This year has seen me do a lot of world building for the fantasy setting I’ve been working on for over 25 years. This includes:
- Adding kingdoms and wars between them
- Adding cities, including some underwater for a water-dwelling species and floating ones for a flying one
- Creating the monetary system
- Creating magic portals
- Creating magical pathways
- Creating a supernatural “bogey man” and a variety of magic items relating to him and some of the above
- Laying out the city of the gods
- Creating over 300 magic spells and defining the system of magic further
- Adding details to an evil race of one species and their kingdom
- Resolving “ancient history” issues and update the known history of the world (plus the cool hidden stuff)
I also retired several really old book ideas that were conceived long before most of the world building, giving me a fresh start on a variety of things. That was long overdue. From here on I should be working on writing instead!