This week is all about transportation! Haly's looking at some of the more common reasons behind travel, including survival, trade, and exploration and how these can inspire your own fictional worlds!
In my newest world of Mytharae, the only method of traversing between the Upside and Downside realms is through the Gates. There are six of them, each arranged in a circular form around the edges of the world (and when I say "edge", I mean LITERALLY. Fall off and you'd be floating in the Cosmos.)
These Gates cannot be accessed by ANYONE other than the Vanguard, a set of highly-trained soldiers—handpicked by the Gods themselves—responsible for ensuring the Gates remain intact and no one comes near it.
However, there is another way the Gates can be opened, and that's the Flip, a strange event that occurs every millennium. While it's not a literal flip, it does facilitate movement between the realms by deactivating the Gates.
The goal of my main character is to get to the Gates so she can reach the Downside, and because of everything mentioned above, she has two options—wait for the next Flip (which will happen 400 years later but she can't live that long) or somehow find a way around the Vanguard (they are instructed to take out anything that gets near the Gates).
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In my newest world of Mytharae, the only method of traversing between the Upside and Downside realms is through the Gates. There are six of them, each arranged in a circular form around the edges of the world (and when I say "edge", I mean LITERALLY. Fall off and you'd be floating in the Cosmos.)
These Gates cannot be accessed by ANYONE other than the Vanguard, a set of highly-trained soldiers—handpicked by the Gods themselves—responsible for ensuring the Gates remain intact and no one comes near it.
However, there is another way the Gates can be opened, and that's the Flip, a strange event that occurs every millennium. While it's not a literal flip, it does facilitate movement between the realms by deactivating the Gates.
The goal of my main character is to get to the Gates so she can reach the Downside, and because of everything mentioned above, she has two options—wait for the next Flip (which will happen 400 years later but she can't live that long) or somehow find a way around the Vanguard (they are instructed to take out anything that gets near the Gates).