/lit/ - Literature

Glorantha, nigger

>That arbitrary square of mountains around Mordor

accurate geography

>Captcha: actually ouransma

"NONESTICA" IS MY FAVORITE "FANTASY WORLD".

ELPHABA WROTE THE "BEST" CHILDREN'S BOOKS, ALTHOUGH THE "OZ SERIES" GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE WITH EACH VOLUME.

>>2966039
>Marxist Kountry not in the bottom left

I SHIGGY
(seriously, it should be 'Stalin Kountry' or something...)

>>2966046

"LEFTIST LIBERALS" ARE NOT IDEOLOGICALLY MARXIST, THEY ARE JUST "SOCIALISTS".

"LEFTIST LIBERALS" ARE USED AS "MASS POWER" BY THE MARXISTS.

Tamriel.
Nirn.
Aurbis.
Mundus.
The Wheel
The Tower
The Third Empire

I'd say the Elder Scrolls takes the cake for most-named, if anything

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>>2966069
>implying you can even comprehend the 16th-dimensional mathematics I'm decompiling
Greetings, Vehk.

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>>2966069
>>2966061
Wait, what? Are you serious?
I thought the Elder Scrolls was about giants plummeting people 1000 feet into the air.
There's a fucking lore that gets into metaphysics?

The world that Joe Abercrombie has thought up is top tier, it's derivative of real life but so rich and full of character.

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>>2966080
Kirkbride is crazy

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>>2966092
"CHIM
CHIM is a letter from the Ehlnofex, meaning, roughly, “Royalty”, and described in shape as a Tower which threatens to break at the slightest lapse in concentration. To understand CHIM, one must first have a basic understanding of the nature of the Elder Scrolls universe.
The Aurbis is the Wheel, which symbolizes everything that exists; the eight spokes being the Aedra, the sixteen spaces between the spokes the Daedra, and the hub at the center being Nirn. Mundus is the hub and the spokes - Nirn and the Aedra - while Oblivion is the spaces between the spokes, the various realms of the Daedric Princes. Take a wheel, turn it sideways, and you have an I. The I is the Tower, inscribed within the Wheel-that-is-the-Aurbis.
Now, if the Wheel-that-is-the-Tower is all creation, the Secret of the Tower is the secret of the Aurbis itself. The Secret of the Tower is CHIM. When a person achieves CHIM, he leaves the Wheel and sees it on its side for the Tower it is - and he sees the secret Tower within the Tower, in the shape of the only name of God, I.
When speaking of CHIM, we must bring the Godhead into play. The Godhead is the supreme power in the Elder Scrolls universe, though no one knows of His existence. All of Aurbis, Anu, and Padomay are merely His dream. His dream is the entire universe, and everything is a part of Him."

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"To achieve CHIM is to realize this, to recognize the Godhead, to see that everything is His dream, and to know the absolute non-reality of the Aurbis.
CHIM is both an event and a state; in the event, one realizes this falsehood of reality, and in the state, they must balance and maintain this realization with a perseverance of the Self, the ability to say "I Exist” when all signs and powers practically force the opposite.
At the point of enlightenment, or at any point afterwards, one may fail; the “1” of Existence and “-1” of non-Existence collide and “Zero-Sum”, and the individual is unmade, undone, ceases to be. This is where the analogy of the Tower threatening to break comes in; a lapse in willpower, or awareness, the loss of the “I” of the Self, and the Tower-that-is-CHIM is broken. Zero-Sum.
In knowing that everything is merely an extension of the same dream, one gains the omnipotence and omniscience of the dreamer, since they are a part of all things and people and events that have ever been. Thus, one has power over this ‘reality’ in the same way one can move his arm. It's like a little part of the Godhead having a lucid dream, where He is still dreaming, though He knows He is dreaming, and thus has control over His dream. Control over everything. This is CHIM."

This is but a taste of the profound and mysterious depths of the lore of the Elder Scrolls.
If you want to learn more, seek out the Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec.
It is everything this series has to offer.

>>2966080
Snake-people creation myth.

>>2966116
That's just allegorical fuckery, though.
The Yokuda and Tscaesci creation myths, as well as (partially) the Khajiit's,
are less accurate and verifiable than the clear dichotomy of Merethic and Human myths.

Lorkhan and Akatosh ran the show, it's pretty clear.

Scientology

>>2966121
>mfw Elder Scrolls General infiltrating /lit/
Have you no courtesy

>>2966127
Lore has nothing to do with Elder Scrolls General.
Take a look at this. THIS is what Elder Scrolls General gets up to for kicks.
Here you see the cadaverous head of Heceril transplanted onto the body of an Elin,
creating Team Thalmor's newest hyper weapon, Elinceril

Yoknapatawpha County

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>>2966088
Mountains (and geography in general)
don't work that way.

>>2966189

In what way? Chained together? Are you fucking serious right now?

>>2966189
Tokien's landscapes are a result of mythical angels battling over and shaping the Earth. Of course it isn't meant as an accurate representation of geography, no more than trying to place 'Eden' on a map after reading Genesis.

Agree about the rest of the fantasy shlock, though - it's written by idiots who missed the point by a mile.

>>2966211

You say that as though there is no in-universe reason for any of the other stories and their landscapes. Also what point was missed? Is all fantasy land meant to be shaped by the Ainur?

I'm writing a story about a guy who is obsessed with fantasy literature/worlds. Is there any software available today with which one could map out one's own fantasy world, e.g. more than just some Elder Scrolls editing tool. I'd like the story (which is a didactic story about how fantasy ruins your life) to be realistic.

>>2966280

There are these radical new tools called pens and paper, you should definitely google them.

REALITY

Nosgoth

>>2966284
can I download them on piratebay?

R E A L I T Y

>>2966280
No software, but there are a shitton of pencil & paper RPG campaign books which feature ready-to-consume fantasy worlds. You can download them with teh torrentz.

>>2966257
Some of them, yes, such as Sauron and Morgoth.

>>2966257
> Is all fantasy land meant to be shaped by the Ainur?

Yes. The original design of Manwe had an earth that was perfectly logical and symmetrical. Melkor then deliberately messed it up. Then the Ainur had wars and ruined it even more.

Sanctuary

Excuse me /lit/, I've never read high fantasy before, is The Lord of the Rings a good book to start?

Ayn Rand books have the best fantasy universe.

>>2968969
> Excuse me /lit/, I've never read high fantasy before, is The Lord of the Rings a good book to start?

LOTR, like all of Tolkien's writing, is meant as an exploration of theological/religious ideas.

Read it if that sounds interesting to you.

If you want pulp adventure about Evil Empires and Valiant Heroes then look for something else.

>>2968977
>Read it if that sounds interesting to you.

Or you could just read the works of actual theologians and/or/ mystics

>>2968981
> Or you could just read the works of actual theologians and/or/ mystics

That's non-fiction, Tolkien is ficthttp://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vuv5eTp4FzPskYK9q4w-81kUT7EGmv_jZds6ZdO7UDWc22
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>>2969007
Maybe they don't wanna read ficthttp://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vuv5eTp4FzPskYK9q4w-81kUT7EGmv_jZds6ZdO7UDWc22
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