The World of Tyrrell | Low Fantasy Setting

Welcome to the World of Tyrrell! A reminder that this video represents the beginning of our world, not the end. It is a rough roadmap that will inevitably be changed and be expanded over the course of this series. We got a long way to go, but if you want to follow our progress, check out the secondary channel where our world (whichever one wins) will be created. 🔸 Worldbuilding Project | Secondary Channel 🔸 www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4J_ClDpEKREfMIgnvU1rg

Elf - "I'm behind 7 counter-spells and divine blessings. Good luck." Human - "G U N"

"It was called the MG-12 Recoil-Operated Machine Gun." This just became a lot more realistic than I was expecting...

“Not a single human champion was named.” Maybe because the elder-kin would never bother writing them down. The start of this video feels like the history was written primarily by elder-kin saying humanity was nothing but savage brutes predisposed to making bargains with demons. But if they’re humans, like us, we know that’s not the whole truth. It’s a great demonstration of how perspective an bias changes over the course of history based on whose writing the history, humanity goes from overlooked and belittled to THE power in the world upending their arrogant overlords and pushing magic into a corner.

This is what happens when you forget to research in civ

The WW1 meets fantasy vibe is really cool. I think this will be a way harder decision than I thought.

"Wow. The human soldiers are really odd. They barely wear armor, and their spears are really short and heavy looking... ohmygods their spears shoot little lead balls at twice the speed of sound and all our mages were killed from half a kilometer away."

Let's get tyreal

I can imagine humans in war with elves or dwarves yelling “REMEMBER VOSKARDIA” and proceeding to charge at elven archers with fixed bayonets and artillery cover, while zeppelins or biplanes bomb elderkin armies

I can't say I expected humans to rock up to the first major war they had any say in with full-on machine guns, but I like the theme this is going for. If only the opportunity cost of voting for this didn't sacrifice both the Taangali wastes and tomorrow's reveal. Good job at making picking the right choice for me harder.

"what sorcery Is this human?!" "A .50 Caliber one you pointy ear son of a b..."

Wasn’t a fan at first, but the further fleshed out this got, the more interesting it became! Industrial fantasy. I like it!

The artist Andrius Matijosius has a WW0 series on his artstation that I think matches absolutely beautifully with what this setting seem to be going for.

I LOVE THIS TYPE OF STORY! Especially the WW1 aesthetic I can just imagine that an elvish family is sitting at home, ready to eat their evening meal. Thunder rumbles in the distance. Thunder on a cloudless day. The youngest elf turns to their elder, a question on their lips, as the city’s warning bells begin to toll and a knock lands on the door, calling the warrior away to buy time for the civilians to run and hide because the slaves have broken free and have come to claim their new world

This is probably the only “humanity first” story where I feel like it’s justified and not boring. Plus the only fantasy setting I like

I like this one better, it is an inversion of Tolkein's world. Starts off like a nihilistic version of Middle Earth, then sucker punches you with WWI erupting out of no where, then goes to modern society trying to burn down ancient tenants letting in Demons.

Normally, I'm predisposed towards military sci-fi and space opera But unless the concept video tomorrow blows it out of the water, I'm going to have to give my vote to Tyrrell. Imdustrialized fantasy is something we see so rarely, and it's dark and gritty without, so far, devolving into grim-derp. The story of mankind persisting through thousands of years of oppression and genocide, slowly chipping away at the power imbalance until it not-so-slowly topples the old order in a global roaring rampage of revenge is especially compelling. I hope Tyrrell wins out. I NEED more.

Elvish text: Lessons learnt from the opening of the New Age. (Translated into the human language) As lesser as humanity was, they possessed one characteristic natural to only them, one that neither the high and subtle movements of Elves nor the frank and honorable clans of Dwarfs came easy to: they deceive and are deceived all too easily. Lies are disseminated as a fundamental portion of their culture, as a method to ease their way through the world that acted so harshly against them. When the smokestacks went up, nobody bothered to check in, which was the last opening needed for the human ingenuity to dart through. And then they called themselves sorcerers until they revealed their [transliterated as "sling of thunderous noise", referring to the MG-12 and later guns. guns will be used henceforth.]. Once that lie was lost, their men marched forth with their guns and [ "gun of sun-fire", referring to artillery .]. Where they marched and murdered, the land was left scarred by channels and holes where their spades had dug and their artillery had struck. What can we learn? Trust is not something to be given to the word of a human, for their species has ["given death of lead", or shot , particularly by guns] to many of the Elderkin. Remember the dwarven holds near these upstarts that become mine-shafts for their coal and iron. Despite this, the lies of the humans are strong, especially when used against their own troops. Remembering the murdering of [name removed before translation], all humans who shot the King in broad daylight were killed, tortured to death for their heresy, and yet each confessed they were told they would be extracted from the scene. Such lies from their highest command to their lowest soldier are despicable, but these false pretenses drive these mere humans to fanaticism. Beware then, for the human lie is crafted to delude the foe and [no equivalent word exists, "strengthen by treachery" is the closest phrase] their friends. Human text: My experience on the First Front. Written by [name redacted on request]. The fools were expecting some great sorcery, I expect. That meant that they brought hand shields, thinking not to fortify their position against arrows. I suppose they thought the great workings of their mages would be enough against any arrows that dare loose towards their glorious swordsmen. They crossed without us firing, and the leader, his name hated and yet unpronounceable, thrice-damned killer of generations, walked up to our commander. I was in earshot. He said to us in a sweet voice, "What sorcery is this? You have brought nothing more than iron rods and expect to defeat us? No working of your own magicians can best our techniques." Our commander didn't even flinch, which must've unnerved the fool a bit. The response was short and sweet: "These aren't just metal rods. This is an MG-12 recoil-operated machine gun. You don't know that word, but you will." Clearly Whatever-His-Name-Is was taken aback by such bravado, though he didn't have any time to say anything posh before the commander brought his gun up with the rest of the army, and said, "Counterspell this , you posh bastard." Then he riddled the poor idiot with lead. Naturally, we followed suit with the rest of their army. No honor, just killing. Cathartic in one way, but unsatisfying under that. We just killed an army of Elves in less than ten minutes. Where was the glory? Where was the confrontation of many years of being looked down upon as less than equal? Why didn't it feel good to be the end of our downtrodden nature? I don't know. You might have figured it out. Maybe we're still lying to ourselves.

Dieselpunk - Low Fantasy. Now that is an uncommon, and underrated, combination. And indeed, having industry be viewed in a more morally grey light compared to most fantasy is a good refresh. From mice in a world of magic, men arise triumphant as the titans in a world of industry. Plus, it'd be cool to have dragons v biplanes. An intriguing candidate, I'm curious to see the final one tomorrow.

The first thing I pictured was an Elven griffin rider in gleaming silver armor with a glowing sword, getting shot out of the sky by a biplane. I really like this idea. Tolkien has allusions to the idea of technology allowing the forces of evil to overcome the good and the beautiful, but in practice everyone is still just using swords. This takes it to the logical conclusion. I do hope they can keep the magic in it though; it's a fantasy setting, I don't want it to just be "WWI, but some people have pointy ears"