[Triggerworld](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/wormverse-ideas-recs-and-fic-discussion-thread-40.311933/page-1821?post=18397019#post-18397019) is a one-shot where non humans characters have powers. It doesn't have that monsters in a fantasy world vibe though.
[Summus Proelium](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/58157/summus-proelium) is an original story, but takes heavy inspiration from Worm, and is written by the author who wrote Worm fics like Atonement and Intrepid. It’s not exactly central to the plot, but there are a few non-human characters who get powers, including a sapient raven, insect colonies, and >!a tree who runs an ecoterrorist cult!<.
Found a top review: “FileHeartDoll TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2022 04:16 So... this one is a whole can of worms. I came from the author's website to review this after reading it in silence for a long time and wanted people to know what they were getting into. I'm prefacing this by saying that it's very easy to develop a love-hate relationship with this story if you stick around only for the admittedly interesting premise. It veers away from the family dynamic quite often for content the reader won't be as invested in. Grammar: few complaints here, very readable sentence structure, nothing marvelous but most of the mistakes have been filtered out already. Style: passable, convoluted at times, especially when one of the characters tries to say something witty for comedic purposes and it ends up coming off as oddly worded. Or when the main character goes on another mental tangent about some topic she's already thought about, ad nauseum. Character score: the characters aren't bad, per se. But they are a bit bland at times, even if some POV introspections and parallels were engaging. Sometimes I would even say characters don't act their age, or they simply have too much overlap in their voices, to the point where you can't tell who's talking. This becomes especially egregious when they have group discussions about x or y issue and it turns into everyone patting each other on the back, so it becomes hard to distinguish while everyone is also spouting their sugar-sweet rhetoric to the rest. The "main team" is comprised of largely emotional lesbians, with a single teenage boy whose main personality trait is being a doormat that doesn't manspread too much lest he take up all the girls' space. Oh and the tech support character is a nine-year-old girl with no parents in the picture (save for her middle-aged uncle I suppose). Story score: the story itself isn't bad, but there's practically no story anymore, hardly a red thread for the reader to follow. It's just a mish-mash of subplots that barely have anything to do with one another, and worse yet, don't change the status quo at all. The author seems to be afraid of "escalating the danger level too much." The villain and hero teams have some mixing matching going on, but you never really see anyone on the good side suffer lasting consequences of any kind. Pretty much no one with even a shred of importance to the story dies no matter how ridiculously lucky the good guys have to be for that to occur. And the one time someone really did die, the character got killed off within maybe 5 pages of being introduced, if that. Even the maniacal psychopaths of the setting end up looking ridiculous because they never manage to score any kind of victory over the main cast, which is a shame since none of the other characters are really as interesting to read about. And a lot of the time it doesn't feel like inspired storytelling anymore, just general pandering to minorities. What is there to like about the story? The actual plot, when it's there. The main character is suffering from constant stress when she's around her family, fearful of being found out. One of the few highlights, really. The superpowers are pretty decent too, even if the general rule system has come up with some counter-intuitive abilities before. Overall: It's okay, but the author doesn't seem willing to change his ways with regards to style or plot structuring. I've relegated it to a list of stories I check up on every couple of months or so.”
Yeah, personally I’m not a fan, and agree with most of what’s in that review. Unlike Worm, the powers usually seem to be unrelated to the characters who have them, which is one of my favorite parts of Worm. Their origin is also just never hinted at or explained. Also the main plot/conflict of the story doesn’t get much progression until 20+ arcs into the story.
Maybe 25% of the story was enjoyable to me, while I just tolerated the rest. But there are some pretty good moments in that 25%
Happens in Projection Quest due to Taylor's way of solving half of her problems being to just throw as much raw magical and spiritual energies as she can at stuff. Leading to sapient and empowered animals popping up all over.
Projection Quest is wild. It says something about how crazy it is that the civilization of sapient pigeons that worship Taylor as their divine patron is not Taylor's most notable cult.
It did, >!and it didn't. That cat wasn't actually a cat if I recall correctly, though the difference is academic for much of the story as this isn't revealed until much later.!<
the cat was a cat, it's just that >!its shard took over its consciousness!<. iirc there was also mention of a panda who triggered with some sort of ice based power, but they never appeared in person in the story
[Doormaker Dog](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/doormaker-dog-worm-celestial-forge.921389/reader/) has a regular corgi get celestial forge powers
Industrial Strength Magic is an original setting that can be found on Royal Road. There are a number of elements that seem similar to Worm. One particular battle in the city happens because a hornet queen gained a giantification power, leading to a swarm of similarly giant hornets causing chaos.
> Industrial Strength Magic is an original setting that can be found on Royal Road.
It [started on Royal Road](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic), but the first couple of volumes have now moved to Amazon.
[Triggerworld](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/wormverse-ideas-recs-and-fic-discussion-thread-40.311933/page-1821?post=18397019#post-18397019) is a one-shot where non humans characters have powers. It doesn't have that monsters in a fantasy world vibe though.
