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In the nation it's largely set, trial by combat in the case of murder. Rape is punished by castration if it can be proven in court, but more often than not, the rival family will simply murder the attacker in duel before. Most leaders don't mind their men taking some turns with subjugated...

To speak for myself specifically: I picture my world being roughly earthsized. But since most of the focus is on a specific section of a continent, about the size of Africa ( not in terms of structure whatsoever ), that leaves me with alot of leeway to experiment with the remainder of the...

I think there are two ways to deal with this: 1. You basically make no notice about how rich the people within the citywalls are. Just show off the city as a utopia where everybody is living perfectly. 2. You make some grim, social statement about class. Say for instance, only the rich are...

I'm a big fan of Warhammer. I draw alot of inspiration from the art, lore and the writing style. Something that is very apparent in this universe, is that the more barbarous and savage cultures in this world seem to have a fetish in the collection of heads, skulls and basically bodyparts in...

I consider myself a 10, but more lightly so. I hate movies like Saw and those movies with outrageous amounts off violence. Those movies contain the type off violence I can't stomache. I have no problem with watching people have their heads cut in half or have their skulls smashed. But when it...

Hm... Considering the time it takes for buildings and roads to decay, I think having ominous, city ruins in the horizons create a slight hassle in the way you're going to make humans revisit feudalesque systems off the middle ages. To put it this way: somehow, some few humans has to survive in...

At the very least I consider the basic ''warmer around the center, colder the closer the poles. I've figured out that I'm going to need quite big distances between the different types off regions. On the scientific aspect at least. But I only try to have this big world as a free idea basket.

Hmm... Well, the major change would off course be the lack of the cannon. Cannons were rare for very long, but they were still quite powerful weapons. Which in turn would change alot of the formations in the medieval armies. At the time the rifle and cannon became a bigger part off warfare, the...

I haven't really read too much into how I'm going to distribute magic. I figure that it should be slightly more common than I have made it, simply to balanace out the world somewhat. As it stands right now, my narrative is written from the perspective off a mercenary who lives in a barbarian...

If you begin with a fight, it has to be executed really well. A fight early on can either be an amazing spectacle that will get the reader interested, or it will just leave them confused. My suggestion is that if you want that fight to happen, you gotta be extremely inspired and have a rocksolid...

When it comes to relation between humans and non-humans, they are more or less completely inconsolvable. The non-human humanoids in my world are limited to humanoid beasts hulking about, like trolls or ogres who more or less function on survival instincts rather than being conscious and aware...

If flying humanoids exist, other humanoids who can't fly will create ways to counter them. For instance building domes to cover the cities from aerial assaults, or just different forms of weaponry that are unusually effective against the birdpeople. It could also be that these birdpeople are...

That explains the way primitive cultures view women. I guess saying stuff like ''men who hate women'' really make little sense, regardless how terrifying some societies have treated females. Even the violent and horrifying misogny of the taliban isn't there because they hate women. Lol, I...

The strongest example of this would be the first lord of Lucium, which is basically The roman empire + knights and ordinary medieval fluff. The first lord is the namesake of the kingdom and he would be the one who lead the former citystate into a league between the other ones and eventually wage...

The only way to really work this out is to put alot of women in the mook army or not have mook armies at all. The reason we are usually so disturbed by violence or murder against women is because they are generally not able to defend themselves in these situation. For instance, when male...