The Contest: Create a fictional person, place or thing that is far-fetched and sell us on it. The best-presented, most out-there-yet-believable creation wins the contest.
Prizes: World-building workshops and other programs/products to help you create a more believable fictional world.
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Sorry about that. Can you restore my post minus that sentence? I don't have time to repost here right now.
btw I looked through your faqs for guidelines on links and didn't see any mention of them. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place? If you have a url with that info please share. Thanks.
Where I would go with this is either to have some people be "the Chosen of the gods", or, to have them be "bloodlines" of the gods.
If Chosen, then for some reason Titans have singled out an individual to bestow this magical gift upon. Figure out why someone is chosen: most devout and pious...
A couple of points here about copyright:
To the contrary: Ideas cannot be copyrighted. It is the words themselves that carry the protection of intellectual property laws. It is the particular construct of words (sometimes including names within that context) that is copyright protected. Or...
A lot of fictional worlds just "don't work" on some level, where things feel out of whack for some reason or other. This got me to thinking about what it is that kills believability in a world.
What kinds of things do you find most jarring in a fictional world? What knocks you out of your...