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So, my next book essentially low fantasy, I suppose I could be called middle fantasy if that's even such a thing.

I know that essentially fae and other magical beings lived on one world that's very similar to our world, for a long time throughout history, but then around the 1400s they started getting hunted more, a lot of them wanted to stay hidden a lot of them wanted to make their presence known, the biggest options were to come out and face possibly having to go to war in order to avoid species being wiped out or just being complacent in their and their friends and families death.

So another world was created, where a great deal of these people went to live, rebuild. They've been there ever since.

A lot of things are very similar to what we have on this earth, since that is what they are used to and what they had to inspire them.

I know that instead of having the exact fashions, and technology and such that we have, this world at the point in my story is going to be dieselpunk, where fashion is more 1930's-1950's but they have the same technology it just looks and is powered differently.

To clarify once more: So while in the story this world will be in the 2000s, the fae world looks more like the early to mid 1900s.

I've written several things down that based on searching I need to figure out.

Geography:


World History:

Kingdoms/Countries/States/Cities: (The world has countries and cities but still has monarchs and countries labeled as Kingdoms.)

--- Each individual countries history and geography/places.

--- Each individual countries/states rules/laws.

Whole World Laws/Limits: (Like no humans allowed to come to that world, or allowed to live there.)


Species:

-- Each species abilities, limits, and consequences of using their abilities or not using their abilities.

(Languages aren't the same as in high fantasy, because the people were originally from this world, they speak the language of the culture they grew in on this world. Meaning there are fae that speak German, Latin, French, English, Hindu, etc.)


Time Period Info/Exact Technology Descriptions:


I can't think of anything else I need to figure out. So I need suggestions for what any of you might feel I need to add to the list of things I need to figure out.

Note: I'm not looking for anyone to give me info to put in any of these sections. Just suggestions of another thing I need to add to this list; but feel free to drop anything you think of relating to the sections I listed if you like anyway.