World Creator Tools - Create Your Own World | World Anvil

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...

CREATE YOUR WORLD

Build a complete, connected and living world! Whatever you're building for - stories, games and art, for your conlangs, or just for fun - our complete toolset with over 25 inspiring templates will make world creation a quick and exciting process.

SHOWCASE YOUR WORK

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!

KEEP YOUR NOTES SAFE

There’s no need to worry about lost notebooks ever again! We’ll back up your work on eight different servers multiple times a day, and you can export your world too - so you'll never lose your progress!

SHARE WITH OTHER CREATIVES

Create by yourself or with a team - wherever you are in the world! Invite editors to refine your works, give different levels of access to different writers, and even let your fans contribute!

MONETIZE YOUR WORLDS

Monetize your worldbuilding to kickstart your creative career! Choose exactly who sees your work, and give exclusive access to customers, Patrons and supporters!

JOIN OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY

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

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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.

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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:

Link in articles you've already written
Create links for articles you've not yet created (these are added to the to do list!)
Create an article on the fly whilst writing another article and then link it in

You can capture all your ideas, and you'll never lose track of your flashes of inspiration again!

Make sense of your history

Timelines help you to keep track of all of the events you create for your world. 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.

Search your body of work

World Anvil lets you search your whole world by typing 3 letters in any search bar. Combined with our tagging functionality, it’s easy to find anything that you’ve worked on during your creative process.

So when you’re a few months into creating your world and you’re trying to remember just who did what when, we’ve made it as easy as possible for you to grab that information.

Organise your world

When you’ve been working on a world for a while and creating all kinds of amazing articles, maps and timelines, there’s nothing better than an organised system to make everything easy to find.

With our nested category system you can make sure that all of your related content is grouped together, resulting in a stunning table of contents for your created world.

You can even display your most important categories on your world’s main page with book-style covers, to help your readers dive into your world.

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