Lores, how deep they are and how they affect you?

[ylldre]

I love lores, especially lores in my comics but i love lores in general. Sometimes i feel like i am much better suited to creating lores and then weaving a story revolving them than making comics. My lores have levels and depth that i often want to live in that world. In my daily life it affects me in very funny way, like when i grab a bottled water and look at the interior bubbles and then i’d think about the hidden race of vars beneath the mist ocean, and how they live nomadic life following telluric lines all around the world so no one can find them and it makes me giddy with happiness, looking like a weirdo, rooting for their survival. I often feel like this and my day gets instantly better. How about you? How lores in your comic/story affect you?

[vothnthorvaldson]

I would not say my comic lore is really affecting me personnally in the way it does to you, but I sure think of it a bit too much, and it is also a real problem in the creation of my comic. I'm precisely trying to deal with that for the past few weeks.

The thing is as my story is mostly a coming of age story, centered around characters rather than environment, the lore is not in the spotlight, although it is there, and somewhat important in the development and maturation of my main character.

But, because I think of it a bit too much (read: WAY too much), I end up with a super complicated lore which cannot be explained in the story without running into the 'lore dump' issue.

So I try to keep it reasonnable... but it's difficult to keep remembering what is disclosed in the story (ie. What the readers will know) and what is only in my head.

I'm currently developing a system to be able to keep a record of all the allusions to lore in my comic, to know precisely what my readers know.

Particularily, the chronology needs work. Some of my main character's actions and beliefs can only be explained by events dating back from the creation of the country he lives in, several hundred years ago. I want to make that known, but I won't speak about all what happened politically between then and now.. but I had to construct all of it to make the political system coherent. So, that's 300 years of politics, administration and geographic boundaries created, but never put in the story.

I'm thinking I could make an extra with all that. It's a bit of a shame to not present it, as it is enriching the story, but again, inside the story, it could be an heavy, unpalatable dump

[nathanKmcwilliams]

It doesn't really effect me all that much tbh. I usually just go "oh that's a cool idea" when I come up with something new to add to the lore.

[ylldre]

I seconded all of your points, which is why i am not decent at writing stories for comics but i am ready to write fully fleshed out lores. Like they say when you create a story, it is usually just an iceberg of the entire worldbuildings and sometimes i feel like it’s a shame i don’t get to tell the whole background stories and how society come to be. But like you said there’s a difference between creating an effective and interesting story than just writing lores lol. Maybe i’m just a nerd since i was young i love reading lores of the book/movies that i liked. Your point about keeping records what the readers know is fantastic and thanks for sharing that!

[vothnthorvaldson]

I'm very much a beginner in both comics and lore-heavy stories, my current story being my first comic; so I'm not very well placed to give thorough advice, but for starting, what worked for me is to think how all that lore could influence a character or a small group of characters.

Instead of making a story with characters following only their own aspirations and dealing with their own problems in a void, I always see them FIRST as inhabitants of my imaginary world.

If you have even a small idea of story in your world, you can start thinking how this story would be different if it happened either IRL in 2021, or in your imaginary world. Then, you can try to steer the story in a direction that gives more space to your universe (ie. In the direction that makes the story the most different possible from what it would be IRL; where your universe will have the strongest impact).

That may help showcase the universe more and may be more interesting and inspiring for you to write if you feel more fascinated by lores than by stories.

[artamazon]

I went from almost no lore to too much lore, and now I'm struggling to incorporate it into my stories, lol. My solution is to at least try to incorporate a new detail about my world in every story. I'm not sure how effective that is, but I figure at least there's something new without overwhelming a reader.

[MK_Wizard]

Well, in the case of the lore behind intelligent monsters specifically Frankenstein, it made me realize what kind of stories I wanted to write. So they do affect me deeply because it is thanks to them that I write the things I want to write.

[ylldre]

Instead of making a story with characters following only their own aspirations and dealing with their own problems in a void, I always see them FIRST as inhabitants of my imaginary world.

