How to create Worlds? Main Events & Causality

Loci

  • Landmarks
  • What are the Core Locations on your World?
  • What are the most Memorable ones?
  • The most Attractive?
  • The most Popular?
  • Who are their Visitors?
  • Why do they visit them?
  • Where are they Located?
  • What are their Origins?
  • Does 1 need an Authorization to access them?
  • Are they Clearly represented on the Map?
  • How’s the Atmosphere?
  • How are their Builders?
  • Why did they build them?
  • Gathering & Change
  • What are the essential parts of a World?
    • What makes them essential?
  • What are the most useless parts of a World?
  • What are their Functions?
  • Are they used for Commerce?
  • Are they places of Gathering?
  • Why do they convey a sense of Belonging?
  • Which Effects do they have on individuals?
  • Which Sensation are felt when gathering near them?
  • How could they transform those exposed to them?
  • Let the World unfold
  • How should your World develop?
  • How should it be planed?
  • How should it be organized?
  • Who will develop this World?
  • How is its synergy displayed?
  • How does Life behave?
  • How do Living beings behave?
  • How do they interact?
  • When do Conflicts occur?
  • How do you display Diversity?
  • How do you create a Sense of Consistency?
  • How do you create a Sense of Coherence?

Preparation

  • Seeding
  • How does the World appear in a Calm State?
  • How does the World appear in a Excited State?
  • When is the World Calm?
  • Why is it Calm?
  • What could disrupt this Calm?
  • What is the 1st main Event?
  • What Triggers the Story?
  • What are the Consequences of this Event?
  • What’s its Timeline?
  • What are the multiple Timelines it triggers?
  • Which Divergences does it cause?
  • Between which actors?
  • How is Causality displayed?
  • When do events begin to converge?
  • Where does Duality come into the Story?
  • When are Paradoxes created?
  • Are there Overlapping Events?
  • Why?
  • What are their Consequences?
  • Coherence & Consistency
  • How do you define the essential Elements of your World?
  • What is Coherence?
    • How do you use Settings to ensure it?
    • How is Causality displayed?
    • How is Fatality perceived?
  • What is Consistency?
    • How do you use Characters to ensure it?
    • What is a Behavior?
    • What is an Identity?
  • Mundane
  • How does a Typical day unfold in this World?
  • What are the Daily trouble?
  • Which Smaller events impact everyone’s life?
  • Which Discrete events will you display?
  • You need small events.
  • You need Minor damages.
  • You need Small crisis.
  • All of this create a Sense of Progressiveness.
  • It creates an escalation to larger issues.
  • It creates a Diversity in events.
  • Administrative evolution
  • Which Reforms does this World go through?
  • Which Legal changes?
  • Which Economical change?
  • Are there New Taxes?
  • Is there a New Taxation system?
  • Is there a New Administration?
  • Is there an Urban reform?
  • Why is there an Urban restructuration?

Items

  • New Buildings
  • What’s New?
  • What brings change to this World?
  • Do New Shops open?
  • Do New Companies install themselves?
  • Is there an Academy opening?
  • Is there a Laboratory?
  • Objects
  • Which Items wold have an Impact on this World?
  • What would be the consequences of a New Invention?
  • Which New Discovery?
  • Which Item?
  • What’s its level of Commonality?
  • Is it Rare?
  • How did it appear?
  • How Random was it?
  • Material & Purpose
  • What are these objects made of?
  • How does it affect their Value?
  • How are they Designed?
  • What are their Origins?
  • Are there Tales relating their Origins?
  • Who was its Crafter?
  • What was the Crafting technique used?
  • Can it be recreated?
  • Trade
  • What can cause a Price Inflation?
  • Why do people start Trading?
  • Do people Share?
  • Do they give things away?
  • How do they Exchange?
  • What do they Exchange?
  • What’s the Provenance of the Items?
  • Which Items are Legally tradeable?
  • Are certain Items under Conservation?
  • Are there Museums?

Events

  • Revolutions, Wars & Insurrections
  • What are the Origins of the Conflict?
    • Was there a Cataclysm?
    • Was there a World-scale Experiment?
      • Is it about to happen?
    • Was there a New Weapon Testing?
    • Is a Species about to be Eliminated?
    • Is a group looking for a Revenge?
  • Is there an Inequity between 2 Groups?
    • Is there a situation of Necessity?
    • Which Resources are sought after?
    • Which Territory became more precious?
  • Uprising Nations
  • Which Alliances will be formed?
  • Will Ancient enemies ally?
  • Will Ancient rivals ally?
  • Did New Species appear?
  • Were New Rights given?
  • Was there a Revelation?
  • What was Revealed?
  • Which Symbol has appeared?
  • How does it gather people?
  • Catastrophes
  • What was the cause of the Catastrophe?
  • What was its Nature?
  • Was it a Natural Phenomenon?
  • Was it a Planetary Phenomenon?
  • Was it due to an Atmospheric Instability?
  • Was it due to a Geological Instability?
  • Was there a Weather Imbalance?
  • To whom devolves the Responsibility?
  • Who takes Accountability for it?
  • How many Victims are there?
  • Is there a form of Assistance?

Repercussions

  • New Organization
  • Was an Organization dissolved?
  • What caused the dissolution?
  • Which former organization merged?
  • What caused this Convergence?
  • Were there shared interest?
  • How does it affect the Balance of Power?
  • Which Major Victory are coming?
  • How are they going to be celebrated?
  • Who was given new Territories?
  • Who was given new Responsibilities?
  • Change of Administration
  • What are the Goals of the new Administrative force?
  • How is the Transition ensured?
  • How will the Populations react?
  • What are their new Demands?
  • What are their new Expectations?
  • How will they be satisfied?
  • Lack of Resources
  • Which resources are missing?
  • Who holds them?
  • How Benefits the most from this Imbalance?
  • Who Losses the most?
  • Was an Unbalanced Contract signed at the end of the War?
  • Think of all the cause of a New Conflict.
  • And how would go the Preparation of this Conflict.
  • Main Character’s death
  • Did a Core Creature disappear?
  • Was it Guarding a Landmark?
  • Who did it cause Grief to?
  • Is there a time for Remembrance?
  • Was it an Assassination?
  • Was it a Betrayal?
  • What will become of the perpetrators?


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