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    This is Taughfland

    There's a game called Age of Wonders 3 which includes a map editor. I use that to make the terrain and put the cities and roads down. After that I screenshot it and add text in an image editor.
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    Fantasy heroes and swords

    My culture doesn't have the romanticised view of swords. They like hammers and bows, and see swords as a sidearm at best.
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    Telurran Theology- Araanienism

    Do they believe that Creation created hell and by extension Ruination? If not, how do they explain Hell and Ruination.
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    Ask me about Warfare

    It's probably somewhere beteen one and three percent depending on the war, however, the country used to be a theocracy, and they still have an "every war is a holy war" mindset. It makes it hard to stop peasents from joining.
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    This is Taughfland

    Previous post: http://mythicscribes.com/forums/world-building/17301-welcome-my-world.html Anyway, it's been a while so I decided to create part 2 of my series, this time focusing on the country where my novel is set, Taughfland. A quick pronunciation guide "Tore-f-land", if that seems weird...
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    Ask me about Warfare

    In my novel, the culture of one country is caste based. When going to war, it's mostly the warrior caste and the labour caste (Lumberers, miners and farmers). Now, would it be more effective for the warrior caste to kept in large blocks, or to spread them into the peasents units to provide...
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    Welcome to my world

    I don't haven any languages worked out on the grounds of most of the counties having their own, and that'd be a little too much work. The names of the first are fabricated entirely, while the continent names come from persian.
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    Welcome to my world

    Pronounced as Torf-land.
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    Welcome to my world

    Inspired by Tangleshine's own, I'm just going to call it a series, of posts, I've decided to make my little set of posts explaining my world, and allowing people to comment on, evaluate and, if they feel the need, insult it. I'll be splitting it into a few sections, either done on this thread...
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    Hello

    Hello, I'm Halisme, and I'm currently writing low fantasy. I enjoy world-building far more than I should and am looking forward to meeting you all.
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