Recent content by Ž.J.

I absolutely agree with you on this one, it may be my fault here, since i suffer from "completionism syndrome" :D I just want to see every part of my setting to be fully developed, at least each known part. I don't plan to introduce all of that into the story itself, but i simply do it for my...

Greetings to all you good folks! I took a long break from this forum, but yet i am back and i want to ask thee several question about religion in worldbuilding (medieval fantasy setting). In my own setting i struggle a bit with inventing a properly functioning religion for one of my...

Hey guys! Hope you're all healthy and doing fine! I want to talk a bit about conlanging in worldbuilding. I'll ask y'all a few questions: -Have you ever created a world especially created for your conlang? Similar to what J.R.R. Tolkien. -How much do y'all focus on conlanging in your worlds...

I probably did miss the point :), was world-building just few minutes ago and it did loosen my ability to comprehend what I am reading. Or it may come from my personal idea that everything needs to have order. And the idea of fluidity, medieval style fluid cultures, borders and so on, was never...

In my opinion ethnicities do need at least some sort of geographical borders to survive. Look at the Basque or the Romansch (who are a ethno-linguistic group). Yes maybe they dont need borders, but at least a specific geographic region that will in time reflect in their own culture and help to...

Yeah of course it dose. We simply have different definitions of what culture is. Coming from a particularly diverse place, for me food, clothes, language and others, were always a clear marker for a given culture. And things like western, black, white or asian culture do not exist, at...

Well for me personally, a given culture is represented by a: common language, religion, customs, food, clothing, a specific geographic region etc. Of course one or two things can differentiate, but if more then three of these characteristics (for me personally) are different then a common...

Hey folks!! Had quite some fun with our last discussion over "empires" and now I have a new topic in mind! How important is culture in a fantasy world? In my own fantasy world, that is only populated by humans, I find creating new and diferent cultures important. Combine this with my love for...

Well....the best way that I can show you what I think of empires, is I to probably tell you about the one in my own setting. Its called The Empire of the Seven United Kingdoms and it's an elective monarchy devided into administrative regions of 3 kinds. The 7 original kingdoms that formed the...

Excuse me for my outburst in my answer earlier. Didn't wanted to sound agresive. All of your answers seem quite realistic. The only thing I would like to add is that, maybe the higher class of society (high-nobility) would want to keep the empire weak so that they can abuse it for their own...

Well, i dont really get the cliché that empires should inherently be evil and serve as antagonists in the nerative. Monarchs (and nations) being expansionistic and in this way forming their own empires isn't something that's an exception in our history. Mongols, Timurids, Ottomans, Seljuks...

Well aren't they? Isn't Russia, China or the USA empires? They are states with great territorial holdings (except the UK) ruling over many difirent ethical groups. Now the EU could be excluded but in the same way the Holy Roman Empire served a similar role. Now we can argue if the HRE itself was...

You did gave a nice start to this :) And well...there are many examples of where states called there rulers emperors, while in the same way the particular state didn't fall into the definition of empire. Examples could given with my own home of Bulgaria. Until 1946 our rulers were too called...

Hi guys! I would love to hear what ideas you have on the concept of Empires. When do empires reach their zenith, when do they fall, how they fall etc. Of course first of all in order to begin our discussion I think we need to define what an empire is. In my opinion the shorter way we could...

Well your, in my humble opinion, excellent presentation of an alternative christian world ,easily sums up what I plan to do in my own Fantasy World. A quasi-centralised state church that values the idea of "The Eternal Flame". A "renaissance" based religion, focused over different ways of...