Fantasy writers often want to make their worlds realistic. Making your world realistic draws readers in more easily and more clearly defines challenges your characters will face and solutions they might use to overcome these challenges. Realism is especially important in historically inspired fantasy because “Popular culture is often how we, collectively, wrestle with these issues [history or organization of other cultures], so it is worthwhile to ask how much truth and meaning there is in it, and what that means for our discourse.” I am not a historian, so I will leave historical advice to other people. But I can help you with climate realism. How can you make the climate of your world more realistic?
