Nebula's Civilization is a fantasy manhwa written by Wirae and illustrated by Beomgwin. It is an adaptation of a web-novel called The Nebula's Civilization.

Nebula (real name Sung-Woon) is the top ranked player in a multiplayer game called Lost World, where players take the role of gods that use their influence to try to rule over the titular Lost World. After becoming the first player to gather all achievements in the game, he is informed that the real version of Lost World will launch and that he has been invited for it.

By accepting to take part in the game's real version, he becomes a real god in the real Lost World, together with several other top ranked players, being given the power to try to rule over the world for real.

With his dominion over insects, Nebula finds a party of lost, exiled lizardmen trying to survive in the wasteland, and decides to start his quest to become the winner of the game by becoming their god.

Tropes

• Adaptational Context Change: A minor example. In both the web novel and the webcomic, Lakrak is gifted by a child of the grayish-brown lizardmen a wooden figure of Sratis, to which he replies to get more of them and that he is willing to pay a good price for it. In the web novel, it's made clear that giving goods for the figures was a way to ease the relationship between the Black-Scale Tribe and the still skittish and wary grayish-brown scaled lizardmen. In the web comic, this context is not explored, with the segment of the story about the latter group assimilating into the Black-Scale Tribe being cut out, so it just seems that Lakrak wanted more of them as objects of worship or just an interest in the itens.
• Adaptation Distillation: Considering the source material, a web novel, was in a medium much more fit for larger expository dialogue than a webcomic, some of the story is simplified to skip around details that wouldn't necessarily impact much of the story. For example, the web novel has paragraphs meant to explain more of the game, like the mechanics of electing a High Priest, the popularity of the "Holy Orc" and "Human Sacrifice" builds and the reasons Nebula doesn't use them, Alliance Victory mechanics, etc.
  • When choosing whether to accept participating in the game, Nebula reveals he has some bad blood with his family and that he is riddled with debt in the real world, meaning he has nothing to come back to, and therefore accepts. There is no such information in the webcomic.
  • In Episode 23, the Black-Scale Tribe has apparently already assimilated the grayish-brown lizardmen they freed from the frogmen, and the story cuts from Shunen's death to Owen announcing to have found the ancient ruins. In the web novel, that part is actually a segment that describes the assimilation of the grayish-brown lizardmen, it shows how Lakrak used the trade of goods for the Sratis statuettes to establish trust with the other group (and Nebula also gathering faith from objects of worship) and held a festival to the end of the hunt for the frogmen, as well as welcoming members of the other group as warriors for the tribe.
• Alchemy Is Magic: In the sense of being scientific and thus seen as "atheistic," Alchemy is considered equally heretical to un-tethered Magic. However, as Ravina reveals when she arrives in Heukrin, Kyle himself has achieved great strides in the study of alchemy, and every nation has entered an alchemical arms race for one of the craft's genuine discoveries - gunpowder.
• Anachronic Order: The Automation Castle Arc starts, chronologically, near the end of the conflict, with Seo meeting with Owen and then Lakrak and The Stargazer's death, it then cuts to three weeks prior to show Nebula and Hegemonia making conflicting prophecies regarding the next Lord of the Automation Castle. The initial events actually take place almost at the same time as the climax of the story as the Stargazer's death allows Pzzt to give Saran his powers of electricity and use it to fight Jun's forces.
• Arc Hero: For most of the comic, most of the action is performed by Lakrak as the leader of the Black-Scale Lizardmen, with Zaol being an arguable Deuteragonist for him. For the Automation Castle Arc, however, the fourth daughter of the Automation Lord, Gyeong Hwee, becomes the central character as the one Nebula is trying to turn into the new Automation Lord, with Saran, the second strongest warrior of the Black-Scale Lizardmen and Yur's disciple, becoming her personal bodyguard in the succession battle and a more explicit Deuteragonist to her.
• Arc Villain:
  • Shunen, the prince of the Frogmen, for the Frogmen Arc.
