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How do you give a lot of necessary world-building knowledge without info-dumps?
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How do you give a lot of necessary world-building knowledge without info-dumps?
I’ve got a plot that really hangs on understanding the intricacies of the setting. Without knowing any of that, the story would not make much sense. I hate info-dumping but there is a lot of stuff the reader needs to know.
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If you need to introduce that much background information before the plot proper can get underway then you need a narrative that can act both as character introduction and development whilst also being a tour of your world.
From the sounds of what you are describing you first act (25%) is probably this easing in phase. Following an outside into the inside could act as an audience surrogate to pin your drip-fed information display to without it seeming like a dull old info-dump.
TL;DR: Find a character you can begin with for whom no background understanding is needed.
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