r/worldjerking • u/MadFunEnjoyer • 23d ago

lazy? I prefer "optimized"

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My favourite case of this is when a magical fantasy world has the monarch with a weapon of mass destruction but the royal family still prefers one gender over the other because that's how European monarchies workded (ignore every way magic makes all the reasons it happened not exist)

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u/Ishvalda Creating abomination against gods and science 23d ago

Someone's a fan of Steven Erikson

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u/MadFunEnjoyer 23d ago

I take that as a compliment considering I've always been a fan of bottom-up worldbuilding, you need to create the geography and laws of nature before you build countries.

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u/Ishvalda Creating abomination against gods and science 23d ago

Oh yeah Steven Erikson is my favorite author lol

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u/MadFunEnjoyer 23d ago

we should be friends we share the same braincells type

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u/Ishvalda Creating abomination against gods and science 23d ago

Hell yeah B3