Super fantasy world outline:
Name: The Axolotl Gods' Playground.
Age: The world was made 1574 years ago.
The reason the world feels uncohesive is because it is in fact literally a hodgepodge of the Axolotl Gods’ ideas. Not because it is a random idea dump for stuff unfitting of Axolotlia.
Cardinal Directions:
Sunward: Towards Sun
Moonward: Towards the Moon's orbit/ away from Sun
Moonwise: Clockwise
Sunwise: Counterclockwise
Whiteward: In the direction of the Moon on new years when it is white.
[Axolotl God Name]ward: as if located at the Sun, to the location of the Moon in the middle of the part of its orbit in which it is that god's color.
World Map: Positioned such that the Sun is at the center and the white Moon is at the top.
Local maps: Either positioned with sunward at the top or with whiteward at the top.
Two magic systems, one is untouchable by humans, only usable by the Axolotl Gods and is the foundation of how everything works, the other is this...
A magic system that is basically the magic equal to spaghetti code, spells were made by Spellwriters who are the equivalent to developers, spells work unpredictably, and nobody knows *why* it works or why it only works when you are spinning at exactly 10.2 rpm. The fact the spell system is like it influences what magic is like, such as tools that aid important spells, if a spell requires spinning at 10.2 rpm and is super useful, 10.2 rpm turntables are commonplace, etc.
Open source everyone can effect anything, someone could make a new levitation spell and break half of a city's power system, and nobody can fix it because nobody knows why it broke, then they fix it and break Bob's teleportation startup.
Flat world (inspo from Biblaridion's Refugium project).
Believable powered flight skywhales, eats insects, evolved from dolphins.
Brood parasites that use humans, they dump babies at houses and ditch.
More edible rocks beyond salt and chalk and de facto ice.
Air floating islands.
Water floating islands (pumice).
Mudskipper x Shark
Black Ball of Death
The Axolotl Gods:
Lucy - The Boss, also manages things not assorted into the others' domains, like the Biome Cores.
Goldie - God of Energy
Swagxolotl - God of all things epic, also culture
Cyanie - God of Air
Buffxolotl - Hand crafted the world
Wildy - God of the soil, rocks, sand, etc.
Mosser - God of Life
Bluie - God of Water
Godly Kerfuffles, borderline apocalyptic situations where two or more of the Axolotl Gods get into a fight, two axolotls about 50 feet large visible from most of the Playground in the sky fighting apocalyptically, the most recent being 12 years ago where Wildy and Goldy got into a fight over whether chocolate or strawberry milk was better, Goldy was throwing red dwarf stars and lightning bolts 6 miles thick, Wildy cloned the bedrock platform holding the world and used it as a shield, before throwing it at Goldy, at least 300M people died in the Kerfuffle of The Milk Flavors. It also shows how the gods will risk their world over trivial topics.
Golden hour is rare and global and immaculate.
Blood hour.
Everyone speaks English. Each area has different accents and dialects that get spelled and written differently, some may have replaced Th with T, some may have made ea into a, etc.
When the world was made each Axolotl god got to make a language,
Lucy gave Humans the language the gods spoke, English, it went on to outcompete the other 7 over the centuries.
Goldie made the fairies language, Íll'klx̌axathaxx̌empə.
Bluie made the mermaid language, Oovumal.
Cyanie made the Neanderthal language, Franch.
Wildie made another human language, one for the people who lived in the wasteland, Aahhaaaahh, because you can barely hear over the wind.
Mosser made the language of the Denisovans, Denisovan.
Swagxolotl made the language of... "the epic swaggy guys" he insisted a set of 1k of each species be put on an island to coexist and they all speak "Swagxolotlian", he named the country "Swagland" and made them all "Swaggy", the people there immediately ended up fighting because mermaids inherently have vastly different needs to the land based humans, neanderthals, and denisovans, who have different needs than fairies, and after heated debates the state collapsed into war and Lucy had to nuke it because the language started becoming just swears.
Buffxolotl made a language he spent 8 straight days designing in the hopes of it becoming the language of philosophy, science, and deep conversations, called The Language of Learning, Īnteλīyenßa dje Ɣløßa, gave it to a town of people, and the town was nearly instantly wiped out by a flood caused by Mosser and Bluie feuding, he then decided to refine it some more and give it to a new town, which was then blown up by a stray rock from a Wildy temper tantrum, he and Lucy then had a stern talking to with the other gods about the fact they can't keep killing people, and he gave it to a final largeish town alongside a bunch of free starting knowledge, the language spread and was preserved but eventually the language became obsolete as people switched to English out of convenience as English was becoming the lingua franca.
