A Dusty Tome & A Recipe Book
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A Dusty Tome: How intricate do you like your worldbuilding?
Pairing up with the tone, themes and genre conventions of the story, really ...
If your world is grimm and dark to the point death penalties are normalized, what kind of killing it takes to be considered a crossing of a line?
In which ways a character can intervene to marry a person of their choice instead of entering an arranged marriage, and avoid largely negative consequences for their society?
If the landscape the character's live is a desert, what if they develop an economy and dress code based on the raising of goats that adapt to the desert more easily than cows and bulls and consume less water , and is common wearing leather jerkins instead of heavy metal armour to protect against thorns from cactus?
How creative they have to be to preserve and cook the ingredients that are available in their region, and which emotional and cultural meaning certain foods carries for the characters, specially when they're travelling far from home?
What games and sports they like to play?
Which kind of music and dance would they'd be fond of?
These little things that are there to favor narratives and characterization, rather than being a lenghty and dense lore manual, is what I find engaging in the imagination exercize of worldbuilding.
A Recipe Book: A dish from an animated movie or TV show that you desperately want to eat?
I recently watched a brazilian animated movie on Netflix titled Chef Jack: The Adventurous Cook, about a chef who travels the world in search of special ingredients, will need to learn to work in pairs to win a culinary contest that could help him recover his lost reputation after a recipe goes wrong.
There are two dishes in that film I craved: The Scarlet Gumbo and the Baião-de-Dois.
