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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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So what were those two characters doing during those years?

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

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A superhero wants to practice.

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

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

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sigh. I'm going to have to reel this story in. I moved too fast.
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Four scholars are studying wizardry.

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The heroine studies a certain branch of magic.
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And here I thought it was just an episode. . . .

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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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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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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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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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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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Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

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Entries tagged with world-building: schools

common magic

inheritance and other adventures

unwillingly to school

law and the controlling of power

how philosophical?

some powers. . .

wonder, wonder, wonder

is he an uncle?

class size

roses and hedgerows

training superheroes

time in its flight

It's a job

manifold magic

heavy-hitting spell

schools of magic

magical places

the child super

magic vs. engineering

seasons and story