Oct. 16: - Setting: Cultural Setting ▼
Describe the cultural, political and/or religious setting in your novel, regardless of whether the cultural setting is fictional, historical, or modern.
(1) What do your societies believe?
(2) In what practices do they engage?
(3) What laws or rules of society are in place?
(4) Who/what enforces the laws and rules and how successful are they?
(5) What technologies are in use?
(6) How does the setting impact your protagonist(s) in their pre-story lives?
(7) How does the setting impact the plot of your story?

The political and religious may have a common theme of sacrifice and culturally they welcome visitors and give everything for sacrifice of these visitors one by one. Maybe their is an evil dictator who forces others to pray to an idol or else risk their lives in some way.

What does society run off of and how does it affect your character?

Is there variety or is it one thing?

Explore well for 15 minutes.