worldbuilder

Etymology

From world + builder.

worldbuilder means one who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.“Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre.”