WORLDBUILDING CULTURES - Terrible Writing Advice 

Terribly Agree XD !!!

What about dark grey?

BNOBLE981 Only if we absolutely must.

Pink is just a shade of light red in a way.

*actually makes the evil empire use argent, azure and dark red*

Ah yes The space western Actually good despite the above lol

It depends if you're going for realistic or rule of cool. For example if space cowboys showed in a series like Dr. McNinja (they don't) it wouldn't be that jarring or ridiculous.

Rainbow the wind sage honestly most good space western stuff ive seen is anime But stuff like firefly is pretty cool too The settings gotta support it like u said

@@d4arken3ds0ul You mean like Trigun? (And I totally forgot Firefly exists. Partly because while I repect the show's existence it doesn't really do anything for me)

Rainbow the wind sage trigun cowboy bebop outlaw star Even wild arms (and the games it was based on) Its a legit genre lol

Or German, British or German.

Or in a urban fantasy everything is related to christianity and pop media monsters like demons, angels, vampires, werewolves...

To be fair, Urban fantasy is partially what turns some of these things into pop media monsters.

Urban fantasy is one of those things where done right can be interesting and captivating, but when done like crap it really REALLY shows. And 95% of urban fantasy is crap.

90% of anything is crap.

A Suspicious Avocado everyone who disagrees with me is an evil empire!

A Suspicious Avocado you just described Ancient Rome

Nailed it. "So what if they are a highly advanced society with high happiness index? Their attitude toward gender role is incompatible with mine! That makes them space Nazis!"

🙈 So freaking true. Sadly, I don’t think I can think of writer who hasn’t fallen into this trope. Can it even be overcome?

You just described humanity

It is more related to fact that every planet has one city as multicultural planets aren't as that rare.

To be honest, I can kind of understand why this is used a lot in sci-fi. If you already have 10 alien species, you do not want to make 10 different cultures for each of them. You only need to really flesh out the ones where your protagonist(s) come from. (Usually, this is Earth, so the work has already been done for you.) Your protagonists will naturally have the perspective of a foreigner on all other alien cultures except their own, so they can't reasonably be expected to know about all the cultural and religious varieties existing on other planets. Most of what they will know about those aliens is stereotypes or cultural generalisations. You can observe this on Earth too. What do you know about, say, India? Cool clothing, hinduism, holy cows, callcenters... These are just the stereotypes associated with India by foreigners. We do not even have an in-depth knowledge about other *human* cultures, and much less about alien ones. So, it is not unrealistic to portray your aliens with monolithic cultures. After all, this is what your protagonists will likely see them as.

That's okay, because each of these planets conveniently only have one single biome, like jungles/desert/snow, from pole to pole.

@@TheRezro even fucking Dragon Ball had planets with more than one culture like the Sayian homeworld for example.

every planet have one environment everybody know that... I mean look at star wars

Duwang Man Other Time Traveller: Catholicism

Time traveler: Your building and art style became really popular after the middle ages.

your laws, language, architecture, and political systems form the basis of like 3/5ths of all countries, so pretty good by comparison to your contemporaries.

Contributions to legal and political systems across the West; spread of Christianity; the creation of several Latin-derived languages, and silly idiots who think they're the heirs to Roman greatness.

What is this Christianity thing you speak of? Is that another name for Jupiter or something?

Just goes to show the sad state of RU-vid as it is...

Oh boy, do I like people censoring themselves in order to avoid backlash !

The dumpster fire is an accurate representation of the subject.

lord money bags69 your comment sound ironic, but i don't know it was, i mean you literal will make a rip off of the romans without any creativity; also psycothic extremists muslims like you know nowdays didn't exist until the last century

lord money bags69 That sounds like such an awesome novel! As a European history enthusiast, I've always wanted to read a book like that. Byzantines/Holy Rome is hard though... I personally prefer Byzantium irl, but the inner politics of the HRE can be so interesting if done well. However, I would suggest using the Byzantines for historical reasons. That shouldn't stop you from writing about the HRE though... maybe just add them in as a third country.

I think they should ENACT a love triangle with the OSP Learning by doing, always better than simply babbling about it

Honestly I was thinking about something along these lines as well. I think a collaboration between Mr. Beaubien and Red where the former does his facetious explanation of what not to do would mesh well with Red's witty delivery.

