worldbuilding Fantasy World planning

[MacThorstenson he/him]

1 minute ago, Steel Inquisitive said:

That would be cool to be able to edit the map whenever we wanted! With Natural magic I think the land will be changing as time goes by...... I don't care too much, however, a large central continent would be nice.

That would work as far as I'm aware!

I got excited and made my character....

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Name: Zack Night. 

Physical Characteristics: Tall (6’1”). Dark, short hair. Blue eyes.

Investiture: Legend. Abilities include: He never misses a shot. He has increased speed when firing his bow, allowing him to shoot two arrows per second. He can sense his prey (This is more of a general feeling, only good enough to get him within a mile.) He has slightly increased strength.

Skills: Very skilled archer and hunter. He’s good at woodcraft. He knows how to make arrows.

Equipment: Long bow and quiver. Hunting knives. Camping gear.

Weakness: The influence of Natural magic is weighing on him heavily. He always feels the need to be hunting. Is often rash. He tends to be reckless. Social skills are lacking. He is poor at hand to hand combat.

Family: Has a mother, father and three younger siblings (Two brothers and a sister).

Home: Grew up in a remote village. (More info once map is complete)

Backstory: Grew up with family and learned how to hunt with his father. His village was attacked when he was twelve by a monster. Zack killed the monster with his bow and his village honored him as a hero. As he grew up he would always be on the important hunting trips as his skill with the bow was already great (Natural magic had already started affecting him). He became well known in his village and the neighboring villages as the greatest hunter of all time. He killed many wild beasts and became a Legend when he was 22. Growing restless (there were no more beasts to be hunted close to his village) he decided to head for the academy to learn what he could of the Rituals.

Guild: Unaffiliated.  

Personality: Brash. Slightly arrogant. Kind hearted. Loyal. Passionate. Sincere.  

Fighting Style: Distance fighter. He can pick off a large group of enemies from a distance with ease.

Not sure what's happening with the font..... What do you guys think?

Did you copy and paste the font from somewhere? if so where? and how can I get serifed fonts?

Approximately how old is he? 

And He's trying to learn about ritual magic you said?

I like him.

 

I think that editing the map during the thing will be problematic, if you go to the site you will see that it is very laggy. 

I would suggest making a map and using that one for the foreseeable future, downloading portions of it and using those. The whole system is pretty annoying, but it is the best software ive seen so far.

[Steel Inquisitive he/him]

Just now, MacThorstenson said:

Did you copy and paste the font from somewhere? if so where? and how can I get serifed fonts?

Approximately how old is he? 

And He's trying to learn about ritual magic you said?

I like him.

 

I think that editing the map during the thing will be problematic, if you go to the site you will see that it is very laggy. 

I would suggest making a map and using that one for the foreseeable future, downloading portions of it and using those. The whole system is pretty annoying, but it is the best software ive seen so far.

Yeah, I copy/pasted the character sheet to a word document and then into my post...... All well...... I edited in his age right before you posted He's 32. I wanted to have my character be trying to learn ritual magic so that I can figure it out at the same time! He won't ever master it.... Doesn't have the head for it..... or the patience.

 

I looked at the website and assumed I just wasn't figuring it out...... You guys are saints for working on that for the rest of us!

 

[MacThorstenson he/him]

12 minutes ago, Steel Inquisitive said:

I looked at the website and assumed I just wasn't figuring it out...... You guys are saints for working on that for the rest of us!

There is a quick start tutorial here: https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/wiki/Quick-Start-Tutorial

Heres a map I came up with. I didn't do much beside click a few buttons, but you can zoom in on both of the images and see whats up.

fantasy_map_1552021650271.svg

 

What I did was create a bunch of countries, and delet large portions of that so that there are unnamed neutral areas

Edited March 8, 2019 by MacThorstenson

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

14 minutes ago, MacThorstenson said:

There is a quick start tutorial here: https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/wiki/Quick-Start-Tutorial

Heres a map I came up with. I didn't do much beside click a few buttons, but you can zoom in on both of the images and see whats up.

fantasy_map_1552021650271.svg

 

What I did was create a bunch of countries, and delet large portions of that so that there are unnamed neutral areas

I really like the number of lakes on this map, I like lakes  

[Steel Inquisitive he/him]

32 minutes ago, MacThorstenson said:

There is a quick start tutorial here: https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/wiki/Quick-Start-Tutorial

Heres a map I came up with. I didn't do much beside click a few buttons, but you can zoom in on both of the images and see whats up.

fantasy_map_1552021650271.svg

I like it! We should make Kuria the focus nation of the RP. It's small, well placed, and I like the name!

