How to take your fantasy WORLDBUILDING to the next level

Let's explore the higher concepts of world-building for your fantasy settings to make it far more believable, realistic, and immersive as well as a few strategies to save time.

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[JackofNothingess]

Shad, your first book was really amazing! Thank you for sharing your world building process that made your book great. Daylen's story and tales of Everfall is just beginning, and I look forward to the next one!

[vincentthendean]

20:01 Of course Shad would build a world where Gambeson is stronger than steel.

[sungazer]

*Me when I started worldbuilding:* Eh, I'm just going to eyeroll it. Throw a couple names here and there and carry on.
*Me now:* Now, you may be confused why this style of hair braiding is called "shatou", which is a surprisingly poetic name for the Gamaho subculture. Well, you see, in the year 1622, there was a minor poet named Eto Fue the Second, who was upset over the price of cotton--

[____-sjvi]

"you dont need to actually write the vast rich history, you just need to hint at it." *Tolkien has left the chat*

[danielgudi]

And of cause an Australian thinks of a world with deadly animals, making everything outside city's a death-zone for humans.

[Yora]

A fantasy world can be anything, but it can't be everything at once. Good worldbuilding is being selective.

[pRahvi]

14:34 Shad: "What else could you do? What about..."
Everybody: "DRAGONS!"
Shad: "...gravity."
Everybody: O_o

[MegaGullas]

Shad: "There's a syndrome of worldbuilding too much."
- J.R.R. Tolkien enters the chat

[shadfacts]

Shad Fact: Shad has his own extra dimensional orchard that grows nothing but oranges. Thus Shad will always have a fresh a ready supply of OJ.

[RoberttheWise]

This is why I love the worldbuilding in anime and manga. They usually take one concept and ride it all the way to the bitter end. For example: Clothing is actually an evil space alien parasite.

[xvoidgamer]

Actually, I get lost in world-building before even starting the story and realized that, when you have a very expansive world, you can have endless stories.

[Napoleonic_S]

Shad losing his mind about flat earthers is the funniest thing I've seen today.

[_arciel]

My universe: flat, floating continents, airships
Shad: this video
Me: well then this is awkward

[DeeSnow]

Fun fact: we do actually have storms in our universe that are the size of galaxies and reach the speed of light at certain points. That's a pretty spot on description of quasars.

[danielgudi]

Virgin hollywood writer: plot holes everywhere because nothing is really set in stone.
Chad Shad: makes constant rules for the magic system.

[yemmohater]

I love how he’s so confident in what he’s doing without being arrogant

[jackmcslay]

Shad: "Having an atmosphere the size of the universe would cause problems"
- Gurren Lagann enters the chat

[neillindgren]

You know someone has built a great fantasy world when you start thinking “what if” theories about it. I was thinking about the world in “Shadow of the Conqueror” and wondering what it would be like in a world like that where light could travel through the barrier. You could look up and see the bottom of your own island, and if you had a good enough telescope, you could lean over the edge of the deck of an airship, look down, and not only see the top of your airship, but also your own back as you lean over. Shad is a genius worldbuilder (and castle designer too)!

[thecolclough]

16:10 Shad proposes a world that's just like a normal one but without timber. My inner Minecrafter curls up and weeps at the sheer horror. Thanks, Shad =p

[evo_is_confused]

I love how with your world the sky's the limit, then it's the floor.