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To be honest, world-building before creating characters or after is just a personal choice. As I said, people are products of the world they inhabit, so it makes sense to me to build the world first (I already have an idea of what the story is). If you create the characters and build the world around them and the story, the characters still fit in the world.

In the end, it is simply a question of which do you make suit which: build characters that fit in the world, or build a world that suits the characters you want/need to define?