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Worldbuilding Ex Letter
Dear Worldbuilding Ex writer,
Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've tried to keep this letter mostly focused on what I enjoy in worldbuilding, because my usual exchange letters tend to be mostly about ships and that's not necessarily relevant here. If you ship any of my ships and would like to include them (with or without any porn), I've included some links to other exchange letters for more shippy prompts and kink preferences. But if you want to keep this all gen, that's obviously fine by me too!
My prompts are mostly there to give you some ideas, but if they don't work for you or you have a different idea, go for it. As long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've tried to keep this letter mostly focused on what I enjoy in worldbuilding, because my usual exchange letters tend to be mostly about ships and that's not necessarily relevant here. If you ship any of my ships and would like to include them (with or without any porn), I've included some links to other exchange letters for more shippy prompts and kink preferences. But if you want to keep this all gen, that's obviously fine by me too!
My prompts are mostly there to give you some ideas, but if they don't work for you or you have a different idea, go for it. As long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
DNWs:
Clarification about the first two: I mostly don't want these things happening to the main characters of the story (or to any canon characters I requested, even if they only appear on the sidelines). E.g. if you write a fic about political scheming, I'm fine with the protagonist's opponent getting assassinated in it. I don't want to read about the protagonist getting assassinated. If you write about laws and social norms, I don't mind mentions of, say, chopping off a thief's hand as a punishment. I don't want gory detailed descriptions of it, and I don't want to read about the main character getting their hand chopped off. (Please no serious illnesses at all, though.)
Worldbuilding elements I like:
Other things I like in general:
Deus Ex
Adam Jensen
WB: Prague's Red Light District; WB: Augmented sex slaves
Characters and ships:
Feel free to include anyone from the TF29 or the SI crowd. I ship Adam/Miller, Adam/Pritchard, Adam/Miller/Pritchard. I'm also okay with Adam/OMCs, but more of the dubcon/noncon on a mission variety than as actual romance. I'd definitely prefer slash for that, though. See my Chocolate Box letter if you're looking for some shippy prompts/preferences.
Prompts:
- Adam undercover as a hooker or sex slave, whether in Prague or elsewhere - maybe he needs to save somebody, maybe he needs information and there's an Aug sex slave ring that has ties to some terrorist group ... maybe Miller has to come along to play his owner/pimp. (I don't care that it's not very original, I want it. ;))
- or maybe he got himself captured and Miller/Mac/Pritchard/Sarif/all of them have to save him before he gets auctioned off somewhere - feel free to hurt Adam a bit, noncon included, just don't have anyone destroy or permanently disable his augs please.
- did the Aug sex slave rings just spring up post-Incident? do they mostly "deal" in down on their luck Augs, or is it more like what we see in HR where sex workers are forced by their pimps to get augmentations because the customers are into it?
- speaking of which: I was mostly thinking of post-Incident fic, but I'd totally be up for a fic set pre-Incident. Maybe Adam goes on another tangent during his investigation in HR to infiltrate a sex slave ring and Pritchard is all "the fuck are you doing NOW?"
- if Adam is caught by or infiltrates some slave ring or a bar or whatever, I'm always here for weird traditions or rules they came up with (for how Augs have to behave for example), and I'm also here for general corruption storylines (they pay off the police so nobody bothers them, or a powerful local politician is a valued customer ...)
(I'm having such a hard time coming up with proper worldbuilding prompts for this fandom, I'm so sorry. I'm not less excited about this fandom than any of the others! Just bad at prompts for it, apparently.)
Dragon Age
Dorian Pavus, Cullen Rutherford, Original Character(s)
WB: Tevinter Circles, WB: Tevinter Politics, WB: Imperial Templars, WB: Imperial Chantry
Characters and ships:
I ship Dorian/Cullen and am always here for excuses to send Cullen to Tevinter. I'm also a sucker for Dorian's relationship with his father. If you write OCs, I'd love to read about: an Altus who's a lot more comfortable with his expected place in the world than what we see from Dorian, an ambitious Laetan mage finding a way to power, a Magister's slave assistant/scribe who enjoys the relative power his position grants him (I'd be up for a shippy version of that, too), a non-mage born to an Altus family (who maybe joined the Chantry instead?), a mage priest in the Imperial Chantry (and maybe his relationship to an Imperial Templar? shippy or not, although I'm always a sucker for mage/Templar ships) ... I'm not particularly interested in reading about kid OCs.
