As a first step on my new path of age building, I want to direct you to the Tutorial section of the guild of writers – wiki, especially to the section about “Kormahn”:
You might want to bookmark this link, because you will need it quite frequently in the near future, if you want to “write” your own ages.
A little bit of backstory:
First, let me tell you what “Kormahn” means. It´s (one form of) transcription of a compound word of the D’ni language, meaning “Descriptive book”.
These “descriptive books” where the books the D’ni wrote to establish a link to a new “age” (world, dimension, universe…).
Each age only has one descriptive book; but there can be various “linking books” to this same age. Those don’t do anything besides being a means of dimensional transfer to the already established age.
A descriptive book on the other side is a book that defines the characteristics of the age it describes.
For example: size and gravity of the planet, number of suns, landscape, lifeforms, biosphere, atmosphere, humidity, amount of water, and so on.
Beware: if you change the content of your descriptive book too drastically, it might switch to another age, one that meets the requirements you set in a better way.
Re-establishing the link to the former age is nearly impossible!
You might recognize the similarity to the age building process OOC (out of character), or the way we create ages for MOUL (Myst Online URU Live).
I might add that I suspect this to be no coincidence…
By the way: In my IC (in character) blog I tend to use reallife problems I have with building my age to create storylines, or just mention them casually.
In the next post, I will tell you more about the program “Blender” and the plugin we will use to make ages, the aforementioned “Kormahn”.