Anthropological
Worldbuilding

Timeline · Power · Reveal

Power in Timeline

How has power changed across the history of this civilization?

Why this lens matters

Power reveals who decides, who benefits, who is controlled and whose interests are made normal.

Follow-ups

  1. Who makes the rules?
  2. Who is protected, ignored or exposed?
  3. What authority legitimizes this?
  4. How is compliance encouraged or enforced?
  5. Who can safely challenge it?

Perspective shift

How would someone with very little power navigate this?

Perturbation

What happens when authority is challenged, decentralised or made visible?

Example

Use this while working on the historical development and generational change: choose one concrete detail and ask how power changes what it means.