See my Chocolate Box letter if you're looking for some shippy prompts/preferences.
Prompts:
Tevinter Circles
- do Altus families have preferred Circles to send their children to? I'd imagine that a lot of political scheming, networking, making future allies already happens at Circles, so where a future Magister learnt their magic and with whom is probably fairly important ...
- how does magical research work when there's so much political rivalry between the families?
- dynamics between Altus and Laetan mages - do Circles serve as recruitment places of sort? Where the future magister finds himself a talented magical assassin or bodyguard or research assistant?
Tevinter Politics
- scheming, assassination, backstabbing, I'm here for all of that
- family histories and personal animosities playing into politics
- the interplay of the Magisterium, the Archon, the Chantry, the Divine, the military, the big Altus families, the important Circles ...
- what do Altus mages get up to who aren't in line to inherit a magisterial seat?
- Dorian and his father actually having to work together to achieve something/defeat some shared political enemy (I'm very much into AUs in which Halward doesn't die quite so early)
Imperial Chantry & Imperial Templars
- who makes up the bulk of both the clergy and the Templars? at least the high-ranking (mage) priests have some amount of political power, so I'd figure the big families would also want to keep some influence on the Chantry - or is the Chantry one of the few places that allows for real upward mobility for non-Altus mages (and maybe even non-mages)?
- the Black Divine, how he's chosen, the power he has or doesn't have, how he uses his position
- how do the Templars feel about their southern counterparts? are they secretly envious of their power? or do they think having that kind of power over mages is wrong? and how do they feel about mages? (If you write about Cullen - Cullen interacting with an Imperial Templar in some way could be fascinating.)
Fallout: New Vegas
Vulpes Inculta, Lucius, Original Legion Character(s)
WB: Growing Up in the Legion, WB: The Frumentarii, WB: Legion Ideology, WB: New Vegas post Legion Victory
Characters and ships:
Mostly looking for gen here, although I won't object to throwing Vulpes, Lucius and Caesar together with any amount of consent or non-consent you enjoy (see my Chocolate Box letter if you're interested in shippy prompts/preferences). I'm also open to any m/m ships with original characters as well as m/f that's more on the noncon side (I'm not looking for a star-crossed romance between a Legionary and a slave girl, but I'm definitely interested in any more detailed explorations of how the Legion treats its slaves, and also of how Legionaries are expected to rape slaves for procreation purposes whether they particularly want to or not). Feel free to kill off Caesar if you want to explore what happens to the Legion after his death, though I'd prefer a verse in which Lanius was out of the picture first and somebody else (maybe Lucius?) took over instead.
Prompts:
Growing Up in the Legion
- kid characters are obviously okay for this, although I'd still prefer to read about teenagers than 5-year-olds
- training, indoctrination, values that are taught or discouraged ...
- are there any traditions or celebrations attached to things like a recruit's first battle, his first kill etc.?
- if you write about Vulpes or Lucius, I'd love to see formative experience that made them the characters we see in canon
The Frumentarii
- who picks them? we know Vulpes was picked personally by Caesar, but I doubt all of them are
- what's their training like? how does the Legion ensure they stay loyal and don't get ~tempted~ by profligate ways? how exactly are they taught all the things they need to know about to pass unnoticed in non-Legion lands? like, are there Frumentarius drinking classes so they don't vomit their guts out the first time they drink some alcohol?
- since they're more worldly than your average Legionary, what's their feeling about official Legion ideology and rules? do they have a more nuanced view of the Legion? or are they specifically picked for their unquestioning devotion?
- we mostly see them operate outside Legion territories, but what are their jobs back home? do they also function as a kind of secret police that deals with dissenters/trouble makers?
- what's their hierarchy like? do all their orders come directly from Caesar and/or Vulpes (or whoever was Vulpes's predecessor), or do they have a lot more operational independence?
- what's the relationship between the Frumentarii and other Legionaries like? canon implies that a lot of Legionaries look down on the Frumentarii for not being ~real warriors~, but I'd like to see that explored further
Legion Ideology
- how much of the official doctrine (Caesar is Mars' son, the world was destroyed by Mars' wrath etc.) does your average Legionary believe? how much of it do people close to Caesar like Vulpes or Lucius believe?
