It has been years since I visited the world of Krynn. However, the visit has flooded me with wonderful memories. Epic battles, great characters, and stories that still stick in my mind today.  I will always love this world. I had tinkered with worldbuilding before I started reading and playing Dungeons and Dragons in this world.

However, the world sparked the desire to start worldbuilding. My memory was a bit weak on the world.  I would like to thank Dragonlance Nexus and Wikipedia for helping me remember more.

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• Dystopian fantasy world
• Margaret Weiss and Tracy Chapman

o   Price of constant war

o   Survival makes Steel more valuable than gold

• Huge

o   5 Continents

• Ansalon
• Taladas

o   5 Oceans

• A Giant Ice wall
• Dragons at the forefront
• My favorite character of all time and other faces

o   Raistlin Majere

o   Tasslehoff Burrfoot

• Races of note

o   Irda (Twisted into ogre)

o   Kender Skinny Halflings no sense of fear

o   Minotaurs (in Roman armor)

o   Draconians

o   Dwarfs, elves, goblins and the such

• About the time I started headlong into worldbuilding
• War of the Lance and The Time of the Twins

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Look for the inspiration to your worlds and be grateful

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Today’s Topic How I failed at understanding taboos until I started researching this episode

I always overthought what a taboo was. I focused on the idea that taboos are these forbidden ideas, but how do you create them. How do these ideas form in a culture? Some, like murder, seem to be universal. However, others will be very culturally specific.  Some taboos seem to be old cultural norms.

Wait, you are saying that some taboos use to be considered cultural norms

Yes, and this is the secret that made me realize the true pattern needed to create cultural taboos. They are much more simple than forbidden acts in a culture.

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The secret pattern to create taboos original to a fantasy culture

The truth in all of the research I have done is most taboos are really things as small as impolite and end in the death of people break them. And they seem to form up in 4 categories:

1. The negatives to important cultural norms
2. Extra holy acts
3. Reactions to changes in religion
4. State embracing cultural outrage

Wiki has a great place to start looking at taboos.

Taboos should be easy

You had done all the hard work when you created the history, cultural norms, the state, and the religions of your fantasy world. Join Michael and Jeffery in this podcast episode at they look at the wonderful world of taboos.

Podcast Show Flow

• Shout out to undercroft group (Jennifer B.) for the suggestion
• Taboo is created when cultures believe certain acts are too sacred or accursed
  • Really just forbidden customs
• From cultural beliefs, Religion, or State
  • Links from the past shared experience
  • Misunderstanding of the natural world
  • Deal with risk
  • Sometimes replacing existing norms
• Consequences
  • From impolite to death
• Freud’s universal taboos
  • Incest and patricide or matricide
• Common Taboos
  • Sex Insect, necrophilia, interracial marriage, adultery (More so for woman), pedophilia
  • Food
  • No eating of sacred cows, kosher diet
  • Murder
• Neat taboos
  • Don’t hog the butter knife in Sweden
  • Kissing on the lips (only part of courtship in NA or Euro)
  • Not seeing or speaking to betroth until marriage (Afghan)

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 Look at this what are important customs that if interfered cause offense

Look at sacred religious acts to perform

Look at behaviors the state supports changing

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Today's Topic First look into types of subcultures in fantasy worldbuilding

If you have followed the show you would not that Jeffery is a huge geek about studying cultures. We have talked about cultures and how they evolve in many ways.

We have even spent time talking about how cultures can form into states in your world.  We really just love looking at naturalist ways to fake a world.

Sometimes culture is just too superficial

As you drill into a fantasy world, you might find that a fictional setting my not seem richly developed.  It probably because as cultures even very small cultures usually start coming up with their own inner divisions.

In the world, we live in we often think of subcultures in our own culture. If you are my age you could never forget the jocks versus geek divide in high school.   However, we usually do not consider those to be subcultures of the subculture of high school students.

