Thread:Talk:Little Talks of Paradox/Prompts versus world-building/reply

I felt like a bucket of cold water was splashed on my face when I read that a few hours ago... I certainly was getting carried away by the collective world building. Now that most of the shock has worn off as well as my initial grumpiness at having to take a step back, I can say I believe I understand but I'd like some clarification. There might not be hard and fast rules of course, but l have some examples and questions if you don't mind fielding them.

For instance, you asked what city we came from, and we sketched out our basic ideas for it. Was the little story snippet I gave for Paetani appropriate? If not, in the future would it be best to give you a name and a one liner, and have you flesh out the idea if it works? I was trying to figure out the rough history of my character's people, but that isn't something I need to know right off the bat. In a way, do we also play to find out what happened in our character's past?

Also, in the in-character thread we've got going with bond forging, off the cuff I decided to list off a wilderness location that might sound dangerous, the jungles of Fresan. Is that sort of thing OK, or would you rather us ask before doing something along those lines? If it is OK, would then asking you in a new thread on this page if I could create a page for it be acceptable, or as a general rule is that something that we should leave for you to do if you so desire to flesh it out?

Another example might be if you asked me how Gelthas found his animal companion, and I decided it was a gift from a particular mystic. Would the right thing to do is then ask on a thread on this page if me creating a page giving a brief description or memory of what he knew of that NPC be OK?