Institute for Fictional Civilizations · Est. MMXXVI
The study of civilizations that never existed.
Games, novels, films and myths are our field sites. Their societies, faiths, ecologies and collapses are our subject.
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17Worlds
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Featured ExcavationNº 0018
Excavation Nº 0018 · Religions
The Living Gods of Morrowind
Three mortals stole the power of a dead god and ruled Morrowind as living deities for four thousand years. A study of the Tribunal, its Temple and its fall.
- World
- Vvardenfell, Morrowind
- Period
- 1E 700 to 3E 427 (in-world)
- Status
- Extinct
The Departments
Seven ways of reading an imagined world.
Every Excavation is filed in one of the Institute's departments. Open a drawer to see what it holds.
The Register
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The Institute's thesis
Fiction is not escapism.
Humanity keeps imagining other civilizations. The Institute studies what they reveal about power, belief, survival and ourselves.
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