About this website

Robworld is a project I've been working on most of my life, a private universe of my own imagination of advanced interstellar civilisations and backwards fantasy worlds.

As a kid I was always a big fan of books with maps of fantastical places. From the age of ten I started drawing my own maps of magical islands, mysterious castles and sorceror's towers, first creating maps for Besoaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBesoa

Besoa [BEH-sso-AH], or Bizoa (Hartraan), is the largest island in the southern reach of the Natorn Archipelago. Today it is synonymous with the United Kingdom of Besoa.

Modern Besoa c.1100 ME | Go to world map

Besoa in the Two Nations period, 38-1092 ME

Besoa in the Four Kingdoms period, c.1200 BME - 35 ME BMEHartheraHartheranHartheranHartheranMEHartheraOrorrOrorr and Antyokplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAntyok

Antyok or Antyoq [ant-YOK, uhn-CHOK] is an island in the Natorn Archipelago, due east of Besoa. It was formerly an independent nation, the Principality of Antyok, but since 1086 ME, following the Bizoan War, it is now under Hartheran dominion.

Antyok

This is in a series of articles about Antyok, an island nation in the HartheranHartheranHartheran, then Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera and later Anrelplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnrel Isles

Anrel [ANN-rel], or the Anrel Isles, is the most northerly island group in the Natorn Archipelago. It consists of three major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest, colloquially if infrequently called Mainland, is divided between the kingdoms of Trésard and Narette. The island (see my early mapsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigV1&V2 Old Hand-drawn Maps

Version 1

These are a few of the very oldest maps I first drew around the age of ten! I used them in stories and ad-hoc roleplaying games, the islands originally just being the location of numerous “dungeons”.

Version 2).

In my teens I wrapped them into the world of Helevosplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHelevos

Helevos (also known as Vos, or Veeos) is a temperate terrestrial world, fourth planet of the star Cordes in the Cronox binary star system. The stars Cordes and Arjos are distant binaries, so on Helevos, Arjos is only seen in the northern hemisphere as star, sometimes bright enough to be seen during the day, circling roughly over the greenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreen, part of a much wider scifi universe with many spacefaring cultures, both human and alien, with its own deep history and culture. Helevos is a protected backwater world in the wider universe, closely studied by its interplanetary neighbours but left mostly in peace.

It's not only been an outlet for my creativity in writing and drawing, but I've used it to explore and practice any number of skills used in this site, particularly artwork, graphic design, website creation and programming. I've also used it as an excuse to read and study more about astronomy, maths, geography, geology, history, linguistics, philosophy, sociology and natural history. Any number of books and tv documentaries have inspired various parts of my universe.

Inspiration

A few of the many books that have inspired me:

Software

Software I've learned for the creation of this site:

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Wampserver
  • Astrosynthesis
  • Fractal Terrains

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about.txt · Last modified: 2021/09/02 10:11 by Robert How · []