Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - "Top Down, or Bottom Up ?"
This one is more of what I think of as a "technical " prompt, exploring the techniques and approaches used in worldbuilding. When you create a new setting, do you start at the top, creating the high level stuff first ? Do you map out the whole the universe, and outline the highest rulers, political and legal systems, strategic conflicts etc. Or do you start at the bottom, designing a single location and it's inhabitants in intricate detail and only making up the rest of the world as it is needed ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.