World Wizards

Step-by-step story development using authentic narrative architectures from cultures across the globe. Every structure presented with equal weight and dignity.

54Story Worlds
9Architecture Types
11Regions

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Define your story's foundation, then choose a narrative structure below to build with.

These parameters carry into whichever structure wizard you choose below. You can always refine them later.

Classic Linear Frameworks

4 structures

Africa

13 structures
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Akan โ€” Anansi Web
Web / Network
West African Akan trickster tradition. Stories as interconnected webs.
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Congo Forest Peoples (Molimo)
Negotiation / Reciprocal
BaAka, Mbuti, and Baka forest peoples. The living world as conscious entity.
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Dogon Creation Cycle
Cyclical
Dogon people of Mali. Cosmic order from the Word into material reality.
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Mandรฉ โ€” Griot Performance
Spiral
West African Mandรฉ oral tradition. Call-and-response, live narrative authority.
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Kemet โ€” Ma'at Balance
Balance-Seeking
Ancient Egyptian cosmic balance. Restoration of truth, justice, and cosmic order.
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San / Khoisan โ€” Click Stories
Spiral
Earth's oldest continuous storytelling tradition.
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Mandรฉ โ€” Sundiata Epic
Multi-Trial
Mandรฉ heroic tradition. Destiny through multiple trials, exile, and return.
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Bantu โ€” Ubuntu Story Circle
Cyclical
Southern African Bantu philosophy. Community as protagonist.
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Yoruba / Ifรก โ€” Orisha Realms
Web / Network
Yoruba divination tradition. The Odรน corpus as an interconnected web of destiny.
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Forest Peoples โ€” Mbuti / Baka
Spiral
Mbuti and Baka forest peoples. The deepening spiral of song and forest relationship.
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BaKongo โ€” Congo Cosmogram
Cyclical
BaKongo dikenga cosmogram. The four moments of the sun as narrative cycle.
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Nilotic โ€” Dinka / Nuer / Maasai
Spiral
Nilotic pastoral peoples. Cattle-centered spiral of season, praise, and identity.
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Nguni โ€” Zulu / Xhosa
Multi-Trial
Nguni izibongo and nation-building tradition. Trials accumulating toward legacy.

Europe

4 structures

Middle East & Central Asia

4 structures

East Asia

7 structures

South Asia

3 structures

Southeast Asia

2 structures

Mesoamerica

4 structures

South America

3 structures

North America

6 structures

Oceania

4 structures

Linear

6 structures

Sequential progression from beginning through middle to end

Web / Network

5 structures

Interconnected nodes โ€” no single path, no single center

Spiral / Performative

7 structures

Revisiting themes at deeper levels, often with audience participation

Cyclical / Cosmological

13 structures

Circular time, seasonal return, creation-destruction-renewal

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Dogon Creation Cycle
Africa
Dogon people of Mali. Cosmic order from the Word into material reality.
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Bantu โ€” Ubuntu Story Circle
Africa
Southern African Bantu philosophy. Community as protagonist.
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BaKongo โ€” Congo Cosmogram
Africa
BaKongo dikenga cosmogram. The four moments of the sun as narrative cycle.
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Slavic โ€” The Turning Year
Europe
Slavic tradition. The turning year of Marzanna and Kupala, death and renewal.
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Babylonian โ€” Enuma Elish
Middle East & Central Asia
The seven tablets of creation. Order and chaos in annual renewal โ€” the world remade each New Year through the telling.
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Kojiki / Shinto โ€” Amaterasu
East Asia
Japanese Kojiki tradition. Kami, purification, and the turning cycles of the world.
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Philippine โ€” Bathala / Diwata
Southeast Asia
Philippine epic traditions. Hero cycles of departure, death, and communal renewal.
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Zapotec โ€” Cloud People
Mesoamerica
Be'ena' Za'a โ€” the Cloud People of Monte Albรกn. The 260-day round of destinies; ancestors returning as cloud and rain.
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Aztec Codex (Amoxtli)
Mesoamerica
Pictographic storytelling encoded in visual symbols and calendar cycles.
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K'iche' Maya Creation Cycle
Mesoamerica
Creation through multiple attempts, destruction, and renewal.
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Animal-Guide Journey
North America
Plains, Woodland & Southwest Nations. Animals as teachers.
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Lakota Sacred Hoop
North America
Plains Nations (Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Cree). Four directions.
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Medicine Wheel Circular Narrative
North America
Plains Nations (Plains Cree, Lakota, Cheyenne). Circular wisdom.

Balance-Seeking / Harmony

5 structures

Restoring equilibrium rather than defeating opposition

Non-Conflict

4 structures

Meaning through development, twist, and reconciliation โ€” no antagonist required

Geographic / Spatial

3 structures

Narrative mapped onto physical landscape and movement

Multi-Trial / Heroic

7 structures

Destiny through repeated tests, not a single decisive moment

Negotiation / Reciprocal

4 structures

Two parties finding mutual terms โ€” neither dominates