I'd like a three-way with Red, blue and JP.

Annie Song , #ReyLo confirmed.

I LOVE OVERLY SARCASTIC PRODUCTIONS THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA

LOL true

Or if it's mostly white. The CSA had that problem with one of their flags.

*My French ancestors:* Press Y for pride.

Red Viper France🏳️

Well then, France was invincible for 30years

Also, make sure not to include a pronunciation guide (if it's a book), so no one knows how to pronounce your made-up names and words.

When I come up with names for things and people in the alien race I’m making, I use the letters, each letter having origin in a body part or a physical object, to name things.

For me I slammed my head on the keyboard removed some letters and put it through goodle translate twice

Here’s an example of a relatively common name (like how the most common named in the US is James) in the culture I’m working the most on (Romanized, of course): Ahkla. It translates to hero/heroine. Most names in this culture are gender neutral, so males named Ahkla are called Ahklasah and females with this named are called Ahklaseh. The name is pronounced Ah-kla-sah/seh.

uwuaychak'ara is glad for your help

I can’t stop with it and get done with the plot, halp

yeah, for me, world building is the easy part. it's everything else that has me in tears. i guess i picked that up from playing dnd for so long.

*So what you're saying is: You're in a love triangle with world building and making plot.*

I love worldbuilding even more than actually writing. I'm stuck in the eternal dilemma of making awesome and complex worlds but not being able to show all my hard work to anyone cause I didn't bother actually writing the stories for them.

So have you ever thought about, writing everything down in the wikid and then you can read through and you can also show it off. Some of the concept and other things of that kind.if you are interested you can Google wikidpad. Also it would be kind of lovely actually seen what you are created so if you do it. It would be really awesome if you send a link. I wish you well in your endeavour.

Romulus Numa millhouse!

Now I'm picturing priests trying to convert people with the question "do you know da wae?"

Please don't...

You mean Reddit?

Need some funny memes like uh Doge you guys like the Doge meme

'God forbid biology has an effect in culture, what would be of us if the world actually were consistent. We would be living under some evil (insert evil regime here, like nazism)!' Now seriously people don't tend to think that point, biology makes culture, and culture ends up modifying biology specially in areas of strong selection like when criminals are killed off for centuries, then you get less of them. Because we literally breed ourselves for traits.

@@businessproyects2615 natural selection is nowhere near that fast, and doesnt work like that lmao but go on Dr. Strangelove, tell me how we'll benefit greatly from eugeni- I mean government assigned mates! (With complimentary reeducation centers)

@@bloodyhell8201 On the good side, you would realize how bad are goberments at it. So bad is better of to not have them messing around one way or another. About natural selection: It depends there's strong changes enough to diferentiate species and so on, but small ones are easier to achieve we know that because we aren't all clones of each other. It would be weird if by having some sort of selection pressure in any population there would not be a change in its average parameters as a result. If in the middle ages they start hanging violent robbers before they are able to properly reproduce, then you would expect violent people to have statistically speaking more traits which keeps them away from being violent robbers than they did before. When you start appliying all of that over the length of human history and beyond you get why we are like we are. Literally we've been breeding other humans for a long time by now, we just don't like to say it because it sounds like something someone with enough introspection into human nature would say, and people with strong instrospection on human nature are either masters of the human mind which are dangerous socially, or they've learn to hate human nature because they know it and it ain't good. Which is also dangerous.

@@businessproyects2615 by this logic, you are a threat

@@dradronicgaming744 everyone is, life is about living well even though we know deep down humans aren't fully good or evil.

The cost of the mandalorian crusades is shown in the Clone Wars TV show with the planet Mandalore stripped of it's natural resources and almost uninhabitable Their military power comes from their engineering prowess, they're a warrior culture, that actually has a method to the madness

Well, thanks to Disney this isn’t a thing anymore.

@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095 Ahsoka showed up in Rebels, so Disney clearly considers her to still be fully canon.

The Sangheili (Elites) from Halo also have an exceptionally developed warrior culture. As do the Druchii in Warhammer Fantasy. Those bastards do over-the-top evil right.

