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Anyone into world-buiding and map making (Inkarnate, Wonderdraft, World Anvil) etc. ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuur" data-source="post: 77652648" data-attributes="member: 445885"><p>Oh, about world building: since all this was set in a land that never was but in a certain time in European history, world building was - and is - a matter of studying the culture at that particular time. That's easier than making it all up from scratch. There still needs to be a plausible reason for things, and came up with a summary of the fictional history that served as handwaving for why things were like they were.</p><p></p><p>For place names, I almost went exotic, but then it hit me that in the real world, exotic sounding names are just common names in a different language. Rio Grande is simply Big River. Baton Rouge is Red Stick. Colorado is Colored Red, and so on. So place names in the language of the characters is are rather plain sounding, with the exotic ones plain sounding names that are in another language. Names came mostly from period sites. The SCA was a good source, but had to fidge and look at "model" languages for the nearby countries to come up with some place names.</p><p></p><p>For religion, again I looked at that period and place. Protestantism? Hadn't happened. Most were Roman Catholic, but had contact with Eastern Orthodox. For handwaving purposes, there had to be a special reason for two specific plot points. Here I tried to have the characters think close to to people of that age. There's some mention of Judaism, and contact with Muslims. There are pagans. I didn't delve deeply into pagan beliefs because I didn't want to spark interest. There's some mention to some specific pagan customs, but that's it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuur, post: 77652648, member: 445885"] Oh, about world building: since all this was set in a land that never was but in a certain time in European history, world building was - and is - a matter of studying the culture at that particular time. That's easier than making it all up from scratch. There still needs to be a plausible reason for things, and came up with a summary of the fictional history that served as handwaving for why things were like they were. For place names, I almost went exotic, but then it hit me that in the real world, exotic sounding names are just common names in a different language. Rio Grande is simply Big River. Baton Rouge is Red Stick. Colorado is Colored Red, and so on. So place names in the language of the characters is are rather plain sounding, with the exotic ones plain sounding names that are in another language. Names came mostly from period sites. The SCA was a good source, but had to fidge and look at "model" languages for the nearby countries to come up with some place names. For religion, again I looked at that period and place. Protestantism? Hadn't happened. Most were Roman Catholic, but had contact with Eastern Orthodox. For handwaving purposes, there had to be a special reason for two specific plot points. Here I tried to have the characters think close to to people of that age. There's some mention of Judaism, and contact with Muslims. There are pagans. I didn't delve deeply into pagan beliefs because I didn't want to spark interest. There's some mention to some specific pagan customs, but that's it. [/QUOTE]
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