There is a very good reason

If you get my example above, it might seem apparent why so many only add in the classic fantasy subcultures:

• Thieves guild
• Fighters guild
• Mage Guild
• Temples of various religions
• Evil cult

Now, I have nothing against fiction that relies on these tropes.  However, the goal of the Worldbuilder’s Anvil is to build more natural looking BS.

So, what the heck it a subculture?

A subculture as I define it is a part of a larger culture where enough people share a different set of cultural norms derived from the greater culture. A subculture is larger than a group of people, so large that no individual can completely control the direction it moves and people. People outside of the group who know of would know of it should have heuristic beliefs about the group.  

Or more simply, subcultures grow out a culture's population as it food surplus allows for the sophistication grows.

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as a look into the basic patterns of subcultures.

Podcast Show Flow

2 Main types of +subcultures

• Normative
  • Job
  • Location
  • Religion
  • Commonalities
• Counter Cultures
  • Legal (Grow out in times of unrest)
    • Persecuted or Against the state
  • Illegal
  • Criminal or Persecuted

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Today's Topic Starting your writing journey

Writing is the second most important skill a worldbuilder can know.  Curiosity is still the most important skill.  Writing is invaluable to a worldbuilder, because you hone your delivery skills and immerse yourself in the world you are creating.

It does not matter what medium you share your work. The benefit comes from the exercise you mind receives when writing down the details of the world. You need not ever share your writing to become a writer. However, if you ever want to share the art of your worldbuilding you need to become a writer.

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The only two things that a writer need to do?

You only need to do two things to become a writer. Reading and Writing. You need to spend time reading great works. Not as a fan, but you are looking to find how the writer accomplishes. You are just looking for the brushstrokes used by authors to deliver their stories.

I think Jeff Goins summed it up really well in his article, “Why Writers Need to Read if They Want to Be Good”.

1. Don’t read to accomplish anything.
2. Study language.
3. Read what others are reading.

Remember, your reading as a writer is not about genre. Personally, I avoid reading new fantasy novels at this point when I am writing. I am looking for writers of other genres to inspire me with different ways to deliver words on the page.

The next step

If you need to improve your reading comprehension or writing skills, even after you start practicing those skills. Do not give up. Look for others to help you.

1. Writing circles
2. Beta read for others
3. Look for online courses from authors you respect
4. Look for more academic help through classes from colleges or through places like Great Courses Plus.

Author vs writer?

Now, I do not believe writers have to be published authors. However, if want to share your content online in any form. You need to add more writing to your routine. 

You might want to write novels, short stories, or RPG adventures; or you might want to simply make videos, share art, or do a podcast. All of these types of creatives should write.

However, if you are in the first group. Those people who will deliver their art through the written word. You need to start reading and writing every day. For the rest of you, try do spend some time every week. The only risk to you is exercising your mind.

Now join Michael and Jeffery in this week’s episode action packed episode of the Worldbuilder’s Anvil.

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• READ YOUR ASS OFF
  • I started with comic books
  • Fantasy got me into reading novels
• writing book/story reports and reviews to confirm comprehension (remember all those reading comprehension exercises in school?
• Take writing/literature classes
• They Only two types of narrative stories ever told
• Have an opinion
• Have something to say

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Today's Topic Before you start building your fantasy world. Build a framework that helps you get to telling stories

Join Michael and Jeffery in this episode as the look to help show how to create a framework for worldbuilding.

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• The two reasons I call it my style a framework world
  • Scaffolding
  • Framing the shot
• What is the point?
  • Speed to production
  • Consistence
  • Allows for further growth
• The 5 Contacts to a world
  • First Contact (Overview)
    • Determine your Frame
    • Determine reusability
    • Describe the Mission
  • Second Contact (The Basics)
    • Create a Basics (Places, Rules, Faces, Races Culture, And Technology)
    • Just what you know do not force it
    • Frame Outline
  • Third Contact
    • Looking through the frame at the world
    • Map it (Size matters)
    • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

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