Worldbuilding question prompter.

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Culture & Society

Build customs that feel earned, not decorative.

  1. What is the most important meal of the year, and what is on the table?

  2. How do strangers greet each other on the street, and what does it signal?

  3. What is considered shameful that other cultures consider neutral?

  4. What is the most popular form of public entertainment, and who is excluded from it?

  5. What is the dominant religion's stance on death, and how is the body treated?

  6. What do parents hope their children will become, and what do they fear?

  7. What does a wedding look like across three social classes in this culture?

  8. What is the equivalent of a swear word, and what does its origin reveal?

  9. What gesture means yes here that means no somewhere else?

  10. What craft is so common it is almost invisible, and who still respects it?

  11. What name is too sacred to write down, and what name is given to slaves?

  12. What does the average citizen believe about a neighboring culture that is mostly false?

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