Culture and Customs Generator
Create believable cultures with internal logic.
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Create a culture for my world. Environment and resources: [ENVIRONMENT]. History in a sentence: [HISTORY]. How this culture interacts with others: [NEIGHBOURS]. Avoid imitating a real culture: [REAL_CULTURE_TO_AVOID_COPYING]. Build it from material conditions: what they eat and grow, how they build, how they trade, what they value because of scarcity or abundance. Derive customs for birth, marriage, death, hospitality, justice, and humour, each with a reason linked to their conditions. Offer three taboos and three sayings. Include internal disagreement: two factions with different views of tradition. Produce a table of custom, origin, meaning, and how a visitor might break it. Warn about stereotypes and suggest a check with readers from related backgrounds if any real-world inspirations are used. Add a section on cross-cultural contact: how members of this culture and a neighbouring culture misunderstand each other, with three short example exchanges. Provide a way to depict the culture through a single viewpoint character without making them a spokesperson, and a checklist of five questions to ask a reader from a relevant background if I borrow real details.
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