Dünyayan

Dünyayan is a fictional world-building project and setting used in Turkish-language speculative fiction, tabletop role-playing, and collaborative storytelling. It encompasses a multiverse of interrelated realms, connected by ancient gateways, shared mythologies, and evolving lore. The project emphasizes modular world-building, enabling authors and players to contribute characters, maps, languages, and histories.

The name Dünyayan combines the Turkish Dünya, meaning “world,” with a suffix that signals belonging or relation. Within the project, Dünyayan refers to the entire ecosystem of worlds and the cultural memory that links them. The concept allows stories to move between realms while maintaining internal consistency through common rules.

The core setting features a central world surrounded by several neighboring realms, sometimes overlapping in time. Realms differ in climate, technology, and magic. Travel occurs via portals, dream routes, or relic devices, with political boundaries often provisional and contested. Legends and institutions traverse these borders, shaping alliances and conflicts across the wider Dünyayan.

Societies within Dünyayan include merchants, scholars, nomadic clans, and urban guilds, each contributing distinct traditions and codes of conduct. Turkish linguistic influence is prominent, though trade and contact introduce a variety of languages. Art, music, and ritual emphasize memory, storytelling, and the exchange of knowledge, creating a shared cultural fabric across realms.

Since its inception, Dünyayan has grown through a collaborative wiki and community forums. It is used for storytelling prompts, world-building education, and as a framework for games and fiction, with fans producing supplementary lore and creative works.