culminating in a PhD. I became an expert in human evolution, cultural evolution, ethnography, archaeology, and regional specializations from Polynesia to Scandinavia. I would also consider myself an expert in the intercultural transmission of cultural information—that is, how cultural trends migrate across cultural lines. In particular, how religion and ideology spread throughout history.
Since I brought up religion, I should say that I no longer identify as a conservative Christian. I consider myself politically independent, and I don’t affiliate with any political party.
So I am going to come back here and revive Ossara, if for nothing else than posterity. I may as well document some of the things I built. Not necessarily in order. Not just Ossara—I’ve got Nine Realms, The Fae Queens of Mirabilis, and others.
I use AI to generate pictures to illustrate this blog, or whatever we call it. You are free to use the artwork, but it does not necessarily officially represent what is described in the text, which is not AI-generated. I think it adds to an appreciation of the text form to have these “artist’s renditions,” except I’m no artist. Would that I could afford to hire Roger Dean. I will save for that, but in the meantime, please allow me to use AI-generated images to supplement the text.