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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..I went for a calendar of 13 months of 28 days each which equalled 364 days and a stand alone day for New Year's Day. Every fourth... -
Incanus replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.I partially agree. I would say that big planning scenes are never ONLY about the plan. Which is part of a larger piece of generally... -
CupofJoe replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..If no-one has mentioned it before, I have found this site helpful in creating calendars: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/ In... -
Prince of Spires replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.I've been thinking on this a bit, and my conclusion is that the big planning scenes are never actually about the plan. The plan is just... -
RoccO replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..I like time machines, they are romantic. So very much inspired by Majors Mask. There is the usual day and night cycle, about 20 days in... -
TThinkerX replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.'Elves' = 'Gandhrvas/Aparusu' in South Asia, or close enough to make no difference. Gandharvas are male musicians/bards, while Aparasu...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.If you widen the scope of Asia to mean all of Asia, then you'll come to find that the Dwemers of the Elder Scrolls, at least...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..It feels so weird reading this because I have two worlds, too, and one of them is also very dim, though that's due to the sun being...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..The calendar is pretty much planet-wide. The secondary world has a 360-day orbit with two smallish moons, one on a 15-day cycle, the...
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Ž.J. replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..Well this specific calendar was invented, around 800 years before the current year, when there existed a single empire, uniting most of... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Calendars in Worldbuilding..This is something I don't describe in my stories. That's partly because in a setting where most people can't read or write (or have only... -
Incanus replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.In the Osten Ard books by Tad Williams, the immortal Sithi (who are basically elves) are quite obviously derived from Japanese culture...
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Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.Contiuation As the final traces of Nai essence were drawn into the roots, a concentration remained-too dense to disperse, too defiant to... -
Incanus replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.Unless 'plan' is here defined differently than I would image, aren't fantasy stories involving a quest essentially using 'plans'? The...
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JBCrowson replied to the thread Coming up with the plan.The Council of Elrond is a planning meeting of sorts. Do we use the ring, hide the ring or destroy the ring? Ok we're destroying it, so...