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Your complete writing toolset.
Create your World Bible.
Manage your Plots & Characters.
Write your novel.
Publish & Monetize your way.
All the writing tools you could imagine
Spinner of Yarns, Weaver of Wonders and our Guide to the imaginary realms and vibrant characters of your stories.
Welcome to World Anvil! We’re absolutely thrilled to meet you!
We’ll provide you with all the writing tools you’ll need! Organize your series bible, write and publish your novel in our novel writing software, and build your author platform and creative career with our publishing tools and community features!
Build vibrant locations to set your scenes, keep track of your plots, timelines and histories, and follow your characters on their epic journeys across your maps! Never lose your ideas about a side-character or historical event, and embed inspiring images and music directly into your world to re-capture the mood!
World Anvil is an all-in-one tool that puts world building and novel planning side by side. Features such as maps, timelines and family trees help you keep the fabric of your world in order and can be linked from any other notes or articles you write while planning. All of your creations are searchable, which means you can recover that crucial piece of information with just a couple of clicks.
World Anvil is the ULTIMATE writing toolset
created for authors of all types of fiction
. and with it you can.
Build the complete, living world behind your writing! Track everything from character motivations and subplots to timelines and geography, and keep everything private whilst you work. Reference your world bible whenever you want to write or get inspired!
Raise hype for your next release to boost its success! Your fans will be thrilled to explore the world you’ve created! You can share stunning character profiles, maps and timelines, and invite your fans to comment and get involved while they wait for the next installment!
Want to give an editor access to your worldbible? Or maybe you want to co-author, or work as part of a writing team? Now you can do that wherever you are in the world! Give different levels of access to different writers, and even let your fans contribute fanfic!
Join a community of over 750,000 worldbuilders and solve problems together! Make friends with like-minded writers, and get inspired by author’s interviews, community and competitions!
«“Whatever you’re working on, World Anvil gives you a repository to keep your worldbuilding! World Anvil does it better, easier and has more functionality than anything else. It’s easy to use, and makes it really easy for me to sit down and just write or worldbuild!” »
— Chris Fox, best-selling author and self-publishing guru
Features for Writers
Create your World.
Write your Lore.
Showcase your Creativity.
Connect with Others.
Everything world creators need in one toolset
Master of Imagination, Explorer of the «Maybe», Breaker of Boundries
Welcome! We, the Anvil of Worlds, are honored by your arrival!
We’ll provide you with the tools you’ll need to create your own worlds! Organize your thoughts,
keep track of everything, and create a living world you can be proud to showcase!
World Anvil is the only tool that world creators need to bring their vision to life and show it to the world.
Use maps to bring shape to the world, timelines to crystallise its history and articles to bring detail
to those events. Everything you create can be presented beautifully via your world’s unique homepage,
with opportunities for you to add art assets and invite others to enjoy your work.
World Anvil is the ULTIMATE tool to create and display your world.
. and with it you can.
Showcase your newly created world to your friends and family, to your fans or to the whole world! Control every aspect of the display of your characters, maps and timelines, and invite your fans to explore your creations!
Monetize your worldbuilding to kickstart your creative career! Choose exactly who sees your work, and give exclusive access to customers, Patrons and supporters!
Join a community of over 750,000 world creators and solve problems together! Make friends with like-minded creators and get inspired by the community and competitions!
«There’s nothing like getting lost in the world you are creating and World Anvil helps you build the perfect map to navigate it easily»
— Deven Rue, Mistress of Maps
Features for Creatives
Write lore, history, literature & more
Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Wherever your creative process leads you, we provide the tools and templates for you to produce stunning work. Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an immersive reading experience.
Design Interactive Maps
Not only does World Anvil give you the ability to create and upload stunning original maps, it also lets you link the rest of your creations directly to that map!
The maps feature comes with several different functionalities, allowing both creators and their audience to engage in multiple ways. As a creative, one of the most helpful functions is the ability to create articles quickly from your map that you can flesh out later.
Cross-reference your creations
Creating a world can be a wild, complicated and messy process. It’s difficult to keep track of everything you’ve made and all the ideas you have while you work! Let World Anvil be your helpful assistant throughout the process. With it, you can:
You can capture all your ideas, and you’ll never lose track of your flashes of inspiration again!
Create your world.
Manage your Campaign.
Plan your novel.
Be a Hero.
World Anvil is a set of worldbuilding tools that helps you create, organize and store your world setting.
Write
Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Choose from over 25 worldbuilding templates designed to inspire you with prompts and deepen your worldbuilding! Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an immersive reading experience.
With World Anvil you can create.
Design Interactive Maps
Maps are great, but you know what’s really cool? Linking your worldbuilding directly to a map! Or even linking maps to other maps, going from your world map all the way down to a city or a dungeon!
The maps feature will inspire you during the worldbuilding process, allowing you to quickly create articles you can flesh out later. Then, your readers and players can explore your world in an interactive way like never before!
Link & Cross Reference Everything
Worlds are interconnected, and the rigorous linking system in World Anvil helps you reflect that! You can
You can capture all your ideas, and you’ll never lose track of your flashes of inspiration again!
