Recent content by Sharad9

World builders disease is a medical condition in which a person becomes so invested and obsessed with building their world that they forget to write the story that goes with it. Their minds are so filled with great ideas but they never make it to print due to procrastination, fear, among other...

This art is applied through magical means and tools. Being washed off isn't a problem. They are permanent unless the wearer wants them to be removed.

Body art, or henna, is an important element in this setting. This art is painted on the skin and applied with magic. They are semi-permanent, being removed as needed by other magical items. It is not mandatory to wear, but very popular and widely used by men and women. They are gender specific...

What if in a magical world, people would be punished with curses rather than prison for violent offenses. This would be for crimes people found most despicable (murder, rape, torture, etc) and would be applied by a priest of the religion. The curse would be placed on your soul and force you to...

So what it I just say "because magic"?

How do you deal with inbreeding issues?

In my research I came across a culture that believed women were the ones to pass on their genes to offspring. Men however, didn't pass on their genes, but their spirit. The spirit was the seat of personality for the human being, and the place where attributes and characteristics precided. Good...

When I said evil, I don't mean societies that do things we consider evil. The nazis were not committing evil in their eyes, they saw their actions as justified. I'm talking about an empire that considers spreading evil as a goal in itself. Like D&D lawful evil types.

I don't mean people like the nazis, but empires who worship evil for the sake of being evil. An ordered society with laws, ideals, and goals, but that holds evil as a virtue. That holds villainy and it's spread as a sacred tradition. Does anyone have examples of this?

If I were going for the horror experience, how should I approach that?

Being possessed by a foreign entity seems very tame in the stories where I have seen it. The event doesn't have the gravity that I feel it should, and the person usually goes back to living a normal life if they are freed. I always felt that being possessed should be taken more seriously as a...

It's more of a world building project. I wanted to build a "realistic" matriarchal setting to see how different it would be from our reality.

Magic is used in growing food, creating stronger than steel materials for buildings and constructs, creating crystal-like batteries that provide unlimited power for machinery but that wear down over time, making portals that can make short jumps from place to place, etc. Magic is used in all...

Magic is slow and time consuming. It is not the fireball throwing type. Therefore, they wouldn't be at the front lines.

So I should dispense with the"choose the sex of your child" idea? What about the other aspects of reproductive control? Do they work?