The Bloop is a goofy harmless filter feeding mega giant fish.
Biome cores.
Humans and Neanderthals and Denisovans all coexist almost peacefully.
Also mermaids.
Very many biomes, like real ones and historic ones also mushroom forests from 400mya made of prototaxites, and fictional ones like a candy island, or a corrupted one.
Dust bunnies (actual bunnies, are pests like rats)
Fairies as a cheap way to do many things, like tooth fairies, bone fairies, organ fairies, cute forest fairies that live in quaint villages and wage wars against rival villages and genocide, children teeth are the foundation of their economy or maybe not.
Global day-night cycle because the sun just turns off. Day lasts 12 hours, night lasts 12 hours.
The Sun rotates rapidly in the opposite direction to the Moon's orbit, thus giving the terms/directions moonwise and sunwise instead of clockwise (moonwise) and counterclockwise (sunwise).
The Sun is at the center of the world, 1.04 miles across, and illuminates a circle about 5160 mi or 8305 km across. Near the Sun is incredibly hot, and the Sun magically creates incredible downdrafts, constantly, thus inverting the air currents of what would be expected due to heat. The downdrafts bring this very hot air straight to Subsolar Sands, a large island right below the Sun that's too hot for civilization.
The Moon, a slightly smaller sphere exactly 0.98 miles across that changes color as it orbits, starts white then a color for each axolotl god. It takes 201 days to orbit. Changes color every 25 days at midnight, takes 8 total colors one per god, for 8 months of 45 days thanks to the clean numbering. The remaining day is the first day of the year, it was set aside by the gods for a neutral start of the cycle not colored for any god, on this day the Moon is white, and stationary, and is conventionally seen as what we call north, being one of the cardinal directions.
But the Axolotl gods are dicks who made the moon system in what seems to be a rush so every now and then completely randomly the moon just wont change colors for a month (will always change to white on new years), thus skipping a color and making one color twice as long. The Moon creates updrafts that send the air back to the sun, as well as strong currents in the global moonwise direction creating more complex weather systems.
Because the Moon makes updrafts and the Sun downdrafts, air is in a massive global cycle, warm air from the Sun is pushed down along the ground outwards and at the edge of its light the Moon picks it up and sends it inwards, because this cycle has hot on bottom and cold on top, chaotic weather systems emerge as they mix unevenly and as the Moon orbits and is in only one place at at time, and creates the moonwise (clockwise) global vortex. Its a very simple way to create very complex weather systems.
2 seasons cold and hot, for unknown reasons, most likely the Axolotl Gods' doing to create seasons when they saw the world wouldn't naturally get any, the frozen wasteland air beyond the Sun's grace gets swept up by the Moon's updrafts and sent inwards in the global air circulation cycle, flooding it with colder air and pushing the wastes inward to create winter, only while the moon is in the latter 4 color sections. The hot season is when the cold wastes air and cycle air almost never mixes, so the air is stuck in the cycle, constantly passed by the Sun which heats it up and sends it out, and due to it barely leaving the system and mixing with the wastes air, the cycle keeps the heat.
Black Floating Cube, maybe relates to the BBOD.
The Holy Stone: It says “Keep this stone at the World Core (Sun) or else the Sun will go out and never relight.” And someone did 682 years ago, it took 7 years for the stone to be returned, in that time the world froze over and ALMOST caused a mass extinction, but the Axolotl Gods kept species from dying, the year when the stone was returned marks Year 0TA (Today's Age) in the current traditional calendar, years before are marked Before Today's Age (BTA).
Countries:
Sun Empire: a failed state right under the sun, basically HRE, thinks theyre superior.
Lucy Empire: Rules a lot of the slice of land near when the Moon represents lucy, Lucy is displeased at the genocidal empire.
Austin Island.
Extra Kingdom, they exist because I can’t think of anything, directly from The Battle of War 2, one of the most competent, democratic, and well run nations, the monarch is mostly ceremonial at this point, one of a handful or superpowers.
The Kingdom of The Hand: a cult like city state nation that worships the Hand.
Mermaid States: self explanatory
A city state for this world's equivalent to the UN.
Many city states of varying sizes
Multiple international unions and blocs.
The Wasteland Stations: Well organized city states that were set up by The Extra Kingdom Icy Wasteland Beyond The Sun's Reach Research Organization, basically this world's Antarctic bases, but entire towns.
Mountwoodedcreekiland: a small state near Lucy Empire
Davenstone: a small republic recently conquered by the Lucy Empire after a brutal 3 year war, it left a final broadcast for its people as its capital was stormed, the broadcast has gone globally viral for its depressingness, like the final broadcasts of countries being conquered in WWII.