- so obviously the Legion values obedience and martial strength and courage, but I'd like to see that whole system of values in more detail
- male booooonding! :D to what extent is that encouraged/discouraged? after all you're not supposed to care more about your brother-in-arms who might die by your side than about Caesar's will, but it's kind of impossible to keep people who fight together from caring about each other entirely. also, that kind of male-dominated is a hotbed for homoeroticism - what kinds of sexual relationships between men are tolerated (maybe even encouraged?), and what aren't? Canon is a bit contradictory in that regard, after all.
New Vegas post Legion Victory
- what does Caesar even want with New Vegas? he says he wants a Rome, and to transform his raiding tribes into an actual Empire, and presumably he doesn't want the gambling and whoring and all that, but what DOES he want? what is his idea of Empire, with all the culture and bureaucracy and art and rules it brings with it?
- vaguely related: I'd love to see how a victorious Legion would develop over the next decades, how its leadership and its organisational structures and its values might change once it becomes a more stable country than just a perpetually conquering army
Rivers of London
Thomas Nightingale
WB: Pre-War Folly, WB: Pre-War Folly's activities outside of Europe
Characters and ships:
Feel free to include any of the pre-war characters mentioned in the books so far, like David Mellenby (or people like Father Thames who were already around back then), or you can come up with OCs for Nightingale to interact with. I firmly headcanon Nightingale as gay, so if you want to write anything shippy about him, please no het. Though I also don't ship him with Mellenby, for what it's worth. I'd love to read about other Folly wizards, especially ones that are very different from Nightingale, but also about any members of the demi-monde or non-Newtonian magic users outside of Europe that Nightingale might encounter in his travels.
Prompts:
Pre-War Folly
- what did investigations look like when there were so many wizards, all with their own specialisations and fields of interest?
- what was Nightingale mostly up to, considering how little he seems to know about what's going on in England? was he just the one-man SWAT team they called in when they needed something to be set on fire with extreme prejudice?
- tell me all about the relationships with other wizard organisations in e.g. France or Germany (especially before 1933), or about wizards from different countries working together on cases (like a magical Interpol?)
- your average Folly member came from a certain social class (IIRC Nightingale says mostly bourgeoisie rather than nobility) - was the existence of magic fairly well known among among certain social groups? or if not, what was the official story people told about the family members who worked for this odd organisation at Russell Square instead of doing something more sensible with their time?
- I'd love to see in what regards pre-war Nightingale was different from the guy we see in the books, both on a personal level (this is before a whole lot of personal tragedy, after all) and on a moral/ethical level - Nightingale is surprisingly open-minded for a guy born in 1900, but was he always like that?
Pre-War Folly's activities outside of Europe
- just tell me about Nightingale's James Bond and/or Indiana Jones adventures all over the world, and all the other wizards and non-Newtonian magic users and members of the demi-monde he runs into there (I'm always here for Nightingale kicking ass)
- what did Folly practicioners stationed in any parts of the Empire get up to? find magical artefacts or books? just make sure the local demi-monde doesn't make trouble?
And that's it! I hope that something in my letter inspires you, dear author, and that you find a prompt you'll enjoy writing. I'm very much looking forward to reading what you'll come up with, and I hope you'll also receive a wonderful gift! :D
Thanks!
linndechir
- character death of requested/main characters
- serious illnesses, permanent injuries (blood and wounds that will heal again are fine)
- completely tragic/bleak endings
- animal death/cruelty
- genderbend of any kind, mpreg, A/B/O, characters being werewolves/vampires/anything than what they are in canon
- non-canon gender identities/sexual orientations, except for writing characters as gay or bi
- unrequested ships (including canon ships)
- unrequested crossovers or fusions
- complete AUs (canon divergence is fine, but please no high school AUs, coffee shop AUs, in space AUs, groundhog day AUs etc.)
- unnecessary epithets, please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character (or unless the characters think of each other by e.g. their title rather than their name)
- 1st and 2nd person fic (epistolary or diary entries are fine, though)
- if there's porn: detailed kink negotiation, safewords for scenes that don't involve consent play (and even then I'm not really into safewords); scat, watersports, coming in pants, crossdressing, feminisation, body modification, ageplay/infantilisation (daddy kink and calling characters "boy" is fine)
Clarification about the first two: I mostly don't want these things happening to the main characters of the story (or to any canon characters I requested, even if they only appear on the sidelines). E.g. if you write a fic about political scheming, I'm fine with the protagonist's opponent getting assassinated in it. I don't want to read about the protagonist getting assassinated. If you write about laws and social norms, I don't mind mentions of, say, chopping off a thief's hand as a punishment. I don't want gory detailed descriptions of it, and I don't want to read about the main character getting their hand chopped off. (Please no serious illnesses at all, though.)
