The GRIMME

A comic two years in the making about a post-apocalyptic wasteland called The GRIMME. created by armsaim and eclectinique.

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Day 1: Introduction

Every great world starts somewhere, and here is where we’ll start: Pitch your world! Put into words what your world is about, why it’s unique, what you aim to explore with it!

This prompt is a deceptively simple tradition. Most likely if you’ve yet to crystalize your world into a few paragraphs, then you may feel at a loss for words. This may be what a reader reads at the beginning of a book, or in the details of an amazon listing, this is the catch, the draw, it has to hook onto something, it has to get someone nodding along like, “Go on…”

More so, this world has to interest yourself as well. You can’t work intimately on a world that doesn’t get your blood pumping or questions flowing. This is a work of passion, so defining those hooks will help remind you why you want this world to come alive!

If you need some inspiration maybe crack open the amazon listings of your favorite books and read a blurb about them, or just think about what first comes to your mind when you think about those worlds.

This introduction may also form the design philosophy behind your whole project as well. If you pitch a world as a world of high adventure, you may sit back later and ask yourself, “Does this element I’m adding invoke adventure? Does it contrast well with the adventurous themes that are already present?” If you describe your world as mysterious, you might then make decisions that inspire tension based off of unanswered questions and may even cook in mysteries and false truths right into your world. High fantasy, low fantasy, introspective, immense, complex, simple, strange, sincere, fast, slow, there are many words you can use to describe your world, which you then have to back up.

Of course a world can evolve in your hands, you felt you were making a world of intrigue, but then it turned into a world moved by swashbuckling heroism. However, if you ever get too deep into your creation and get lost, taking a step back and remembering what your world is about can help right you on the cardinal directions that drive your world forward, then you can dust off your smock and…

KEEP BUILDING!

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First character bio for GRIMME, yay! These will all be updated as Important Plot Points happen ;)

Full name/title: Eire sirgen Tija sirgen Annabelinda the Magic, third of her line and heir apparent to Her Imperious Dominion. Age: Approximately twelve thousand years. Species: Warland Draconae.

Eire is an ancient Draconae dating from long before the apocalypse, who finds entertainment in meddling with the lives of shorter-lived species. She is, as a member of the royal lineage, very domineering and controlling. She is ruthless in the protection of what she deems hers, having a massive hoard hidden somewhere in the depths of her palatial fortress within the Dragon Mountains of northern Deathland. She is an accomplished and powerful sorceress and skilled strategist.

drawn by armsaim

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working on GRIMME while a furry lil assistant bops around