  • Jun Hwee, the second son of the Automation Lord, for the Automation Castle Arc.
  • Chunsik Lim, the God of the Ogres, for the Northern Coast Arc.
• Basilisk and Cockatrice: The Black-Scale Lizardmen ride "Cockatoos" as steeds which are a hybrid of a Cockatrice and a chicken. Before that Cockatrices were mentioned, but did not appear, as dangerous beasts in the Frogmen's forest.
• Batman Gambit: The Automation Lord had already expected an attack from the elves. As a result of them attacking from the most obvious path, there was already an ambush set up against them by the humans and the lizardmen.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Giant Insects appear in the Lost World, some of which end up under Nebula's dominion over insects.
• Blessing: Gods can impart blessings in their Dominions, which can have permanent or temporary buffs to them.
  • Nebula: he gifted the Black-Scale Lizardmen the Blessing of Insects, which is specified in Episode 19 to include Hard Shell (their signature reinforced black scales), Power of Beetles (their enhanced strength), and Poison Resistance.
  • Ogres typically a race with low intelligence, but Chunsik Lim compensated for this using his Blessing of Birds, giving them “Owl's Wisdom” and “Raven's Intelligence”.
• Cannon Fodder: Weaponized. When the Kentaurs attack the Ogres, they first fight a horde of goblins who they are able to make quick work of, though that turns out to be part of the Ogres' plan, as the piled up goblin corpses end up impeding their retreat.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • At one point, Yur tries to trade a shield with the Frogmen for some bows. Said shield later turns out to be a key strategy against them, as they're their countermeasure against the frogs poisoned arrows.
  • As early as chapter 14, Nebula mentions that he has a swarm of locusts he uses to disturb the development and agriculture of other players as a way to slow them down and to keep them occupied and away from him. Over 30 chapters later does this plot comes back, with Hongo warning him that the players have finally identified him as the source of the swarm and kickstarting the following war between the Renars and Satyrs with the Kingdom of Orazon.
• Chekhov's Gunman: At the very beginning of the story, nebula speculates which tribe to try to get it to follow him. He weights between a group of outcast lizardmen and a bigger village of frogmen, ultimately opting for the formet. The latter however come back as an antagonist faction in the Frogmen Arc.
• Clever Crows: Referenced. One of the blessings that the small dominion of birds give is "Raven's Intelligence", and was used to increase the Ogres' intelligence.
• Color Motif: Each God seems to be associated with a color, with even the UI they are using to interact with the systems of the world to be also colored by that color.
  • Nebula: Blue. This even extends to in-universe, as he has become known as the Blue Insect God, especially with the blue butterflies he often uses to represent his presence to Lakrak and the blue fireflies he uses to guide Gyeong, as well as the blue lightning he extends to his Chosen.
  • Hegemonia: Red.
  • Eldar: Yellow.
  • Solongos: Green.
  • Chunsik Lim: Purple.
  • Krampus: Dark Red.
  • Runda: Cyan.
• Common Tongue: As far as it is shown, every character is capable of understanding each other and is speaking the same language despite their different races and backgrounds.
• Cool Chair: All of the Gods each have a unique chair that they sometimes sit on when they are working.
  • Nebula: A Queen Anne wing chair with blue, button-tufted upholstery.
  • Chunsik Lim: A plastic blue stepping stool.
  • Eldar: A wooden Gothic chair with the back panels in the shape of a Gothic ogee with green vines growing up on the two back stiles.
  • Runda: a dark grey Zabuton floor pillow.
  • Jang-Wan: a bamboo chair
  • AR1026: a baroque chair
  • Krampus: a gothic revival armchair with bull horns on top.
  • Wisdom: a black roller office chair
• Deus ex Machina:
  • An almost literal case when Nebula sends down his Sacred Beast to defeat the Two-Headed Fiend when the lizardmen children of the frogmen village are about to be sacrificed.
