Some Worldbuilding Vocabulary
Abeyance: When the audience temporarily suspends their questions about made-up words or worldbuilding details with the implicit understanding that they will be answered later in the story.
Absorption: The two-way street wherein the audience is immersed in the created world and is picking up the author’s metaphoric building blocks to recreate the concept in their head.
Acculturation: When an adult assimilates into another culture.
Additive: When something has been added to a secondary world, usually in the form of magic or fantasy species.
Affinity: A kinship pattern wherein the familial bond is based upon marriage.
Aggregate Inconsistencies: When audiences pick up internal inconsistencies not within the same story but from multiple sources within the shared universe.
Anachronism: Details that do not conform to their time period or culture.
Analogue Culture: Real-life cultures that the creator emulates in their work and then applies their fantasy conceits to.
Ancestor Worship: The belief that deceased ancestors still exist, are still a part of the family, and can intervene within the living world on their descendants’ behalf.
Animism: The belief that all objects, creatures, and places are imbued with a spiritual essence.
Apex Predator: The predator at the top of a food web that no other creature naturally feeds upon. Two apex predators cannot exist in the same niche.
Apologetics: In worldbuilding, the attempt to explain inconsistencies in terms of existing canon.
Appropriated Culture: Using a culture as a whole that the creator is not a member of. Different from an analogue culture in that the analogue is changed by the creator and used respectfully.
Artifacts: In worldbuilding, the observable ways a culture behaves due to their cultural worldview. This can include politics, economics, religion, education, arts, humanities, and linguistics, along with many other cultural norms.
Ascendant: In worldbuilding, a world that the magic is increasing in power and influence.
Assimilation: When an individual rejects their original culture and adopts the cultural norms and beliefs of the dominant culture.
Author Authority: When an author demonstrates expert-level knowledge in a field to their audience.
Author Worldview: What Mark J. P. Wolf calls “not only the ideas and ideologies of the world’s inhabitants, but also those which the author is expressing through the world’s structure of events.”
Autocracy: A government in which supreme power concentrates in the hands of one individual or polity.
Avatar: The embodiment of a deity in another form, usually humanoid.
B-C
Bible: In the field of television writing, a series guidebook that usually includes the pitch, character descriptions, a synopsis, as well as worldbuilding details.
Biome: The vegetation and animals that exists within a region. Terrestrial biomes include: forest (tropical, temperate, or boreal), grassland, desert, and tundra.
Black Box: In information processing, when a system is viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs without any understanding as to its internal workings.
Bottom-Up: In design, where the granular, base elements of the system are created first, then grouping them together into larger constructs over and over until a pattern forms. Also known as “pantsing” in writing and worldbuilding because the creator is building by the seat of their pants.
Callback: From standup comedy where the punchline in a joke used earlier in the set is alluded to again, eliciting another laugh from the reframing of what was already familiar.
Canon: The core doctrine for the world when conflicting information arises. Usually what the original creator made takes canonical precedence over subsequent additions.
Capitalism: The economic system wherein individuals own the means of production.
Chekhov's Gun: Often understood to mean that something must be introduced previously if it will have significance later in a narrative, but meant by the playwright that nothing should be included in the story that is not completely necessary.
Climate: The temperature and rainfall in regions over approximately 30 years. Classified as tropical (high temperature and high precipitation), dry (high temperature and low precipitation), temperate (mid temperature and mid precipitation), continental (in the center of large continents with warm summers and cold winters), and polar (low temperatures and low precipitation).
Commercial Fiction: The style of fiction that includes all genre fiction, the aim of which is entertainment. Often fast-paced and plot-driven.
Compelling: One of the four Cs of worldbuilding, which deals with how well the core concept and subsequent details maintain audience interest.
Complete: One of the four Cs of worldbuilding, which deals with the sense that the world is lived in, has a sense of history, and continues on even when the story ends.
Complexity Creep: When material gradually grows in complexity over its lifetime, raising the bar of entry for new people experiencing the material for the first time.
Conceits: Where a story deviates from reality. Usually the focus of the fiction by being what the author intends on exploring in their works.
Conlanguage: A constructed language created specifically for a story world.
Consanguinity: A kinship pattern wherein the familial bond is based upon a shared genetic lineage.
Consistent: One of the four Cs of worldbuilding, which deals with how well the material maintains its own internal logic as established by the fantasy conceits.
Constructed World: A fictional world that does not exist but was created by someone.
Continuity: A gestalt term for perception where the mind fills in obvious blanks to make a unified whole.
Convergent Evolution: When two or more species develop analogous features to deal with their environment.
Co-Residency: A kinship pattern wherein the familial bond is based upon shared space.
Cosmology: The study of mapping the universe and our place in it.
Cost: In worldbuilding, when a character must risk or sacrifice something for magic to take effect.
Creative: One of the four Cs of worldbuilding, which deals with how and to what extent the constructed world deviates from the real world.
Credibility Threshold: Where worldbuilding details must only appear plausible to a general audience rather than demonstrating expert-level knowledge.
Cultural Identity: An individual’s self-concept as distinct from others based upon nationality, ethnicity, social class, generation, and locality.
Cultural Universals: Traits, patterns, and institutions prevalent throughout humankind.
Customs: Informal rules of behavior that people take part in without thinking about it.
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Deity: The most powerful of metaphysical entities, deities often exist in pantheons, have thematic powers based upon their roles, and few weaknesses or limitations.
Descendent: In terms of magic, the idea that the most powerful magics are from ages past and that magic is on the decline in terms of power and influence.
Despotism: An economic system wherein an individual or institution controls the laws and resources of an area.
Deus Ex Machina: A plot device in which an unexpected power, event, or deity intervenes to save a hopeless situation.
Differentiation: When one culture forms part of their identity by contrasting themselves with another nearby culture.
