Oh don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of countries and name dropping in my world too, it’s just that I don’t really want to go ahead and visualize it on a map since I feel that would kinda limit me too much and the world would end up just being smaller because of it. The only SaGa game I beat was the first one, though I really want to get the Romancibg SaGa remastered for Vita. Those look real nice
I'm finding that I may need to eventually draw a map. Since my world deals with a lot of historical elements and war, it seems too weird to not have a more grounded sense of geography since characters name drop places and the important events that happen there all the time. In other news, I think when I finish Chrono Cross, I'm actually going to attempt SaGa Frontier 2 again.
I’m taking the Sapkowski map in that I’m not drawing a map at all. I have a very rough idea of the world’s general layout and some key details, but that’s in. I do plan to put that rough outline somewhere in the book, though, since it’s kind of thematically important. Had a bit of a problem with place names, but I kind of have a running theme now if naming countries after musical scales, and it’s not just limited to the classical European ones either.
Glad it's coming along. I had to backtrack to an older chapter to remember what I had a character say to add consistency. I think when I wrote the newest chapter, my memory of that scene was based on an older draft so I'm embarrassed I'm forgetting my own story now. How do you deal with geography? I've been name dropping places but in my head, I don't really have a map of what the world looks like yet. Been a real pain since I'm sure I'm going to have a mistake somewhere due to this.
I had a story back in the day that had races in it but I was still in junior high back then so it was as crap as you probably think Races wipes out in the past sounds much more interesting than just having them be there. It gives you the potential to explore them and humanity’s hubris etc. Meanwhile, I’m almost done with my current chapter and I can already see it needs a heavy rewrite, but the upside of all this is that at least I feel that I know what needs to be done.
I have one story with a few of them in it, and I feel it says a lot about how I feel about them because I basically have most of them wiped out in the first planned book.
I do have a soft spot for regular fantasy races, but yeah, I can’t really see myself writing anything with them in it either.
I just don't write stories with orcs for the most part. I tend to ignore high fantasy races.
Love it
Very true, my only fear is that he's the type of character who would only work in a specific type of fantasy fiction I tend to loath. Basically he's a dandy orc who wants to be sophisticated so he tends to prefer the sophisticated touch of humans despite being an orc. Think Pierre from Chrono Cross but as an orc.
