: Re: How can I explain my world if the character is technologically not yet capable of understanding it? One feature of my world is a plant that lives in a magmaous (rather than "volcanic") cave.

Something I really liked about the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy was the way it inserted small introductions to each chapter telling small stories or facts about the book's universe.

The writer than referenced that information to make a joke during the chapter that the reader would not be able to understand if he didn't read about it in the introduction.

You could use the same technique to talk about infrared plants and then let the reader link the dots when you introduce the plant in your world.

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