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I think it's incredible, across all mediums, how often the eventual audience sees only a tiny fraction of this... but how important it is to us, as creators, to have a firm understanding of our stories.
My book is called To Steal the Sun, and South Asia inspires the setting... but one of the things I tried to do, was instead of using geography, to use religion as the basis for world-building and then snowflake out from there.
(I also saw a prompt post: If you had time, could you explain your world... so I guess this is a response to that as well)
****Deep breath**** here goes:
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The Jeweled Lands, in the beginning, were a series of small city-states that were building a civilization into a varied land of jungle, desert, and river basinsβa world where one religion thrived.
The Jaru.
The core of their belief system mimicked a natural order and held animal gods as the arbiters of fate. Three main ones, Kartajani (Rhino), B'sashti (Panther), and Sorasku (Croc), guided humanity away from the three hells, which were webbed together by Chela and her insect hordes.
Animals were seen as avatars of the gods... and many of the culture's oral traditions involved stories of animals assisting, tricking, or aiding humans in miraculous ways.
As the city-states grew, Jaru culture thrived and spread. Architecture tended towards a melding with the organic, buildings were never higher than trees, art tended to focus on animals and nature.
Until a cataclysmic event rocked the world.
A rain of stones fell from the heavens. Thousands died, but the main casualty was the people's faith in the Jaru.
In the west, two sects of monotheistic cults began. One of them managed to entwine itself with the royalty of one of the most powerful city-states. This city swallowed many of the lesser western cities (using their religious and military might) and became the Ivory Empire.
In the east, a rejection of the gods and superstition took hold. Instead, a focus turned to sensory evidence... Scholars became rulers and formed a new society and culture that worshipped the chain of reason instead of the protection of animal gods.
(And in the desert, where the highest concentration of the stones had fallen, the sand was stained blue and an entirely new race mutated and emerged.)
The stones, which people called runes, were eventually found to have incredible power. An ability to change the aspects of metals when
... keep reading on reddit β‘We can keep showing them the obvious all we want but Calls keep wanting to give away their money and miners rather let Reddit groups do the work and sit back ! F'ing MORONS!
Sub $19 / oz is very easy for the Wall Street Kids! What do miners have to lose? $6/oz well just issue more shares to cover the loses?
When Governments take on OPEC (The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) they react and fight back, these lot are pure pussies!
They can't even unite FFS!
Vaseline is cheap I hear!
Check out this link on the official Forum site. We need visibility for this probΕem, so please vote!
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-live-traffic-server-monitoring-auto-reset-for-outages-or-degradation/457632/1
Hey guys Iβm in the market for new goggles and I saw this while shopping at Costco.
Has anyone used these before?
https://www.costco.com/spy-optic-underpin-snow-goggle%2c-red-lens.product.100463413.html
Side note Iβve never owned a more expensive pair of goggles before. What features or benefits do the more expensive ones offer that something like these donβt?
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