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What are the most significant historical events in your world?

November 15, 2025 in world-building-questions by Matthew Brown

Some of the types of historic events

  • Monarchs and Emperors
  • Battles and wars
  • Murders
  • Assassination attempts
  • Treaties
  • Leaders
  • Extreme weather events
  • Misunderstandings
  • Feuds
  • Trials
  • Heresy
  • Cultural shifts
  • Discoveries
  • Inventions
  • Proclamations
  • Coronations
  • Earthquakes
  • Volcanoes
  • Religious rifts/splits
  • Executions
  • Uprisings
  • Scandles
  • Reformations
  • Significant thinkers
  • Prophets
  • Hearings and meetings

The hunger from the sea

November 11, 2025 in prompts by Matthew Brown

In the cold dark of winter’s night, for one week each year, the shapeless black predator drags itself from the sea to feed.

What is a taboo in your setting?

November 11, 2025 in world-building-questions by Matthew Brown

What’s taboo in your setting? For example, in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, it is considered scandalous for a lady to show her left hand in public.

What are your setting’s taboos?

What is the unique slang in your setting?

November 1, 2025 in world-building-questions by Jason Latnar

It has to be said

October 5, 2025 in vague by Matthew Brown

This book of prophecy is terrible.

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