  • In Episode 36, Saran and Gyeong Hwee are both cornered and about to be killed by her brother's forces. They are saved by that coinciding with Pzzt showing up to make Saran one of the chosen after the Stargazer's death and granting him the Shock and Awe powers to fight.
• Dumb Muscle: Double Subverted. Ogres had a reputation for being giant in size and super strong in strength, but low in intelligence. That was until Chunsik Lim used the Blessing of Birds, specifically “Owl's Wisdom” and “Raven's Intelligence” to increase their smarts. However, when Nebula defeats Chunsik Lim and takes away the blessings from the Ogres, they gradually revert back to stupidity over the course of several generations.
• Fantastic Racism: In Episode 69, it is revealed that Orazon's governance is monopolied by Black-Scaled Lizardmen who serve as the Primary Advisors to the king, while the Secondary Advisors which compose of other races manage palace affair and don't hold much power. In Episode 73 When Kyle becomes king and attempts to change that by appointing a dwarf named Rumph, a former slave, as the Minister of Engineering. A position that before had always been filled by a Black-Scaled Lizardman, he is met with strong resistance by the other Black-Scaled Lizardmen who display blatant racism towards the dwarf, even hating that fact that he was even allowed inside the throne room.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Nebula's Civilization, which occupies the Far Eastern part of the Third Continent, which consists of Automation Castle as well as the Black Scale capitol city of Orazon. They all possess strong East Asian (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) elements. The architecture of Orazon as well as some of the architecture of Automation Castle has is East Asian. After entering the Iron Age after acquiring the demon of electricity, the Black Scale Tribe all wear kimonos as well as the humans of Automation Castle. The humans of Automation Castle have Asian sounding names (e.g. Gyeong Hwee, Seo, Jun, Jin, Min, Jung, etc.). There are a few clues to suggest that Orazon and Automation Castle might be specifically inspired by Ancient China. In Episode 56 the Black Scale Tribe acquires the knowledge to make paper, which is one of the 5 Great Inventions of Ancient China. In the same episode Lakrak proposes building a border wall similar to the Great Wall of China. In Automation Castle the humans wear white hair buns similar to the Chinese, Shufa Guan.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The Lost World in addition to containing the Standard Fantasy Races also has giant insects and rodents, prehistoric animals, spirits, monsters, etc. Making it a mixed bag or various creatures from the world of fiction.
• Fictional Currency: After the four waterwheels are built in Automation Castle which allows both Humans and Lizardmen to produce high-grade iron, they develop the first currency of the Third Continent called "Pyeon" which are marked iron plates. It's established that these have become the default way to make trade in the Automation Castle, with people being capable of trading their own iron for Pyeon, as a way to guarantee the quality of iron used in trade.
• Game Come to Life: In the beginning the Lost World and its races are merely a video game, but when the chosen players are isekaied, they learn that the Lost World and everything in it is real. The video game was merely a recruitment device to find its new gods.
• General Failure: Shunen and Auloi turn out to be terrible leaders to the frogmen and doom their tribe way before the Lizardmen defeat them. Shunen is a Spoiled Brat thrust into a leadership position by Auloi being sick, but despite his basic skill at wits, he is sorely outmatched by Lakrak, having to have his every word and decision reigned in by bodyguards that keep him from running his mouth, and his awful treatment of Lizardmen grants that they turn against him when the opportunity presents itself. Meanwhile, Auloi is a fanatic whose fervor for the Two-Headed Fiend granted that he started betraying the friendly lizardmen as well as make him and his military force dependent on it, which is not a terrible idea on itself, but ends up biting them in the ass when the fiend is taken out and they have no proper warriors or means to defend themselves without it.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: In the Lost World, gods use the faith of their followers as a source of power, and as they collect faith, they become capable of ever more powerful feats to help their followers back; like for example creating sacred beasts of an afterlife.
• Gory Discretion Shot: When Lakrak kills Bauer, it's implied that he snapped his neck in such a way that his head is turned backwards. However, after the action, his head is obscured as to not let the reader see the result.