I was never sold on Mandalorians (the darksaber? Seriously?) Up until that new show revealed they have a schism that resulted in different political factions. Suddenly they felt so much less cliche, and actually deep and interesting as different ideas on what a warrior culture should be

Mirogod Oh, I originally typed them out but then deleted them because I thought no one would care! Well women aren't allowed in the military or in high positions of power (they can still work and become bosses, but they won't get very high in the government). Abortion and divorce are illegal. Um...I could have sworn there was one more thing, but those are the only ones I can remember right now. They're the ones she hated the most. She still doesn't really like me for it. I guess she doesn't believe me when I tell her their values don't necessarily reflect my own.

wow that sucks man

So she wanted you to base your society on like, modern history within the last 50 years rather than the 99% of nations that existed in history? I see

cruz92895 Yep. She wants me to have every single country in all of my worlds ever have all the modern values that she thinks are important. In other words she wants me to create the Mary Sue version of a world.

Sounds pretty arrogant and disrespectful to the cultures of all the other women in history. But I suppose short sighted virtue posturing does that.

Just Some Guy with a Mustache Stop being in every comment section

I see you EVERYWHERE

keep being in every comment section

Yep. A planet of hats.

Just Some Guy with a Mustache I have idea how about cowboys in space

Give them a character design of 8 colours which hideously don't work (assuming their not in the grey uniform of the opposing empire).

Picky Psychology Student 10 at least.

Picky Psychology Student No,wait,give them 10 colors that look like shit together at the least.

What video did you come from?

*or rather a spork...because they are more leaky and hold less*

Polysynthetic languages be like

I made a fake language for my story but the names of places have very basic names. Mahia sounds pretty, but translates to Sun City in the native language of the protagonist’s hometown.

I know at least three languages that, under right circumates work exactly like that

also, you should NOT watch biblaridion's series on language creation. it sucks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FHK1gO2Mh68.html

That’s good worldbuilding though

Lack of knowledge... that's a problem but the world with the crystal might not find the other world worthy of this kind of energy.

@@TJTrickster To be fair a world with literal magic has no business judging how us semi-intelligent down-trodden apes who started out with sharp sticks power our goddamn life changing tech 😠

I went a bit too weird with my fantasy idea, because it was still the typical setting, but a lot more diverse. Medieval Europe/England in my thing is just boring ass humans. I had two elf groups, one based on the Irish and another on fucking Rome. Dwarves are Vikings as always, but maybe with actual research on the Norse. No orcs, but for some reason a race of cat people with four kingdoms based on Japan, Moorish Spain, Greece, and for some reason several ancient Middle Eastern cultures like Egypt and Israel.

Maybe look into the Merle trilogy by Kai Meyer. It's weird. It isn't much fantasy in some ways, it's set in a mostly real life Venice, but mirrors are magic, and Egypt is monsters. Works for the story.

You dare question the elf-dwarf-orc love triangle? what is this heresy?!

@@clueless2001 😂😂😂

@@andresacosta4832 to be honest, that's one of the things I hate the most. Humans = Western European cultures. Every other culture belongs to non-humans. It's really Anglocentric and there's no nuance. Why can't there be multiple races for each culture, creating subcultures within x nation. Why is everything (at best other than the Western European human nation) an ethnostate?

No, anywhere on the internet will burst into flames as soon as controversy is mentioned.

well the author might not suggest anything, but i recently stumbled upon a youtube channel named colttaine. his videos are interesting.

You are just looking for the comments, arent you?

There's a RU-vid channel named after the mighty ruler of ancient Akkad which is known for discussing such things, but beware, this is a power not to be trifled with.

fruityrudy21 You mean the guy that often fucks up his research. I would rather point towards channels like Contrapoints or maybe Shaun. Though it probably depends on your already existing beliefs if you are willing to give them a chance. Their oppinions might not be entirely reasonable, but watching them without bias can open up new and interesting perspectives on various issues.

don't forget to augment this attire with gas masks, goggles and barbarian chain maile, maybe a bit of neon here and there for no practical reason what so ever...and if you're feeling bold and carefree throw in a feather boa...

Good writing

Sounds hot.