Divergent: When the creator alters something in the development of the world but it remains very similar to the real world in every detail but this fantasy conceit. For instance, a world that resembles our own but made up of anthropomorphic animals instead of humans.
Divine: The belief that something is of, from, or like a god.
Democracy: A government in which the people elect a governing body in some fashion.
Early Adoption: When an inventor or culture creates a technology long before their analogue culture did in the real world.
Easter Egg: A hidden message, image, or feature that is meant to be hunted for within the material.
Economics: The study of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Education: A form of socialization in which we teach the youth what they need to know to become functioning members of society.
Effective Worldbuilding: When (a) the immersive state is never disrupted for the audience, or when (b) the immersive state is disrupted with a positive result.
Element X: N. K. Jemisin’s concept of when fantasy elements diverge from the real world. Similar to fantasy conceits.
Emic: An account of a cultural idea, concept, behavior, or belief documented as if from within the culture.
Empires: Multinational states with political hegemony over other ethnicities, cultures, or nations.
Encyclopedic Impulse: The consumer’s desire to know everything about the world or the author’s desire to expound upon all the worldbuilding details.
Ephemera: Transitionary materials that are not meant to exist for long term, such as advertisements, diary entries, letters, posters, and the like.
Ethnicity: A group that identifies with each other based on presumed similarities such as a shared language, ancestry, history, society, or social treatment within an area. Ethnicities are not dependent upon, but are often associated with, certain taxonomic traits or physiological similarities within those groups.
Etic: When cultural ideas, concepts, behaviors, or beliefs are documented from outside the cultural milieu as a passive observer with an eye for similarities between all cultures
Exsecting: When the creator removes something that exists in the real world from the created world.
Extrapolation: In worldbuilding, the belief that any fantasy conceit should be followed to its natural conclusion.
Face Validity: When worldbuilding detail appears believable upon immediate examination. See Credibility Threshold.
Fan Service: Material included in a story that serves no narrative purpose other than to please fans.
Fantasy Conceit: What the creator intends to explore in the world, it is where the constructed world deviates from the real world, usually in the form of geography, biology, physics, metaphysics, technology, or culture.
Fantasy Function: When analogue cultures are filtered through fantasy conceits to populate the created world with its output details.
Fetishes: Items imbued with cultural significance and power.
First Principles: Core belief and value systems within a culture that are often unconscious until confronted.
Flavor Text: Texts within stories, video games, role-playing games, and action figures that add depth by providing a sense of history but do not alter the game mechanics or story in a substantial way.
Feudalism: An economic system wherein there is a division between the lords that protect the vassals that work the land in exchange for protection.
Four Cs of Worldbuilding: See Creative, Complete, Consistent, and Compelling.
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Gender: A social construct of how cultures differentiate the sexes.
Generalist: When every individual in a society has the same basic job, which is providing their daily caloric intake. A staple of hunter and gatherers and in contrast to specialists.
Generation: A social cohort group based around the period in which children grow up, become adults, and bear children of their own. Because of this shared timeframe and significant events in their lives, generations often share a similar worldview within the general culture.
Genre Expectation: The qualities audiences expect of their genres to be considered successful, i.e. is the thriller thrilling or the romance romantic. For fantasy and science fiction, the genre expectation is worldbuilding.
Goldilocks Zone: The habitable zone around a star where the temperature is right for water to exist in liquid form.
Group: Two or more individuals who share a collective sense of unity via interacting with each other because of shared similar characteristics.
Habitat: The ecosystem or ecological community creatures exist in.
Handwave: A writing term for explaining crucial events dismissively with minimal details.
Handwavium: As opposed to the handwave, when everything else in the imagined world fits logically together with the exception of the fantasy conceit, which the audience must then accept to continue on with the story.
Hard Deduction: When there is no narrator and no character bringing the worldbuilding details to the audience’s attention, who must then piece together the world rules based upon the provided details alone.
Hard Impart: When information is imparted to the audience through narrative text, usually through the narrator or the internal thoughts of characters.
Hero Props: Items that are necessary for a scene to take place, making them integral to the story.
Heroic Theory of Invention: When inventors and discoverers of scientific developments are treated as solitary geniuses rather than products of good luck or a part of a team.
High-Concept: A term from the film industry meaning an idea needs lots of background details, usually compiled from the worldbuilding, to be explained for the core concept to be compelling.
Hybrid: (a) In biology, a living thing bred together from two different species, which is not able to produce its own viable offspring. (b) A method the author can employ to get details across to the audience in which it appears they are using a hard or soft impart, but the audience deduces are not correct, which then casts provided information into doubt and adds new nuance.
Iceberg Theory: The theory proffered by Hemingway that so long as the author is aware of the underlying ideas, they can cut away anything from the story and it will still make sense. Usually interpreted to mean one only needs to reveal 10% of worldbuilding details or backstory.
Illusion of Completeness: The sense that the world is complete and that all questions can be answered within it rather than the creator explicitly spelling out all the details.
Immersion: The altered state in which the audience feels they are physically present in a non-physical world.
Ineffective Worldbuilding: When worldbuilding details become obvious to the consumer, thus breaking the sense of immersion and reminding them of the real world. This can be caused by internal inconsistencies or from reality incursions.
Info Dump: A sudden overwhelming quantity of backstory or background information supplied in a short timeframe.
Info Dump Equity: The idea that an author should not reveal worldbuilding information until the audience craves it, thus being able to deliver an info dump without anyone complaining.
In-Group: The other people an individual identifies with. While they may not share the exact worldview, they share the same first principles in understanding the world around them.
Innovation: The drive for change, usually technological, but also socially.
Inside-Out: How audiences process worldbuilding details, in that they pertain to the immediate understanding of the scene, which are then pieced together into an understanding of the world.
Inspired Worldbuilding: The top form of worldbuilding, which invites additional audience interaction via their imagination after the story has concluded.