• Gray-and-Grey Morality: There is not much of a morality in the setting. Each god is just doing what it takes to survive, even the Arc Villain Chunsik Lim didn't do much that Nebula himself wouldn't have done were they in the same position (extract resources from the nearby sources, even if they had another god). Of course there are some character who are more outright villainous, like the Frogmen who wanted to perform human sacrifices, and some that are more heroic, for example, Gyeong was probably more morally upright than her siblings seeing as she only started fighting after they all killed each other already. Even then, the more heroic characters will also partake in some less that idealistic actions, like Gyeong herself taking advantage of the elven village poor position to get them to pay a pretty hefty price for help and Lakrak expanding his empire through several battles that decimated other populations (which are not given much backstory in the comic aside simply expansionism).
• Heroic Host: One the Divine Powers that all Gods universally share is an ability called: ”Descent”. This is where the God can temporarily possess one of their faithful followers, usually their High Priest, but not always. This allows the God to take complete control of their follower's body. While in “Descent” the follower is granted an additional stat called: “Divinity (D)”. 1D point is equivalent to 200 which is the maximum attribute that a living being can have. The possessed follower temporarily gains superhuman strength, speed, agility and stamina and goes into a form of Berserk Mode. However if the follower dies while a God is in Descent the God losses a huge chunk of Experience Point.
• Horse of a Different Color: Multiple different species walk by using different mounts. While humans do seem more amenable to horses, elves use elks, lizardmen have used cockatrices, while gnolls have used saber toothed tigers and the renars use giant weasels. Manun, a baby drake that Lakrak took from another tribe, is also ridden by him and Zaol at different points.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Sairan and Gyeong have a significant difference in height, as even with her horns she only reaches his chest.
• I Have Many Names: All of the Gods have at least one or sometimes several epithets or "Divine Names" as Nebula calls them in Episode 45.
  • Nebula: "Nameless Blue Beetle God", "Blue Butterfly God", and "Blue Insect God".
  • Hegemonia: "The Raging Teeth God".
  • Eldar: "The Dancing Shadow God".
  • Solongos: "The Ever-Charging God".
  • Chunsik Lim: "The All-Seeing God".
  • Krampus: “The Life-Sacrificing God”.
  • Runda: “The God of Endless Harvest”.
  • Jung-Wan: “The God of Invisible Currents”.
  • AR1026: “The God of Invisible Origins”.
  • Wisdom: “The God of Entanglement”.
  • 癤 WOOBBIT 瑜 SWEMSSIK / Jeolwoobi: “The God of Blood and Rotten Flesh”
• Inconsistent Spelling: In this manga the word "Centaur" is spelled as "Kentaur" with no explanation given as to why. Some commentators have theorized that it is to make it more consistent with the original Ancient Greek spelling: "κένταυρος" or "kéntauros" rather than the Latinized "centaurus" which became "centaur" in our modern English.
• Invisible to Normals: Gods can't be seen by the general people of the Lost World, despite them often being directly around them or floating above them. The only characters that are shown to be capable of seeing them are other gods and the sacred creatures they create, like Sratis and Hongo, who can both see and directly communicate with Nebula.
• King Incognito: The Lord of the Automation Castle stays hidden and even among the Four Clans that support them few know their name and appearance, and the same even applies to their children.
  • This seems to be subverted with Gyeong, who once in the position, doesn't particularly care about who knows her status and readily walks around in showy robes, as well as interacting with her subjects and foreigners alike with no pretense about her true role.
