the Snowy City is a beautiful metropolis, but you can also leave the city to explore the wilderness surrounding it. who knows where you can go from there!
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Happy WBW! What is your favorite place in your world? Tell me about it. (^.^)
This is actually something I have been changing about my philosophy as my world has become more public over the last two years: Once, I used to focus on places and cultures I wasn't familiar with and each new world was a way to put everything I learned into a mind palace of sorts, I guess.
But these days, since I do try to take a lot of international influence, I want to ensure there is something in each place and culture that deeply resonates with me -- so I will be inspired to make work about that place.
That being said...
...the most self-indulgent place in my world is the City-State of Nouveau Thuille. Above is a picture of the old, snowy courthouse, where pseudo-King Arthur allegedly ruled. It's located by a hot spring and beneath the Upper Continent -- a bastion of liveable space in the otherwise frozen North.
When I was younger, I was obsessed with the quaint, falling-apart, vaguely Victorian mining towns in the mountains near where I live. I love the snow, the rugged individualism, the small communities, the sense of history (Especially as a person from the USA! A sense of history is rare here, it feels lol). I always insisted I wanted to live there, until I started having friends and wanted to talk to them over the very slow wifi... Luckily! No wifi in my world!
I have like 3 worldbuilding posts dedicated to this city because I love them so much I won't hash it all out again, but the tl;dr is they're a city of Franco-Irish Yakuza pretending to be the descendants of the noble knights of psuedo-King Arthur. There are basically no laws, except for whatever people think is acceptable. BUT the Nobles keep things going and encourage general technological and cultural advancement through careful agreements -- bound only by their reputations -- and non-organized crime is actually pretty rare because all the gangs nobles will shut that down SO fast.
I love the aesthetic and the snow and the Ysse lanterns and their mushroom coffee and frozen fish dishes and the harshness and their fluffy, big-nosed llamas... *sigh*
Thanks for the ask!
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