Evershade - Worldbuilding

Evershade is an original worldbuilding project focused on creating a cohesive, believable fictional world shaped by a single catastrophic event: the permanent stalling of the sun. The project explores how environment, ecology, culture, and belief systems evolve when daylight, timekeeping, and natural cycles collapse.

Rather than treating world elements as isolated ideas, this project was built around the principle that every change ripples through every system. Geography affects ecosystems, ecosystems shape survival strategies, survival influences culture, and culture reshapes belief. This approach allowed me to design a world that feels internally consistent while remaining imaginative and unsettling.

Project Focus

• Environmental storytelling through altered ecosystems

• Flora and fauna designed around low-light survival

• Culturally grounded belief systems influenced by psychology and anthropology

• World history shaped by a single, irreversible event

• Structured documentation resembling a professional world wiki

Repository

The complete documentation, structure, and ongoing development of Evershade can be found here: https://github.com/KiomiDesigns/Sunless_Skies

This repository contains the full HTML world wiki, structured lore files, and version history showing the project’s evolution over time.

Download the zip file or clone in git and then open the index.html file.

Screenshots from the wiki;