Garren Jacobsen
Auror
So I am currently doing some world building for a new novel I want to write. One of the main characters will be the sole survivor of a massive battle in space. He crash lands into a medieval setting with magic (not Earth). Where he comes from (Earth) there is no magic. He doesn't have a fighter ship but a suit of armor, like Iron-Man, that allows him to fly around in space. Also attached to his right arm, and only his right, is a gauntlet that can store and manipulate energy. The reason why is that for an older model, such as his, each arm requires a semi-sentient AI to be plugged into his brain and through experimentation the military found the human mind can only endure one additional intelligence in a person's brain.
The problem I having is language and culture, I have already established how humans got to the planet. It deals with a hyperdrive (not calling my rapid space travel this BTW) event where on a certain day on all routes a wave of time flows through it and throws spaceships into a different time but allows them to reach their destination. Sometimes people could go only a few minutes into the past or future other times it will be thousands of years into the past He speaks English the people don't. I know that I want his AI to have translation software, but it needs to get a sample of the language first. So question 1: How long should the AI take to gather a sample size and how should I go about dealing with this process.
Second issue is with culture. Their nobility consists of magic users and their families. Doesn't matter if the user was born as a beggar or noble if you have magic you are instantly in the nobility. Now I don't want to have the most powerful user to be the King or Queen always, that would lead to constant instability. I do however want that to be a factor. So what are some other factors that could lead to one being a low level noble like your knight or lord, a mid level like a baron, a high level like a duke, and the king. Also, what should I do if a magic user's child is not a magic user? And what crime(s) would get one booted from being say a duke and banished to the edges of the kingdom where all the mean beasties are but not executed?
Third issue is still with culture and I was wondering what kind of religion would spring from a culture like this. What kind of teachings would convince the more numerous lower classes that this was the proper way of society rather than strictly by bloodlines, since there will be more than a few children of noble blood but without noble power. Also what kind of religious teachings would convince some of the more powerful magic users that they cannot simply take power from their ruler that might be less powerful in magic?
Thank you for your help. This is all kind of a new brainstorm thing. It may take a year or so before I actually get to writing the story, which I have a bare bones idea for what I want the conflicts to be.
The problem I having is language and culture, I have already established how humans got to the planet. It deals with a hyperdrive (not calling my rapid space travel this BTW) event where on a certain day on all routes a wave of time flows through it and throws spaceships into a different time but allows them to reach their destination. Sometimes people could go only a few minutes into the past or future other times it will be thousands of years into the past He speaks English the people don't. I know that I want his AI to have translation software, but it needs to get a sample of the language first. So question 1: How long should the AI take to gather a sample size and how should I go about dealing with this process.
Second issue is with culture. Their nobility consists of magic users and their families. Doesn't matter if the user was born as a beggar or noble if you have magic you are instantly in the nobility. Now I don't want to have the most powerful user to be the King or Queen always, that would lead to constant instability. I do however want that to be a factor. So what are some other factors that could lead to one being a low level noble like your knight or lord, a mid level like a baron, a high level like a duke, and the king. Also, what should I do if a magic user's child is not a magic user? And what crime(s) would get one booted from being say a duke and banished to the edges of the kingdom where all the mean beasties are but not executed?
Third issue is still with culture and I was wondering what kind of religion would spring from a culture like this. What kind of teachings would convince the more numerous lower classes that this was the proper way of society rather than strictly by bloodlines, since there will be more than a few children of noble blood but without noble power. Also what kind of religious teachings would convince some of the more powerful magic users that they cannot simply take power from their ruler that might be less powerful in magic?
Thank you for your help. This is all kind of a new brainstorm thing. It may take a year or so before I actually get to writing the story, which I have a bare bones idea for what I want the conflicts to be.