General questions

What are your motives for worldbuilding?

  • to write a novel
  • for the intellectual challenge of scientific exploration
  • for philosophical exploration

What’s your genre?

My genre is hard, dark, science fantasy with some nature heroic fantasy in it :

  • my magic has a precise set of rules
  • i m tackling difficult themes
  • there s both wild and human magic in it
  • there s, obviously, a heroine
  • and nature is going to be a character in itself

What’s the scale of your world?

Basically, I ve got four planets and a space station on my hands. But since I feel like being precise, the setting takes place in :

  • the mother station
  • the emperor’s city on the planet Scyllkphoe, Theleia
  • the wilderness close to the said city

What’s the mood of your world?

there s two worlds in my world, so :

  • the mood of the mother station is grim, dark
  • the mood of the wilderness is wondrous. But dangerous.

What are your themes?

  • a coming of age story
  • « good overcoming evil »
  • and overcoming the odds

What s your conflict?

My conflicts are going to tacle those philosophical issues :

  • the place of man in nature
  • there is also going to be some religious/spiritual themes