Edit: Goodnight! be back on tomorrow afternoon. 

Edited March 8, 2019 by Steel Inquisitive

[MacThorstenson he/him]

15 minutes ago, Steel Inquisitive said:

I like it! We should make Kuria the focus nation of the RP. It's small, well placed, and I like the name!

Ok. Heres some information on Kuria. 

I has a population of about 1 million people and a area of 16,000 square miles. It has 10 major settlements, and its all within the same culture area as the surrounding countries so it would probably not have any language or religious conflicts.

Im going to try and get a zoomed in picture of Kuria and the surrounding area set up. But my computer is not cooperating. Keep on checking back for edits. There we go!

Edited March 8, 2019 by MacThorstenson

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

I am fine with just leaving this as the map if we want to get planning. We should definitely choose a base area. I would agree with @Steel Inquisitive that the large bay and several rivers make Kuria an ideal cultural capital. I suspect the Academy would either be here, or somewhere nearby. Pedinia, Perechia and Pieisia (the Three Sisters, perhaps? I'd imagine these countries to either be constantly at war, or deeply intertwined culturally) could also be good to get a degree of progressing wildness in the setting. Vebedia and Kolynia would also likely feature heavily into a Kuria-centered world. Cucal and Fiugia could serve as "deep wild" areas. It's 500 miles from Kuria to the border of Fiugia so I doubt many people are going to be travelling all the way from one end of the continent to the other within the story.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Here is the map file by the way if anyone wants to see that.

fantasy_map_1552021645331.map

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

9 minutes ago, MacThorstenson said:

Here is the map file by the way if anyone wants to see that.

fantasy_map_1552021645331.map

I'll have to look up this file at work, my Chromebook does not like it  Excellent job!!

Also, do we have a name for the continent? Do we need/want one?

Edited March 8, 2019 by ZincAboutIt

[MacThorstenson he/him]

26 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

I'll have to look up this file at work, my Chromebook does not like it  Excellent job!!

Also, do we have a name for the continent? Do we need/want one?

It doesn't give us a name. I don't care Personally.

Here is a link to a doc with the stats of all the countries visible in the map I sent out.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13gwj97guJUcwiyxEC0BjADgzMEj17QhpBBkunYVkefw/edit?usp=sharing

Kuria would have to be a big trading area for it to support a relative population of this size.

Would maybe in Kuria be a place where the Leylines cross and the chrystals form? They export them as a national product?

Finally, a slight tangent. I would imagine that the academy in Kuria is not the only one. I would think that there would be a lot of people who want to get a 10 year general magic degree, or a 15 year career specialization degree. 

I would have to look at the population densities and the rates of magic users in the world, but i think it could work.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

30 minutes ago, MacThorstenson said:

It doesn't give us a name. I don't care Personally.

Here is a link to a doc with the stats of all the countries visible in the map I sent out.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13gwj97guJUcwiyxEC0BjADgzMEj17QhpBBkunYVkefw/edit?usp=sharing

Kuria would have to be a big trading area for it to support a relative population of this size.

Would maybe in Kuria be a place where the Leylines cross and the chrystals form? They export them as a national product?

Finally, a slight tangent. I would imagine that the academy in Kuria is not the only one. I would think that there would be a lot of people who want to get a 10 year general magic degree, or a 15 year career specialization degree. 

I would have to look at the population densities and the rates of magic users in the world, but i think it could work.

I don't care that much either about the continent name, but if someone else does feel free!

I think that the Leylines crossing near Kuria makes perfect sense to me. There are three rivers, a giant lake, a bay, all within the area. If magic and water sort of follow one another/flow like one another, then Kuria and the surrounding area would be an ideal location for crystal formation and subsequent export, both via rivers and the greater ocean. They also have control of the mouths of three rivers and the best natural port in the continent really, so even if they don't actually mine the crystals in Kuria, they could have their finger on the pulse of crystal trade.

You're right about the satellite academies. Perhaps the grand council (or equivalent) of wizards meets in Kuria, and the largest academy is there. It's where I would put a large academy of magic, especially if you'd have first-pick of crystals via trade.

Edited March 8, 2019 by ZincAboutIt

[MacThorstenson he/him]

9 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

You're right about the satellite academies. Perhaps the grand council (or equivalent) of wizards meets in Kuria, and the largest academy is there. It's where I would put a large academy of magic, especially if you'd have first-pick of crystals via trade.

I just have a hard time believing that Kuria is the center of the world, like I think that it definitely could be a commercial center, but not the big center where a grand council of wizards would meet.

