Worldbuilder's Anvil

Episode 120: The one thing you need to create a naturalist fantasy culture


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Today's Topic - Creations Myths are the key to understanding your fantasy cultures

Creation myths are a great place to start when developing a new Fantasy Culture.  *Stops listens for a drum roll. However, only seeing a group of crickets he quickly moves on* Yes, it is a bad joke.  However, there’s truth in them thar words.

Yes, truth. We often try and understand the cultures in our fantasy worlds. However, how often to we look at the myths of the cultures.  We often on think them up when they are needed.  However, If you are building a naturalist fantasy world.  It really is in your best interest to create a basic outline for the important myths.  This will tell you what the early culture found important, and once you know that building religion.

In today’s episode, we are looking at the themes for ten earth cultures and a quick bonus myth from the dragon culture on Gardul. Join us for some inspiration and practice at creating creation myths for your fantasy cultures.

Enjoy the episode and comment below to tell us what we missed. Podcast Show Flow
  • Categories for this wonderfulwiki page on a List of Creation Myths 
  • Out of Chaos
  • Earth Driver
  • Out of nothing
  • Emergent
  • World Parent

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Worldbuilder's AnvilBy Jeffery W. Ingram And Michael Miller

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