Creating A Fantasy World – Introduction

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I’ve always been fascinated with world-building. I love creating new races, spaces, and history, fill the world with religion and culture, politics and magic, give everyone a purpose, and a land to live in, make them interact and create a story from that.

Because of that, I have decided to take on a daunting task, and that is to create a series of posts in which I describe my own method for creating a fantasy world.

There are a lot of blog posts and books out there that deal with the same subject, but what will be different in this series of posts is the fact that I will be building a new world with you, as you go along reading each new post. I will have an ongoing document where I will add onto our world all the elements presented in each post.

I don’t know where this will eventually take us, I hope somewhere really epic, so the index below is subject to change. I will turn the items into links, as posts become available, and I will move them and edit them as I go along. If you want to follow this post you can bookmark this introduction or subscribe to my feed to be notified when I add something new.

So, let us begin. Below is the outline of the posts to come. If you have any suggestions, things to add, things I missed, please mention them right now so I can account for them ahead of time.

Geography / MapLanguage and NamesUnits / World PhysicsFauna & Flora / Natural ResourcesPolitical System / GovernmentRacesReligionMagic SystemHistoryTechnological AdvancesTravel and TransportationCommerce and FinancesFolklore and MythsArts and Culture

Hope to see you again soon with the next installment in this series!

All the best,

Tagged as: Worldbuilding

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About the author: Iulian Ionescu is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. He wrote a number of short stories and is now in the process of publishing his first two novels. Iulian blogs on Fantasy Scroll hoping to share his knowledge and struggles as a writer with the writing community. You can find him on Twitter at @iulienel and @fantasyscroll.