Put your history in order
Keep track of everything that’s happened in your world with Timelines! Use parallel timelines to track events in a specific country or for a character. Separate your timelines into eras and use a variety of specialized timeline features to display your events the way you want.
Explore, Search & Find
When you’re writing in flow or mid-game session, you need your information at your fingertips.
World Anvil allows you to search and find everything in your world quicker than ever!
Search your whole world by typing 3 letters in any search bar. Mark your articles with tags to find them even more easily!
Articles
Discover the secret corners of the multiverse.
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Imagine a loaf of bread left in running water for an hour. That’s what pox paste looks like.
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These ten Gods have shaped the world and its inhabitants. You will find shrines and temples to them in every major hub of civilisation.
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The club and city has a unique history in comparison with the rest of the cities. With its Welsh-Argentine foundations, it is the perfect club to represent San-Dávido. Plus the home shirt colours are amazing!
You Forge
the future of
World Anvil!
25+ Specialised Worldbuilding Templates
Use an array of specialized templates like Character, Organization, Location, Building, Item etc to organize your world. Each template has unique fields created to inspire you and focus your thought process on what really matters
Interactive Maps
Upload your maps in JPG/PNG format. Add a variety of pins that link to locations and related articles to your world and create the ultimate navigation experience for yourself and anyone who wants to discover your world and its locations.
Navigate from a galaxy all the way down to the secret room under the stairs!
Multiple Timelines
Present the history of your world using timelines specialised for worldbuilding that display the importance and type of events.
Create timelines for your species, plots and major events.
Keep track of your RPG party’s history of adventures
Map Layers
Create maps with multiple layered images. Use layers to describe different aspects of your maps like political vs geographic vs temperature / humidity maps or just the Over and Underworld of your world.
Co-Authors
Work with multiple people on your world. Give access to your friends and work with them to create wondrous worlds!
Give your Players or other authors the ability to submit articles to your world but not see the secrets you want to hide! This is a great way for RPG Storytellers to allow their players to contribute without having access to their world!
Subscribers
Subscribers allow you to choose specific people (or groups of people) who can see otherwise private content.
This could include articles only visible by one or some of your players, secret map layers or pins, or secret content exclusively for the eyes of your loyal patrons!
Ad-Free
See no adverts on the website’s authoring panel or presentation! Simple & Clean!
World Themes
Select one of the 10+ themes (more added monthly) to give your worlds a unique feeling. Fantasy, Dark, Modent, Military and Science fiction beauty to match your work!
Note: You can still use CSS to make them even more special! Tens of Worldbuilders can help you do that on our Discord!
CSS Personalization
Modify any Theme or create your very own unique presentation for your world! Use the magic of CSS and really get into the mood of your creation!
Note: Tens of Worldbuilders can help you do that on our Discord!
Automated TODO List
Never lose track of your work!Creating placeholder articles will automatically create items on a list for you. Click on these items to create the articles, Set priority and check their status!
Super quick uploads!
Upload new images en-mass and from anywhere on the panel. The fastest way to use your images & categorize them into galleries.
Focus on your writing
Get Rid of the clutter while you are writing. World Anvil’s features are great but some times you just need to be alone with your thoughts and your digital paper!
100+ Map Markers
Get over a 100 markers exclusively available to Guild Members! Fantasy, Geographic, Science Fiction, Settlement specific sets and many more!
We are adding new markers continuesly!
Organization Tree Visualizations
Discover and allow others to explore your world using trees for your organizations, species, locations and so much more
Marker Groups
The Ultimate Interactive Map experience! Each map can be separated in groups with their own layers and markers.
Have a group that your players can see, and a group that only you will be able to see with all your secrets.
Have a whole groups with their own locations for the Overworld and another for your Underworld
Create separate groups for your cities and towns and another for your special locations or to show a map through the passing of time!
Map Compass
Add a Rose compass to your maps to give them character. This can be any image. Many people use it to show information that they want to float as they browse a map.
100+ Map Markers
Get over a 100 markers exclusively available to Guild Members! Fantasy, Geographic, Science Fiction, Settlement specific sets and many more!
We are adding new markers continuesly!
Journey Lines
Record the travels of your players, trade routes, migration patterns or the progress of military campaigns with the journey lines! Customize them any way you want!
Map Labels
Map labels are a unique style of map marker which allows you to show information written with text on your maps. You and your readers can still click on them to another map or article or just to read more about the location on your map.
Integrate with Discord
Make use of Discord’s webhooks to show off your to your chosen channel when you publish it.
Integrate with Discord and make use of World Anvil’s features from the comfort of your Discord client
MUCH MORE COMING HERE: WATCH THIS SPACE!
Advanced Customization
Leverage advanced customization and use CSS and other tricks to make your authoring environment your own.
Completely change the way that the forms look, change the colour, size, location of buttons and so much more using the power of CSS.
Create a unique experience for your Co-authors (and your subscribers very soon!)
Create your own Templates
You don’t like the article templates? Do you want to create your very own awesome, specific templates?
WE GOT YOUR COVERED!
You can now extend the current templates and add custom code in them to make sure that your specialised articles look everytime, consistently exactly the way you want them to look!
