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RE: Wednesday World-building Workshop Part 3
I LIKE the wall 0.o... I've always relied heavily on paper for my notes, drawn and written, but always in a binder. I really like that you have space to take in more at once, and from different perspectives. I'll have to try this idea out. I could see something like this being a very useful tool, especially for someone more visually oriented.
Is this for multiple story lines?
Oh yes. In book 1 of NUS, Might of the Lands one POV character goes to the Towers. In book 2, that POV character leaves there but 2 others stay there while a 4th travels to it near the end of that book. Book 3 there is one POV character busy in the Towers as well... Book 4 and 5 maybe not as much, but it is possible that it gets featured.
What happened was that a lot and I mean A LOT of detail occurred. The Council of High Magi were just too cool not to personalize and define. They are like the Captains in Bleach! Each one so full of flavour and skills. The Supreme High Magi is like the Captain-Commander and each High Mage has a Master Mage as an assistant, kinda like the Vice-Captains!
This is assuming you know the Bleach anime... if not then all you need to do is look at a group picture on Google images of "Bleach Captains" You'll get the general idea.
Although what is different in the case of the Towers is that there may be a larger amount of Master Magi than there are High Magi. Some Master Magi have other duties. Each one of the Kingdom Dukes for instance has a Master Mage in his Court as an ambassador and advisor about arcane things...
Anyway... more of this will come in later...
The point was though that now I have enough information to turn back time and tell you the story of a specific High Mage. How he/she grew up, how he/she got his/her abilities, when he/she joined the Towers and how he/she grew... what adventures he/she had on his/her assignments as he/she moved his/her way up the ranks...
This lead to another great (and terrible) sinkhole of Worldbuilding.... Who was the High Magi's master? Who trained them? Who sat on the Council? They didn't all get replaced each generation thus they had to have phased out over time... Kinda feels like doing the entire history of the Jedi Council.
I haven't even touched that iceberg yet... once I do... who knows? Oh wait... I have 4 ancient names... it's a start...
Wow, look at how a reply gets carried away... did I just do another post?
lol yep :)
That has got to be massive amounts of information and history to keep track of; I could imagine it takes some creative systems. I've never used a world for more than one story line, and building a substantial feeling world for one is a lot of info even when it only effects a more limited perspective. I'm pretty dedicated to detail in setting and history myself, so a lot of obscure knowledge gets collected that never makes it into the story, but its creation still allows for depth, continuity and consistency. I can't imagine on such a big scale, but the idea of keeping that world alive and growing, ever more rich and complex with new perspectives and backstories -
there is something very appealing in it