Founded in 2015, Tiandi provides a unique worldbuilding and RP experience.
Tiandi is a modern-tech, realistic, and closed-world worldbuilding and roleplay community.
For all its fun, most NS RP communities offer much of the same. People are often subject to the same, tired tropes of European royalty named after RL players, Muslim terrorists, and 18 year-old Japanese anime princesses. Virtually all will feature the same European dominance of the world, which goes unquestioned.
Tiandi offers something different. It is a region where East Asian civilization, rather than Western civilization, came to dominate and shape the rest of the world in its image. It is a region where indigenous American societies were not wiped completely from history due to disease and conquest, but rather survived (albeit against the trauma of East Asian colonization and imperialism).
The region was founded as a way to explore issues of race, geopolitics, and culture in a setting that required much more imagination and thinking than most other regions.
Tiandi's unique history and lore allow for a deep philosophical discussion of the nature of the world and the factors that have shaped it. Are ideologies and religions unique to certain cultures, or are they more shaped by material factors? How central is geography to the development of societies? And how would clothing, music, and symbols of national identity have developed without Western influence?
Here, we create novel narratives about this world in which even little things like the popularity of ice cream must be reexamined and rethought with out-of-the-box thinking. Despite the hostility we have received to our mission and concept, Tiandi has nonetheless been able to flourish.
Today, we proudly have:
- Our own wiki, now featuring over a hundred articles.
- Started and done several RPs.
- An international and diverse community of individuals, ranging from Canada to Singapore.
- A unique map built specifically with the region's purpose in mind.
