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This is a great description! Yes there is some level of "role playing" in any game that revolves around a fictional story. Especially if the player controls a particular character. But a game is more like the hypothetical Platonic ideal of an RPG the more say you have in creating and customizing your character and the more the choices of the players (including the GM) define the story told in the game. So I see games where you're assigned a more or less set role in a set story as borderline cases.

Not sure if you'll reply but what did you use to create your map at 10:25 ?

Thank you for reminding me to stick to what I enjoy, and to drop what wastes my time and depletes my energy.

Holy crap, this video is so preachy.

One of the best world building explanation videos I've ever seen that's really got my ideas flowing and giving me new ways to consider I hadn't thought of

“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart” - Carlos Santana

Please apologise for the thatcher jumpscare

Ah yes 15 minutes of "everything is subjective". What a midwit take, you just like hearing yourself talk.

So I love the idea of a world either RPG or novel that heavily plays with mapping and liminal spaces, where you don't have a world map. Instead you have a lot of different maps and while there are things in those maps that overlap taking them all as a whole wouldn't let you make a cohesive "master map" For instance if there is only one map that has some city on it, but it's a strip map and if you plotted the path taken on a more conventional area map you would see that the path is a pentagram or a counterclockwise(wittershins) spiral, but that the destination isn't there.

The two best tools to use are Space Engine, and Azgaar's map generator. Find a planet in SE, export its surface texture as a map, import it as an overlay in Azgaar's, and draw your surface from the map. From there you can add the details.

Many fictional countries featured here. Westeros, Israel, etc. So interesting

@WorldsUnreal I thought this video was going to be on fantasy map-making with a secondary point on how to display politics... Instead, I am just hearing the male version of AOC.(PS I am not talking about your voice, but rather a very strong desire to advocate for borderless maps in fantasy just like AOC doesn't like borders for our "Real World".)

You are the best I'm so glad you made another video

To many nerds are more concerned with the details of imaginary worlds than their own.

China will take Taiwan. No one can prevent it.

taiwan is part of china, actually i will tell this to the ccp and they will send a secret spy that will watch you forever

In the distant past of the 2010s during the my dark days of collage, my DM did the most evil thing know to mankin , he gave his nephew cayons and told him to draw a series of maps as per his directions , then he gave it as a reward for the location of a old legendary treasure hoard and we were supposed to cross refence it with other maps from diferent kingdoms and races to decipher it , it took around 6 months of irl weekly games center around it to crack it , every single monster , hill , lake and symbol had a meaning behind it

7:49 I agree, it'd be so weird. Imagine if the biggest nation in the Arab peninsula and it's inhabitants were titled after the Saud family. That'd be bizarre.

I have never had an interested in being nomadic or traveling.

We talk so much about the lessons learned from WW2, but few people truly understand them. Far too often, we conflate countries with nations or accept rhetoric that implies other nations within our borders are of _lesser_ value. I blame liberals and their hyper-individualistic worldview, which leads to the opposition of fascist aesthetics but the tolerance of fascist rhetoric.

Good video

Where can I find your setting? If it's not online, will you explore your worldbuilding on your channel?

this is one of my favorite videos of all time on this platform. Incredible.

please talk about Indigenism in Scifi in a future video

1:20 Way to piss off both Mainlanders and people who live on the island.

My world's map has south at the top. I just felt like it. :) 7:52 That's not a dynasty. 🤨 What about Windsorians(House of Windsor).

3:42 If anyone needs me I'll be rowing around the Lake of Indifference.

This is such an amazing channel !!

Could have done without the communist woke garbage. Stopped listening at that point.

_Of course_ you conlang, obviously.

I like the idea of a mapmaker slowly discovering the world through his journeys. The first book starting with a blank map and a single city.

I think there's more to it than Martin implies. Many of these stories are set in times without the massive mobility that we enjoy in the world today. Mobility leads to cultures that have representation from across the globe. But generally speaking in the past the people who lived in an area were the children of people who had lived there, who were themselves children of people who had lived there, etc. People just didn't mix geographically in the past to the extent that they do today. So if you want to include a diversity of people in your story, you have to either just "toss them in there without explanation," or "come up with some elaborate explanation." Neither of those things necessarily enhances the story.

"So, speaking of maps - Is Australia even real? - and what about Finland? - if the world is flat, where does the border start, and what’s underneath it? - and are the Sea Monsters on Old Time maps real?"

