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The best fantasy story is the one based on reality. The relatable story of people. Thats why people love isekai anime.

As an Anthropologist with a deep interest in geology, this series is an absolute gem. Thank you for creating the content that you do!

I noticed you posting videos about a conlang/naming language. I am very interested in this topic atm, but I'm confused about the python scripting. Could you do an overview of your language without involving any computer programming?

Oh nice mic upgrade. Also loving the series. I think it's so interesting how much of human history was shaped by geography (so fantasy history would be too)

A few years ago i started creating a series of rules to simulate plate tectonics on a Dymaxion projection using DnD dice to randomize it. I'm excited to follow along your process and see if i can adapt your rules into mine.

No witch hat = unwatchable. ;D

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Great Interview. On the topic of Dragon Romance.... I have a interspecies Bromance of sorts in my world. Really just a dragon book nerd and a travelling treahni (human) story collector, whom meet regularly to share stories.

30:37 by 450 CE, much more of the Gangetic Plain, A cluster around the southern coast of India, and larger parts of South China should be states

16:13 I hate to be the bearer of bad news, although I would argue that this is good news: Getting into traditional publishing will definitely *not* prove that you're a decent writer, to you or anyone else. You have to keep working on your craft until you've convinced yourself that you're good or, at least, that you've done your job and taken the work seriously, which is all anybody can ask for. The "Am I Talented?" question is almost like the existence of God or an afterlife-you'll never truly know, and you can't do anything about it, so the best way forward is to live as best you can in acceptance of not knowing the answer. There are fantastic writers who never get published at all, and there are shitty ones who win awards and sell millions of copies, and even in the weird case where a really good author sells millions of copies, he or she is still going to be asking if it was all a fluke. Good writers tend to be people who question everything; this includes, at least on occasion, one's own talent. Traditional publishing can kill your confidence, say, if your first book doesn't sell and your agent drops you. And this is not a great time for epic fantasy in trade-a lot of authors are being smacked with word count limitations, because the industry has decided that epic fantasy is unfashionable (although there are plenty of readers who still want it.) On the same token, self-publishing is difficult and not everyone has the time and money to figure out how to do it well-and the rules are always changing, and the amount of power certain tech companies have is way too high. Ultimately, trad vs. self is a business decision and nothing more. Looking at both options, and see what's best with the resources and opportunities you have, and don't take it too personally either way. Whichever path you choose, I wish you the best!

Elfquest changed my perception of Fantasy. I found it by accident at a comic fair as a new teenager and loved it! Great discussion over publication and genre. Thank you for providing this interview.

Darn I missed the live stream- at least I have the VOD!

Its interesting that you want both relative isolation and technological parity. Isolated societies tend to fall behind technologically.

"None of these are the full story" - Of course, they're 10-12K long there has got be be more. It's cool to support small and independent press like this.

ive been using this guide to create my own fantasy world and its been really helpful but i dont have any large landmasses under 35 degrees south and its made it a bit weird when mapping the ocean currents. Im planning on adding some underwater societies but should i add some decently sized islands so it doesnt look empty?

Every time you mention the name of the garment 1000 Italians cry out as their soul leaves their body

🤯 Glad I don't write fantasy anymore because almost none of this has ever crossed my mind. 😄 But if I do, I know where to come for more info.

I prefer magic systems that do not impact food production, energy and labor productivity, transportation and trade, or state defense. Otherwise, magic will supersede geography, which means you’ll have to redo the entire world building.

Even though the geographic determinism arguments are completely false, that doesn't mean your societies on your world won't use them to justify their own expansions. So they're still good to keep in mind.

Something I'd say is probably relatively minor but I often think about is how magic affects people's average lifespan. If there's some sort of healing magic that is accessible enough, I would guess average lifespan would go up, kinda like what medicine does right now but possibly even better. States and nations would probably be led by older people on average, the appropriate age to get married would probably also go up, infant mortality wouldn't be so high as it historically was, and probably many other things would change as well, like for instance maybe it's normal for monarchs to start their reign being 60 or 70 years old, and there would probably some sort of system that allows for their successors to wield power well before they become head of state since maybe they wouldn't want to wait so long to be relevant? Anyway, great video!

Something else I've pondered with regards to magic in a fantasy world is its impact on the technological _development._ Magic can either impede, accelerate or have no effect on the progression of technologies. It would depend on things like the kind of magic, the prevalence of said magic and the particular technologies involved. Places where magic is intricately woven into the mundane world could see their technological progress stifled because magic would fulfill this role too much for the people to have any need to develop the equivalent technology. On the other hand, magic could get around certain technological hurdles if used in a symbiotic manner, accelerating the development, just down a very different route. Place where there is very little access to magic would probably progress at a "normal" pace, whatever that is. I've contemplated a wild west era style world where magic exists, and I'm still trying to hammer out how magic affects it, as it is a massive web of technology that would be affected by the existence of magic.

Great video as always!!!

It will be interesting to see your point about how society's views of religion change with the advent technology and magic.

I'm intrigued by your technical setup. Do you have a template you'd be willing to share that shows the Java framework you use?