Institutions: Stable organizations of individuals formed for a shared purpose, usually by performing specific, reoccurring patterns of behavior.
Integration: When an individual adopts the cultural norms and beliefs of the dominant culture while still retaining their original culture.
Interconnection: When the threads of worldbuilding are tied together cohesively. Part of Sanderson’s third law of magic systems.
Interquel: Stories set in an existing world but that do not connect with the original story.
Intraquel: Stories set in an existing world that fill in gaps in the existing story.
Kinship: How social relationships organize into groups, roles, and families. Usually consisting of consanguinity, affinity, or co-residency.
Limitations: Checks put upon magical powers, usually in the form of weaknesses and costs. Sanderson maintains in his second law that limitations are more dramatically important than powers.
Linguistics: The study of languages.
Literary Fiction: The style of fiction that aims for awards, considers itself art, focuses on the prose, and is usually slowly paced.
Locality: The small-scale community in which the individuals in a group grew up, usually comprising of a town, neighborhood, or block, which differentiates them from others in the surrounding area.
M-O
Macroworldbuilding: The first of the stages N. K. Jemisin breaks her worldbuilding process into, which consists of planet, continents, climate, and ecology.
Magic: Change wrought through unnatural means.
Magic Point Systems: Magic systems where the casters have a set amount of energy, usually referred to as mana, to spend on their effects.
Magical Thinking: The belief people can affect change the world around them through thoughts and behaviors.
Mana: A frequent generalized term for the finite resource magic users spend on their magical effects.
Marginalization: When an individual rejects both their original culture and the dominant culture.
Mary Sue/ Marty Sue: Originally a created character for fanfic who has no flaws and is inserted into interactions with the canonical characters. Now an insult leveled at characters consumers don’t like, usually claiming they are overly capable and without flaws.
Masquerade: A term taking from the World of Darkness RPG wherein the existence of magic is hidden from the general populous.
Metaphysics: In worldbuilding, dealing with deities, spirits, cosmology, and the afterlife. In essence, creatures and locations that do not abide by understandings of biology or physics.
Microworldbuilding: The second of the stages N. K. Jemisin breaks her worldbuilding process into, which consists of species, morphology, raciation, acculturation, power, and role.
Monotheism: The belief in a single deity only.
Mystery Box: The theory proffered by JJ Abrams that mystery drives audience interest, which will keep them invested in a story so long as they are promised elucidation later.
Mythopeia: Constructed mythologies, lores, and histories within created worlds.
Nationality: How an individual relates to their state. A component of cultural identity.
Nominal Change: A superficial change in the secondary world that contributes nothing to the worldbuilding.
Norms: What is considered acceptable group behavior and what people should and should not do in their social surroundings.
Oligarchy: A government in which power rests in a small group of people like the nobility, wealthy, or religious leaders.
One-Off: An intentional inconsistency meant to highlight the aberration as separate from the established worldbuilding.
Out-Group: Those that do not share the same collective worldview, which are often mistrusted or viewed with outright hostility.
Overlaid Worlds: Constructed worlds with real-world locations but with the addition of fantasy elements.
P-R
Pantheon: A categorization of collected deities based upon the culture that worships them
Pantsers: Creators who build or write without a clear outcome in mind. See Bottom-Up.
Pidgin Language: A grammatically simplified language used for trade that comprises vocabularies drawn from numerous languages.
Planet of Hats: The trope of treating a species or world as monolithic and with one defining trait.
Planners: Worldbuilders or writers who have a clear plan once they start creating. See Top-Down.
Politics: The decision-making process within groups and individuals involving power structures.
Polytheism: The belief of multiple gods, usually inhabiting a pantheon.
Porcelain Argument: In worldbuilding, the belief that technology stagnates at the level at which magic or a fantasy conceit is introduced.
Portal Fantasy: A subgenre in which the characters from the real world travel to a secondary world.
Prequel: Stories set in an existing world that precede the original story. They do not need to connect to the original story but often do.
Primary Sexual Characteristics: The sex organs used in reproduction.
Primary World: The real world in which we all reside and draw our experience from.
Prime Mover: A conceit that cannot be removed without the story world falling apart.
Profane: Something that is religiously blasphemous or obscene.
Prologue: An opening sequence in a narrative that establishes background details to create context, clarification, and miscellaneous information for the audience
Promise of the Premise: The term coined by Blake Snyder for the point in the story when the setup is complete and it examines its core conceits. An author breaks the promise of the premise when the story is not about the promised core concepts.
Pull Factors: Factors that draw immigrants to an area.
Purple Prose: Descriptions that becomes overly ornate and extravagant, to the point they break the sense of immersion by drawing attention to themselves.
Push Factors: Factors that drive immigrants out of an area.
Race: (a) In biology, a grouping of populations below the level of subspecies, and is rather imprecise in distinguishing the differences between them. (b) In the fantasy genre, usually understood to mean “species.”
Racial Attributes: The assumption that any one fantasy race shares not only certain abilities like flight or the capacity to speak with animals, but certain demeanors, temperaments, and biases.
Reality Incursions: When the outside world interjects itself into the created fantasy experience to remind the consumer that this is indeed a made-up world. They usually occur when the consumer has expert knowledge in a field that is not depicted correctly in the narrative.
Reciprocity: When people respond to actions with similar actions. This can be positive, as in the exchanging of gifts, or negative, as with punitive eye-for-an-eye punishments for crimes.
Relativism: The belief there is no real objective universal truth and that we base all understanding upon perception and consideration.
Religion: The cultural system of behaviors, morals, ethics, and worldview in which humans deal with supernatural, metaphysical, and spiritual conceptions.
Retcon: Short for “retroactive continuity,” the term comes from comic books when previous canon or facts are ignored or contradicted so as to assimilate new stories or understandings in current storylines.
Reverberations and Repercussions: The understanding that any change within a world creates many expected and unexpected changes to the whole.
