☀️ fantasy worldbuilding 101 - pt. 1: the absolute basics

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I'm a complete beginner and only wanted to create a story based on a wandering young swordsman in a world with monsters And I felt into the world building side, hehe I can't seem to figure out how the countries/continents should layout Wether a single continent with several countries enough to called a world or should I include multiple continents I prolly need to take my time and research more 😅brThanks for the video!!
Comment from : Uvindu Harshana

I'm writing a book, I have many people who are from irl countries (eg India) but i don't want to use the countries, I'm making my own Any tips?? (sorry if i worded this weird, I'm listening to music and it's rlly late)
Comment from : Red!!

Just discovered your channel! super into world building so I really love this ground up approach you've been giving on how to create a world you clearly have a lot of experience and have studied this, it shows, good job! An interesting note on cultural appropriation for stories -- I understand your point and I mostly agree You definitely end up looking like a tool if you don't do your research on a culture whose elements you want to borrow in your book But I also hesitate to bar people from going outside their culture and what they're used to when creating novels, because it feels restrictive and almost regressive in inclusivity and diversity in literature While of course we want people of all cultures to write and represent themselves in the literary world, I find it unfair to restrict people to writing simply about their own culture and thats it What if I wanted to include a hispanic love interest in my hypothetical story? Perhaps I wanted to flesh out their family, discuss their specific social class and neighborhood, because I didn't only want to write about Orthodox Jews, which is my culture? What if I worked with hispanic families, beta read with people, studied Spanish, took courses, and made sure that my information was accurate? would I still only be able to write about my one tiny culture, adding no diversity or color in my book through supporting characters? I'm willing to take a chance and make a mistake if that means I get to fill my books with people of all cultures and perspectives But this is just my opinion :) I love this vid!
Comment from : Cynical Duchess

jokes on you i AM making a travel guide created through a crap ton of art peices and field note from my character
Comment from : ratsinacoat

Wait what is wrong with JK Rowling?
Comment from : Tai Mao

Never seen this map I’m a casual HP fan The map is fascinatingly…preliminary or First Draft to be polite
Comment from : Peter XYZ

I just created a world based on 14 gods that were created from the collision between warring PrimordialsbrbrThe Primordials wanted to destroy them but the gods retaliated and used their remains to craft the universe
Comment from : TroyBruneX

I have been writing stories and developing worlds for the stories to be in since I was a child, but only now do I consider how they interact With how much writing content is out here on YouTube, I am surprised that not many videos are able to comprehensively bring across the essence of worldbuilding - and I am delighted to have found the best on the topic You've earned a sub, and I'll check out the rest of this series! Thank you!
Comment from : Nyx019

Why wouldent u wanna say her name?
Comment from : Johan Ryberg

Anyone who can’t put JP Rollins name in their mouth has to be a twisted degenerate
Comment from : Lord Aleron

invoke her name just say what youre gonna saygeez
Comment from : TheWokeBREAKER

I have my map, I'm just having a hard time of like explaining the world to my players in dnd 😂
Comment from : Talion Black

do you use any websites to organize your worldbuilding and characters? a website that gives character charts and helps you organize worldbuilding, because doing it on google docs is incredibly hard Thanks!
Comment from : Aasiyah Malik

LYNN, I LOVE YOUR THOUGHTS ON FANTASY, AND IT HAS BEEN ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL IN CONSTRUCTING THE STAGE FOR MY CURRENT PROJECT I ALSO FOUND YOUR COMMENTS ON BORROWING FROM HISTORICAL ERAS AND CULTURES, BUT MAKING THOSE BURROWED ATTRIBUTES UNIQUE TO YOUR WORLD SO RIGHT AND REFRESHING AS A TRAINED HISTORIAN, AND AN AUTHOR, WHO LOVES AND HAS STUDIED ANCIENT EAST ASIA AND MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPE, I FIND THAT YOUR THOUGHTS WILL ALLOW ME TO ADD BITS OF THESE INTERESTING AND COLORFUL CULTURES TO MY STORY WITHOUT FEELING THAT I HAVE COMMITTED CULTURAL APPROPRIATION THANK YOU SO MUCH
Comment from : Arthur Garrison

