Welcome to Imaginary Yonder

A World Building Project

• What would a pre-modern fictive world look like culturally and aesthetically on a landmass that is a bit like the Silk Road + northern America + Patagonia?
• What unique and internally consistent aesthetics could we have in fantasy worlds?
• How is a society's environment reflected in their culture?
• What happens at cultural crossroads?
• How to express the sense of awe coming from experiencing historical memory?
• How did the domus complex come to take over the world?

These are some of the questions driving my world building project of Kuha, an ancient high fantasy world. I'm interested in building some geographical and environmental earth-like constraints to see what kind of societies might plausibly emerge, and what kind of drama may arise from these.

Site Map

• The World: Text snippets that describe the geography, regions, and the shape of time in Kuha.
• The Fragments: Fragments of texts from the world of Kuha. A glimpse into the texture of the world.
• Journal: Notes on building Kuha by the builder. Research, process, and thinking out loud.
• Compendium: A geographic and environmental record of the continent Kuha for those seeking an omnipotent world builder view.

About the builder

My name is Eri. I'm a (former?) academic sociolinguist, artist-in-making, and world builder. I'm experimenting my way through a creative practice that combines world building, writing, and art in the pursuit of exploring our own complex world.

Find me elsewhere online:

• Bluesky - Unpolished streams of thought, logs of illustration work in progress.
• Academic Publications - List of academic linguistic publications in the areas of sociolinguistics, and comparative linguistics.

AI Statement

What I use AI for:

• Building this site;
• Checking and correcting calculations related to world building;
• Summarising and fact finding relating to earth geography and biology.

Otherwise the words and images on this site are human generated.