• Magic Is Evil: In Episode 24 it is explained that Magic and Mana do exist in the Lost World and it is possible for residents of the Lost World to become wizards, witches, and mages. However because all magic originates from "Ancient Evil" i.e. Demonic Power. Therefore Divinity and Magic oppose each other and mages don't depend on Gods, but rather seek to build their own power; thus essentially become atheists. This results in a penalty where the loss of worshipers costs the Gods a lot of faith. Also the demons who grant them their power can also tempt the wielder causing them to mistake the demonic power as their own and thus eventually turning them into Evil Sorcerers. This is the reason why many Gods, Nebula included, tend to discourage their followers from pursuing magic and instead encourage more scientific and technological studies to advance their civilizations. There is one way to avoid this. The demon must become a subordinate of a God and pledge loyalty to the God in question. This results in the demonic magic being integrated into the God's power and becoming Divine Magic. Divine Magic is regarded as magic that only the God can grant to their worshipers, thus avoiding the loss of faith penalty and the possibility of the magic corrupting the wielder.
• Medieval Prehistory: Some prehistoric animals also appear in the Lost World.
  • Saber-Toothed Tiger: In Episode 37 Hegemonia uses a Saber-Toothed Tiger in an attempted assassination of Gyeong Hwee and Sairan Muel.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal:
  • The lizardmen in the forest had been kidnapped and used as a sacrifice for the Two-Headed Fiend worshipped by the Frogmen. They were kept in line by having their children taken and threatened to be used as further human sacrifices. The moment the frogmen show a sign of weakness, they side with the Black-Scale Lizardmen and help in the killing of all frogmen left.
  • Eldar, god of elves and a member of the Northern Peninsula alliance of players. They started being slowly ostracized by the alliance, with more and more demands from Chunsik Lim. When Nebula spells it out to them that it is likely that Chunsik will turn against them soon, as two sedentary societies so close to each other may fight for the same resources and land, Eldar agrees to his plan to instead sic the other two members against each other.
• Neck Snap: Lakrak kills Bauer by slapping him in such a way that his head spins and his neck snaps while he is with super enhanced strength. The whole result is never seen due to Gory Discretion Shot, though.
• New Game Plus: At the beginning when Nebula is still an ordinary human named Sung-Woon on Earth, he finishes the Lost World and obtains all the achievements. He then receives a message from the developers that the version he was playing was merely the Beta version. And he is invited to play the finished official game which Nebula gladly accepts.
• Non-Mammal Mammaries: Averted. With no shirt on, there is no significant difference between a female lizardman and a slender male lizardman. Up until it became common for the Black-Scale Lizardmen to wear clothes, Zaol spent most of her onscreen time topless and had no breast or nipples.
• Odd Job Gods: When all the Gods were chosen they were all given a Small Domain. Which is an aspect of the Lost World that they would have complete power over. It is later established that there are multiple small domains, some of which can be taken during the game from other beings, like Nebula getting the small domain of saltwater by defeating the Two-Headed Fiend.
  • Nebula's first Small Domain is the power over insects, giving him a somewhat limited power at the beginning of the story, though he later proves to be able to use it incredibly effectively. He later acquired the Small Domain of saltwater after defeating the Two-Headed Fiend. Later after he defeated Chunsik Lim and Solongos, he acquired their Small Domains, which was birds and swamp.
  • Eldar's Small Domain is the power over art.
  • Chunsik Lim's Small Domain was the power over birds. Before he lost it to Nebula
  • Solongos's Small Domain was the power of swamp. Before he lost it to Nebula
  • Runda's Small Domain is the power over fruits.
• Off with His Head!:
  • Oboi is killed by Manun biting his head off.
  • Jun Hwee is killed by a goblin assassin chopping off his head while he is trying to walk away from the Automation Castle.
  • The leader of the Kentaurs beheads an elven prophet that had come to him with a prophecy that he and the elves alike will someday bow to an Ogre king.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Shunen ends up dooming himself when talking with Lakrak and at his mercy by promising to give him the secret of how to make their great bows, but ends up realizing he screwed up when he confessed he used the tendons of killed Lizardmen for the bowstring.
• Orbital Bombardment: In the opening chapter, Nebula is shown to have developed "Rods From God" as part of his high-tech arsenal and uses it to defeat Hegemonia.
