Setting Alignment: Grimdark vs. Nobledark vs. Noblebright vs. Grimbright
Hello everyone! I’m here with a new blog post about writingcraft. Over the past few months, I've been hearing about setting alignment, along with terms associated with it. In this post, I wanted to go over what some qualities of each aesthetic are, give some examples of fiction with the aesthetics, and help clear up some misconceptions about setting alignment when it comes to series. What is setting alignment? So, what is setting alignment? Setting alignment refers to qualities exhibited by the characters and setting in your story. Usually, setting alignment is portrayed as a graph with one axis that spans from grim to noble while the other goes from bright to dark. Grim and noble refer to the qualities of the protagonists, while dark and bright refer to the aspects of the world around the characters. This sets up the information contained in the next slides, as each aesthetic’s name is a compound of two of these words. The Types of Setting Alignment Grimdark First off, we’re visit...