I've been putting together a world for a while now, and I'd like to share it with you guys. It's the world I set some of my stories in, and I've used it for years without really thinking about consistency or details that much. So, recently I decided to start setting those details out so I don't forget them.

This world is called Kairula. I don't have a map of it yet, simply because I haven't got round to drawing one, but I know vaguely what it'll look like when I do. Kairula is a fantasy world, where magic works and modern technology doesn't. It is reached from Earth through portals. These can be created by mages, but they also sometimes appear at random. They always face the sun – at least, the side you want to go through does. (More about the other side later.)

Fairly standard races of Humans, Elves and Dragons, plus more. I've borrowed a lot of stuff from various authors, but put a bit of my own twist on it.

Races (overview)
Humans:
Where there are any, they are invariably in the majority. Humans are the only race to be really enthusiastic about building cities and marking boundaries – beyond the human-occupied lands, there are no boundaries, and very few cities.
Sub-races: Lupus and Vampire

Elves:
3 confirmed sub-races: the eldar, who are mainly gone from human lands, the eledhel and the moredhel. (Names taken from Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga.) Descended from the survivors of Atlantis who escaped to Kairula through a randomly appearing portal.

Dragons:
Shapeshifters who can take any form, their base or central forms are: what you would think of as a traditional dragon (either air – the normal sort – or water – aquatic and can't breathe fire or fly), human male, and human female. They age at half human speed, can work elemental magic (more about dragon magic later), and have 3 parents instead of the more usual two.

I have a lot of powerpoints with all the detail on, and I'm trying to figure out the best way of sharing them. Any suggestions from anyone? They have a lot of links, because I've structured it a bit like a Wiki, with cross-references all over the place, and most of the ways I've found of publishing powerpoints don't let the links work.

Added most of the info from my powerpoints to the wiki now, plus about 10 HeroMachine images. Have a look, tell me what you think!
(Link in previous post)

Thanks for the kind words, Ximero!
I actually hadn't noticed the "dang" hidden in b'dang-dang, I just chose it because it sounded good, but I think it has potential. (It's "orangutan", by the way)

Yeah, I like the salamander. She took me a while, because I did shadows as well as highlights, which you might not have noticed. I like putting shading on some illustrations, just to make them stand out just that little bit more, and I thought Ms Salamander merited some extra attention.

I like the gloamglozer as well, but I have to admit I stole most of the concept from a series of books called the Edge Chronicles, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell (look up "Curse of the Gloamglozer" by them to see Chris Riddell's version). I'd be interested to know which you (or anyone that can be bothered to look) think is scarier! *cough*Mine!*cough*

The original idea for the nymphs/elementals came when I made the dryad, and thought of making a water nymph. So I made her, and liked the idea so much I wanted to make a set, one for each element. Then I thought about how they would reproduce…and it all just went from there! 11 characters for the price of 1 idea! Cool or what?

The additions to the magic section aren't quite finished yet, but I should get round to that soon.

PROGRESS UPDATE:
Created the "Humans" page – finally! Doesn't have much on it yet, and some of what is there won't make much sense yet (I need to add more pages with clarification, especially on the Valheru), but it's up and it's got a few interesting facts on.