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.
The core setting features a central world surrounded by several neighboring realms, sometimes overlapping in time.
Societies within Dünyayan include merchants, scholars, nomadic clans, and urban guilds, each contributing distinct traditions and
Since its inception, Dünyayan has grown through a collaborative wiki and community forums. It is used for