And that’s all we’re going to see of Anja until the end of this chapter (and therefore the end of August). Next week we’ll see what’s up with the nighttime visitor from Three Arrivals No. 1. Last time I talked … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Everyone, meet Anja. Anja, everyone. We’ll probably be seeing more of her.

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 →

It was a dark and stormy night, you know. This was the first entry I wrote, but it’s not the first entry in my notebook. Notice that the ‘j’ in Kajsa is the one you find in most Germanic languages … Continue reading →