Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #91 First Flight
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
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The prompt this week is - First Flight
Flight is something that is thought to have first happened on Earth around 400 million years ago with the evolution of flying insects. For a long time they had the skies to themselves, but eventually pterosaurs and birds branched off from terrestrial reptiles.
When humans evolved, they spent a long time looking up enviously at species with wings. Throughout history, as far back as ancient Egypt and China, individual inventors attempted to emulate the birds. Descriptions of the results of these early experiments usually included the word "plummet". Finally, man achieved flight, first by balloon with the Montgolfier brothers, and then by aircraft with the Wright brothers.
Tell me a story about flight in your setting ! Is it the realm of dreamers and mad inventors, or is flight a normal part of daily life ? Who made the first flight, and what did they use ? Did they survive ? What did people think about it ?
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Lovely write up! I haven't had the opportunity yet to experience a flight journey, but I hope I would have something to share about my experience in the near future.
Ive been thinking of getting back into my big fiction works. World of Kedra is calling to once more...
Flight... Hmmmm.... does magic count? As for Mechanical... I doubt it exists on World of Kedra... not in the nearby viewpoints at least.
Do it - you know you want to ! Also, yes magic definitely counts. After all, someone must have been the first to use some kind of flying spell; did they research it, or get it by divine inspiration ? Was it as good as the spells used now, or did it have cranky unpredictable glitches ?
Well.. the magic in World of Kedra is elementally based. So Mages of high level MIGHT be able to achieve some sort of flight. There are some magical creatures however that fly from birth...
lol, I can just see the tale of a wizard who over-egged an air elemental spell and was unexpectedly whisked shy-ward. Or maybe the first person to hatch out a gryphon egg and tame it enough to be rideable 😀
Hehe, I would say someone who was powerful but without much control might have blasted themselves into the air on occasion.
These Magi do not cast spells, they just channel their magic into the element that they have an affinity for!
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