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Episode 35: The Circle of Life
Season 2 · Episode 9

Episode 35: The Circle of Life

Worldbuilding for Masochists

October 14, 20201h 2mExplicit

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Show Notes

From youth to veneration, from cradle to grave, how does your fantasy world imagine the phases of life? In this episode, we think about the factors that influence a society's concept of aging: biological, economic, and cultural. What happens when your long-lived elves and your mayfly fairies live next door to each other? Are your adolescents adults-in-training or wild-and-free teenyboppers? And who would really want to take care of Baby Yoda for over a century of toddlerhood?

(Transcript for Episode 35, with thanks to the scribe crew!)