#tuocp

🚂 - How easy is transport?

🏛 - quite a bit of broad strokes, but filling it in is definitely still a work in progress 😂 The main defining history split - the BC to AD as it were - is a conquering jackass decides to try and become God, and the result is worldwide devastation due to the splitting & re-shaping of a continent; the only reason it doesn't just ruin everything is because most of the world's magical entities give up their lives to mitigate the damage. So, dark age + technically kind of a lingering fallout that leads to... basically a decimation of human population & a lot of changes to lifestyles to adapt to a world that is now (mostly) actively hostile to them.

There's also a few inklings to specific political struggle events, but. Developing 😂

🚂- not very! Especially in the modern age! Automobiles are still a ways off, so it's mostly pack beasts, wagons, boats lmao. Once upon a time, there were at least some nice roads (ruins are still about, and some few are still in use) that were a clear, easy path, but uhhh. Not so much any more.

.... look it's the first Saturday I've had off in ages, and I've actually been doing quite a lot of worldbuilding lately - ostensibly we're still delving into the history of The Untitled OC Project, but now it's... ??? Like we're getting somewhere, I'm just starting to wonder if I haven't finally put together more of a sandbox than I originally intended 😂 (at least I'm realizing this before starting what should be a series & then getting distracted by delving into the history- anyway)

So yeah, uh... I may try and find some ask games for structure, but in the meantime... I wanted to word this nicer but y'all are getting the bullet points sorry.

Fantasy - the current lean seems to be somewhere between high fantasy and more of a sword and sorcery vibe (The Magic Is Faded/Nearly Gone, one of the oldest/most influential powers is on the verge of collapse, climate us getting Fucky).

There is evidence that, within the earliest historical records (& geologic evidence but that's not a major field for them lmao), the now-countless islands & couple of greater continents were a single landmass - though what caused such a cataclysmic breakup is still unknown.

Pirates are a hell of a thing & a genuine career path, but that's also because the powers that be have a very broad definition of piracy lmao

Magic is real & changes you. Not just in the metaphorical way that any kind of power can change a person, no, like It's Radioactive But If Radioactivity Made You A Creature.

(Alchemy is also there & is the equivalent of wearing a lead suit. & now they've started figuring out straight chemistry-)

Anyway. Inbox open.