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The Iceberg Principle

Worldcasting Podcast

CHAPTER

Exploring World-Building and Unreliable Narrators in Storytelling

The chapter delves into techniques like using unreliable narrators and biased perspectives to add complexity and intrigue to narratives by showing the world through characters' interpretations. It discusses balancing truth and obscurity in storytelling, emphasizing the significance of honesty with the audience. The conversation also covers incorporating myths, legends, and cosmology naturally into stories, as well as the impact of gods as characters or mythical beings intertwined in daily life.

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