If you want a rich and big fantasy world you have to think of everything. One key thing you should be building is the history of your world. However, when you start to build history in your fantasy world, you’ll quickly realise how tricky it is. Where do you...
This post is all about your nose. Might seem like a weird focus of fantasy world building, but I’m all about that detail. As fantasy world builders we spend so much time describing the weird and wonderful places we’ve created, from palaces to castles, to taverns to...
Multi-POV, or multiple point of view storytelling has been around for a long time and a lot of people either love it or hate it. It’s been particularly popular since A Song of Ice and Fire and it seems pretty common in the fantasy genre as a whole. But should you go...
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...
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...
