Worldbuilder's Anvil

Today's Topic First look into types of subcultures in fantasy worldbuilding

If you have followed the show you would not that Jeffery is a huge geek about studying cultures. We have talked about cultures and how they evolve in many ways.

We have even spent time talking about how cultures can form into states in your world. We really just love looking at naturalist ways to fake a world.

Sometimes culture is just too superficial

As you drill into a fantasy world, you might find that a fictional setting my not seem richly developed. It probably because as cultures even very small cultures usually start coming up with their own inner divisions.

In the world, we live in we often think of subcultures in our own culture. If you are my age you could never forget the jocks versus geek divide in high school. However, we usually do not consider those to be subcultures of the subculture of high school students.

There is a very good reason

If you get my example above, it might seem apparent why so many only add in the classic fantasy subcultures:

• Thieves guild
• Fighters guild
• Mage Guild
• Temples of various religions
• Evil cult

Now, I have nothing against fiction that relies on these tropes. However, the goal of the Worldbuilder's Anvil is to build more natural looking BS.

So, what the heck it a subculture?

A subculture as I define it is a part of a larger culture where enough people share a different set of cultural norms derived from the greater culture. A subculture is larger than a group of people, so large that no individual can completely control the direction it moves and people. People outside of the group who know of would know of it should have heuristic beliefs about the group.

Or more simply, subcultures grow out a culture's population as it food surplus allows for the sophistication grows.

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as a look into the basic patterns of subcultures.

Podcast Show Flow

2 Main types of +subcultures

• Normative
  • Job
  • Location
  • Religion
  • Commonalities
• Counter Cultures
  • Legal (Grow out in times of unrest)
    • Persecuted or Against the state
  • Illegal
  • Criminal or Persecuted

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And increase of 50 minutes of sleep with increase your productivity ~ 20%

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Today's Topic Starting your writing journey

Writing is the second most important skill a worldbuilder can know. Curiosity is still the most important skill. Writing is invaluable to a worldbuilder, because you hone your delivery skills and immerse yourself in the world you are creating.

It does not matter what medium you share your work. The benefit comes from the exercise you mind receives when writing down the details of the world. You need not ever share your writing to become a writer. However, if you ever want to share the art of your worldbuilding you need to become a writer.

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The only two things that a writer need to do?

You only need to do two things to become a writer. Reading and Writing. You need to spend time reading great works. Not as a fan, but you are looking to find how the writer accomplishes. You are just looking for the brushstrokes used by authors to deliver their stories.

I think Jeff Goins summed it up really well in his article, "Why Writers Need to Read if They Want to Be Good".

1. Don't read to accomplish anything.
2. Study language.
3. Read what others are reading.

Remember, your reading as a writer is not about genre. Personally, I avoid reading new fantasy novels at this point when I am writing. I am looking for writers of other genres to inspire me with different ways to deliver words on the page.

The next step

If you need to improve your reading comprehension or writing skills, even after you start practicing those skills. Do not give up. Look for others to help you.

1. Writing circles
2. Beta read for others
3. Look for online courses from authors you respect
4. Look for more academic help through classes from colleges or through places like Great Courses Plus.

Author vs writer?

Now, I do not believe writers have to be published authors. However, if want to share your content online in any form. You need to add more writing to your routine.

You might want to write novels, short stories, or RPG adventures; or you might want to simply make videos, share art, or do a podcast. All of these types of creatives should write.

However, if you are in the first group. Those people who will deliver their art through the written word. You need to start reading and writing every day. For the rest of you, try do spend some time every week. The only risk to you is exercising your mind.

Now join Michael and Jeffery in this week's episode action packed episode of the Worldbuilder's Anvil.

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• READ YOUR ASS OFF
  • I started with comic books
  • Fantasy got me into reading novels
• writing book/story reports and reviews to confirm comprehension (remember all those reading comprehension exercises in school?
• Take writing/literature classes
• They Only two types of narrative stories ever told
• Have an opinion
• Have something to say

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Today's Topic Before you start building your fantasy world. Build a framework that helps you get to telling stories

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as the look to help show how to create a framework for worldbuilding.

