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Hey, just want to say I am getting into Mongoose Traveller 2e and your videos have been great. I've watched mapping space, sci-fi world building and now creating technology. Ill make sure to recommend you to other Traveller community members. Cheers!

S Tier - Song of Ice and Fire. I really like the whole veil of mystery when it comes to magic. What is magic in this world? A blessing or a curse? Are gods like R'hllor or the Old Gods really responsible for it? We know that people make cruel sacrifices to the Lord of Light by burning people alive, so should he be called a God or a Demon? Is it R'hllor who revives the dead like Lord Berric Dondarrion, who fell dead in battle 6 times, only to finally give his life the 7th time and pass it on with a kiss to Catelyn Stark, who had been dead for 2 days and thrown into the river, turning her into Lady Stoneheart, burning with fury and a desire for revenge? The Old Gods and the creepy faces carved into the white trunks of weirwoods and the red leaves resembling hands. Bran, who is a warg and a green seer who can enter the bodies of animals, as are all the Stark children who are unaware of this (apart from Arya and Jon) Robb, Arya, Jon Snow, Rickon. Only Sansa is cut off from her powers, having lost her direwolf Lady. What's up with the talking raven of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch Jeor Mormont and later Jon Snow? Is someone entering his raven body and trying to manipulate reality, like in the election for the new Lord Commander after Mormont's death? The whole story of Bran gives me the shivers. What are we supposed to think of an 8-year-old boy who enters the bodies of ravens and other animals, and as his direwolf, Summer eats human flesh? What are we supposed to think when he enters the body of a retarded giant stable boy Hodor, who hides far to the end of his consciousness like a beaten dog and lets Bran, who has paralyzed legs, walk? And when Bran sees through the eyes of the weirwood the past from thousands of years ago and the sacrifice by slitting the throat of a prisoner with a bronze sickle and tastes the blood that seeps into the roots? And his mentor, Brynden Rivers, called Bloodraven, once Hand of the King and spymaster of the kingdom, then Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who disappeared during the expedition beyond the wall and now rests on a throne made of weirwood roots, dried out like a skeleton, over 120 years old, teaching Bran to be a green seer? I won't even mention the Others and their army of the dead and Euron "Crows Eye" Greyjoy or dragons and Valyria. The whole series brings more questions than answers, but I like this atmosphere of cosmic horror, the unknown lurking in the darkness. I hope GRRM will at least finish Winds of WInter. A Tier - WItcher. Magic is drawn from the elements, it allows to prolong life and gain a youthful appearance even at the age of 400, but if used unwisely it can kill the user. Magic is based on the power of four elements - water, fire, earth and air. The safest and easiest to draw power from are water veins. All four elements have different uses: the element of water allowed you to cause floods, bring rain to farmers' fields affected by drought and control the waves of the sea. The element of fire allowed you to cause fires, throw fireballs and create incredible heat. Earth allowed for faster plant growth, earthquakes, avalanches of boulders and in extreme cases - shifting the entire terrain. Air, in turn, allowed for levitation or stunning, as well as moving heavy objects over long distances. In the world of The Witcher, magic and technology work together, creating a society almost equal to ours in terms of technological level - genetic research is conducted, it is used in cosmetics and in many other areas of life. Thanks to magic, there is something like our weapon of mass destruction - cataclysms (earthquakes or meteorite showers) can take countless victims. Magic was used, among other things, in genetics. It was also used to treat some diseases. Magic was also an element of the Witcher's Trial of Grasses. Elven magic allowed for the production of several excellent women's cosmetics, which were of no small importance. Their price on the market reached dizzying prices. In addition, sorceresses used magic to improve their appearance (for example, Yennefer's hump and several other defects were removed with the help of magic). Each king has sorcerers in his court, who serve him and the kingdom as advisors. The truth is that sorcerers plot their intrigues, communicate with each other and de facto controls politics throughout the Continent. There's more, of course, but I don't want to exhaust the subject, because of spoilers. I recommend everyone to read books about the Witcher! Sorry for such a long post.

PLEASE give us some ancient Inca content! I'm grateful you gave some love to the Mesoamerican cultures. It is difficult to research, but that content is always my fav!

manga, but i think the magic system from witch hat atelier is one my favorites now.

