I’m just curious if people are like me and document all kinds of weird things that they’ll never use?
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No one knows what lies beyond the Heavens Wall, a vast ridge of unpassable rock that protrudes beyond the clouds. It runs for many thousands of miles carving its path through the eastern borders of Arillion. From the far reaching north mountains it runs, into the far southern lands (of which are not as yet featured in the tale).
But the peoples of Arillion know not what lies beyond the shrouded heights.
SD
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Hoenstly, I cant thi k of anytbi g rhat Id keep out like that.
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I imagine we all do some worldbuilding that we ultimately never use but originally intended to. Or do you mean that you created something deliberately that you never intended to use…?
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Oh, for the latter, things I made that don’t fit the story? An outright smut scene for Mini Moo. I wrote it early, before I got a feel for the characters. It was too old for them–some bits did make it into the last chapter, but nothing like the original.
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I suppose it’s both, I wouldn’t say I always worldbuild with the intent to use 
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That is a bit similar to something I have, I’ve writen down the sexual prefrence for most of my characters, but I’ll likely never use it in the story 
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So many words terms for things in my story that I literally have never used because I revamped the entire dictionary to being obsolete…
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It is a “need to know” thing if you have a tendency towards scenes, but outside that, if there’s no action, its not necessary to know it.
Unless you make it their identity.
Which I cant hang with becauee its like:
Hi, I’m ACE.
Hey, Im into the tyoe of BDSM that requires a shovel for the back yard. Wanna go get some sammiches?
No, it would be the most badly written trainwreck within the first paragraph.
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Mahjong exists.
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That is one of the most annoying things about worldbuidling, you spend a lot of time on it, and then you make it obsolete 
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That’s horrible, poor world 
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Once I made a whole backstory on Pops from Electric Tacos being a big TV star and luchador in Mexico, before he moved to California. Once, he had to become a bee in one of his TV shows to save someone from dying at the hands of killer bees… for real.
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Oh…so much.
Here’s a big one.
The Chief Guardian of Elgana might be the one that is seemingly in charge, but in actuality, he has to run it by his lady (who is not supposed to be known to any mortal). Sometimes he does things without consulting her and those things have lead to the current world crisis (which is thought to be caused by Humans or other problematic mortals).
The Chief Guardian as the MC is something I will never write and no one will know about this fact.
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I don’t know if you are familiar with the work of Nobuyuki Fukumoto, but yeah, mahjong is kind of fuked up.
Um, revenants…
In my Only Half Saga stories, there are these “zombies” that are based off a Mad-Cow fungus that take over humans and turn them into walking vectors. There have only been passing mentions, they’ve never been seen and they’ve never been in a scene I’ve written. I wrote more about them in an Extra section of one of my books than I ever have in the story.
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I love that, though. Mad cow zombies. Just great.
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There’s a huge scientific word for the human version, but I can’t remember it all. Jacob something…
I didn’t remember it either:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.