- A breathable atmosphere (but that doesn't mean it has to be oxygen. What could your creations survive on?).
- Enough food and water and the ability to grow or create more in some other way. (What counts as food in your fictional world?).
- Heroes of both/all genders (what genders are there on your fictional world? If there is more than two, what is the purpose of the others and how did they come into being?).
- Villains of both/all genders (same points as for 3 above).
- Some kind of government imposing rules (I can't see how you can get much of a story out of total anarchy. Someone would have to take power out of that anarchy. There would be a winner ultimately and surely they would want to impose their will on those they defeated).
- A history, a geography, something we would equate to science (which would explain how the fictional world works. Tere would be some physics and chemistry involved in the creation of that world somewhere even if the residents assume it is magic).
- Monsters (and yes they can be human. We often are the best monsters. See Frankenstein for more on this!).
- Threats to the world's existence or to that part of the world you are focussing on for your stories. Those threats could be external (climate change, invasion from another planet etc) or internal (treacherous Chief Wizards wanting to seize power and so on).
- Decent drainage. If we all eat and drink, we all excrete and so must your creations. How is that dealt with? (In drip feeding information about your world into your story, there must be some sense of how that world is run and how it keeps going. Without decent drainage disease would quickly sweep through your world and destroy it).
- Housing, some sort of education (for the world to run successfully someone has to be educated well enough to want/be able to run it) and either ways for beings to improve themselves or that ability is deliberately suppressed and your story would then be on whether that suppression could continue.
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