Rituals: Formal customs often involving gestures, words, and objects performed in a traditional sequence.
Rule of Cool: The understanding that the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief for a given element is directly proportional to its level of “coolness.”
Rule of Law: The idea that laws extend to the lawmakers as well as the general populous.
Rule of Three: In worldbuilding, the concept coined by Randy Ellefson in which an author should alter at least three components of a trope to make it their own.
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Saturation: Mark J. P. Wolf’s term for when there are simply too many details for the audience to fully absorb, which he maintains makes the world stronger since it invites the audience to reexperience the material again and again to glean something new each time.
Scarcity: When people put higher value on rare things and assign lesser value to things in abundance.
Secondary Sexual Characteristics: The distinguishing traits that distinguish the sexes, such as human males’ facial hair or females’ breasts.
Secondary World: A created world that does not exist.
Selection: In biology, the preferential survival and reproduction or elimination of individuals with certain traits. Can be either artificial, natural, positive, or negative.
Separation: When an individual rejects the dominant culture in favor of preserving their original culture, which often leads to minority enclaves within the dominant culture
Sequel: Stories set in an existing world that follow the original story. They do not need to connect to the original story but often do.
Set Piece: An iconic scene that exemplifies the story even though it might not actually be necessary to the story itself.
Shamanism: The belief that specific individuals have access to and influence over the spiritual realm, usually derived by ritual and entering altered states.
Show Don't Tell: The understanding that the audience prefers to experience the worldbuilding details and storytelling events in action rather than having them explained.
Smeerp: Unnecessarily renaming something to make it seem exotic. Derived from James Blish’s sarcastic use of the term when describing rabbits.
Smeerp Hole: When one seemingly minor change contributes to a whole slew of other changes on the author’s part that add little to the audience experience as a whole.
Social Class: The hierarchal social stratification of groups, usually manifesting as upper, middle, and lower classes.
Socialism: The economic system in which the workers or government own and manage the means of production.
Socialization: The process in which a group passes on the worldviews, norms, and customs to their children.
Soft Deduction: When a character with knowledge of the worldbuilding takes action based upon specific information to get the worldbuilding rules across to the audience.
Soft Impart: Information presented to the audience not through narrative text but through a trustworthy side character or source. Can often come about from an overheard conversation or explanation from another character.
Specialization: The divisions of labor and creation of occupations when the population does not individually have to account for their daily caloric intake. As opposed to generalist.
Species: A group of living creatures capable of exchanging genetic material and producing viable offspring.
Speculative Fiction: An umbrella term for fiction that inject elements into the story that do not exist in the real world. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, historical fiction, alternative history, and dystopian and utopian fiction are just a few genres that qualify as speculative fiction.
Spotlighted/Lampshaded: A potentially troublesome concept or idea that is intentionally brought to the audience’s attention before it becomes problematic to highlight that it is intended as a fantasy conceit rather than an accidental anachronism.
Stasis: The drive to maintain the current order, be it social, political, or technological.
States: Organized governments overseeing a specific territory that can interact with other states.
Streamlining: Part of Sanderson’s third law of magic in which worldbuilding details should be accounted for by already existing fantasy conceits instead of creating whole new conceits.
Suspension of Disbelief: When an audience makes a choice to suspend their critical faculties to allow for a patently unreal concept to be considered logical for the sake of entertainment.
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Taming: When an animal has been taught to tolerate human presence. As opposed to domestication.
Technobabble: When a character spouts a number of details to establish their expert credentials in the field. Technobabble is not meant to be understood by either the audience or the other characters, only to establish the character’s authority on the subject.
Terra De Facto: The implicit understanding that anything that is not accounted for by a fantasy conceit must therefore abide by the rules of the primary world.
Terrain: The vertical and horizontal proportions of land masses, which includes how high it is above sea level and at what slope.
Theocracy: A government where the religious leaders and practices control the laws in addition to the religious norms and rituals.
Toehold Details: Descriptors that specifically trigger the assumption of an analogue culture and time period, and therefore help the audience to mentally populate the scene.
Top-Down: In design, when the underlying idea or system is formed on a grand scale, then with all subsequent subsystems being added and refined until everything is mapped out. Also referred to as “planner” or “engineer” when it comes to writing or worldbuilding.
Totems: Imbued emblems representing a group of people tied to a specific spirit.
Transmedial: When a story or world exists in multiple mediums.
Tropes: Reoccurring motifs, images, plots, and characterization that exist within a genre.
Unchanged: When the creator does not use a particular fantasy conceit and leaves their created world the same as the real world in regards to this fantasy conceit. See Terra De Facto.
Unobtanium: In engineering, the term used for materials or technologies that do not yet exist but will one day solve current problems. Frequently used in science fiction worldbuilding.
Upmarket Fiction: The style of fiction that aims for creating discussion. It often blends literary and commercial fiction, deals with universal themes, has accessible language, and is character-driven.
Weakness: Limiting factors that diminish the power or the person using it. Part of Sanderson’s second law of magic.
Worldbuilding Capital: Time and mental energy sunk into a world, which is why authors frequently reuse the existing world instead of forming a new one for subsequent stories.
Worldbuilding Kudzu: When too many worldbuilding choke out the pertinent information by sheer volume, thus disrupting immersion.
Worldview: How a society or individual orients their knowledge and point of view towards the world. This includes philosophy, fundamentals, existential postulates, values and ethics, ideology, and attitude. It encompasses the concept of why the world works the way it does and the “correct” way to act within it.
Worship: The act of religious devotion towards a deity or ideal.
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Jedi culture & community fics, my beloved! They're a bit of a rare breed for what you're specifically looking for, specifically focusing on positive Jedi worldbuilding, so if anyone has genfic recs outside of the ones I know, please feel free to add them! But these should help scratch that itch for you, each of them has at least some focus on Jedi philosophy or how Jedi interact with each other or the lessons they teach!
