#no but seriously using the diegetic fascination of children (and Eursulon) to give your worldbuilding a sense of wonder
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Okay but somebody has to talk about the way Brennan including an in-world storyteller at the top of the first scene in the first episode of main campaign, vaguely name-dropping world geography and some of the lore on the different casters, is MASTERFUL exposition.
I also can't get what seem to be Umora's version of sorcerers and warlocks out of my brain. Warlocks, okay, making a deal with a spirit makes sense makes sense.
BUT.
SORCERERS BEING THE CHILD/DESCENDANT OF HUMANS AND SPIRITS??
I want. Give me. Give me nowwww. I want a character (NPC or Guest PC) who is the child of a human and a Wild One like Eursulon who lost their spirit nature. I want the product of star-crossed lovers and MORE TRAPPED SPIRITS. The mechanics of that whole process [as explained in the Children's Adventure, Episode 5, not specified here so I don't have to tag spoilers] is so fascinating.
The mark of excellent fantasy/speculative fiction worldbuilding for me? When I can start speculating at the possibilities. When there are so many possibilities that your brain starts to populate the world with unfathomable diversity without that ever being spelled out to you.
#worlds beyond number#no but seriously using the diegetic fascination of children (and Eursulon) to give your worldbuilding a sense of wonder#like it's cool even to the people of Umora#And then the peddler being A BAD GUY???#And the way I should have known he was bad because of how much he glorified the origin of wizards#People aren't talking about this opener nearly enough#Especially since it's the only Wild One content we got in the whole episode#AND I'M SORRY THE FIVE YEAR TIME JUMP?#Those who listened to WO preview knew that this was in the past#The moment I knew he still had Wave Breaker#But FIVE YEARSSS???#Not cool Brennan Lee Mulligan#the wizard the witch and the wild one#eursulon#the wild one#queerlyvictorian posts
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