Thanks for covering this one, empires are one of those things I learned abourt early since my dad's English. A lot of times enpires don't exclusively oppress or uplift, it's usually both. For every atrocity the British Empire committed it ended another, it sucked resources out of India but it brought infrastructure.

13:43 this is the USA rn

Another great video! I have grappled with questions of empire definition in my fantasy novel series The Ultideic Prophecies. For example, when an empire loses control of all but its core constituents, is its still an empire? When a kingdom formalizes the subsidiary relationship of vassal polities within its aristocratic structure (e.g. a conquered king becomes a duke of the conquering kingdom), but otherwise allows the vassal jurisdiction to maintain a degree of autonomy, is it actually an empire? If an empire endures long enough to create cultural and political homogeneity among the controlled territories, does it eventually cease to be an empire and become a single state? Line drawing (like in the real world) can be messy and interesting.

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Aren't you married to that famous Author Donald Mullany? Interesting vlog - thanks for sharing Marie!

My favorite thing about the Han Empire is it was the gayest Empire in China's history 😊 You can tell by the fashion too. 😊 It had the best fashion 😊

5:53 I think some of the early colifete, as basis for empire would be interesting: Rashidun, Umayyad, and/or Abbasid.

Matriarchy would be better.

What I feel like I'm witnessing now, is that the obsession with strength and authority causes competitiveness, and bullies to pick on those they see as vulnerable and weak, the "weak" strike back when and where they can, sometimes as crime, theft and bandits or weaponized incompetence. Justice is abandoned in favor of power. This whole situation causes mistrust in society as a whole until it breaks down. In other words: the obsession with strength leads to weakness. And they do this instead of creating unity and strength through compassion and cooperation. Calls for unity are done through force and moral judgmentalism rather than care for others in a real material way. It doesn't work, and life only gets worse for the general population who eventually revolt or there is civil war or external powers invade, which the people are relatively apathetic to instead of fighting back.

Respectfully, I would classify the US as an empire. The US has territories where the people are citizens that can vote for president, but they don’t have representation in the House or the Senate. I think the plan may have been to make them states, but the political will for that died out, and now they’re technically citizens without representation. The US won’t let them become their own nations, either, since they’re in very advantageous positions for military bases.

Do you have a plan for your thumbnails in the future? Ugly patched-up renders probably made by AI are really giving your channel an air of cheapness. I don't know any other channel who does thumbnails as accidentally deepfried as yours. Most dnd and worldbuilding creators just use their own face. Even small creators hire artists. It feels like the one thing about your channel which doesn't have a professional touch. You clearly have expertise in what you say and we get to feel that when listening to your videos. I don't think the thumbnails do you any such justice. I wish your channel really reflected the value I believe you have as a creator. Those thumbnails really keep catching my eye for the wrong reasons, I even avoid most of your videos until I seek them out on purpose. They are not appealing at all in my news feed between a face and an artist's work. It clashes. Feels cheap. Anyways.

Ay! Another person using Historical Materialism in their worldbuilding!

I think teleportation case could be very interesting for a fantasy Empire you might not even need roads in certain places

What do you think of the concept of during the decline of the empire someone comes into restore it the fantasy equivalent of Julius Caesar or Alexander right when it's about to end

Tomorrow is promised to no one, James 4:13-17. If you hear God's voice pls don't harden ur heart. Hebrews 3:7-19. Here's how to have endless tomorrows God LOVED YOU so MUCH that He sent His only begotten son to die in YOUR PLACE so you won't have to die under Gods judgement but live forever IF you fully trust in Jesus, now that he's risen, repent We all broke God's law, we sinned, but he didn't, Jesus paid our fine. Romans 3:23, Rev 21:8, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-10, Heb4:15 Romans 10:8-10. Trust in Jesus now, the only way to heaven lot's of religions say Jesus is a way, a good teacher, Jesus said he's the only way John 14.6 none of us are good Mark 19:16-26, but when we put our faith in Christ we pass from death to life Jhn 5:24 Jhn 11:25-26. We're clothed in his righteousness Isaiah 61:10-11 2 Corinthians 5:4 it's good to trust in him and not how we perceive things. Proverbs3:5-10, 2 Corinthians 5:7 Mark 8:34-38. We must be born again to go to heaven that happens upon belief, you'll be born of the Spirit into a new life as a child of God. Jhn 3:3-8 Jhn,1:12-13, Ephesians 1:13, 2 Corinthians 1:12

Magic contracts make a great plot device especially if you want to focus on external threats

Why would a fantasy empire need a transfer of power? An immortal leader might govern an empire for millenia

I shouldn't laugh but the hand is writing backwards

I like your video. BUT why do you have to be in the video? it is very distracting. Can you not be in your next videos? Thank YOu

The skeleton doing the HL2 dance killed me.

