One thing I’ve noticed reading fantasy fiction is the notion of stability: that people or nations stay more or less locked for centuries, if not millennia. This is, of course, […]
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Worldbuilding: History and Perspective
History is an integral part of worldbuilding. Now, that doesn’t mean you have to hash out 10,000 years of Everything That Happened to be able to write your story… and […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Importance of the Trunk Novel, and Recognizing it for What It Is.
I know a lot of people, if the reviews on Amazon are to be taken as a valuable sample, found David Eddings’s The Rivan Codex a waste of time, but […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Great Forces of History
We present the following not as a matter of law, to be debated by a council of lords or ignored by a monarch, but as a matter of truth: the […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Mapping in 4-D
There’s a neat little video out there that shows the various political shifts in Europe over the course of a thousand years. It’s the sort of thing you have to […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: New Life, New Civilizations and the Mos Eisley Cantina
What’s a Space Opera without some aliens?* I’m firmly of the opinion that once you’ve breached the idea of humans going into space, traveling faster than light, aliens are an […]
Read moreNow December is Upon Us
Which means no more Druth History Month. We hadn’t actually reached the end of Druth History– there’s still 215 more years to go. (Thorn of Dentonhill, Holver Alley Crew and […]
Read moreDruth History Month, Part 4
Previously, under the incompetent reign of Shalcer, Druthal splinters into several smaller nations, including the democratic Acoria, and the nation of Oblune under the ruler of Warlord Merit Terkin Now, […]
Read moreDruth History Month, Part 3
(Previously in Druth History: Druthal frees itself from the rule of the Kieran Empire, and starts the slowly, painful process of self-rule. Weak central government leads to squabbling and infighting […]
Read moreDruth History Month, Part 2
(Previously, the area known as the Druth Protectorates was under the rule of the Kieran Empire. A catastrophic mass-assassination sends the entire Empire into chaos.) Now: The Rebellion, and the […]
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