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Behind the scenes of this podcast, part 6 · Stories from Väruld

• 0:02
  Presenter: You are listening to stories from Väruld.
• 0:05
  Presenter: In this episode.
• 0:08
  Presenter: Behind the scenes of this podcast, part 6.
• 0:18
  Host: Hello and welcome.
• 0:19
  Host: Désirée is with us today, as usual.
• 0:22
  AI-Désirée: Hello everyone.
• 0:24
  Host: For those of you who does not know it, Désirée is the creator of Väruld, and we are both AI voices.
• 0:31
  Host: Désirée, could you tell us what you are doing with Verold right now?
• 0:36
  AI-Désirée: Yes.
• 0:37
  AI-Désirée: A few years ago, I started published Väruld material, writing about different countries, the magic, the gods, and such, and published it in books.
• 0:47
  AI-Désirée: But I realized that it would be better to publish in smaller items, because, well, first of all, it was physical books with their limitations.
• 0:56
  AI-Désirée: And well, I had published three countries in one book and three in the next, and why three?
• 1:02
  AI-Désirée: I don't know.
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  AI-Désirée: So I'm splitting them up to separate books and staying only digital.
• 1:08
  AI-Désirée: Right now I'm rewriting the last of those countries, Deris.
• 1:13
  AI-Désirée: I hope I'm done when this episode is published.
• 1:18
  Host: Wow, that inspired so many questions.
• 1:21
  Host: Why rewriting?
• 1:23
  AI-Désirée: They became shorter than I intended in the first version, because the physical book could not be a brick, because then it would have been too expensive.
• 1:31
  AI-Désirée: And I've also learned more about what is needed.
• 1:35
  Host: Needed for who?
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  AI-Désirée: Game masters in a tabletop role-playing game situation, for example.
• 1:41
  AI-Désirée: And also writers.
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  Host: Game master I get, but writers?
• 1:47
  AI-Désirée: I hope others will write adventures too, to Väruld.
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  AI-Désirée: And maybe there are writers out there who want to write fantasy, but don't want to create a whole world.
• 1:56
  Host: You mean a writer of novels could use Väruld?
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  AI-Désirée: Sure, why not?
• 2:01
  AI-Désirée: Some writers write fanfiction using others' worlds and characters.
• 2:05
  AI-Désirée: Maybe a legal world to use could find its writers too.
• 2:10
  Host: I've never heard about that concept.
• 2:12
  Host: Let's hope it works.
• 2:14
  Host: Tell me more about Deris and your rewrite.
• 2:17
  AI-Désirée: I'm focusing much more on the society than I did in the first version.
• 2:22
  AI-Désirée: What kind of laws do they have, and what kind of punishments?
• 2:26
  AI-Désirée: And how do you behave?
• 2:28
  AI-Désirée: In Deris, for instance, you don't talk about money and you don't lie.
• 2:34
  AI-Désirée: So if you as a stranger stay at an inn and ask what the room costs, you are rude.
• 2:40
  AI-Désirée: And you'll get an answer like, as much as a basket of apples, or something like that.
• 2:45
  AI-Désirée: If you ask if your dress looks good, you could get an answer like, those boots look comfortable, if the person does not think it looks good.
• 2:55
  AI-Désirée: You don't lie, but you're not bluntly honest either.
• 2:59
  AI-Désirée: Each country now is about three times as long as the first version.
• 3:04
  Host: Did you write things then, in the first version, that are not part of the new version?
• 3:10
  AI-Désirée: Some.
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  AI-Désirée: In Deris's case, I had an island with a glacier, while it was hot baking desert on the mainland.
• 3:17
  AI-Désirée: I think I was inspired by the glacier in Nevada in the US, but the one I had written just didn't feel likely, and ChatGPT agreed.
• 3:26
  AI-Désirée: At the moment, I think it will be rare hailstorms instead, but the whole environment was based on a cave entrance blocked by the glacier.
• 3:35
  AI-Désirée: I'll see what I do about that.
• 3:37
  AI-Désirée: It is a fantasy world, but I want it to feel true.
• 3:41
  AI-Désirée: No flying islands just because it gives you a new challenge and it looks good on the illustration.
• 3:47
  Host: When you're done with Deris, what will happen then?
• 3:51
  AI-Désirée: I'll finish a rewrite of the two novels I have, taking place in Väruld.
• 3:56
  AI-Désirée: When I wrote them, the world was not really ready, so now when I have a functional world, I'll do some rewriting.
• 4:04
  AI-Désirée: I'll guess the language needs an update too.
• 4:07
  AI-Désirée: One of them is almost done, but I got cold feet and chose to finish the countries first.
• 4:12
  AI-Désirée: Then I'm planning on writing an adventure for tabletop RPG for this world.
• 4:18
  AI-Désirée: And then I have Sahafi.
• 4:20
  Host: Sahafi?
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  AI-Désirée: A written language.
• 4:24
  AI-Désirée: A logographic language. I have 350 symbols but need to make some decisions about grammar before I continue. And practical issues about file structure too. I think I read somewhere that a functional language need about a thousand symbols.
• 4:42
  Host: Wow, I guess you're never bored.
• 4:46
  Host: No.
• 4:46
  Host: Thank you for today.
• 4:49
  Host: If you haven't, click to follow this podcast, and if you can, write a review and recommend it to others.
• 4:56
  AI-Désirée: Yes, please do.
• 4:58
  AI-Désirée: Thank you for listening.
• 5:03
  Presenter: Thank you for listening to Stories from Väruld.
• 5:05
  Presenter: In the next episode, Lore, the Creation of the Three Planets.