Thank you for the writer recommendations
Róisín and
Aierdome!
I'll make sure to have a look at their work when I have money or someone in my family who still insists on giving me birthday presents
I feel ashamed to say this, but at age 14 or something, I pretty much went from reading world literature to reading ffs only (cheaper, even if you have to suffer through a lot of awful stuff to find the few gems), after I had finished with my parents's book shelf. We didn't have that much money at the time, sooo...
At the moment, I buy tomes of expensive encyclopedias, rather than books with actual stories.
Really, my knowledge of recent (and not so recent) publications is very, very lacking
Unwary, I have a world I've been working on for the last seven years. Its not as grand as Aierdome's.
I also didn't make a lot of effort to expand it, until a few months ago (had a writers block that lasted about 3,5 years) and am only just getting back into it.
I posted two maps in the
OCS. They are supremely unfinished. The bigger map doesn't even have all the features I had thought up at the time I started drawing it. At the moment, it shows about one quarter of the total landmass. I won't need all of it though.
The part of the map that is better worked out is the country where the story takes place, but the ancestors of a lot of the main cast comes from the North (that isn't an the map at all).
For reference: an imaginary vertical line from the southern to the northern border of the more detailed country measures about 1000 km or 620 miles.
So this country is the southernmost point of this continent. I want to have a southern continent as well, but it's not necessary, so I try not to think about it.
I still need to figure out the air currents and detailed climate patterns and so on.
The northernmost part of the continent is covered in glaciers and ice and the planes in the east are supposed to have a climate a lot like Siberia, but even in TA (Acronym), that country in the south, they have snowfall in winter.
I might warm the continent up a little. I haven't decided yet.
But even what is on the map now needs a major reworking.
I like your ideas for your story!
The mind-swap-religion has so much potential for delicious confusion!