Terrible Minds Worldbuilding Challenge: Blackbloom
As so ordered by Our Lord’s Regent On Earth, Chuck Wendig, I submit my contribution to the worldbuilding challenge. If you’re a writer, I encourage you to participate in the TerribleMinds weekly flash fiction challenge. If you’re writing skills need a jolt of inspiration, then these challenges are honeybuns from heaven.
Blackbloom’s original name is lost to the eons, along with the civilization that sculpted its polyhedral temples or its gridiron of canals. Its first settlers, the humans, named it Blackbloom for the continent-spanning blast pattern that resembled a charred black flower with five serrated petals. Some theorized that a comet or a meteor had ended Blackloom’s original civilization. Human archaeologists studied the blast’s epicenter and concluded the blast pattern was caused by a massive energy discharge. Upon this discovery, dozens of races embarked to Blackbloom, eager to discover, and possibly master, an energy that murders worlds.
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