Side note, I sucked at writing when I actually began to write the book. Now all that my edits say is clunky exposition or notes to reword the sentences. I've been at it for about a week now. Gotta power through it. Just halfway through. *shudders at the thought of more editing* Please, help. P.S, here is some shameless promotion. Go to Wattpad and check out my book called The Game For Power. My username is JamesStark612.

You have become my role model with this. I aspire to world build one day...and then accidentally chronicle every single thing from the beginning of the universe to the very end.

Knowledge? You know, whay they wear on holy days, what they eat on holy days, if there is some special dish or something that they make on those days (for example, a special beef stew is made on the death day of an empress), if they sacrifice something, if they burn something to signify something, if they dance erratically like they have the dancing plague from France (it's a real thing. People in the early 1400s got a dancing plague in France. Look it up.), if they pray in a special way or have some special prayers, if they do some activities like light candles, or throw a party for a good harvest season or something like that. Just routine stuff.

Well, I think you need all of that culture and worldbuilding. Maybe turn it into a set of slideshows to help organize it. That's what I do. It helps focus everything into bite-size chunks of how the things relate to one another.

Ok, here's what you do: If you want to get all of the festivals in, have the story take place over however long it takes to have each one happen. For the traditions, have an outsider come in and ask about/partake in each one. Maybe even have a festival and tradition happen at once to cut down on how much space you need. Especially if at least one of the festivals is in celebration of at least one tradition. Hope that helps. P.S. I know from experience how painful it is to go back and edit your earlier stuff. Do it anyway, You'll thank yourself for doing it now rather than later when you go and look at it again.

Exactly! Writing has made me appreciate school a lot more lol

me crying in my Christianity-related rabbit hole I dug myself into when I just wanted to make some references and jokes in my Devilman fanfic on par with Go Nagai's own bits of accurate Catholic lore...

Use a superior website, like ifunny

Hey you two let him use the website he wants!

Why did i reply to a 2 year old comment?

holy fucking shit its the annoying dog.

@@higrunt9844 wtf toby fox is watching terrible writing advice oh no he's gonna force a love triangle into deltarune chapter 2 oh god-

Should've done this idea for April fool's. The video would give genuine writing advice. And for the twist at the end, there's no twist. You're welcome.

No It was all a dream

Some of those were covered in the episode on evil conspiracies. But yeah, this would be about plot twists that come out of nowhere because the writer thought them up about two seconds before writing them. When they're well-written, a second or third reading or viewing reveals the set-up. It can be really fun when it seems that the upcoming plot twist is thus and such, then turns out to be something else entirely.

Make sure to constantly allude to the big twist so even the most brain-dead and stupid audience member can identify it! Or just say the protagonist was DEAD THE ENTIRE TIME!

YES! Nothing can ruin a story faster than a plot twist that had absolutely no foreshadowing because the author cared more about shocking the audience with absurd twists and turns than telling a coherent, satisfying story.

Leslie J. Vasquez That sounds kinky

there's literally a song called the math of love triangles and there is no way the songwriter didn't write it as a tribute to this guy

BerningDaPlaceToTheGround FIRE I wasn't meant to be. *(insert lenny face)

That needs to be a sex position now.

That's a thing it involves a threesome giving oral.

why would you even want to overcomplicate a flag

@•o• but aren't flags made to be recognized easily?

@@kedarunzi9139 If you love graphic design too much to learn about the goals of a flag, no, that isn't the goal of a flag.

@@paulelkin3531 a goal of a flag definitely isn't to have as many components plastered in it it becomes an amalgamation of shapes not resembling anything

@@kedarunzi9139 You seem to be assuming the average person is intelligent, and I'm not sure how to break the news to you.

The Republic of Mary Susan

oh, my, god, WE WERE UNDER MARY SUSANS CONTROL THE WHOLE TIME

Well, the dislike button exists now, but nobody uses it on the videos I watch. Don't wanna try it as I'll get jumped. 😋

pecu alex I thought the same thing, but I double checked. The goal is to barely touch the ground with their head, and no I don't know how they are not all dead.

Just speculation, but they prooobably keep the ropes tight enough that they're going much slower by the time they reach the bottom.

I'm pretty sure your right. that said it's still odd and I'm still not doing it.

Ika I couldn't tell you. This was years ago and I bet you I couldn't spell it even if I could remember it.

