"And then everything just spiraled out of control" That is a big mood for writers, isn´t it?
@isabellarizzo7373
3 жыл бұрын
i was going to do a cute lil star trek-esque worldbuilding exercise and now it's a massive universe with several stories, a complex history, literally dozens of characters, and an absolute mess of a political situation
@DutchSimmer1
3 жыл бұрын
At like 14 I had a escapist fantasy thing, and now 5 years later I have a whole magic system set up and the origins of the world and stuff like what happened. I don’t even want to write it down, cuz I like to keep it to myself
@ZeLeninovoMasoveRizoto
3 жыл бұрын
At 10, being the autistic lonely child I was, I started a story that was essentially a power fantasy, except it was just someone not normal (magical and generally op) getting accepted and loved by people. 8 years later and that shit has developed into a full blown world with its own religion(s), ethnicities and species, some hint at languages, magic system (including the explanation for the opness of a certain character), coherent story... Yea, it spiraled out a bit.
@naolucillerandom5280
3 жыл бұрын
8years ago: haha Elsa, Flora, and an electricity fairy have a club meeting. Now: "religions based around Lenaret", "changes of Myrnelen's culture between 2010 and 2040", "mermaid tribes"...what else? Oh yeah, "development of space travel after the 2100 apocalypse"
@altantagrin9474
3 жыл бұрын
Now look, I didn't come here to be called out and attacked like this!
@AJisreading
3 жыл бұрын
the addition of childhood art is such a sweet touch
@finchbird2419
3 жыл бұрын
It could honestly serve as cultural artwork. Like the style of the people. Much like the pictographs of Aztec and Mya of Central America. Or the traditional artwork of ancient Japan and China
@jasonitaliano8631
3 жыл бұрын
It made me smile
@dewmilk7266
3 жыл бұрын
That awkward moment when her childhood art is wayyy better than anything I could ever do.
@bethrippee7286
3 жыл бұрын
You may have heard bout this before but historically purple dye came from a rare type of sea snail. So you could and purple to your dye list.
@sarahluchies1076
3 жыл бұрын
"I want MY Narnia!" Literally my childhood. I called mine Eslia. And your mermaids in the river were my dragons perched on the Rockies' peaks.
@watson-disambiguation
3 жыл бұрын
So what if the magical metal is actually aluminum? The only place that native aluminum occurs is deep in the sea, and bauxite is very hard to extract from without modern technology. Aluminum bronze is also more water resistant as well as stronger. The fact that a supposedly magical metal is actually a real world one is a cool twist I think.
@salenebrom6476
2 жыл бұрын
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@lelduck6388
Жыл бұрын
Yeeeesss!
@greatmodernmyths
3 жыл бұрын
I'm drawing up a fantasy graphic novel and whilst I haven't resorted to 'traditional' fantasy costumes for the characters watching this has helped me better understand how I should approach clothing design. Many thanks!
@bijtmntongaf
3 жыл бұрын
idea: the islands where metal is forged are relatively small, and thus would make it an extremely obvious and vulnerable spot to attack if a conflict of some kind were to break out, stopping the enemies’ entire arms production chain, giving you a major advantage. because of these island’s vulnerability, the finite number of them and metal’s importance in nautican society, these islands started to get deified as minor gods of metalworking and the safety of nautican society, and by association, so did smiths as protectors of this sacred production line. over time, small forging outposts turned to monestaries, and with their growing spiritual importance, these monestaries turned into temples. metalworkers have an elevated social position because of this and are not only smiths but also monks, doing everything monks do in nautican society.
@vinierstudios8307
3 жыл бұрын
I'm 13, before watching this, I had an entire world, different cultures and entire different spices all made up in my head, I rarely wright this stuff down, but now I think I might, worldbuilding seems really cool!
@rocketterrier
3 жыл бұрын
as someone who spent basically my whole life in the ozarks: YES finally someone else who gets it!!! literally my favorite place ever
@suelee4264
3 жыл бұрын
For the forging, maybe the Nautikans can use underwater volcanoes, maybe have a clan of volcanic Nautikans who are blacksmiths, along the lines of fantasy dwarves
@Eviligniter
3 жыл бұрын
Really liked that one, I'm nicking the wheel for clothes, its genius, easy to visualize and to add stuff on it. About the Nautika, they could be a project of the old ones (the makers of the old city)to be better adapted to water life, seems the most plausible way, they didn't get far enough but that would be a bonus tbh, being amphibian and not full sea gives them a lot more range than only beign land dwellers or waterbased. Only the incredible ability to breath in the water is a hugh bonus, Humans already are not slouches as amphibians, we are able to swim great distances. About clothing, the webbed gloves and stuff like that to help propelling them is another great way, I imagine fashion would get pretty crazy, specially in the one than don't have to swim to get a living, imagine very impractical, like some excentrics get with nails, but with the webbed gloves or socks.
