The day had finally come. After 514 days, this story had reached its conclusion.
I'd always been a reader of fantasy. The first fantasy novel I read was Release That Witch. After that, I started reading Lord of Helan Mountain and Whispering Verses, and even worked a few crossovers into this novel.
But it wasn't until I actually started writing that I realized a fantasy novel, from beginning to end, never stopped exploring and shaping its world.
Looking back at it now, I felt that nearly half the story had been devoted to introducing the world of Alivia rather than telling Landen Gallop's story as a lord.
For example, why could humans, Elves, and Beastmen have children together? What exactly was magic? And how did production, currency, transportation, and construction work in a magical world? What were the relationships between gods and their followers, Kings and nobles, and Transcendents and ordinary people? Even though I'd prepared all of this before I started writing in earnest, the story still called for constant additions and refinements.
In the setting, Alivia was the first planet to nurture life. After its earliest inhabitants ascended to godhood as a people, they turned their old home into a massive experimental garden, bringing creatures from similar worlds to the planet to cultivate a magical civilization. Much of the planet's design was based on Jupiter and its moons, which was why a year lasted 400 days.
In this world, magic was almost the only source of energy. Regions where magic was unstable were effectively deserts, while places rich in magic—valleys and forests—were where cities sprang up. So despite its lush grass and abundant water, the Gallop Plains were actually a green desert, unable to support a population or give rise to civilization on their own.
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