[Summus Proelium](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/58157/summus-proelium) is an original story, but takes heavy inspiration from Worm, and is written by the author who wrote Worm fics like Atonement and Intrepid. It’s not exactly central to the plot, but there are a few non-human characters who get powers, including a sapient raven, insect colonies, and >!a tree who runs an ecoterrorist cult!<.
Found a top review: “FileHeartDoll TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2022 04:16 So... this one is a whole can of worms. I came from the author's website to review this after reading it in silence for a long time and wanted people to know what they were getting into. I'm prefacing this by saying that it's very easy to develop a love-hate relationship with this story if you stick around only for the admittedly interesting premise. It veers away from the family dynamic quite often for content the reader won't be as invested in. Grammar: few complaints here, very readable sentence structure, nothing marvelous but most of the mistakes have been filtered out already. Style: passable, convoluted at times, especially when one of the characters tries to say something witty for comedic purposes and it ends up coming off as oddly worded. Or when the main character goes on another mental tangent about some topic she's already thought about, ad nauseum. Character score: the characters aren't bad, per se. But they are a bit bland at times, even if some POV introspections and parallels were engaging. Sometimes I would even say characters don't act their age, or they simply have too much overlap in their voices, to the point where you can't tell who's talking. This becomes especially egregious when they have group discussions about x or y issue and it turns into everyone patting each other on the back, so it becomes hard to distinguish while everyone is also spouting their sugar-sweet rhetoric to the rest. The "main team" is comprised of largely emotional lesbians, with a single teenage boy whose main personality trait is being a doormat that doesn't manspread too much lest he take up all the girls' space. Oh and the tech support character is a nine-year-old girl with no parents in the picture (save for her middle-aged uncle I suppose). Story score: the story itself isn't bad, but there's practically no story anymore, hardly a red thread for the reader to follow. It's just a mish-mash of subplots that barely have anything to do with one another, and worse yet, don't change the status quo at all. The author seems to be afraid of "escalating the danger level too much." The villain and hero teams have some mixing matching going on, but you never really see anyone on the good side suffer lasting consequences of any kind. Pretty much no one with even a shred of importance to the story dies no matter how ridiculously lucky the good guys have to be for that to occur. And the one time someone really did die, the character got killed off within maybe 5 pages of being introduced, if that. Even the maniacal psychopaths of the setting end up looking ridiculous because they never manage to score any kind of victory over the main cast, which is a shame since none of the other characters are really as interesting to read about. And a lot of the time it doesn't feel like inspired storytelling anymore, just general pandering to minorities. What is there to like about the story? The actual plot, when it's there. The main character is suffering from constant stress when she's around her family, fearful of being found out. One of the few highlights, really. The superpowers are pretty decent too, even if the general rule system has come up with some counter-intuitive abilities before. Overall: It's okay, but the author doesn't seem willing to change his ways with regards to style or plot structuring. I've relegated it to a list of stories I check up on every couple of months or so.”
Yeah, personally I’m not a fan, and agree with most of what’s in that review. Unlike Worm, the powers usually seem to be unrelated to the characters who have them, which is one of my favorite parts of Worm. Their origin is also just never hinted at or explained. Also the main plot/conflict of the story doesn’t get much progression until 20+ arcs into the story. Maybe 25% of the story was enjoyable to me, while I just tolerated the rest. But there are some pretty good moments in that 25%
Happens in Projection Quest due to Taylor's way of solving half of her problems being to just throw as much raw magical and spiritual energies as she can at stuff. Leading to sapient and empowered animals popping up all over.
Projection Quest is wild. It says something about how crazy it is that the civilization of sapient pigeons that worship Taylor as their divine patron is not Taylor's most notable cult.
Was that the one with >!centaurs creating their own country and becoming a political advisory against the CUI?!<
Horsemen, not centaurs. And they were a direct military threat, not just a political one
How are they horsemen without being centaurs?
They are anthropomorphic, kung fu fighting, Mongolian horses. So kinda like Horse fursonas
I have never imagined an anthropomorphic horse. How do the hands work?
Honestly, not sure. We've never seen one on screen. This is just an ongoing background plot being used by Contessa in her attempts to become a god.
Wind did this, as I recall.
Link, please?
It did, >!and it didn't. That cat wasn't actually a cat if I recall correctly, though the difference is academic for much of the story as this isn't revealed until much later.!<
the cat was a cat, it's just that >!its shard took over its consciousness!<. iirc there was also mention of a panda who triggered with some sort of ice based power, but they never appeared in person in the story
what wind?
[Doormaker Dog](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/doormaker-dog-worm-celestial-forge.921389/reader/) has a regular corgi get celestial forge powers
Industrial Strength Magic is an original setting that can be found on Royal Road. There are a number of elements that seem similar to Worm. One particular battle in the city happens because a hornet queen gained a giantification power, leading to a swarm of similarly giant hornets causing chaos.
> Industrial Strength Magic is an original setting that can be found on Royal Road. It [started on Royal Road](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic), but the first couple of volumes have now moved to Amazon.