Worldbuilding | Coming of Age

[@k.k.fairbanksart389]

I am completely amazed at every video. The world building is always so unique

[@ziril3972]

Exactly how I feel, these leave me in such awe

[@boudicathebrave]

I love the inversion of the women thinking the drug gives them the ability to become pregnant and that magic powers are just part of being a woman. I feel like stuff like that happens all the time in real life but I think a lot of us worldbuilders tend to forget to include cultural practices that aren't strictly A to B logical. Also, the idea of coming of age rituals being internal v. external is really getting my juices flowing!

[@shadeddreamer6864]

Ewa: All of this goes to the chief- Me: Oh? I wonder what she gives in turn- Ewa: -because she is running an extortion racket. Me: 👁️👄👁️

[@vandama0mossadegh]

a scammer

[@sully9767]

Me too, lol. I love these magical nearly-elvish witch chiefs and their international extortion racketeering. One of my favourite bits of worldbuilding so far....

[@alexemy2463]

F*ckin love that bit! 😂

[@jmlynr]

Every ruler runs an extortion racket. If you're lucky, you get rulers who protect you from threats other than just themselves.

[@GreenAgouti]

so when the civilizations blew up the egg and inverted it into a planet, did the spirits outside the egg turn into the stars?

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

You could still go a grab one, but one of the key components is missing from the planet, or at least seems to in the basin.

[@GreenAgouti]

@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 or they just havent discovered the recipe for the drink stuff, also i was asking if the spirits actually did turn inti the stars, as far as i know its not confirme

[@ivanclark2275]

My favorite thing about this is that it makes perfect sense whether magic is objectively real or not.

[@ynarkaelarkeldaeklay4818]

What would happen if someone were to take the spirit of a girl who got lost in space with them?

[@grandpotato172]

probably something akin to split personallity, also they shouldn't be able to cast magic becuase the spirit they took was of human origin

[@davidegaruti2582]

@@grandpotato172 maybe every spirit outside the egg was human but then lost his/her humanity gradually , and became well a spirit ...

[@PhantomKING113]

@@davidegaruti2582 Maybe the gigant egg itself was some very old spirit that got more and more powerfull with time. Maybe there's more of them. Maybe there are others who died and maybe, just maybe, a woman's spirit could travel by accident to another world to be assimilated by one of their ingabitants or to enter him/her herself on purpose to observe. ... This worldbuilding is so amazing, she shoud get someone to help her with the animations so she can output videos more qwickly, like mangakas do.

[@stickfigure42]

@@grandpotato172 Perhaps simply having a second spirit is enough force to allow you to cast magic.

[@One_Eyed_Man_]

Maybe it would result in some other (taboo?) kind of magic.

[@ishanaprabhakar7542]

This is a really cool culture, but it is a bit awkward to watch knowing about the cosmic-egg apocolypse and the following new societies that know nothing about their origins

[@alexemy2463]

There’s kinda the same effect looking at historical cultures knowing that they’re all dead now, it is kinda sobering

[@Landis963]

When a boy arrives in a new nest, does he just go around naked until a new paramour gives him clothing? Or is that always the traditional first gift from the chieftain to her new member?

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

He just goes around naked. Or maybe he makes himself a makeshift belt until he can get some fancy cloth.

[@alexemy2463]

Not to be coarse, but the idea of getting to know your future dating pool while building your own house naked almost seems like a way of showing off your body to attract partners and challenge your rivals. It’d be kind of a balancing act between showing off your body and your survival skills while you can but then showing off that you’ve started a relationship as quickly as possible. Maybe there’d be something like a housewarming party where men show off their new house and put on their new clothes for the first time, symbolising the final part of their coming of age, and reciprocating the welcome they received

[@ivanclark2275]

They could make a reality show out of this.

[@torcoAaAa]

Free lovin' on the treetops.

