Alder's Grove

piratekitten declared February world-building month.

And now it is March and I am finishing up the questions!

The question post is here

The eighteenth question comes from clare_dragonfly and is for Facets of Dusk

Who discovered the portal thingies? How did it start out?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

I'm finishing this up in March!

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The twenty-eighth question comes from rix_scaedu and is a meta-question

Do any of your universes have a "big bad" or a "he who must not be named"?)

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

And now I'm catching up in March!

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The twenty-seventh question comes from wispfox and is for Unicorn/Factory

here did the unicorns originally come from?
Nobody knows, and everyone has theories.

The people who live in the Villages, the ones who used to sometimes lose a daughter or possibly just misplace her for a while to the unicorns, they say that the creatures were born out of the deep canyon that lies four day's journey east of Easton.

Certainly the first that the people in the Villages can remember when there were very few unicorns, and those were sighted only in the easternmost parts of the country, only near that horrible canyon or the deep and impassible river that shoots out of it.

The Administrators and those who come from Centon City, the "Enlightened" and "Educated" folk, believe that the unicorns are a natural environmental response to changing factors; that something like a goat was pressed into service by nature itself to be a sort of cleaning service as well as a check on human population growth.

(There are, from that, two opinions stemming outwards: that that's a useful and reasonable thing for nature to do, and that nature ought not dare mess with mankind and its growth and creation - the second factor being that which has sought the eradication of the unicorns.)

There is a third point of view, a very quietly whispered one, that says that the mysterious and never-spoken-of, never-seen Governors created the unicorns for some unknown purpose.

My theory, as the author and world-creator, is a bit of all three. Certainly the Governors created the situation in which unicorns were needed; they may have evolved to fit a niche, but considering their relatively unique form of species propagation, natural evolution seems unlikely.

But they did come to the land in which these stories are set from the east, from the canyon, and they did come to fill a need both the land and the people had.

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The twenty-fifth question comes from anke and is for Addergoole.

What's the reasoning behind keeping future Addergoole students in the dark about pretty much everything?

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February is World-Building Month
The Questions! (still need 4 more)
Other People Playing!
Day One - Planners
Day Two - Aunt Family
Day Three - Addergoole
Day Four - Fae Apoc
Day Five - Vas' World
Day Six - Tír na Cali
Day Seven - Stranded
Day Eight - Dragons Next Door
Day Nine - Unicorn/Factory
Day Ten - Aunt Family
Day Eleven - Addergoole
Day Twelve - Stranded
Day Thirteen - Tír na Cali
Day Fourteen - Space Accountant
Day Fifteen - Worldbuilding Meta
Day Sixteen - Space Accountant
Day Seventeen - Aunt Family
Day Eighteen - Fairy Town
Day Nineteen - Fae Apoc
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Day Twenty-Four - Unicorn/Factory

February is World-Building Month!

I have been answering world-building questions all month; you can find the answers at the febcreate tag.

But, after today's question and yesterday's, I don't have any more questions!

I need 5 more questions about any of my universes,here.

Thanks!

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The twentieth question comes from kelkyag and is for Dragons Next Door

How did a magic-ignorant to magic-averse race of technology users wind up the clueless dominant race in a world full of magic, some of it not at all subtle?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February (or most days), I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The eighteenth question comes from kelkyag and is for Fairy Town

What made Fairy Town different?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The sixteenth question comes from kelkyag and is for Space Accountant 'verse.

What do the external economics and logistics of the pirate ship Genique is stuck on look like? Do they actually make most of their money on ransoms? How do they make contact to make those exchange without getting caught? Are they being grossly overcharged by their suppliers, and/or have wonky and unexpected expenses? Are they a one-of operation, or part of a larger organization??

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The fourteenth question comes from moonwolf and is for Space Accountant 'verse.

What do the pirates actually pirate?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The sixth question comes from moonwolf and is for Tir na Cali.

Why Cats?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February (or most days), I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The tenth question comes from kelkyag and is for The Aunt Family

Ruan seems to be in a different genre from the rest of the family, with scientific chemical/alchemical experimentation and enchanted mechanisms (as well as trapped spirits and whatnot else). What changed? (Or have we just not seen more recent Aunts at that sort of work?)

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The eighth question comes from kelkyag and is for Dragons Next Door

How do dweomers originate?

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piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here, please feel free to add more questions!

The sixth question comes from clare_dragonfly and is for Tir na Cali.

Does the West Coast being cut off from the US change anything for the way the modern US works?