Worldbuilding elements I like:
- languages, dialects, language use: if different languages are spoken in a society, what are they used for? Do they have different amounts of social prestige? How does the use of language evolve over time? What’s the lingua franca, what’s the language of academics, what’s the secret language of slaves or servants … What happens when members of this society interact with foreigners – merchants, diplomats, travellers? Are foreigners expect to learn the local language, or is it seen as a sign of respect to learn theirs?
- social values, especially if there’s a moral value dissonance to present-day real-world values: what do people think is the ethically right thing to do in specific situations? What do they think of personal honour, of the law, of the authorities? What are society’s expectations and how closely do people adhere to them? Which missteps/transgressions are frowned upon but tolerated, which are punished or at least socially unacceptable? Are there different values, or different traits that are expected, for different social groups (based on gender, social class, age etc.)?
- organisations: armies, spy organisations, mage circles, senates/parliaments/ruling councils … What are their hierarchies? Who has the power – both de jure and de facto? What are their rules, and do they actually operate by those official rules or not? Who has access to these organisations, or to specific ranks inside them (e.g. can anyone become a general, or only nobles)? I’m always interested in how individuals manoeuvre the organisations they work in.
- social class: how stratified is this society, is there social mobility, how strongly do a person’s origins influence the jobs etc. available to them? I’m especially interested in characters who do something different from what’s expected: a noble who doesn’t want to become a politician, a commoner who works their way up higher than should be possible … Conversely, in societies where class or castes aren’t really a thing: how else do social groups define themselves? By their job? Their religion? Or in a society that strongly emphasises that everyone is equal, what does that look like in everyday life?
Other things I like in general:
- if you write OCs: I generally prefer stories that focus on men
- moral complexity, ethical dilemmas, situations in which there is no clear right or wrong, characters having to question or go against their principles
- villains in love who'd do anything for each other; but also villains with strong principles
- morally grey characters, but also genuinely awful people: whether they have noble goals but a “the end justifies the means” attitude, or they have questionable goals but tell themselves they are totally doing it for a higher cause, or they’re perfectly honest about the fact that they’re just in it for their own personal gain/fame/power/wealth
- competence, characters being good at what they do
- complicated, unhealthy relationships (whether romantic or not) that work for the characters involved
- reluctant allies grudgingly starting to respect/like each other
- slow burn and pining, but also antagonistic hookups and hate sex
- loyalty, devotion, trust, but also trust/commitment issues
- age differences, power imbalance - relationships (romantic/sexual or not) between mentor/student, boss/subordinate, parent/child, ruler/subject ...
- if you write any ships: I generally prefer m/m, though mentions of background m/f and f/f are totally fine - but if there's a main ship or the main character being attracted to anyone comes up in the fic, please have it be m/m or just skip the shippiness
Deus Ex
Adam Jensen
WB: Prague's Red Light District; WB: Augmented sex slaves
Characters and ships:
Feel free to include anyone from the TF29 or the SI crowd. I ship Adam/Miller, Adam/Pritchard, Adam/Miller/Pritchard. I'm also okay with Adam/OMCs, but more of the dubcon/noncon on a mission variety than as actual romance. I'd definitely prefer slash for that, though. See my Chocolate Box letter if you're looking for some shippy prompts/preferences.
Prompts:
- Adam undercover as a hooker or sex slave, whether in Prague or elsewhere - maybe he needs to save somebody, maybe he needs information and there's an Aug sex slave ring that has ties to some terrorist group ... maybe Miller has to come along to play his owner/pimp. (I don't care that it's not very original, I want it. ;))
- or maybe he got himself captured and Miller/Mac/Pritchard/Sarif/all of them have to save him before he gets auctioned off somewhere - feel free to hurt Adam a bit, noncon included, just don't have anyone destroy or permanently disable his augs please.
- did the Aug sex slave rings just spring up post-Incident? do they mostly "deal" in down on their luck Augs, or is it more like what we see in HR where sex workers are forced by their pimps to get augmentations because the customers are into it?
- speaking of which: I was mostly thinking of post-Incident fic, but I'd totally be up for a fic set pre-Incident. Maybe Adam goes on another tangent during his investigation in HR to infiltrate a sex slave ring and Pritchard is all "the fuck are you doing NOW?"
