7 Circles That Will Elevate Your Fantasy World Building!

[@bluejayblaze1180]

When you mentioned neighbour cultures, the first thing I thought of was the disproportionate effect American culture has on Canadian culture in certain ways. We even mention it in a song---"They ran so fast they forgot to take their culture back to America and the Gulf of Mexico."

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

Yeah it’s definitely worth noting if you have such a dominant culture in your region that it exports large parts of itself to its neighbors.

[@kiwilemontea4622]

Up until now, most of my culture-building was based around three main things: the physical traits of my science fantasy races and the biomes they live in, their language, and their religion. But figuring out the culture through the seven circle framework was nice. Helps to tie it all together.

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

Happy to hear 😁

[@hylianjim6484]

This model surprised me in a way beyond the elegant cause and effect, but how similar this is to layers of abstraction in computing. And it makes sense in retrospect, a program works a lot like worldbuilding, where things happen that you'd expect in the background due to pre-existing patterns built out of an idea or ideology. I can't understate how useful this is!

[@brettsteinbook5370]

Thanks so much for including a section and example on subcultures in this video. Not that your earlier individual answer wasn't sufficient, but I think it will help more writers than just me. Found a new to me note taking app and I feel like my world building is about to take off. Saving this to a playlist for future use.

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

Yeah I figured it would be good to detail the interactions and influences more clearly than I had in the live stream.

[@germoneysuniverse7908]

Amazing video! Thank You!

[@leadintea]

I love this tool! Not only can it help to get you started on your cultures, but it can help you flesh out your existing ones and can even let you know that you're on the right track if your preexisting cultures can fit well in each circle.

[@keirscott-schrueder5625]

Amazing in depth video!

[@thepigvillage]

I expect this video to come in handy. Thank you!

[@ronecotex]

When you mention the Vestal virgins that made me think sons of Mars can be exempt from that will demigods and how would Society categorize them

[@whitehawk4099]

I think a decent way to approach worldbuilding culture is figuring out the culture image, that is, the central image that demonstrates the key way that the culture acts. Real life examples of this include the expansion into limitless space of western culture, the winding path of chinese culture, and the long walk of egyptian culture.

[@ronecotex]

When you mention subcultures they have rooms a woman can be in public rules that made me think female Mages could be Exempted and that could cause resentment and jealousy among other women

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

Yeah such exceptions tends to have massive knock on effects

[@ashtonwc1654]

Would you be open to making a video about creating a story/novel similar to Fire and Blood by grrm, a book spanning generations?🙏 your videos are always so helpful

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

I can, though Fire and Blood is really just a history book. I could talk about generational writing though.

[@ashtonwc1654]

⁠@@JustInTimeWorlds Thank you!! I’m trying to write something akin to that and I’ve had the hardest time not getting immediately overwhelmed

[@timberwoof]

Aaah! You have the Earth rotating backwards!

[@JustInTimeWorlds]

Well.... yes. I'm working on a new logo though, I think it's going to be awesome.

[@KootFloris]

History is more essential as it effects core. Take Russia. It feels itself not seen as cultural enough, not taken seriously and too often invaded. They have a victim trauma, like many other nations they forget their own invasions. Secondly it's people also have a relational trauma with the government, "you better do what they want, or else". In the USA the relational trauma is "if you can't manage on your own you're a loser.". This trauma prohibits any socialist sounding solutions, like universal healthcare.

[@MerkhVision]

Very interesting points!