#these posts r pretty long so im afraid im inable 2 go super super in depth

[darcias]

💍, 👠, and 🌈...for the ask game 🤭🤭🤭

WOAH these are such good questions, thanks for sending!

💍: Within my world, there are seven major countries and six known nations, so luxury items may vary from region to region! There are of course all the typical luxuries sought after from the more capitalistic nations such as precious minerals and gemstones. For example, in Gormcairn silk is indicative of high status because of how expensive its material is to purchase and work with, and is generally only worn by the upperclass.

On the flipside, there are cultures boast high populations of magic users and as a result, heavily covet certain physical items that boost certain magic rituals or physical items. I know this is a bit odd because the question specified 'luxury,' but I feel like elaborating a bit more, so here we go. When I first began conceptualizing the world for example, I imagined that the horndust from unicorns, or more specifically, yeti antlers were an invaluable treasure for a multitude of reasons:

The aforementioned species are rare (they live in an isolated continent that's the equivalent of this world's Antartica)

Yetis are a sentient species that highly value their antlers for both practical and social reasons (the ability to channel magic, attract mates, etc. etc.)

Of all magic enhancers out there, yeti answers are unreasonably effective for reasons others have yet to discern yet

In short, you just don't just get yeti antlers anywhere purely because of how inaccessible they are, and the ethics that entail retrieving it. Question of morality aside (for those that are able to stomach it), the effort of attaining one is more of a pain in the ass than it's worth. The slimmest chance you're ever to find a yeti antler on the more temporal continents is via postage on particular black markets, and on the off chance that you are able to find one, it costs nothing short of not just an arm and leg but also a good number of your internal organs. It is an item boasted only by the shadiest and wealthy; anyone selling something like that is aware of the jaw-dropping price for such an item and is no doubt milking that for all it's worth. I imagine if there were ever a list for priciest (illegal) items, it's making top ten with relative ease.

👠: The world I've crafted (which I refer to as the Ouroverse for the time being) is a fantasy-orientated one, they lack suuuper super modern technology such as internet and cellphones and computers and whatnot, but they're far from being in the middle ages. The more earthbound species will travel via train, hot-air balloon or even in the more steampunk-esque blimps of sorts which essentially function as early airplanes. There are of course ships and cruisers as well, and horse drawn carriages and the like. The creatures that are also capable of flight (such as the dragons, pegasi and peryton) will travel as such.

🌈: No idea if there's anything in particular I've been waiting someone to ask me. I will simply say I haven't scratched the tip of the iceberg yet in regards to what I've had in my mind for this world I literally refer to it as my little 'worldbuilding beast.' Just a bigggg dump universe for essentially creating an entire planet and its creatures within from the ground up. In the near future I intend to create documents underlining the history, the politics, the conflicts and struggle of each nation and country and the species therein that it cannot be contained into a single doc and will span 15 of them, actually. I'm insane, I know.