Setting! Where does the story take place?
breaking down this question,
- What is the name of the world, continent, country, state, city, town, village…that the story takes place in the majority of the time?
- What does this world look like? Square like dice? Round like Earth? Flat like Discworld?
- What does the landscape look like? Barren, wet, arid, dry, bleak, populated, fancy, made of glass, underwater, volcano, floating in space…?