It's been awhile since I've read some of them, so there might be some that aren't quite as in-line with how I see the Jedi these days, but they're all ones I felt portrayed them pretty positively and they're all genfic (except one that I made an exception for) and all really lovely fics I remember enjoying for the Jedi worldbuilding aspects! And there are some that will make you absolutely melt with how much you love these characters and their beautiful culture, because by god if canon's not going to give us as much detail as we want, fandom will step up.
And fandom made sure to not just focus on the disaster lineage--we love Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka, we always want more of them, please don't stop writing Jedi worldbuilding with them!--but also Mace and Yoda and Quinlan and Qui-Gon and even some Jedi OCs get some love in these fics, which makes me want to explode with joy to see! So, come cry about how much we love the Jedi with me, I WILL GIVE YOU A CRAPLOAD OF FIC TO READ.
STAR WARS & JEDI CULTURE & WORLDBULDING RECS YOU'LL FIND HERE:
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SHORT AND YET SO GOOD-LENGTH
NOVEL AND NOVELLA LENGTH:
✦ Remedial Jedi Theology by MarbleGlove, obi-wan & anakin & jedi & cast, 51.3k
Let us consider the fact that the Jedi Order is a monastic religious organization based out of a temple, with five basic tenets of faith. ✦ Festival of Light by dendral, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka, 8.7k
During his first year at the Jedi Temple, Anakin learns that even the Jedi celebrate holidays.
✦ Out with Lanterns by SkyeBean, ahsoka & mace & jedi & clones & cast, 312.5k
In another universe, Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Depa Billaba decide a Padawan could do Mace some good. It takes a while, but he eventually agrees. When he takes Ahsoka Tano as his Padawan, Mace knows that he's broken through a Shatterpoint and changed the course of a life. How, he doesn't know.
✦ eat well; be well by gingerbeer, rainsoaked_benevolence (oceans_bluem), obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & yoda & depa & shaak & quinlan & aayla & cast, 18.6k
Or, (almost) all of the Jedi High Councilors (plus Ahsoka) gather to eat dinner together.
✦ Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi by stonefreak, obi-wan & anakin & padme & ahsoka & palpatine & yoda & quinlan & cody & cast, 126.3k wip
By an old Republic law, all members of the Jedi High Council are senators in the Galactic Senate, and can thus be voted in as chancellor. A Senator from a less prominent planet has had enough of Chancellor Palpatine's incompetence and calls for a Vote of No-Confidence and the installation of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. This one action becomes the catalyst that changes the direction of the galaxy.
✦ Pragmatics of the Jedi by aroacejoot, ghostwriterofthemachine, loosingletters, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & jedi, 31.3k
A series of fanfiction exploring the consequences and results of the Jedi having their own language, and speaking it still.
✦ light by loosingletters, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & mace & jedi, 56.1k
Anakin Skywalker is a Jedi and being a part of their Order means that he is protected and accepted. The war is over and the Republic has to recover from the crimes of the Sith Lord, the Jedi have to figure out what it means to be peacekeepers again and the Clones have to learn how to be more than expendable soldiers.
✦ When Darkness Seems to Hide This Place by IllyanaA, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & kanan & ocs & cast, 94.9k wip
After killing three of the Jedi Order's best and brightest, Palpatine's fight with Jedi Master Mace Windu goes shorter than expected. Afraid he's lost his chance at recruiting a new apprentice, Sidious unleashes Order 66 across the galaxy, but, per their programming, the Clone Army is not to harm Anakin Skywalker. After witnessing the most painful loss he's ever experienced and injured at the hands of his captors, Anakin is ready to die like the rest of the Jedi, though not before getting his vengeance.
✦ Knightrise by Deviant_Accumulation, obi-wan & yoda & satine & ahsoka & asajj & cast, 89.4k wip
"Strong enough to fight the Sith Lord, you are not.“ And just like that the fight drained out of Obi-Wan, the barely scraped together agitation running out of him like water from a broken glass. He looked at Yoda, the other Master already hobbling towards one of the back exits, his presence burning with focus, obviously expecting Obi-Wan to follow.
✦ Make a Brand New End by Batsutousai, obi-wan & anakin & feemor & qui-gon & yoda & mace & dooku & jedi, 118.6k
Feemor, Qui-Gon Jinn's first padawan, did not survive Order 66, but the Force granted him a boon: A chance to go back to days before Qui-Gon's death. He doesn't know why the Force picked him to remember that terrible future, but he's going to do what he can to change it. And if he can heal the rift fallen between himself and Qui-Gon, and finally get the chance to know Obi-Wan, well, he's not about to turn that down.
✦ Unexpected Awakening (The Rewrite) by Rhiw, obi-wan & qui-gon & bruck & feemor & cast, time travel, 135.1k wip
The life of General Kenobi is cut short at the hands of his Padawan, but the sight that greets his eyes upon awakening is not that of blinding light of the Force, but the Jedi Temple he knew when he was still a youth. As he struggles to understand the path laid out before him, Obi-Wan unwittingly captures the attention of a singularly unusual Temple Guard, and that of a reluctant Qui-Gon Jinn.
✦ No Rest for the Weary by orphan_account, obi-wan & anakin & jedi, 61k
Needing a break from life at the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, visit a Jedi AgriCorps settlement on the Midrim planet of Helia. There they encounter new friends, new enemies and have new adventures, all while attempting to navigate their sometimes turbulent relationship as Master and Padawan.
