Why Celebrate? How to Use Religious Holidays in Your Fantasy Novel

With the festive season underway, I’ve decided to write a post about religious holidays in fantasy and what place they have in your world and novel. If you’re building a world from scratch, it only makes sense to make up some kind of holiday period. Holidays or...

Religious and Moral Conflict in Your Fantasy Novel

Religion – never has there been such a divisive topic in the world. I’ve already talked about featuring religion in your fantasy world building. In today’s post I wanted to discuss the darker side of religion – the side that causes conflict. Conflict is at...

Building Realistic and Believable Religion in Your Fantasy Novel

Religion is a huge part of the world we live in (whether we like it or not). So, when it comes to building your own fantasy world, the chances are religion is going to feature.   But doesn’t creating a whole religious system from scratch seem a bit daunting?  Yeah it...