- if Adam is caught by or infiltrates some slave ring or a bar or whatever, I'm always here for weird traditions or rules they came up with (for how Augs have to behave for example), and I'm also here for general corruption storylines (they pay off the police so nobody bothers them, or a powerful local politician is a valued customer ...)
(I'm having such a hard time coming up with proper worldbuilding prompts for this fandom, I'm so sorry. I'm not less excited about this fandom than any of the others! Just bad at prompts for it, apparently.)
Dragon Age
Dorian Pavus, Cullen Rutherford, Original Character(s)
WB: Tevinter Circles, WB: Tevinter Politics, WB: Imperial Templars, WB: Imperial Chantry
Characters and ships:
I ship Dorian/Cullen and am always here for excuses to send Cullen to Tevinter. I'm also a sucker for Dorian's relationship with his father. If you write OCs, I'd love to read about: an Altus who's a lot more comfortable with his expected place in the world than what we see from Dorian, an ambitious Laetan mage finding a way to power, a Magister's slave assistant/scribe who enjoys the relative power his position grants him (I'd be up for a shippy version of that, too), a non-mage born to an Altus family (who maybe joined the Chantry instead?), a mage priest in the Imperial Chantry (and maybe his relationship to an Imperial Templar? shippy or not, although I'm always a sucker for mage/Templar ships) ... I'm not particularly interested in reading about kid OCs.
See my Chocolate Box letter if you're looking for some shippy prompts/preferences.
Prompts:
Tevinter Circles
- do Altus families have preferred Circles to send their children to? I'd imagine that a lot of political scheming, networking, making future allies already happens at Circles, so where a future Magister learnt their magic and with whom is probably fairly important ...
- how does magical research work when there's so much political rivalry between the families?
- dynamics between Altus and Laetan mages - do Circles serve as recruitment places of sort? Where the future magister finds himself a talented magical assassin or bodyguard or research assistant?
Tevinter Politics
- scheming, assassination, backstabbing, I'm here for all of that
- family histories and personal animosities playing into politics
- the interplay of the Magisterium, the Archon, the Chantry, the Divine, the military, the big Altus families, the important Circles ...
- what do Altus mages get up to who aren't in line to inherit a magisterial seat?
- Dorian and his father actually having to work together to achieve something/defeat some shared political enemy (I'm very much into AUs in which Halward doesn't die quite so early)
Imperial Chantry & Imperial Templars
- who makes up the bulk of both the clergy and the Templars? at least the high-ranking (mage) priests have some amount of political power, so I'd figure the big families would also want to keep some influence on the Chantry - or is the Chantry one of the few places that allows for real upward mobility for non-Altus mages (and maybe even non-mages)?
- the Black Divine, how he's chosen, the power he has or doesn't have, how he uses his position
- how do the Templars feel about their southern counterparts? are they secretly envious of their power? or do they think having that kind of power over mages is wrong? and how do they feel about mages? (If you write about Cullen - Cullen interacting with an Imperial Templar in some way could be fascinating.)
Fallout: New Vegas
Vulpes Inculta, Lucius, Original Legion Character(s)
WB: Growing Up in the Legion, WB: The Frumentarii, WB: Legion Ideology, WB: New Vegas post Legion Victory
Characters and ships:
Mostly looking for gen here, although I won't object to throwing Vulpes, Lucius and Caesar together with any amount of consent or non-consent you enjoy (see my Chocolate Box letter if you're interested in shippy prompts/preferences). I'm also open to any m/m ships with original characters as well as m/f that's more on the noncon side (I'm not looking for a star-crossed romance between a Legionary and a slave girl, but I'm definitely interested in any more detailed explorations of how the Legion treats its slaves, and also of how Legionaries are expected to rape slaves for procreation purposes whether they particularly want to or not). Feel free to kill off Caesar if you want to explore what happens to the Legion after his death, though I'd prefer a verse in which Lanius was out of the picture first and somebody else (maybe Lucius?) took over instead.
Prompts:
Growing Up in the Legion
- kid characters are obviously okay for this, although I'd still prefer to read about teenagers than 5-year-olds
- training, indoctrination, values that are taught or discouraged ...
- are there any traditions or celebrations attached to things like a recruit's first battle, his first kill etc.?