my protagonist is a captain of a airship, and his world is threatened by different races that an evil dark elf sorcerer has been summoning from another dimension as he aims to have people bow before false Gods, demons, he is a servant to Python which in this world is known as the god responsible for teaching the different arts of the occult My protagonist is aiming to reunite humans, dwarves, and elves, to fight all these forces sent by this evil sorcerer as their world has become threatened by demonic forces I'm not sure how to shape the physical aspect of my world I'm not sure whether to make it contemporary or dystopian now either? I've been stuck for months now and haven't been able to write my first chapter yet But I kind of want my characters to be some kind of demon slayer
Comment from : Isaias Herrero

i'm very tired so i read it as "fantas worldbuilding 101" and was very confused for a second
Comment from : fangirlapocalypse

You said, that its unnecessary to think about parts of your world, who dont matter to the Story, but isnt it exacly what jkRowling did, by Not specifying the Parts of the world who are not as relevant in her Books because theyre far away and detailising the one, the Story takes Place in (Wont defend her but i wouldnt worry about this map too much)
Comment from : jimmy Senpai

I support your points on the Harry Potter world map, but that isn't an official map from the author so it's more like fanfiction right
Comment from : Jean Cairoli

I created a world called Novea that mimics earth but likebr✨Magickal✨brDivine Humans, Normal humans (but they aren’t completely powerless, they just don’t know it)brAnd giant monsters resembling Moths known as EqliohtsbrThe story is called ICARUS
Comment from : Hex Addams

I think it’s fine to take inspiration of of a culture that isn’t yours As long as you don’t mess up I mean look at avatar : entirely based of Asian culture and made by two non Asian guys no cultural appropriation, no scandal , no disrespect Because it was done well I m not white but I can write about a world inspired by a European country , if I want to
Comment from : Doodl

For all your 'concern', something tells me that you rate extremely high on narcissism I came to hear a discussion about worldbuilding and its just you prattling on and criticizing another author when it's easy and everyone is bandwagoning Have an original take Truly unpleasant
Comment from : Phaedo Iamblichus

Why the hate towards Jk Rowling? 😮😮😮😮
Comment from : kubricks ghost

Building a world from a futuristic utopian dream I had wish me luck 😅
Comment from : darkETHER

i came here to learn about worldbuilding, not SJW virtue signaling
Comment from : ChuckleBoi

Thankyou so much for this! I often get overwhelmed with the amount of information there is to world building, but breaking it down like this is incredibly helpful!
Comment from : Just Another Commenter

Anyounghaseyo, you sound woke, anyone can write anything who cares, the west has ruined your thinking
Comment from : 바보Queen

They can go to the same school because magic could be used for the translations 😂
Comment from : Crystal

why hating on JK Rowling ?brshe's an amazing author the HP franchise made our entire childhood 😔bri still respect and love her as an person
Comment from : SeleNophile

i write fantasy about the world around me you will never run out of content from the world you live in i can turn reality into fantasy and keep it reality but written fantastically
Comment from : DEFECTiVE

Yar telling me in Italy there are no wizards? wut?
Comment from : Elena Campedelli

I highly recommend to look into hard worldbuilding and soft worldbuilding first
Comment from : Javi

I don't get why you started your video that way Lost me
Comment from : MARCO KINGXI

George R R Martin is a spectacular builder of Worlds
Comment from : Maria Milenova

Why don't you want to put JK Rowling's name in your mouth?
Comment from : Fwuuaaark

I think that map is fan made only I'm pretty sure there were only a few wizarding schools revealed in the HP universe, but there may be more unmentioned Also, we can't assume "muggle" politics correspond to wizarding politics since they live separately, or how muggle politics might affect their schooling experiences However, these issues would certainly need to be heavily addressed as a part of the worldbuilding process in a fanfic or spin off series But I digress! brbrThere are a lot of great tips and things to consider Thank you for the wonderful video
Comment from : Hailey Reedy

