Today’s exercise is to expand on one area of the culture you’ve created for your world. We have a bare-bones timeline, the bare-bones elements of a language, the bare-bones of an economic and political scene.
Drat, running out of time! I somehow got myself some piled-up deadlines…
Anyway. Frantic typing ensues.
Dwarves live in the hills north of Synto. There they raise alpaca and farm. Settlements are small, but connected. Think hobbit holes–comfort. They are more comfortable underground and they hate it. Okon gets harassed as a Vral-lover.
Vral live in the cliffs on the rounded peninsula. Humans can’t get there; don’t really try. No reason to go, though seamen think the cliffs are haunted/magical. Warders of the sea, they live in caves and get their food from the ocean.
Vral live in the jungle of the matched islands. (there was a mountain in between!) They guide the life of the jungle and speak to the sea and the Vral across it. The humans in the jungle fear them as supernatural avengers.
Dwarves live in Elgebel (North.) There they live with humans, in the cliffs while humans in villages. Dwarves herd sheep. Villagers make things, work with what dwarves find/supply, and farm.
South…proud men, no other races. Prejudice and arrogance and bold tales. Raid anyone anywhere. (Plot idea: Sea-Vral in a net?)
On the hammer peninsula…I forget my plan for it!
Island by itself is uninhabited? Or just a tiny group of Vral? Are they all in communication? Ooh, a Lost Colony of Vral…I like this idea.
All right. The southern continent. Lyalarhee is there. On the plateau are Vral and a few humans and all the sub-races but dwarves. The humans are black (to Flame, black is the “right” color for humans and whites seem like wannabe Vral? But Vral have varied skin colors…had she met others, before she left home? Ponder.) Off the plateau, humans and a few natural-to-there sub-races.
I think some of every type of Vral lives on the southern continent. Oh hey, what if the sea-Vral aren’t changing? That’d create some tension…
Bwahahahaha…
*cheers evil laughter and whatever it portends*
*looks innocent*