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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

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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.

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Fuel and Power, Expanded

On the heels of yesterday’s Technology post and subsequent discussion with Joachim Boaz, I looked at my Power Sources map again and decided it needed some more work. So much work that it expanded to three maps.

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Technology Levels (In Map Form)

One of the things I have always been certain about with my world is that it is not a Standard Medieval Setting.  In fact, the first version I worked on was maybe 300 years in the future of the current … Continue reading

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More Maps!

Some of you are probably tired of my maps, but that’s okay.  You don’t have to read about them! For those that like them, I have some…uh…interesting ones this time.

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Making Pictographs

I’ve already made a few posts involving my made-up language, Gheshvan: one involving the base-six number system (which might have gotten a bit ridiculous there at the end) and the other with the phonetic alphabet.  I might have mentioned in … Continue reading

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Maps Are Possibly A Bit Too Entertaining

I think I have a problem: ever since I decided to make my own world-maps, I haven’t been able to stop.  I’ve always had a detail-oriented personality, which is why I still have reams of world-information needing translation into a … Continue reading

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The Halion Calendar

I’m always tinkering with the details of my world, whether consciously or in the back of my mind, and I always knew that it did not have the same length of year/month/week/day as Earth.  I just recently formalized that idea, … Continue reading

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Deity Profile: Kherus Morgwi the Shadowlord

Name: Kherus Morgwi, the Shadowlord. Other Names: Ker of Shadow (general use), Kurr Morgri (ogres and skinchangers), Mhozri dya Shrodak (Zhang). Apotheosis/Awakening: The first moment of the universe. Domain: Oretcht’ke, the City and Spindle/The Shadow Realm.

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Halion Critters 2

Since my artist friend sketched up a few more images of my creatures, I’m sharing them here with blurbs like last time.

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