True. I write the plot for my comic about what happens in the world and how it affects the characters, and how they cope and solve the problems inspite of their unique physical/social standings in the world. What drives their action or what motivation they have is intrinsically linked to who they are in said world.

Thanks again for the advice.

[crossedvessel]

I'm having so much trouble with my story, cause it is really twisted and complicated and full of unknown stuff that I need to explain, even animals are made up.... There is a lot of things I need to incorporate in my story, and sometimes I get overwhelmed cause I don't know how

[SargentAlchemist]

Dude... I really love your imagination... you reminds so much to me... once time.. I was eating a omelet and I put my atention to 3 sauces after me... Mayo, Kepchup and Mustard... And I stsrt thinking wich is better... and in my mind start a story where from these 3 sayxes the reallity was created, and 3 kibds of species merged from the tiniest parts of these sauces... with troubles and personalities inspired on the value that I give to this sauces and what they make me feel... I was at this point 🤏 to put it on twitter as an hilo.... so yes... The lores of the thibgs took an important part of my life and normaly I use to make it befire the story like you XD

[AmazementComics]

It affects me in the sense of I always picture myself in a series of what-if scenarios. That's why my comics and its lore takes place in the real world. My comics are kind of like my connection to the real world if it was slightly enhanced to include monster, myths, aliens, and superheroes. In fact, like you, I absolutely love stories that have lore in it. It's why I like some of the things I do.

[Kaydreamer]

Some of the deep lore of my fantasy universe reflects the way I think about certain aspects of theology, so I'd say it affects me pretty deeply. A lot of my philosophies filter through into it.

[MeltingCORE]

This is a really cute post imo. I feel the same way when I think about the lore in my series. I really love building worlds (particularly sci-fi worlds) so I think a lot about things like government, travel, architecture, technology, etc. I go for a somewhat metaphysical or imaginary physics angle on certain things too. One of my favorites for my "Red Shift" is what I call the Escher Index: the degree in which physical space is warped around and for a New God! When coming to 3D space, it can result in eldritch scenery or impossible objects if the higher dimensionality of the being is not swiftly hidden.

[_Cool]

This is such a weird topic.

But hey, that's coming from the guy who wrote over 500 pages of lore and still adding stuff.
So, yeah, I love lore and try to incorporate as much of my lore into the story as possible.

If you really want to know, I am not affected personally, I just like thinking of imaginary worlds and writing. And I tend to think about literally everything that has to do with a real-world including politics, religion, crazy magic, crazy creatures, love, hate, Literally Everything.

What's helping me keep my lore in check is that I have a reference comic on my page where I will (God willing) add the tiny bits of details regarding my comic, kind of as an extra bonus feature on one of them old DVDs in the late 2000s.

If you want to know more about my lore, just ask and I'll give you some things I have in my lore world for the King of Roo comic!

[blakestackman]

In the world my friend Ash and I have created together, I often drift off into my mind like as though within my head lay another world within a world filled with madness. It shines a new perspective on life, as I often will be looking at a "boring" ordinary object and at a second glance, see something more. I have drawn a lot of inspiration from the existing world around me and I feel by not moving too far astray from the existing world we live in, the story becomes familiar to the reader and is believable - that is what I think.

[Lucca_Vendramel]

I love crafting my lore. I've created a whole wikia and several illustrations for every major event in my universe's timeline. I try to make it as cohesive and well explained as possible, as well as interesting. I'm currently re-writing one of the major factions because i'm not satisfied with how their lore turned out. Take a look at everything i've made for the codex so far:

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[iHateFridays]

Oooo I love some good lore XD Even some of my meme characters actually have lore for some reason? I'm not great at talking about lore tho lol

[JustLiz-o]

When it comes to writing, I can't get too detailed with world building because of deadlines and such. I just have to concentrate on the most important details and flesh those out during the writing process. Which is a shame, really... I do love that part of writing the most.
I kinda noticed unconsciously using the same process with my comic.
That still didn't keep me thinking about lore while cooking and ulimately letting the food burn, tho