[@FoamyLatte78]

This video is amazing and demonstrates your remarkable creativity, but the line “She is running an extrortion racket” made me crack up 😂

[@alexemy2463]

Do the agricultural people know that the chiefs are threatening to curse them or do the chiefs tell them that they’re blessing them with fertility and health instead? Or both?

[@naltlan7651]

As i watch worldbuilding notes My battery at 7% The video at 1:40 I lay here in my bed As my anxiety grows And my mind growls For more content like this With no time to spare

[@2mechazawa]

I love your world building so much. It always gives me inspiration for my own worlds and cultures.

[@notsogentle6722]

I recently binged all the river basin videos. And I thought it would be fun to try and recreate the peasants' clothes, I found that the folds would not stay. The best way to fix this would probably be simple pins, and for the folds in the aristocrats skirts, they could have more ornate brooches?

[@notsogentle6722]

also how are transgender people treated, do they go through the rite that matches their identity, or the identity assigned at birth?

[@alexemy2463]

NotSoGentle Considering that the polyamorous system would mean that having one or two partners who can’t reproduce with you wouldn’t be an issue as you’ve got all the others for that, I imagine most of them would be fine with that? Similarly if they believed magic was intrinsic to womanhood then they’d probably believe that anyone who can successfully gain magic is a woman and if she was a man she’d’ve died or woken up unchanged. And if a trans-man could survive the trial and harvest fruit, meat, and honey then they are/might as well be a man.

[@notsogentle6722]

​@@alexemy2463 that is what would be lovely yes, although with the female coming of age being linked to menstruation i don't know how trans women would initiate this, and in general just because they might be able to complete a rite of passage, does not mean that they wouldn't be discriminated against or ostracised.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

@@notsogentle6722 In Australian Aboriginal culture, men cut themselves to simulate menstruation. Perhaps transwomen in this culture would do the same, basically proving they were able to undergo the same physical pain?

[@chaz5256]

I would read the shit out of a book set in this place

[@user-zd2iu6xu2h]

Same

[@michigangarnet3804]

“Because she is running an extortion racquet” I am in love!!

[@ArturoStojanoff]

This is amazing. I'd be interested in your coming up with a culture with very few cultural gender differences, where the genders are very equal, how those would arise, why, what influences this and how the culture is structured as a result. I know that is rare in human civilizations, but it makes me curious.

[@TheOneTrueEmperor777]

As a start, you should look though the history books for some of the more notable/successful societies that had a form of gender equality and expand from there. For example check out the scythian culture, it's believed they were the one to inspire the legends of the Amazons kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4qvZnaCf5ejqKM

[@PhantomKING113]

@@TheOneTrueEmperor777 While maybe not to that extent, the Egyptians where also pretty... simmilar for both men and women. (Equalitarian? I don't want to say feminist because of how the movement is evolving...) Even if women where resignated to activities involving less physical effort, they could still get to most positions. Interestingly, Egyptians also treated slaves pretty well, and used skilled workers for their more important buildings, like the pyramids and temples.

[@alexemy2463]

Established nest man: “give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill you now”. Boy on his way to the nest: “Move, I’m gay!”

[@alexemy2463]

Wtf would an agender asexual like me do! 😂 sit among the mangrove roots and fish? Help with woodwork for building the nests? That sounds chill

[@UzaziSprout]

The second coming of age ceremony reminds me somewhat of the one from the seventh tower series

[@1lobster]

i think that, at least in some subcultures which might form within a larger culture you describe, mating behavior could develop into more of a Lion stile harem, were there is one alpha female who is in charge of ten or twenty other women who gather resources, while the one or two men of the village do little more than protect and mark the village territory, and mate with the women.

[@PhantomKING113]

More men probably die than women with the rituals described here, so maybe this would be more probable.

[@sully9767]

@@PhantomKING113 I feel like the spirits might not like being grabbed so they may attack the woman's spirit back too. It would make sense that magical beings would fight back against what is essentially mass kidnapping and slavery. So perhaps the dangers are different but not necessarily of different risk levels.

