Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday!

❤️ Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday! ❤️

What are your cities or towns like? Feel free to talk about the layouts or the people or the architecture, etc. and to talk about more than one if you'd like!

You have no idea what you’ve asked for from me. Prepare for a full breakdown of what I have done with human built architecture in my latest world. I will hide it so no one suffers a wall of text without consent

Functionally I have decided to destroy government and economy on large scales. Each settlement has organisation but this is self contained. If anything requires a bigger effort, like a widespread national disaster, there is communication employed to organise between the leaders of cities/towns/villages. Because everything is so small scale, trading and favors are used for goods and services.

I am aware this is an idyllic way to run things, but its a fantasy world that i will write as i please. it's incredibly ancient world, but i am okay with that. An excuse is that the governments were built around the deities and so no one person was allowed to take over, and such a pattern had continued even after they were gone as tradition

Bit of background for the world itself in terms of magic, four goddesses asserted themselves on the plane a few centuries prior. They gave the world magic which was used to varying degrees across the plane.

In the local village where the story begins about half of the residents have magic from the goddesses, but not everyone used it beyond aiding in menial daily tasks. This, when magic disappeared with the goddesses’ banishment, they continued living with little readjustment.

This is not the case for all places. To fit with theme cos it makes me happy, each established place is categorized by the latent use of magic by residents. hearts is 0-29%, clubs is 30-49%, spades is 50-69%, and diamonds is 70-100%.

The magic is mixed with technology that is advanced as what was around during the first American Industrial Revolution/antebellum era. It powers the technology, boosts it, or is served by technology. The level of dependence each town had largely aligns with the level of disrespect they’ve fallen into. Hearts like the main village are mostly fine, while Spades and Diamonds are suffering or in complete ruin/are abandoned.

Hey y'all why are writers always cold?

ME LISTENING TO MUSIC AND IMAGINING MY SILLY LITTLE GUYS IN THE SADDEST SITUATIONS POSSIBLE

Happy STS! If your story/ies were an Aesop Fable (or other comparable piece of media) with an explicit moral listed, what would that moral be?

Oo this is a tough one. Both morals are very found family focused, I feel

A New Infection - communication will save you

A Quest of Cards and Calamity (House of Cards) - connection will make you stronger

Happy STS! ♥️ You can go back in time and give yourself one piece of writing advice. What is it?

hey tori!

i'd have loved to know how useful and loose planning can be. it gives me a goal to work towards, and doesn't have to conform to any standards other people hold. i used to find planning restrictive, so knowing it should be a guide would have been great to know

you ever listen to a playlist and all of the sudden a song that has incredible blorbo energy comes on you're you're just like this