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• The Rivan Codex Question from João E. Nascimento on Facebook. If we follow David Eddings advice and not read fantasy, What books should we read?
• Types of books I read
  • Books that better help me understand out world
  • Dictionary of Symbols (Norton Paperback)
  • Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
  • The Language Construction Kit
  • Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
  • Gilgamesh: A New English Version
  • Marcus Aurelius: A Life
  • Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
  • Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years
  • Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
  • Art History
  • Architecture
  • Roleplaying Games
  • Aztec Art
  • The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two

• What is a magic system
  • Look to games and fiction for inspiration
  • Or to systems that have been used in our world
    • Tarot
    • Nordic Runes
    • Astrology and many many more
  • Systems
    • Extra Magical
    • Innate
    • Learned
    • Science as Magic
    • Illusion
  • A Bonus system from the producer

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After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form. It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two

• Mike Michael is proven to be a Waterworld lover.
• Society Redux
• Escape to Space
• Turning back on the technology
• A pooh story
• Two steps back
• Picking
• Scenario Battles
• Is it safe?
• Is the old world evil
• The deaths that come after a wave

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Michael and Jeffery talk about how worlds are reconstucted after they are destroyed in horrific ways in various forms of fiction. If you missed our first apocalyptic look at fantasy worldbuilding. Check out part one!

• a look back when Gardul blew up
• Fallout of my world into a look at society scenarios
  • How much is left of your old world
  • How many people are around
  • Is the old world evil?
  • How far are you from the evert? (Place and time)
  • How does the new economy work?

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Michael and Jeffery talk about various ways to blow up you fantasy world. We look at diffrent ways and examples of those types of fiction. The list is based on this a list from this Wikipedia article

• Ecological
• Impact/Disaster
• War
• Aliens
• Psychological
• Technology
• Supernatural
• Disease

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Michael and Jeffery finish off with the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. We discuss the invasion and the overreach of the orc tribes. From the orcish invasion we move to reconquest of the region by the Buardrakkeniem and discuss the rising threat of the Aeskrii to the east. We wrap up the pointing out how the events in the culture help shape the current form of the culture. They develop in history much the same way characters would develop in good story.

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Micheal and Jeffery start going over the history of the Buardrakkeniem culture. They start in the purple grasslands at the near the head waters of the Neski river. And the follow the migration into the Arm of the Continent .

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• Inspiration
  • old germanic tribes (Franks and Francisca)
  • Forced migration of tribal cultures
  • battle of teutoburg forest
  • How would magic influence ancient cultures
• What is the goal of the culture?
  • Create a old style germanic culture that is influenced by magic?
  • Focus on hearth and home

Episode 67: Baurhdrakkiem Calendars Episode 64: Baurhdrakkiem Carver Magic Episode 61: Kurriq Spirit Magic Episode 54: Welcome to Fantasy Kingdom of Baurhdrakkas

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• There could be internal faction problems in a state
  • This is more plot then worldbuilding
• Fight for the Millennial voters by Veronique de Rugy
• Median voter Theorem - Learn Liberty
• Helps create rules for how people and factions react
  • Need for support from people
  • Two-axis system
  • x-axis Harmony To Dominion over nature
  • y-axis Conformity to Divergence over people
• What is the actual
• What is the ideal
• Personal Struggle
• Faction Struggle
• Culture Struggle

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