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So, I was discussing morality with my brother and we somehow got on this topic. He, being a generous person, said this: 1. Make everyone generous(defined as maximizing happiness) 2. Make necessities plentiful for everyone 3. Prevent weapons of mass destruction from being created. I had drastically different answers: 1. Make everyone utilitarian. 2. Make everyone egalitarian. 3. Make everyone more aware of their impact on the world(climate change, etc.) What would you do? Don't think about it, just reply with things of the top of your head. That's what we did.

What would you wish for if you found a genie? What are your three wishes? It should go without saying that you can't wish for more wishes. You can also make a wish long and specific so that you can technically get more than three wishes. My wishes: This might be dark but I'd have my first wish be where people who partake in vices (drinking, drug use, smoking) should die instantly instead of harming others after taking them. Wish two would be to either read faster or have the world slow down around me while reading. This might make reading while traveling difficult though. Wish three would be for authors like GRRM to write as fast as Brandon.

Well, I'm currently working on a working on a writing project (yeah, I know, I have a lot of them), and the basic premise is this: It is the year 314 N.E. (New Era). About 400-500 years ago (around present day), a being known to most English-speakers as the Wishgiver appeared and offered quite literal wish fulfillment to anyone that asked so long as they made the trip to where the being currently was. It started in New York City and moved around for two or so years before settling in an extremely isolated and hard-to reach valley in Scotland. Each person was only granted one wish, but if they were willing to make the journey again they could undo said wish and ask for another instead.Some things it either cannot or will not grant, but it can make you immune to aging, rich, or able to shapeshift (among many, many other things). Anyways, millions upon millions of contradicting wishes mixed in bizarre and alarming ways, and it was not very good for civilization, people's sanity, or the world in general. The world fell into utter chaos for 100-200 years (nobody's really sure. Time was weird for awhile) before people were finally able to rebuild civilization with anachronistic technology. Flash back to about a generation after the Wishgiver first appeared. It is discovered that certain wishes have a chance of being passed down from generation to generation so long as they meet certain requirements. Wishes that do get passed down from generation to generation are called "Hereditary Wishes", and have a 100% chance of being passed on from parent to child so long as they don't mess with other hereditary wishes (then stuff gets weird). I decided not to list said requirements above because it's complicated and takes up space. I'll put them in the spoiler below. The new world is a bizarre jumble of anachronistic technology and styles (architecture, fashion, etc;) and those with hereditary wishes are nobility while those without hereditary wishes are commoners who usually have very little political power. Despite the inequality and anachronistic stuff (and the general craziness of a post-wispocalypse world), it's actually a surprisingly good place to live in, and rarely ever boring (for outsiders, at least). That's it for now, folks. My next post on this thread will talk about major geographic regions and other such goodness. After that, we'll talk about the kingdom where the main story takes place and the noble houses there. After that, I'm not really sure, but I'm willing to answer questions. Oh, and I'll probably have to think of a better name than "wishblooded".