Tag Archives: fantasy
Recent Reading: Locke & Key, Theft of Swords
While I would like to have personal content for every post, some days my brain just isn’t working well enough to assemble such a thing. Fortunately, I can fall back on my recent reading and give some short reviews! So … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Trivestes
This week, we take a look at one of my favorite cultures, Trivestes — which probably says something bad about me, since they’re some of the meanest people on the continent.
Culture Composites: Haaraka
I hesitate a bit with this post because I’m not sure if it would constitute spoilers for book 2, so I think I’ll just show the images with a little bit of commentary, not the usual chunks of history and … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Amandon
Book 2 features the protectorate of Amandon as one of its settings, though since Cob is constitutionally incapable of actually going into a city, it spends more time as backdrop. Nevertheless, it has its details like all of the other … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Wyndon
Another week, another look at the dysfunctional kingdoms, city-states and protectorates of the northern continent. Today we have Wyndon, the second protectorate to be actually visited in the series — as opposed to being seen in flashbacks and dreams.
Culture Composites: Illane
Erica asked me to do Riddian next, but I had to veto that — we don’t see the province of Riddian until Book 3, whereas we start Book 1 in the city-states of Illane. And I actually have a map … Continue reading
Culture Composites: Kerrindryr
Next in our clean-up-my-image-folders culture series: the homeland of Our Brick-Headed Hero, Cobrin, even though he hasn’t lived there in a (comparatively) long time.
Culture Composites: Jernizan
I have small stockpiles of images collected from various places on the web that I use as references for my cultures’ looks. Since I’m starting to composite some of the pics for my artist friend to look over, I figured … Continue reading
Beta Readers, Visiting and Otherwise
Apparently there have been too many maps recently (or so says my co-conspirator Erica), so as I’m not in the mood for another Influences post yet, I suppose this will be a miscellaneous non-map-related post. Let’s see.
The War of Memory Project 