Circular Markers
Your map markers don’t have to be pins! use Circular markers to define areas of influence or to control invisible but still clickable markers so your maps look absolutely stunning with nothing on them but still interactive!
Change the opacity and colour of both the fill and border of your markers!
Polygonal Markers
Create areas, terrirories, borders of nations, radioactive zones and anyother of polygon, visible or not on your maps as a marker that allows you to link to articles or other maps.
Change the opacity and colour of both the fill and border of your markers!
Custom Markers
Advanced Formatting
Make use of the «container» and «section» formatting code, use special Grandmaster+ commands and access to widgets that create unique experiences for your viewers.
Make use of Default Headers for your world and categories to make it easier to organize and publish your work
RPG Character Sheet (Blocks) Designer Toolset
Create any RPG character sheet template for ANY RPG system. Define it’s content using a super easy form and design it EXACTLY the way you want using HTML and CSS!
No Ads, not you, not anyone!
Neither you or your coauthors, subscribers OR visitors will ever see adverts on your world and authoring panel.
Create truly unique category pages
Use the brand new drag’n’drop system to arrange the elements as you want AND make use of the five custom sections to add to these pages whatever you want!
Choose what your players can see in your articles in seconds!
Select which parts of your text, images, maps, quotes your players can see by clicking a single button.
The fastest and most comprehensive way to search and browse through your world!
Full text search for you via the explorer and everyone browsing your world! Search by Category, Type of Article and Tags. Display all your maps and timelines all from the same page and within miliseconds.
World Diplomacy in your fingertips
Create beautifully looking intricate webs of information that describe the relations between the nations and organization of your world.
Check out how well your world is doing at a glance!
Find out how many words you have written, Set a wordcount goal and smash it!
Grandmasters and above also see their followers, articles, comments, likes and so much more is coming soon!
Make the homepage of your world your own!
With an advanced homepage you control which of the elements will appear.
Grandmasters and above are also able to add their own content and move things around to really show what they want, where they want it to be!
The ultimate experience customization
With advanced access rights you can define which groups of users can be self-assigned or hidden from the public. This way you can organize smarter and quicker the way your content is displayed
Think CYOA or articles that each RPG race or class sees different information
Bring your world to life!
Help us create the best community features for you and your readers. Allow your readers to become part or your world as inhabitants in it.
Creator’s Blog, Discussion Boards, Announcements, Polls and so much more. Join the Early Access and the discussions so we can create the perfect tool for your needs.
Display the history of your families
Explore your royal bloodlines, track the origins of your heroes and your villains, create truly unique backgrounds for your characters.
Write, access from everywhere and keep safe your Short stories and Novels
Manuscripts is the ultimate self publishing and editing tool for all writers of short or long fiction. It’s a tool deeply integrated into your World setting, making your writing quick and easy.
Publish on World Anvil and control who has access to your work and when. Use Patreon, Ko-Fi or any other platform you wish to monetize.
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards are the best way for you to communicate with your players, friends and readers!
Discussion boards let you create a forum-like experience on World Anvil. Your readers are able to participate in the boards by creating new threads or replying to existing ones. You can also have private boards for your top supporters or your gaming group! With features like an integrated dice roller and the ability to post as a character, you are also able to use it for play-by-post RPGs!
Interactive, powerful tables
Tables, we love them, we like flipping them, jumping on them, eating on them, working on them, hiding under them, wear them as a hat We can all agree they are quite useful. Interactive tables allow you to create Rollable, Sortable, Searchable, Interactive, Interconnected, Embedable tables so you can create amazing random loot and encounter tables, equipment lists, and anything else you can imagine.
Publish on World Anvil and control who has access to your work and when. Use Patreon, Ko-Fi or any other platform you wish to monetize.
Interactive Content Trees
Create Country structures and substructures, like Dukedoms and Counties, Orders of Battle, Technology trees and so much more!
At a glance
All tiers of the guild give access to the following features and perks in some capacity.
PRIVATE WORLDS
Keep your work in secret and for your own devious purposes
PRIORITY REQUESTS
Fast track your features requests with access to guild-only queue
NO ADVERTS
Remove all adverts from both panel and presentation
MORE WORLDS
Build ALL the worlds
EXTRA STORAGE
Up to 10 GB total and 30 MB uploads
ADVANCED SEARCH
Advanced search features for both articles and the timelines
VOTE FOR FEATURES
Be part of the process of building World Anvil
SUBSCRIBERS
Give your Patrons/friends access to read your private work
CO-AUTHORING
Work in the same world with your friends and colleagues
CSS THEMING
Make your world your own, with access to CSS and themes
MUCH MORE
New Guild-only features every month
OUR LOVE
Help forge the future of world building and keep the lights on
We are team of two!
We are a young couple working day and night to grow World Anvil and its community.
Know that your support is going towards helping a small team with strong ethics to go on living and building up this tool for all Worldbuilders.
You can always come back here right after. Give World Anvil a spin first, we know what we made is good and we trust you will too!
Pricing
Select the length of your subscription
FREEMAN
All basic features
JOURNEYMAN
For the young
and starting worldbuilders