Master listing of ponderings

Here is a break down of my ponderings into major topics to attack

1. The effects of magic
1. How does magic directly affect the economy?
2. How does magic affect agriculture?
3. How does magic affect food sources?
4. How is magic like polymorph treated in the legal system
5. Someone who wants to do you harm counts for the protection from evil scrolls
6. Are there any special rules or folk lore on how magic might or might not work?
2. What are the real world parallels of the cultures of the races? 
1.  What are the grains and staples of the races?
2.  what are the clothes of different groups like?
3.  What sort of architecture does each race favor?
3. Food
1. Ice houses - how is food preserved among the major races of the world? How is it prepared?
2. What sort of drinks (especially alcoholic) do the different races make or brew? For example Rat Lager of the Dwarves
3. Are there any cows or are deer, elk and fish the main sources of meat?
4.  What founder crops are there for each race?
5.  What are the unifying cultural meals of the races
6. What spices are in the land?
7. Does millet or sorghum exist?
8. what is drinking like
9. Do fish ponds exist in the land?
10. Whats Breakfast or Childs ale like? How common?
11. Do people eat seafood? How often and what sort?
12. Are there deer parks?
13. Building a deeper story through the judicious use of food
14. How does food and drink differ among the races?
15. are there religious taboos involving food, like Islam and alcohol or Judaism and pig products
16.  Whats food like? What sort of food?
4. Natural Events
1. Is there an Aurora in the world? How far south does it show, what colors?
2. How common are tornadoes?
3. are there Equinox ceremonies?
4. are sacrifices offered in times of natural disasters
5. Religion
1. The gods as a family unit in BM
2.  offerings and sacrifices to the gods
3. Is there an incarnation of the memory of the land?
4. What is the religions of the land like? Dualistic, monotheistic, or pantheistic?
5.  Is Borron treated as a great betrayer or a cleanser of iniquity? Are there differing views? Does anyone worship him?
6. are there sacred mountains?
7. The cunning man of a town lives beside a sacrificial tree, on which hangs animal sacrifices and tokens
8. How common is Human Sacrifice?
9. What is the role of Anchorites in the land?
10.  do the gods need appeased or hornored
6. Government
1. What are the standardized units of the kingdoms?
2. Are there city states in the world?
3. Are there any military colonies?
4. "He will keep who can" philosophy amongst humans
5. What sort of mines are in the land?
6. Are imperial gifts, ala the Chinese, in the world? Gifts that are part bribe part grease to maintain the government, known as pander diplomacy
7. What is the link between crafts and government?
8. What role do titles have in the land?
9. What are taxes and dues like in the land
7. Economy
1. Carved items as treasure
2. what is the basis of the economy of the the land? Barter, coin or a mix
3. What amount of the houses in the world are also storefronts and shops?
4. Are there fairs in the land?
5. How are markets handled?
6. How rare are diamonds?
7. Cattleraiding in BM
8. Symbols found on coins - perhaps marking purity and weight of coins
9.  Are there merchant houses?
10. Are there bloodfines?
8. Game specific
1. Division of control in BM - players control the story and the DM controls the setting
2. How are words found in BM pronounced? Pronunciation guide for BM
3. How is family treated mechanically
4. Allegiances instead of alignment
5. Could BM be on a ring world?
6. What is the feel of BM?
7. Are there any dungeons that are not normal, for example a crashed spaceship in the ringworld idea, but no one knows of it as a ship
8.  do props have a place in BM games? Propinomicon blog
9. How are family feuds handled?
10. How heroic are PCs expected to be?
11. the importance of genealogy and who you are related to
9. How big are the fields of the world? Perhaps the size of an American football field
10. Is there Ergot? do people know what it is?
11. The "Town Cryer of Carnegie Towers" as an NPC.
12. Mental illness, how common and how is it treated?
13. How common are taverns? Are they just places to drink or something more
14. How is death and burial treated by the races
15. Skiing in the land?
16. Where are the canals from the Great Empire?
17. What is know about the lake that exists at the site of the former capital of the Great Empire? What is weird?
18. Do the Nephillum have a place in the game? The children of man and angel.
19. does the fairy realm exist?
20. Do chariots have a role in the world?
21. whats paper like in the world?
22. Are there healing wells? Is there worship at these wells?
23. Are there fae and do they live in the hollow hills? What lives in the hollow hills instead?
24. What symbols are worn by different groups in combat to avoid fraticide
25. Do swords tell of their achievements and uses when cleaned?
26. Is there a Plain of Pillars from some ancient battle?
27. Are there faerie doctors?
28. What is the role of the giant in the land? Are they in decline, have they become corrupted?
29. Is there an equivalent to the Fomori? No
30. What role do Doorkeepers have in the land?
31. Cave filled with pictures of headless beasts and dancing figures - what does it mean and who made it?
32. A Cutter goes to kick a rock down on adventurers and stubs his foot instead. As he hops around in pain his companion laughs and then brains the wounded Cutter, throwing his body down at the adventurers.
33. statuary of the past in the land
34. tendays instead of weeks
35. ceremonial weapons in the land
36. roads