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It was piratekitten's idea; their worldbuilding can be found here.

And now ellenmillion has started here as well.

Come on, play along. :-D

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here; feel free to add questions!

The third question comes from lilfluff and is for Addergoole

Do the Nedetakaei have anything even vaguely similar to the Addergoole school?

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Terminology:

The Ellehemaei fall into two political groups:

One call themselves the Shenera Oseraei, the Children of the First. They call the other group Ashanevai, which means monkey-fuckers.

The other group call themselves the Shenera Endraae , the Children of the Law. They call the other group Nedetakaei, those who have forsaken their Names, which also means those who have forsaken the Law.

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

Every day in February, I will answer one question about any one of my settings.

The question post is here

The first question comes from lilfluff and is for the Planners 'Verse

So it looks like they got started from family discussions after the panic of 1873. But how much was simply saying, "That worked well, we should keep doing that," and how much was an actual organized effort to build something that could hold people together should civilization collapse.

When the Planners first began, their plans were very small-scale: they wanted to keep their family and their close associates safe through any collapse. They were intent on being the survivors, not necessarily in rebuilding a world.

What grew out of that was a combination of factors:

* A growth of target - they grew in number as they recruited new members, as their children grew up, married, and stayed close.

* A growth of technology - as technology improved, the "basics of survival" grew and grew - running water, modern medicine, transportation, and so on. In order to maintain that level of comfort, greater and greater infrastructure and education was needed.

* A growth of horror - the Cold War era led to the concept of "The End of the World as We Know It," the belief in a global catastrophe. that left to a wider scope of planning as the focus could no longer be on the survival of the family; it had to be on the survival of the species if, in truth, the family was to survive.

All of this snowballed from "we'll be comfortable through any small crisis" to "we are the supply and information depot for the post-apocalyptic world."

piratekitten has declared February world-building month.

So!

here's a landing page with most of my universes on it.

I will take the first 28 questions about any of my settings and answer 1/day for the entirety of February.

Go!

Questions Asked:
Planners
1. How organized was their beginning? Answer

The Aunt Family
2. How unique is the family? Answer
10. Ruan seems to be in a different genre from the rest of the family... What changed? Answer
17. What actually happens when someone becomes The Aunt? Answer
22. Request to update the Aunt Family Tree (and start separate trees for offshoot branches whose relationship to the main tree is not yet established)

Addergoole
3. Do the Nedetakaei have anything even vaguely similar to the Addergoole school? Answer
11. How did the parents of the first generation of Addergoole students justify signing up their daughters for forced pregnancies? Answer.
19. What happens to someone who's Changed and cannot find or persuade an adult to Mentor them? Answer.
25. What's the reasoning behind keeping future Addergoole students in the dark about pretty much everything? Answer.
29. Keeping: Was it part of the original plan or it something fae? Is there any specific magical binding for Keeper and Kept? I just read a reference to 'Hell Night' and wasn't caught so he should be home free. Is being caught at Hell Night how you get to be Kept?

Faerie Apocalypse
4. Did the blindness of the fae go away for good after the Apoc? Answer
31. What does the world look like in the year 2150? Answer

Vas' world
5. Are there other colonized planets in this universe? Answer
21. More about how the lost colony got there and came to be lost: Here.

Tir na Cali
6. Does the West Coast being cut off from the US change anything for the way the modern US works? Answer
13. Why cats? Answer
23. Is there a stereotype for who the slavers take? Answer.
26. Why did it originally start out as a hostage situation? Answer

Space Accountant
14. What do the pirates actually pirate? Answer
16. What do the external economics and logistics of the pirate ship Genique is stuck on look like? Answer

Stranded
7. is perceiving and manipulating strands innate or learned? How do people acquire and develop these abilities? Answer
12. Was there a first person to discover the strands? Answer

Dragons Next Door
8. How do dweomers originate? Answer
20. How did a magic-ignorant to magic-averse race of technology users wind up the clueless dominant race in a world full of magic, some of it not at all subtle? Answer.

Unicorn/Factory
9. What do the factories produce? (Other than pollution ...) Answer
24. How and why were the unicorns chained? Answer
27.Where did the unicorns originally come from? Answer

Fairy Town
18. What made Fairy Town different? Answer

Facets of Dusk
30. Who discovered the portal thingies? How did it start out? Answer


Meta
15. How do you-the-author develop the rules of magic in the various 'verses that have magic? (Or Mad Science, in the worlds that have that.) Answer.
28. Do any of your universes have a "big bad" or a "he who must not be named"? Answer.