Don't feel called out, I do it myself. I have a glass smith guild on a continent that barely features in my series that I have a complete history for. I fell down a rabbit hole and just couldn't stop myself. You are not alone!
Haha that intro cracked me up! I've seen it so often. I started using random setting generators to see if my RP group would move away from two-sidesing everything. It just made them say things like "So the nation has a thriving apothecary industry? BIG PHARMA!" or "So...they're evil blacksmiths though!"
TL;DR: 1. Your story is a conflict of (emotional or moral) themes, not factions. 2. How your factions interact with the themes makes your story unique. 3. Inter- and intra-factional conflict is a visualisation of your story's thematic flow
Hah! Actually, Mistborn is more nuanced than it seems right at the start, (as revealed through the flavor text), but Sanderson is a bit heavy handed and black-and-white in that one :D
Eu estou escrevendo a lore do meu mundo para uma campanha de rpg e sempre vejo seus videos!! SImplesmente fantastica! Obrigado !! Tem me ajudado imensamente.
I created a ton of worldbuilding for my stories and do a lot of what you mention. Now I want to write retrospection stories that actually show the history happening. Problem is, I fear my initial stories will spoil too much of it so that people would want to read the retrospection stories.
Meanwhile here I am referring to my countries as the Union(name pending) and southern empire(name pending). The Union destroyed other revolutionary states and internal groups that came from the same revolutionary wave and had similar ideas, but had other ideological differences. Think of the Russian Revolution and fellow socialists being purged by the Soviets due to differing goals and details. This is the "evil" faction that the other countries fear and hate. Meanwhile, the Union views the others as evil and backwards for using aristocracies and monarchies. This is where the flamethrowers and artifact burning enter. This is how the Union treats the perceived threats and so called wrongthink. 🔥 📖 ☦️🔥 There's also someone related to the southern empire that survived the events leading to the Union's founding(His and other royal families got the Romanov Treatment). I'm still having trouble with naming countries and characters, which doesn't help when I've got maybe six empires and many smaller countries in my setting. 😂 "I serve the Empire." "Which empire?" "The Empire!" "Which empire? There are at least 6 of them! 🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷🇲🇳 Be more specific!" 😂 This also reminds me of a joke I heard: 🇬🇧: "We worship God!" 🇮🇳: "Which god?" 🇬🇧: "God, the one true God."
Don't forget about the Great Fantasy Survey! forms.gle/fSZE6b3LD1mtWAHi6
I feel so called out. I keep reminding myself to build what I need. 🤣
Don't feel called out, I do it myself. I have a glass smith guild on a continent that barely features in my series that I have a complete history for. I fell down a rabbit hole and just couldn't stop myself. You are not alone!
Haha that intro cracked me up! I've seen it so often. I started using random setting generators to see if my RP group would move away from two-sidesing everything. It just made them say things like "So the nation has a thriving apothecary industry? BIG PHARMA!" or "So...they're evil blacksmiths though!"
hahahahaha, sometimes there is no winning with players.
Excellent outline for building factions. Super helpful
Found your channel by accident. Subscribed for the excellent content!
Welcome to my tiny corner of TH-cam :)
TL;DR:
1. Your story is a conflict of (emotional or moral) themes, not factions.
2. How your factions interact with the themes makes your story unique.
3. Inter- and intra-factional conflict is a visualisation of your story's thematic flow
That premise of the opening reminded me of my BBEG in DND named ‘Lord Edge’. He was a black metal bard that basically cosplayed as Sauron essentially
I am hitting that subscribe button riiiighhhhttt.....now!
Welcome to my tiny corner of TH-cam :)
Thanks Marie! I had considered some of these things for my factions, but others I had not.
Honestly thought you were talking about Mistborn in the beginning xD xD
Hah! Actually, Mistborn is more nuanced than it seems right at the start, (as revealed through the flavor text), but Sanderson is a bit heavy handed and black-and-white in that one :D
Eu estou escrevendo a lore do meu mundo para uma campanha de rpg e sempre vejo seus videos!!
SImplesmente fantastica! Obrigado !! Tem me ajudado imensamente.
You are very welcome :)
Amazing work!! you are such an amazing speaker and are very insightful.
you earned a new subscriber!
Welcome to my corner of TH-cam ☺️
Another excellent video. Thanks for the naming advice.
You're welcome :D
I created a ton of worldbuilding for my stories and do a lot of what you mention. Now I want to write retrospection stories that actually show the history happening. Problem is, I fear my initial stories will spoil too much of it so that people would want to read the retrospection stories.
Meanwhile here I am referring to my countries as the Union(name pending) and southern empire(name pending). The Union destroyed other revolutionary states and internal groups that came from the same revolutionary wave and had similar ideas, but had other ideological differences. Think of the Russian Revolution and fellow socialists being purged by the Soviets due to differing goals and details. This is the "evil" faction that the other countries fear and hate. Meanwhile, the Union views the others as evil and backwards for using aristocracies and monarchies. This is where the flamethrowers and artifact burning enter. This is how the Union treats the perceived threats and so called wrongthink. 🔥 📖 ☦️🔥 There's also someone related to the southern empire that survived the events leading to the Union's founding(His and other royal families got the Romanov Treatment). I'm still having trouble with naming countries and characters, which doesn't help when I've got maybe six empires and many smaller countries in my setting. 😂
"I serve the Empire."
"Which empire?"
"The Empire!"
"Which empire? There are at least 6 of them! 🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇳🇬🇧🇫🇷🇲🇳 Be more specific!"
😂 This also reminds me of a joke I heard:
🇬🇧: "We worship God!"
🇮🇳: "Which god?"
🇬🇧: "God, the one true God."
Beware of the Honey Badger faction, they a vicious and always go for your bollocks
Honey badger don’t give a (f)uck