Worldbuilder's Anvil

• Great example of a universe building or Worldbuilding
• Involved the miniseries Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Wars, and Infinity Crusade
• Involved crossed overs with most every marvel title
• Twisted love story, I think
• Patient
• The ripples of this story-line is so powerful still controlling the box office today

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• Inspirations
  • The little know about Druids
  • Baurhdrakkiem religion and alphabet
• Kurriq
  • Earliest Cultural Religion
  • A Spirit-based Magic Ritual, Location, Time
  • No symbols outside of the runes in the alphabet
  • Sacrifice from the life forces plant, animal, sentient,
  • Potion, amulets, elixirs, and balm bases
  • Spirits can be used to create non-direct effect
  • gods can be called upon to cause direct effects
• Common Traits
  • Spirit Connection
  • Spirit Speech
  • Spirit Sight
  • Channeling
  • Medium

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• Storytelling from a framework-based world
• Outline your plot,
• • List of characters you need
  • remember to look to other genre's to strength your overall story
• Picking your location
• Picking your time and place
• Check your created characters to see if any characters should or could be used
• Sketch out the physical dimension of import locations that are new
• Review the locations of other area's
• Write out your first draft! Just write it out.

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From World building in his youth with his twin brother, Philip's course has been set. Now a husband, father, grandfather, podcaster, and author; Phillip dedicates himself to building better fantasy and science fiction worlds. He as dedicated himself to transition to this full time. Let's give worldbuilders Welcome to Philip E. Carroll. Go Army!

1. Introduction
2. Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
3. Tell us about your latest work.
4. How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
5. When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
6. Biggest achievement to date?
7. What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
8. Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

1. What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
2. Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
3. What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
4. What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
5. What tool(s) could you not work without?
6. What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
7. If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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From World building in his youth with his twin brother, Philip's course has been set.  Now a husband, father, grandfather, podcaster, and author; Phillip dedicates himself to building better fantasy and science fiction worlds.  He as dedicated himself to transition to this full time. Let's give worldbuilders Welcome to Philip E. Carroll.   Go Army!

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• Special thanks to One Wiki to Rule them all
• Basics
  • The 800 pound Gorilla for fantasy worlds
• Races
  • Humans
  • Dwarves
  • Elves
  • Ents
  • Orcs
  • Goblins
  • Hobbits
  • Gaints
  • Trolls
  • Spiders
  • Wraiths
  • Wolves
• Places
  • Misty Mountains
  • The Great Sea
  • Mirkwood
  • The old forest
  • Gap of Rohan
  • Moria
  • Mordor
  • Brandywine River
• States
  • Mordor
  • Gondor
  • Rohan
  • Rivendale
• Languages
  • Adûnaic
  • Black Speech
  • Khuzdûl
  • Rohirric
  • Westron
  • Valarin
• Why it works
  • Devilish details
  • Map with the books
  • Rich history
  • Deep lore
  • Division of good verses evil

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• What is a microclimate
  • Created
    • Magical, supernatural, or technological
    • Structures
    • Dams
  • Natural
    • Maritime
    • Highlands
    • Craters
    • Caves
    • Magma
• Why should you consider microclimates
  • Makes the world feel more natural

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• Questions are the foundation of Worldbuilding
• Found on stack exchange from Molua Young
• Criteria
  • magic is an inherited ability to manipulate energy and matter
• Answer
  • Look to the universe for inspiration
  • The butterfly effect
    • Egg to Caterpillar
    • Caterpillar to goo
    • goo to butterfly
  • Really everything starts in a different form from birth through life
• Additional questions
  • Does the mass of the being change
  • What happens to the conciseness of the altered being
  • What limits the ability to shapeshift
  • Can magic speed up or slow down the process
  • Can living beings change into a rock...

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While Adjusting during the day Monica is a storyteller, artist, weaver, animator, lover of science fiction, movie writing and most especially loves storytelling and curling a bit in upstate New York.

1. Introduction
2. Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
3. Tell us about your latest work.
4. How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
5. When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
6. Biggest achievement to date?
7. What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
8. Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

1. What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
2. Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
3. What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
4. What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
5. What tool(s) could you not work without?
6. What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
7. If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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• Apologies
• Inspiration
  • Battle of Teutonburg Forest
    • Ancient Germanic Tribes
    • Unification of Germany in 1871
  • Francisca
  • Principalities of Glantri in Mystara
  • Orders of knight from Dragonlance
  • A Kingdom with out the King
• Predicate Kingdom

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