[@alexemy2463]

I don’t think the women would need men to protect the village when they have powerful spirits, although I guess maybe if the spirits only work slow-effect spells like infertility or disease? But they’d still be a big deterrent, unless they can also counteract each other. Maybe the chieftains would use the men to fight to expand their territory in return for healing any curses they got from doing that?

[@1lobster]

@@alexemy2463 the men would only protect the village territory for their own sake. Mostly keeping rival men out. Any real threat would be taken care of by the women who hunt. Unless hunting was the man's job, and was only done on special occasions, which might explain why only a few men would live in each village.

[@planetaxolotl4398]

Would you ever make a video discussing how you come up with your ideas and how to expand worldbuilding?

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

I don't have a method for coming up with ideas, I basically never brainstorm anything. I just wait for the moment when inspiration strikes, and that's it.

[@planetaxolotl4398]

Worldbuilding Notes That’s some serious inspiration then, I’m amazed at how creative your ideas are. Love your content!

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@WorldbuildingNotes That explains why I'm always impressed by other worldbuilding channels, but completely blown away by yours. I can see their process, while your own is pure magic.

[@theworldliestone1340]

@@WorldbuildingNotes I see we have very similar creative processes.

[@saamisiddiqui981]

I wonder what would happen to a girl who dragged another lost girl's soul into her body. Would she have two consciousnesses? Would she still attain supernatural powers?

[@PhoenixFlame321]

5:53 Ewa: "I don't know where history went after that..." Captain Spoiler: "They nuked the shell of the cosmic egg and brought the premature end of their own world"

[@matrythethird5464]

I just found this channel, and boy oh boy, what a display of creativity and uniqueness, and yet you make it make sense, awesome

[@sebharper4720]

I loved this episode. You always manage to create such magical places and cultures

[@eduardosantini8837]

I just found your channel and im amazed by your creativity and thought process. I love worldbuilding and your vídeos have been helping a lot in terms of balance. I may download this because I can never lose such knowledge. Congratulations.

[@Kris_not_Chris]

I wonder if there's any connection between these people and the river basin people, their Magicks and cultures seem to share some themes

[@bwayagnes]

An interesting plot idea for this word would be two sisters, one younger than the other. The older one dies during the ritual, so the younger one is determined to find her sister’s spirit and carry it back to her own body. The nest warns her about it but she was insistent. When she came back with her sister’s soul along with her, she got some strange magic that no other person in their tribe had seen before. Maybe she gets in trouble or even cast away to the agricultural society. And then she later finds out about the chief’s actions towards some of the agricultural places.

[@riaalto9488]

And now, I have caught up with all your videos! :D Your videos are just new enough and short enough that I can binge all of them. :D

[@alexanderkorol677]

I would love to watch a video on how to world build architecture

[@BeautifulObscurity]

Last time I was this early to something, the Fire Nation hadn't attacked yet.

[@ashenen2278]

Have all the mangrove people vitiligo? Looks just interesting. Hm, have you heard about Athapascans? It just seemed to me that they one of the few American plains tribes with matrilinearity. I'm honest, I didn't my research well yet. But it looks pretty cool despite having a similar lifestyle to their neighbours, but still keeping unique traits of its culture (not just caused by globalization) PS: And I have the impression, you changed you drawings style

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

I don't know much about the indigenous people of the Americas. As for the art style, this video was illustrated by NotagYmra, not by me.

[@viracocha6093]

Na-Dene peoples in general are matrilineal.

[@ashenen2278]

@@viracocha6093 I know. This is so interesting, despite being culturally close to their neighbours like the Salish or Uto-Aztecan speaking groups

[@bwayagnes]

@@WorldbuildingNotesWhaaat? I thought you also drew them :00

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

Out of the 90 videos on my channel, 87 were illustrated by me, and 3 were illustrated by NotagYmra. This video is one of those 3!