We can obviously change that, but there are other countries that have a ton of population and much more land. Like to put this in perspective, Kuria is about the size of denmark or switzerland.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

1 minute ago, MacThorstenson said:

I just have a hard time believing that Kuria is the center of the world, like I think that it definitely could be a commercial center, but not the big center where a grand council of wizards would meet.

We can obviously change that, but there are other countries that have a ton of population and much more land. Like to put this in perspective, Kuria is about the size of denmark or switzerland.

Ahh, well, I actually don't care where the center of the world is, I think it was Steel that suggested Kuria. What were you thinking? Kolynia looks far bigger and has way more people, but would also be quite close to the commercial center, and has access to the bay and an entire coastline... 

This is it for me tonight, my brain is shutting off. Till tomorrow! 

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Ahh, well, I actually don't care where the center of the world is, I think it was Steel that suggested Kuria. What were you thinking? Kolynia looks far bigger and has way more people, but would also be quite close to the commercial center, and has access to the bay and an entire coastline... 

This is it for me tonight, my brain is shutting off. Till tomorrow! 

I like Kuria as a center for our RP, but not not necessarily the center of the world.

And I am also heading to bed.

[+Ark1002]

So, I had an idea for a nice legend, I'm going to add it to the worldbuilding doc. Check it out, I don't know if you'll want it.

Basically, the concept is that the man became a "Monster", and the apple has had enough legend grow that it has become a force on it's own.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Arky-boi

[kenod]

13 minutes ago, Arky-boi said:

So, I had an idea for a nice legend, I'm going to add it to the worldbuilding doc. Check it out, I don't know if you'll want it.

Basically, the concept is that the man became a "Monster", and the apple has had enough legend grow that it has become a force on it's own.

Which worldbuilding doc?

[+Ark1002]

Just now, kenod said:

Which worldbuilding doc?

There's a link a page or two back, Zinc made it.

[kenod]

12 hours ago, ZincAboutIt said:

Oooh thanks I'll take a look now. 

Meanwhile, I created a Master Planning Google Doc that we can continually reference and edit as needed. It's open-edit so be honorable everyone  

 

1 minute ago, Arky-boi said:

There's a link a page or two back, Zinc made it.

Found it, thanks. I think it should probably be added to the OP @xinoehp512?

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

8 hours ago, MacThorstenson said:

I like Kuria as a center for our RP, but not not necessarily the center of the world.

And I am also heading to bed.

Oh that makes perfect sense now that I'm fully awake.

44 minutes ago, Arky-boi said:

So, I had an idea for a nice legend, I'm going to add it to the worldbuilding doc. Check it out, I don't know if you'll want it.

Basically, the concept is that the man became a "Monster", and the apple has had enough legend grow that it has become a force on it's own.

Thanks for adding! Legends are always fun, I've got a bunch of folklore creatures of my own that I'm planning on submitting  

[+Ark1002]

7 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

Thanks for adding! Legends are always fun, I've got a bunch of folklore creatures of my own that I'm planning on submitting  

Yeah. The idea is that it's actually real. It's a spin on Sleeping Beauty, mixed with Snow White. You can choose where the place actually is.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

1 minute ago, Arky-boi said:

Yeah. The idea is that it's actually real. 

Yup, that's the entire premise of Natural magic. Folklore can become real! 

[+Ark1002]

1 minute ago, ZincAboutIt said:

Yup, that's the entire premise of Natural magic. Folklore can become real! 

But the legend happened, kinda. Then the belief around it made the apple into an entity, the physically changed man into a full monster, and made it so that the castle is alive.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

3 minutes ago, Arky-boi said:

But the legend happened, kinda. Then the belief around it made the apple into an entity, the physically changed man into a full monster, and made it so that the castle is alive.

I'm on board with the legend having happened, and also the creation of the apple, not sure how the man is changed into a monster, though if enough people believed that the man was beastial, it could happen. The castle being alive... I am not sure on that one, but also I'm far from the final authority on this. That's a ton of group-belief circulating around a castle to effectively animate an entire building. How wide-spread is this legend? For the castle to be "alive" it would need to be very widely-believed.

Edited March 8, 2019 by ZincAboutIt

[+Ark1002]

7 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

I'm on board with the legend having happened, and also the creation of the apple, not sure how the man is changed into a monster, though if enough people believed that the man was beastial, it could happen. The castle being alive... I am not sure on that one, but also I'm far from the final authority on this. That's a ton of group-belief circulating around a castle to effectively animate an entire building. How wide-spread is this legend? For the castle to be "alive" it would need to be very widely-believed.

The castle part is changeable.

The man was changed physically with ritual magic, then he became bestial from belief.

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

That is an awesome legend!