Finchbearer
Inkling
I say ‘world’ because really I’m currently deep into building a comprehensive country rather than entire world, which brings me to my first question: I intend to only focus on one principle country where the story is set, though it is vast, and the northern part of the bordering country to the south, with whom there shall be an ensuing war with. It makes sense to me to only include these factors on the visual map, but obviously there is still the rest of the globe that I haven’t included due to its irrelevance to the story. Does this bother you, or does it make sense?
Also, it’s taken me quite a time to figure out the political system for my world. I have set it in an early medieval inspired northern hemisphere country, that has a belief system centered around a mixture of Celtic, Old English and Norse culture and mythologies. There is also a system of nobility, working classes and peasantry. But there is no monarchy. So I have come up with a confederation of provinces, with each province ruled by a noble family, with many other noble families who are not ruling but are land owning. In terms of rule of law, the confederation is overseen by a council of nobles with each nobleman having a seat on the council. The nobles are responsible for keeping this hierarchy in place, protecting its people and keeping the peace. There is also a court culture where nobles are expected to hold events to show off their wealth and status, make political alliances and allow a culture of courtship between nobles who have come of age.
The country to the south has an absolute monarchy with a newly appointed arrogant, power-mad king who is the one who wages said brewing war.
Does this make sense? Does it matter that there is no monarchy but there are nobles? Are there any major oversights or flaws in your opinion?
My magical system, in basic terms consists of individuals who are born ‘gifted’, with magical powers. Individuals are gifted at random, and they can be noble or peasantry, although because of how my system works, there are more noble gifted individuals due to the social mobility that being gifted offers to those of the lower and peasant classes. This also means that anyone who is found to possess gifts are sent to institutions as soon as their gift shows itself (usually during puberty) and are expected to take an oath once they have finished their studies at around the age of eighteen to give their magical services to the country. They can be moved around the country so that the gifts are spread equally, for example of there are more healers needed in a certain province, or more more populated areas such as cities. Some caveats for gifted women are that if they marry into nobility or are already nobility and get married, they are not oblidged to carry on as a magical servant, and gifted men can join the armed forces and have the choice of using their gifts, or not.
Does this sit in line well enough with the political system? Does it make sense?
And finally, warfare / armed forces. One name I came up with is the Waelburg Warriors with ‘Waelburg’ meaning valiant or brave in Old English. Problem is, I need a hierarchy, or maybe each province has their own version of this. Are there opportunities to become shieldmaidens? I just don’t know about this one. Magical servants would also be expected to give their services to any war.
Any opinions or thoughts would be helpful.
Also, it’s taken me quite a time to figure out the political system for my world. I have set it in an early medieval inspired northern hemisphere country, that has a belief system centered around a mixture of Celtic, Old English and Norse culture and mythologies. There is also a system of nobility, working classes and peasantry. But there is no monarchy. So I have come up with a confederation of provinces, with each province ruled by a noble family, with many other noble families who are not ruling but are land owning. In terms of rule of law, the confederation is overseen by a council of nobles with each nobleman having a seat on the council. The nobles are responsible for keeping this hierarchy in place, protecting its people and keeping the peace. There is also a court culture where nobles are expected to hold events to show off their wealth and status, make political alliances and allow a culture of courtship between nobles who have come of age.
The country to the south has an absolute monarchy with a newly appointed arrogant, power-mad king who is the one who wages said brewing war.
Does this make sense? Does it matter that there is no monarchy but there are nobles? Are there any major oversights or flaws in your opinion?
My magical system, in basic terms consists of individuals who are born ‘gifted’, with magical powers. Individuals are gifted at random, and they can be noble or peasantry, although because of how my system works, there are more noble gifted individuals due to the social mobility that being gifted offers to those of the lower and peasant classes. This also means that anyone who is found to possess gifts are sent to institutions as soon as their gift shows itself (usually during puberty) and are expected to take an oath once they have finished their studies at around the age of eighteen to give their magical services to the country. They can be moved around the country so that the gifts are spread equally, for example of there are more healers needed in a certain province, or more more populated areas such as cities. Some caveats for gifted women are that if they marry into nobility or are already nobility and get married, they are not oblidged to carry on as a magical servant, and gifted men can join the armed forces and have the choice of using their gifts, or not.
Does this sit in line well enough with the political system? Does it make sense?
And finally, warfare / armed forces. One name I came up with is the Waelburg Warriors with ‘Waelburg’ meaning valiant or brave in Old English. Problem is, I need a hierarchy, or maybe each province has their own version of this. Are there opportunities to become shieldmaidens? I just don’t know about this one. Magical servants would also be expected to give their services to any war.
Any opinions or thoughts would be helpful.