Back through the Clockwork Field – Edge of Eternity – Series 2 – Ep. 82
Daryon, Selene, Ysoris & Fallon head for their next destination - a clockwork swamp, taking a detour to see if they can find the weapons they've missed.
Writing Craft: Using Tradition to Give Depth to Your World
It’s Australia Day, today, and that, coming so soon after Christmas got me to thinking about what significance this sort of even might have for world building. After all, every society celebrates or commemorates something, whether those events centre around a religious festival, an event rooted in history that helps define national identity, a culturally significant day, or a personal event. Each and every one of these helps to give a society structure, and to build individual identity. They are often used to cement a society of individuals into a cohesive whole, and as such are an essential part of social fabric. And this means that a variation or replica of some or all of the events below should exist in every story that is peopled by individuals and communities: Religious Festivals: Christmas, Ramadan, Passover, and Easter are the four events that come immediately to mind, and this reflects my own cultural bias and experience. Those of you from other backgrounds will come ...
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