More dialog. Still don’t like doing it. I’ll talk about human names for a bit. The majority come in two parts—a first name and a patronym (all the -sen and -dottir suffixes). Formal address requires that you mention the patronym, … Continue reading
The advertising offensive (which this week involved nothing more than posting on the Dwarf Fortress forums) has not been particularly effective if the hit-counter thing is telling me the truth. Oh well. I’ll find other communities to pester later. I’ve … Continue reading
The speaker for the Septumvirate was, momentarily, speechless. One of his colleagues tapped him on the shoulder, and the Septumvirate conversed in quiet, rapid-fire Elvish. Hans glanced at Mikel and whispered out of the corner of his mouth. “Is it … Continue reading
Things that happened today: We met Hans. He and Anja are going to be kind of important in the future. We saw magic firsthand for the first time. It’s not going to be the last. I managed to avoid writing … Continue reading
In the fine tradition of titles of the form The Noun and the Noun. So I sat down and drew a little calendar covering now until December, marking down Tuesdays and Thursdays and what I’ll need to put on those … Continue reading
Anja awoke with a start, a roll of thunder seeming to her to fade from her ears. She took a deep breath, and a moment later she saw the sunlight streaming in through the window. She sat up, inspecting the … Continue reading
Everyone, meet Anja. Anja, everyone. We’ll probably be seeing more of her.
Many more to come, I hope. Now the stage is set for me to set the stage, which will carry us through the end of Three Arrivals. That should take about two months. In terms of readership, we’re holding steady … Continue reading
The sun rose over Vrimderheimdalskaagerholmegvorrighrimdalholm, burning away the fog which hung over the city as a reminder of the last night’s storm. A storm of another sort was brewing in the halls of the Guild of Aeromancers. The man who … Continue reading
Yes. Vrimderheimdalskaagerholmegvorrighrimdalholm. You see, this universe began as a place to set a roleplaying game, and one of the first two things I decided was “let’s make them sound kind of faux-Viking-like.” I took that idea and ran with it … Continue reading
