Fairy Tail Engine

Setting

Developing your setting can be rather involved. Some of our most memorable and most beloved stories take place in worlds that are rich with detail. For the escapist who reads to be taken to far away lands, there is almost never enough detail. The more interesting things people can discover about your world, the more they want to return to it.

Fairy tails present two contrasting worlds. There is the normal world, usually devoid of enchantment and the enchanted world full of wondrous things than don’t happen in the ordinary world. In some stories the enchanted world is very far away from the normal world – in a forest, under water, in the sky or in underground caves. In other stories the enchanted world may exist within the ordinary world but can only be experienced by a special few. It’s for you to decide.

1. Where is your ordinary world?

2. How does its location affect the story?

3. Where is your enchanted world?

4. How does its location affect the story?

5. How do people travel in your story?

6. How do people travel to the enchanted word?

7. Where in time is your story – past, present, future?

8. What is technology like in your worlds?

9. What is your hero’s world like at the beginning of the story?

10. What is your hero’s world like at the end of the story?

11. How is the enchanted world different from the ordinary world?

12. How is the enchanted world different from the ordinary world?

13. Describe the geography of your worlds. What does it look like? What land features will the hero encounter.

14. Where are these locations in relation to each other?

15. Describe the recent history of your world.

16. Describe the more distant history of your world?

17. Describe the ancient history of your world.

18. What is enchanted about your world?

19. How do people travel to the enchanted world?

20. What magic creatures are there?

21. What magic artifacts are there (wands, swords, rings, etc.)?

22. How does the hero use magic in the story?

23. How do other characters use magic in this story?

24. What will the future of your worlds be like if your hero wins in the end?

25. What will it be if he does not?