Aria Worlds (Aria Series : Canticle of the Monomyth)

In Aria Worlds you will find the tools to craft the environments of your world; if you will, the kingdom of a stage on which you and your personas and societies will interact. Included are guidelines for creating detailed social structures, beginning with society's age and philosophical outlook, proceeding through an examination of its technology, subsistence, internal structure (political, familial, economic, and military), and humanities (religion, art, scholastics, and magic), and terminating with a hierarchical organization of its component social classes. Aria Worlds presents these considerations in a linear, comprehensive pattern enabling you, the player, to paint the backdrops of your own mythic stage more completely and richly than ever before.

Moreover, the Aria system of society design is telescoping: a village, a manor, a market town, a city, a kingdom, continent, or world can all be designed from the largest continent down or from the smallest village up. The descriptive elements of all social profiles can be interpreted in countless forms, ranging from long vanished kingdoms to primitive tribal communities.