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• The two reasons I call it my style a framework world
  • Scaffolding
  • Framing the shot
• What is the point?
  • Speed to production
  • Consistence
  • Allows for further growth
• The 5 Contacts to a world
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame
    • Determine reusability
    • Describe the Mission
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Create a Basics (Places, Rules, Faces, Races Culture, And Technology)
    • Just what you know do not force it
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Looking through the frame at the world
    • Map it (Size matters)
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

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Today's Topic Framework Fantasy World

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• The importance of world building
• The challenge is to make it seem real from a perspective
• The Risk is focusing so much on creating the world that you forget when people interact with it from the angle you show them.
  • Scope of the earth
    • 15 Techtronic plates
    • At Least 163 ethnic groups
    • Over 510 Million km^2 of surface area
    • Over 4.5 billion years old give or take
    • Over 107 billion people have been born
  • Then there is the rest of the universe
    • 91 Billion Light years' side to side (Diameter really)
  • Alternate reality's, other planes of existence, etc etc
• Could you come up with the time to create all that?
  • Movies – Sets vs reality Studio fight scene in Blazing Saddles
  • Stage Magicians – Catching a bullet
• Worldbuilding is the art of Bullshitting
  • Faking the set
  • Creating an illusion

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Think about your world, are you stuck? Create borrow cheat and steal a framework. Something to give you a checklist so you consistently create the BS you need to share

The Real-world Task for the Day

Look for ways to increase your energy, Start with breathing. And I mean deep breathing.

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Today's Topic Fantasy worldbuilding inspiration in the every day

Join Michael and Jeffery as they start looking into their life to for inspiration, at least for an episode.

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• The Tree stump
• The Snow piles
• Pets and kids in action
• People watch
• Walkabouts
  • Pick a place
  • Start in the center
  • Where and how do the inhabitants move and eat
  • Where do they work?
  • Where are the importing structures
  • How much do they stand out?

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Today's Topic How to get a game rolling for a one shot

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• Mission or Monty Hall style game
• Well planned Story outline
  • Use your pre-built resources towns, NPCs and the such
• Pre-built characters (optional quicks for players)
• Pre-written notes and maps
• Post-it notes to plan
• Keep the person in charge controlled by the GM
• Kill Michael's characters before important scenes
• Or Just fucking wing it and pray

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Today's Topic The Tools I use to keep my campaign organized.

Podcast Show Flow

• Maps and Art needed ProFantasy Art
• NPC List in excel or google docs
• Scrivener Worldbuilding File
  • Names lists
• Scrivener Campaign file
  • Story Outline
  • NPC List linked
  • Generic NPC Jobs list
  • Excel Name Generators
• Notebooks of doom
  • Rocket book wave smart notebook

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Today's Topic The effects of climate on Fantasy Worldbuilding

Join Michael and Jeff as the climate in fantasy world-building.

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• Global warming lead to abundance in areas, usually around rivers
• Abundance leads to people moving less
• Moving less and abundance leads to over population
• And overpopulation leads to farming or migrating
• The warmth gave then it took at least some of it away
  • Nubia is now a desert
  • Fertile Crescent is much less fertile
  • Mediterranean lost its touch
  • Indus had a bad day

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Today's Topic Death helps create a culture and that in turn becomes religion

Join Michael and Jeff as the look at a simple system to develop death rituals for your fantasy worldbuilding cultures.

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• How did they die?
  • Considered natural
  • Suicide
  • Martyrdom
  • Warriors death
• What is the major cultural risk to having someone dead around?
  • Attracting dangerous animals?
  • Diseases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies
    • Miasma Theory – Diseases spread from the smell of the dead
  • The night of the living dead
  • Punishment from a god
• Mourning
  • Your loss
  • Their loss
  • What happens to them now
    • Afterlife or not?
  • Take out your dead
    • Burn her
      • Cremation
    • Bury Her
      • Grave (Together or apart)
      • Known or hidden
      • Tomb
      • Cave
      • Side of the hill
      • Freezer
    • Dump her
      • Dumped out in nature
        • Sky burial
      • 150 Rocks fired into space
      • I am not dead yet! (Cryonics)
    • Eater
  • Other factors that might change the ritual
    • Important, good or bad
    • Died in war
    • Martyrdom
      • Self or determined
    • Suicide
      • Alone or aided

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Today's Topic The movie that helped shape a fantasy lover and worldbuilder

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• Excalibur movie 1981
• I want to be a freaking mage, even with the drawbacks
  • Raistlin Majere only showed me how a good mage
• Based on the 15th-century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
• Fantasy has been around for much longer than we know
  • Llancarfan Life Fake or alternative history History ~ 1100 AD
  • Roots at least to a 6th-century monk called Gildas
• Courtly love is a bad day
  • Flirting and fighting for forbidden fruit good, anything else bad
  • What happens when you go too far
• Reality vs Desire
  • Uther was reality, Arthur was hope
  • Wars and Quest suck, but the idea of them are romantic
• People look to explain they're past

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