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19.23: Tying It All Together (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)
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Exploring Scale and Language in Worldbuilding
This chapter delves into the tools and techniques for conveying scale in worldbuilding, using examples from a book and a movie to demonstrate how changing contexts can effectively showcase the size of an empire. The discussion also focuses on the power of language in shaping fictional worlds, emphasizing how specific language choices, naming schemes, and conlang elements can add depth and variation to characters and cultures within a story.
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