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**Worldbuilder’s Anvil**

Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants your next setting to be your best?

Do you want to build better fantasy worlds?

Then the Worldbuilder’s Anvil podcast is for you. Learn to create the physical world, characters, cultures, kingdoms, races, species and monsters. Learn it all, with some banter to boot.

Join Michael and Jeffery on the weekly podcast that looks at storytelling, game mastering, pop culture and life through the lens of fantasy world building. Subscribe TODAY!

Listen to new episodes every Monday and BUILD BETTER FANTASY WORLDS.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 61: Kurriq Spirit Magic May 06, 2015

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Today's Topic - Kurriq or Baurhdrakkiem Spirit Magic

Inspirations
- The little know about Druids
- Baurhdrakkiem religion and alphabet
Kurriq
- Earliest Cultural Religion
- A Spirit-based Magic Ritual, Location, Time
- No symbols outside of the runes in the alphabet
- Sacrifice from the life forces plant, animal, sentient,
- Potion, amulets, elixirs, and balm bases
- Spirits can be used to create non-direct effect
- gods can be called upon to cause direct effects
Common Traits
- Spirit Connection
- Spirit Speech
- Spirit Sight
- Channeling
- Medium

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Episode 60: Storytelling from a framework-based world May 04, 2015

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Today's Topic - Storytelling from a framework-based world

Storytelling from a framework-based world
Outline your plot,
- List of characters you need
- remember to look to other genre's to strength your overall story
Picking your location
Picking your time and place
Check your created characters to see if any characters should or could be used
Sketch out the physical dimension of import locations that are new
Review the locations of other area's
Write out your first draft! Just write it out.

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Episode 59: Interview: Philip E. Carroll May 02, 2015

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Interview: Philip E. Carroll

From World building in his youth with his twin brother, Philip's course has been set. Now a husband, father, grandfather, podcaster, and author; Phillip dedicates himself to building better fantasy and science fiction worlds. He as dedicated himself to transition to this full time. Let's give worldbuilders Welcome to Philip E. Carroll. Go Army!

Introduction
Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
Tell us about your latest work.
How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
Biggest achievement to date?
What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round

What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
What tool(s) could you not work without?
What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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Episode 58: Erratic Explorers visit Middle Earth May 01, 2015

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Today's Topic - Erratic Explorers visit Middle Earth

Special thanks to One Wiki to Rule them all
Basics
- The 800 pound Gorilla for fantasy worlds
Races
- Humans
- Dwarves
- Elves
- Ents
- Orcs
- Goblins
- Hobbits
- Gaints
- Trolls
- Spiders
- Wraiths
- Wolves
Places
- Misty Mountains
- The Great Sea
- Mirkwood
- The old forest
- Gap of Rohan
- Moria
- Mordor
- Brandywine River
States
- Mordor
- Gondor
- Rohan
- Rivendale
Languages
- Adûnaic
- Black Speech
- Khuzdûl
- Rohirric
- Westron
- Valarin
Why it works
- Devilish details
- Map with the books
- Rich history
- Deep lore
- Division of good verses evil

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Episode 57: Do you microclimate? Apr 29, 2015

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Today's Topic - Do you microclimate?

What is a microclimate
- Created
  - Magical, supernatural, or technological
  - Structures
  - Dams
- Natural
  - Maritime
  - Highlands
  - Craters
  - Caves
  - Magma
Why should you consider microclimates
- Makes the world feel more natural

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Episode 56: With all laws of physics- how would shapeshifting work? Apr 27, 2015

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Today's Topic - Random Question: In this setting-with all laws of physics- how would shapeshifting work?

Questions are the foundation of Worldbuilding
Found on stack exchange from Molua Young
Criteria
- magic is an inherited ability to manipulate energy and matter
Answer
- Look to the universe for inspiration
- The butterfly effect
  - Egg to Caterpillar
  - Caterpillar to goo
  - goo to butterfly
- Really everything starts in a different form from birth through life
Additional questions
- Does the mass of the being change
- What happens to the conciseness of the altered being
- What limits the ability to shapeshift
- Can magic speed up or slow down the process
- Can living beings change into a rock...

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Episode 55: Interview with Monica Spath Apr 25, 2015

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Interview: Monica Spath

While Adjusting during the day Monica is a storyteller, artist, weaver, animator, lover of science fiction, movie writing and most especially loves storytelling and curling a bit in upstate New York.

Introduction
Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
Tell us about your latest work.
How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
Biggest achievement to date?
What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round

What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
What tool(s) could you not work without?
What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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For complete Fantasy Worldbuilding show notes go to Gardul.com

Episode 54: Welcome to Fantasy Kingdom of Baurhdrakkas Apr 24, 2015

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Today's Topic - Welcome to Fantasy Kingdom of Baurhdrakkas

Apologies
Inspiration
- Battle of Teutonburg Forest
  - Ancient Germanic Tribes
  - Unification of Germany in 1871
- Francisca
- Principalities of Glantri in Mystara
- Orders of knight from Dragonlance
- A Kingdom with out the King
Predicate Kingdom

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Episode 53: Magic in Gardul Apr 22, 2015

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Today's Topic - Magic in Gardul

What is magic in the universe in Gardul?
- It is the Dark Matter, the strings of connection
How is it accessed
- Extra magical
  - Ritual
  - Location
  - Time
  - Not just about god(s)
- Innate
  - Think
  - Speak
  - Action
- Learned
  - Time
  - Shaping
  - Summoning
Cultural influence
Changes over time
Noun confusion

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Episode 52: Test your Fantasy World Apr 20, 2015

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Today's Topic - Test your Fantasy World

What is the point of testing your world?
- Target the same part of world you plan to
- Like beta readers for the background
- Allows you to learn what needs to be fleshed out and what needs to be ignored
- Allows you to check to make sure the places and
Be upfront with the reason you are doing it
- Ask for feedback
Ways to test
- Short stories
- Oral storytelling
- Role-playing games
My preferred method
Know your avatar
- Ask your avatar if about the criticism

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