- World Culture -

Your fantasy world can only be limited by your mind. It can be as full and interesting as the world you live in, and even more if you chose the elements carefully.

Nowadays, Fantasies seem to be endlessly set in a series of European villages and castles. If you want to be different, then don't tread these already trodden grounds: The world has many interestingly different cultures that offer a secure and stable base for your story.

Writers need to consider what points in a culture's development and style they are going to show. Each has it's own differences and cannot lay static for long. They are consistently changing and moving on. Is the culture in it's prime? Of is it declining? Is it at war?

If you have already shaped a rough idea of what your fantasy is going to be about then you can begin to pick your cultures.

Today there's more information about cultures than ever before and you can always get hold of them on the web.

Several suggestions:

• The African Culture (don't be fooled, there are plenty of cultures in Africa)

• The Egyptian Culture

• Asian Culture

• The Chinese

• Mughal Culture

• South American Culture

• The Mayan

• The Aztecs

• North American culture

• The American Indians

• Mississippian Culture.

• Exotic cultures such as the tiny islands in the Pacific or the Aboriginal.