Culture and Worldbuilding

Grow a seed into a forest.

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I love creating new cultures. It provides the opportunity to explore different combinations of ideas. For example, I have a culture of bat people that are both altruistic and highly individualistic.

Why? Because some types of real-world bats don’t manage to feed every night and must go beg other bats to puke in their mouths. Bats that develop a…