World-building is about creating a logical engine that makes a world feel like it existed long before the reader or players arrived and will continue long after they leave.
Religions of the Silk Road by Richard Foltz traces the movement and transformation of major religious traditions, including Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, Judaism and Islam across Central Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. It explores how trade, empire, and cultural exchange shaped the spread of religious ideas, emphasizing
Assume that all you know about Lithuania is its external boundaries, the size of the population, and the physical geography. Nothing else exists. Now invent everything else. Make up the cities, decide where the people are located. This was both a creative and an analytical assignment.