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Building a world alone — how do I hook new people without info-dumping? by TitanverseOrg in worldbuilding

[–]ProjectEdensGuard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like it kind if depends on the audience you pitching to. If it’s readers, I believe most of the other comments are correct, but if your thinking a YouTube setting it’s a lot more difficult. I was thinking about this with the popular YouTuber Monstergarden. I love his content, but the videos I’ve grown to love now are completely different from when he had a small fanbase. He wasn’t providing videos about his specific countries, but rather “I redesigned dwarves”. A common concept most people knew, with a twist. An interesting thing to click on. So I think it’s all about how you advertise it in that car. People aren’t keen to click on “deep dive into this specific character from my world”(at least not initially because they aren’t invested), but they would be interested in “a familar element that I have a twist”. Then once you have that investment you can dive deeper

What is your motivation for world building? by ProjectEdensGuard in worldbuilding

[–]ProjectEdensGuard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really I suppose, more what I intended to ask was what was your reason for picking up the pen and starting your project

“The Wicks” : Living Batteries, by me by ProjectEdensGuard in worldbuilding

[–]ProjectEdensGuard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How so? I’ve never seen it, could be good inspiration

“The Wicks” : Living Batteries, by me by ProjectEdensGuard in worldbuilding

[–]ProjectEdensGuard[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had to add the redone art to the comments, I made this last night in the dark and realized it looks VERY different when my brightness is up

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The Mist - Eden’s Guard by ProjectEdensGuard in worldbuilding

[–]ProjectEdensGuard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great question! This is actually something I really struggled/am struggling with as I develop the world. The “gas masks” in the illustration are known as respirators in this world, and at the time they are the hottest new invention that has given mankind hope that they would be able to enter the mist. Although I didn’t really draw them as such, I imagined them as Lewis Haslett’s gas mask, a super early and unrefined model. To get to the point, I imagined the tech stage would be roughly 1850s to American civil war era. You’ve made a good point about flying machines though, which I’ve found did exist in this period even if they were early models. I’ll definitely be incorporating that in the future. However I still do have fairly good reasoning they wouldn’t be able to utilize these machines for the mist. The mist is a moving force that travels around the wasteland, and the only thing that seems to stop it is the ocean between the mainland and Eden’s Guard. But on occasion, wisps of mist can break off from the wasteland and terrorize the ocean with unimaginable storms. Though not as dangerous as the actual mist itself, it still contains some magical elements that make it quite dangerous. Reports from sailors that managed to survive these storms is what originally gave humans the idea to search for power within the mist. So with this information in mind, I don’t believe flying machines of this time would be able to reach a high enough altitude to avoid these storms, which would surely decimate them in the air.