{"id":11429,"date":"2011-10-28T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2011-10-27T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:24:24","slug":"worldbuilding-challenge-the-gods-of-blackbloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/28\/worldbuilding-challenge-the-gods-of-blackbloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldbuilding Challenge: The Gods Of Blackbloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(The first Blackbloom challenge reached fruition yesterday. Slugbears! Forgotten gods! Indentured dead! Sentient cities! Check out the results, won’t you<\/strong><\/span><\/a>?)<\/em><\/p>\n

Before I say anything else, let’s get an administrative issue out of the way: I’m going to start doing these every other week, alternating with flash fiction challenges. That way the worldbuilding won’t go stale and we’ll get more than just 12 major “sessions” in a given year. So, just a head’s up.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s talk about the gods of Blackbloom.<\/p>\n

Here’s all we know:<\/p>\n

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Blackbloom has gods. Plural. “Several,” if you care about the specific language.<\/p>\n

They have power over given dominions. What this means is unclear, but that’s okay.<\/p>\n

The gods walk among men but are forgotten and unrecognized. Nobody believes in them anymore.<\/p>\n

And yet they retain power — “god-like power” — and cause chaos. To what purpose remains unclear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s it. That’s all we know.<\/p>\n

It’s time, then, to populate this pantheon.<\/p>\n

Your job:<\/p>\n

Come up with a god or goddess of the world known as Blackbloom.<\/p>\n

You have 100 words, and only that — I’m going to be strict and discount entries that go beyond that. In part because I don’t have time to read fifty 2,000-word entries. In part because brevity is its own powerful creative challenge.<\/p>\n

Now, you should feel free to tie them to some of the other facts we already know<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Writing a god in a way so that it further embellishes upon the other points is a winner.<\/p>\n

That said, it’s also not necessary. Do as you see fit.<\/p>\n

Write in a way as if you’re writing an encyclopedia entry. Pretend it’s fact, not fiction. We should also get a small but potent look at the characters of these gods — and characters, they most certainly are.<\/p>\n

I will choose as many gods as I find fit into the pantheon. No less than three. But possibly many more if the entries strike the right mood and end up interlocking.<\/p>\n

Go forth, then, and continue this mad genesis, world-builders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time, then, to populate this pantheon. Your job: Come up with a god or goddess of the world known as Blackbloom. You have 100 words, and only that. I will choose as many gods as I find fit into the pantheon. Go forth, then, and continue this mad genesis, world-builders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":{"0":"post-11429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-blackbloom","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2Yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}