I remember seeing a documentary about that particular tribe. I don't remember its name or its location within Africa, but if memory serves, the idea was to have the rope (which is somewhat elastic) be just long enough for your head to hit the ground, while slowing you down enough that the impact won't kill you. The longer you made the rope (and therefore, the harder you hit the ground) without passing out, the more awesome you are considered. This last bit could be fabrication on the part of the writers; it would make more sense, as a rite of passage, if the intent was only that your head would softly touch the ground. That way, you'd have a test of courage that won't result in dozens of fatalities that could endanger the tribe's survival.

I mean, imagination is borderline myth. The only creativity we got is how much we can bend a real life subtext into a story and make it work.

@@sharilshahed6106 Sounds like heresy, sir.

@@BeeWaifu your profile pic is heresy

@@sirp7394 Good, good. Soon you will be offered a better life by the dark powers. Leave the corpse emperor behind.

I would watch that

Knowledge? 😂😂

@Knowledge! If The Killer do a Disturbing Stuff he would End Up In Jail after Investigator Finds out The Culprit has Necrophillia

I love detectives so i hope he does that.

And remember, you need to know the definition of foreshadowing. "Blatantly stating the twist before you get to it so everyone knows what's coming and then changing the twist at the last second leaving everyone mostly just confused and frustrated." Also wax poetic as you over-explain every detail of the case save for the information that's actually pertinent.

Detective Pikachu

Sounds good. But how did they gain access of space travel too early?

Pyroskies Sounds really interesting, reminds me of the Krogan from mass effect.

Pyroskies ok so you made the krogans from mass effect. Good choice.

Eh...I was thinking of the Predator Race.

Interesting. Are you gonna publish it in book format or are you gonna put it on the internet? Do you take inspirations from real world cultures?

Yup. Glad that someone mention that.. shamefully after Discovery they will be seen as space orcs 0_0

+TheRezro Good thing nobody actually watches discovery.

I think this was less a criticism on works such as _Star Trek_ , and more a warning for would-be writers who try to copy.

And the shows trying to explain Klingon society in detail just makes it even more broken. Just like trying to explain the Federation always seems to backfire. Star Trek should have kept its casual Space Cowboy approach to world building.

+Connor Walters You can’t win either way. Originality is dead; all you can really do is take something and put your own spin on things.

@@Dreigonix That is completely not true... 'I will never be original because Im not special or some genius that can make it' idk I just hate this mindset. People make original things all the time and they're great, Shakespeare was probably even himself starved of any creative process.

+stirfriedrice What I mean is that even the most original works take inspiration and influence from other works here and there.

@@Dreigonix Ahh yeah that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. And If that comment seemed passive aggressive I did not mean for it to. But, for the highly developed society were in, from the very beggining of time, or the beggining of writing and fiction. Cant we say that all writing took inspiration from something, because we are just figments of a reality we dont even know exists. And if thats the case we are living in an inspiration in itself. Food for thought but originality to that deep of a sentiment can never be achieved. Otherwise you would have nothing in the world.

If it’s obvious then it’s likely the right choice. Don’t fall into the habit of making your culture exotic for the sake of it. The reader will also want to draw a logical conclusion and with minimum effort. For example: say your culture lives in a barren place where no crops grow, well the likely cultural solution is to take someone else’s food by force. Is it trite, cliche and unoriginal? Are they basically Vikings? Yes, but it’s also what your reader would reasonably expect given the circumstances. Take bandits in fantasy. Bandits are soooooo cliche, yet banditry was incredibly common and so it’s a believable and therefore excusable trope. Your world should be believable as your audience goes on an adventure page by page and sometimes you need to be cliche and unoriginal to do that. Cliches are fun but they’re also the building blocks, the hammer and nails of a story, they’re neither good or bad it just depends what you do with them. Frankly, someone calling anything cliche is just them trying to be a superior-know-it-all-smart-arse, usually people who would never bother to put pen to paper and if they did would fair little better. That’s my opinion.

Ah, so draw from existing things so it feels more normal/understandable? Makes sense to me.

It makes a lot of sense, but it's hard to imagine for most people, and it invariably starts horrible flamewars when discussed on the internet, which is why TWA avoids the subject at the end of his video.

