In one of my work drafts, I have a world where the magic is treated as technology. It's dependent on the manipulation of a mineral ressource that is mined. And for a long time in this world's history, only an elite group of people had the know-how to harness the power of these minerals to cast...
Well, these are quite interesting answers. Let's tackle them...
These are certainly interesting things to consider, but I'd like to point out that your setting is only 100 years in the future. Even if say medical technology manages to beat aging in the next twenty years counting from present...
Hello to everybody. I registered here because I really wanted to participate in the cyberpunk worldbuilding discussion, but now that I look closer there's a lot of content here that I've barely scratched.
I've been writing for quite some time. Started my first pitiful attempt at fantasy after...
I'm not sure whether my ideas can be considered a 'translation' of old feudal customs, but when it comes to historical nobility or our modern money-nobility, one of the pervasive premises behind practically any rank structure is the idea of superiority. How this superiority is justified or...