- if you write about Vulpes or Lucius, I'd love to see formative experience that made them the characters we see in canon
The Frumentarii
- who picks them? we know Vulpes was picked personally by Caesar, but I doubt all of them are
- what's their training like? how does the Legion ensure they stay loyal and don't get ~tempted~ by profligate ways? how exactly are they taught all the things they need to know about to pass unnoticed in non-Legion lands? like, are there Frumentarius drinking classes so they don't vomit their guts out the first time they drink some alcohol?
- since they're more worldly than your average Legionary, what's their feeling about official Legion ideology and rules? do they have a more nuanced view of the Legion? or are they specifically picked for their unquestioning devotion?
- we mostly see them operate outside Legion territories, but what are their jobs back home? do they also function as a kind of secret police that deals with dissenters/trouble makers?
- what's their hierarchy like? do all their orders come directly from Caesar and/or Vulpes (or whoever was Vulpes's predecessor), or do they have a lot more operational independence?
- what's the relationship between the Frumentarii and other Legionaries like? canon implies that a lot of Legionaries look down on the Frumentarii for not being ~real warriors~, but I'd like to see that explored further
Legion Ideology
- how much of the official doctrine (Caesar is Mars' son, the world was destroyed by Mars' wrath etc.) does your average Legionary believe? how much of it do people close to Caesar like Vulpes or Lucius believe?
- so obviously the Legion values obedience and martial strength and courage, but I'd like to see that whole system of values in more detail
- male booooonding! :D to what extent is that encouraged/discouraged? after all you're not supposed to care more about your brother-in-arms who might die by your side than about Caesar's will, but it's kind of impossible to keep people who fight together from caring about each other entirely. also, that kind of male-dominated is a hotbed for homoeroticism - what kinds of sexual relationships between men are tolerated (maybe even encouraged?), and what aren't? Canon is a bit contradictory in that regard, after all.
New Vegas post Legion Victory
- what does Caesar even want with New Vegas? he says he wants a Rome, and to transform his raiding tribes into an actual Empire, and presumably he doesn't want the gambling and whoring and all that, but what DOES he want? what is his idea of Empire, with all the culture and bureaucracy and art and rules it brings with it?
- vaguely related: I'd love to see how a victorious Legion would develop over the next decades, how its leadership and its organisational structures and its values might change once it becomes a more stable country than just a perpetually conquering army
Rivers of London
Thomas Nightingale
WB: Pre-War Folly, WB: Pre-War Folly's activities outside of Europe
Characters and ships:
Feel free to include any of the pre-war characters mentioned in the books so far, like David Mellenby (or people like Father Thames who were already around back then), or you can come up with OCs for Nightingale to interact with. I firmly headcanon Nightingale as gay, so if you want to write anything shippy about him, please no het. Though I also don't ship him with Mellenby, for what it's worth. I'd love to read about other Folly wizards, especially ones that are very different from Nightingale, but also about any members of the demi-monde or non-Newtonian magic users outside of Europe that Nightingale might encounter in his travels.
Prompts:
Pre-War Folly
- what did investigations look like when there were so many wizards, all with their own specialisations and fields of interest?
- what was Nightingale mostly up to, considering how little he seems to know about what's going on in England? was he just the one-man SWAT team they called in when they needed something to be set on fire with extreme prejudice?
- tell me all about the relationships with other wizard organisations in e.g. France or Germany (especially before 1933), or about wizards from different countries working together on cases (like a magical Interpol?)
- your average Folly member came from a certain social class (IIRC Nightingale says mostly bourgeoisie rather than nobility) - was the existence of magic fairly well known among among certain social groups? or if not, what was the official story people told about the family members who worked for this odd organisation at Russell Square instead of doing something more sensible with their time?
- I'd love to see in what regards pre-war Nightingale was different from the guy we see in the books, both on a personal level (this is before a whole lot of personal tragedy, after all) and on a moral/ethical level - Nightingale is surprisingly open-minded for a guy born in 1900, but was he always like that?
Pre-War Folly's activities outside of Europe
- just tell me about Nightingale's James Bond and/or Indiana Jones adventures all over the world, and all the other wizards and non-Newtonian magic users and members of the demi-monde he runs into there (I'm always here for Nightingale kicking ass)
- what did Folly practicioners stationed in any parts of the Empire get up to? find magical artefacts or books? just make sure the local demi-monde doesn't make trouble?
And that's it! I hope that something in my letter inspires you, dear author, and that you find a prompt you'll enjoy writing. I'm very much looking forward to reading what you'll come up with, and I hope you'll also receive a wonderful gift! :D
Thanks!
linndechir