All this proves is that the masses really don't care about coherency
Comment from : D Gage

Jk is a queen 👸
Comment from : Nice

The entirety of South America going to the same school when we speak Portuguese, Spanish, French AND not to mention the massive amount of dialects in the continent 🙄🙄🙄
Comment from : gabi

Do you have booktok?
Comment from : Madison

How many parts you’ll upload about the world building?
Comment from : Persephone Diggen

You're so creative! Thank you for this video
Comment from : Rachel Pearl

thank you — this was a useful video so useful that i actually took notes! nice, round structured suggestion-ning :)
Comment from : Sabayo Matiku

Some of my fav worlds in books, animes, and tv showsbrbr1 Hunter x hunter (anime)br2 Percy Jackson and the olympians (book)br3Amphibia(Tv show)
Comment from : Nyx🥀

My take is that just because something is fantasy doesn't mean it's medieaval Settings don't need to use the real world as inspiration If you're going to stress about creating cultures, you might as well make something unique I'm not saying that settings based on the real world are always boring, but urban fantasy always felt a little pointless to me Seems like a lot of urban fantasy worlds just slap elements onto the real world without considering any kind of anthropology I tend to like to develop settings with cultures which feel like they belong to the world My philosophy is that if a setting exists in a complete vacuum to earth, there shouldn't be cultures from the real world At that point, the link between the setting and the audience isn't between a shared ethnicity, but between a shared humanity briGeez that sounded more corporate than I'd hoped/i
Comment from : Krahzduul The Obliterator

So the first 5 minutes is just to be vent about JK Rowling, interesting
Comment from : Maurice Howard

my story’s about raging spirits and how young mages learn/restore the peace for their world bri have spent the last few hours coming up with mythology of the 9 main deities… its fun lol
Comment from : liz

oh birds!
Comment from : Herd Dragon

yay this is amazing, thanks for this!!
Comment from : rachel writes

That Harry Potter map is so…😬
Comment from : RiaxaraCo

Omg that harry potter map LOL I loved this video!! Worldbuilding is my favorite part about writing a secondary world :) I think it's the best way to travel and go on adventure hehe by reading a good book with ALIVE SETTINGSSS !! thanks for sharing❤
Comment from : Kelley Tai

omg WHAT is that harry potter map pleaseee 💀 this video dropped at the perfect time bc I’ve been feeling so insecure about my fantasy world building in particular ive never taken the time to think seriously about my secondary world geography, like i’ll sketch things out but i won’t get into the nitty gritty/cultural nuances that im realizing would enhance the world sooo much more!
Comment from : kris | KM Fajardo

I am here for the She Who Will Not Be Named slander and calling out the lack of thought from her Worldbuilding, as you said, has LOADS of factors in need of consideration when building a storybrbrHeck, I wrote a contemporary Tarzan novel and had to think about the worldbuilding in terms of how to write a wolf-based society
Comment from : An Extra Dose of Fran

Great video! I've been meaning to mean Baru Cormorant for years, it's a heavy story!brbrI've been trying to figure out what genre my WIP setting is for awhile I guess it's something between social sci-fi and mundane sci-fi: Primary world, contemporary time frame, but the technology is a little different and a lot of the characters' struggles can be likened to disability, ableism, classism, capitalismbrbrWhich, on the topic of appropriate world building, I nearly scrapped the project a few times because I felt that having human-robot conflicts could only be a racism allegory, which is not something I feel comfortable making my main theme When I realized I could harken back to earlier eras of sci-fi AND make the themes of conflict relatable to myself, those worries fell away! So, if you are a writer who is concerned with appropriation or writing outside your lane, take some time to train your critical eye Some problems can be tackled with research and sensitivity readers, while others can be brought closer to home!
Comment from : Muse