A little about Paracosm

For the worlds
you can’t stop
imagining.

The place you’ve been building in your head deserves a home.

Paracosm Studio brings maps, civilisations, lore and writing into one creative workspace. Somewhere to follow an idea, make connections and watch a world take shape.

Find your starting point Create on desktop. Read your saved work on your phone.
An imagined cast of explorers, storytellers and fantastical creatures beneath a cosmic leviathan
paracosm /ˈpærəˌkɒzəm/ · noun

A detailed imaginary world, with its own places, people and stories.

A thousand possible stories. A world that’s yours.

The idea behind it

Everything connects.
Your tools should, too.

A map suggests a border. A border creates a conflict. A conflict becomes a story. Paracosm gives those threads a shared home, so you can spend more time exploring your setting and less time piecing it back together.

From the first spark

Let one idea lead to the next.

Explore the toolkit
The Paracosm map editor showing terrain and coastlines01

A place to begin.

Start with a coastline. Follow a river. Find the mountain pass that makes two neighbours strangers. Geography gives your ideas somewhere to take root.

Civilisations and territories in Paracosm Studio02

A world with a past.

Give those places people, cultures and histories. Keep the details in your Wiki, so the small discoveries become part of a setting you can return to.

The connected canon and writing workspace03

A story of your own.

Take a character across that mountain pass. Plan a campaign, shape a chapter or follow an unexpected idea in Scribe. Let the world become a story.

The person behind Paracosm

Hello, I’m Louis.

I’m Louis Goldsbrough, the creator of Paracosm Studio. I’m building a home for the whole worldbuilding process, from the first coastline to the stories that happen there.

The studio is growing through hands-on development and feedback from the people using it. If you’re making a world of your own, I’d love to hear what helps, what gets in the way and what you’d like to see next.

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There’s more on the horizon

A growing studio.
For growing worlds.

Follow the build, explore the tools, or start making somewhere of your own.

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Build worlds that never existed — until now.

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