Valid and interesting point. There is no shortage of fantasy novels and comics out there that dip their toes in a vibrant world and then never go any further. The want, nay, need to create something that a reader will want to immerse themselves in is very accute for creative people. Reminds me of Ben Caldwell's "Dare Detectives." Facinating world and cultures, but the story is lack luster and you can tell that he looses interest in his own work. I too love creating settings and worlds and cultures, but sometimes the stories that go with them lack...the depth and interest to make them something memerable and I loose interest and move on to create more worlds and their subsequent histories.

In think that "Bibliotech" might work more as a milieu story though, like Gulliver's Travels or Lord of the Rings, where the story is not about characters or events, but rather about the settings. I mean your setting in "Wall" is facinating enough, why not tell its story and not let it be just background to two dimensional characters. Usually these stories have a central character who is unfamiliar with the world around them, the classic farm boy archetype we see in Frodo Baggins as he braves this new world he is trust into. In a sense the setting, histories and cultures become their own stories with the movements and events of your characters only a vehicle to move them to another facinating aspect of "Bibliotech".

I mean think of Lord of the Rings. The actual plot of the books is not that interesting. Its a story that has been told a million times before. Good battles a faceless evil with the weakest becoming the strongest. Typical in most myth. But what makes LOTR so timeless is the world and how we learn about it. Within the fellowship you have just enough people represented to show the cultures. Thats why there was only one elf and one dwarf, just to show their cultures and traits. Same with having only two men from diffrent cultures. The same can be done for Bibliotech. Have a character who will carry your reader (or viewer) through the world, with companions that only showcase one aspect of a culture or setting. That way, you can show the world you are facinated in, the characters that go with it and if the setting they are in begins to disinterest then you move them on, one step closer to their ultimate goal.

A lot of people give fantasy a bad rap, saying its just made up junk that really has no merit to literature or art as a genre. I say diffrently. Its tough to get just right without copying Tolkien, or Lewis, or Hulbert or Myazaki or even becoming cliche. Thats why your "bibliotech" designs are so facinating to look at. Because they are not recycled. They are fresh and promise an interesting story behind it. Anyway, this is all just suggestion afterall. Keep up the awesome work.

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