I always like to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random as a way of leavening my world with bits I didn’t come up with or curate.

Big corporations gaining more and more power, even rivaling the government. And cultures getting destroyed by fascists but those who can try to flee, do so.

For Phu-wa, the reincarnation system is based on the one believes by Kardecists. My parents converted to Kardecism when I was little.

Recently I have been reading a lot of folklore from eastern Europe. I find it all fascinating since it doesn’t get told as much where I am from as things like Greek mythology.