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I know that a lot of people give examples from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but I say, don't be afraid of using more modern events for inspiration. Look at the 1960s and 1970s, in countries with open and free democracies, there was massive amounts of civil unrest. For example, your...

So I'm planning on killing off a character suddenly and early in the plot of my WIP with the intention of with throwing a wrench into both the heroes and villain's plans. My inspiration is the 1960 assassination of Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma, who was killed (with a wakazashi) by a...

The three sports/sport culture's I've come up with are mostly based on real world sports. And these are the ones that play plot important roles in my stories One culture, the Tara people, play a game based on a Inuit game I forget the name of. Basic idea is a ball is tied to a rafter and...

Can I just ask what the level of technology and society of your world? If it's Medieval, then the factions would probably be on the lines of imperial family vs. nobility vs. clergy vs merchants vs peasants/serfs. If we're talking more on the industrial side, than it might be more like imperial...

I personally don't know a lot about the nuts and bolts of Anarchism, but the jist is that people are inherently good and don't need governments. The anarchist thought is that government is un-natural and doesn't need to exist. But there are, like most political philosophies, many schools of...

I've been thinking about why not everyone who's experienced trauma can't use magic, and because I am dealing with different cultures, I've been toying with the idea of different explanations from culture to culture. One would chalk it up to the ancestors or spirits choosing them for one reason...

And since there's espionage, folks will be killed

Sounds pretty good. I guess the WIP magic has more of a running theme than a system. The theme being how people gain magical powers.

So I've got a WIP that will mainly be set in world at an early 20th century level of culture and technology. Now, I've kinda sorta got a magic system that's not really a magic system. The basics are that magic is a very rare phenomena, mostly because it hinges on the user having gone through a...

Do it! Write it now! Late Renaissance, early modern period Europe is so amazing and there's so much stuff going on at the time! I like it when people get creative with the settings.

Quick descriptions of the principle nations of my world. The world is based around the late 19th, early 20th century (I'd say about 1895-1940), which is why Gromaya has two summeries. Periegòrd, in my universe, had their monarchy abolished 30 years prior in universe. Gromayan Empire: based...

Have you ever looked at the Skeleton Coast of Namibia/Angola? It's pretty interesting. Basically, there's a current along the northern coast of Namibia/southern cost of Angola called the Benguela Current and it's really cold. This causes a really dense fog that's around most of the year, there's...

I tend to read a lot of spy, historical and classic novels aside from Fantasy. I read a lot of Alan Furst, who combines history and espionage beautifully with the feel of a film noir. When it comes to historical novels I tend to read works set in the first half of the last century. I do read...

I'm trying to avoid the impossibly beautiful vampires as much as possible. Yes, most of my vampires look young and fit and several are very good looking, but just as many have behaviours that make them seem odd. My main vampire is in an odd position where she's almost a century old (yes, she's...

My basic vampire rules are: 1) You become a vampire when most of your blood is drained by a vampire until you are close to death, then the vampire will bring feed you some of their blood just as night is falling, thus becoming a vampire. 2) Vampires must drink blood in order to stay as a...