2, 9, 4 for the fantasy writing ask game?
From this ask game :)
I think I'm going to specifically talk about (spins wheel) Eshda/Etynda here because that's one of my oldest fantasy worlds and I kinda want to test if I still remember a lot about it.
2. MONARCH - Who rules this world, and why are they the one on the throne?
Depends where you are !
In Eshda, there is currently a king. Hereditary rule, he was the oldest child = he's king now. There's a lot of vassals underneath him, however, and they're not always an easy bunch to rule. For example, Bouchemer just did a big fuck you to Eshda and decided to no longer be part of the kingdom. There was a whole war about it and Bouchemer won.
The Empire of Etynda is a little trickier. There is an Empress, and an imperial family, but those are remnants of the Heart's old system. They're mostly wealthy patrons of the arts even though people from outside the Empire are convinced they're ruling (it's partially on purpose). The true power is in the hand of the Imperial Council, which is elected. Each province is represented. Provinces also are fairly independent from one another and can sort of do their own thing alongside the general Empire law. This is- I was 16 when I started making this world and I thought it would be super funny if I made the EU in a fantasy world and they pretended to be an empire about it.
Varnya has a Prince instead of a king, but it's still a matter of ruling hereditary family. The nobility is mostly vampires over there, in this "patronizing but mostly benevolent" kind of way.
I don't remember what's up with the other countries; but I can tell you that there's a desert with city-states and furries in it, and I'd planned to research desertic animal species to design the furries. I never set a story down there so I have never ended up doing any of that.
9. CAPTAIN - Who is the most feared person in this entire world?
Hm. That's. Huh.
I don't know.
I don't have any overarching "we need to save the world" stories with mega powerful villains in there so that's like. I have no idea LMAO
4. KINGDOM - How much of the world have you created?
A chunk of a continent; I might have a map somewhere. It's in french dw about it this WIP is in french.
As you can tell I do not know geography and I have no idea why there's a random desert in there I don't know if that is actually physically possible but i have not researched much about deserts yet and 90% of my stories so far take place in Eshda. The rest of the world is mostly places that are mentioned, implied to exist. I have some bits of Etynda planned out, hence why they have a capital.
I'm pretty sure there's more to this world because I don't think any of these places have ostriches and in a scene to show off how Hashtag Powerful and Hashtag Wealthy the Duke of Monthaut is he makes his guests eat ostrich meat from Really Really Far Away; and I'd apparently implied that it was from like a whole other continent. Atropa doesn't particularly like it.

