Dang just missed this

idk what the algorithm thinks i do for a living, but i have no idea wtf a phonotactic is 😂

i think the structure is coming along great, the sound combinations just need a little iteration. looking forward to next stream ❤

This channel was a huge discovery for a history major building a post-cataclysmic fantasy world (roughly steampunk -> medieval). Thank you for all the great content, this is a true trove of treasure! Now where did I put my coffee and notebook...

45:40 Where do condiments come in? Condiments? like, ketchup?

So if I wanted to read some of your S&S, where would I find it?

would it be possible to obtain a better microphone 🙏🙏

I would read them as exo-ray-ic and endo-ray-ic personally

26:49 just a note that "q" in Chinese romanization is pronounced as a sound close to English "ch" so it should be something close to "ching dynasty". If you know the IPA the sound is /tɕʰ/. Great video though I can't believe I haven't seen your videos before, will definitely be watching more of them 🙏🏽

Your commitment to worldbuilding continues to astonish me. I couldn't imagine trying to write fantasy now without being intimidated by some of these considerations. 😅 Which makes me happy I'm writing contemporary right now.

Hello, i have a question, what might a hotspot do for stationary (all sides divergent) plate? Could such plate go underwater

This is excellent. This probably popped up on my feed due to my interest in actual states and history, but fills in a lot of information i was not aware of. Great job!

This was so great!!! I needed this! I found this sooooooo helpful in mind mapping my story, and how you did it was fabulous!!!! can you show this for character arcs and character building, this is where I need it the most.

Rewatched the previous parts to prepare for this one, I'M SO EXCITED!! When it first came out, I shared it with artist/writer friends like "!!!!!" like we do Artifexian videos too.

3:50 I don't understand this widespread dislike of geographic determinism, since the only other possible explanation of the different outcomes of history would be racism; if you don't buy that, for example, the aboriginal australians didn't form great empires because of their geography, then what other reason could there be? note: accepting it can be used to justify racism but rejecting it inevitably leads to racism.

Been really enjoying binging your playlists!

How could land degradation caused by agricultural be determined? Specifically, the gradual desertification over centuries, unnoticed by the farmers, until their society suffers agricultural collapse (thinking of the Mayans). Could this potentially be the outcome of most antiquity states? Explore adventurers from the lucky faraway state would then discover vast ruins of lost civilizations all over the world :)

Although I think you’re right that emergencies and danger helped encourage people to accept authoritarian states (a tactic that still works today, unfortunately), I think another part of it may have been the astronomical expertise of the priest classes in states like Egypt or the Mesopotamian or Indus city-states. We unfortunately tend to think of ancient priests as mere spinners of superstition, and of course they did believe tons of stuff that we now know isn’t true, but that nonsense was mixed in with a lot of genuine observational knowledge of astronomy and its correlations with seasonal rains, frosts, and droughts. If your priests can tell the whole community that the position of the Sun is a sign from the goddess Inanna that she’s ready to bless the sowing of the millet crop (which happens also to be the exact date of the spring equinox and the start of the rainy season), it may make sense to the millet farmers to raise a little surplus to feed those priests, so they can get the planting time right again next year.

Very enlightening video! I had no idea transhumance worked that way; I had always assumed that the whole community packed up and moved back and forth with their animals. Do young men “graduate” at some point from moving with the herds to settling down and becoming marriage-eligible? I suspect another huge effect of domesticating livestock animals is ending, or at least reducing, human sacrifice. Human sacrifice is basically the idea that gods like to eat flesh and blood just like predators and scavengers do, so if you offer them some flesh they’ll do you a favor or at least leave you alone. It’s revolutionary to have a cow or a sheep to offer them instead of your firstborn son, a female virgin, or a war prisoner (what do all three have in common? None of them can fight back). The version of the Iphigenia story where Artemis saves the girl by offering a goat or deer in her place, the Mithras cult’s bull sacrifice, and of course the Judeo-Christian-Islamic story of the sparing of Isaac (or Ismail, in the Muslim version) all suggest the impact of livestock domestication in ending human sacrifice.

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For what it's worth I would LOVE to hear you talk about magic and society. Either at a general level, or specifically about your own system.

This guide impressively ambitious. I’ve been building cultures for several years now for my RPG world, and developed a much more detailed culture template than most UA-cam worldbuilders seem to have, but I never considered this evolutionary approach that tracks back to the original arrival of humans or other sapients. And only recently did I add a whole section on domestic animals instead of just integrating them into the economy, property, and military categories. This way is much more work than I would be able to put in for my world, but I applaud you for your dedication. I’d encourage you and your audience to consider the why as well as the how of early human migration. Just as in modern immigration studies, there are “push” factors that make people want to leave their old territory, and “pull” factors that influence their choice of where to go. Population pressure is probably the commonest "push” factor, but climate change, natural disaster, disease, and pests might also have played parts. In the real world, there doesn’t seem ever to have been a big predator species so nasty that we just decided to abandon its habitat completely, but in a fantasy world with dragons, giants, trolls, or other imaginary terrors, we might well have done just that. “Pull” factors would be more abundant forage or prey species, milder winters or more rain, availability of medicinal herbs or hot springs, or even just natural beauty.

Watching Artifexian lead me to you. This was a great video.

Not sure what happened but I copied the description back in, so the chapters are back!

This is interesting but as a new viewer chapters would be super helpful. Not sure I have the willpower to sit through a 1 hour video on a new channel.

Great video! I didn't know about the difference between states and feudal polities.