[@fyviane]

this is beautiful ♥ best video in a while

[@TexHaw]

I wonder what would happen if one of the agricultural city-states decided to conquer a chiefdom. Perhaps through indoctrination and or threats the city-state forces the chiefdom to bend to it rather than the other way around where the chiefdom makes cities pay tribute. And with direct coastal territory I imagine the city-state would grow rapidly through trade, agriculture/fishing, and now conquest.

[@kiro9291]

I absolutely love these videos

[@TammyJerkChicken]

I love this!!!

[@allanjohnson8951]

In such a sexually "public" society, I wonder what the role of STIs would be. Since it is so common for an individual to take on many partners, and the same for their partners, the chain of connection could link every individual in a nest to every other within only a few degrees of separation -- so, one individual contracting an STI could impact the whole nest within days. Perhaps there are extreme measures taken to prevent spread, like sexual isolation and chastity on discovery. Connecting to that, there could be parallel associations to the STI, like curses or some other magical phenomenon.

[@agustinvenegas5238]

sounds like somehow more people found out about the drug, stole it for themselves and caught very powerful spirits, only to do a real number on the world through war with their newfound powers, their combined spirits morphing into the spirits within the earth and inhabiting the wastes, finally ending in the river valley and bird island cultures, loved the episode!!

[@aliceconnors5842]

More Cosmic Egg! Love this world

[@sreyam7]

I can imagine the effect of the drug concoction to be like how psychedelics are in our world.

[@notsogentle6722]

Assuming that the ingredients of the drug concoction are in the modern river basin, or in the hills, what would happen if the concoction was chanced upon again?

[@fuzzytheduck]

I wonder what would happen if someone in the river basin drank the same drug concoction. Do the spirits that once lived outside the egg still exist?

[@FOLIPE]

I imagine the inland cities are not very fond of this arrangement.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

Perhaps they think they are buying fertility instead? Otherwise I would think they'd at least try to just invade

[@pleromaprism7581]

How are transgender individuals treated within your worlds because in ancient cultures before the rise of modern Christinity it was accepted and transgender individuals were given high positions such as in indic, native American (both sound and north), Scandinavian, Celtic, cultures,

[@lipamanka]

that's an interesting question! I was wondering how gay people are treated, because they have such large families, and all of the men could be gay with each other because they all come from different nests, but women can't because they're all sisters and that would be incest relationships.

[@alexemy2463]

Mister Lipman Are they all sisters? A lot of them, yeah, but I don’t think all of them, depending on how large each nest group is. And we don’t necessarily know that there’s no interaction between different nests. They’re all right next to a big see so it would be quite easy to visit each other. Maybe lesbians would travel to other nests by water as a way of exchanging goods and techniques and establishing diplomacy

[@mentat0209]

The gift giving reminds me of the kula circles described by Bronislaw Malinowski. Was that an inspiration?

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

I heard about the potlatch, and that inspired me.

[@mentat0209]

@@WorldbuildingNotes So the political power of the chieftainess comes from kinship (she being recogniced as the head of the family), prestige (her ability to provide gifts) or a mix of both? (This worldbuilding series are great btw)

[@villaticlang4844]

what font do they use for their videos? It's such a good looking font. EDIT: specifically the font used in her conlanging notes videos

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

Crusoe Text.

[@villaticlang4844]

@@WorldbuildingNotes thank you so much! Have a good day/evening/afternoon! Worldbuilding Notes!

[@thunder_2124]

So this is before the egg broke?

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

A few thousand years before.

[@mollof7893]

I love this

[@edenschwenk4649]

What's with their multitoned skin? Is it something like vitiligo?

[@florbengorben7651]

YES

[@znyan1077]

what if a woman somehow dragged another lost woman's soul into her body?

[@fntthesmth423]

**looks at thumbnail** more like coming of egg

[@iagoreiscosta622]

What if they're gay?