• Overly Specific Afterlife: Gods can unlock the power to create an afterlife for their followers, of which specifics are up to them, both what happens there and what can lead someone to a good afterlife. Nebula explains that the kind of afterlife their followers are promised, in turn, encourages certain behaviors in their follower; making a Warrior Heaven encourages their followers to be warriors, whereas Nebula is trying to encourage scientific development by making a heaven that allows for further study in several fields, like granting the Stargazer an observatorium that allows him to study the stars after he passed.
• The Owl-Knowing One: Referenced. One of the blessings that the small dominion of birds give is "Owl's Wisdom", and was used to increase the Ogres' intelligence.
• Powers via Possession:
  • When a God takes possession of a follower through the ability known as “Descent”. That follower temporarily gains superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, etc.
  • Gyeong Hwee was born possessed by the Demon of Probability which gives her the power to manipulate probability.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: In the web novel, Lakrak and the reader learn that the blessing given by Nebula includes poison resistance very early on, with a scene of Lakrak trying a mushroom they found and being the only one to not get sick (at the time being also the only one with the blessing). In the webcomic, this scene is excised for pacing and the reveal of this passive resistance only comes around when it becomes relevant: dealing with the frogmen's poisoned weapons.
• Princeling Rivalry: All of the Seo Hwee's (the then Lord of Automation Castle) children: Dan Hwee, Jun Hwee, Jin Hwee, and Min Hwee all conspire to, and in almost all cases succeed in murdering one another while their father is away in order to become the next Lord of Automation. Only the fourth child, Gyeong Hwee doesn't commit any assassination attempts for the majority of the conflict and just tries to survive. However after she becomes the new Lord of Automation she has her last surviving sibling Jun assassinated after he threatens to return with a vengence.
• Red Baron: Episode 32 reveals that since the Time Skip, Lakrak became known around the Southern peninsula by various names: "Lakrak The Hunter", "The Thunder Lizardman", and "The First Chosen One".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Hegemonia and Nebula. Hegemonia is a hot headed player who gains a lot by investing in battle and warring with other players from the very beginning, and his avatar is that of an armor burning with red flames. Nebula is a calm and collected player who prioritizes technological advancement, and his avatar is that of a black clad man surrounded by blue light.
• Rodents of Unusual Size: In Episode 24 Lakrak and his tribe are attacked by giant electrified rodents called Nutria guarding a Demonic Artifact.
• Rotating Protagonist: The web novel was, according to its creator, partly inspired by works that focus on multiple characters, like the works of Ryohgo Narita and A Song of Ice and Fire, as a result, this trope was also used.
  • The story starts off with Lakrak firmly set as the protagonist and Nebula as a sort of Supporting Protagonist who watches over him and causes many things to which he reacts to happen.
  • By the Automation Castle Arc, Gyeong takes the role of protagonist with Sairan as her deuteragonist.
  • In the Northern Peninsula Arc, Nebula himself becomes the full protagonist as he plots his fight against Chunsik and takes on him, with Gyeong and Lakrak coming afterwards to wrap up loose ends of the plot.
  • During the war between Heukrin and the neighboring kingdoms, Runda is the one to receive a lot of focus as she tries to deal with her losses to Nebula and protect her kingdom.
• RPG Mechanics 'Verse: All of the Gods of the Lost World have various RPG menus and status windows, refered to as "The System" that allow them to observe their civilization and its members as well allowing them to influence their Small Domains. There is a Private Chat function that allows them to communicate with each other as well as block them, level counters that feed through Faith Points that they can acquire through the prayers and offerings of their worshipers. Leveling up allows them to unlock new divine abilities. Granted, this applies only to the gods, to the average being in this world, it is a standard fantasy setting, which is fair as they would not be the player characters.
  • Experience Points: Gods gain experience points in the form of Faith Points. One prayer from one worshiper earns 1 Faith Point. By accumulating enough Faith Points allows the God's "Divinity Level" to Level Up.
  • Holographic Terminal: the form that the System takes for all the God Players.
