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Eskaver wrote: Arctucrus wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Farerb wrote: No new worlds. Just development for the current worlds. Who cares about the realms? The characters are the most important, and need proper development. World building is a thing.

And either way, I couldn't disagree more. A good story shares all its' development equally, across all the boards -- characters, settings, plot, etc. Yep, I would say that you must not read books if you think worldbuilding isn't important.

You build the world that the characters are in to better connect the characters and the plot. One part of worldbuilding is magicbuilding. If magic and do anything (which Once sometimes makes it seem like) is there any real suspense? Did we really think Robin was going to die? Not at all.

The key factors of story are Plot, Setting and Character. Whether we like it or not, Once focuses on plot far too much than the other two.

If we go back to Storybrooke, season 1. We had a small town and we knew things that went on and we can relate to a small town feel perhaps. We know how towns function. That added to the characters and  the characters to the plot and it created a nice conflict.

Characters are the most important, but it doesn't mean you don't do proper worldbuilding.

I rather see a fully devleoped world than random charatcers. Example is Frozen: We had good characters ripped straight from the movie, but they really didn';t do much worldbuilding with it. It literally doesn't even fit in the same world as EF. Arendelle stuff screams 1800s, we never get details on Weselton and its diplomatic stuff, they act like magic never existed, but everywhere else is living in the 1200s with magic galore. -applause-

My only gripe is, again, something I mentioned in another thread already -- It's OK for magic to be able to do anything and everything, it just has to be done properly.

If you like reading about magic and worlds and the way magic is handled in different fantasy worlds, again, I strongly recommend you look up Sanderson's Laws of Magic in Fantasy. It's a good read, trust me, you'll enjoy it. :)