@@ImusakHctividar existing things don't feel normal to outsiders too.

Hey, don't you leak the script for "Bright 2: High Elves can't dance"

In AD&D that is what define them, but only because they live amongst humans. That many bad fantasy stories make forest elves only into more advanced monkeys is other story.

Wait are you the Aldor that I recognize a few months back? We talk to each other whenever we see each other's comments.

@@kingsleycy3450 i have a court ordered restraining order from dancing in public or within 5,000 feet of a populated area but that's not exactly the same thing is it?

At least they have couture.

The bane of all future award winning authors when they like get around to it.

reminds me of a futurama quote: "I don't know, but I'm afraid we'll have to use....MATH."

I read this as Heresy, I was severely disappointed.

Most of them are basically under designed, just take the state seal and put it on a flag. Some have very nice looking ones with only a few colors and simple to redraw, then there's Maryland which went a few steps too far in complexity, but when they do just have a complex image over blue it's not because they didn't stop it's because they just didn't care from the start

Yeah Wtf is wrong with you Maryland

Maryland's flag is the best though.

Petrico94 Maryland's flag is the heraldry of the founder of the state. It's not any more overdesigned than the British royal family crest, ect.

+Matthew Longley Colorado, Alaska, New Mexico have pretty good flags too…

their*

Knowledge? Actually war is good for other countries because these gains more money selling weapons and in fiction they can sell Warriors,Mages,Spells,Item,share sacret power for a limited time and if the people on war wants more they would need to pay even more.

Look up the Magic: The Gathering short story "Truth of Names." It follows a character from a clan of warriors who play the "Glory in Battle," trope pretty straight. The prose might be a little weak and it's a VERY short story, but I think it captures a really REALLY unique aspect of that fantasy, and is a bit deconstructive in its own ways.

magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/truth-names-2015-01-28 I dunno if the link will post but here it is, because I'm never gonna pass up a chance to share these stories which are far better than they have any right to be for stories about a f*cking card game.

Except why do they have to constantly be at war? I'm sure you could make a species who is focus on warfare while being smart as well.

I personally liked the happy face, while everything was going ablaze.^^ Maybe it is only because it was moving and changing, while the new intro is only one picture.

I thought my phone audio was glitching out for a few seconds

I prefer the old one tbh

I DON'T LIKE CHANGE!!! ( It do look nice doesn't it?)

I like it! It's not cliche if you actually put this much thought into it, go get em'!

Not at all, most good worldbuilding projects start out as a single trait or set of traits that is later built upon to make more traits and quirks to create a unique culture.

The problem is not that, the real issue is putting stuff without thought and research just because.

It's only bad when you forget to actually grow them out.

Even in the modern world, most widely-known cultures have stereotypes that people can associate with them. It's easy enough to quip, "Americans like guns, lots are fat, and they forced the Kardashians on us," but once you start looking at the history of the country a lot of that stuff starts to make sense, even if not all of it is sensible.

Nope. It's on the flag

No story is complete without it after all

well, we're talking about worldbuilding cultures here. Why not create the REPUBLIC OF THE LOVE TRIANGLE, where every aspect of their culture is about LOVE TRIANGLES???????

Not a FLAMING dumpster fire! Those are so much worse than the regular kind! LOL

you mean cliche spartans. Sparta was much more than a warfare culture. No society can be built solely on war. Three main reasons being 1) You must build good reasons for those poor guys going to die endlessly 2) Peace eventually comes, lasts, and no one likes to get bored. 3) Only a fraction of the population are fighters. What are the customs, habits and activities of all the others?

war

Ian Peters Damn, why didn't I think of that

@@benjaminthibieroz4155 Being completely and utterly built on the stealing and fighting and war, its probably why Sparta collapsed. Brides dressed up like army men for the wedding, after being ceremonially kidnapped. Kids were left to die off mountsins if they were weak. Schools taught lying and stealing, and only reprimanded being caught. It was said, come back from battle victorious, or not at all. Suicide after loss in battle was common. War is Sparta, it might've had a few other side things, but that is all. Side things. edit: stop the reply or there shall be serious consequences good lad oooo

@@extrablandchaos2149 I thought all of these things were myths? I mean...common...throwing half the babies into volcanos at birth? Societies can be dumb and evil but there are still limits. Also, how the US was at war for 92% of its history? Unless you consider every little military operation happening on background and i'm not even sure it would reach it. Also, there's a difference between being constantly at war and being a culture that evolves solely around it. Europe, Japan, Roman Empire,...they've known century of regular warfare but they created so much more than just soldiers and weapons.

