AELON ERE

The world I am currently writing in is called Aelon Ere - pronounced: AY-eh-lahn AIR-ay

As I have discussed before, the premise for this world was my husband's creation. He started working on it the first year we were married. Today's world-building post is about where he came up with the inspiration for this particular world.

What was your inspiration for Aelon Ere?

Aelon Ere was inspired by the desire for my own fantasy world. I grew up with a smattering of fantasy novels and far more video games. Final Fantasy VII was the first real fantasy based video game I got into. I enjoyed the character classes and how they each had a speciality. Diablo 2 was another “fantasy” game I got into and again the character classes made for some great entertainment and fun. Diablo also had the weapons, armor, and magical items you would use to constantly improve your character. This led me down a path that would design a world that made use of these items.

The humorous part is, pretty much none of that ended up in my world. It was the inspiration and some of the character class-ness still resides in the main characters my wife came up with, but that was the real start.

The other inspiration for the world was The Argonath. Yep, those massive statues in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings adaptation were absolutely astounding. I envisioned a world where everything that was built was done so on the grandest of scales. It’s just what the people of this world do. So, I sketched out a little steampunk/art deco train system that was larger than life (think of a train engine the size of a battleship, and then attach an equal sized set of cars behind it, yeah it was big). I envisioned airships like dirigibles or blimps. Or flying frigates and dreadnaughts right out of the Pirates of the Caribbean. Everything was huge. But all it meant was that architecture and engineering were large. The people, their homes, their lives were all the same. Aelon Ere was sparked into existence by some of my original ideas, then a blend of visuals from all over drove it to it’s final state. Ideas rarely ever stay sitting still, they like to move and Aelon Ere definitely moved to find it’s own place in my imagination.