Recent content by Malise

For writing systems inspiration I'd recommend Omniglot, which is a writing systems encyclopedia for both living and extinct languages. I've used it for creating an abugida based writing system before.

Almyrigan Hero Good feedback. I'll explain the magic system like you did in the first chapters and leave my plan to have my lemony narrator spectate a middle school Apsara biology class to later chapters. What I was going for with this magic system was to make almost every character an...

CupofJoe The magic system affects everyone in my story because it's tied to all Apsara's biology. Since my setting has an Apsara majority, it also affects some of the non-Apsara's as well. Universal Examples: - Spellbooks are the alternative to tablets and smartphones in the setting. Instead...

(I figured that an AMA would be the best way for me to catch holes and address intricacies in my magic system, before I go nuts with it in my work in progress) Within the World of Ethyes, the dominant sentient race are the Apsara. They are mostly human in appearance with three notable...

My Suggestions How would a government that recognizes that access to combat Magic is essential for the health of society go about regulating the use of that Magic? - You can treat combat Magic like how Americans treat gun control. To make it more realistic, you can have Combat-Magic rights...

Inspired by Fifth-View's feed-back, I decided to write 2 alternate version of the excerpt. (1- Without World Building) "I want to invent time travel," Komeon said shaking her pencil, "So I can personally strangle the person who invented physics." Ugh, Marcolo thought, I hope the resulting time...

Hi, long time no see folks. I personally don't use internal voice because I'm writing a WIP comedy with a large ensemble cast. (1) I cannot give a truly unique voice to all 10+ of my viewpoint characters. Middle-Aged Ex-Merc Auntie and 14-year-old Gremlin on Rollerskates, if given an internal...

In Sarkic, are there machines that can mass-produce most goods, magical or mundane? If mass production does exist, then it's hard to justify slavery as an efficient economic apparatus capable of maintaining an empire. Why? Mass production creates a vast working-class population from the...

Pointer no.2 Nations and states are not the same things. So naturally, national religion and state religion aren't either. This is important in determining whether or not your primitive, polytheistic "seed" religion will develop into a prophet religion or stay a polytheistic religion...

Karlin Lol, I'm the Chinese folk religion practitioner that you're warning about. I always die a little inside whenever someone suggests that Buddhism is "atheistic" when there's a jade statue of Guanyin, the Bhoddishiva of Mercy, chilling in my living room. I world-build Eastern religions as...

In my world, everyone (of the Apsara species) has a muscle-filled organ (Kheira) in their hands that allows them to use 'spells' (in the form of Khei). Most people have 5 to 7 Khei (Max is 10, since you store one Khei in a fingernail bed). One to two Khei is typically reserved for combat spells...

I think you can amp the stakes of temporary immortality (and make immortals a bigger threat in story), by adding a spiritual/mental cultivation requirement on top of the need to drink the immortality elixir. Possible Examples: Abrahamic Religions - Deal with the Devil. You can make the temp...

A. E. Lowan Oh okay thanks, didn't know that! I've always heard about how Japanese is high context, but never really understood how. I just assumed it mostly had to do with the "zoom out" sentence structure they had where details are always mentioned first, so you would just have to read the...

MrCreativeMight Actually did some backup research. I'm actually wrong about Kitsune's being 100% female, it's more like 95ish% (so that's why I assumed that they were all female through cultural osmosis, I'm not Japanese), but the male forms they do take are elderly men instead of young...

Yeti 'hole' suggestion: Yeti's are from the Himilayas, where food-producing land is scarce. So fights over territory should be a good enough conflict. Some Himalayan cultures (like Gurkas) have a strong warrior valor culture embedded in them, so word of mouth of who killed who should get around...