A Love For The Ages
Copyright© 2005 by CWatson
World-Building Background
Fantasy Sex Story: World-Building Background - A long time ago in a kingdom far far away, it came time for the princess to be assigned the man who would lead her armies, provide her counsel, and guard her with his life. She was hoping for, at least, someone friendly. Who she got... Is a whole different story. A medieval fantasy.
Caution: This Fantasy Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including mt/ft Ma/ft Teenagers Consensual Romantic NonConsensual Heterosexual Fiction High Fantasy First Oral Sex Slow Caution
The world this takes place on is roughly circular, with a single giant lake in the middle, the source of all fresh-water rivers, which flow out into the rest of the world. The land is further striated like a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. The strawberry and chocolate sections on either side are the Summerlands and the Winterlands, places where it is always either hot or cold, and no rain falls; water comes solely from the rivers. The vanilla section in the middle (which itself is bisected by the Great Lake) is referred to as the Spring Lands or the Autumn Lands, depending on what you feel like at the moment. Geographical irregularities have made them the only places where rain falls. They are extremely fertile and there are constant wars waged over their ownership between the Summers and the Winters. The Spring Land adjacent to Cymerin (towards the "bottom" of the world") are the Moonside Spring Lands, because the moon rises from that side of the sky; likewise, the Sunside Spring Lands are between Rascine and Grunveld (at the "top"). Navigating by map direction is somewhat useless as the Great Lake itself is treated as the world's north pole; everything is south of it. Sunward and Moonward rotation, in combination with latitude, are used to describe location.
Like most fantasies, the societies in this story are mostly medieval and feudal monarchies, though several variants on the basic monarch exist and there is in fact a republic in the Summerlands. There are seven main nations: Quintaln, Seneca, Rascine, and Emmerech on the Summer side, and Cymerin, Grunveld and Malecai on the Winter side, as well as twelve or fifteen smaller satellite nations that derive most of their culture from the large ones (Eretria, for instance, orbits Cymerin). Like most fantasies, gunpowder has not yet been discovered. Technologically and societally the world is poised on the brink of a Renaissance age.
Instead of a common language, each nation has its own dialect, represented by alterations to standard English grammar. Eretrians speak the same English we do, but those of other nations have different habits: grammar, vocabulary, word order, a certain amount of pronunciation. In other words, what seems to be misspellings or bad grammar may be utterly intentional.