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    Describe your magic system

    In my world, magic is a natural occurrence. It is explainable by science, and has been studied by The Academy (a world wide organization that studies everything in the world, most of the knowledge they keep for themselves). All living things produce an electromagnetic field naturally. Most are...
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    Question: Witches customizing their broomsticks

    Well, there is another idea. Different brand bristles. And you have to replace the bristles every so often as they wear down from air friction. The movie was called Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Was a classic Disney film.
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    Question: Witches customizing their broomsticks

    First, the concept of witches frying brooms came out of a couple actual traditions. First, the bessom (ritual broom), was used to sweep away negative energy in your ritual space, not specifically dirt. Second, the bessom was jumped over during some ceremonies such as handfastings to symbolize...
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    One god worshipped by individual parts

    The Druids actually taught that all gods from every religion are just different facets of the same god. So, if it can work for a real life religion, I don't see why it can't work for a story.
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    A name for this thing?

    There is a free steampunk/fantasy audio book that I listened to once and really enjoyed called The Gearheart. Definitely worth checking out. Warning, I may have some details wrong, been a while since I listened to the book. In the series, there is a character named Cog who is basically an...
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    Star Map Creation

    I've seen that and another site which both just generate text descriptions of constellations. I was looking more for something that would generate an image of the stars as seen from a planet.
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    Star Map Creation

    I am looking for links for ways of generating a star map for my world. All of the links I have found either link to sites which no longer exist, or software which is very old and won't run on a modern computer. It doesn't need to accurate to known star layouts. Just something good enough to...
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    Help with my calendar and time systems, please

    Your calendar would really depend on how your solar system is setup assuming the cultures on your planet follow a similar process to what we did here on Earth. A year is the length of time it takes the planet to make 1 complete orbit of the sun. If you only have 1 moon like we do here on...
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    Untangling a mess of ideas to build a Magocracy.

    I think the Wheel of Time did a pretty good job of exploring this concept. Kings and queens would bow before the Amyrlin Seat, who of course was the head of the Aes Sedai (a group of female magic users in the world). There were other cultures which also had gifted women and they handled them in...
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    Methods of torture and execution

    The Sword of Truth series has some inventive tortures too. One I remember reading was where they cut a small hole in a persons abdomen, pulled out a small bit of small intestine, wrapped it around a stake, and twisted the stake slowly drawing more intestine out. They did this over the course of...
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    Restrictions on Magic

    It sounds like your magic system is basically, for lack of a better term, magic muscle. The more you train it, the better you get at it. So the magi who just go around doing very little magically can only perform minor tasks while magi who train and push themselves can accomplish greater feats...
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    Map Question

    I can't speak for the others, but in the case of my map, the point in having a world map is because I am working on building the world for a tabletop RPG campaign setting. While specific adventures and maybe even whole campaigns might only happen in a specific region of the world, having a whole...
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    Astronomy difficulties in an epic fantasy

    I am also working on a binary star system and going semi-hard science route with mine so I have done some research into this. The first thing you need to determine is the classification of your stars. These will determine the luminosity, size, distance for the secondary star to orbit the...
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    Anybody care to share their map?

    I'm working on my world in a top-down manner as well starting with the solar system. However, I found that I work through these higher levels of things, I come up with ideas for lower level things. Such as my world orbits the primary star (a G2 star) of a binary start system. This means the...
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    Anybody care to share their map?

    Assuming the world is earth sized, it would be interesting to see how the culture on the islands in the west vary from those in the east. Since they are much smaller and farther removed from everyone else, I can easily see something like a Japanese type culture (assuming you are going for...
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