Entries tagged with world-building: schools

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common magic

So we have a magocracy where the upper classes have the powerful mages. Usually. They work hard at co-opting lower class mages of power, and those born to high rank without great power often marry them to give them the status.
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inheritance and other adventures

So what were those two characters doing during those years?

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unwillingly to school

Was pondering whether my heroine had gone to Queen Hesione's school when she was a child -- already set up in the last novella --

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law and the controlling of power

One thing that will be marginally connected with metaorigin but will affect the law is how easily your average super powered human can control his powers, and how much training it takes.

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how philosophical?

A character tells a fairy tale. It involves changing shapes. Which the listeners have all studied in school. . . .

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some powers. . .

A superhero wants to practice.

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wonder, wonder, wonder

Trying to put some moments of enchantment and wonder in the story. . .

It would kinda help if the characters were not all wizards. ( Read more... )

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is he an uncle?

That's the thing about endowing the main character with four much older siblings -- twelve years younger than the next youngest -- and giving one of the slightly younger characters an uncle who's barely older than he is.

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class size

Sometimes the world-building is driven by ad hoc kludges to fit what you want -- like the heroine finding herself plopped into a class where she's the fourth student. Adding a fifth later doesn't help much with the numbers. . . . and also, they're all girls.

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roses and hedgerows

So our hero asks one of the students with him about the magical significance of a hedge.

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training superheroes

In a world where you could train up to have superpowers -- hero or villain or neither -- where would you train?

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time in its flight

sigh. I'm going to have to reel this story in. I moved too fast.
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It's a job

Four scholars are studying wizardry.

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manifold magic

The heroine studies a certain branch of magic.
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heavy-hitting spell

And here I thought it was just an episode. . . .

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schools of magic

Amazing the things that pop up when you go from outline to first draft. . . like the vast importance of magical specialization.

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magical places

Some characters are about to spend some time in some magical places -- some magical buildings, some magical natural features with buildings in them.

Not because they are on some kind of vacation, or to study (though they are students), but because the magic can be used to protect them.

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the child super

Was contemplating it after Team-ups and Crossovers, where one super world has child superheroes, and one doesn't (though, some states let you do some limited stuff at sixteen).

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magic vs. engineering

One noteworthy difference between Hogwarts and, say, Roke Island in Earthsea. In Hogwarts, everyone studies magic. On Roke Island, the school is for specialists, and not even all sorcerers went.
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seasons and story

Was all done with the outline and all set to start writing. . . with the beginning of school. The beginning of fall, I thought.

Except that as soon as I looked ahead, to the settings where they would stay, that was impossible. Too many green and growing things, too little snow (like, none).
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