“...you can mash a lot of orcs and unicorns and intergalactic wars together without actually imagining anything. One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin
I have created a tool that will open creative possibilities. Fantasy as a genre offers so much freedom to a creative mind, but it’s too often that things from other fantasy works are recycled and featured in other stories. A major subject of this repetition is fantastical creatures. It feels as if there is a finite list of creatures allowed in a fantasy setting (minotaur, werewolf, vampire, elf, etc.) when in reality the space allowing those toying in the realms of fantasy is infinite. My goal with my thesis is to open people’s minds to these possibilities and get them thinking far outside the box and straying from the bestiaries of Tolkien, Dune, and other widely popular fantasy worlds.
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