✦ The Moments That Time Remembered by CallToMuster, obi-wan & mace & vokara & bant & quinlan & garen & depa & jedi, 82.4k
Obi-Wan’s first memory was not his own. Rather, it was a vision steeped in darkness and flashes of red and choking heat and you were my brother and the harsh crash of lightsabers striking one another. He woke up sobbing in the arms of the crèchemaster, Master Kitaddik, who was hushing him and gently stroking the top of his head with her furry hands. Obi-Wan hid his face in the soft folds of her tunic and, still crying, fell back asleep. The first time Obi-Wan collapsed due to a vision was not long after that. [Or: in all the various iterations of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s life, the Force spoke to him. But in this one, it never stopped.]
✦ Starrunner by orpheus_under_starlight, obi-wan & jedi & oc, 80.2k wip
In what would have been the year 17 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine is found slumped over his desk, dead to rights and emitting a foul odor. The coroners declare the body victim to a heart attack and the smell a result of a lack of a timely embalming—a bit of bowels humor, the head coroner says with a nervous laugh when interviewed by the Galactic Enquirer.
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✦ 飽了嗎? | Have you eaten your fill? by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & qui-gon & quinlan & yoda & dooku & mace & bant & jedi, 13k
The Force is the first language that Obi-Wan learned to speak, the brush of one mind against another. But food is the second language that Obi-Wan learned to speak with, and he talks, he talks, he talks. A collection of fics about food and how food is an articulation of love.
✦ We Will Abide by naberiie, plo & shaak, 10.3k
Light. Dark. Balance. Beneath the Jedi Temple, far below the chaos of Coruscant's Galactic City, ancient halls and corridors sleep in silent darkness. Padawans Shaak Ti and Plo Koon are determined to explore them.
✦ What Is My Heritage? by Marnie, qui-gon & yoda, 7.7k
Qui-Gon, age 13, tries to find a place to belong.
✦ Coming Home by Marnie, qui-gon & yoda & dooku, 18.1k
A story telling how Qui-Gon comes to be Dooku's apprentice.
✦ Master by CJinn, obi-wan & anakin, 27.5k
Obi-Wan Kenobi had always wanted to become a Jedi Knight. What he didn't expect was to become a Master merely days after his own Master died. Adapting to his new role as the mentor and Master of the quite unusual Padawan Anakin Skywalker became a bumpy road.
✦ into the statue that breathes by spoonks, obi-wan & feemor & cin & cast, 8.5k
The night watch in the garden was supposed to be the calmest of them all. No mischievous Padawans “sneaking” in or out, or ne’er-do-well civilians conducting “business” around the lower-level entrances that they didn’t know existed. No the gardens was still, and it was like time was frozen in ice that slowly melted away with the rising of the sun. A slow drip, drip— Drip. Immediately Feemor turned towards the central waterfall. Someone was standing there. Whoever they were, they were small and moved through katas with their hands open like a greeting.
✦ The Cave by Ria Talla (ronia), anakin & ahsoka & cast, time travel, 10k
Ahsoka Tano, post-Star Wars Rebels/? And there was something else, more important, though Ahsoka found herself loath to do it. Her lightsabers drawn, deep in the labyrinth formed by the stone warriors and the crumbled temple. Yet the words broke certain into her mind. Your eyes can deceive you. Her heart pounded, as though warning her otherwise. But Ahsoka withdrew her sabers, and closed her eyes. Rather than her weapons, she let the Force be her light.
✦ A Candle in the Night by phoenixyfriend, anakin/luminara & obi-wan, time travel, 12k
In which Luminara finds a heavily injured Jedi, nurses him back to health, and falls in love. Then they get back to the real world, and she just can't figure him out...
✦ Found Clan by silvergryphon, boba & ocs & obi-wan & anakin & cast, 25.3k wip
After the Battle of Geonosis, a Jedi Healer discovers young Boba Fett mourning the loss of his father. Not about to leave a ten-year-old boy on his own, she promptly adopts him with the full collusion of her Padawan.
✦ the heart of kyber by outpastthemoat, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & depa & kanan & jedi, 32.7k
Tales of the Jedi: Stories about lightsabers, masters, and apprentices.
✦ Stars of Tatooine by Be_Right_Back, ahsoka & mace & kanan & obi-wan & rex & cast, 10.5k
After the end of the world, Ahsoka more or less kidnaps a child, has to air some old grievances, and tries to find whatever peace the universe can still offer. All paths in the Force lead home, eventually.
✦ The Uses of a Sandwich by Laura Kaye (laurakaye), obi-wan & qui-gon & yoda & cast, 17.6k
A few months after being taken as a Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi faces a challenge: meeting his Master's first apprentice.
✦ Familes Found by fyrefly, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & padme & mace & plo, 8.2k
In a universe where "The Wrong Jedi" never happened, the war ends under different circumstances and perhaps everyone will get a chance at a happy ending after all.
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✦ The Mathematics of Repair by panharmonium, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 4.6k
For raw teachers and rough-edged students building in the rubble: tiny steps are enough, provided they carry you in the right direction. Immediately post TPM, in short snippets.
✦ The Living Force; Parables for Padawans by glorious_clio, obi-wan & cast, 6.1k
Since infancy, younglings are taught the Jedi Code, “Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet the Force.” Obi-Wan Kenobi learns these tenets backwards and forwards again. But even as a child, he is interested in nuance. And so his teachers tell him parables.
✦ A Jedi's Cloak ImperialKatwala, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & cody & rex, 6.4k
Jedi cloaks are made for children. Obi-Wan Kenobi is a year and a half old when he first sees this principle in action. He is fourteen, twenty-five, twenty-nine, and thirty-six when he gets a reminder.
Or: Jedi cloaks are weird. Here's a series of events showing why they're made that way.
✦ the master, the padawan, the Force by skatzaa, kanan & depa. 1.4k
Caleb expects things to be different after Master Depa takes him as her padawan, but really, it feels like nothing really changes.
✦ For the Future of the Order by thetorontokid, obi-wan & qui-gon & cast, 3.9k
There are important lessons to be found in the Jedi Temple creche.
