I started building my world from core fantasy elements I enjoyed as a child elves, dwarves, and magic… But I as grew older I started to notice gaps in the genre. I mean we ,Black people, have been present in fantasy but our roles as main characters were few and far in between. So, I set out to build a world that kept those core concepts of fantasy that I loved but place POC as main characters.
So began my research…I knew I wanted African fairies as a base to separate their stories and identities from their Eurocentric counterparts, so I chose Yumboe and Aziza fairies to build my world upon.
Like my imagination I needed my world to be grand so that’s what I did.
The Yumboes myth became the base for my Nykian race & Aziza were the base for my Sekians
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