World Architecture
Rules, histories, cultures, and consequences
- Define what makes the setting distinct
- Build factions, locations, and belief systems
- Test magic, technology, and social rules
- Find contradictions that can become story
TTRPGs · Fantasy · Speculative & nonfiction worlds
Bring me the world that will not leave you alone.
I help writers, game masters, creators, and small teams build settings with internal logic, emotional weight, and enough structure to support the stories they want to tell.
What we can build
A world with depth, consequence, and room to grow.
Worldbuilding consulting is collaborative. I help you find the rules beneath the idea, test how its pieces affect one another, and organize the material without taking ownership of the world away from you.
Narrative Development
Characters, choices, conflict, and discovery
- Design branching dialogue and meaningful choices
- Shape campaigns, quests, and mysteries
- Layer Easter eggs, secrets, and optional discoveries
- Connect character consequences to the world
Nonfiction Story Worlds
Context, research, and narrative framing
- Map people, places, systems, and timelines
- Organize research into a clear structure
- Separate verified fact from interpretation
- Build context for documentary or educational work
The guiding idea
Where Curiosity Leads, Stories Follow.Tess Devillier
Interdisciplinary foundation
I studied how stories work from more than one angle.
My degrees are an AA and a BA in General Studies. I built both around the creative disciplines that now inform my worldbuilding practice.
AA · General Studies
Coursework in Entertainment Technology included screenwriting, film production, editing, creative writing, art, and acting. That training helps me think about a world as something written, performed, framed, paced, and produced.
BA · General Studies
Interdisciplinary study across Art, English, and Communications included art, printmaking, creative writing, and television production. It strengthened the visual, literary, and communication skills I use to make complex settings understandable and emotionally specific.
Ways to work together
Start small. Go deeper when it helps.
The free call is a fit check, not a disguised sales marathon. I will recommend the smallest format that can responsibly address your project.
Free Consultation
Free · 15 minutes
- Phone, Zoom, or Discord
- Clarify your immediate need
- Recommend a next step
Worldbuilding Package
$240 · Two 60-minute calls
- Pre-call material review
- Two focused development sessions
- Written world and story notes
Ongoing Story Room
Starting at $380 / month
- Two calls each month
- Async lore and narrative feedback
- Priority scheduling
The process
Start with the part of the world that needs pressure-testing.
You do not need a finished lore bible. Bring the fragments, questions, research, campaign notes, dialogue trees, or stubborn contradictions you already have.
Share the material
Tell me the medium, audience, current world rules, source material, and where the project is getting stuck.
Follow the consequences
We examine how culture, place, history, character, and systems affect one another.
Build the next layer
You leave with clearer rules, focused questions, and written notes for the next stage of development.
Worlds and systems
The website is a container. The world is the work.
I can advise on how a project’s website, pitch deck, or interactive interface communicates its world, but web design is a supporting capability rather than the focus of this service.
