Recent content by WaffleSingSong

I am getting into conceptualization territory, as I haven't gone this deep into the world like this. I appreciate it, everyone! By "singing," the language would be tonal like Mandarin or Hausa. It is just there is a lack of tonal languages on the continent of the story, so it sounds like...

I guess we ISTPs don't exist :LOL: Related to the OP, personality is something that is hugely complex, and it is something that you shouldn't bog yourself over. I think personality inventories can be a good start in outlining your characters. If you are going to use MBTI, Micheal Pierce on...

This makes a decent point, and I am now considering having some overseer race, but the problem here is that the slaver group are supposed to be a near-complete unknown. No one should have any clue who they were, and I was planning to have multiple conspiracies. Maybe that overseer race could be...

TheKillerBs is correct. The primary ethnic group, the "Flaxen," have completely forgotten their culture, and so have no idea where they originate after being enslaved so long. They are the ones who most embrace the synthetic culture of Cerelan because of their lack of any other culture. Another...

One of the big mysteries in this setting is who they were and how they were able to hide, and why. To give an in-world perspective on describing them, they apparently wore masks when they were on the field, and so no slave could distinguish their appearance. They wrote in an unusual glyphic...

Hello, everyone, One of my nations, Cerela, is formed after a successful slave revolt against an unknown slaver peoples. The leader of the uprising, somehow, becomes an absolute monarch but does so in a way in which the system promotes a, for lack of a better term, a "liberal" governance. How...

Eyamai: Leader of the slave revolt that founded Cerela, and first ruler. siuxon: Main clerics/druids of the faith. I have explained all the names within the text, do you think that I shouldn't do this, despite that?

It's what is on the tin. Philosophical concepts, IRL religions, historical events, etc. I am also going to use this post as a request to critique my writing. It is not the best I am sure, so I would love to make it a lot more fun to read. Anywhom, thanks in advance for reading! Ava: There...

Interesting, thanks for slaving through all that to come up with this list. Will look back at this later!

It reminds me a lot of Plato's Republic. The idea of philosopher-kings, the concept of greater-goods over factional infighting, strict caste system, etc., are all reminiscent of the classic work IMO. I'd say look it up, read some overviews of his philosophy within the work, and then weave it...

Hello, everyone! I was a short-time member of these forums a while ago, but because of losing time, and then interest, to write/worldbuild thanks to school getting in the way, I had to abandon being active with it for the time being. However, I have learned to manage my time very well since...

The Dragonborn from Skyrim is an otherkin. I mean really, his name in Dragon is "Dovahkiin!" Why do people hate it when they get corrected on something? I mean, should they kinda be saying "Oh yes, thank you! thank you for letting me have the opportunity to be less of a dumbass!" I mean, I do...

I was actually thinking of a clan system to fix that problem with mercenaries, instead of villages there will be clan holdings, with elected chiefs being the highest ranking of legislative authority, even though that authority is confined to the holding. Of course, these clans would also double...

Title says the meat of it, but what are some very quick, basic points to be made so that I don't accidentally create something more unrealistic than a child of Middle-Earth and the Land of Oz? Thanks!

I might as well post this here. Hi guys, for one of my nations, I have decided that I want it to have a Kritarchy/Theocracy/Magocracy/Technocracy hybrid. Essentially, it's ruled by Judge-Priest-Mage-Scientists or Shophets, who interpret and analyze natural law based on the ideas of the...