It's Foxwood's Q&A: [Now: Elgana, a world made out of torus planets]

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I’m not sure my questions will be any good, but I’ll ask anyway :see_no_evil_monkey:

  1. What inspired you to create a solar system with torus planets instead of spherical planets?
  2. You said in your wiki that most of the humans that arrived in Elgana were dark- or red-haired. From which countries or regions of Earth did these humans mostly come from?
  3. If humans have a recessive gene that allows them to control magick, does that mean that they already had that gene while on Earth but were unable to use it until they reached Elgana, or is that recessive gene only seen in Elgana-born humans?
  4. Were the Ilvagis inspired by boggarts from Harry Potter?

These are all I can think of for now :grin:

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That’s an interesting question that I’ve never thought about

Are there planets like that? Irl? I don’t know anything about that stuff

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I know this because GRRM had to come out and specify that Westeros is not affected by cosmic phenomena that would cause its seasons to be completely insane.

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Hm, honestly, one day I thought “why not make a planet…that’s a donut! ooo! :hushed_face: And there’s six of them!!! Ahhh! :laughing: “

Okay, so, probably Irish. And people from the middle east, and possibly Africa, and Latin America, and maybe some people from Southern USA.

YEESSS! Exactly. They had that on Earth, but Earth has no magick, so they were unable to access that part of themselves which means some humans who were left behind, could have one day become Sorcerers

I had to think about what boggarts are :stuck_out_tongue: Different from dementors, right? Never read the books here. The boggart is the one that changes shape into the thing you fear most, right?

No, not inspired. It was actually inspired by the Spiritshadow in The Seventh Tower by Garth Nix. I was once obsessed with that series. I read it and thought, “a dark shadowy friend, hm, I want a dark shadowy friend”. And so, I made a dark shadowy friend and then promptly forgot I was inspired by that book until hindsight, years later

Great questions! :grin:

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Huh, interesting.

In Elgana seasons aren’t affected by planets, but there isn’t too much seasonal diversity in any of the torus planets to begin with. It’s a magick thing :stuck_out_tongue: The weirdest place is probably the outermost torus planet which has an area in the farthest north where it’s always extremely icy and cold. Again, magick thing. And the middle part is dry, the most southern part is volcanic lava plains and extremely toxic and hot.

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When in doubt, just make it magic.

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lol, yep :zany_face:

But in all seriousness, I came up with entire lore to make the magick parts make sense. So it’s not just “oh, it’s just because magick“.

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