Exceptional vid

Sorry but Mistborn is not good, its slow and boring, its clunky, try-hard and overall its so hard to finish the trilogy. Its at least 1000 pages too long

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Ah what abundant wealth of knowledge! Even Thoth should take lessons. Thank you!

If Gods are real, their temple banks would probably benefit from them punishing defaulting debitors.

I think J K Rowling was born before the decimalisation of the £

The Absolute is a hermaphroditic female who impregnates herself to give birth to the Universe. We all live on top of her tummy.

One unique solution for the basic supply infrastructure for everything from mining metals, useful chemicals and medicines, sewers and waste treatment, food production, fuel, lumber and paper, and potentially even things like magic and alchemy, is Mushrooms! Did you know that the largest living organism on earth is a honey mushroom out in Oregon, USA. It's scientific name is Armillaria solidipes, and covers 10 square kilometers or 2,200 acres and is believed to be anywhere from 2,400 to 8,000 years old for that particular specimen. It's Mycelium has symbiotic connections to pretty much every tree and plant that grows in it's territory, trading water and minerals from deep underground for carbohydrates from the plants. The tallest known mushroom is called Prototaxites, and was 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Now imagine your forests having the occasional mushroom tree as part of the ecosystem, or maybe even entire forests of them. Are the stems woody, and can they be used like wood? Are they edible? When I first read The Way of Kings by Branden Sanderson, the thing I fell in love with was that their food, Lavis and Tallew was grown in Grain Polyps. That and the giant domesticated crabs as livestock. It made the world feel unique. Are there symbiotic species that grow on the giant mushrooms? Maybe an entire ecosystem of them? Do some of them produce grain? There is a theory about psychedelic mushrooms helping to contribute to human intelligence and mental development. You can take that a step further and have a "Magic" mushroom that awakens a persons mind to magic. Alchemy is an easy one. Why is that mushroom glowing? What does it do? I remember reading a joke about the first people to test for edibility. "This one tastes like beef, that one makes you see God, and this other one will kill you." How about adding "and this one gives you magic powers!" or "That one heals you rapidly", or whatever. Different types of mushrooms, or rather the Mycelium which is the real mushroom even if you don't usually see it, decompose things and absorb them. A wood mushroom such as oyster mushrooms have enzymes that break down cellulose. Turns out that those same enzymes can break down crude oil and plastic for the mushroom to absorb. I also remember reading a study about using mushrooms to "collect" heavy metals from the environment and concentrating them in the fruiting body. Mushrooms can be used to process human waste, decomposing it into mushroom food. Some decompose trees in a forest, while others decompose animals. There is even a type of fungus that lives inside of nuclear reactor rooms and eats radiation! Is there one that feeds on magic? How do your people mine your fantasy metal? In the book series The DemonWars Saga by R.A. Salvatore, Ferns are what collect the metal and concentrate it into a thread in the middle of the stems, Mythral if I remember correctly though it has been a few decades. The Mycologist Paul Stamets mentioned how Mycelium has signals similar to neurons in a brain. You could use this for everything from a living sentient world, to simple long range communications, to the internet, to memory constructs. Imagine an entity thousands of years old, that remembers everything. Is it a library? A teacher? A friend? An enemy? Does it have a personality? Several? Can a copy of people's minds live on inside it? So you created a fantasy world? When you describe the world itself, does it end up looking exactly like earth? Why?

