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Today's Topic The movie that helped shape a fantasy lover and worldbuilder

Podcast Show Flow

• Excalibur movie 1981
• I want to be a freaking mage, even with the drawbacks

• Raistlin Majere only showed me how a good mage

• Based on the 15th-century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory
• Fantasy has been around for much longer than we know
  • Llancarfan Life Fake or alternative history History ~ 1100 AD
  • Roots at least to a 6th-century monk called Gildas
• Courtly love is a bad day
  • Flirting and fighting for forbidden fruit good, anything else bad
  • What happens when you go too far

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• Reality vs Desire
  • Uther was reality, Arthur was hope
  • Wars and Quest suck, but the idea of them are romantic
• People look to explain they’re past

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Take a culture that has formed a kingdom from chaos, develop ideas for how they would explain their past

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