So in one of my books/writing projects that I'm currently working on, I'm in the early stages of outlining and worldbuilding. The world in question, Telosza, is essentially going to be a sort of dark fantasy/post-apocalyptic fantasy world. One thing to note about all of my fantasy stories is...
I've been writing and brainstorming around one of my epic fantasy stories for a while now. And I'd say I have the main plot outlined pretty well, but I'm still feeling iffy about the romantic subplot I want to include.
To give come context, I have a young adult (basically early/mid-twenties)...
The fantasy novel I'm writing at the moment takes place in a high fantasy world, and the rough outline for the plot that I have in my head involves a party of characters going on a world-spanning adventure, so I suppose it's what you'd call an "epic adventure". However, I have an underlying...
Yeah, actually perhaps it would be better to go ahead and cut that terminology out. It's really just something I use to categorize stuff in my documents. Perhaps instead it would be better to categorize them by the process used to created a desired magical effect (so Fire/Water/Ice magic could...
I think the main reason I decided to differentiate between the two was because at first, I did only go with a singular state of Aether. Then I realized that if Aether was essentially both the essence that makes up souls AND the energy used to fuel magic, the mortal beings in my world might end...
This ended up being VERY long-winded. Read at your own risk.
I'm currently going through the process of worldbuilding, and I've spent a lot of time developing a magic system. If anyone here is familiar with Sanderson's laws of magic, my system would definitely be more of a "hard" magic system...