(First question)

I've always been making little worlds usually for DnD games, and the motivation for that is the same for this one.

1. Its fun!

Worldbuilding is a fun activity! I like dreaming up cosmologies, worlds, cities, cultures and pondering how magic would affect things like plants and rocks. But the biggest reason for making this world is-

2. I got tired of trying to weave vore into other settings.

Some settings are easier to work vore in than others. Like Fallout (which I started with) has all the wacky mutations to use as a spring board for that kind of thing. However, even in a setting like Fallout you have to work in the "confines of weirdness" I.E. the established way weird things happen. In Fallout its Radiaiton and FEV. So any vore lore would have to work in the confines of being a mutation from radiation or FEV. Add in the general lawless nature of the setting, and vore is pretty easy to add in, but if you want to go add something like reformation, then you're going to hit a wall as that's a bit beyond the Confines of Weirdness fallout allows.

Every setting has this problem, unless you build it up around the concept of vore and its attached fetishes. So that's what I did for this setting.

I wanted a fantasy vore world, but also wanted guns and other cool stuff so... I made this setting.

the biggest motivation for making The Shattered Realms (my homebrew world)

(Any tips for aspiring world builders)

1. Don't reinvent the wheel.

If you want to use a magical system revolving around breathing then I got news for ya, there's one already out there! Now not saying to just take the idea, but build on it! My current setting is based on the DnD setting of Eberron. I use a lot of concepts from that world, but then I build upon them to make them unique.

Of course, I'm not doing this for money. So I don't have to make everything uniuqe. I use the Gods of Eberron The Sovergines Host as the deities in my own setting. In time I'll tweak and adapt them and eventually there names will change but for right now just using the Sovering Host works!

2. Do not be afraid to discard a draft no matter how big.

I've broken down and reinvented this setting multiple times. Each time it will get easier, as you pick the pieces that worked and build on them. A little retcon never hurts, nor does a reboot.

(Second question!)

"Hmmm..." Chista mulls over the question on the telgram while gently needing the top of her gut. "I mean... technically its alive because its part of me and I'm alive." She looks down at her gut, the heafty pot belly resting in her lap rumbles. "But jokes aside, No. I'm pretty sure my belly doesn't have a mind of its own no matter how fussy and grumpy she gets." Chista gives her gut a playful smack, a small ripple races from the point of impact with a guttural slorsh. "My friend Asya laid it out best: a powerful spell will have a will of its own to perform its purpose."

Chista rubs her hand from the top of her gut to the front, just stopping above her deep navel. "This big gut has one purpose. To turn food into energy, and it's really good at that." A deep growl rumbles from deep inside Chista's belly. "The better it gets at that, the more it'll seek to perform its function. Less a "mind of its own" and more like a mindless construct..." Chista pauses thoughts running in her mind before she takes a deep breath and sets the telegram down.

"But that's a whole level of philosophy that's beyond me!" She says leaning back in her chair. "I just know that, this big bubbly gal loves belly rubs, being full, and-˚.•｡°𝑮𝒖𝒖𝒖𝒖𝑼𝒓𝒈𝒍𝒆｡ₒ｡ and needs to be reminded not to interrupt me!" Chista slaps her gut again, the heavy gut jostles a little with more sloshing. "All that thinking really made me hungry..."