@WeShouldStabCaesar
3 жыл бұрын
When you started describing how the river mermaids might turn human, my mind immediately went to selkies, and how some stories would say that they could assume human form every seven years. But anyway, I'm loving your channel. I'm so happy you decided to bring back your world building content.
@xenomorph6599
3 жыл бұрын
Ohmygosh dude selkies. I freaking love selkies. That is all.
@WeShouldStabCaesar
3 жыл бұрын
@@xenomorph6599 yes selkies! Underused fantasy creature, they're 10/10
@annemarielemme4402
3 жыл бұрын
Love seeing how your world has evolved from its conception. Thank you for sharing!
@ebunni5862
3 жыл бұрын
Detailed world building is awesome. I love it. I'm going to send my friend this video because he's building a sci fi universe.
@wildwoodspiderling3068
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, your account of the canoe trips in the ozarks (sp?) and how it affected your worldbuilding was so intensely moving, and also relatable, though i grew up on the south coast of bc (basically the north bit of the PNW) i could go on for DAYS about the ways my natural environment influenced my worldbuilding, and it's so amazingly wonderful to see someone else do the same
@wildwoodspiderling3068
3 жыл бұрын
Also i agree with your strong belief at the beginning about "what the f is she wearing" :p
@incanusolorin2607
3 жыл бұрын
If nature and rivers make your imagination flow, visit the Amazon when you can. The jungle will make anyone speechless and the river looks like a fresh water sea, it so vast.
@mulethedonkey2579
3 жыл бұрын
If you wanted, you could use the *valuability of sea silk* (its really expensive) and the *Atlantis parable to drive a bunch of attempted conquest and adventurous.* There IS also a way to harvest sea shells without harming them supposedly, according to the last known artisan, which could keep it abundant, but outside adventurers/farmers without that knowledge or temperance get greedy and start hunting it. (use this or not, stick to your heart :) )
@booklover2190
3 жыл бұрын
I've been working on my story for nearly half a year now and finally got around to "oh yeah, clothes are a thing that needs to be established." I'm not much of a clothes person myself so... also, I have a species of merpeople, and... wow are they like the exact opposite of this (clothes style-wise at least) lol
@umbrasgift3829
3 жыл бұрын
This is all so inspiring and makes my creative wheels turn. You talked a lot about how they are resistant to the cold, but what about water pressure? How deep could they go withought risk?
@angiehartman71
3 жыл бұрын
I love the way you organized the ideas for the clothing baseline! The ideas I have for my own worldbuilding are so scattered, but seeing your process gives me hope for eventually bringing mine under control. I love the energy and excitement you have when you make these videos. You clearly have a genuine love of worldbuilding, and it is so refreshing. Thank you so much for making these and sharing your creativeness!
@sarahhinds11
3 жыл бұрын
The forging of the metal could be done by the underwater volcanoes that have been transformed to allow for the forging of metals? I imagine that they would get hot enough to forge. This means that they wouldn’t need to rely on the surface for forging
@ainsleyzirkle2485
3 жыл бұрын
How you described the Ozarks sounds SO similar to how I feel about the Blue Ridge Mountains!
@RocRolWriter
3 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but listening to your description of twelve-year-old-you's initial worldbuilding process made me laugh so hard; you do a great job at delivering a story! 🤣🤣🤣 Your reaction to the sea silk comment is exactly why I want to make worldbuilding posts of my own at some point; "yes please, share your awesome ideas and maybe help me solve problems I hadn't given enough thought to!" I'm also a little scared of criticism though...
@anonymousperson4214
3 жыл бұрын
I just had a thought about your metalworking problem! Underwater hydrothermal vents should provide plenty of heat to work metal, so it's possible they could have rigged up some sort of hot-water piping system to get it in a controlled form to use.
@quinnreverance611
3 жыл бұрын
You should take a look at Ancient / Classical South Asian styles. Everyone always skips India, but there’s so much!!
@mulethedonkey2579
3 жыл бұрын
*Pinna Nobillis are critically endangered* (especially used for their pen shells.) *That could play a role or as a conflict,* maybe the pinna nobillis are being overhunted, a *threat* to their *economy* and *importantly Nautican culture.* Maybe its like *gold in el dorado,* its a standard ware in Nautical culture, but for the other groups its very expensive and an *economic advantage, which could drive would-be adventurors and exploitators.* (I like what you're doing! Subbed/bell! I wanted a channel like this)
@sifilore9462
3 жыл бұрын
Fish scales can also b used for medical healing and it depends on what exactly. I saw this on The Good Doctor s1 didn't know it was real. In the ep, a young woman got 3rd degree burns on her neck, chest and arms. While they were fresh, her doctor had fish leather placed on her so the next time she came, her skin was all healed (a little reddish but healed). So Nautikans could use fish leather for that too.
