After my recent post about worldbuilding advice based on historical examples I came across some news archeological news that I thought was both interesting and tied into what I’d written about. I want to share those with you today. And at the end of my...
The following post I originally wrote for another blog called Devouring Books. I had always intended to post it here as well, but then forgot about it. Until now, though I am expanding and improving on the post here so even if you happen to...
Anachronisms are not a recent invention, the picture above this blog is an example of a medieval one and comes from an illustration of the Alexander Romance. It is supposed to depict Alexander the Great and his army meeting a group of Amazons. However, Alexander’s...
Recently I came across a reddit threat over on r/fantasywriters asking how to create monsters based on the seven deadly sins and I found myself inspired. This blog post is based on the comment I made on that thread but I’ve expanded each of the...
In today’s post we only see two new location I wish to discuss, though one comes in two parts. As in the previous parts, I want to look at both how these designs make sense in a historical sense as well as a story telling...
We are now past the halfway point of the Wheel of Time season 1 and we’ve seen a few new places in episodes 4 and 5 that I want to take a closer look at. So today we’ll see what the landscape of the Wheel...
So the first three episodes of the new Wheel of Time series has dropped and I have been very impressed. As some of you may know, I’ve long been a fan of the Wheel of Time books and seeing them on the screen was a...
With The Living Sword 3 coming out soon, I thought I would devote this blog post to talking about the mythical background to the Conclave Festival. Today, I will regale to you the tale of the First Conclave. I’d planned to do this within the...
This is another author update, one dealing with the past, present, and future of both this website and my writing. I have good news, and bad news. News I’m proud of, and some news I can just facepalm about. So, let’s start with the bad...
Last year, besides writing Living Sword 3 but more on that later, I also ran a tabletop roleplaying campaign set in the Living Sword world. The system we used was Godbound and it worked quite well, though I had to make some adjustments. Exploring the...