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As a fantasy book, I am essentially creating my own world. I find that it helps to base things off of the real world when there are so many things to consider before even sitting down to write the novel: geography and natural resources, countries and political structures/theories/methods, economic structures and functions, social hierarchies and structures, religious organization, culture, histories, social attitudes and development, technology, the importance of arts, architecture and city structure, etc, etc, ETC.

 

So instead of trying to do work in a year that normally takes thousands, I am basing much of my world off ours. I usually choose characteristics that will serve specific purposes; sometimes the intent is symbolic and sometimes not. The reader also should not be able to look at Taera (my main country) and say, "This represents [this] country in [this] time period." Not at all. I am all about pluralism and cross-cultural connections, so I am taking ideas and themes from history as I please. Even the names are intentionally multi-cultural.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.