Today's Topic - Books for Worldbuilder's to read

• The Rivan Codex Question from João E. Nascimento on Facebook.  If we follow David Eddings advice and not read fantasy, What books should we read?
• Types of books I read
  • Books that better help me understand out world
  • Dictionary of Symbols (Norton Paperback)
  • Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
  • The Language Construction Kit
  • Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
  • Gilgamesh: A New English Version
  • Marcus Aurelius: A Life
  • Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted
  • Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years
  • Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
  • Art History
  • Architecture
  • Roleplaying Games
  • Aztec Art
  • The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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Today's Topic - The Rebuild

After the world is blown up, and new groups start to form.   It is time to start rebuilding your fantasy world. Check out part one! and Part two

• What is a magic system
  • Look to games and fiction for inspiration
  • Or to systems that have been used in our world
    • Tarot
    • Nordic Runes
    • Astrology and many many more
  • Systems
    • Extra Magical
    • Innate
    • Learned
    • Science as Magic
    • Illusion
  • A Bonus system from the producer

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