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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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