@jonathancompo828
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you're still making worldbuilding videos!! They're really fun and your commitment--making clothes and constantly updating and refining the concepts--is inspiring! I think all this Nautikan stuff is a blast and a half and it was cool to learn the real world history of their conception. Also mad props for being the bigger Nautikan to the old commenters. I think criticism can be great, but I'm always shocked how avid people can get about criticizing other people's fantasy worlds! Like, sam likes fish and chips in LOTR and it doesn't totally break the whole thing guys come on!
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
I don't mind the commenters. I very rarely get malicious vibes. Even at the worst, I think most people just aren't expressing themselves how they meant to.
@Leto85
3 жыл бұрын
20:00 The thing with worldbuilding is that it is so large that there are always parts in it that other people know better than you, and indeed that's a good thing. You know more about clothing than I do, which is a subcatagory of the already huge catagory called culture. I simply expect people to know things that I don't when it comes to this, and honestly I love that as I love to learn. It's the number one reason I watch your videos.
@triccele
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad this video exist. I had several issues with the nauticans that were acknoledge in here (the baggy clothing, the metalwork, the dying of clothes). Now it makes so much more sense.
@leiakasta7602
3 жыл бұрын
It’s nice to hear someone say they’re constantly making different worlds. I world build on one world extensively, and I always feel like I must be doing something wrong when I talk to someone and they mention their 20 different worlds they’ve created. So thank you!
@naolucillerandom5280
Жыл бұрын
It's fine, I think it allows you to concentrate better on it. I have 3 different worlds that are loosely related.
@AAMursu
3 жыл бұрын
Forging the metal underwater: Could they use some sort of Geothermal Vents that are found deep in several areas? They get very hot, maybe not hot enough for forging metal, but it is your world, so it is a possibility. P.S. Keep up the great work. Inspiring and gets my brain going. Love it.
@ebany2244
3 жыл бұрын
When you spoke about the swimwear clothing of Victorian era, it reminded me of a bathing suit I wore. It was like a tiny dress like this: 👗 but the skirt was much smaller and if I remember correctly, it had shorts underneath the skirt. It was stretchy for easy movement underwater… if I could swim properly.
@oneplate6489
2 жыл бұрын
You really struck a chord with your description of the Ozarks. I may never have been there, but I've lived in shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains all my life and nothing can quite make me feel warm and fuzzy like them. This reminded me to take more inspiration from my surroundings for my writing projects! Thank you for the beautiful imagery
@dieke8978
3 жыл бұрын
I tend to go down youtube rabbitholes on fashion or worldbuilding, but i have never really seen those combined, and I think this is really really cool
@hyperanemoia8842
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like clothing is such an obscure topic in world building but this video has really made me think about it amazing video and amazing guide to something most people dont think about
@IonIsFalling7217
3 жыл бұрын
My love of rivers is unbounded and deep. I LOVE river mermaids!
@azutheboredcat2441
Жыл бұрын
~10:48 I’m one of those people who sprouts worlds pretty often! Most of them are small pieces that don’t get developed into fully fledged worlds, but I tend to have three active worlds that grow and evolve (and may have been recycled or assembled from previous ideas) at any given time. It is nice to know that there are people that have one world, even if it’s just to help me remind myself that _one_ process isn’t _everyone’s_ process! (My thoughts on worldbuilding are at the very end) I returned to this channel because I need to stop procrastinating and give my characters setting-appropriate clothes, which is one of the most difficult parts of my process right now, and I’m hoping your videos (which have been both inspiring and helpful to me in the past) will help me. I remembered how interesting your videos were to watch and re-watch *My Thoughts On Worldbuilding:* My worlds tend to be based on some sort of seed. Usually it’s a magic system, creature, social structure, or some other concept I explore before realizing it’d be perfect for a world, but sometimes it’s more concrete, like an existing story or world (like your world’s seed being Narnia, and how you could make it your own. I have two like that) Focus is a very interesting part of the creative process, because it’s what helps decide the direction your world-seed grows in! When I say Focus, i mean the things you’re interested in, specifically the things that you primarily use to develop the world (like fashion, for example). I tend to use language, adaptation/disability and magic/technology which makes me less likely to put (perfect) universal translators in my stories, and more likely to think about what tools people _need_ (glasses, service animals, prosthetics), and what tools people can _access_ (given their technological level and healthcare system) (It _also_ means that I’ve been procrastinating on ✨clothes ✨ by writing this comment about worldbuilding that might not get seen but made me think about how worlds can start, how worlds grow, and how different people’s worldbuilding styles are nice to think about because it’s not one-size fits all, it’s personalized, tailored with inspiration from a bunch of places but still belonging to the specific person it came from)
@noemielamoll4921
3 жыл бұрын
I love your description of river mermaids! Rivers are in my opinion soo amazing, calm and interesting places, when I will canoe in summer, I'm sure I'm gonna remember your mermaids and see them all around
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
You can't unsee them. Rivers just seem like the perfect, sunny, warm homes for mermaids.
