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I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Sociological Power vs Force

In the Broken Earth trilogy, you've got people who have the ability to literally move mountains. But there aren't very many of them; they're captured and brainwashed by their oppressors. And so we've seen this happen again and again in our own world. It's not necessarily a good thing but it's how power works. We need to understand how our world works if we're going to be rendering this in another world.

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