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Culture Composites: Averogne
Second-to-last of the Imperial provinces and protectorates is this quiet little place, sited in the shadow of the Rift and a vassal of the Empire for decades before the Empire invaded any other western territory. Averogne yielded easily to the … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Muria
Continuing the Culture Composites series, this will be a short one! And require the use of a rather haphazard map. The target this time is Muria, the hidden homeland of the silver elementals (or Muriae) and their Primordial, Brancir. Muria … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Darronwy
Six years later, I return to the Culture Composites series! I’d always planned to make more, I just…never did. With this installment, we’re only one step away from finishing up all the Risen Phoenix Empire’s vassal provinces and protectorates. Darronwy … Continue reading
Trope Roulette: My Instincts Are Showing
It’s been a while, but I’m ready for a second installment of Trope Roulette! The idea is to visit that evil time-sink of a site, TVTropes, and hit the Random button until I find something I can talk about. This … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Shapeshifting
Now this one, I can do! Once again, I’m taking a cue from Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn and babbling about one of the tropes in my writing, as identified in Diana Wynne Jones’ satiric take on fantasy worlds. … Continue reading
Halion Creatures 3
I’d meant to do this post a while back, but I never got around to finishing the write-up. Alas. Anyway, since I have nothing to say for today’s Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn, I decided to drag this one … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Northern Barbarians
In this installment of Tough Traveling, I’ll be talking a bit about a culture that has had a lot of impact on the main setting of my story — but all externally. What trope is this? It’s the Northern Barbarians! … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Necromancy
Today on Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn, we deal with a topic close to my heart: necromancy! It should be no secret that I’m fond of necromancers, because I say it all the dang time. I have to mention, … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Minions
This week, Fantasy Review Barn has chosen Minions for their Tough Traveling topic. And I have a few of those, heh. Heh heh heh… Though, after considering the details of the entry for a while and checking out Nathan’s selections, … Continue reading
Tough Traveling with Fantasy Review Barn — Mentors
Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn gave us a nice, easy one today, and I’m happy about it because I get to discuss how Cob ended up with three mentors — and ran away from all of them. (The short … Continue reading
The War of Memory Project 