Or to put it another way, more interesting than you might think! People who exemplify Christian virtues are essentially spiritual paladins. St. Mother Theresa. Pretty boring daily life. She prayed a lot. She took care of a bunch of sick poor people. St. Padre Pio. Pretty boring daily life. He...
It's been literally for ever since I first began worldbuilding. Anymore it's just rabbit holes all the way down.
But as for the how, that's more often than not a matter of reacting to an object or something I've read or a question that's been asked; and then it's just a matter of writing down...
There are railways in The World. I don't know when they were first constructed, but do know their usage waned and died out during some of the past's catastrophic plague & war times. But moderns have rediscovered their use and are rebuilding the networks.
Railways are either Oliphant, the...
You could also combine some of these ideas. Without knowing how your magic system works, I'm just shooting into the darkness here.
But if there were different "kinds" of magic, different strengths or different capacities, they themselves could be ranked. And as a child grows their innate...
Write me a good story, with good characters, an engaging plot, and a delightful world, and I'll believe anything you tell me about it!
Magic is a thing, which is great, and you've already got some ideas cooking.
You might want to take a look into rogue planets. These are actual planets that...
Well, let's get one thing out of the way from square one: there's nothing new under the Sun. :cry: The best we can do is rearrange the furniture!
Religious hierarchies, monastics, deities of natural forces & phenomena --- you're ticking all the boxes mankind has ticked since, well, pretty much...
In Yeola, most people wear very little of what we might call clothing. They have no need. Denê for example wear body paint, ornaments, and their own inner radiance. The same person might one day be entirely "naked" (by ours, not theirs) and the next fully covered from head to toe in gear...
Oo, one of the dicier questions of history! When did the Roman Empire actually end...or did it ever end at all? I could think of two or three different dates off hand and could argue for its continuation up to the present time as well. But language is the issue!
One thing we need to understand...
A narrative needs three basic pillars, especially if it's a book and more especially if it's a book I'm expected to actually read through to the end. You need a good tale. I don't care if it's sword-n-sorcery or murder mystery, you need to tell the tale! You need good characters. The more I come...
Exactly.
Just as there is an equivalence of matter and energy in the material world; so there is in the spiritual world. Whatever it is these spirits feed on in the beyond world, the process works similarly to how lightbulbs feed in the mundane world.
The latter involves mystical runes and...
Another way to think of it is like wireless power transfer. Belief generates power within the supplicant which is then broadcast where it's picked up by the local spirit being.
Just watch out for belief vampires! Malevolent spirit beings that masquerade as genii loci but prey on the wayward...