@AdirondackRuby
3 жыл бұрын
Two videos in one day? How dare you make me have to choose which to watch first! I loved Narnia...honestly, I still do. I just reread the series and love them even more (which Lewis said would happen, liking something as a child and then growing out of it only to grow back into it) A lot of my daydreaming, doodling, and base level worldbuilding can be credited to that series. I've never been to the Ozarks, but I grew up and still live in the Adirondacks, so I know all about the beauty of rivers & mountains & getting lost on purpose. Your description of your freshwater mermaids is so magical!
@ODDnanref
3 жыл бұрын
Talking about story of world building. I've had two worlds, maybe three? I was never a world building more of a race builder. I think playing RTS during childhood influenced me. Of the several I made, I remember there well enough to talk about it without having to search piles of drawings. One was a dragonoid species, with shamanistic religion based on the spirits of the ancestors. Shamans could bring back the spirit of their fallen for one final fight, one last chance to protect their clan. The second one, well it is the first one I made, a race of space consuming alienoids. Their shape was weird, one central sphere supported by multiple tentacle like legs. Their building were bioengineered members of their species, bloated and grown. They terraformed the planet under their claws and drank the lava and water from the planet. The last one is an actual world. It is a dying world that has been through a metaphorical interdimensional blender. Since magic is based on intent and meaning and the world is leaking magic into the void between dimension, the inhabitants are losing meaning. Depression is a sign of low magic levels and people farm the magic in different ways. As for races, we have fairy moss rocks, sand goblin sharks, swamp ratfolk, flightless and flying penguin folk, academic lobster folk, religious antfolk, camel people, lizard folk and armadillo like people. This is currently a world I am working on. So it is more developed than the other two.
@Kaza0kun
3 жыл бұрын
Holy crap. I love that graph!!! I’ve never really thought about clothes for kids!
@peterdawson2403
2 жыл бұрын
I love your Nautican outfit! You look natural and beautiful in it!
@itty1314
3 жыл бұрын
For the forges, what about an underwater volcano with closely monitored activity? It would require a unique process that may have proven vital in the working of the new ore and integration of it into their bronze. Bonus points if its one of the reasons the city whoes ruins they built on fell!
@pyrenyang2929
3 жыл бұрын
Wow I love the way you discript the river mermaids. the way you painted the world with yourr words is beautiful. And the tought that you put into the details is fantastic. I am excited to see and hear more about all of it^^ and the child pics a great I wouldn't even know how to do that^^
@xenomorph6599
3 жыл бұрын
You: "I don't like beaches" Me: *error fathom{}.exe stopped working* Anyway unrelated but weird: when you were describing the ozark nautikans, I remembered that moose like to swim and imagined moose hunting nautikans eating a moose. Also it was super interesting hearing about how you came up with nautikan metamorphosis. When I was little my logic was just like, "well their tails will be more like snakes and they'll slither on land" but you actually thought in a unique biological process
@kathrynehiersche1817
3 жыл бұрын
That snake idea is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@timweiner7990
3 жыл бұрын
Commenting on all your videos for that algorithm boost. Really good content!
@alinaruff6540
3 жыл бұрын
Did you ever play "The Legend of Zelda Breath of the wild"? Your Nautikans remind me strongly of the Race called Zoras. It may be a good inspirational source. They can climb waterfalls as a special force and they also can walk on land. I love your ideas and it motivates me to imagine a Fantasyworld myself.
@erinhabecker1679
3 жыл бұрын
i can't tell you how much I love these videos! It's so fascinating to see the different ways people's imaginations work!
@aweetodd
7 ай бұрын
You've definitely given me alot to think about thanks. My story takes place in a some floating islands that rain Liquid Nitrogen. I never really bothered with details on the clothes other than no metal and special cloaks that protect tbem
@nevsneedles5469
3 жыл бұрын
The Ozarks are so pretty. I live just below the Arkansas side of the Ozark mountains. The rivers and caves and all are such a beautiful scene. Sorry, not related to clothes, but I always get excited when I hear references to this part of the world.
@cincocats320
3 жыл бұрын
It is amazing to watch your thinking evolve as you work through a project. I'm wondering about the sexual dimorphism of this race. I'm not convinced that a humanoid aquatic species would exhibit the same external identifiers of sex we have. Aquatic mammals' teats blend in so as to keep the torpedo shape that makes for the best underwater form. Even in ones that suckle and move around on land, teats are minimal and the main visible difference between sexes (besides something like walrus tusks) is size. All this is a long winded way to ask "why boobs and why would the women have to wear standard tops?" I do think the jewelry makes sense. Swimming underwater, the glint of jewelry would help serve as an identifier from some distance away. Are you familiar with fair isle patterns? The lore I've heard is that originally each fisherman's family had their own pattern so that if there was an accident at sea the body could be id'd.
