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Hi everyone! Here is part two of a series analyzing worldbuilding in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. If you haven't read the first post yet, here is the link . Today, we will be thoroughly analyzing the two main locations of the Redwall series along with a brief about lesser, general locations throughout the books. Because this focuses on architecture, it will be a guide for you to learn how to develop your locations, emphasizing buildings, in your story. WARNING: This series will contain blurbs from the actual books, so there will be multiple spoilers in this series. If you are planning on reading this series and want to avoid spoilers, please proceed with caution. Breakdown of worldbuilding: Structures When it comes to worldbuilding, you're going to want to make sure you have structures your characters live in or visit. As a result, it will be important they are adequately described to portray your world as realistic.  Materials The materials a building is made from will...

Hello everyone! So, continuing with the trend of Prometheus' Wildfire and Like No Other , I have another short story for you all. After ending with the dark note of the main protagonist of my last short story being imprisoned and tried, I thought I would provide another one that ended on a more hopeful tone. Because of this, I wrote this unique short story. I hope you enjoy! Inspiration When I wrote this story, I had just finished reading the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu, which chronicles an attempted invasion of Earth by an alien civilization. Around the same time, I saw a video in my YouTube feed that had a title suggesting that humans would be the first civilization to invade another planet. With these two pieces of inspiration, I had the great idea to write an alien invasion story - but have the aliens be the ones to be invaded and have the humans be the aggressors.  However, everything isn't too different. The aliens in this story have several anal...