Empty your attic, bun it all and hope nobody finds out you wrote it.

Exactly Or better! Never write it so it stills being perfect in your head!

Say it isn't canon.

Well. I didn't finished anything yet. And I may never do. I'm the enbodiment of almost every thing this channel talks about

Ziliock Almost as perfect as your OC.

My first thought is for the same reason that society is isolationist. The "social" class could be considered like garbage men, a job that's necessary, hazardous, and no one wants to do, but everyone looks down on those who do it. It might be necessary for the isolationist people to communicate and trade with outside nations/planets, but it's possible that they have a motive to remain isolated, a motive the untouchable class agrees with.

Just make sure that, despite the fact that this ancient civilization had technology better than our own, that they never expand beyond their one city. Just like how Rome just stayed a city-state and definitely didn't grow into a massive empire engulfing the entirety of Europe!

I did a Empire named the Mercurian Empire,They were created by the Mercurians,People who fell down from the stars,They had advanced technology,but sadly there was this thing called The Praga,which translate To Plague in Brazillian Portuguese,It was transmitted via Bite,Soon the Empire fell dowm via this Plague,But they had one last hope,They would Put their Remaining Pure Brains onto Machines,Capable of Aerokinesis so they could manipulate tools by levitating them via air,But the catch was that the machines would need alot of time to recharge,Aproximally 1,000 Years to be exactly,And after the Remaining Mercurians were put in their temporary bodies,they went to a deep slumber,in the region of Porto Velho,Rondonia Brazil,which translate to Old Docks(i think) So,what you guys think?i am tired now,i think i need sleep

@@chriswentz5197 okay forerunners get eaten by flood, anything else?

I’m 5 years late but I thought my headphones were broken How’s 2019 btw

That's because Warhammer operates on Rule of Cool: if it's cool enough, it doesn't have to make sense.

One theory that could improve Bright, is that the Sauron Expy was not really that terrible. That is to say, if he was a tyrant, but he was not very different from for example Genghis Khan or Attila.

Exposed!

When i arrived back home from Ireland to Slovakia i played Ultramarines vs Death guard Board game that we bought in Language school in Galway (Western Ireland)

40k has also had decades to evolve most of them into there own thing only paying lip service to there original concept in their look

Same here. "Oh God, he's gonna go in on me." (later) "Huh, that, that wasn't so bad. Some tips here and there, but yeah...I'm good"

SylenDraws Honestly, I get hung up on language barriers all the time in my writing. I don't blame some people for just ignoring them outright.

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Universal translators are implanted in everyones brain.

There's always that one character which does the Chewbacca thing of making one very specific noise which a nearby character in the party reiterates the point that he was making so we can understand. Furthermore the Wookie language is just a bunch "WAAAAAHHHHHHHS" Which would be like if we talked like: AAAAAAABBBBB AAAAABBBBBBBB AABBBB AAAAAAAAAAABBB ABABAAAAAAAAAAB ABBBAAAAB AAABBBA AAAAAAAAAABBBBB AAB, so how the fuck did they make a functional language out of 2 syllables?

Because the readers want to see interaction between the characters- not just between the protagonist and his galactic translator.

FILTHY ACTS AT A REASONABLE PRICE: ROMANCE RAILROAD I would say yes. It ads uniqueness to it but don't over do it, and don't spend too much time on it

