#world building wednesday
Worldbuilding Wednesday Open Ask - 9/23
Running with my theme this week, if your culture(s) had to suddenly vanish (maybe because of a disaster they couldn’t survive or even just having to quickly up and leave for some reason), what is the one thing they’d choose to leave behind for future people to remember them by? How would they want to be remembered?
Tagging@stsmgm
Worldbuilding Wednesday Open Ask - 9/23
Running with my theme this week, if your culture(s) had to suddenly vanish (maybe because of a disaster they couldn’t survive or even just having to quickly up and leave for some reason), what is the one thing they’d choose to leave behind for future people to remember them by? How would they want to be remembered?
Tagging@stsmgm
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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Let’s talk Fate! I wanna know about everything: deities of fate, gambler’s games, superstitions–anything and everything related to destiny and luck.
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It’s kind of weird in my writing. I have canon soulmates as a running theme, but fate isn’t involved. Soulmates are to balance magic and keep a person from using too much of their energy or losing control over it.
In Concordia, my main culture/country, you make the choice of who you want to be what’s essentially your soulmate. This usually just happens when someone’s magic is strong enough to need the empathetic link, so not everyone with magic ends up linked. Traditionally it’s a romantic triad of two people with magic and one sentinel, which is a bodyguard of sorts. Things have become far less dangerous the past few generations, so mostly the sentinel takes care of their artists’ art, guarding it from thieves and also selling it. It doesn’t always have to be three, it doesn’t always have to be a romantic relationship, and it doesn’t always have to be two artists, but there does always have to be at least one person who can do the protection side of the link. The link is granted through a series of tests to determine if the artist is ready to advance with their magic, while also testing the loyalty and devotion the usually-triad has to each other. It doesn’t have to happen via tests, but since things have become so safe, it kind of gives a mock dangerous situation for the link to spark.
(Fun fact: My five main dorks spark this link entirely by accident. They’re definitely exceptions to the rule, considering it is usually three, usually romantic, and doesn’t usually happen on an oops.)
My other cultures have balance with magic, too. Like my Salamanders, the lizard people who have some shapeshifting ability and can control fire, have a connection to a sibling. Usually Salmanders are born as twins in that both parents get pregnant at the same time, but occasionally someone else is chosen to be a sibling, particularly if the one passes away later in life, but there isn’t always another person to bond with. This is less than ideal.
And in Montglace, the country where magic is only inside the temples of light and shadow, it’s supposed to be that people from both temples work together so that there’s an overall balance between the two kinds of magic. What’s been happening lately is an imbalance, though, because there’s been something of a falling out between the temples. Magic is less than stable there as a result and control over their elementals can be somewhat iffy.
I kinda veered off topic, but soulmates are my favorite trope ever. I love twisting the trope around so it isn’t like, fated to be with someone romantically. :)