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
I think mermaids would have very little in the way of bust, and probably wouldn't see a reason to cover anything up. But Nautikans are much closer to human. As for wearing tops at all, they've had a lot of contact with other mainland people, and a lot of cultural crossover from that. But also, I have noticed in my comments two very opposite camps of thought on this subject. One camp always wants modesty to be justified, and the other takes the desire to cover up as a given 🤷♀️ Personally, I just choose clothes I find beautiful, and evolutionary realism isn't my biggest priority.
@KDKatieDraws
3 жыл бұрын
I have barely thought about clothing for my fantasy story, this really helped me flesh it out a lot more!
@peterdawson2403
2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful and broad range of clothing! You have done a lot of research.
@nuonites5620
3 жыл бұрын
For the ventilation issues concerning their metalworking, why not use volcanic vents on the sea floor? They’re hot enough to do what’s needed to be done and - if done right, produce no Co2. One option might be to have large basins set above collections of volcanic vents that are filled with purified water, this water is then converted into super heated steam that powers their forges and various other mechanisms such as air locks and makeshift elevators or even long and short distance transit.
@ulfthe_destroyer5109
2 жыл бұрын
Same thing with me, I've always had one world, Amazonia, its like this jungle planet. Although its more to do with creating animals and history, not like culture. But mostly I do skip through lots of worlds, you don't even want to know how many I've had
@morganbiddlecom
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you're going over these old videos like this. It's really cool to see how your thoughts have changed and evolved since the original videos were posted. Also sea silk is so cool! It's a major fabric for the sea elves in my dnd setting.
@gossamersummit3033
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, so inspiring to listen to another worldbuilder's creative process! Your breakdown of the Nautikan's clothing was really interesting, I love how you considered how the cost of each dye would affect which kinds of characters would wear different patterns. It makes me want to think more seriously about the garments that characters in my own stories would wear!
@Missfantasyfreak
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I love your Nautikan outfit! I loved hearing more about how your world came to be! Including the kid art, thank you for sharing that, it sort of makes me wish I drew my ideas back as a kid, so now I'd have pictures of how my world evolved, instead of "just" writing (though I am a much more story-focused world builder, my world got sort of built through planning the story because I kept moving it from one place to another until I had a whole continent world-built. And no, the story isn't actually written yet, it's just planned in great detail.) I'd have a question regarding the metal work, if you don't mind. I can't remember if you said, but what do they use a heat source, since burning stuff could be quite inefficient for them? Do they make use of underwater volcanos/geothermal energy somehow? Also as a side note, while bronze doesn't degrade much (the copper oxides and carbonates that form on it actually protect it, even if they change the colour) it does degrade in saltwater (because the copper in it reacts with chlorides) - you can search up bronze disease for more information if you want. It takes time, which is why we do get ancient copper/bronze artifacts from the sea, it's just they don't always tend to be in the best condition (I mean, the Statue of Liberty is standing in a fairly chloride-rich environment right next to the sea and it seems to be doing okay as far as I know). Which would go back to your original idea of bronze degrades (in saltwater), but Nautikan bronze doesn't for additional layer of mystery. The salt/fresh water difference could make an interesting thing in Nautikan culture, since you said some lived on shores and islands and others by rivers and lakes. Since the mineral also makes the bronze stronger, fresh-water Nautikans would still definitely want to use it, but is their access to Nautikan bronze/the mineral worse than for salt-water Nautikans, since they can only get it through trade? I guess it depends on how unified the Nautikan nation is, because it would be easy for salt-water Nautikans to control the trade of Nautikan bronze/the mineral, selling it inland at a much steeper price. It's possible that throughout the years poorer fresh-water Nautikans could adapt to using normal bronze, as they wouldn't have the degradation problem even if it's less strong, and then when they were forced to retreat to the sea they noticed dark spots appearing on their metal or maybe thin wires used in jewellry start to deteriorate? Maybe they could keep remelting their Nautikan bronze pieces as the material would be more valuable than the thing itself, or the families could have Nautikan bronze heirlooms. Or just have the metal be bronze-like, as you said in the first place, not actual bronze - I probably got too caught up in this in order to avoid schoolwork. Sorry for meddling in your world.
@Missfantasyfreak
3 жыл бұрын
@Sapsorrow Revealed oh yes, that'd also be very interesting!
@ovrair6340
3 жыл бұрын
I think this is now one of my favourite worldbuilding channels
@dewmilk7266
3 жыл бұрын
This is really random but omg I love your icon
@ovrair6340
3 жыл бұрын
@@dewmilk7266 thank you! Is your name allonzo by any chance?
@dewmilk7266
3 жыл бұрын
@@ovrair6340 No but if it was we would be able to say Allonsy, Allonzo!
