Each GriotsWell World Story World is built from one people's own stories — their mythology, their history, the way they tell. The GriotsWell Classic Story Worlds are the four the world already knows: the Hero's Journey, Three-Act, Seven-Point and Four-Act. Lay them side by side and the World Story Plot Architectures appear: the shapes their stories share. Bring your own idea into any of them and leave with a plot blueprint in that people's shape.
The one we know: a story moving in sequence, cause by cause, toward a single resolution — seen in the GriotsWell Classic Story Worlds, the Icelandic sagas and the vision quest.
Many threads joined at many points, readable from any entry — seen in Akan Anansesem, Yoruba Ifá, the Haudenosaunee Great Law and Māori whakapapa.
A return to the same centre, deeper each time — seen in Mandé griot performance, the San stories, Korean pansori and Rumi's Masnavi.
Time that comes round again — making, unmaking and renewal — seen in the Dogon, BaKongo, K'iche' Maya and Babylonian tellings.
Order kept by practice and restored when it slips — seen in Kemet's Ma'at, Diné hózhó, Javanese wayang and Tamil Sangam poetry.
A turn of view in place of a clash — seen in Japanese kishōtenketsu and ma, Tang verse and the Zhuangzi.
The story as the land itself, travelled place by place — seen in the Songlines, Polynesian wayfinding and the Guaraní search for the Land Without Evil.
Destiny proved through trial after trial — seen in the Sundiata epic, the Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh, Gilgamesh and the Mahābhārata.
Two parties finding new terms through exchange — seen in the BaAka forest stories, Scheherazade's nights, the Andean khipu and the Amazonian vision journey.