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Sounds good! Does something Hiduism-inspired seem okay/possible to you then, for the main religion? They have a ton of deities and incarnations of said deities and heroes and wise people and demons and stories and lessons and etc. etc., so there's a lot of potential material to work with xD
Yeah! That sounds exciting, to be honest! ^^
Seems like you know a whole lot more than I do about Hinduism, so do you have any ideas?
lol well, my mom has been studying it for years and she tells me stuff. Maybe for our religion, we could have a trio of major gods, and then a bunch of lesser deities below them? And maybe one of the core beliefs of the religion is the idea of reincarnation and karma (or something similar)? So basically the deeds you do in this life can affect your next life, and ultimately you're trying to escape the reincarnation cycle and go to 'heaven' for all eternity. And also the idea that god is within all of us and we can all achieve enlightenment through the right practices etc. How does all that sound?
(Oh, and the main trio of gods are all different aspects of one single supreme god, if that makes sense? Kind of like the Holy Trinity in Christianity, but you can dedicate your whole life to worshiping and following one of the three if you want)
Yeah, I really like that idea!
Cool! So, if that's the main religion…any ideas for some smaller religions we could include as well?
Hmm, so you know how Lutheranism broke off from Catholicism and that's how it came to be?
Maybe some of these smaller religions could be slight variations of this Hinduism-inspired religion?
That's a cool idea! Maybe some of them only believe in specific gods, or disagree with the philosophy of the main religion somehow, stuff like that?
Thanks! And yeah, sounds good!
Aright! (I gtg for a bit, back later!)
Cool cool! and that's okii! I'll be going in a bit and won't be back for a couple hours so cya then!
Okay, later! ^^
Apologies, kinda forgot about this for a bit aha
I'll try to be more active though
It's fine! I've been busy too hehe ^^;
Haha okay then
:D
Let me know when you have time again to work on this! I still think it's a really fun and interesting idea! ^^
Thank~
Technically I have time, but I just can't be as active as I was last year. At least once a day, though.
That's fair. For sure, no pressure or anything XD
Haha thanks for being so understanding :D
So what do we still have to figure out?
Here's the list we originally had:
A name for the utopia?
Culture?
People?
Languages?
Religion?
Geography?
Wildlife?
Music, ect.?
Politics
Government and the system
We covered the basics of language, religion, and geography so far. Any of those other categories jump out at you?
Ooo what about music?
Sure! I love music ahaha XD I guess within this category we can figure out the most common instruments, the sound of the music, common themes in the songs, what singers often sounds like, what their version of "pop" music is, and how important music is to the culture overall. Since we're designing a utopia, I feel like all the arts would be pretty respected and valued, do you think?
Yeah, makes sense!
(Sorry, I feel like I'm making you do all the work. Sorry again)
(It's okay! I have a lot of ideas, but I feel like you get to say yes or no to any of those ideas because this was your idea originally. Like, you're the film director and I'm the concept artist or something XD)
When it comes to the sound of the music and the most common instruments, we could continue with the India theme, or we could mix it up and draw inspiration from a different culture entirely. Some geographical "styles" I particularly like are Finnish (traditional music, not their death metal lol), Russian, traditional Tibetan singing, Celtic/Irish…..what about you?
(Okay aha)
Considering that this utopia is a floating island, perhaps some kind of "airy" music would work? I don't know if that makes sense, but it makes sense to me so-