Beginner’s Guide

A guide to help people who want to create their own fantasy worlds.

An example of an origin story, there's a mountain range with four volcanoes billowing smoke. The smoke is floating upwards in an orange sky with three white clouds. Above the mountains are several birds flying. In front of the mountain range is a vast grassland with two hills on the lower left, a large forest in the lower center, and a large lake on the lower right.

What You need to Know to make a Great Origin Story

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What You need to Know to make a Great Origin Story CONTENTS Introduction Every fantasy world has a beginning, a tale that takes the audience all the way back to a time long before the events of the main story take place. This is called the origin story and it’s a vital component of worldbuilding […]

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An example of the hero's journey. Here, the hero, a black haired man stands at the edge of a green plateau, looking at the blue castle up in the skies above the mountains. The hero's green jacket is over his red shirt. He has on gray pants and brown shoes. A mountain range runs from left to right with each having snow tips. Several white clouds are visible around the picture. Groups of black birds are in flight. In the upper center of the image is the blue castle, with two towers on each side, connected to the castle by an archway. The two towers have red roofs while the castle has only blue. Blue windows don the castle.

From Simple Beginnings to Victory: The Hero’s Journey

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From Simple Beginnings to Victory: The Hero’s Journey CONTENTS Overview Nearly every work, whether it be a video game, comic book, or novel, features a hero character. His role is to vanquish the villain menacing the world and save the people he cares about. But prevailing over the villain shouldn’t be easy. The hero must

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