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for a black cat that isn't there
Feb. 1st, 2025 12:39 amThere's nothing quite like doing research for a term even though your society is not really parallel with any real world.
There's a servant who's attending on the princess. The fairy tale world has some touches of realism in there, so I don't think the marriageable princess would have her old nurse as a servant still (whatever happened in Tattercoats), but I need a term for her.
And it's still got some of the fairy tale world-building.
I think she's going to be a lady of the chamber.
There's a servant who's attending on the princess. The fairy tale world has some touches of realism in there, so I don't think the marriageable princess would have her old nurse as a servant still (whatever happened in Tattercoats), but I need a term for her.
And it's still got some of the fairy tale world-building.
I think she's going to be a lady of the chamber.
knights errant
Aug. 9th, 2023 11:01 pmRumors are flying. One is that there is a knight errant, wandering about, doing good deeds.
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hero by stuff
Jun. 20th, 2023 11:32 pmWas pondering how few origins there were for superheroes in my high fantasy world. Then I remembered that I had actually had another: gadgeteer. Mind you, with magical gadgets. There are clockpunk ones, but clockpunk needs something magic to make the springs hold enough power.
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weak as a wizard
May. 16th, 2023 11:35 pmIt's an insult from a knight. At least to a knight. No knight would use it on a wizard, who would be too curious about things and too interested in being able to do many, many, many things to be too insulted by it -- perhaps a little annoyed that you can't do things by spells as powerful as by powerset.
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the game of names
May. 3rd, 2023 11:40 pmThere is a great gap in the story. It's part of the structure.
But I introduced seven characters before the gap, and didn't manage to work in their names. The gap occurred. And now the point of view character already knows all their names. Unsurprisingly, they were all in the castle together, and all the other servants left.
Sometimes it can be interesting to juggle.
But I introduced seven characters before the gap, and didn't manage to work in their names. The gap occurred. And now the point of view character already knows all their names. Unsurprisingly, they were all in the castle together, and all the other servants left.
Sometimes it can be interesting to juggle.
super sons and daughters
Apr. 12th, 2023 10:53 pmOne important -- and much neglected -- issue in world-building is the generation of the next generation. And in superhero stories, that has to mean whether powers are inheritable.
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of mountains and men
Jan. 22nd, 2023 05:45 pmIf the mountain setting is to be more nightmarish to the characters, it needs to be less welcoming.
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breaking the world
Jan. 22nd, 2023 01:38 pmThere are powers that can break the world. Not so much the world itself -- most supervillains regard the world as a good place to keep their stuff, and those who don't will get all the superheroes and the vast majority of the supervillains to team up against them.
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weak-willed wonder
Dec. 3rd, 2022 11:19 pmSo if you're strong-willed, and a wizard tries to turn you into a magical knight with a powerset that doesn't really match your character, you end up with magical powers that don't exactly match
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geopolitics of sequels
Oct. 16th, 2022 11:14 pmIn the first book, two characters will discuss how to deal with evil sorcerers who fled the land.
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knighting the knight
Sep. 4th, 2022 07:56 pmOnce it has become possible for someone to spontaneously just become a magical knight, without spell slinging, or a ceremony, or perhaps most vital of all, an oath of allegiance. . .
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the old order changeth
Aug. 23rd, 2022 09:00 pmgiving way to the new. . .
The way to give this story a happy ending is to change how knights are treated. Originally they were created for war. Once certain spells were mastered, they were effective for protection -- more against wandering evildoers than armies, but them, too.
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The way to give this story a happy ending is to change how knights are treated. Originally they were created for war. Once certain spells were mastered, they were effective for protection -- more against wandering evildoers than armies, but them, too.
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Oppressing the Supers
Jul. 13th, 2022 12:07 amThere's one definitely way you could oppress supers.
Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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how to change the world
Jul. 8th, 2022 06:36 pmThese articles have had a deep influence on my thoughts on worldbuilding superheroes. I may have linked them before, but why not twice?
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-superpowered-people-would-change.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/metahumans-as-ultimate-weapons.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-global-mass-rejection-of-metahumans.html?m=1 ;
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-superpowered-people-would-change.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/metahumans-as-ultimate-weapons.html?m=1
http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-global-mass-rejection-of-metahumans.html?m=1 ;
lands: where did he get them?
May. 30th, 2022 11:29 pmRipping off a story idea and hitting on an issue. It's a nominally feudal land. (Nominally because it's inconsistent.) And the knight has a castle and an estate, both distinctly grand. It's explicitly mentioned that he got them in the original story, but nothing more. Which is one of the flaws that inspired me to redo the idea.
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mix and match
May. 13th, 2022 11:20 pmWas reading a story allegedly set in feudal times. The lord has his knights. And his castle with an array of maidservants dressed in black with white aprons and caps. . . .
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