World Building Basics Novels & Stories

“The world-building was really vague. They have magic, but it’s never really explained. There aren’t any rules. Also, nothing really happens until the last quarter of the book. Before that, they just kind of meander around aimlessly.” “I guess I can see that,” I admitted. XXX

Then it passed and his face was open again. “Sit down and listen to my story. Then I will let you move onto where you need to go,” he said. Leo didn’t see that he had much of a choice in the matter so he sat down next to the man underneath the tree. “Are you going to start at the beginning?” he asked. The man who was like Nocturne, but also not Nocturne smiled lightly. “Naturally. You can ask questions if you like,” he replied. “The story starts with an entity. He was bored and created a world. At first there was nothing but nature in it. The entity quickly grew bored of just watching over plants and animals so he added humans to it.”

said Astrapi, “But it was once real.” Astrapi tells her the story of the One World, and as he speaks cities rise and land forms bridges across the vast water. She and Astrapi walk across the newly formed lands, travelling leagues in an instant, like gods. Forests spring up from the lands and buzz with the sounds of creatures. Last, they find the people. They are tall and their skins glow all the shades of the earth. They are well fed and their robes rustle, resplendent with wealth and the bounty of the earth.

They had to build and create everything by their own hands! "According to legends, the world has been created two thousand years ago. Our great deity Mao felt that his world needs stewards so he began cooking mud, shaping them into his likeness, and breathing life into them so that people could come into the world. A thousand people was successfully created and they became the founding citizens of our great Xia Empire," softly narrated by one of the cleanest and calmest girls in the bunch that Agatha saved from the slave traders.

I hop from one world to another constantly, but I have always found Earth to be the most beautiful of the three (no bias, seriously). Oren has its charms with its soaring mountain ranges that far outsize anything that you could see on Earth, their cities usually twice or thrice as large as any City State anywhere else. For some reason, dwarven architecture focused on space--creating as much of it as possible, and filling it up with anything you can possibly imagine. Very much like a beehive or an anthill. I've been to Mister Louie's place in New York a few times, and let me tell you that if you ever find yourself invited to a dwarf residence, it's best to stay put unless you have someone who