[@alexemy2463]

They could trade with opposite sex without actually having a sexual relationship, as there’s other people to have sexual relationships with. And they could trade with each other and have sexual relationships. Or if they didn’t wanna trade with the opposite sex they could trade with same-sex bi people. Or they could be exceptions to the rule and take the opposite sex’s rite of passage.

[@viracocha6093]

You made three videos in a couple of weeks? This feels surreal

[@pouritenne8996]

imagine emergence of a new thought among the agriculturals that it's not the non-giving of gifts that causes plagues but the jungle witches themselves

[@jascrandom9855]

I'm too WIP'ing a world in which magic makes all societies Matriarchies.

[@SibeliusEosOwm]

Sounds neat! Not to discourage you or tell you how to build your world, but it's worth minding that you don't unintentionally imply that the only reason why these societies might be matriarchal is because of the magic.

[@ashleyyancey8806]

Metal

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

I was about to play Minecraft with friends but, this is better.

[@thegamerodin767]

I wonder what if the costly rain forest people get invaded and inslaved they could force the woman to make Their land fertile. And wouldn't have to pay tribute this has so many options on how in the world inside the egg like how the world started modernising and thing like slavery, racism, colonisam etc. Would effect this world like it effected the real world. Cause advance people and tribel natives don't end well even if they do have magic that can just capture a hole nest and their chief and make do it. I don't know I just think that would be interesting.

[@solitude4524]

Cool

[@1lobster]

can i use some of this in my fantasy book?

[@lipamanka]

she's said that she's okay with people using her ideas as long as they don't make money off of them and as long as they credit her, but I'm not completely sure. If you do, make sure to make it your own, of course.

[@rainphee]

if a trans woman or trans man came out later in life, after they had done these coming of age processes once, would they do the proper ones to be considered transitioned to their actual gender? food for thought...

[@TheCanterlonian]

the answer is yes

[@lipamanka]

but do there be gay tho

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Do you know how would a mostly genderless and egalitarian culture handle coming of age?

[@lipamanka]

YAAS NEW VIDEO

[@isaacbaatarland2194]

hello there

[@BoogsterSugar]

Ewa, do you plan to build any society with something other than the two binary genders? That'd be nice to see!

[@WorldbuildingNotes]

I get inspired by what I read, and I guess I just never find myself reading about cultures that have more than two genders. I don't know of any good books about them.

[@fizilicious]

@@WorldbuildingNotes if you're interested, there is the old Bugis people who have 5 genders system: cis-male, cis-female, trans-male, trans-female, and bissu, who are androgynous "gender-transcendent" persons and also take roles as sort-of priest/shaman in old Bugis society. Sadly I don't have a good book recommendation for this topic as I only know this from my friends who have Bugis ancestry.

[@BoogsterSugar]

I've read some amazing articles about the Hijra in India, and I think it fits very well your style of world building, as Hijras held special cerimonial powers to give blesses or curses to couples, and I specially love how you put these kinds of magics in your creations.

[@alexemy2463]

Judaism also has a number of culturally specific intersex identities, which is cool

[@skyem.g.3615]

do intersex, transgender, and non-binary people not exist in your world?

[@CollinBuckman]

If they aren't mentioned, it's safe to assume the society in question either doesn't care about them at best or actively hates them at worst.

[@viracocha6093]

The female egg people make me confuse them for men for a split-second, since they look like they have beards. Even if they don’t.

[@vandama0mossadegh]

This isn't bad, but it comes off as a sort of "just so" story in terms of what's expected of men and women, and not really one that includes, say, living people that might be LGBT and not really abide by these norms?

[@vandama0mossadegh]

Like, I say that meaning I'm curious how you envision "alternative" experiences with coming of age progressing inside of this culture *with* these norms established

[@alexemy2463]

I think the just-so-ness is kinda the point, it is sort of a brief summary, but it also would be nice if that was addressed