What are your worlds themes?

Themes are often something we associate with deep thoughtful films, EXTREMELY boring English assignments, and pretentious criticism, but themes are simply reoccurring elements in a thing. That was incredibly vague and not helpful, so some examples would be when a story explores themes of racism or revenge. They can also be used to explore questions and communicate more complex ideas, like that hate comes from love, and exploring the complex truth of imperialism.

Why did I spend so long rambling about themes? Because worlds can have themes also! Using events across an entire world can be used to communicate some strong themes. Although you can be limited in telling some themes if you have just a world.

So what are your themes? If you don’t really have some, consider investing in some. I find it really helpful when determining the course of events and linking elements of the world together. For example, if you want to do the imperialism theme I mentioned earlier, you might have local species side with the imperialists because many real imperialist cultures “educated” and used collaborators to help run the colonies.

I’ve talked for too long, go and discuss themes please.