@ovrair6340
3 жыл бұрын
@@dewmilk7266 weheyyyyyy!! I was hoping you'd get the reference!!!
@dewmilk7266
3 жыл бұрын
@@ovrair6340 I love finding random dr who fans on the internet
@saddendtone
2 жыл бұрын
10:59 Just to say I love this peice of artwork its so cute and looks amazing
@giuliabotticella7533
3 жыл бұрын
I may be obvious or a bit late but here in Italy (in Sardinia if I recall correctly) there is a traditional weaving technique which involve the use of byssus. You can search for byssus cloth or sea silk and you will find some information. You should be able to find even a KZitem video about the last remaining artist who still produce items made of byssus cloth
@TangledMind1018
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh! I LOVE your thought process! Good freaking gosh I wish I could pick your brain about clothes for my peoples I come up with. But even just watching one video has helped a lot. I suppose if I were to ask for help, I'd ask about your exact process on how you'd go about thinking up clothing/culture points for a brand new race you haven't developed over the years, and detail that out with more in depth explanations. Things like how you explained the iconography, or example. But otherwise a great video and I'm definitely going to check out the rest. ^_^
@hailtothegeeks
3 жыл бұрын
If the metal jewelry was heavy enough could they be used as diver's weights?
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
that's interesting. I like the idea of ankle weights, so you could easily walk upright at the bottom of a lake, like if you were farming. But I think something like that would be a separate piece, probably not worn with daily clothing.
@Amethyst_Sky0
2 жыл бұрын
12:02 yes i have seen the osarks considering i live in them
@TheDcraft
3 жыл бұрын
I love your chart. The group of people I'm writing about are, I guess primitive, they live in a time period that would be equivalent to 950 B.C.E. to eventually 325 B.C.E.. They don't utilize stiching and their clothes are basically gender neutral, but because they live in a subtropical climate the men often just wear loin cloths. Outside of that there's three types of garments. I forgot their names, 😄 😄, but the one is just a large rectangular piece of fabric that can be worn many different ways as an outer garment, even the men use these, especially in the winter (the high temps are normally in the 40s f that time of year). The other two garments are similar to each other, both are tube like garments that are pinned at the shoulders. The difference is the one is longer, when held straight up it would nearly cover the entire head. This extra bit of fabric is meant to be folded down, giving it a flounce effect. Both are often belted. Women are expected to be covered essentially head to toe when in public. Because these people aren't united in one state but exist as many independent city-states there's no one color reserved for nobility or anything like that. However, in the city-state of Kurn, one of the largest city-states, blue is reserved for the kingly families that make up the priests of Eagle, a sky/warrior God. Their neighbors to the northeast, the Lydians, do utilize stiching. The clothing for women there is much more radical. It traditionally consisted of two pieces, a full multi-teired skirt and a short sleeved blouse that left the breasts exposed. The men wear either a short tunic or kilt. When wearing a kilt they are often shirtless, but sometimes wear a short sleeved shirt. In both cultures jewelry is worn heavily by both men and women. The color the represents the royal house changes depending on the dynasty. The five dynasty colors are green for wood, red for fire, yellow for earth, white for metal, black for water.
@Leto85
3 жыл бұрын
You are a life saver! I hope you realize that. You dive exactly in those things I personally struggle with. Will this series also go into detail about all the aspects that make up why a person is wearing what he or she is wearing? For example economy, culture, time period, peer pressure ... and that's all on the top of my head. Yeah, I clearly really can use you in this.
@TheKrouton
3 жыл бұрын
Bronze is underrated. It is competitive with pure iron and is easier to cast. It gets a bad reputation because its compared to hardened steel, which is frankly overused in fantasy settings. Steel is the true "magical alloy" rarely seen before the modern era because of how difficult it is to produce.
@morgini8326
3 жыл бұрын
I love worldbuilding! It's fun to see your ideas develop which is awesome.
@cupcakejack7375
3 жыл бұрын
Dude for realthese help me A LOT cause i have this story with lotsand lots of worldbuildingdue to he various different races. The underwater races have been the hardest for us to figure out, so thank you
@ToqTheWise
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like you could tell stories about the salt water mermaids, either they would play a secondary role or the entire story would have to be about them. In my world the mermaids came to play a pivotal role in sea-based warfare and trade. Since they could sink entire fleets if they were concentrated enough, they basically controlled the seas. So like the Mongols and the Silk Road, all trade had to go through them. This then plays into their internal conflicts, just as foreign resource wars in the Middle East plays into internal conflicts there. There’s three races of merfolk: the more fish-like selkies which are barbaric and almost animalistic (like the sand people from Star Wars), the sea folk who are most like humans and elves, and the man eating sirens. The sea elves or river folk act as an intermediary between the merfolk and the land dwellers, since they can live in both places.
