Topics Meme - Favourite FF World
muladhara asked me, "Which is your favourite Final Fantasy world?"
Ivalice, hands-down, no contest. I adore the language. I adore the thought that went into building the politics, the cities, the people. I love every game that's been set there and I love the Zodiac details. I love the characters that are there, and I adore the little things, like how one gets certain materials from certain monsters only by casting specific spells on them.
There are other FF games I love to write for (at last count FF4 was winning the race at about 400K words, but Ivalice was second at 96K and FF6 was third at 82K), but Ivalice is the world I love best and the one I explore the most when I do my bits of worldbuilding as I write. I like the rhythm of its language; I like the way the map is laid out such that it makes sense and you don't have a hotter-than-hell desert next to a snowbound mountain range. I like the gods and spirits, the soaring architecture, the piles of history.
Some of this is, of course, because it's later in the series and they had more SPACE to develop the world, but Ivalice feels both real and romantically impossible, and that holds my heart.
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