  • Level Drain: The Divine Level and Faith Points in addition to measuring the God's experience also acts as their HP. If a God loses too much Faith Points and causes their Divinity Level to hit Zero, the god dies and they become sealed in small totems. If the totems were to be destroyed then the God would permanently die.
  • Stat-O-Vision: Allows the Gods to view all attributes, health, and other stats of all of their worshipers.
  • Stat Death: Experience Points or "Faith Points" also act as a God's HP. When a God loses too much Faith Points which causes their Divinity Level to reach Zero then the God dies and becomes sealed in a totem.
• Sapient Eat Sapient: Once the ogres are pushed into famine, they start eating the goblins around their territory, having grown completely desperate to maintain themselves.
• Second Place Is for Losers: Discussed. Saran mentions that it is possible that people underestimate him as he is known as the second strongest warrior of the Black-Scale Lizardmen, forgetting that the tribe is quite big and full of fighters enhanced by the Blessing of Insects, which makes him, even as just the second place, a formidable warrior. When he describes to Gyeong his credentials outside of that, like being Yur's disciple and Zaol's helper, she realizes he is involved with many high ranking, powerful, and recognized Lizardmen despite said title.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: An In-Universe mechanic of Lost World. Gods unlock the skill of making "prophecies", each prophecy is something they set with themselves to be capable of doing, fulfilling the prophecy grants experience points to the player, but there is a loss of experience instead if they fail to fulfill a prophecy. Two gods can make conflicting prophecies as a challenge to each other.
• She Is the King: The title of Automation Lord is gender neutral, and doesn't change even if a woman is holding the title.
• Shout-Out: The Fox Beastmen are named the “Renar”, which is a reference to Reynard the Fox, who was a series of medieval folktales about an anthropomorphic fox trickster named Reynard and the misadventures he would have tricking other anthropomorphic animals. The stories of Reynard were so popular that the French replaced their word “goupil” which means “fox” for “renard” which means “fox” in new French.
• Standard Fantasy Races: The Lost World contains various races found in classic fantasy, mythology and RPGs.
  • Beast Man: Several characters in Lost World belong to anthropomorphic animal characters.
    • Astacidians (Crayfish Men): anthropomorphic crayfish beastmen, known as the Astacidians, occupy the islands that make up the Southern Archipelago. They are currently an unaffiliated with any God Player.
    • Frog Men: The first tribe that the Black-Scale Lizardmen tribe goes to war with.
    • Gnolls (Hyena Men): Hegemonia's race is Hyena Men, referred to as "Gnolls".
    • Kobolds (Rat Men): Jung-Wan's race are Kobolds, however unlike typical Kobolds which are usually Lizard men or Dragonic humanoids, these Kobolds are anthropomorphic rats.
    • Lizard Men: The main characters of the story and Nebula's first race are the Black-Scale Lizardmen tribe.
    • Renars (Fox Men): Runda's race are anthropomorphic foxes known as “Renars”.
  • Kentaurs: Solongos's race are Centaurs (spelled as "Kentaur").
  • Nix (Dark Elves): AR 1026's race are “Nix” or “Nixes”. According to the Word of God the words “Nix and “Nixes” are word substitutes for “Dark Elves”
  • Demons: Demons are said to be the source of all magic in the Lost World.
  • Dwarves: One of the last villages that Lakrak conquers before reaching the southern end of the continent was a Dwarf village. In Episode 73, King Kyle appoints a Dwarf named Rumph as the Minister of Engineering, much to the chagrin of the other Lizardmen Ministers.
  • Elves: Elves are the race of another player, Eldar, who goes by the Dancing Shadow God.
  • Goblins: In Episode 33 Gyeong Hwee and Sairan Muel are attacked by a trio of Goblin assassins.
  • Humans: Humans occupy Automation Castle and they become Nebula's second race.
  • Hobbits: In Episode 51 it is mentioned that Tatar gave his eye to save a group of “Halfbeans”. According to the Word of God, “Halfbeans” are supposed to be “Halflings” or “Hobbits”.
