When will art police realize the more you bitch at artists to not do something, the more they'll do it just to spite you?
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When you think about it, the fundamental bedrock, literally, of worldbuilding is geology. If you know a bit about how landforms are made, how erosion occurs, how landscapes change over time, that will take you a long way to developing and establishing a world that is at least realistic enough to be convincing.