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Oceanic themes can really do it all. The all-consuming love. The unfathomable indifference. The crucible of all life. Will kill you & you will never be found. There are Things everywhere, or absolutely nothing anywhere for miles. Can hurt you in who knows how many ways. Can soothe your soul like nothing else. It yearns for you. It drives you away.

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For a magic system that's about as soft & structured as oil, I'm having to write a lot of background shit -

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🏛 - How much of the world/setting's history have you invented?

🚂 - How easy is transport?

🏛 - quite a bit of broad strokes, but filling it in is definitely still a work in progress 😂 The main defining history split - the BC to AD as it were - is a conquering jackass decides to try and become God, and the result is worldwide devastation due to the splitting & re-shaping of a continent; the only reason it doesn't just ruin everything is because most of the world's magical entities give up their lives to mitigate the damage. So, dark age + technically kind of a lingering fallout that leads to... basically a decimation of human population & a lot of changes to lifestyles to adapt to a world that is now (mostly) actively hostile to them.

There's also a few inklings to specific political struggle events, but. Developing 😂

🚂- not very! Especially in the modern age! Automobiles are still a ways off, so it's mostly pack beasts, wagons, boats lmao. Once upon a time, there were at least some nice roads (ruins are still about, and some few are still in use) that were a clear, easy path, but uhhh. Not so much any more.

(Teleportation magic is a rarity in practice - it's still really easy to fuck up that it's not worth the theoretical swiftness most of the time)

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Ok so basically I've decided I want a worldbuild that allows for a story and also for me to fuck around in some solo TTRPG shit

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This Is A Blatant Cry For Interaction

.... look it's the first Saturday I've had off in ages, and I've actually been doing quite a lot of worldbuilding lately - ostensibly we're still delving into the history of The Untitled OC Project, but now it's... ??? Like we're getting somewhere, I'm just starting to wonder if I haven't finally put together more of a sandbox than I originally intended 😂 (at least I'm realizing this before starting what should be a series & then getting distracted by delving into the history- anyway)

So yeah, uh... I may try and find some ask games for structure, but in the meantime... I wanted to word this nicer but y'all are getting the bullet points sorry.

Fantasy - the current lean seems to be somewhere between high fantasy and more of a sword and sorcery vibe (The Magic Is Faded/Nearly Gone, one of the oldest/most influential powers is on the verge of collapse, climate us getting Fucky).

There is evidence that, within the earliest historical records (& geologic evidence but that's not a major field for them lmao), the now-countless islands & couple of greater continents were a single landmass - though what caused such a cataclysmic breakup is still unknown.

Pirates are a hell of a thing & a genuine career path, but that's also because the powers that be have a very broad definition of piracy lmao

Magic is real & changes you. Not just in the metaphorical way that any kind of power can change a person, no, like It's Radioactive But If Radioactivity Made You A Creature.

(Alchemy is also there & is the equivalent of wearing a lead suit. & now they've started figuring out straight chemistry-)

Anyway. Inbox open.

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'... Basically, Cothurn's golden age comes about in a manner of like, if a world-buster nuke gained sapience & said 'all of you knock it the fuck off right now.'

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Small mercies: when your stress response starts tipping into the 'violently creative' zone instead of the shutdown zone

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-pokes That Other OC Project with a stick-

U alive