Why are you sideways?

thank youo for the many tips

Tomorrow is promised to no one, James 4:13-17. If you hear God's voice pls don't harden ur heart. Hebrews 3:7-19. Here's how to have endless tomorrows God LOVED YOU so MUCH that He sent His only begotten son to die in YOUR PLACE so you won't have to die under Gods judgement but live forever IF you fully trust in Jesus, now that he's risen, repent We all broke God's law, we sinned, but he didn't, Jesus paid our fine. Romans 3:23, Rev 21:8, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-10, Heb4:15 Romans 10:8-10. Trust in Jesus now, the only way to heaven lot's of religions say Jesus is a way, a good teacher, Jesus said he's the only way John 14.6 none of us are good Mark 19:16-26, but when we put our faith in Christ we pass from death to life Jhn 5:24 Jhn 11:25-26. We're clothed in his righteousness Isaiah 61:10-11 2 Corinthians 5:4 it's good to trust in him and not how we perceive things. Proverbs3:5-10, 2 Corinthians 5:7 Mark 8:34-38. We must be born again to go to heaven that happens upon belief, you'll be born of the Spirit into a new life as a child of God. Jhn 3:3-8 Jhn,1:12-13, Ephesians 1:13, 2 Corinthians 1:12

I'm working on a world with a magic system that allows for sympathetic magic, but it's all presented through a vaguely alchemical aesthetic. For example, you could synthesize a special mercury-like liquid, which, if poured into two vials, will press against the sides of the vial, attracted to each other, instead of sitting at the bottom. This technique is used for navigation. Alternatively, you could get a powder which is configured to react to a specific creature (for example, if you give an alchemist a knife, they could configure this powder to react to everyone who has touched that knife. On either end.) and glows when it is sprinkled on their footprints. I have two stories in this world, and one of them has a major character who invented a way to make any ink written on one piece of paper appear on another page elsewhere. This technique would eventually go on to lead to the invention of mass-production of books, long-distance communication, and photographic film.

I think the not washing myth comes from the fact that they also knew that washing outdoors in the cold wasn't a great option either, and moving and heating enough water to bathe with was difficult so a peasant might not bathe regularly for 6-8 months out of the year, but might also just go hop in the local stream in summer. I also recall hearing that one of the two Roosevelt us presidents was asthmatic or had weak lungs or maybe anemia as a child and the doctors recommended he smoke cigars to build up his lungs. An interesting side note on the Arab world taking on the classical knowledge bases was that one of the biggest spurs for that was the suppression of that same knowledge by the early christian church. It was less that the Arabs took that knowledge and more that the alchemists and philosophers and the librarians were either fleeing east or at least sending their work east to preserve it. So the active suppression of knowledge can be seen to ironically be a mechanism of the transmission of that same knowledge. An alternative to sewer systems was the nightsoil men, basically people would have non flush toilets in their homes and the waste would go down a shoot into a little room that could be accessed via external doors and the nightsoil men were paid to come by and shovel it into carts to be taken out of the city, placed in a compost heap or a midden outside the walls. An interesting idea with fantasy races if you have significantly longer lifespans certain tech might advance much faster than others, for instance a society of elves who live for a millennia or more might progress to the heights of the end of the bronze age without writing having ever been invented. Another fun idea to look at is more on the techno side of technomagic, so you can just make fire out of nothing ZPM style infinite energy because your a pyromancer... why would you ever stop using steam power, steam powered numatic tools steam engines steam cleaning steam powered guns. Alternatively you have lightning mages what tech could you build in a bronze/iron age transitional period if you just had electricity.

What do you think of an enchanted Polaroid camera that gives you power over whoever you took a picture of

When you mentioned the printing press images of having a problem with it that made me think what if they took the knowledge from The inventor mind and they used it for their own purposes for their own propaganda maybe they used it to mass-produced spells or curses of some kind I like the idea of fusing technology and Magic versus England against each other

When it comes to handing down knowledge I think there's four interesting ways of doing that knowledge crystals directly implanting memories through Magic Touch Your Spell ciphers that you can read once you're deemed Worthy genetic memory

What a wonderful ditch, absolutely stunning.

Very nice voice!! Well modulated!!

But teleporting wizards would demand pay, while owls work for free😂

Money makes the worlds go round

14:05 technically (and admitedly a absolutely pointless nitpick) North Korea is a necrocracy, since Kim Il Sung is the "Eternal Leader" possibly limiting his grandsons (or, as some claim, sons) power by the power of tradition.

wish I could send you my series to see what you think of my political fantasy structure. I introduced the change of political system early in book two of my series

This is awesome! Thanks for always putting out great info