Yes but, those darker themes on Mordor are pretty cool right.

"Worldbuilding is inherently political" Yeah, how about someone try to make a World where suddenly 30% of the world's calories and a sizeable portion of the world's manastones get cut off? I wonder how a Fantasy world would handle that (because that's what Ukraine is about).

A lot of the criticisms of the video's arguments are very similar, mainly coming from the view that symbolism only exists where the author intends it, and any other reading into fantasy/scifi world for representation/coding are "incorrect". I will respond by saying that unintended effects on audiences matter just as much as authorial intent. Is the audience reading into it wrong, or did the author construct their message poorly? As an author, its your job to provide as much clarity as possible, and you cannot simply blame the audience for reading something "incorrectly" whenever it doesn't have the effect you intended. As an example, The film Starship Troopers is a satire of militarism, but was interpreted by many viewers as being a sincere pro-war film. People will see real life problems/conflicts in fantasy stories, whether the author intended it or not, and if it weren't possible to see these kinds of themes within a story/world, then it probably isn't worth consuming.

I do not see the issue with the groups painted with wide brushstrokes Say your characters fight an army of a certain race, just as people in reality, from their perspective they are evil, and if you don't want that, simply make a different perspective or leave it at that, your characters wouldn't change their perspective unless shown first hand of something contrasting, but the audience would Both are fine ways to present a conflict

2 min in and this video is woke cringe

The whole point of fantasy or science fiction is to not be real life. You, as the reader/viewer, are putting your biases on what you are reading/viewing. You can read a book and completely misinterpret what the author is trying to convey due to your perception. Take an Orc, for example. You hear all the time they are representative of black people and their culture. Which i find strange because to me, they are representative of Neanderthals. As writers, we take inspiration from around us and make it our own. If we are worried about hurting people's feelings or offending someone. We'd never write anything but biographies. Just because you think Tolkiens Haradrim are based on the Indian culture doesn't make it so. Lots of cultures rode elephants. Theres multiple cultures within India itself. Just like not all horse archers are Mongolian. Native Americans were avid horse archers. Stop trying to put real life issues into fantasy or science fiction. They are not reality nor should they be. They are an escape from reality and all the political false victim hood.

This is nonsense. These issues you’re discussing would be problems in historical fiction. Maybe. They’re definitely not relevant to fantasy or sci-fi. If YOU find these things problematic, it’s YOUR mind that’s making the connection between fictional races/cultures and real ones. Orcs, for example, are orcs, which is to say they are not real. It is absurd to connect any creator’s orcs to a real world culture and then be upset at the “representation.” In that case, YOU are the one creating such “representation,” not the creator. Stop it. Problem solved. Also, you should understand that inspiration and representation are not the same thing. Y’all like to conflate different things as if they’re the same and then get upset about them being the same. But they were only ever the same in your own mind. Ridiculous.

Im happy you're back and making videos again! As a disabled person i wanted to say that I'm ok with a fictional world having ableism but if it's clear that the author and the characters think that it's bad.

Woah you’re back. Welcome back! I really liked you fantasy map video, but I thought you quit UA-cam for good

Great Video! Definitely gave form to some feelings ive had about popular media. Also what is that footage from 4:00-4:25 from? looks really interesting.

Great video. Please make more.

Amazing. Could you please provide the names of films you've referenced in the video.

I'm struggling with this exact issue in my new setting! Great video

This started interesting, but I felt like it didn't really go anywhere. I'd love to see a follow-up video where you discuss how best to introduce fantasy cultures in a story and give examples of when this has been done well. You've established what not to do, but criticism is always easier than creation; some clear-cut examples of how to do it well would be great to see.

"The delusional M John Harrison " is how I read the description, the video continued on the same vein. I feel no urge to be charitable towards an author's opinion, when the said author got his start copying Moorcock's characters. Worldbuilding is not just a conceit to flesh out a story, a world can be generators of stories on it's own. You give a place a name and a fertile meadow, someone will come to dwell there and they'll have a story. You spring up a lakeside forest beside alpine mountains and that snowy place will have it's own ethereal winter folktale. Worlds can exist without their stories being publicly told and distributed.

"settings being racist or offensive" >shows warhammer clip XD

0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Coding vs Unrelatability (problem 1) 4:57 - No Represantation vs Misrepresentation (problem 2) 8:22 - Kitchen Sink vs Monoculture (problem 3) 11:02 - Safety vs Allegory (problem 4) 12:59 - Conclusion