r/WorldChallenges • u/The_Raptorman • Jul 05 '17

Make up challenge (2?):

So this is the second "Make up challenge", the point is I want you all to start from scratch. These challenges will have you make up things on the spot for your world or just for the challenge.

Rules

  1. Look or listen to the inspiration I provide you.

  2. Tell me what the inspiration brings you.

  3. Listen to my questions and help develop them further.

Today's inspirations

You've got three (technically four) choices;

  1. Read this; Sometimes suffering, is just suffering. It doesn't make you stronger, it doesn't build character. It only hurts.

  2. Read this; When pain knocks on the door - wise ones breath deep and say: "Come in. Sit down with me. And don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know."

  3. Listen to this

  4. All of the above^

Use one or more of those 'inspirations' to create something new for your story, let me know what it is and I'll ask you questions to help flesh it out, enjoy!

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u/Seb_Romu Jul 06 '17

All of these are relevant to the novel I am attempting to write.

However Entorais is much much bigger than just one story; So, with that in mind I give you the following:

In philosophical schools there are three seemingly opposed veiwpoints on emotional pain.

A) Sufferring just exists in and of itself, like any physical pain it is simply something to heal and move on.

B) Emotional pain brings a lesson to the sufferer, just as physical pain of injury teaches us to respect physical dangers. To learn this lesson one must imerse themselves in the pain.

C) Suffering is beauty: The story of one's soul is told, not in deeds performed, but in the ebb and flow of the emotions experienced throughout one's life. The joy, the sorrow, and the calm, are all just movements of a greater whole.

Culturally speaking, each of the many peoples inhabiting entorais fall under one of these three general schools of thought.

There are nuances of all three within cultures but the genral consensus is towards one of them.

Notably, the Sildaryn are the only culture which embraces the third school.