  • Orcs: Lakrak and his tribe encounter a trio of Orcs in Episode 11.
  • Ogres: Chunsik Lim's race is the Ogres. According to Nebula, they're usually low in intelligence and high in strength, but the other player was able to reduce that difference and increase their intelligence through blessings, making them a bigger threat than usual.
  • Satyrs: Krampus's race are Satyrs. Although their features are more goat like than standard Satyrs.
  • Trolls: Wisdom's race are Trolls.
  • Vampires: 癤 WOOBBIT 瑜 SWEMSSIK (Jeolwoobi)'s race are vampires.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Ogres are big, which means they're very powerful and hard to fight, but also, it means they require a lot of resources to maintain. Nebula is able to deal massive damage to them by targeting their food supply from the elves, burning down the elven village and all resources in it just before winter; as during it, they would be unable to make sufficient food to go around. As a result, several of them starve to death, and eat their own support fighters with the goblins, leaving a very weakened and desperate group, forced into fight to flee into more resource-rich areas that allowed for a direct conflict with Lizardmen having the upper hand.
• The Swarm: In Episode 52 it is revealed that Nebula created swarms of locusts, and under the control of his created servant Hongo, used them to sabotage the advancement of the civilizations of his rival Gods by having the locusts devour their crops and thus causing famines for their tribes.
• Take a Third Option: When Nebula comes to the point where he has to order Lakrak to start building a sedentary civilization, he is in doubt between a monarchy and feudalism. He ultimately chooses for both: Lakrak would become a monarchic king, but the elf village and the Automation Castle would function as feudalism, with Gyeong and Leonar as feudal lords.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The Northern Peninsula alliance of players are not good teamplayers. While Chunsik and Solongo stomp all over Eldar, they also have an uneasy alliance themselves which is held up only by the fact that, at the moment, they are not competing for resources, though both are aware that at some point, the Kentaurs are bound to settle and become non-nomadic, and increase their competition for resources. Chunsik and Solongos end up in an alliance to the end in their fight against Nebula, but it was uneasy to the end, with Solongos admitting to himself that he did thought of dropping Chunsik to join Nebula.
• Time Skip: Episode 25 has a time skip of 9 years between Larkak obtaining the Demonic Magic of Electricity for his tribe and the Automation Lord visiting his tribe.
• Touched by Vorlons:
  • On Episode 4, Nebula gets enough faith to give the Blessing of Insects to Lakrak, which gives him black scales like that of beetles and enhanced strength. The proliferation of the scales in Episode 5 implies he was later able to give that blessing to all of the tribesmen.
  • It's revealed in Episode 47 that Chunsik Lim blessed his Ogre tribe with “Owl's Wisdom” and “Raven's Intelligence” to increase their brain power.
• Trapped in Another World: The entire premise of the series is that several human gamers of the Lost World Beta are Isekai-ed from Earth into the real Lost World to become its new Gods.
• Underdogs Never Lose: Gyeong Hwee is the social pariah of the Automation Castle despite being the lord's fourth child. Her horns and the belief she is cursed has caused her to be outcast by the rest of the family and the clans that should support the lord. Nebula picks her to be his candidate for the new Automation Lord, and she succeeds with the aid of the Black-Scale Lizardmen.
• Women Are Wiser:
  • Downplayed. Lakrak is a very smart Guile Hero, but his wife Zaol is more Book Smart than him, having a higher intelligence stat as well as being more immediately able to infer some knowledge, like coming up with tools and cooking for the tribe during and after the fight with the Ancient Coleoptera Abomination. Episode 14 also shows that she is capable of getting as much out of a hunt as Lakrak, but where he fights, she uses traps.
  • One of the main tools Gyeong has against her siblings is that she is one of the sharper of them. When the chips are down against her and Jun, she is able to outsmart him and even think forward to the fact that he may be an issue even if her father chooses her.