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Worldbuilding Month Day 2: Words in Fae Apoc

Mar7

March is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it!
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This second one is from [personal profile] sauergeek:
Is there any rhyme or reason behind who gets what Words (and how well various people do with those) in Fae Apocalypse?

Oh yay! I know this one!

Words in Faerie Apocalypse are a matter of a combination of genetics and Change. Of course, Change itself is a matter of some pretty complex and confusing genetics…

That is: Someone with a water Change (mermaid, kelpie, octopus) is likely to be very good with Yaku, water. They’re also likely to have been descended from a line of people with water Changes, although in some cases the interpretations are a little strange.

Someone whose parents are very good at, say, Unutu (Worked objects) and Eperu (earth) and are both awful with Meentik (create) is likely to have those Words as their good and bad Words, respectively. If the parents have widely varied Words, well (for instance: Leo is good at Hugr; Cya can’t say it at all), some of their kids may have Hugr while some might not be able to say it at all.

That’s a complex way of saying “it’s genetics,” I suppose.

Of course, there are innate powers that do not come anywhere close to Words, things that can’t be done with Workings at all. Folding space or time, for instance (well, can’t be done with currently known Words…); seeing the future…

(I keep coming up with examples of innate powers, and LOTS of them can be done with combinations of Workings. Which I didn’t plan, but is kind of neat. Even (most of) Cya’s Finding could be done with enough Words… some of which, I might add, she doesnt’ have).

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Worldbuilding Month Day 1: Folding Universes

Mar3

March is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it!
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This first one is from [personal profile] sauergeek:
Which pairs (or more) of these various universes could potentially be folded into one?

That’s a good question! Let’s see.

I’m not going to count, for the moment, the fact that 2/3 of my space stuff seems like it’s in the same world. (Foedus is not). That’s not really an established universe.

There’s been some speculation/fanfic about Addergoole/TĂ­r na Cali, but that’s primarily because TĂ­r na Cali was the parent setting for Addergoole; they don’t actually exist in the same place.

Facets can exist in almost any of them! That’s because it’s a portal fantasy.

I’m not really getting into the spirit of this question, am I?

Okaaaay.

Science! and Modern Superheroes could and might exist in the same world.

I’ve speculated about the Aunt Family and either Fairy Town or Stranded World before.

To be honest, I think that’s about it. Expectant Wood/Aerax COULD be part of Things Unspoken, but I don’t think it is. Oh, and Cracks is probably part of Fairy Town.

I think everything that COULD be folded together already was, back in the dawn of the settings.

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March is World-Building Month this Year

Feb27

…because why not?
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here’s a landing page with most of my universes on it.

Here is the 2014 World-Building post

here’s the 2015 post.
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I’ll answer 23 questions – hopefully one/weekday but we’ll see – so ask away. Anything world-building, any of my worlds, ask as many questions as you want. (if, by some amazing luck, I have more than 23 questions, I’ll either choose what to answer or overflow into April).

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