world-building idea: visitors alter the realm and the realm alters visitors

  • a portal leads to a fairytale-like realm, whose landscape can be shaped by strong-willed visitors. But these visitors may not realise that their own minds are being subtly reshaped to take on traits from previous visitors. The longer visitors stay, the more likely they are to be affected.

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This is a fantastical extension of the concept that geography alters cultures but cultures also alter geography, from the second lecture of the “Understanding Human and Cultural Geography” course (see my notes at On “Understanding Cultural and Human Geography 2”).


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