✦ Memories of Peace by Margan, obi-wan & clones, 2k
It's not quite flash training, but the Clones are used to learning fast. It helps that this is something that they actually look forward to learning, to putting into practice. Obi-Wan teaches the Clones how to make dumplings in the middle of war.
✦ Liberosis by Be_Right_Back, anakin & mace & yoda & jedi, 2.2k
The war is over, the Sith are gone, and there is now Anakin Skywalker's secret marriage to deal with. While love is a wonderful thing, some truths are hard to face, and letting go is the destiny of all Jedi. Or: the Council and Anakin clash. It doesn't go as terribly as it could have.
✦ Accepting Emotion by LazarusII, obi-wan & ahsoka, 1.1k
Dealing with the stress and anxiety of being a prospective Padawan, Ahsoka Tano struggles to manage her emotions. Obi-Wan Kenobi finds her practicing in the dojo, confidence in tatters. His words make all the difference.
✦ A Long, Long Time Ago by ruth baulding, dooku & qui-gon + qui-gon & obi-wan + obi-wan & anakin + anakin & ahsoka, 5.8k
A wisdom tale handed passed down through the generations poses troublesome questions for a line of masters and Padawans, from Dooku to Ahsoka Tano.
✦ Duet by Silver Sky 1138, oc & cin, 2.3k
Asha Scarsi, the Jedi Padawan who feels the Force through music, isn't half as good at lightsaber combat as she is at singing and mindtricks. So she's a little nervous when Battlemaster Cin Drallig calls her to the training room after class.
✦ The One Where Anakin Tries to Be Serious by GirlwithCurls98, anakin & ahsoka, 1k
Even though they're fighting a war, Anakin finds the time to lead his apprentice through one of the Jedi's sacred ceremonies.
✦ Obi-Wan and the Force by AwayOHumanChild, obi-wan & cast, ~1k
One of the first things Jedi Initiates learn is that everyone experiences the Force differently.
✦ Night Shift at the Temple by ReneeoftheStars, oc jedi & cast, 1.8k
A Jedi Temple Guard sees all, speaks to few, and has attachments to no one. One must be prepared for any threats that may arise, especially at night, while most of the Temple sleeps.
✦ The Orchards by Raven_Knight, obi-wan & qui-gon & cast, 3.6k
When young Obi-Wan Kenobi is injured on a previous mission, Qui-Gon Jinn refuses to accept further off-planet missions until his Padawan's recovery. Yoda assigns the pair an in-Temple mission of utmost importance while Obi-Wan heals. Master and Padawan welcome the change of pace.
✦ Tipping Point by Ria Talla (ronia), adi gallia & finis valorum & eeth koth, 3.3k
"I believe that if what's happening on Naboo is allowed to continue, the other member systems will wonder what they owe to a Republic that can no longer protect them."
✦ A Personal Touch by DragonHoardsBooks, obi-wan & anakin, 6.2k
New jedi padawan Anakin Skywalker realizes that there is more to being a jedi then he tought. Discovering a completely new culture will take time and effort, but maybe he'll make some friends along the way.
✦ Jedi Parables by Peppermint_Shamrock, jedi, 5.8k
Values are often passed down generation to generation through stories, parables, and fables. What stories might the Jedi teach their children?
✦ Songs for Little Jedi by soft_but_gremlin, mace & jedi, ~1k
The initiates are having nightmares, so Mace sings a lullaby to comfort them.
✦ a thin thread of hope by wrennette, shaak & clones, ~1k
Shaak Ti introduces some cadets to one of her favourite crafts, under the guise of training.
✦ rah kat by js71, obi-wan & anakin & aayla, 1.6k
"Aay’shee," Obi-Wan murmurs into her ear, rocking her gently, like when jaieh was off on a mission she couldn’t go on, so her jaieh-raheniel would take turns having her over at their apartments.
✦ Lessons on Attachment by Siri_Kenobi12, obi-wan & anakin/padme & cast, 2.7k
"Anakin once told me that a Jedi is actually encouraged to love." She said after Obi-Wan had settled.
✦ Straw Dogs by Cymbidia, obi-wan & jedi & cast, 2.9k
An old Jedi Master imparts some wisdom concerning Mercy, Balance, and the Will of the Force to young Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi and a gaggle of other younglings. It is a lesson that haunts Obi-wan for the rest of his life.
✦ Refractions of Light by Independence1776, ezra & kanan, 1.3k
Kanan celebrates a Jedi holiday with Ezra.
✦ The grand outing by Ingata, dooku & sifo-dyas & obi-wan & bant & garen & reeft & yoda & cast, 4.5k
Eight younglings and two Jedi masters on a field trip. What could possibly go wrong?
✦ A Short Break by Peppermint_Shamrock, luke & yoda, ~1k
Luke complains about his training, and asks about Jedi training of old.
✦ we are made of our longest days by bereft_of_frogs, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 4.4k
Two years after the events of The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan and his new apprentice are called to a remote moon to fetch a baby who’s showing signs of a rare, unique power. On their journey home, Obi-Wan reflects on the last child he brought to the Temple and catches a faint glimpse of three possibly entwining futures.
✦ yellow, you're a dreamer by nightdotlight, jocasta & anakin (& obi-wan), 2.6k
Normally, it wouldn’t be unusual, but— Jocasta did not earn her post without listening, and from where she stands in the aisle, gaze fixed upon the back of the young child’s shaking shoulders, she can hear a sniffle reverberate around the space. There’s a child curled up in the corner of the Archives— and they’re crying.
✦ once upon a time (a long, long time ago) by thebitterbeast, barriss & mace & shaak & ki-adi & bacara & trilla & cere, 2.3k
The Jedi love children. Children love stories. This changes some things.
