Worldbuilding Exchange Letter
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lea_hazelBy fandom, alphabetically.
The Adventure Zone (Balance)
The Relic Wars! Lucretia is not an impulsive person. If she was willing to take such an extreme move to conceal the relics, the wars must have been enormously destructive. Who were the people who fought over the relics? Which relics did they want, and why? Did they know what the relics do, or were they operating based on myth, rumor, or a partial understanding? Did any of them come to regret their actions? Did any of them survive to see Story and Song?
Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones
When did Jews first come to Rotenek, and where from? Did they have several waves at different points in history? Were they variously welcomed by the authorities and the populace?
I am especially interested in anusim/conversos who came to Alpennia from Spain, either directly or via the lowlands cities.
Other ideas: different guilds or professional organizations that are or aren't welcoming to Jews. Jewish relations with other religious minorities. Court Jews. Jews during the Crusades. Jewish schooling and university admittance.
Leverage
Leverage International does a lot of big work that's outside the scope of what we see on the show. It represents a fundamental shift in the way the team views the world, and their role in it. You can see the hints of this in the later seasons of the original run.
One of the things the Leverage crew excels at is making use of local resources. This has got to be a major component of how the international operation works, since not even the greatest thieves in the world can be experts in the law, politics, and economy of all 200-ish countries in the world. That's bound to lead to friction, from major, sudden changes to dangerous plans, to small things like bickering over cuisine and television watching habits.
Long Live the Queen
I'm about due for a replay of this game, so this might be a good excuse.
Two things primarily interest me: firstly, how magic operates outside of Nova; secondly, where the lumen crystals came from and went to, who made them, who discovered how to use them, and why they can't be destroyed. Once, Nova's dukes and duchesses each had a lumen crystal. Is this the true causality, or is it reversed? Each lumen with a crystal conquered a territory, and they banded together under external pressure?
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
I had not even considered this angle until I saw the tags, but it's an interesting idea. Cultivation or co-evolution? Or maybe a combination of both?
Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)
I'm interested in marginalized cultures, and changelings are no exception. Wherever there is an underclass, there is always someone among them to suggest that they're better than their oppressors, and try to convince the others. Others might be more ambivalent. And, surely, not all trolls are equally disdainful of changelings.
The Adventure Zone (Balance)
The Relic Wars! Lucretia is not an impulsive person. If she was willing to take such an extreme move to conceal the relics, the wars must have been enormously destructive. Who were the people who fought over the relics? Which relics did they want, and why? Did they know what the relics do, or were they operating based on myth, rumor, or a partial understanding? Did any of them come to regret their actions? Did any of them survive to see Story and Song?
Alpennia Series - Heather Rose Jones
When did Jews first come to Rotenek, and where from? Did they have several waves at different points in history? Were they variously welcomed by the authorities and the populace?
I am especially interested in anusim/conversos who came to Alpennia from Spain, either directly or via the lowlands cities.
Other ideas: different guilds or professional organizations that are or aren't welcoming to Jews. Jewish relations with other religious minorities. Court Jews. Jews during the Crusades. Jewish schooling and university admittance.
Leverage
Leverage International does a lot of big work that's outside the scope of what we see on the show. It represents a fundamental shift in the way the team views the world, and their role in it. You can see the hints of this in the later seasons of the original run.
One of the things the Leverage crew excels at is making use of local resources. This has got to be a major component of how the international operation works, since not even the greatest thieves in the world can be experts in the law, politics, and economy of all 200-ish countries in the world. That's bound to lead to friction, from major, sudden changes to dangerous plans, to small things like bickering over cuisine and television watching habits.
Long Live the Queen
I'm about due for a replay of this game, so this might be a good excuse.
Two things primarily interest me: firstly, how magic operates outside of Nova; secondly, where the lumen crystals came from and went to, who made them, who discovered how to use them, and why they can't be destroyed. Once, Nova's dukes and duchesses each had a lumen crystal. Is this the true causality, or is it reversed? Each lumen with a crystal conquered a territory, and they banded together under external pressure?
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
I had not even considered this angle until I saw the tags, but it's an interesting idea. Cultivation or co-evolution? Or maybe a combination of both?
Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)
I'm interested in marginalized cultures, and changelings are no exception. Wherever there is an underclass, there is always someone among them to suggest that they're better than their oppressors, and try to convince the others. Others might be more ambivalent. And, surely, not all trolls are equally disdainful of changelings.
