What is Worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the act of creating your story setting. Every fiction author does this to some extent, regardless of genre. Some authors only need to create fictional towns set in our already-existing world, whether past...
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The A-Zs of Worldbuilding began as a series of blog posts by fantasy author Rebekah Loper, for the 2014 A-Z Blogging Challenge. At the request of many, she adapted those blog posts into a workbook....
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Rebekah Loper began creating epic worlds and stories as a child and never stopped. She is the author of the original A-Zs of Worldbuilding posts which include Building a Fictional World From Scratch (2014), Building Magic...
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T is for Temples – Worldbuilding Religions
Temples, churches, cathedrals… all of these are tangible ways to influence a culture for generations. Not every religion will demand a specific place of worship,...
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S is for Saints – Worldbuilding Religions
Like I said… I kind of had to post R and S in opposite order of what they should be for these topics, because alphabet,...
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S is for Sabbatical – A Quick Announcement – Returning May 4!
Okay, S isn't really for Sabbatical, but that's going to be the stand-in for now. It may be no surprise by now that I dropped...
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R is for Relic – Worldbuilding Religions
Okay, to be honest, R and S are going to be kind of backwards, so if you want to wait to read R is for...
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Q is for Questions – Worldbuilding Religions
Whether the religion you are creating for your cultures and worlds slips into becoming a cult or not will depend on how they treat those...
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P is for Prophecy – Worldbuilding Religions
This topic is going to loop back around to F is for Fate. Fate and prophecy are interconnected because you can’t really have one without...
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O is for Orthodoxy – Worldbuilding Religions
To be orthodox within a religion means to be traditional. It means that the rituals, forms of worship, doctrine, and creeds can all be traced...
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N is for Nuns & Monks – Worldbuilding Religions
Sometimes, there are people so devoted to their faith—and/or their god, but it doesn’t have to be both—that they seek to serve it in any...
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M is for Miracles – Worldbuilding Religions
The first question to be considered here is what makes a miracle, a miracle? Miracles, to the everyday person, are usually defined either as some...
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L is for Laws – Worldbuilding Religions
I’ve covered concepts of law before, both in G is for Government in The A-Zs of Worldbuilding: Building a Fictional World From Scratch and in...
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K is for Kings – Worldbuilding Religions
Ah, theocracy. A theocracy is defined as a government where either a deity is the ruling power, or the priests of a religion rule as...
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J is for Judgement – Worldbuilding Religions
This time, we’re following up right along with the previous post! I love it when topic themes work out like that. So, yesterday we talked...
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I is for Iniquity – Worldbuilding Religions
Along with ‘what is evil?’ another popular question about religion is ‘what is sin?’ While this could lead into a huge philosophical debate that many...
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H is for Holy Days – Worldbuilding Religions
Holy days might be considered some of the best things about being religious. Even now, in countries that have moved past established state religions, they...
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G is for Gods/Goddesses – Worldbuilding Religions
Ah, deities… nearly every religion, just on the basis of being a religion, requires them, though many do not. I briefly touched on some of...
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F is for Fate – Worldbuilding Religions
There are so many fun ways to play with fate when it comes to religious beliefs. Later on, we’re also going to look at prophecy...
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