@liamdinogirl3462
2 жыл бұрын
12:00 As someone who is midwestern, I totally get how you feel about the ocean. I get the appeal, but not for me.
@thomasharris8926
16 күн бұрын
Your worldbuilding is so fantastic ! Me, I'm trying to find the inspiration to worldbuild and I still need to do my dnd campaign (my first one qwq)
@TheHarimir
3 жыл бұрын
maybe no magical leg-growing at all? suggestion: a sub-species that does not mature legs and instead their tails grow ever longer as they get older even becoming cumbersome for the eldest members. as it grows they become able to travel on land like snakes. this is not mutually exclusive with the nauticans and cud even be a separate branching off from the original mermaid race initially adapted for river-life and eventually gaining some measure of land mobility for a tribes older members
@allinwonderland7047
3 жыл бұрын
Purple royal purple would be really easy to come by as it was made from ground up shells
@zephner
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know how practical it would be, (handwave some science parts with "well it's fantasy") but you could always have them forging underwater via hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea or air pockets in underwater volcanoes if you didn't want to use the giant pipe idea. It would make forging a slightly dangerous and highly revered job that a lot of single people could take on since they don't have families and would seek renown in other ways.
@PacificWanderer
2 жыл бұрын
“Almost all my problems stem from not explaining myself well enough” as an autistic; I relate TOO hard 😂
@magiv4205
3 жыл бұрын
As for the dye colors, I like that they don't have a big variety, I think it adds a beautiful, recognizable and cohesive aesthetic. However, thinking about possible dyes, I thought that an additional, common green dye made from one or various kinds of seaweed and other plants could also work really well, and (this is a personal preference of mine) blue and green are a simple, readily available, yet gorgeous combination. This dye could possibly be even more readily available than the blue dye, especially considering that Nauticans live along, around or near coastlines in rather shallow water, where green, photosynthesizing water plants would be abundant. The two colors that provide the most contrast to those two common colors, being yellow and red, are also the rarest colors. This is not a critique though, just an idea I had. I knew your main channel for the sewing, but only just discovered this series and channel and I'm a big fan. Can't wait to see how this world develops further!
@jon85753
2 жыл бұрын
Good video, I can see you put a lot of thought into creating the culture of your race. I will say though whule I don't know the rarity or quality of leather producing marine animals but leather armor on land wouldn't be as common as gambesons or quilted armor. Leather was more expensive and depending on the source it could potentially offer less protection. However I'm not sure how well sea gambesons would work. Anyway great ideas.
@biaquerferias
2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate your organization. I just design clothes as I write lol
@ben7510
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for this, um learning a lot from you.
@GilmarGirl
3 жыл бұрын
I just want to say, I just found your channel recently and I have never felt so understood in the way you describe world building inspiration. The way you describe looking at nature and just SEEING everything in your world in such vivid detail... I have been there. For me it was a National Geographic documentary about somewhere off the coast of Africa I believe- I was struck by the mangrove trees and the way they affected how the tides interacted with the beach. It spawned a world with a dichotomy between an aquatic race and an arboreal, fishing race that I still love dearly and am trying desperately to figure out how to use in a book series. Do you have any books published?? If you do, or if you ever get something published, I want to read it!
@peterdawson2403
2 жыл бұрын
There is a dye method done in India that paints the dye onto the cloth.
@maddockemerson4603
3 жыл бұрын
I’d be interested to know why blue is the most common and cheapest dye for this culture. You could easily explain it away with “sea-blueberries” or something, but it’s worth pointing out that blue was one of the rarest and most expensive dyes historically, being made from complex chemical mixtures like Egyptian Blue was, or from the somewhat rare lapis lazuli.
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
check back tomorrow ;)
@sheepasaurusrex2720
3 жыл бұрын
I love the Ozarks! Went on a week long canoe trip on the Buffalo River with my boyfriend’s family, and I desperately want to go again. We broke a whole canoe in half on a rock literally 3 minutes into the first day on the water, but still! Tons of fun! Make sure you look into boar rutting season while planning a trip though. I’ve got family in the area who literally only own a gun on account of the boars.
@mariahpattieworldbuilding4062
3 жыл бұрын
Some of my cousins went boar hunting once. The thing was huge and terrifying.
@uzunaruMelonness
3 жыл бұрын
For the coloration of the Nautikan fashion: Purples can be one of the uncommon dyes. Hear me out, there are several types of mollusks whose glands can be uses to make the dyes. For the traditional clothing, these rare silks will be suited for the upper class. This idea came from real-life examples of purple dyes from sea-bound Phoenicians, Central, and South Americans.
@sophiejones7727
3 жыл бұрын
A note on that: Tyrian purple (what the Ancient Greeks, Romans and Phoenicians called “purple”) is NOT the color we call purple. It’s actually dark red, close to what she called “red” in this video. It is often called “carmine” from the Latin word for the color: carminis. Depending on how many times you dyed the cloth it could come out anywhere from blood red to almost black. Since you mentioned glands, I would guess you’re thinking of the quahog mussel. That produces a dye anywhere from periwinkle to bluish black. That’s the closest natural dye to what we would call “purple”.