✦ not the place that I was born in (doesn't mean it's not the place where I belong) by ghostwriterofthemachine, obi-wan & anakin, 5k
“What were you consulting Master Obi-Wan about?” “Tea!” says the other Padawan brightly. “I’m performing a tea ceremony for my Master, one that originates from her home world. It’ll be the first time I sit foveo with her!” She says that word— foveo— as if it should mean something to Anakin. It does not.
✦ A Friend Indeed by ExtraPenguin, plo & ahsoka, 3.3k
After their rescue of the colonists of Kiros, Ahsoka Tano's Master asks for her to be sent on a mission away from the front. She ends up being sent to the Deep Core with Master Plo Koon to investigate one of the first known locations of the Jedi Order, since abandoned.
✦ In which we burn bodies as bridges by GraceEliz, obi-wan & ahsoka & depa & kanan & ezra, 1.4k
Lineage mantras, and the processing of grief.
✦ Five Times Mace was There for Obi-Wan, and One Time Obi-Wan Returned the Favour by wrennette, obi-wan & mace, 4k
five of the many times Mace Windu offered Obi-Wan comfort over the years, and one of the many times Obi-Wan returned the favour
✦ as the dust settled around us by thebitterbeast, finn & jedi, 5.2k
Bravery has never been the absence of fear. Prompt: There is no emotion, there is peace.
✦ Adi Gallia, Master of the Order by Perspicacia, adi & jedi, 7.2k wip
Palpatine didn't expect it. It was too soon for that in his plans: which Jedi would have left the Temple under assault? But Adi had. Ashes in her heart, she had left the younglings and the elders and the wounded for her duty to the galaxy, choosing to stop the Sith instead of protecting her people.
✦ “The Padawan Chooses The Master” by lurkingcrow, obi-wan & anakin & cast, 3.6k
prompt: AU - The Jedi say “The Padawan Chooses The Master” Qui Gon lives, Obi Wan is very preoccupied, and Anakin is put into the creche as an Initiate to learn what he can until Qui Gon wakes up from his coma and gets yelled at by the Council. In the meantime, Anakin meets other Jedi Masters and when the Council asks him who he wants to be his teacher, his answer isn’t Qui Gon. Instead it’s *insert your fav Jedi here*
✦ The Only Home We Know by ReneeoftheStars, katooni & petro & ganodi & byph & gungi & zaft & cast, character death, child death, 2.4k
The Jedi Temple is under attack. Determined to fight for their home, younglings Katooni, Petro, Zatt, Ganodi, Byph, and Gungi make their way to aid the Jedi Masters in defense of the Temple. But the situation is far graver than they expected.
✦ Obi-Wan and the Force by AwayOHumanChild, obi-wan & cast, ~1k
One of the first things Jedi Initiates learn is that everyone experiences the Force differently.
✦ The One Where Anakin Tries to Be Serious by Mini_and_Might, anakin & ahsoka, 1k
Even though they're fighting a war, Anakin finds the time to lead his apprentice through one of the Jedi's sacred ceremonies. Might become part of a series of missing scenes from the Clone Wars.
✦ Markings by wabbajack, ahsoka & plo, 1.6k
In which it is revealed that Master Plo Koon has always had a difficult time putting his foot down when faced with his Little 'Soka.
✦ The First Trial by Raven_Knigh, obi-wan & qui-gon, 2k
Accompanied by his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, young Obi-Wan Kenobi undergoes his first trial and rite as a Padawan Learner on the frozen planet of Ilum.
✦ Arrival by CJinn, obi-wan & yoda & jedi, 2.6k
Little Obi-Wan was only a few days old when he was brought to the Jedi Temple. His arrival caused some confusion among the Jedi.
✦ The Spire by skatzaa, obi-wan & jedi, 2.4k
The galaxy was on the brink of war, and Obi-Wan Kenobi had been assigned a new room.
✦ Room Arrangements by skatzaa, obi-wan & anakin, 2.2k
Anakin has some concerns about room arrangements at the Temple. Obi-Wan does his best to reassure him.
✦ Lineage by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & yoda & jedi, 1.5k
Anakin is new to the temple, and he does not yet understand that these are his brothers and sisters, his cousins, his uncles and aunts. He does not know yet, but he will learn, Obi-Wan thinks.
✦ A Discussion of Choices by Peppermint_Shamrock, luke & mace, 2k
Mace Windu has traveled the galaxy since the fall of the Republic, keeping out of the Empire's sight and teaching where he can. Upon the request of a ghost of an old friend, Mace finds himself instructing Luke Skywalker, who is still reeling from the truth of Vader's identity.
✦ Emotion is our Shared Tongue by virdant, obi-wan & anakin & qui-gon & quinlan & jedi, 2.1k
There are thousands of different species, with different languages and voices and hands, but what all Jedi have in common is the Force, and with the Force, they have language.
✦ To Know by Armin_05, obi-wan & anakin & shmi & kitster & fives & cast, 4.8k
Nearly all Jedi love learning. Anakin Skywalker is no different. Or, how Anakin found a love of learning and shared it with others.
✦ Shatterpoints and Students by soft_but_gremlin, mace & depa, ~1k
Depa always has shatterpoints hovering around her.
✦ Home-onym by virdant, jedi, 1.1k
Jedi younglings, like any other children, enjoy playing. Playing with lightsabers and playing with words.
✦ Threaded Lineage by Pandora151, obi-wan & anakin & ahsoka & kanan & ezra & luke & rey, 2.9k
The journey of a single river stone through many generations of Jedi, allowing the Jedi of the old and the Jedi of the future to be threaded together.
✦ the river and the rock by nightdotlight, anakin & luminara, 1.8k
Lightsabers clash, and Luminara Unduli holds her ground. She doesn’t move, doesn’t lock her muscles, just makes herself an immovable object and lets her opponent strain against the lock.
✦ Five Meditations of Jedi Depa Billaba by skatzaa, depa & mace & yoda & kanan & kit, 5.3k
What is says on the tin. (Plus one more, for good measure.)
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