30 Days of World-Building (Second Edition) - Day 10 - Mood and Culture

Exercise 10 - Settle on the overall mood for your story if you haven't already. Look through your timeline, political groups, and language notes and mark for revision anything that doesn't fit your mood. If you have time, revise those things. Otherwise, leave them for later.

The mood I have settled on will consist of dark, supernatural overtones with aspects of suspense, horror, steam punk  and adventure. Throughout the course of the story, the Doctor will have to overcome obstacles both in his medicinal practices and in physical confrontations, as encounters with the Blood Harvesters seldom end well. As a result, he has become highly proficient with the use of single-shot pistols, and carries one on his person at all times, along with his traveling doctoring bag.

The aspect of the supernatural will be portrayed through the blood medicine that the Blood Harvesters utilize. Fittingly enough, this concept will also address the horror aspect, in regards to the sheer fear and gore that comes from these experimental blood practices.

Steam-punk will be addressed in terms of the technology made available through the cities. Widespread electricity, mechanically-driven steam shops, clockwork robotics, and more can be witnessed in the cities.