Just change it to Worldbuilding religions

FILTHY ACTS AT A REASONABLE PRICE: ROMANCE RAILROAD... It definitely fits under the "World building" umbrella category... AND it's not going to really matter whether your perspective is "True believer" and the god(s) actually reached down to the "Prime material plane" to design and influence existence... OR if it's the "Psycho-Historical Philosopher" and the societies that arose developed their own myth and lore to explain the world, eventually creating traditions and titles for deities (existent or not) to give identity to their rituals, ceremonies, and belief structures. I agree it's a worthy episode, and like anything else regarding world building, you can (and probably should) go full on into the details, even down to minutia... JUST do so SEPARATELY from the novel, script, comic(s), or other "public consumption" type material you're writing... Here's the thing. Whatever actual world building process you take up, as you flesh the world of choice out, REMEMBER that readers want ACTION... Not necessarily in the sense of protagonist absolutely demolishing antagonist(s) (which is fine, to a degree) BUT stuff happening... and people doing things. If entering the social contract to read your book results in accepting "Info' Dump" after "Info' Dump" of expository lessons in history, religion, psycho-pathology, morality in context, and language artistry... IT'S going to be a very long, dry, read... and most readers do NOT like "going back to school"... We've graduated, and we're here to be entertained. THAT is your job as a writer. SO build... BUILD to your HEART'S contentment... JUST remember that a lot of it may not even see the light of day for years... UNTIL some marketing guru suggests something like "You know... A fanbase this big, and everyone in cosplay for YOUR characters, cultures from YOUR world(s)... YOU could make a LOT OF MONEY with a 'Beginners' Guide to Deeznutstopia! Have you thought of that?" AND at least, in the case that something like that happened with a publisher, cohort...er... colleague(?), You could be prepared with material for the work. ;o)

When people comment before finishing the video Lmao he said he ain’t touching that with a 10 foot pole

Dark Lord T-Bone That was just redundant.

meh, in my story i have an antagonist who knows he is evil and revels in it. trying to put him in the "love to hate" category

One of my villains wants to destroy all criminals by taking over the world, so he wants to be a hero but is actually a bad guy. That's totally not done before, right? ;-)

well that's the nature of most stories, the core concepts of stories have all been figured out way before any of us could read or write, its about the way the story goes about its whats makes them unique.

well, just dont make them monolithic, are the soldiers just obeying orders? maybe they are blindly loyal, do they have families they are just trying to feed, could take the star wars approach and they troops are just brainwashed from birth to follow orders. think about your evil empire with the same care you have thought about your main characters, one interesting approach, maybe the evil empire could just have an overly macroscale view of the "greater good" performing atrocities, but at the same time rising their empire up to greater and greater heights hitler is actually an interesting example for that. he did the holocaust, but he also took a germany that was as crippled as his left testicle, and turned it into a superpower that advanced technology at a pretty impressive rate and took over most of europe. as much as germany would like to forget that part of their history they could easily be a 3rd world country right now if it wasnt for hitler. now despite the good hitler did for his people, he is still seen as a horrible man, by germany and most of the world. the holocaust was just such a great atrocity that it overshadowed everything else about him. most people usually just use the nazi movement as a way to say "oh, look how evil" but the nazis were a symptom of the oppression of germany after WWI, hitlers anger and malice wasnt grown during WWI, it was grown after so why is your empire evil? can you write them in such a way that makes people think "there is some merit to letting them continue their reign" can macro scale leaning people sympathize and support your "evil" empire

privatepessleneck You could try to spin it in the direction where they don’t think they’re being evil, it’s just what’s normal for them. Good and evil is rather subjective.

The two controversial topics?

Well, about religion, you can just make a religion that some characters adhere to and some do not, and about gender roles, there are two methods: either you can develop a bunch of cultural ideas about gender that stem from external biological and/or social pressures, that made the society internalize a bunch of attitudes towards sex and gender... Or, if you prefer, you can just make a society that's completely egalitarian on the level of gender and everyone are pretty androgynous in terms of presentation and behavior. The first one has the potential to be more interesting, but the second one is both easier to write and comes with less of a potential to screw up.

PopstarChamp Burning Pencil is a symbol of *hate* . Why would anyone praise the destruction of a tool of intellectuals, artists and students everywhere and why are you so anti-intellectual?

Marylandbrony After conversing with my Burning Chibi Robo monument, I have found the answer to your question... The answer is...... THE LOVE TRIANGLE.😃

Long live the Love Triangle, The Strongest Basic element of writing!

Well if you're a society that worship evil, torture, and death, than you would also probably worship a Burning Pencil Statue XD

Don't forget to praise the Love Triangle Statue as well XD !