User blog comment:Acefan4242546/Inspiration/@comment-2031609-20110617232701

A lot of my stuff, particularly my locations, are based off of places in the real word. My Cortiko City is a comparable Vatican City and when I get deeper into the history the Crusades. I'm in the process of creating an island based off of Pygmy Tribes in Africa. Some of my characters are mimics to real world explorers. So history is a big inspiration for me. I also take characters from things that I know (mostly operas that nobody knows) and take a bit of their personality and their base concept and just alter them and make them my own. Sometimes just an odd idea just occurs and and entire island/crew/plot occurs. Just a random thought of a mispronunciation of a word sparked B. T. Wellington and everything involving Crooked Island. So pretty much keep it in the back of your mind and when something happens just think, "Could I use this?"