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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Just a Few More Things…</p>
How did your world originate and how did your peoples end up where they are? What kind of writing habits do they usually do? Invent some? What is their culture like? How did they become that way?

You want to always ask the questions when, what, how, where, why, and to what extent with any of your things within your world.

Also, have you made any maps of the land?

You want to find your own slang. Look to Mr. Lamb for that. He posted an article on that and it was quite interesting. Anyway, don’t use modern terms. After all, this is a fictional world, yes? There is not going to be things from Earth on your planet. For indeed, it is a planet, yes? But then, of course, one thing I would definitely keep in is the physical landscapes of the world because they are beautiful and are God’s creation. (Not like everything else isn’t.) There are extents to which you must go and limits to which you must stay behind. You must be creative and imaginative.

What are your “governments” like? Do you even have them? Do you WANT them? What kind of leadership is there? You must make it your own and apart from the world. Be original.

With acclimatization, I would firstly present you with an example. The Roman Empire. The Roman Empire expanded. And expanded. And kept expanding. Until it ceased and ultimately crumbled. But: wherever it expanded, its rules, laws, religions, and cultures spread with it. The Roman law moved with the Empire. So. It may be kind of the same reality with your thing you’ve got going. Except here it would be flipped. Whoever moves within their territory has to adhere with their laws and customs otherwise they will be excluded. Do I have it? So basically, they want to move in, they got to totally change their ideas and morals and traditions for something totally different. Otherwise, go away. Doesn’t seem like a nice place to go on vacation, but if that’s what you meant with it, then it could definitely present some interesting plot twists. And that’s just with the culture. Imagine everything else.

Make your geography interesting and dangerous.

You don’t want your “races” to be distinguished by their outward appearance.

Why is there a superstition about blonde people being unlucky? How did that come to be and from what grounds did it originate?

I’m sorry, but I need a clarification: you said in your second contingent that ‘on one side of a mountain range I have the Dark skinned Boreus people in the north…’ So in the north you have the Boreus people. Then ‘In the south in Amray, historically there were a couple of groups.’ So are these both situated on either sides of a specific mountain range? Because later on you said ‘Now on the other side of the mountain are the Dlinaati, islanders turned plains people.’ So is it a mountain or a mountain range? And where exactly are the peoples situated? ‘Maybe the Dlinaati have some unique feature of a fantasy variety. Pointed ears, something else odd about the ears.’ Why ears? Why not whole face? Physical build? Be original. Make it your own.

‘Another thing, they might not care about the colour of your skin, but if you’ve moved from another region and stick to your old traditions and clothing fashions you will be excluded. You might be able to keep using a few of your favourite recipes, but do not publicly remind people that you’re from elsewhere.’ So again, what is your leadership like? Do you have any leadership? Is your region of Amray just like a place of sanctuary where any person of any people group can come and live? But then they have to be like everyone else or be frowned upon? Again the question comes up, why?

With skin colour, if there is anything with this, make it different from things of the real world. Invent. Expand. Experiment. Keep going.

Something that I would encourage is imagination. You should definitely have this in creating your own world. If you are struggling with some issue or topic, try flipping it. Like you did with the racism. Unfortunately, some flips don’t work and I think that this may be one. I must agree with ?Miss/Mrs.? valtmy on that point. (Though that topic is already kind of void, huh?) Still.

Why are the Dlinaati trying to take over the whole continent? For what purpose? What motive to they have? Was it something in the past? Is it revenge? Are they angry because somebody took away their land? And why did they leave their land? Where they unsatisfied? Was there some land-related catastrophe?

Anyway, I hope this helps.

Note: If you’ve already got practically most of these things down already, then whoops on my part, yes?