@uzunaruMelonness
3 жыл бұрын
@@sophiejones7727 Thank you for the info
@eshchory
3 жыл бұрын
Wow I didn't expect to find this interesting but it was fascinating. (And if as an adult I could draw as well as child-Mariah I would be ecstatic)
@debraboutom2060
3 жыл бұрын
if they get sea silk food, and jewelry all from this clam, I think it could elevate this animal to a sacred status in their culture, like maize in Native American cultures. Could be a big part of their religion, if you haven't already been thinking about it. Maybe in addition to farming these shellfish, they have figured out how to farm fish. Maybe most of the manual labor or blue-collar work is tending to these fish and shellfish farms, like repairing nets or moving them around for optimal growth. I know this comment is a bit late, but I hope it helps!
@theroyalpotato8390
3 жыл бұрын
I love your world building ideas, let me add to your pile of research with these two real world subjects, The leg issue could be tackled with something like neoteny, this is a biological process in which a species retains juvenile characteristics, the axolotl for example keeps his tail and gills but when exposed to certain hormones metamorphoses into an adult form without these characteristics, This real world process could be tailored to your people where their aquatic form would basically be a juvenile form that endures their whole life only forcing the change to an adult form when exposed to certain hormones or mix of hormones, take for instance a specific kind of food rich in the needed hormones that forces bodies to grow legs, this could be an easy way for the ruling class to either punish or reward individuals, it would also mean that the ruling class could have a land based army in relative short times and relative little effort. The consequences would be something to consider though, it wouldn't be reversible for instance, and you'd have to consider if it has an effect on the reproductive capabilities of those who'd undergone the change. Needless to say this would be a rather strong influence on the overall culture. About the metal work, you could delegate the smelting and forging to the people who've undergone the change and have them do the metal work the traditional way and be done with it, the more interesting option in my opinion however is to let the water dwelling people take advantage of one of the oceans properties, Seawater contains all the minerals and metals the earth has in trace amounts, your people could extract these from the ocean by pushing large amounts of seawater through membranes with different membranes filtering out different metals/minerals (like in real world desalination plants). the product gathered from these membranes would be a powder that could undergo a process called cold forging, this process uses heavy pressure and die moulds to make the powder metal into solid objects that then need to be sintered (heated to a certain level) which could be done underwater in for example a volcanically active area. anywho, I love your creative take on some of fantasy's oldest archetypes and tropes and can't wait to see what you do with them.
@finnkids7433
3 жыл бұрын
Oh geez I was thinking of them as "Nadakans" until i saw the subtitles XD
@lukefriend2028
3 жыл бұрын
Possibly the forges for bronze smelting could be built inside underwater volcanoes, possibly linked to islands. Heat from magma, and ventilation from pipes and various volcanic chambers?
@sneksnek8091
3 жыл бұрын
I disagree with the "with writing you don't see the clothes" statement, as someone who had obligatory screenwriting classes in college i can guarantee 100% no treatment document (one of the documents that comes with finished scenario) will ever exclude detailed description of clothes. Before scenario writing, a final stage, starts, screenwriter is obligated to give detailed and methodical descriptions of environment, locations, objects, characters and of course, what they are wearing, in tiniest detail and pattern. Treatment exists so everyone on set and in production team can have very very clear directions. Maybe you meant 'book writing' but there are numerous examples of detailed clothes descriptions in various novels. Take Murakami for example. Perhaps what you actually wanted to say is 'screenwriters tend to stick to well established medieval examples when picking clothes' but it is not the same as 'with writing you don't see the clothes'
@alestiiidaeno_last3075
3 жыл бұрын
That was a well-spoken narrative
@salenebrom6476
2 жыл бұрын
Look up lotus silk for the sea silk it’s quite similar to what you described
@JaneXemylixa
3 жыл бұрын
So I'm on a binge of creating stuff in HeroForge (custom rpg figurine editor) and there's so many assets perfect for Nautikans in there!! I wanna make a bunch of them immediately.
@iolair1973
3 жыл бұрын
I love everything about this video.
@frank7411
3 жыл бұрын
I really love these!
@peterdawson2403
2 жыл бұрын
Have you thought of facial paints and jewels for the Nauticans?
@agimagi2158
3 жыл бұрын
This was super interesting!
@kairon156
3 жыл бұрын
I came across harem pants a while ago and they look super comfortable. Also thanks for making the 2nd channel. In worldbuilding terms and when watching anime I often wondered how people come up with styles for clothing and uniforms. I'm starting to learn how to draw this year but hopefully once I improve I'll be able to take what I learn from this channel and draw my own clothing designs.
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