Crystal Skies Timeline Preview
Added 2024-04-16 20:12:40 +0000 UTCHey Folks,
I'm jumping between lots of different projects right now and as a treat this weekend I decided to use an RPG called Microscope to jumpstart some creative writing I've been thinking about for a while.
The idea originally started as a creative exercise: flipping fantasy tropes I see in world building. What if instead of iron and blood imperialist like the Horde, Noxus, Fire Nation, or the Empire, there was an inflating socialist state? What if the spiritualist nation of Ionia or the air tribes or the jedi were worshippers of dead gods? What if instead of elves being like... elves, they were wealth hoarding cannibals?
Microscope is a game where you set up a timeline for a fictional place, making large periods and smaller events that happened within those periods. This gave me a guide to think about how this world might have come about, and before I knew it I had nearly 20k words about this world I'm calling Crystal Skies.
And since you all support me doing this kind of thing, I thought I'd share what I have right now:
This might not turn into anything I can sell. It's just something I'm doing for fun at the moment. Maybe I'll write some short stories, or a novel, or a setting supplement for ttrpgs. I just like making something for the sake of making something. That timeline is also missing a lot, like a lot a lot. I'll probably add to it throughout the week.
But you all give me the confidence and time to do these sorts of things.
So thanks! Again!
Hope you're well.
-Michael
