The Building of Worlds

Below, you will find flights of the imagination, sparked by AI. I have a love for story-telling, but generally struggle to come up with any original ideas, instead building on some small inspiration. Perhaps that is my lot, being more of a fixer than an inventor. In this, I have grown comfortable.

When the AI world developed the ability to generate art with simple prompts, I was enamored. Suddenly I could dump random words or phrases into a bot that would spit out a fantastic image for me in minutes. This image would come to life in my mind, and a world, or some sliver of one anyway, would start to unfold.

The following is an index of my various dallianaces with Dall-E Mini and Midjourney, and the daydream that followed.

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THUMBNAIL BLURB
The Grimpickers are the fairly reclusive haunts that appear after the battlefield has gone quiet. Colloquially named by the few that have spotted them over the centuries, the Grimpickers are the subject of night tales and words of warning for those that would be headed off to war.
The Middenfrost is a treeless tundra in the Northeast region of the Urden continent, nestled between the Stormhalt Mountains to the North and the Fex Empire to the South. It is sparsely populated, mostly inhabited by those working to process and transport ore from the Stormhalts.