Fantasy settings and colonialism
2020-Feb-28, Friday 12:16
Working more on the setting I was thinking about magic systems for here. I went with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shadaras's suggestion of splitting Changeling: the Lost's Contracts apart into individual spells and called it Sorcery, representing the weird and capricious magic learned from the Fair Folk, and I also want to take Vampire: the Masquerade's necromancy and make that magic learned from ghosts and the dead, and another system that I haven't picked a name for yet based on the demons of the Outer Dark. So that's sorted out.
Anyway, I saw a post on Twitter not that long ago about being careful not to replicate colonialism in fantasy worldbuilding and I've been thinking about it:
( Thoughts )
Anyway, I haven't actually done much fleshing out of the world, but that's what I've thought of so far!
shadaras's suggestion of splitting Changeling: the Lost's Contracts apart into individual spells and called it Sorcery, representing the weird and capricious magic learned from the Fair Folk, and I also want to take Vampire: the Masquerade's necromancy and make that magic learned from ghosts and the dead, and another system that I haven't picked a name for yet based on the demons of the Outer Dark. So that's sorted out.Anyway, I saw a post on Twitter not that long ago about being careful not to replicate colonialism in fantasy worldbuilding and I've been thinking about it:
( Thoughts )
Anyway, I haven't actually done much fleshing out of the world, but that's what I've thought of so far!
