This is the fourth posting in this series. To read the other postings, click here:
Naming Your World and Choosing a Heirarchy
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CROPS AND CREATURES
For those making a Sci-fi world, this section might not be as important to you, but you might want to read along regardless.
In your world, you might want to create unique crops or creatures. You might have orchards of white apples or elves and fairies. Do unicorns exist? Dragons? Orcs? Goblins? What about other strange creatures? How about extremely large birds? Harpies?
Maybe you could have mutants as well. Could centaurs be the product of magic gone awry? For those doing a Sci-Fi, you could have mutant people or maybe even creatures in the same way the movie "Total Recall" had. Remember because they were breathing tainted air that they became mutants? Has that happened on your isolated lunar colony?
Now the fun with this section is if one of your characters somehow get sucked from our present day world into this strange new fantasy world you've created. How would someone react to seeing a faun for the first time?
Create creatures and plantlife to thrive in your world and put them in regions on your terrain map. Perhaps your white apples only grow in a small isolated orchard high in the mountains. Now why are these apples special? Because they provide long life to any who eat them. So they would probably be in high demand at the royal court, right?
Well, you can see where the imagination might run away with you on that. But go with it! Whatever creatures or plantlife you create can be easily written into the history of your world which is one of the upcoming topics I'm planning on talking about later on.
What makes your world unique? Is it filled with magical creatures? Mutants? Strange creatures that might 'almost' look like our own terrestrial animals?
Believe it or not, once you have this outlined, a history is much easier to write, as you can weave the creatures into the background of your world. You can weave folk tales around the unicorns that live in the forest. Legends surrounding the elusive white apple. :)
You never know. So be fruitful and multiply! :)
~~Becka
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Case in point, in my world, there's a specific flower called the "Heartfire Lily". It's a lily with five petals, that's kind of orange-y in the middle that goes to red at the tips. It's probably a flower you can find in our world, but in the "real" world, they aren't called "heartfire lilies". :P
Just little things.
~~Becka