Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #50 - The Greatest Storm

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Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - The Greatest Storm

This one is topical; we've been hit by a storm here that's done an impressive amount of damage and knocked our internet out for most of the evening. Tell me about a great storm in your setting ! It could be a storm at sea, a typhoon, hurricane or something else entirely. Maybe even some kind of astronomical event. How much warning was there, what did it do to people's lives, how much rebuilding was needed, and what legends or stories did it give rise to ?

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Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

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Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

  • Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
  • Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
  • Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
  • Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
  • Prompt replies can be any length.

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It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.

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Here's my submission to your prompt -

https://ecency.com/hive-191038/@killerwot/the-weather-of-besk-world

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Thank you ! It's great - I love how something as simple as the weather on their homeworld can so significantly affect the whole development of a civilisation 😀

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I had a great reply to this post from litguru who brought up some amazing points about the real world affect the weather could have on different nations, especially if weather manipulation was involved.

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Ah, I see it ! It's a fascinating subject, and hard to say where weather ends and becomes climate.

Historically, I know several South American cultures were destroyed by alternating El Nino/La Nina events. They could take a certain amount, but a few years of drought will stress a society to the point where a couple of years of floods and crops being washed away is more than they can handle.

I believe that droughts of just a few years were enough to destroy both Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, and may have contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse (it's worth watching the lectures by Professor Eric Cline on YouTube about that...)

So if you add actual weather manipulation onto it, the results could be catastrophic as well as very unpredictable.

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Also... definitely worthy of 2 SBI's 😁

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