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On the one hand, 100,000 years is a pretty damn long time, I mean just look at how drastically writing systems have evolved over the past 5,000 years of their existence. On the other hand, since ...
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Hello fellow world builders, I would like to keep track of the biographies of several characters as well as chains of events in relation to each other. For example "When the King declared war ...
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So I'm trying to see if this scenario would work for a piece I'm writing. I know timetravel can be quite specific and most people dont like it because its executed poorly. To specify say the ...
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I am writing a fiction draft about a main character who happens to be transported into another world as the leader of his main faction in an RTS game he used to play. The background of his RTS faction ...
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so for context this kind of alien possess no vocal cord to make sound like human had instead, they communicate by making sounds akin to whistle,chirp,and clicks. this kind has no native writing ...
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Scribes and other literate administrators were a hot commodity in the ancient world. Whether they were Confucian Scholar-Gentry or Catholic Monks, the pre printing press world made whole social ...
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a small thought about size advantage in fictions especially sci-fi. It always happens. Small slender robot or cyborg beats an opponent that two or even five times bigger than him. It explained in ...
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I may be asking this in the wrong place, as it could be a pretty subjective question- just let me know and I’ll ask elsewhere, but I saw on a recent post that the Code of Conduct on this site ...
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I'd like to make a nonmagic user rise to power in my story dominated by magic users, but I can't think of a way that doesn't use magic in any way at all. I don't want the character to use any magical ...
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On earth, the first writing systems developed for accounting. You just cannot run an empire like Egypt or Mesopotamia without writing down who paid his taxes. Let alone organize mega-projects such as ...
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I'm writing a short story and I'm intending to have one of the characters utilizing a plasma weapon as infantry. The way I'm planning on explaining it is the plasma is kept in a slightly unstable ...
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The title is my question. I'm writing a short story and I'm considering have the aliens develop radiation weapons for use against humans and I'm trying to figure out a way that they could be both ...
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Does anyone know what kind of weapon could make a jagged scar from the middle of your shoulder to just where your wrist starts?
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In a future where a large company is launching a series of interstellar colony fleets to nearby star systems, would it be feasible if they modified the English writing system and Earth kept to the ...
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I realise this is a bit of a strange question, but what would bloodstains look like after ~500 years? Specifically, what would a text written on parchment using (human) blood as ink look like after ...
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