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mordcore · 1 year ago

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it's actually somewhat fascinating to watch racial bias in myself happen in action

so one of my characters in my story is a dark skinned, arabic-coded elf mage. it's established that she moved to the local town to study magic at the academy. and i kept wondering where her family is from and if elves are good at magic and why she'd have to move here to learn magic. and then it hit me. i immediately assumed that her family is "from far away". like why? why would it be? i think they literally just live like the next town over and this was the closest academy.

anyway... yeah. this is dumb but i gotta work with the brain i have.

#i dont have the spoons to do like intensive research on.. what online people say i have to research #i asked my iranian friend for advice though cause i also wanted to incorporate islam somehow #and he just told me a trope to stay away from and then he suggested the best thing ever #which is to do it like george martin and make up fantasy religions with a heavy basis in real world religions #im gonna have different vibes for the changes but like. yes.#there's gonna be Catholicism But Weirder:tm: and i'll lean more into the cannibalism probably #idk if artemis' cult will mirror anything specific though. sometimes it's also fun to just make something up :p #but if it mirrors christianity adjacent cults due to the bias in my research.. well. that's ok #(oh i also had a fun idea where the fantasycatholics actually god died a while ago and they kept it a secret lmao)#god; at the end of the day; is a social construct. uwu

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